In today's episode, I interview my older sister Maya Casey. Maya enjoys reading the bible and discovering symbolism. She talks about being quick to make friends and about her plan to be more healthy. She discusses her plan for the future as we have a light-hearted episode.
[00:00:07] Welcome back to another episode of The Vision Pod where guests are hand-picked to bring value to your everyday life. Enjoy!
[00:00:28] Today's episode I interview my sister Maya Casey. She's super awesome and we joke around quite a bit. She's one of my really good friends.
[00:00:36] So it's fun to interview her. She also has a podcast that she started up. She lives in Calgary right now and she's a couple years older than me.
[00:00:45] Thanks for watching.
[00:00:49] So I just want to start off light with a question. What's the craziest thing you've ever done to a friend?
[00:00:57] Most immoral thing you've ever done to a friend? Without telling them. What is it?
[00:01:05] What are you like? Say it all at once.
[00:01:07] Okay, okay. First question, we're just going to start off light, a little icebreaker.
[00:01:12] What's the most immoral thing you've ever done to a friend?
[00:01:15] That they never told them about. They never told them about.
[00:01:22] How you like staying at Grand Prix right now?
[00:01:26] It's good to be home.
[00:01:28] Yeah?
[00:01:29] It's good to be home. I think that I'm probably the best version of myself with the family.
[00:01:34] Really?
[00:01:35] Yeah. Like I'm the happiest version of myself.
[00:01:38] I'm the most confident version of myself in some ways.
[00:01:43] In other ways, I'm the most insecure version of myself.
[00:01:47] Okay.
[00:01:48] Um, but it's good to be home. It is hard though because there's so many, like, I guess high school memories and...
[00:01:59] It's just like a hometown thing. Going back to your hometown, you've got a lot of old memories attached to it.
[00:02:06] So I feel like I want to come home and make new memories.
[00:02:11] You've got to start doing fun stuff then.
[00:02:12] Yeah, I know.
[00:02:15] The surfing today. Surfing today was the start of that.
[00:02:19] Yeah, it was good. You were doing good for sure.
[00:02:22] So you started a podcast as well, kind of trying to copy me.
[00:02:26] Yeah, so we did clarify this in my podcast. I did not copy Judah. Let the record say, I did not copy Judah.
[00:02:37] The record can say whatever it wants to say, but I know what the truth is.
[00:02:40] No! Oh my goodness. My first episode came out before him. I've been thinking about starting a podcast since January. I just procrastinated.
[00:02:48] Okay, so what drives you to want to make a podcast? What is the reason for it?
[00:02:53] I love people. I think everybody has interesting things to say.
[00:03:01] Everybody has interesting stories.
[00:03:03] And I have always thought that to be true.
[00:03:07] So I was like, well, I meet all these cool people.
[00:03:11] And I want other people to know their cool stories.
[00:03:17] And I think it's so interesting learning about why a person believes the things they do.
[00:03:24] Why, like what life circumstances they've experienced that bring them to the conclusions and worldviews that they have.
[00:03:34] Cool. Yeah.
[00:03:35] You're kind of, you're willing to have anyone on the show.
[00:03:40] It doesn't matter if they believe what you believe or not.
[00:03:45] Why are you so comfortable with that?
[00:03:46] Well, yeah, I said this in my first episode.
[00:03:49] I said I almost prefer to talk to someone that doesn't hold the same views I do or actually holds the opposite views I do.
[00:03:59] Because I already know why I believe what I believe.
[00:04:02] I've already come to that conclusion for a reason.
[00:04:04] I've looked into it.
[00:04:06] And so it's so interesting to hear, okay, you disagree with me.
[00:04:11] Why?
[00:04:12] How did you come to that conclusion?
[00:04:14] I know how I came to mine, but how did you come to your conclusion?
[00:04:17] Because if I'm talking to someone that has the exact same opinion as me, then we're probably going to have come to the conclusion in a similar way.
[00:04:23] Yeah.
[00:04:24] And everyone thinks what they're doing is right.
[00:04:26] Yeah.
[00:04:27] Yeah.
[00:04:27] And so then talking with people who disagree with me, it's like, okay, tell me why you believe that and what made you come to that conclusion.
[00:04:35] And then, and then it, then actually, I think it makes me a smarter person because then I have to really think through, well, why do I actually believe what I believe?
[00:04:46] And how does that stand against what this person is saying?
[00:04:51] Like, it really provokes my thinking and it forces me to like reevaluate every conversation.
[00:04:57] I have to reevaluate.
[00:04:58] Okay.
[00:05:00] Am I confident in my own belief?
[00:05:02] It's like, I feel like it has to, it makes you such a smarter person to talk to people that maybe, maybe in some circumstances.
[00:05:11] Yeah.
[00:05:11] Kind of hear the other side and be able to prove your, your point.
