In this appetizer-sized episode, Kacie tells us about social events happening in the witch world the first quarter of the year.
Some of my patrons joined me to talk about why they continue to be part of my subscription service… or “the hive” as we call it. None of us knew one another before they joined- this familial, familiar relationship happened over the past year or so. And we're welcoming you in as well!
Snack Size 3.1.
Witchy Events in the first quarter, and FREE STUFF!
Welcome back to Your Average Witch, snack size edition. In this bite size episode, Kacie lets us know what's happening in the witch world and asks for some snack recommendations. And I'm inviting you to check out my Patreon for free. I'm opening up a few more slots this year, and adding another tier for witches who really love crystals. From now until March 1st you can get a free 7 day trial to my Patreon, and check out all the digital content offered. And now here's Kacie.
Kacie: Hey y'all, this is Kacie, coming at y'all from my little corner of the world and I am so thankful to be back for another snack size visit. Speaking of snacks, first of all, what are you snacking on as you listen to this episode? I want to know! If you're on insta drop it in your stories, tag me and the podcast so we can snack together. I am currently working my way through a dark chocolate medley trail mix and it's delicious. I am loving it. Dried cranberries, walnuts, pecans, so good. I'm trying to branch out on my snacking game though.
So tell me what you're snacking on. I need new ideas. Now I won't call my new snacks goal a resolution per se. As you may have heard, it's the Gregorian New Year and you know everyone and their mama be talking about the New Year's resolutions this time of year. New year, new me season. The pressure to suddenly have your shit together enough to know what you need to do to change your whole life can be nausea inducing. But you know what? Well, witches, we make up our own rules, and succumbing to societal pressure has never been our strong suit. Many of us celebrated the New Year back in the fall with Samhain, or more recently with Yule. Personally, I do New Year's type stuff around my birthday since that is literally the start of my personal existence (and maybe because I'm an Aries and all things start with us).
No matter the reason, that doesn't mean I am completely immune to the whole hubbub that is this time of year. Humans in general do tend to love fresh starts. At least that's what the fancy people on the NPR interview were saying as this year began. I heard a conversation where they reminded us not to put so much pressure on ourselves to have it all figured out, but that there is a psychological trigger in our brain we can tap into any time we see a day as a new beginning, whether it's the start of the year, the month, the week, or even the birthday of one particular Aries in March. Mariah Carey, we may be birthday twins. And I do have to admit, as 2022 came to a close, I felt a huge weight lift as I embraced the fresh start that 2023 offered. The point is, we can decide when to take that fresh start, and trigger that clean slate reaction in our brain when the timing suits us best; witch or no. While I may not be setting new resolutions this time of year, I am taking cues from the natural cycles around me, aka winter, in my corner of the world. And I'm taking this time to reflect on the goals I set for myself over the past season.
Wrapping those up and releasing myself from any goal gone by the wayside, because maybe something better took its place. And finally preparing myself for the coming season of sowing new growth. You know, witchy stuff. Usually that means I spend winter reading the last of the books in my bookstack and clearing up my project basket. Since this past year was so wrapped up in preparing myself for my big Anahata's trip, as well as recovering from major bipolar cycles in my life, I was beginning to beat myself up as 2022 came to a close before I reminded myself how unnecessary that was. The Gregorian calendar got nothing on me. I am the witch, I make the decisions myself, thank you very much. So now that I can take that pressure off myself, I am enjoying wrapping up the books I began reading over the past year. I may have accidentally won a new one that I started, but I couldn't help it. I'm also enjoying working my way through my mending pile that accumulated over the end of fall and in the start of winter. I'm working my way down to those favorite overalls of mine. You know, the leopard print ones I will forever be stitching back together as long as we live. I'm coming back for you, baby!
I'm also settling into new routines that are the result of the previous year's work, including my own work to return to a healthier mental state. It's been a long road, but worth every step. And worth the work it takes to keep my progress. Thankfully, I have amazing friends supporting me. And one of them happened to need to re-home a couple of planners that are perfect for me to use this time of year, or this year. I'm so very grateful to her, and everyone else I've made friends with in recent years. I didn't think I could make friends anymore until I healed that part of me and actually gave friendship a chance again. It was worth it. While I am enjoying this period of rest, I'm also excitedly filling out my planners with events and places I hope to see this year or in coming years.
