A Contagious Smile Podcast
A Contagious Smile is a powerful platform dedicated to uplifting and empowering special needs families and survivors of domestic violence. Through heartfelt stories, we shine a light on the journeys of extraordinary individuals who have overcome unimaginable challenges. Their triumphs serve as a testament to resilience and strength, inspiring others to rediscover their own inner light. Each episode features candid interviews with survivors, advocates, and experts who provide valuable resources and insights to support those on their own paths to healing and empowerment. Join us as we celebrate the power of resilience, the beauty of shared stories, and the unstoppable spirit of those who turn adversity into hope. Let us guide you in rekindling your spirit, because every smile tells a story of courage and transformation.
A Contagious Smile Podcast
You Are A Warrior: Breaking The Cycle of Abuse
The scars of domestic violence often remain long after the abuse ends. Victoria's story reveals the staggering physical toll—over 120 surgeries in nearly two decades with more to come—including an upcoming radical ear procedure that will leave her completely deaf in one ear. Yet despite never experiencing a pain-free day in almost twenty years, her positivity remains unshaken.
"If anyone has the reason to be like, screw the world, screw everybody in it...it would be me," Victoria acknowledges. "But I'm not going to let that piece of crap win." This defiant statement encapsulates the extraordinary resilience that defines her journey from victim to advocate.
The podcast delves into powerful moments of maternal protection, like when Victoria's "tiger mom" instinct emerged after her abuser threatened their unborn child. Though she typically remained silent to avoid further violence, this threat awakened something fierce within her. This protective instinct ultimately gave her the strength to escape and rebuild her life.
Victoria passionately challenges the excuse that abusers behave as they do because of difficult childhoods. "Because somebody had a bad childhood, that doesn't mean it's okay to make your spouse your playground for violence," she asserts, noting that many people with challenging upbringings—including herself and her husband—choose to break cycles of abuse rather than perpetuate them.
Today, Victoria and her husband have transformed their painful experiences into purpose by creating an academy with resources for domestic violence survivors and special needs families. Their message to those still suffering resonates with hard-earned wisdom: "You are one hell of a warrior...we're going to help you heal, and we are going to be with you every step of the way."
Join our community at ContagiousSmile.com where you'll find resources, support, and proof that healing isn't just possible—thriving is too.
Good evening and welcome to another episode of a contagious smile unstoppable. My incredibly sexy husband is over here diligently playing around on the phone which we're not supposed to be doing while recording.
Speaker 2:How do y'all do that?
Speaker 1:Why do I do what Tattle?
Speaker 2:Yes, you rat me out.
Speaker 1:Because you're not supposed to be playing with the phone.
Speaker 2:I'm texting our DJ.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, spinderella, cut it up on time. My husband hates when I rap. He hates it, hates it, hates it. So webinar is behind us. How do you think it went?
Speaker 2:It went outstanding. I could say there were some, you know, speakers that could have done a little bit differently, if I can say that generically, because you know we do strive to advocate for domestic violence survivors and those currently going through. And then you know special needs families and we want you to put your business out there, we want you to put in your plugs, but you know some people just need to stay out of left field and stay on track. But we're glad to the I don't know, as uh keelan said, 300 million plus that listen and that's his goal for the years.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's his okay, okay yeah well, we were probably what 150 shy of that. Dylan was awesome. I really enjoyed him. He was amazing.
Speaker 1:I could just sit there and listen to him. Like his stories. He's a great storyteller, you don't need a room.
Speaker 1:Stop it, just listening to him, and he has so much passion when he talks. And he's just that's what they say about you, I know. And he's just that's what they say about you. Oh, I got so much feedback about my closing of the webinar when I was like, oh, fire, I, I had like no filter, apparently, you know, and people were surprised to see that side of me, I guess. Um, when I was like, hey, this needs to be said, so I'm gonna say it, and I think people were quite shocked at it. But you know, at the end of the day, you gotta say what you have to say.
Speaker 1:And I want these beautiful people that are going through hell literally to know that they are so much better than they give themselves credit for and they think of themselves in such a degrading manner because they heard it every single day, or they're still hearing it every single day, and because of that they find themselves in such a derogatory self-reflection, if you will, where they just feel like they'll never do better, they'll never find better, they're worthless, they're ugly, they're fat, they're scarred, they're dismembered. I mean, you know everything under the sun, it's all derogatory. Well, you know what? You are one hell of a warrior and you look at that cowardly piece of shit and realize that at the end of the day, you're gonna heal because we're gonna help you heal and heal, heal and we are going to be with you every step of the way. And at the end of the day, those pieces of shit are still those pieces of shit.