[00:05:16] Yeah.
[00:05:16] And it challenges you, like, you grow every time you have a conversation with someone that disagrees with you, you grow in like, learning how to navigate a conversation in a respectful way.
[00:05:29] And, and being kind and communicating in a loving way.
[00:05:38] Yeah.
[00:05:38] Usually it's not kind and it's on the internet.
[00:05:41] You're someone who gets quite a bit of hate for the things you do.
[00:05:45] And sometimes you're your own best coach when you're not actually in the situation.
[00:05:51] So if you're coaching Maya through a hurtful comment, what are you saying to her?
[00:05:59] Uh, oh, that's an interesting question.
[00:06:02] I think that I don't, for the most part, any negative comments don't faze me.
[00:06:10] Uh, although I was talking with dad about this yesterday, two days ago.
[00:06:16] And he's like, you can say as much as you want.
[00:06:21] Oh, these comments don't affect me.
[00:06:23] These comments don't affect me.
[00:06:25] But words have power.
[00:06:27] Like what you and I were talking about.
[00:06:29] Words have power.
[00:06:30] And whether I want to acknowledge it or not, those do build up.
[00:06:36] So I guess on, okay, this is something that I just learned this weekend.
[00:06:43] My, and I don't know, I want to know how, what you think about this too.
[00:06:47] My platforms, my social media platforms, it's my own space.
[00:06:53] And so if someone is saying something that is hateful, it's my own space.
[00:07:00] Why would I let them, why would I let that happen?
[00:07:04] And I think before my thought process was, well, I'm making the decision to speak up and
[00:07:11] share my opinion.
[00:07:12] And so I have to be okay with the consequences of that.
[00:07:14] I have to be okay with, I have to be okay with hateful comments because I chose vulnerability
[00:07:20] here.
[00:07:21] I chose to be open on the internet.
[00:07:25] But then I talked to dad about it and he's like, it's your own space.
[00:07:28] Why would, he's like, I don't know.
[00:07:30] I just think I wouldn't let someone come into my home and just start saying terrible things
[00:07:34] about me.
[00:07:35] There's space.
[00:07:36] I will absolutely open up space for debate, healthy debate and discussion.
[00:07:42] And if someone wants to disagree with me, that is totally fine and we can talk about it.
[00:07:47] But actual hateful comments in this last weekend, I think I've just learned, I'm just going to
[00:07:53] delete them.
[00:07:54] I'll just take them off.
[00:07:56] Yeah.
[00:07:57] And it helps when you're with your, your family, people who actually like really support
[00:08:01] you and want the best for you.
[00:08:02] Well, yeah.
[00:08:03] And those people are speaking the, like they're speaking life over me.
[00:08:10] You are one of the people who has created the most friendships out of, out of anywhere
[00:08:18] you've been.
[00:08:18] You're always, you always have seven new friends that you'd want to introduce me to.
[00:08:24] Like how do you do it?
[00:08:26] And, uh, and why?
[00:08:30] Uh, I think I,
[00:08:32] I make it, I just have this expectation and pressure on myself almost that if I go into
[00:08:41] a space, um, I want to meet new people and it's because I love people.
[00:08:49] Like I said earlier, I love learning people's stories.
[00:08:55] Um, it's just fun for me, I guess.
[00:08:58] Yeah.
[00:08:59] And I think that you, each person is responsible for their own happiness.
[00:09:06] And I think community is absolutely essential to happiness.
[00:09:13] And if I am moving to a new city, I've moved to two new cities in the last year.
[00:09:20] And if I'm moving into a new city, I can't complain if I'm, you know, not connected or I feel like
[00:09:28] I don't have community or I feel like I am lonely.
[00:09:31] That is entirely my own fault.
[00:09:33] So if I'm moving to a new city, it's on me to build community and make friendships.
[00:09:42] And I will say it is, that is something that I think Christians do well.
[00:09:48] And I remember talking with someone, I remember talking with someone who just grew up in a home
[00:09:57] where there wasn't a lot of community.
[00:09:58] And he said, he's like seeing your family and the amount of relationships and community and all that,
[00:10:10] that your family has it, I would totally attribute it to the fact that you guys are Christians,
[00:10:15] you have church community.
[00:10:17] And so I like, I feel very blessed to be in this, to be in a Christian community.
[00:10:25] And it makes it so much easier when you move to a new city and then you go to church.
[00:10:30] Like that's such a great connection point right away when you move to a new city.
[00:10:35] You have the biggest thing possible in common.
[00:10:38] Yeah, exactly.
[00:10:39] The most important thing in common.
[00:10:41] Yeah, that's awesome.
[00:10:43] So, yeah.
[00:10:44] Yeah, you've been good at that.
[00:10:49] What makes you so interested in learning so much about the Bible and learning about different,
[00:10:58] like kind of hidden things, I guess?