While I know I won't make it this year, the Tucson Gem show is in there so I can keep an eye out for all the folks posting about their own visits to the sparkling Mecca out in Kim's corner of the world. It takes place across 48 different locations across the city of Tucson, from January 28th to February 12th. And according to Kim (and the Visit Tucson website), you don't want to miss this. The first major event I'm working towards is going to be at the North Texas Irish Festival, taking place this year over the first weekend of March in Dallas, Texas. This year I will be a manager working in the culinary building all weekend long. You know, the place with the taste testing. So I'd love if some local witches stopped by for visit.
The festival celebrates the large Irish diaspora in Texas and pretty much all those who love Ireland, as well as inviting out the Scottish clans for a good old fashioned Celtic reunion. There's music and dancing on a dozen stages around the park, lots of art and vendors, and of course plenty of food and drink to sustain you through the day of Irish merriment. My favorite stage is in the building I work in and hosts the traditional acoustic Irish music that makes my heart sing and my soul cry for a place I've never been. Ducking into that room throughout the day offers sanctuary from the noise and the shuffle of the crowd whenever I start to feel overstimulated by it all. I definitely recommend stopping by if you just need a little breather from everything. This event is something that helped me start healing the parts of me that didn't feel Irish enough to even claim my own ancestry.
That feeling made it impossible for me to feel connected to my own ancestors, and as a witch, that made me feel so disconnected from my own roots. Honestly, I never felt enough of anything to belong anywhere until I decided no one gets to deny me my heritage, no matter how mixed. I claimed my place there when a friend invited me to join the volunteer team, even though you really don't have to have any Irish heritage to volunteer for, or even enjoy the event, but for me that's what it signified because of my own childhood wounds.
That newfound determination was immediately tested with new wounds that came when I made a celebratory social media post about the event and someone asked me if I was a little too Mexican to be Irish. I felt like that little kid I went there to heal. I was hurt, but my friends over in the Witch Bitch Amateur Hour group lifted my chin up and told me I absolutely belonged. I almost quit then, but I'm so glad I didn't because three years later, here I am set to step into a whole new role with so much more responsibility this year and I feel like I really do belong. Not just there, but in my own ancestry work.
I don't feel like such an imposter anymore, because I've embraced so many more parts of me that I felt were denied; that I denied myself. I can't wait to be back there setting up vendor spaces in those old world's fair era buildings there in Fair Park. And if I'm really lucky, I'll get a chance to break away for a bit and explore the insides of the building again. That's one of my favorite parts and perks about being a volunteer. If I do, you can be sure I'll tell you all about it over on my channel and other socials, which you can find linked in the description.
If you have any events you think I should be attending or shouting out, you can email me at welcometokaciescorner@hotmail.com. Be sure to check out my page and shop over at kofi.com/kaciescorner. That's ko-fi.com/kaciescorner. Kacie's Corner! Where I'll soon be adding exclusive content for my members there. That Ko-fi there, it funds my unboxing videos and my major event travels, which is how I will get back to Anahata's if the stars align. So thank you so much to everyone who's already become a member over there so far and who's purchased from my shop as I learn how to use that page.
It's a bit of a learning curve, I'm getting there. But thank you guys so much, y'all are my OGs. Love y'all. Thank you again to Kim for having me back for another snack-sized visit from my little corner of the world. Don't forget to tag us in your stories and tell me what you're snacking on this episode, by the by. Kim, what are you snacking on? I need new ideas for things to try. I want to know! Share the good foods, recommend something! You too, everybody. Tag me your stories, recommend the foods. Thank you so much! And thank you so much for listening. Y'all have a great day. I'll see y'all next month. Love y'all. Bye!
Kim: I invited some of my patrons on to talk about what they personally get out of my Patreon. It wasn't rehearsed. None of us, including me, knew what we were going to say. I thought of doing it, asked them on Marco, and about 15 minutes later... Well, you'll hear it when you listen to the rest of this episode. They share what their favorite box was and why, list a few perks I actually forget about sometimes, and I think the recording really shows how we have become a pretty tightly knit little community over the Marco Polo app. So if you're looking for a spellbox once a month, maybe some intention-filled jewelry made by a witch (that witch being me), or you just want podcast bonuses, videos, and a family through your phone, give my Patreon a look over at patreon.com/cleverkimscurios.
Group yelling: Yay! We're here!
Kim: Welcome everyone!
Sarah: Thanks!
Andrea: Thank you.
Jayne: Hi!
