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Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here’s Angie.

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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin and Jim Stovall with The Good News, and we are talking about his article titled, Pay Attention. Hey there, Jim.

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Hey, it’s great to talk with you.

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I just got back from Nashville, so it was, you know, I found out, I discovered something about myself, and I’m a little bit disappointed. But I think I can power through. So I am not I’m not a lone wolf. I’m not a good alone traveler. And I thought, oh, you know, I’ve got to see if I could do it. I didn’t think I would be. And I had to drop my daughter off at her Christian college and. she has people like a team that kind of helps the kids that have ADHD or other learning issues, challenges. And wow, I mean, I was just so, the South, as you know, the people are just a different type of person. They’re just so kind. And just as a general rule, there’s a warmth. You’re in the Bible belt. There’s people who maybe have a similar faith to you. I don’t Everyone at the school, because it’s a Christian school. And I was just blown away at what they offer her. And one of the women is raising three additional kids. She already raised four boys and now she’s raising three more. And we just really took to the boys. So in the small town, you know, I’ve been messaging her and I met her once and I said, hey. I have something for the boys. Would you mind giving me your address? And I said to her, I would never ask this in a big city. Right. And she just gave me her address. I went over and she had a stepson visiting and another student’s mom visiting and me visiting and hope visiting. And we had some fun gifts for the boys that she’s raising there. They’re pretty little anyway. Yeah. That’s just a, it’s a total to me, Southern or small town vibe where you would be like already kind of friends, you know? Yeah.

SPEAKER 01 : 1:57

Yeah. I, I, remember one of my first trips to new york i was really young and having grown up here in oklahoma i’m just you know i’m on the street and you know we come up to a place and there’s a we’re waiting to cross and to crosswalk and all these people are staying there so i just turned to a guy hey how are you doing today and what do you think of this weather and you know you’re gonna you ever go to the yankees games and i’m talking to different people and there was a cop out there uh you know, directing traffic. And he, you know, we get across and we’re waiting to cross the other way. And he comes over to me and said, who are you? And I said, I am a visitor, Jim Stovall. Why are you talking to people? Well, I just said, good morning, how are you? And then he said, that’ll get you in trouble here. And I said, really? I mean, you know, and I just had never understood how weird it was

SPEAKER 03 : 2:50

to uh you know i just thought everybody would talk to people you know so uh yeah it’s a wonderful thing yeah my mom too she’s that way when she would come to los angeles i’m like mom you can’t just talk to everybody in line or like we’re in venice beach like some of the people aren’t safe you can’t just be chit-chatting with everybody or tell a gang member you really like his sweatshirt she’s like well i just you know like to chit-chat with people yeah and uh

SPEAKER 01 : 3:14

And, yeah, you get away with it. So, no, it’s fabulous. And, you know, it’s wonderful to be somewhere where, you know, you just feel like everybody you fit in.

SPEAKER 03 : 3:24

Yeah, and she found her people. I’ll tell you that much. She fit right in with the team. She did a volleyball camp where she was teaching younger, you know, students throughout the week. And then I went off on my own back to Nashville, and I did plan things, and that was fun. Like I didn’t mind going on tours by myself. I was on like a plantation tour where – I learned the life of enslaved people on a big plantation in Nashville called Bell Mead where they raised a lot of racehorses. Are you familiar with that one? Yes, I am. Yes, I am. They had a very highly regarded man who worked there who had been enslaved and then was – free and offered the opportunity to leave, but he was in such a high, he was, I mean, president shook his hand when people came to the plantation, they wanted to meet him because he knew all about the bloodlines and the horses and which horse to buy and which ones, you know, was worth, you know, worth their salt. And so he was so highly respected and he was a pastor and had his own home and was paid well, the highest paid of the people who had formerly been slaves and But anyway, he didn’t want to leave. He was all settled in. But a lot of people, the majority of them did leave when they had the choice to seek their freedom. So we kind of got to go through the different types of jobs and what went on. And it was interesting. And I also went on like a food and history tour. You could drink too, but I’m not much of a drinker. So I got extra desserts, which I thought was a very good tradeoff. But yeah. That was a really cool tour to go to like the best barbecue place, which was amazing and learn the story of hot Nashville chicken and where it started, you know, and then who took credit for it, you know, because someone kind of came into one of the African-American neighborhoods, got kind of the recipe of how it’s done. And then their hot chicken place became famous. You can imagine that. and uh yeah so but but in general and then like going to the hotel by yourself that’s just and i know you travel with people because you get assistance when you’re traveling i mean somebody that helps you you know navigate or whatever and um yeah it just wasn’t my thing to travel alone i like to laugh and goof off with people you know i i for years as a as a arena speaker i’ve traveled and i go with one of my assistants and uh