[00:11:01] Right.
[00:11:02] I listened to an Upper Room sermon probably two years ago.
[00:11:09] And this sermon was talking about how, I don't, have you heard this before?
[00:11:14] Tell me if you've heard this before.
[00:11:16] About, wait, I think I told you about it.
[00:11:18] How God making the covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai is a wedding.
[00:11:25] Have you heard this?
[00:11:27] Share, please share.
[00:11:28] Okay, so, oh, I don't have my Bible with me right now.
[00:11:32] I wish I did.
[00:11:33] But I think it's Exodus 12 or 13, somewhere around there.
[00:11:41] And God meets Israel at Mount Sinai.
[00:11:45] And he, I think he had just given Moses the first tablets, the first Ten Commandments,
[00:11:51] I think if I'm remembering correctly.
[00:11:53] And there's this cloud that comes over the mountain.
[00:11:56] The whole congregation of Israel is gathered at the base of this mountain.
[00:12:00] And God says, earlier God had said when he was telling Moses about this covenant he was
[00:12:07] going to make with his chosen people, he said, I will take you to be my people.
[00:12:12] And that language, I will take you, that is what Isaac says when he takes Rebecca to be
[00:12:19] his wife.
[00:12:20] That's what Jacob says when he takes Rachel and Leah to be his wives.
[00:12:24] That's what Abraham says when he takes Sarah.
[00:12:26] So that is marriage language, first of all.
[00:12:29] God's saying, I will take Israel to be my people.
[00:12:33] He's saying, I'm going to marry Israel.
[00:12:35] And then this cloud that rests over the mountain is, you know, in Jewish weddings, they have
[00:12:42] a canopy over them.
[00:12:45] Yes.
[00:12:46] This cloud rests over the mountain and the people.
[00:12:48] This is a canopy over God and his people.
[00:12:52] Israel, it's a wedding.
[00:12:54] And then the Ten Commandments is the, is the vows.
[00:12:58] And what is the very first vow?
[00:13:01] You will have no other God before me.
[00:13:03] You won't take another husband.
[00:13:05] And what do you say in your wedding vows today?
[00:13:07] It's like, to have him told all this stuff.
[00:13:10] Like you're committing.
[00:13:11] You are the only person I'm going to be with.
[00:13:13] And that's what Israel was saying to God.
[00:13:15] They're saying, you are the only God that will have.
[00:13:17] So the Ten Commandments were the vows.
[00:13:19] And then the law was the marriage certificate, if I remember correctly.
[00:13:24] So I listened to this sermon from Upper Room.
[00:13:28] And that blew my mind.
[00:13:30] Because I always had this idea that the Old Testament and the law was this bad thing.
[00:13:38] And, you know, a lot of people have this mindset that Christianity is just a bunch of rules that you have to follow.
[00:13:45] And then that totally changed my perspective.
[00:13:47] And it just, it was so beautiful.
[00:13:51] That's so beautiful.
[00:13:52] That's such a beautiful picture.
[00:13:54] And I just started, that kind of shifted my perspective.
[00:13:57] That it's like everything God does has such a deeper meaning and such a deeper way to look at it.
[00:14:05] And when you see it, it is so beautiful.
[00:14:09] It's so beautiful.
[00:14:11] So I heard this Upper Room podcast.
[00:14:13] And that was the first message I heard that, like, showed that alternate perspective of a Bible verse or a Bible chapter that I've read my whole life.
[00:14:25] But then this new perspective.
[00:14:28] And it made so much sense.
[00:14:29] I don't know.
[00:14:30] So I just have started to really, like, the more you understand the culture, like, Jewish culture or the culture of the Old Testament.
[00:14:42] And, you know, the Israelites walking through the Promised Land.
[00:14:46] And then the first few kings.
[00:14:48] And this year, I've read through the Bible two and a half times since January 1st.
[00:14:54] And so that's been really, that's really provoked my passion for it as well.
[00:15:00] Because when you read the whole entire story from God choosing the Israelites to, like, the restoration of Eden in Revelation.
[00:15:14] I don't know.
[00:15:15] It just, the more you read through the whole Bible, the more the story starts to make sense.
[00:15:20] Yeah.
[00:15:20] Greatest story ever told.
[00:15:21] Yeah.
[00:15:22] And it's so cool to, I'm going through it really slow this third time that I'm reading through it.
[00:15:28] And I'm really, like, I want to understand what, even going to Exodus.
[00:15:35] Like, I have looked up the map of where the Israelites traveled.
[00:15:39] And then it's so interesting in Joshua how Joshua divides up the land once they, you know, start conquering it.
[00:15:48] And he starts dividing the land.
[00:15:51] And it's in ways that was prophesied years and years and years before.
[00:15:56] Like, when Jacob, this is crazy.