Kim: Okay, so in the order that you came in, introduce the person after you? Before you?
Andrea: Okay, this will be a fun game.
Kim: Who wants to go first?
Sarah: Kim, I think you go first. You introduce the next person.
Kim: Hey, great.
Andrea: Who was here first?
Kim: My awesome idea. Well, first we have Andrea, who is actually kind of a new patron, newer.
Andrea: Hi! We-
Kim: And she does gardening. And I just interrupted her.
Andrea: Hi, I'm Andrea. I do gardening, and I'm going to introduce Kacie, who has snakes.
Kacie: Hi, I'm Kacie. And after me came in Sarah. Yes, Sarah, the pottery gal from Flora & Function.
Sarah: Hi, I'm Sarah. I do pottery. I do witchy crafts. It's a great time. Jayne is also a wonderful crafter, and does some pretty amazing crochet and knitting and t-shirts, and all sorts of fun stuff. So Jayne!
Jayne: Hi, I'm Jayne, and yes, I'm from FantasyCore Creations, and I do a little bit of everything. And all done with intention, and I'm going to introduce him, who is the leader of our pack.
Kim: That is... not accurate.
*group laughter*
Andrea: Snack pack! Leader of the snack pack....
Kim: I am the vanilla and chocolate swirl. Hunts cup. What are you?
Sarah: Are we going in the same order again?
Kim: You can do whatever order you want. Talk over one another, I don't care. It'll be great, it'll make editing so fun.
Andrea: Great. I'm dried cranberries.
Jayne: I love dried cranberries.
Kacie: I'm eating a dark chocolate medley that has dried cranberries, and I'm the dark chocolate part.
Sarah: Oh no, I don't know, what am I? I'm the spicy part in your spicy chocolate.
Jayne: I am trail mix because I'm a little sweet and a little salty.
Andrea: And you have so much to offer, Jayne.
Jayne: Yes, yes, yes. Something for everyone.
Kim: Okay, so the reason we are all having this little snack pack party is because I have new availability on my Patreon. So, I am here with my patrons so they can tell you why you should join.
Group yell: Yay!
Jayne: I have a reason, a smart one!
Kim: What is it?
Jayne: It's because without being part of the Patreon, you won't get to know all of us crazy people.
Sarah: That's very true.
Kim: That is true. Because y'all are so great, I love y'all so much.
Sarah: We love you!
Andrea: Aw, we love you too!
Kim: Yay, it's a love party!
Sarah: Snack love.
Andrea: Yeah, without you guys, I wouldn't be able to cook anything for the week because I wouldn't have any inspiration without you.
Sarah: Oh my gosh, right.
Kim: None of us knew each other before us.
Jayne: Yeah, none of us did. And now they're my family.
Kacie: Other than stalking each other on social media. Andrea, I may have been following...
Andrea: Yeah, I'm with you, just been sneaking around for a long time. Now you know me from the time I get up with a cow lick in my hair to the time I go to bed and my hair is wet again from the shower.
Sarah: It's so true. We get to see each other through the whole day. And honestly, y'all, the people, like, Kim's Patreon group are the people that I talk to most often through Marco Polo. And it's wonderful because we get to, you know, hang out with each other, and help out when we're struggling. And also just, you know, yell things and say things toeach other because it's fun.
Andrea: That's exactly it.
Jayne: And it's so much more than just like, witchy stuff. We talk about literally everything. We talk about kid issues. We talk about life issues. We talk about... Sarah: Meal planning for the week. Please help!
Andrea: We pull tarot in the morning for each other, or throw runes...
Kim: Oh yeah. I don't, I don't do that because I'm bad at it, but I graciously accept it from everyone.
Sarah: You do occasionally.
Kim: Okay. You know what I do? I pull a card and then I say, "Here's a card. Go ahead and tell yourself what it means."
Andrea: We share books...
Kacie: That's good too.
Kim: Yeah.
Jayne: Yeah. Lots of books. Goodness, what else do we do?
Andrea: Shows, we talk about shows a lot.
Kim: Oh yeah, This Show Sucks. We haven't been in This Show Sucks for a while.
Kacie: Oh my gosh. I needed that the other day though, This Show Sucks, that group, You guys got me through. That show, oh my god. I was dying. And I was like, I need, I need support. This show sucks. You guys have to suffer through this with me. So I had like two videos I recorded because I was like, no one else will believe how bad this is. I have to drop it in there at least.