Speaker 1:So, and I think people were kind of surprised that I was just like you are not a man, you are a coward and like you know to phrase one person who wrote to me, I thought it was hilarious. She's like I really hope that this does not offend you, but you had that GI Jane moment to me when I was listening, where I was cheering you on, and you had that like epiphany moment where GI Jane turned around and said, lieutenant, suck my leg. And she was like that was how it was for me, when you were like you're not a man, you're a coward, and I was like no offense taken, thanks. That was awesome, that's a great, you know, thanks. But I wasn't always like that. Never in the beginning was I like that, and I want people to see that they can get there too, that they absolutely can get there as well so you know if they think it's just for show, you know because you're behind the microphone oh no no, oh no.
Speaker 2:y'all go to amazon and pick up who kickedicked First by Victoria Curie, and you'll see that this woman was not the woman just behind the microphone. She was not, you know, portraying someone who has not been on the front lines. She was there. She stood up for the monster.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not just that. But then I, you know, because of the NDA I signed I can't give specifics, specifics but I took on the military and we won. We went and um fought for the rights of termination and won, and so it was its own battle, its own war, if you will, and it lasted a very, very long time. And you know, I have so many people that are just like how are you so positive with everything that you go through? I got that a lot as well, and comments, and it was look, I was told I was going to die. I mean, the last time I was put in the ICU I was throwing up just green stomach vial. I was told I wasn't going to make it. One minute I'm freezing, the next minute I'm burning up. I was in premature labor. They couldn't stop the contractions. You know I was disfigured and dismembered. I totally didn't even look like me. You know I had multiple, multiple breaks and fractures and dislocations and you know tears in places that you shouldn't ever be torn and all of these things. And it was horrific. But I still felt my baby. I still felt her kicking and I'm not a quitter and I'm not going to give up. And then what? Like my fear was that he would have gotten her and that wasn't going to happen, like it wasn't going to happen. So you know, and then all I ever wanted in my life was you and her. And now I have it. And so you have to fight for what you want, and I don't mean fight as in put up your dukes and get into it, whatever, but you have to realize that you are worth living. You are, you know and sure.
Speaker 1:Did I ever try to contemplate suicide? I never attempted it, but I would be lying if I told you I didn't think about it. You know, there were plenty of times where I laid on the bathroom floors that was the only cold thing I was allowed to have on my face and thought if I died, the pain would stop. But then I thought that is incredibly selfish, because that's the easy way out. And then what happens to faith? Right, I would never get to see you again, and I thought about you every single day during this period. But it was literally like how can I just give up and throw in the towel, that easy? And then he went, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let that happen. So you know, I couldn't just pick myself up. I hopped up, you know, and had to dust myself off and go day by day, literally, and you know people are very shocked when I say I own what I did. I, yes, I gave him permission to have extramarital affairs because he wasn't home beating me and people don't understand why I would say it's okay for him to do that.
Speaker 1:And then, on top of it, um, I prolonged surgeries that I needed because my first priority was her and if it wasn't life threatening, then they had to wait. Like, I needed shoulder surgery but I needed to be bedside with my child, so I dealt with a shoulder that just kept dislocating until I could get it fixed and I'd have to have it set and then be in a sling and you know the cycle went on and on. So, yes, that exacerbated my injuries, yes, and I knew that. But any decent person who cares and loves their kids is going to be there first. And so now we're still dealing with stuff and I I want to, for the next at least few weeks, keep reminding people, and this time I want you to do it because it's still very fresh.