[00:15:59] When Jacob blesses his sons, the 12 tribes of Israel, some of the things that are in that blessing come to fruition.
[00:16:08] It's not even a blessing.
[00:16:09] It's honestly a prophetic word, the whole thing, to all of his sons.
[00:16:13] Some of those prophetic words come to fruition when Joshua takes over the promised land and how he divides the land up to each of the tribes.
[00:16:22] And so it's just, it's so intertwined.
[00:16:26] And the more you read it, the more you realize how intertwined it is and how intentional God is about absolutely every little thing.
[00:16:36] It's so cool.
[00:16:39] So I kind of, what was your question?
[00:16:41] It was like, why are you interested in it?
[00:16:43] Yeah, what got you into it?
[00:16:44] That's good.
[00:16:44] Yeah.
[00:16:44] So I think that, I think that answers it.
[00:16:47] Kind of uncovered some, some stuff that you hadn't realized before.
[00:16:52] Yeah.
[00:16:53] Yeah.
[00:16:53] Yeah.
[00:16:54] Um, I was wondering, so you're 95 on your deathbed and you look back at your life.
[00:17:00] What would be a successful life for you?
[00:17:07] Well, um, I think, I think I would answer that question the same way or in a similar way that I would answer the question of like, what is your greatest fear?
[00:17:20] What is your greatest fear in life?
[00:17:23] My greatest fear is that I would die and I would not have accomplished what God created me for.
[00:17:31] Cause I know that when he knit me together in my mother's womb, he designed me, he designed Maya with a purpose, um, for my time on earth.
[00:17:46] And so if I died and I did not accomplish what he designed me for, that would, that's my greatest fear.
[00:17:57] So, so, so what would some of that stuff look like?
[00:18:01] Whoa.
[00:18:01] If you, if you can, if you can, uh, try to.
[00:18:05] Like, what do I think I was designed for?
[00:18:08] Yeah.
[00:18:08] What, what, cause if, yeah, if you look back and you maybe say you ran a fortune 500 company or you had, or you had 12 kids in most beautiful garden.
[00:18:19] Oh, wait a minute.
[00:18:21] So like you got it.
[00:18:23] Mail on that.
[00:18:24] Okay.
[00:18:25] Um, I think that I, I think one of the gifts that God has given me is I have an influential voice and like I've had a few prophetic words spoken over me, uh, kind of in relation to that.
[00:18:40] And so honestly, I could see, maybe I see myself kind of as an evangelist.
[00:18:46] I, I see myself influencing big groups of people, maybe specifically youth.
[00:18:53] Um, so I don't, and I don't know what specifically that looks like.
[00:18:57] I think I really believe that God is gonna, is maybe direct to me right now and in the future will direct me to a very specific ministry to lead.
[00:19:10] Um, so there's one aspect of what I feel called to, but also I absolutely,
[00:19:16] I absolutely believe that I, that I'll get married and that I think I'm called to have a big family.
[00:19:24] It's a huge, that is something that I'm, that I'm actually very passionate about and could talk about a lot is just family.
[00:19:34] Yeah.
[00:19:34] And for those who obviously can't tell, she's grinning while saying that as big as possible.
[00:19:43] I really believe that, that we're supposed to be fruitful multiply, that we're supposed to have lots of kids.
[00:19:51] And that's one of the best things we can do as, as Christians is, uh, yeah, just have big families that love Jesus.
[00:20:02] So, yeah, I believe that God's gonna give me a ministry where I have an influential voice, uh, maybe with youth.
[00:20:11] And then I am going to raise a lot of kids.
[00:20:17] I'm gonna raise a lot of kids who love Jesus and who are also gonna do incredible things for the kingdom.
[00:20:26] Like triple A hockey.
[00:20:27] Like triple A hockey.
[00:20:30] Yeah, triple A hockey.
[00:20:32] When we were growing up, Judah would always say that he would never put his kids in piano lessons.
[00:20:39] He would just like, he would just put them in hockey and buy them $4,000 sticks.
[00:20:47] My little cousin Luther, he just made the double A team.
[00:20:52] And me and Cohen were like, he did what we never could.
[00:20:55] He did what we never could.
[00:20:58] So it was kind of a, kind of happy, sad moment.
[00:21:01] It's like, we'll never be there again.
[00:21:04] There's no double A for, for 19 year olds.
[00:21:08] So, bigger and better things.
[00:21:12] You can't win them all.
[00:21:13] You can't win them all.
[00:21:15] Unfortunately, my mom put me in, uh, instrument lessons.
[00:21:20] Instrument lessons.
[00:21:21] And boys choir.
[00:21:25] That's why my, yeah.
[00:21:28] Gift and a curse.
[00:21:30] Gift and a curse.
[00:21:31] Oh my goodness.
[00:21:32] That's hilarious.