Jayne: We also share like, "Oh my gosh, this intro makes me think of people," like when the great British Bake Show had their, Luke Skywalker, their Star Wars, and I was like KACIEEEE! This is for you!
Kacie: Oh my gosh yes! Yes, the, the, the emotional support reels that I get from you guys. Like, thank you so much. Just, especially-
Jayne: I hope you're not going to get annoyed with how many I send you.
Kacie: Or the happy dog one? No. Oh no. That was a rough week, and just seeing, just all the little happy dog memes you would send me and would make me smile. And oh, like, thank you so much. You got me through.
Jayne: Hey, I hear someone need support memes and I'm like, I've got you.
Sarah: Well, and just support is incredible. Like when I'm having a really terrible day or like, have just been like, I can't deal with this anymore!" Y'all will always come in and just like, give me advice, or just listen to me rant, or make an entire reel of like, making me look really awesome. Kacie! Thank you!
Kim: But you are really awesome. You are all really awesome. This is going to make me cry.
Sarah: Came in for chaos recording, and we're making Kim cry.
Jayne: Oh, don't cry!
Andrea: I'm throwing bread at you. Throw muffins, throw croissants.
Kim: Also, you guys have made your own little subgroups that I'm not even in. I'm not even in the D&D group.
Sarah: That's true.
Jayne: Yeah, we have a D&D group. We have a crafting group. We have...
Kim: I'm not even in these.
Andrea: We have a claires group, where we meet and practice our claires exercises to enhance our psychic ability.
Sarah: Yeah, that one's been really fun. Yeah.
Jayne: It's been very surprising. I actually don't completely suck at that. Woohoo! Although, Kimothy, guess what?
Kim: Chicken butt.
Jayne: Exactly. No... the only way that I can like figure out what I'm feeling, is with my pendulum.
Kim: Hey, see?
Jayne: And then I get feelings of like, "I feel like it's a spoon. I don't know why, I'm feeling spoon." And Andrea gets all excited and goes "Oh my god, it's a spoon!"
Kim: That is cool! You guys have been talking about, I'm not in the group anymore because I can't deal with it right now because the gem show. But that is freaking cool.
Andrea: I think once you get through gem show, and some other people are kind of dealing with some stuff too. We'll throw it back out there and see who wants to come back in. Like I know Kacie's been so busy too. So hopefully we can get you guys in at it, because it's been a lot of fun.
Kacie: Yeah, I wanted to do it, but I also know like, yeah, I just was not in the headspace for that yet. And I was not going to subject anybody to my headspace. Like, and that way, like, I'm not going to purposely project, accidentally, whatever's going on in there. Like, oh, when y'all were getting that going, I was like, oh no, this is a bad time for me. I'm going to get myself together. And then I'll try and, you know, build psychic links on purpose.
Jayne: But this group, it's perfect when you are in a bad headspace because you come in and you're like, "Oh my god, I'm having such a terrible time," and everybody's like, "Yes, let's talk about it. Let's figure out why. What can we do to help that?"
Sarah: Or just "That's okay."
Kacie: Yes.
Jayne: Or the other day, when y'all were like, "Get up and go shower!" And I said, okay.
Andrea: We also have a lot of really challenging conversations, too, that I just don't feel like are received the same way outside of our group. Like, we're very open-minded. And it's received well if someone gives you like, you know, a different way of thinking, or some criticism on the way you're thinking, and it challenges you to think outside the box, which is really nice. It's very comforting.
Kim: Yeah, I feel like we can trust one another to criticize, because... I don't do that anymore very much. I don't think. If I do, fucking tell me I'm a dumbass. But I don't think I do. But in this group, I'm more likely- if I think it's helpful. I don't think criticism critique for no reason is helpful. But if I think it might help somebody, then I would. By the way, there's a dog in one of our backgrounds. So, yeah.
Jayne: It's not mine.
Kim: It's fine.
Andrea: It's not a wild bull.
Kacie: It's not m going full goblin mode, it's an actual dog.
Sarah: We haven't even talked about the awesome boxes.
Kim: I was getting to that. I was gonna say "What about the actual boxes?"
Sarah: Welcome to the actual thing!
Kacie: We're talking about the community.