SPEAKER 01 : 5:33

And I enjoy it. And like you, I’ve made a commitment years ago, we will at least do one or two things in every town that are specialties of that town. I love that. And the food, too. Oh, yeah. But I have told my colleagues that travel by themselves. Hey, you know, you ought to take somebody. You ought to get an assistant. There’s so much stuff going on. And I got to tell you, if I got my sight back today, I would still travel the way I do. It’s just a wonderful way to share it with people. And, you know, I even have different… women I travel with, young ladies. And, you know, if I’m going to go to an art museum, I will take Kelly. Or if I’m going to do a music thing, I’ll take her. If it’s a business thing or we’re going to go look at some kind of industry thing, I’ll take Rebecca. You know, if it’s a cultural thing, you know, we’re going to a bar or a club or whatever, I take Janice. And it’s just, you know, just because that’s their thing. You know, different people are different things. So it’s kind of fun.

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I love that. I know that there are the lone wolf types that do enjoy that alone travel, and I just thought it’s the first time I’ve ever done it at my age with my kids pretty much grown. I have heard, though, one of my girlfriends who travels a lot alone, her husband doesn’t want to travel anymore. And she goes all over the world. She says that she’s got some really great tour groups where you don’t feel like you’re alone. And then maybe by the time you’re ready to go to bed, you’re fine to have the peace and quiet by then because the whole day is stocked full of activities. Now, that’ll be my next experiment. I’ll try that because that’s not really quite alone per se.

SPEAKER 01 : 7:12

Well, some of our great friends, several of them, are people that Crystal met when she was in Europe by herself. And she would go on a tour, and then she would connect with different people or whatever. And, you know, they become friends of ours. They come here and visit us and different people. And, you know, so she just makes friends instantaneously. And, you know, it’s a really wonderful thing.

SPEAKER 03 : 7:36

Well, again, it’s that Southern blessing, you know, too, where, you know, in the South, people do more readily or more easily make friends. So I could see that she would do that. All right. Pay attention is your article this week. So what are we paying attention to?

SPEAKER 01 : 7:50

Well, we’re paying attention to the thing right in front of us. We’re focusing. We’re staying. You know, so many bad things happen when we don’t watch what we’re doing. And if you don’t pay attention, you’ll pay the price. Ralph Waldo Emerson said – It matters little what’s behind you or what’s ahead of you. It matters what’s inside of you, what you’re doing right now. And when we perform at our best, Angie, we… are in the moment. Like when you are on live TV, as you well know, man, you’re not thinking about, now I’ve got to pick up my dry cleaning and I’ve got to do this. You’re counting down. You are totally focused. And people that have been involved in martial arts and trained, if you’re going to break a board, it just comes down to you totally focus that moment at that one spot and funnel all your energy there. Well, that’s the way to do anything successfully. And And too often we spend all our time worrying about the dumb thing we did in the past or we’re worried about something that may or may not even happen in the future. Meanwhile, the here and now is passing us by, and we’re not even paying attention. So, you know, it’s really important to be in the moment, to enjoy the moment, and, you know, do the next thing right and the right thing next and stay totally focused on that and, you know, really – You know, it’s that old John Wooden thing I’ve shared with you. Everything you do, ask yourself, what would I do right now if I were amazing? If I were just extraordinary, if I made an extraordinary effort right now. whether it’s a phone call or an email or you’re meeting somebody or you’re going to do a favor for a friend or whatever it might be, or just being kind to people, opening the door in the southern hospitality, talking to people. What would happen if you just really reached out to somebody? And I just think if we can spend our moments that way, we can be successful. And so many people worry about, well, I want to be successful in the future. You can be successful right now by doing the next thing right and the right thing next.