[00:21:34] Yep.
[00:21:35] So, what do you think, uh, how, how excited are you for this, for the next few months of your life?
[00:21:42] Or are you nervous?
[00:21:43] Um, okay.
[00:21:45] This is, this is what I am feeling from the Lord.
[00:21:49] And I don't, I don't know how accurate this is.
[00:21:51] It's just maybe my, my heart, my gut feeling.
[00:21:55] I think the next three months, I actually, when I was in Mexico, I was in Mexico last week,
[00:22:02] I was really praying and I, I said to God before I, like right at the beginning of the trip, I said,
[00:22:11] I need direction throughout this trip.
[00:22:14] I'm spending time with you on this trip.
[00:22:16] I went, did this trip alone.
[00:22:17] Spent a lot of time in the word.
[00:22:19] Spent a lot of time in prayer.
[00:22:20] And I said before I left, God, I need direction.
[00:22:24] You need to give me something, give me something to hold on to.
[00:22:28] And one thing that I left that trip really feeling heavily was three months, this marker of three months.
[00:22:38] And all summer, I've really felt like God has been saying to me, um,
[00:22:48] God has been saying to me right now, you're, you're resting and you're just in a season of growing
[00:22:56] and people are teaching you and you're acquiring wisdom and you're just pressing in in prayer and in the word.
[00:23:06] And I feel like that marker of three months was, is kind of like, okay, in three months,
[00:23:14] you're going to, something is going to happen.
[00:23:16] That's going to kickstart what I have in store for you.
[00:23:19] The, the direction that I want you to head in is how I feel.
[00:23:23] So I'm in a ministry school.
[00:23:25] I think I'm going to finish that off.
[00:23:28] And then I really, I think some, I think some pretty big without, without, uh, sharing too much.
[00:23:37] I think some pretty big, pretty exciting things are going to start happening in January.
[00:23:42] And then specifically in May.
[00:23:45] Cool.
[00:23:45] I'm believing that for you too, for sure.
[00:23:49] When I was in Asia, the, the pastor, he, he, he liked to preach this verse and he says,
[00:23:55] it's one of the scariest verses for him in the Bible.
[00:23:58] And it's Hebrews 11, eight by faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go to the place,
[00:24:04] which he would receive as an, as an inheritance.
[00:24:08] And he went out not knowing where he was going.
[00:24:11] Oh, he just, he just went out by faith and that's, it's, uh, it's definitely scary to
[00:24:18] not know, not know what you're doing, but yeah, it's so funny when you look back, you
[00:24:24] can see all the moments that lined up perfectly.
[00:24:26] And he was there all along.
[00:24:29] You can see his, you can see his fingerprint.
[00:24:31] Yeah.
[00:24:32] Yeah.
[00:24:32] I, I, I even see that looking back on my life now.
[00:24:36] So that's cool.
[00:24:38] You were huge into politics when you were younger.
[00:24:41] What completely drew you away from that?
[00:24:44] Um, yeah, I was very passionate about politics and in a very polarizing way.
[00:24:51] Like I was, I was very opinionated and I think I was, I was opinionated to the point of being
[00:24:58] disrespectful to opposing views.
[00:25:02] And I still, I'm still very strongly opinionated.
[00:25:07] I still believe what I believe and I'm confident in what I believe, but I don't talk about it
[00:25:13] as much.
[00:25:13] And I heard it articulated really well on a podcast.
[00:25:16] It was like the conversation of politics is often just complaining.
[00:25:23] It's often just complaining about what the government is doing or what other people are
[00:25:28] doing and nothing, nothing really creative or new ideas or yeah, exactly.
[00:25:34] Exactly.
[00:25:35] I think it's important for sure.
[00:25:38] The conversations are important.
[00:25:39] It's important to establish what you believe and why you believe it and to be able to defend
[00:25:44] yourself for sure.
[00:25:46] Um, cause you need to be able to think for yourself, obviously, but after that, and I
[00:25:53] think, I think it's important to talk about, about those things with people.
[00:25:57] I just think that, yeah, like I said, it's so, it's just a lot of complaining.
[00:26:04] And then I started to slowly get into the health and wellness world more so in 2022.
[00:26:12] So it was after I came back from while I started working out and then slowly I got more interested
[00:26:18] in midwifery.
[00:26:19] And then slowly it was like, when I got interested in midwifery, it was this idea that God perfectly
[00:26:27] designed the female body for everything it's supposed to do.
[00:26:32] There's not, the female body does not have a flaw in its design that makes something extra hard.
[00:26:39] I don't believe that like super, super hot take.
[00:26:42] But, um, and then I started to just think, well, there's no flaw in the human body for,
[00:26:50] for anything to function outside of the way it's supposed to function.
[00:26:54] Right.
[00:26:54] And so it's like, where is sickness coming from?