Sarah: Because those are awesome. And like, I get them quarterly and it's so fun. Like, there's so much anticipation. And then like, finally getting the box and being like, oh my gosh. And there's so many goodies. And it's just a great way. Because the reason that I originally started was to just like, give me something to kind of get me out of my comfort zone, and doing something a little bit different to like, push my craft, and push what I was trying to do. And the box has helped with that. And then I met everybody and got on Marco Polo. And here we are.
Kacie: Fun bonus!
Kim: Snack fam.
Jayne: So I started for sort of the same reason. I'm very new to the craft. I wanted to try little bits of things to see what my niche was. Pendulum! But I love getting first of all, all of the incense there. Oh my god. I don't have to buy anymore. Kim sends it all. And then there's, I have, I don't even remember what it's called, but like the plus tier, where I get a little piece of jewelry or something every month. And I love the necklaces that she makes. They're so beautiful. And I wear them all the time. Yeah, that's my favorite part.
Kacie: I'm on the "plus plus" tier. So I get to every so often, like actually work with Kim. Like, so I mean from a distance. And, but at least like kind of like, craft like, you know, say like kind of what either, you know, sometimes she'll ask us like, you know, what we're interested in. Like, kind of what we're working on. Or if we want to like, we'll get to choose like between different stones or something. And just different aspects of the piece, that like it's, I feel like one of those fancy people, getting to like, craft my jewelry pieces with the artisan. It's awesome. I definitely like the plus plus fancy. Yeah, yeah. And the snacks. Oh my gosh. Snacks.
Sarah: Yes!
Kacie: Each month, a different snack....
Kim: I'm a Taurus.
Kacie: ... I wouldn't get to try. Like she's pushed me to try new things. I may not always like them, but I'm trying them.
Jayne: Yay for trying them Kacie!
Kacie: Yes.
Andrea: I think one of the fun parts about the box is, you know, I've been, I've had a couple other subscriptions in the past, but like I didn't have someone to like share the experience with. So I open my box, I'm excited to share my excitement with Kim, but then all of us kind of pop on at different times after everybody's gotten their box and displays whatever it is that we were working on from that box, and kind of like shares the experience or the moment for the most part. And I think that's fun. Like, you don't have that option because the other boxes don't come with a community, you know, like here.
Kacie: Yeah. Yeah, I love that, seeing the different ways we can each interpret like the same tools, the same like box, but like we all put our own spin on it. And I like just getting to see that with the community here.
Sarah: Yay!
Kim: Oh yeah, because I don't generally give you... "This is exactly how you do it."
Kacie: Right, you'll give us like...
Kim: At least I don't think I do that?
Kacie: ..."this is how I do it." You'll give us like the general outline. Yeah. But I love that we've got like freedom to play with it.
Jayne: And I get to have a little bit of a behind the scenes experience with the box. I have gotten to collab with Kim on a couple of things and it is so much fun working with you, working with her, and being excited to see how everybody reacts to the things that I get to make, and put a little bit of my own thing on. So that is really fun too.
Kim: And now we got coloring pages!
Sarah: Oh my gosh!
Kacie: Yay!
Jayne: Oh my god I love my coloring page!
Kacie: Yeah! Thank you, Jayne, for pointing it out that you can do those just by downloading them onto your little tablet, and you don't have to have a printer to print them out. I don't know why I didn't think of that on my own. Thank you, Jayne, for being a genius.
Jayne: Right? And then you can color the same coloring page like 50 different ways.
Sarah: I was just super excited and printed it right away, and like colored it so fast, and was so excited! Because I'm an artist who likes to be told "Here are the lines that you get to color in."
Kim: And the coloring pages are actually from Ruth, who is somebody that some of us met at Anahata's Purpose. All of us, this year, will meet her at Anahana's Purpose. And she's the fellow witch and I, these are just for Clever Kim's Curios patrons.
Sarah: Thank you, Ruth!
Jayne: And the picture is beautiful. It's so detailed, and there's like pictures hanging on the wall in the picture. Oh, I love it.
Andrea: And then Kacie's got all the dog hair from the grooming.
Kacie:Yeah.
Kim: It's just groomer glitter.
Jayne: And then you'd have to have Andrea and all the wonderful, I don't want to say produce but that's the only word I can think of right now, produce that she's grown!
Kim: All the pretty vegetation.
Kacie: Also like a ridiculous amount of like oranges, and just baskets and baskets of them.
Sarah: And like tomatoes...
Jayne: Yes, the size of her face. Yes.
Sarah: And Jayne would be like all with the yarn all around, and like all the different things...