Speaker 1:It's still very hard for me to explain what's coming, like I go and look like, for instance, you go to Facebook and you look at memories constantly. No kidding, all I ever see is please pray for my family as I head back for surgery. And it's constant, like you literally look at a calendar, 365 days, and if you break up, I've had well over, well over 120 surgeries now it's all. It's literally like every third day. Seriously, and that's ridiculous. And I have another huge one coming up and it's affecting my speech and for the next few weeks. I want to apologize in advance because it's not something I can control or deal with. Um, and this is really kind of the first time we're publicly talking about it.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to ask my husband to do this one, because it's still very hard for me to come forward with it so, basically, y'all, from the abuse that she suffered under that POS, she has massive damage to her ears, her ear canal, her eardrums, and it's gotten to the point where she's, I believe, 99% deaf. In her right ear she has infections and it's caused a lot of of issues. She eardrum is like she cannot wear her hearing aids because, uh, the fact that she cannot, you know, hear out of one side and then it throws her off. She's already off balance, you know, because of the loss of her arm, which you know we attribute to the pos also. But, um, they wanted to install a cochlear implant, you know, um, in her, in her head, basically after they do another surgery but for now they're going to what I call corn out her ear.
Speaker 2:They're going to scoop out everything inside her ear and it's just going to be just a you know, hollow tube, I guess you take out the eardrum, you won't be able to hear anything?
Speaker 1:uh, you know, without that cochlear implant which the insurance won't pay for, it's only 300 grand right for one and I actually need two, um, but, yeah, interns won't cover it and, uh, the scary thing is is that it's a radical surgery and they have warned me of the remote possibility of nicking the facial nerve. Um, and what that can cause, and they will, literally. The best analogy is is basically like the piece of art or a picture on the wall that you like to look at, but other than it being there and it's decorative it serves no physical purpose. It doesn't do things for you, like our ear, hears for us and, and you know, warns us of things, and yada, yada. Well, see, and then this will prohibit me from being able to do that they will take out my eardrum. It's either a stitch down or a sew down or something on what they called it.
Speaker 2:Tear down.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:I think it was called tear down.
Speaker 1:Whatever it is.
Speaker 2:And I know one thing it will not prevent. It will not prevent your husband from nibbling on your ear.
Speaker 1:Oh Lord, help me. And so and I won't even be able to hear sounds at all on this and the testing for this is very intense and it was depressing in a way because like they came back and said, did you even hear their the man talking? And I was like what man talking? And they do it with hearing aids in and they do it without, and they do it with noise, they do it without and, and it's supposed to be like a 90 minute test and I flew through it and they were like, yeah, you got a zero, and then on the other side you got like next to none. And so my other side right now is I think I'm at 88 to 90 percent in that ear, which is great when you don't want to hear certain people in your life and you can just turn that side to them and say, go ahead, talk away. Nobody in this house, by the way, not in our home, but I have to admit I am guilty of that. No, I would never do that to y'all.
Speaker 1:But our home it is our home you said house well, I fixed it.
Speaker 1:But yes, it does impact my speech and I asked my surgeon, who is a specialist in this, and he said that, um, like Marlee Matlin, who I absolutely have the most utmost respect for, if you hear her talk, you know she can talk, but her words sound different and I have been, uh, saying wrong names and wrong words and it's because I'm hearing things like he might say clue and I think he says blue. Or I interviewed the most amazing gentleman and his name is Kurt Warner and he was amazing. I mean, what a gentleman.
Speaker 1:He is just a nice guy who has such a warrior story. I'm reading his book right now and it is eye-opening, it. He's great. And I had to apologize immensely to him because I thought he said kurt wagner and I wrote it out as such and I felt horrible because, know, a year ago or six months ago I would never have done that. And I apologized immensely to him because I, honest to God, thought he said Wagner and it was Warner. So I went back and fixed it all.
Speaker 1:But there are times that now that they say it's going to affect my speech more and more and like when people go deaf, their speech becomes different. Like when people go deaf, their speech becomes different, and so that's really hard, I mean. And it's really hard because you know, I had a master's in sign language and like now I only have one hand. So this really just, you know and people don't understand and you know I get it.
Speaker 1:You had a bad day at work, somebody cut you off on the way home, you didn't get the outfit you wanted at the store or whatever, and you want to get pissy and blah, blah, whatever the case may be. But you know what I have to plug in and plug up and charge up on an almost nightly basis and I feel like a hollowed out pumpkin. I have more prosthetic parts than I do human parts. That's what it feels like at this point and and it's frustrating, it is. But at the end of the day, I have my soulmate, the love of my life. I have my amazing daughter, who is my everything, and all the rest of it is just crap. Are you going to let hold you down? Are you going to say you know what? I survived all this and now I'm thriving. And there's a big difference. You can let it hold you down or you can get up and push it to the side and keep going.