[00:26:57] Where are diseases coming from?
[00:26:58] Where are cancers coming from?
[00:26:59] And then it really got me on this health and wellness.
[00:27:04] Rabbit hole.
[00:27:04] Yeah.
[00:27:05] Rabbit hole for sure.
[00:27:07] And the thing of the difference between health and wellness and politics, and I think
[00:27:10] they, there's a lot of things that overlap, but health and wellness is so, you have all
[00:27:19] of the power to control it.
[00:27:22] Like you, with politics, you complain about what's not going right, but then you can't
[00:27:28] do anything about it because you're not in government and all you can do is vote or,
[00:27:34] you know, go to a protest.
[00:27:35] I don't know.
[00:27:36] But with health and wellness, it's like, okay, I am passionate and I'm, I'm, uh, convinced
[00:27:42] on these things that this is good for you and this is bad for you.
[00:27:45] And then you can proceed to do something about it.
[00:27:48] Yeah.
[00:27:49] So after hearing that, I'm assuming that you are a super big health nut.
[00:27:55] You don't, you don't eat any, any sugar, any, uh, I'm kidding.
[00:28:02] No, I know.
[00:28:03] But that is, well, that's my problem is I, and I don't want to speak this.
[00:28:08] But no, I think, I think you are doing, I don't, I don't mean to say you're doing a
[00:28:10] bad job.
[00:28:11] I just, no, I know I'm addicted to sugar.
[00:28:16] Yeah.
[00:28:17] But I rebuke that.
[00:28:17] I rebuke that because I don't want to be addicted to sugar, but I, oh.
[00:28:24] So I have another question.
[00:28:26] I need to start rewiring my brain.
[00:28:28] What was the, what was the biggest thing you learned in midwifery, but not like a biology
[00:28:33] standpoint or something that you just learned that you'll take with you wherever you go?
[00:28:39] Uh, the experience, like the experience or something I learned in class.
[00:28:43] Something you learned in class.
[00:28:44] Like, yeah.
[00:28:45] Um, oh my goodness.
[00:28:50] Oh my goodness.
[00:28:51] I feel like I wiped it all from my memory.
[00:28:55] I learned so much in four months.
[00:28:57] Really?
[00:28:58] I've never learned that much in four months in my whole entire life.
[00:29:01] It was insane.
[00:29:03] Do you think you could deliver a baby right now?
[00:29:05] Oh.
[00:29:06] Or no, not quite.
[00:29:07] My own baby or someone else's?
[00:29:08] Someone else's.
[00:29:10] Yeah, I think I could.
[00:29:11] Really?
[00:29:12] Yeah, because I took the doula.
[00:29:14] Like, if something went wrong, I wouldn't know what to do.
[00:29:17] But I took the doula course.
[00:29:19] I don't know.
[00:29:19] I, I think it's all about mindset.
[00:29:22] And if I'm with a woman who is excited and confident and she's not scared, she's not afraid,
[00:29:28] and she hasn't had any other complications throughout her pregnancy, then I, I would not be worried
[00:29:35] being alone in a room with this woman who's delivering her baby.
[00:29:39] And you think that's a better way to do it as opposed to going to the hospital?
[00:29:42] Oh yeah, I guess, I guess that came out of my mouth without me thinking about it.
[00:29:46] Yeah, when I think about, when I think about giving birth, anyone, I imagine it in a home.
[00:29:53] I picture it in a home.
[00:29:54] I don't even picture it in a hospital.
[00:29:55] So you'll never go to the hospital?
[00:29:58] Uh, I would only go to the hospital if something went terribly wrong, but, but yeah, of course not.
[00:30:04] But personally, I won't have any of my babies at the hospital.
[00:30:08] And I, I would encourage every, I would encourage every woman to have her baby at home.
[00:30:16] But I think you should have your baby wherever you feel safest.
[00:30:20] Because that's how you release the hormones that you need to have your baby.
[00:30:27] Um, in a safe way.
[00:30:29] So wherever you feel safe, wherever a woman feels comfortable.
[00:30:32] But come on, who, who seriously feels more comfortable in the hospital as opposed to your own home?
[00:30:38] Some people do.
[00:30:38] Sometimes they have, sometimes they have paintings on the wall.
[00:30:41] Some teddy bears.
[00:30:43] The kids' hospitals are getting nice these days.
[00:30:45] The kids' hospitals.
[00:30:49] So Maya, are you a small town girl or a big city girl?
[00:30:53] Doesn't, doesn't matter like Calgary or Grand Prairie.
[00:30:56] Oh, no.
[00:30:56] Just any big city, small town.
[00:30:58] Ooh, that's hard.
[00:31:01] Or jungle.
[00:31:01] Probably.
[00:31:03] Throwing a wild card in there.
[00:31:04] Definitely not jungle.