Kim: And her dogs. Yeah.
Andrea: So you just need the dog noses and all the yarn and then Jayne's little face.
Kim: In the middle.
Jayne: Or just my hair.
Kacie: With pointy ears and a faery crown.
Jayne: And Sarah with all of her little tumblers and her butter bells, which oh my god I love my butter bell. And her candle holders. Oh.
Sarah: And just like covered in clay.
Kacie: Yeah, and then you got clay water splashing everywhere.
Kim: Okay. So for the last thing, I would like you to tell me what your favorite box has been.
Andrea: I'll go first because I haven't had very many. But... and it's easier for me to pick from. I really liked the most recent one that had to do with like, you know, bringing sunshine into this kind of stagnant time of the year where it's not the holiday season, but it's not spring yet. I ended up taking some of my items after doing the ritual and made like solar tea, including them. And then like was able to drink the tea, and have that kind of light and rejuvenation the rest of the week, and it's just like been super joyous and happy.
Sarah: That's so cool.
Jayne: I really like this month, this past month's. But I think my favorite, just because it actually, like I was thinking about this. And I feel like it came at the perfect time, was the box with the crystal grid in it, because I love me some crystals. And I can't keep seeing them everywhere. And I was like, I don't know how to use this. And guess what? A crystal grid and instructions, in the box!
Kacie: Delivered right to your door.
Jayne: And I didn't even have to ask for it.
Kacie: Convenient... that is nice. How often like, we'll just, things will sync up with like, what we need. And it's like, it's like we're a bunch of witches.
Sarah: It's exactly like that.
Kacie: I have to say, my favorite box, because I'm eyeballing it right now. I just, it's that one with the bell and the light sun catcher crystal at the bottom, because that is the gift that just keeps on giving. I just, because I love, I don't know. I have it hanging in my window that's one, so I'm like just the rainbows that it shines all over the place. It just makes me so happy all the time.
Sarah: I like that one too.
Jayne: I have mine but it does not catch any sun.
Kacie: You just, you gotta have it in the right spot. I have it in here, oh, I love where I have it because yeah, just like this morning I just said, posted on the Instagrams because I got surprised with the surprise rainbow. And I'm like, it just throws the rainbows in all kinds of directions, and that surprised me, snuck up on me.
Sarah: Kacie, I'm so glad you said that one because I was tied between that one and the community box for my favorite. So now I get to talk about the community box, because I love that one. And the little candle that came in it, I like only burn a tiny bit at a time. But I use it whenever I'm doing like, the card pulls for us, and I was using it during like our intuition practice. And it's so great because I can light it and I immediately feel connected. And that's really awesome. And then all the other things.
Kim: Oh, my heart!
Kacie: Right? I use that one...
Kim: That's what I wanted!
Kacie: That's when I use the necklace from that one for all those occasions and stuff, like when, because yep, same. I love the community one.
Sarah: I'm wearing the community necklace!
Andrea: I just used the community candle too, for our reset after mercury retrograde.
Kacie: Oh, yay.
Sarah: Oh, that's awesome.
Jayne: Oh, that's really cool because I just took a nap.
Sarah: That will do it.
Kim: Jayne's our napper.
Andrea: Resident napper, naps professionally. There was actually...
Jayne: I just have a good puppy to sleep with.
Andrea: A lot of people in the Marco also loved the simmer pot, that you dehydrated all that stuff, KIm. Like that was fun, hearing how people used those over the holidays, too.
Jayne: Yeah. That was perfect for my Yule time because I wasn't feeling it. I was just kind of stressed out about Christmas and not really feeling the spiritual side of it like I wanted to, and I put that simmer pot on and it was kind of a, it was a very grounding thing for me. Because I was like, okay let me let me get ready for this. The sun's coming back. Christmas should not be my focus right now and it was really nice, I really liked that.
Kim: Yay!
Jayne: Thank you!
Kim: Thank you! I love you guys!
Kacie/Sarah/Jayne/Andrea: We love you too!
Kacie: Thank you for bringing us all together.
Sarah: Yeah for real.
Kim: Thank you for wanting to do that.
Jayne: And the you know, fifth or sixth or seventh best thing about her boxes, I've lost count. When you are part of the hive group, then when we go to Anahata's, we have a whole Hive House. And it's like a slumber party all weekend. It's the best thing!
Sarah: And you've already like gotten to get to know the people some, so for us who are you know, maybe a little quiet or awkward.