SPEAKER 03 : 9:58

I love that. I know I think about all the cool things that John Wooden said and did with his life and how positive he was. And I admire people like that because I don’t have – like every day isn’t positive for me. I have days where I’m just like really sluggish in the morning and have a hard time getting out of bed and realize why people like coffee. Like my husband doesn’t drink coffee. He can just pop out of bed, take a shower, and he’s good for the whole day. Whereas I really need something to get me going. And I know how early you get up. And I used to get up that early. And it was torture for me to get up that early. And I just am not a morning person or don’t naturally wake up like John Wooden. I don’t wake up ready to take on the day. I wake up and I feel like the day is already taking me on, you know, and so I really admire people like John and for like you for that matter. And I know you had a really great family that helped raise you to be the person you are today. And from what you’ve told me about John Wooden, greatest coach probably of all time and so respected by his his players. and the world. He also had a father that greatly influenced him in a very positive manner, which oddly enough, Jim, even though my dad was an absentee, alcoholic, abusive husband, he was, you’re going to think this sounds crazy, extremely, he was an optimist. And so when I was reacquainted with him later in life, I was really impressed by the things he’d done with his life Yeah, and I think a lot of people do that. I mean, you know, they have issues in one area of their life, but it doesn’t mean they can’t contribute in other ways.

SPEAKER 01 : 11:39

I mean, so much of the art and literature and great creations that we enjoy were made by people who had some personal issues. And, you know, I think of Vincent van Gogh. And, I mean, here’s a guy, I mean, a troubled soul, but created some of the greatest art the world has ever known.

SPEAKER 03 : 11:59

Yes. That’s a really good example. Yes. Interestingly enough, I think because he is such a colorful person and his art was so colorful, I do know a lot about him and he really did struggle. And they say comedians, artists, some of these really creative people oftentimes are some of the people that struggle more with their mental health than others. And it comes out in this interesting creative spree that he had. And boy, did he struggle.

SPEAKER 01 : 12:30

Yeah, he did. And ironically, he never sold any of his art during his life. And in the last 30 days of his life, he put out like 90 pieces of art, just this amazing output that today represents billions and billions of dollars worth of value. He never sold any of his art during his lifetime. Several years ago at an industry awards thing in the movie industry, I was at a table with Robin Williams. What an absolute genius. This was a troubled soul. He had some issues. His manager was with him. I don’t think they let him out by himself. I asked, is he always like this? He said, he has been for the 33 years I’ve been with him. I don’t know beyond… It was a sad, sad situation. He just never relaxed. He was always performing, whether it’s three people at the table or the whole world in the movies. That was him all the time.

SPEAKER 03 : 13:32

Yeah, his brain just kind of like a gerbil or hamster on a wheel, just constantly, constantly going. I remember some other comedian talking about that, how his brain doesn’t even slow down at night, that these thoughts just whir through it. All right, Jim, always fun to talk to you again. The article is PayAttentionJimStovel.com. Talk to you next week. Thank you, friend. Look forward to it. You too.