Speaker 2:So a lot of y'all know that I was 13 and a half years in law enforcement. One of my jobs I worked inside the jail as a sheriff's deputy and I took care of the inmates. Now, each pod that I had to cover there were four of them housed approximately 50 inmates, all right, so we got a couple hundred inmates in there. Now, if you've been in jail, you can attest to this. If you have not, then just listen up. They have their own society inside the jail. Okay, when I go inside there, yes, I am an enforcer, I am a presence. There are rules that they have to follow.
Speaker 2:But what happened to me was I became desensitized because the inmates in there only understood a few things. That was yelling and cursing okay, and a show of force. That was yelling and cursing, okay, and a show of force Okay, if you show them that you were not scared of them, that you get right up there in their face, they gave you respect. Okay, they didn't understand. Sir, can you please sit down? No, it was, you know, gary, sit down, okay, and you're yelling at them. They understood that. Ok, that's the society.
Speaker 2:So I became desensitized. Ok, I became mean without me realizing it, and I brought this home, I brought this to my house, around, you know, the wife that I had then and the children, and little did I know I was, I was yelling at them, um, and I'm saying all this because I didn't let that get to me. Now, you know, my wife stood up to a monster and said I'm not going to let you ruin the rest of my life, I'm not going to be like you, I'm not going to have hate in my heart. And she chose that. I can't imagine the willpower it took to do that, to do what you did. You know you did it for love for our daughter at that time, our unborn daughter. You know you did it for love for our daughter at that time, our unborn daughter.
Speaker 1:Ok, and it must have been the hardest thing in the world.
Speaker 1:It was also the loneliest I can imagine. It really was, and I always talk about my grandparents, but I prayed to them every day, every night, I prayed for you. I constantly kept saying you, you know, my husband does this thing on my face, where he like rubs in a certain way with his hand, and I would try to emulate that. I would try to react that, reenact that, and I couldn't do it and it was just because it wasn't you and I only talked about. I've gotten asked a few times did I ever talk back to him? I asked a few times. Did I ever talk back to him? I did a few times. I did a few times and knowing me and people who know me are shocked that I only did it a few times. He openly admitted that he would have never hit me if I wasn't pregnant because he knew I wouldn't have stood for it and I would have fought him back physically and that is true. I did talk back to him a couple of times. He brought out that tigering mom.
Speaker 1:Uh, he would show up in my office and I was in the corporate world and I had the corner office and and he would show up in the receptionist would try to, you know, buzz back to let my assistant know that he was on the way and and even though nobody knew, they could tell because I always wore my hair a certain way, it was, you know, in the middle of the summer and I'm wearing turtlenecks to cover up my bruising um, and I was very skittish, and he would just show up to make sure that my desk was organized like it was supposed to be. In regards to his pictures had to be placed where people could see them, and it was stupid. And then he made a comment when he walked in and I was in a meeting with an older executive and he went ballistic. My office is all glass and he went nuts as to why I had the door shut, with another man in the room and there's a big desk between us, and this guy was old enough to be my father, really. And so he made the comment that if and I don't know the whole reason, how it came up, but he made the comment that if Faith so much as dropped her pacifier, that if Faith so much as dropped her pacifier when, after you know, she was born, and she dropped the pacifier, he would beat her. And it was like I can't even begin to explain it. It was a whole different, like from the inside. That just came out of me like a raging, raging, tigering mom and I advised him I had a meeting to go to and that I was going to walk him out. I took him to the elevators and he hated it because I had executive parking in the building so he couldn't see if I was there or not, but he always made me call caller id and all this stupid ridiculous controlling crap. So I was over seven months and I got in the elevator. I waited till the door shut and I told him basically what would happen if he ever put his hands on her. And that was the first time that I really like let him know I wasn't kidding. And he just I mean, it was a whole different, because I think that's really the first tiger mom moment where it got to that point.
Speaker 1:Um, but another one is I, I made a comment, um about him being in the military and he broke my nose because of it. Um, about him being in the military and he broke my nose because of it. But, um, he would always compare you, he'd always mention you and he hated you because when he first met you, you told him that he was getting such a good person and that you screwed up and I'm not trying to hash that, but, um and that he better always treat me right. And it was just like he would always ask why do you have this place for him? Why is? Why is he so much better than me? And you know, he would ask me questions that show. Now, now I could see, um, how insecure and that's very common these guys act like Billy badass because they're so insecure with themselves. Like you know, we didn't. We weren't intimate together until after we were. He and I were, you know, legally bound and we were only intimate, like with permission, only a couple of times. The rest was forced. And so he would ask who is the better lover? He would ask and we all know I don't lie, well, and I made the mistake of just flat out telling the truth, and you know I mean.
