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Welcome to your second podcast this week for me.

It's Wednesday.

This is likely coming out on Friday.

You probably just listen to the episode

where we talked about evacuating,

which it all feels very odd to talk about, considering we have a home. It feels very selfish.

But I do think that there's probably a lot to gain from these stories.

So I asked all of you what you wanted me to talk about on the podcast and all of you asked to continue talking about what the last couple weeks was like.

And so, you know, I kept saying on Instagram that I'll like never be able to describe what putting that drive together felt like.

You know, we evacuated. We went out of town for a few days to have stayed here. We came back home.

And while I was gone even, I was just like, what can I do to be like a hub for help?

You know, I've been in my industry since I was 20 years old.

I'm 38, so I think 18 years of production and throwing events and gathering

people and doing PR, you know, like putting an event together like that harnesses all of your skills as like a coordinator.

One of the girls, Ashley, that we had, come volunteer who is so sweet.

She like has worked on set as like a producer.

And so I hit up this one girl on Instagram and I was like,

can you please help me? She's a photographer and she photographs Altadena a lot.

But you know, obviously before fucking burn down. And I said, you know, can you please help me

make sure that we're reaching as many people as possible in Altadena specifically for this fundraiser, for this drive?

And she was like, yes. And she was like, I really want to bring Ashley in. She's been helping a lot. She said, you know, by the way, like I always hire Ashley to produce my shoots.

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