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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. You know, I was talking to Jim a little bit about traveling by myself. And, you know, as much as I do travel, generally it’s for the kids sports or family reunion or to visit relatives or. you know, to take a family trip where it’s maybe six of us, because my mom often comes, she’s coming to the family reunion with us, which I’ll admit is it’s, you know, it’s more complicated, because granny’s a walker, generally a wheelchair, if it’s a more, you know, it’s a longer distance, and then we’re traveling with two pets. So it’ll be six of us and two pets going to the family reunion in July, and then staying in a house with three families, several adult kids, friend of an adult kid. You know what I mean? Like it’s just, it’s, I think we have six bedrooms in the house and it’s actually on a winery. So it’s like this huge house with a pool on a winery. And that’s another cool way to travel, by the way, you can get such incredible houses when you divide the price up between, you know, like maybe, okay, let’s say a really fancy hotel, let’s say is, you know, five, six, seven, $800 a night for a really nice hotel. where you can get a really nice house for that amount. And so then you divided that between three families, and each adult is only paying $100 a night for this giant six-bedroom house on a winery with a swimming pool, and you can have your pets, a giant kitchen, and everything you’d ever want. I mean, $100 a night, even the cheapest hotels. When I was just traveling, you can’t even get a hotel for $100 a night. So those Airbnbs, when you divide them up, it can be a really great way to travel with a group of people. Although if your whole family – if just your family is paying for the Airbnbs, then it can really add up. And then you have to decide whether or not you can even stand the people that you’re traveling with, right? I have to be honest with you. With my family, they’re super, super nice people. I mean really. So I guess I lucked out in that. My cousins, they’re just – We have a group text actually with all of my cousins and every day we pretty much send back and forth like, oh, I’m on a trip or this happened or one of them lives on a lake and got a boat. And so she might send a water skiing photo. My brother is all summer long. He’s a teacher. So all summer long, he’s traveling with just his dog around the country, which is an interesting point there. He’s fine traveling around the country in one of those sprinter vans. It’s you know, it’s a small R.V., with a little kitchen and all that jive. And he’s got a tent, and he’s got his pup, a little area for his pup, because she only weighs two pounds. So he travels all summer by himself, and he barely keeps in touch with us. He just sends a text that says, you know, I got to Yellowstone, or I got to Yosemite, Crater Lake, wherever he’s traveling. This year, it’s in the west. Last year, it was in the east. Anyway… Me, I’m just four days, three days really alone in Nashville. And I was like beside myself. I’m like, oh, what do I do with myself? And I was I was great when I was on the tours. Like you heard me talking to Jim about that. I was great when I was on the tours and I was with big groups of people and on my own. That was fine. I didn’t mind being on the tours by myself. Because they’re so interesting. I love history. But then when I found myself just like eating out alone, that’s not my thing. Staying in a hotel alone, not really my thing. But my girlfriend, Jane, who travels the world without her husband, she said, why don’t you want to travel with her? And he said, you know, Angie, I’m in my 70s now. I’ve done a lot of traveling. Like, I really like my life. I like to golf. I like my house. I like my convenience, you know. He gets tired. His, you know, his legs bother him. He doesn’t want to do all the walking around. She’s super social. So she goes on these tours alone and she meets people everywhere she goes. She has like a big personality and you’d think I would too, but I’m better in like a tour group where I’m with the same people every day. Now that I think I could do, I think I wouldn’t feel like lonely, but I was in one hotel that was like, it was the worst hotel I’ve ever stayed in. And I don’t know if you know, some of these, um, you know, some of these hotels, they have, uh, They’re all over the country, and their brand is clean, and they have a breakfast, and I’ll tell you what it was, a Holiday Inn Express. Everywhere I’ve stayed in them, they’re usually relatively new. They’re remodeled. They’re a cookie cutter. They have the same breakfast. They have the same waffles. They have the same eggs. They have the same oatmeal container, fresh oatmeal, not the packets. and it’s a it’s a pretty decent breakfast you know and if you eat healthy they’ve always got fruit they’ve always got cereal and it’s a cookie cutter everyone is almost identical even the rooms are almost identical so I stay in this one in Nashville and I got there really late and I always read the reviews I mean always and I’m telling you do always read the reviews well it’s