Speaker 1:The point is is that these people and I don't want to hear, I hear it at least five or six times a week Well, they had a bad childhood. This is something I hear all the time and I just want to address this for a minute because, yes, they, they had a bad childhood. But you know what, babe? You had a bad, not the best childhood. I didn't have the best childhood, excluding my grandparents. And that didn't mean that we're going to get up and raise our hand to our kids, because we never would ever and we would go through hell and high water for our kids, and I know that, you know that.
Speaker 1:But the thing is, because somebody says, oh, they had a bad childhood, that doesn't mean that it's okay to make your spouse your playground for violence. It's not. It's not okay. And you know they have.
Speaker 1:They are an adult, at least physically, and they have the right to make decisions of their own. They made a decision to make it yes or no, answer on a job, or yes or no, I want this car or this place to be domicile or whatever the case may be. They made these decisions and you could say I'm going to break the cycle, I'm going to stop this from happening. I don't want my children to spend the adulthood recovering from their childhood Right. I can't imagine looking in my daughter's eyes as someone I can't even say it he tried to take her life and she's staring at him when he's doing it. I can't fathom how somebody could do that and be looking in a baby's face a baby's eyes, right, it makes me so angry. A baby's eyes, right, it makes me so angry and just say, well, they had a bad childhood. They chose to get out of bed this morning. They chose to go to work, they chose the car they're getting into, they chose the job that they took.
Speaker 1:Right, so you can make a intelligent decision and decide hey, instead of being abusive and you call yourself a man, how about this? Be a man and instead of taking out your aggression on your spouse and your kids, walk away. Then I will tell you that you're a man. If you want to take out your aggression and you want to be a bully, you're a coward. I'll say it all day long and I can get hate mail about it, and that's fine. But the people who are giving me hate mail, I guarantee, fall into that category, because if anyone has the right to be the nastiest, downright depressed, miserable person, I'm sorry, sorry, but I really hope my husband speaks up and says something here. It would be me. I mean, there has not been one day in the last almost two decades that I have been pain free.
Speaker 2:She wakes up every day in pain.
Speaker 1:She goes to bed in pain. And I have never ever.
Speaker 2:I've never no hydro.
Speaker 1:I don't even get a prescription I don't even get a film, not even anesthetic. I mean, we don't even do the like. I don't even get a script after surgery because I'm not going to. My daughter needs me, my husband needs me why?
Speaker 2:because one, she's a badass tough cookie. Um, she's got a high tolerance for pain. I guess, one you're a natural redhead and two that monster kind of.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like you know, the judge did a great thing and said what happened if you hit her? An idiot would say I'd hit her again If she cried. I'd hit her again If I stabbed her and she cried, I'd stab her again. And he said you basically trained her like an alcoholic. So an alcoholic knows what you have to drink in order to stay at that level. If they really want to get drunk more than normal, they have to do more. So you've trained her to take your hand, and that's true.
Speaker 2:But it doesn't make it right.
Speaker 1:It absolutely doesn't make it right. It absolutely doesn't make it right. So that was. The thing is that if anybody has the reason to be like, screw the world, screw everybody in it, I don't care about nobody or nothing. I'm just going to sit in a corner and not do anything, yet alone advocate, help others and do whatever they can, but I'm not going to let that piece of crap win and I'm just not. You know, I, that's not who I am and that's not what I am about. And for people to say, well, I just had a bad upbringing, so it makes it okay that I push my wife around and beat my kids, no, it doesn't. No, it doesn't it. No, it doesn't, it does not.
Speaker 2:And for those y'all who see a neighbor being abused you know what's going on. You see your coworker. Why don't you say something? Things like this have a prolonged effect on the individual. Look at my wife. It's been almost 20 years and she's still having surgery for the stupid shit he did to her. Because he was such a coward he had to go and fight and beat up a woman.
Speaker 2:A pregnant woman. Not that all women are, you know, wimps or you know they're not tough. My wife is badass. Okay, there's no way most of us men could go through what she did and, you know, come out as positive as she is.