Kim: It's like 67% less scary.
Sarah: Oh my gosh so much less scary! Because you already know someone.
Andrea: That's a very specific percentage.
Sarah: Yeah.
Kim: Math. I only said some numbers. I only said some numbers.
Kacie: But data shows, it is exactly 67% less scary.
Andrea: What's the numerology on that?
Kim: I don't know, that involves numbers.
Andrea: Me either.
Kim: I just made up some words.
Andrea: We are now recruiting numerology witches, please join Patreon.
Kacie: Yeah go ahead and fill in the gaps We've got some gaps to fill in. We'd appreciate you doing that. Educating us on the numbers.
Sarah: Tell me what these numbers mean!
Andrea: Who else should we page?
Kacie: Everyone wants to come join the Patreon.
Andrea: Yeah we got a couple farm witches.
Sarah: Come join us and tell us tell us about you, tell us what kind of witch you are!
Kacie: Right?
Jayne: Yeah.
Kim: Sarah is now in charge of my marketing.
Sarah: You're welcome. Join Your Average Witch. Tell us what kind of witch you are. Branding.
Kim: Oh my god. Because I didn't think of it. That's going to be for Sarah's Patreon.
Sarah: Yes. That I'm going to look at today. Maybe.
Jayne: When is that coming out, Sarah?
Sarah: Uh, when I figure out how it all works?
Jayne: Just like this. We're doing it now, girl.
Kim: You also get some mediocre coaching on how do Patreon from me!
Sarah: Yay! Somebody to ask questions!
Kacie: But really, between all of us, just in all of our different ventures, it's just so helpful to have each other to like, I don't know, between the group of us, somebody has some sort of answer to something, to all of our whole variety of questions, that has helped like all of us really kind of like grow just our different ventures, whether it's like our small businesses, or whatever. Or just like getting our lives together.
Kim: Even if the answer is "I don't know but I know somebody who does."
Kacie: Yeah, networking.
Sarah: Yeah, but the fun kind.
Andrea: Yeah, and that goes for like shops and things, too. Like if we're looking for any kind of product item thingamajiggy, we can ask, and somebody knows.
Kim: Yeah, like for Little Debbie choco-gels.
Andrea: Right.
Kim: Or Tapatio Doritos.
Andrea: We have the nation covered in snacks. If you can't find it, we will send it.
Sarah: We have somebody somewhere who can find it.
Kim: Totally not guaranteed.
Sarah: Not guaranteed at all.
Jayne: If you are a witch in the Gulf Coast region, please, please, please, please, please come join. I need somebody here!
Kim: Go make friends with Jayne.
Jayne: I need you!
Sarah: She makes good food.
Kim: Well thank y'all so much for doing this and for, this was so fun. We should do this more often.
Kacie: We'll light a candle for your, your editing.
Andrea: Yeah.
Kim: See? People will like candles when you're ridiculous things.
Jayne: Yeah, like when you have crazy weekends where you work more hours than there are hours in that weekend, some people will light you a coffee candle and then leave burning all day. And all night. And yeah.
Kacie: When you're constantly double-booking all the dogs?
Kim: Yeah, those!
Sarah: We will light you a candle.
Andrea: We'll light things on fire for you.
Kacie: Yes, yes.
Sarah: Yes! We like lighting things on fire!
Andrea: Come on, patrons, light our fires. Yeah!
Sarah: Yeah!
Kim: Thanks everybody.
Sarah/Andrea/Jayne/Kacie: Thank you!
Jayne: See you on Marco!
Kim: Okay, bye.
Everyone: Bye! Bye!
Kim: If you want to try before you buy, I'm currently offering a free seven day trial for the five dollar tier. This gives you access to the monthly spells, podcast bonuses, videos and more, including the Marco Polo family. Thanks again to Andrea, Kacie, Sarah and Jayne for going along with my impulsivity and recording that bit 15 minutes after I thought of it. And as I repeatedly said, I love you all.
Just a tiny bit of housekeeping if you've listened this far. I have exciting news. In February after I'm finished buying the patron gifts for the year at the gem show, I'll be putting out an episode every week. I also have a few more ad slots open in the full length episodes. So shoot me an email at youraveragewitchpodcast at gmail.com if you want to advertise with Your Average Witch. Thanks for listening. Catch the next episode on February 7th, when I interview Crystalina, The Witchy Historian.