close to midnight I was kind of getting kind of deliriously tired and I was driving alone and so I just hit the next Holiday Inn Express because I have points and i can usually stay there for free but i was like oh well this one’s a little bit more so i’ll just pay pay for it you know it’s maybe like 170 right and that’s supposedly reasonable right which i still think for the well wait till i tell you about the hotel i walk in and it smells so bad i can’t even begin to tell you the smell again read the reviews because when i got to my room and logged in and read the reviews There were multiple one-star reviews, and it said the mold and mildew smell was overpowering. Well, they were right about that. The sheets were, like, damp. And then I saw the pictures. People were talking about break-ins in the parking lot, three cars with broken windows when they got up the next morning, somebody that said meth pipes were next to their vehicle, the sheets that weren’t clean. I mean, it was bad. And I actually wrote and talked to a representative, and they gifted me some points for staying there. But I just said, this is ruining your brand. You cannot have a hotel like this in your chain. This is ruining your brand. You’ve got to do something with this hotel. But then I looked back through all the reviews. They’ve been going on for a year or two that they’re this bad. So I feel sorry for the people working there. So the person helping me said, well, did you go down to the front desk and complain? I said, why on earth would I do that in the middle of the night when it’s obvious from all of the complaints to go back months and months and months and months that these poor employees can’t do anything about it because the chain is not fixing the problem and they’re ruining their brand with this hotel. Like a lot of people said they won’t ever stay at these particular – this chain again because of the state of the hotel. So anyway, my point to that is – Read your reviews. I did not enjoy staying there. I barely slept that night, and that can really put a damper on your vacation. So anyway, I just tried to stay as busy as I could, and then I got back to my kid, and I just feel so blessed that she’s going to a Christian college, and she really found her people. Because in her high school, she led a Bible study for her volleyball group, but none of the girls on her varsity team, the older girls, none of them attended. It was the younger girls, the freshmen and the sophomores that attended, but the girls her age, mostly seniors, attended. They weren’t really interested in it. And they were they have a lot of drinking and partying parties, you know, drinking and, you know, pretty wild parties, boys there in the whole nine yards. And it’s at one point Hope wasn’t being invited to any of them. And she said they said, well, you don’t drink and you don’t do the things we do. And she’s like, well, I’d still like an invitation. I’d like to feel like I’m being included, even if you know that I’m probably not going to go or even if I just stop by, you know. But now like these, the whole team goes to church together and they it’s just wonderful. And that the people were so kind and outgoing and giving. I just thought it was really neat. All right. So there is my thing about always read your reviews. I mean, every single thing that I do, whether it is except in this one case, I read the reviews for hotels. I read the reviews for tours, for cruises, for, You know, certain and I’m in different groups to like different travel groups like I use Frontier Airlines a lot because I have some elite like benefits or whatever with that. And then I have that go wild pass where you can fly anywhere in the country for just taxes that everywhere that they fly at least. and they’re like last-minute tickets. And so I go into these groups, and I get advice and blah, blah, blah. I mean, you can find a group for everything now. My son’s in this really advanced Excel business class where you have to do a lot of Excel spreadsheets, and they’re pretty in-depth, some of these projects he does. And I got an Excel experts group that helps him with that kind of stuff. So I thought that was kind of cool. I mean, you literally can find a group for everything. In fact, we’re getting a rental property, and I’m like, oh, I’m going to go in and see if they have a Boulder – landlords group to offer advice on certain things like leases and insurance and stuff like that pretty wild all right well I was going to talk to you about some good news but I got carried away with talking about travel advice and whether or not I’m a lone wolf which apparently I’m not but I do have something else for you changing gears here A beautiful in your skin month is June, and it’s each June to focus attention on promoting healthy skin routines and self-love. And don’t we all need a little more self-love? Here to help is renowned dermatologist Dr. Alexis Stevens, who is teaming up with Olay Body to share body and skin care tips for the summer. Dr. Stevens is founder of Lex Dermatology and Aesthetics in Boca Raton, Florida, where you definitely need good skin care. Welcome to the program, Dr. Alexis Stevens.

