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The second episode in the two part series of Carlisle, Take this personally. Take this personally. With Morgan Heelsman.

The second episode in the two-part series of conversations with my friends at Aves Garden.

Aves Garden is a senior living facility here in Nashville, and Remy and I started volunteering there as a therapy animal team many years ago now.

It showed me how often our seniors are forgotten about within their

communities. So I'm hopeful that this series and the last one we did a couple months ago that

I can encourage more people to volunteer and get involved with the senior living facility that's

near you. The stories they have to share are so wonderful and full of wisdom and knowledge and

advice. This week we are talking to

Baxi. She's 78 years old and has a lifetime of knowledge as a teacher, a stay-at-home mom, a working

mom, a wife, and so many more things. So it's time for you all to meet her. Let's go.

Welcome this week to the podcast.

I want to call you Banksy.

Do you know who Banksy is? No.

It's a very famous, like, anonymous author artist right now.

Oh, okay.

But you are Baxie. Where did this name come from? Backsy? It's a nickname for

Baxter. Okay. My dad thought I was going to be a boy and Baxter was my grandmother's maiden name and he was

going to name his son Baxter. And it turned out I was a girl and he still named me Baxter.

He said it doesn't matter.

My mother came up with Baxie as a nickname.

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