[00:31:06] Because I love people too much.
[00:31:08] I love Calgary because I can meet someone new every single day.
[00:31:13] And I guess in a small, small town you wouldn't be able to do that.
[00:31:16] In a town like Grand Prairie you can.
[00:31:18] I wouldn't consider Grand Prairie super small town.
[00:31:21] Grand Prairie is a perfect size, I think.
[00:31:25] Because I, I do think, I am a small town girl.
[00:31:28] Because small towns have those more traditional, more conservative values.
[00:31:32] People are more interested in settling down.
[00:31:35] Starting a family young.
[00:31:37] Getting married.
[00:31:39] That is not the case at all in Calgary.
[00:31:41] Everybody in Calgary is on the grind.
[00:31:44] They're, uh, they're not getting married for years and years because they want to establish
[00:31:49] their career first.
[00:31:50] And they're not having kids till their mid to late thirties.
[00:31:54] So, I'm definitely a small town girl.
[00:31:57] But not like small, small town.
[00:31:59] Where, where you can't meet anyone new for a decade.
[00:32:03] Kind of thing.
[00:32:05] Sometimes you seem kind of frustrated by the, the rat race mentality.
[00:32:09] Get a, get ahead while you're young.
[00:32:11] Um, I wonder what, I wonder what you find, uh, so wrong with that.
[00:32:17] Or not so wrong, just.
[00:32:18] Uh, I think, honestly, no, I think it's, it's good.
[00:32:25] Okay.
[00:32:26] Hot take.
[00:32:27] I think that's a good thing for men.
[00:32:29] I think that's a really good thing for young men.
[00:32:32] That is what young men should be doing.
[00:32:33] They should be grinding, um, to get ahead and figure out what they're doing with their life
[00:32:42] when they're young, for sure.
[00:32:44] But as a young woman, I, I just see other girls my age doing that.
[00:32:48] And it, it's just not where I'm at.
[00:32:51] I think, yeah, I just, I just want to get married and love.
[00:32:56] So, so Maya, Maya said, hot take.
[00:32:58] And then proceeded to say, yeah, that's fine.
[00:33:01] Oh, I'm trying.
[00:33:02] So she, no.
[00:33:03] So there's, there's no hot take there.
[00:33:05] No, I'm trying to be, I'm trying to be really.
[00:33:08] Dialed back.
[00:33:09] Yeah.
[00:33:10] I'm trying to withhold my true passionate feeling about this.
[00:33:14] It totally ties in with my, my strong belief that, that we should get married young, have
[00:33:22] lots of kids, and that, and that women should be at home with their kids.
[00:33:27] That women should raise their kids at home.
[00:33:29] Mm-hmm.
[00:33:30] There's a hot take.
[00:33:31] Yeah.
[00:33:32] I think, uh, it shouldn't, shouldn't be so hot of a take, but, uh.
[00:33:37] And I guess, um, I think it's okay.
[00:33:41] There are, I'm not trying to hate on a woman who's not at home with her kids, but if, if
[00:33:49] I, if you ask me what I believe about the way we were designed and created to function
[00:33:54] best, then absolutely mom should be with her kids all day.
[00:33:59] And then you, so you'd go with that homeschool route as well.
[00:34:02] Oh, for sure.
[00:34:03] For sure.
[00:34:04] So.
[00:34:05] Yeah.
[00:34:07] So you have your language arts, your science, your math, your gym.
[00:34:15] What, what's the other one I'm thinking of?
[00:34:16] Social studies.
[00:34:16] Social studies.
[00:34:18] What, what subject are you adding in?
[00:34:20] Are you adding in, uh, a Bible class?
[00:34:23] Uh, what are you thinking?
[00:34:25] An identity class?
[00:34:27] Yeah, probably Bible.
[00:34:28] Because, because what you said in my podcast, the Bible is the foundation of all wisdom.
[00:34:34] Everything that you need to know about life is in there.
[00:34:39] So, definitely Bible.
[00:34:42] Anything else?
[00:34:43] Anything else you, maybe like, uh, economics 101?
[00:34:48] Well, I was thinking that.
[00:34:49] I was thinking money because, I don't know, I feel like everybody's like, oh, they don't
[00:34:53] teach kids how to deal with money in high school.
[00:34:56] So.
[00:34:56] But you just, you just hear that.
[00:34:58] You have no idea.
[00:35:01] Here's what I'll say.
[00:35:02] I think, once again, okay, I just think that's amazing for men.
[00:35:08] I think that's great for men.
[00:35:10] You are actually not very big on business conversations or money conversations.
[00:35:16] I hate it.
[00:35:17] You, yeah, you'd rather.
[00:35:20] Talk about, talk about anything else.
[00:35:21] Talk about anything else.
[00:35:23] The weather.
[00:35:24] You'd rather talk about the weather.