Speaker 1:So Well, and then that's why you know we this kind of took us all around Mulberry Bush to the academy. You know we've launched this academy. All around Mulberry Bush to the academy. You know we've launched this academy, which is what we did the webinar to talk about. And when you go on there, there is stuff for everybody and there is stuff on how to what are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, my husband just took the duster, the feather duster, on my sweet baby. I was dusting our dog.
Speaker 1:He's dusty, he's not dusty, dusty. Okay, but you go in there to the academy. There's all these beautiful courses that help for free you join for free.
Speaker 1:The classes are incredibly affordable. If you can't afford them, let us know. You know we also do take donations to help um offset the cost, which is, you know, something we're trying to make sure everybody can afford. So you just go in there, there's stuff for everybody. And then we have our stucco squad and there's so many fun classes.
Speaker 1:I just finished the class. Take it away, stucco. And it's all about stucco teaching subtraction. Get it, take it away, yeah, and I thought it's so cute. And like stucco is like who ate. Get it. Take it away, yeah, and I thought it's so cute. And like Stucco is like who ate my cookies. And he's talking to the class and the class was looking for his cookies and he had five cookies and now he doesn't have five cookies. He only has two cookies. So where are the missing three? And it's so much fun and it's adventurous and the kids learn differently and this is how they can learn and it's it's just a bonding experience for the parent and child and it makes them feel so good about themselves, because that's the number one goal is for these kids to see how amazing they are now bear with me, y'all oh, lord, are you gonna talk about business?
Speaker 2:we do not hate the gay community no okay support it completely you know where I'm going with this gay community? No, okay, support it completely. You know where I'm going with this?
Speaker 1:yes, because you spoke about the stucco squad and the book, yes okay, we saw a video and I'm sure a lot of people saw it and you know how growing up they had the book abcs and the kids section. This is a barnes and noble and I have to say I'm very sad about this. I I totally support that they have a team section of yeah, this, this, this was a tiktok this was up for a baby book.
Speaker 2:This is a book and this was day bcs it's not abcs it's gay right, but the people who were filming the video said we are gay ourselves yes but this is too much yeah, they opened the book and a was for arrow and b is for buy.
Speaker 1:And when you're a little tiny, baby, I mean you're already putting stuff in their head. I mean they're tiny. This, this is ridiculous. You know what happened to? Like sesame street and the wheels on the bus and you bus and all that stuff, and now that's all gone. That's just crazy. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It's just crazy. So you're not going to talk about Business Life as I'm scratching all my Skeeter bites.
Speaker 2:Business Life is a magazine that is currently on every aircraft that we know of in the United States Used to be owned by British Airways. And guess whom is in that issue this month? You, yours truly, victoria Curie. You're in it too, from a contagious smile. You're in it as well, right here in our little office.
Speaker 1:And then we have those two, so we're up to seven.
Speaker 2:Y'all know whenever we do a podcast, every time we do a podcast, my wife and I sit right across each other and we stare at each other throughout the entire podcast. So I see all her quirks. I see everything she does, you know, scratching her ankles, or you know, and here I am, over on my side, um, I'm just a few feet apart from her right now, um, but it's awesome to be, you know, in the presence of this woman. I love her dearly, are you okay? Yeah, there's too much silence are you?
Speaker 2:okay, yeah, come back to earth are you sure you're all right?
Speaker 1:I also again want to take a moment and derail from business life, um, even though I'm very honored and I thank them for for this, thank you sam. Yes, thank you, sam. Is that, um, the amazing, amazing intro that we had done beforehand for the podcast, where it talked all about, like, the speakers and all that? And that voice, that radio voice, that was done by joshua, our friend, our very good friend, who is amazing, who is going to do his podcast. He will be releasing it here sometime in the future and we support him a million percent and when it's up and going, we want to make sure everybody goes and listens. He's hilarious, he's funny, he's just a good guy all the way around, and so we want to thank him again, even though I'm a little jealous and a little upset that my husband announced his pregnancy to him first really you had to do that I did josh, if you're listening, thanks, buddy.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, speaking of josh, she is she, uh, he, uh, she. He's gonna get me now oh, he is gonna get you now so josh is just one of many people that my victoria's has helped in their social media presence and increasing their numbers and helping them podcast, and she has put on an excellent, I would say, a master class. There's more than one grown your social media followers and and then how to podcast.