SPEAKER 06 : 24:25

Thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER 03 : 24:27

Well, I’ve got a few lifeguards in the family, teenagers, and I’m always talking to them about the importance of still wearing sunscreen, even if they do want to tan. So let’s just start with the basics. What’s the most important thing to know about skincare?

SPEAKER 06 : 24:38

Most important are to make sure that you’re using products that are protective and effective. So protective against the sun and environmental stressors and effective in that the ingredients are actually going to help to yield true benefits to your skin.

SPEAKER 03 : 24:53

Okay, so let’s talk about that. Can a daily routine help with that overall wellness when using the right ingredients?

SPEAKER 06 : 25:01

Yes, a good AM and PM routine can really help with overall skin health, quality, and appearance. It doesn’t need to be extensive. It can be a very simple routine, cleansing, hydrating, protecting the skin, but making sure that you also are taking care of your body skin is important. So I love to recommend products that I know actually work that have science behind them. Olay Super Serum Body Wash is my go-to, especially for this time of year because it’s multi-tasker. No one wants to use a bunch of different products to get to the end goal. And so I love that that product can help with hydration, firming, smoothing, brightening, and evening out the skin tone.

SPEAKER 03 : 25:40

Awesome. All right. Let’s talk about some of the benefits of using that quality skincare product.

SPEAKER 06 : 25:47

A good quality skincare product is going to make sure that your skin is improving in the immediate but also the long term. So ingredients matter here. And also the technology behind the product matters so that the ingredients actually get into the skin and don’t just sit on top of the skin. So one of my favorite ingredients are niacinamide. It does so much for the skin, but also vitamin E and collagen peptides because I feel like we’re all in our well-aging era. So I love a product that can help with all of those things.

SPEAKER 03 : 26:18

Oh, yeah, me too. All right, let’s talk about technology of skin care. I’ve got a friend who is a doctor like you who is very involved in this area, and I know she’s always talking about the improvements. So can you tell us how skin care technology has improved over the last several years?

SPEAKER 06 : 26:34

One of the biggest breakthroughs has been in the way that the ingredients are actually being delivered to the skin. It gets through, and it’s not just being rinsed away. Olay’s Body Advanced Skin Delivery System, for example, actually will moisturize with the ingredients while it’s penetrating through, and it helps to exfoliate all at the same time. They actually did a clinical study where 80% of the women reported improvement in just 14 days.

SPEAKER 03 : 26:59

Yeah, that’s pretty impressive. All right, what else should we know?

SPEAKER 06 : 27:04

For the summer, make sure that you are hydrating from the inside out. So, of course, drink your water, but give back to your body by making sure that your products are hydrating properly. moisturizing, and protective. So that’s really important. And a good balanced lifestyle always matters. A nice diet is good. And avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. if you can because that’s when the UV index is the highest.

SPEAKER 03 : 27:29

And, you know, in another arena, I’ve got kids that are battling acne right now. They still need their sunscreen. That’s not going to exacerbate their acne problem, right?

SPEAKER 06 : 27:39

Exactly. They want to find a sunscreen that is going to say non-comedogenic, non-acneogenic. And that will help to make sure that the sunscreen is protecting because actually if the skin barrier is damaged from the sun, it can lead to more acne.

SPEAKER 03 : 27:53

And you mentioned food. I can’t convince my kids or tell them enough, especially my son. He’s been, you know, breaking out again. And I said, have you looked at your diet? He’s like, well, what does that have to do with it? I’m like, everything. Yeah.

SPEAKER 02 : 28:08

All right, Doc. I will. All right, Doc, give us the best website for us to go to for more details. I want to check out that body serum.

SPEAKER 06 : 28:16

Sure. You can find more details at LA.com, and you can find the body serum at National Retailers. Great. Thank you so much. You’re welcome. Thank you.

SPEAKER 04 : 28:27

Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.