[00:35:29] What's, what's going on there?
[00:35:31] I just, I don't know.
[00:35:34] It, it confuses me.
[00:35:35] I don't, it just, I don't care much about money, I guess.
[00:35:44] Um, I, I just, my, when I was a kid, all my finances and all of that, I feel like I just,
[00:35:52] even now, like, I'll ask my dad questions about my banking.
[00:35:56] And when I get married, I just want my husband to handle that.
[00:36:02] Moral of the story, Maya is willing to hear a story from the radical opposite side of her, but not money talk.
[00:36:16] It's just, it's just, here's the thing.
[00:36:18] If Judah wants to have a conversation with me about money, I will sit there and I will listen to him.
[00:36:22] I will have no idea what he's talking about.
[00:36:25] That's, that's, that's fine.
[00:36:26] Yeah.
[00:36:27] Different.
[00:36:27] Yeah.
[00:36:27] It's, uh, there's like few things.
[00:36:30] There's few things in this world that, that like, I can't even be in a conversation with because I'm so confused by them.
[00:36:38] Money is one of them.
[00:36:40] Engineering is probably one of them.
[00:36:42] Um.
[00:36:42] Rocket science, I guess.
[00:36:43] Yeah.
[00:36:44] Rocket science.
[00:36:47] Microbiology.
[00:36:49] That would be interesting.
[00:36:54] But no, money and business talk would be in there.
[00:36:58] I like business talk.
[00:36:59] I like business talk in terms of marketing and what people want, how you, how you sell a product.
[00:37:07] I, I, that's interesting to me because that's a lot about the philosophy.
[00:37:11] Psychology.
[00:37:12] Psychology.
[00:37:13] The psychology.
[00:37:15] The philosophy.
[00:37:17] I, I think I like, I, I really, I really like psychology.
[00:37:20] Yeah.
[00:37:21] Just the way people think.
[00:37:22] And the way, the way things work.
[00:37:25] That's probably, yeah, give me a book of psychology of anything.
[00:37:30] I think it'll be interesting for me.
[00:37:32] Yes.
[00:37:32] Yes.
[00:37:32] One hundred percent.
[00:37:33] One hundred percent.
[00:37:33] Especially because you don't want to, you don't want to try to memorize something.
[00:37:39] You want to try to understand it and why.
[00:37:41] Yeah.
[00:37:41] It works the way it works.
[00:37:43] Yeah.
[00:37:44] Exactly.
[00:37:44] Okay.
[00:37:45] Cool.
[00:37:45] That is, that's a wrap for the podcast there.
[00:37:48] You're not going to ask me who I, who I would go for dinner with, dead or alive?
[00:37:51] Don't you ask all your guests that?
[00:37:54] I've never asked anybody that.
[00:37:55] What?
[00:37:56] Who'd I ask that?
[00:37:57] Like three people.
[00:37:59] What do you think I would say?
[00:38:00] I can ask her the question, who would you want to go out for dinner, dead or alive?
[00:38:05] Seems like she has an answer for it.
[00:38:07] Seems like she thought she.
[00:38:07] I actually didn't know an answer for it.
[00:38:09] I just thought you asked every.
[00:38:11] Uh, maybe, maybe C.S. Lewis.
[00:38:15] That was awfully quick for not having an answer.
[00:38:18] Yeah, that was just top of my head.
[00:38:21] C.S. Lewis?
[00:38:22] What would you have a conversation with him about?
[00:38:23] Oh.
[00:38:24] That might be a little bit above your pay grade.
[00:38:27] C.S. Lewis, Maya.
[00:38:29] I don't know what I would talk to him about.
[00:38:31] I would just say, tell me about Jesus.
[00:38:33] That's what I would say.
[00:38:35] Say, tell me about the Bible.
[00:38:36] I don't know.
[00:38:38] Who's a, maybe a talk to a theologian.
[00:38:42] Just someone who knows the Bible really well, I'd love to talk to.
[00:38:45] Cool.
[00:38:47] Probably, I'd talk to Jesus.
[00:38:49] Cool.
[00:38:51] Okay, one more, one more question here.
[00:38:54] I know I said that was the last one.
[00:38:58] Quentin, what gets you up in the morning every single day?
[00:39:04] What gets me up in the morning every single day?
[00:39:09] Sunrise.
[00:39:10] That's awesome.
[00:39:11] That's beautiful.
[00:39:12] That's beautiful.
[00:39:13] Another day.
[00:39:16] He said sunrise if you guys couldn't hear him.
[00:39:18] But that is it.
[00:39:19] Thank you for listening.
[00:39:21] Catch you guys next episode.
[00:39:24] Thanks for listening today.
[00:39:26] If you guys enjoyed it and learned something from this video, please share it as it'll help a lot.
[00:39:32] Thanks.
[00:39:33] Thank you.