Speaker 1:The first one, the basic one you start with, is called Podcasting Made Easy. And then there's the blueprint for podcasting and you know we started with zero hero followers, zero, and now we're in the millions and I literally wrote a course on how to do it and I mean we spent thousands of dollars on how to do it and I mean we spent thousands of dollars learning how to do it, the time, the energy, the courses, everything else. And so you're going to learn what works and what doesn't, because we've got it down to almost a science and I've seen classes that are thousands of dollars for this. I mean crazy, and I've been getting ridiculed by many people that the price is not high enough right and and and because of the popularity right now.
Speaker 2:Uh, our price will increase here very soon yes okay, um, like, like she said, we just had a big weekend with a lot of names and it was a great. I almost said bonanza. What did you call it? Marathon? No, webinar, webinar. I'm kind of out of it. I worked hard. Today I'm on my third glass of wine Sitting here. Podcasting Is that your third, third.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh, and that's all we have today. Folks Love that sexy laugh. Yes, I told my wife sometimes y'all she's got this 1-900 voice that she does whatever are you talking about for this, us old people who remember those 1-900 calls on the back of like creative loafing or something right. Creative Loafing. What's that?
Speaker 1:Creative Loafing used to be a magazine or a newspaper that was all over Atlanta and you'd pick it up.
Speaker 2:Those weren't the type of magazines I read.
Speaker 1:Well, I never picked up that smut.
Speaker 2:Never. They had great articles in there.
Speaker 1:You didn't read a doggone, one of them. You're trying. No, you did not, and I know people are laughing because you.
Speaker 2:Everybody is commenting. I hear them right now. Are you making fun of the hearing? Michael Hugh Hefner, he was hilarious in those articles.
Speaker 1:Hugh Hefner wasn't in the articles.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Ugh. Lord, you half nerve wasn't in the articles exactly oh, lord, but yet you would never share me.
Speaker 2:No, I still won't, I still won't. You're mine, all mine, possessive, possessive, dang right. You know how long it took me to get you.
Speaker 1:Oh, you want this debate not really yeah, I didn't think so, I did not think so.
Speaker 2:So thank you all for listening to Contagious Smile Unstoppable.
Speaker 1:How do they get to the Academy?
Speaker 2:You're going to tell them? No, you are. They're going to go to our website at ContagiousSmilecom and go ahead and finish, because you don't know, I do know. Okay, then go ahead.
Speaker 1:It's uh mighty network something up in the top where the header is, it says direct link to the academy or you could go a contagious smile remember, there's two s's for contagious smile dot m is a mary and is a nancy dot co and you will be able to get in there and join for free.
Speaker 1:And the resource library alone. My husband gave me such grief about it because the library is full of stuff and it's not like little tidbits we're talking about, like just each page has different stuff on it. And if you have a company or corporation and you think that you have a product that can really help others, reach out to us and let me know, because we can put you in there as a resource as well. And then also we have another thing we're doing for donation, which is a dedication, and a donation can be even $ five dollars and that gives a woman who literally grabbed her kids for the safety of her life and left her house to survive. And we have where you can dedicate classes and courses to individuals, like we have a course dedicated to alex, who is my dear friend, debbie gail zane's son that she lost due to mental illness and drug addiction, and there is other courses in there that we're going to start dedicating and, um, it's a really sweet gesture to do for somebody.
Speaker 2:Yeah and be sure to um go back to amazon and pick up my wife's first book, who kicked first?
Speaker 1:stucco is saying hello.
Speaker 2:She has a prequel to it, also called nart nart. Who's there? Just type in victoria curey and uh, google or bing y'all. She's everywhere you want a cameo. She does that. Pod stars, pod stars, yep, imbd. Y'all need to check this out. Thank you really appreciate me. I do appreciate you.
Speaker 1:I give you breakfast every day in bed oh my god, you give me an endo and it's time to go and go.
Speaker 2:We are off the air. Oh uh, hit, end. Stop recording Frozen waffle. They're going to hear this. Hit the button, stucco.
Speaker 1:Hit the mouse, the mouse Stucco. Say hi. Everybody Say hi, I'm Stucco from Stucco Squad. Yes, you're a good boy, he's actually. He's actually kissing the microphone. Thank y'all for listening you can go bowling, we'll see y'all again.
Speaker 2:Reach out to us.
