Repair What We Have: Inner-Child Healing, Right to Repair, and Building Sustainable Communities

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Justin – Co-host. The opening identifies Justin by name, and Kenna addresses him directly several times during the discussion.

Speaker 2 – Kenna – Co-host / Primary Speaker. The automated transcript renders her name inconsistently as “Kenner,” “Kenna,” and “Kina.” “Kenna” is used in this corrected version because the transcript repeatedly refers to “little Kenna” and “adult Kenna” during the inner-child exercise. The spelling should still be verified against the original program information or audio.

Speaker 3 – Prerecorded Closing Theme / Song Voice – The final section changes from spoken conversation into a lyrical outro about translating feelings, using tools without surrendering human choice, and putting “the human back in control.”

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Speaker 1 – Justin:
Well, hello and good afternoon. Welcome to Translating Heart Intelligence. You are here today with Justin and Kenna. How are you today, Kenna?

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
I’m doing good, Justin. I’m happy to be here with you.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Oh, me too. Me too, as always.

So, what are we going over for today’s episode?

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
For today’s episode, I wanted to share more of the work I did around Christmastime this year. In our previous episode, we covered material I had sent to the Treasury and talked about understanding how we make decisions and figuring that out for myself.

At the same time, I was also working on ways to start repairing things and thinking about how we can have a more sustainable environment to live in and be part of.

The first thing I wanted to go over in this episode is an exercise that I felt really compelled to share. It really helped me visualize what I needed for myself. It was almost like a therapy exercise.

In our last episode, we shared something I taught a little guy about letting go of emotion, and then we tied that into the idea that maybe it could be correlated with how we treat money.

For today’s exercise, I wanted to share an inner-child exercise that really helped me. How does that sound?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Oh, that sounds good.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Okay.

What I did in a therapy session—which helped me a lot, actually in a couple of sessions—was visualize myself almost as if I were daydreaming. I visualized myself as a child: what she was wearing, her favorite clothes, whether she was carrying around a toy or a blanket, and what she liked to do at that time.

That was little Kenna.

I opened up my mind, dream space, and heart space to this experience. I don’t want to trigger people; I’m just sharing my honest experience with this. It ties into the rest of the right-to-repair discussion for the episode.

Going back to little Kenna, in the exercise I was sitting next to her and I could see her. I had to remember, or had to know as I looked at her, what she was going to have to go through in her life to get to me—to adult Kenna.

This exercise was very challenging, and I’m going to share my personal experience with it.

When I looked at this little girl who lives in my heart, I knew she was going to have to go through the death of a mother after seeing her die of cancer. I knew she was going to be alone for much of the experience after that, without a real family connection.

I knew that little girl was going to love going to school because it distracted her. I knew she was going to join the military. I knew that little girl was going to be sexually assaulted in the military.

I knew that little girl was going to have a baby, and she was going to love that baby so much, and she was going to have to do it without her mother. Her partner’s mother was also going to have passed away before that baby was born.

I knew all of that. I looked at her and knew she was going to have to go through it.

In that moment, for this exercise, I had a choice. This is all my experience in this exercise. I could push that little child away and tell her, “I don’t want to deal with that. I don’t want to deal with you. I don’t want to deal with any of the emotion involved in those experiences.”

Or I could do what I decided to do, which was tell her that I loved her.

Despite everything she went through—all the pain and all the darkness she had to see in her life—I loved her just the way she was.

This is actually a pretty popular exercise in inner-child work. I decided to give her a hug and tell her that I wanted to accept her just the way she was. I didn’t have to agree with all of the ugly things that had happened in her life. I didn’t have to like them, but I accepted her just the way she was.

I know that the little girl who lives in my heart is the one who likes to play and likes to have fun. She has also had a lot of experiences that made her feel that it wasn’t safe to have fun in this world.

For me, that was when I decided: if I want to be able to live in my heart, if I want to creatively express myself in this life, I’m in a body and I’m having this human experience.

Part of that human experience is also dealing with harassment from my mind, because it is always going. It doesn’t stop. It is always giving me information about my environment.

After doing that exercise, I was also really working on understanding and practicing the idea that I get to choose how I feel. That ties into the exercise we did in the previous episode.

I get to choose how I feel. I get to choose whether I let people make me feel a certain way. I get to choose whether I let something go or hold on to it. I make those choices for me.

Instead of rejecting that little girl for who she was, for what she had experienced, and for all the emotions she had felt in response to how people treated her—or did nothing—I wanted her to know that she was loved.

I also asked my mind to get a job: protect my heart. Give me the information I need to improve my environment.

I can choose whether to listen to what my mind is telling me and to the inputs it is giving me. But I gave it a job. Its job was to help me repair my environment.

That started with my body. I needed to eat healthier. I needed to appreciate that I need rest, because I don’t do that very well. I needed to understand that I need to give myself time to do things where I can express creativity and let that inner child play.

I also need to have a safe container for her to be able to do that in.

Around Christmas, that idea just kept expanding.

We had moved into a new house about six months earlier, and we had been working on our home. My inner child lives in my body. My body lives in my home.

We have been working on ways to make the home more comfortable so I can express myself and so everyone in our home can express themselves.

The whole time, I kept reminding my mind, “This is your job: protect my peace. You’re here to tell me how to protect my peace, and I get to choose whether I listen to that or not.”

Then it got even bigger than that, because I came to understand that I’m not the only one who has a little child inside who wants to come out and play. Everybody does. Everybody has that inner child who wants to play.

From my experience and my understanding of my lifetime, not everything in this world is designed so that can happen. There are parts of it that are very extractive or parasitic.

I wanted to do something about that.

I know that I don’t know how to speak the language of a lot of the systems that control how I participate here or how I have my experience. When I started exploring with AI, I began to understand that I could use it to translate the words of the inner child—what she wants—into language my mind and larger systems could work with, as long as I was very specific about protecting my own peace.

That also ties into something I think we discussed in our first or second episode. I make a choice—a yes-or-no decision. I have a qualitative experience about it, and my feedback comes from my nervous system in my body, which I called the “governor function.”

I can’t exert myself all the time because it tuckers out my nervous system. I have to find balance. I have to find a way to find balance and peace.

I also have to be mindful of what I am going to be feeling. Is this what I want to feel? If it isn’t, I choose differently.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Right. That reminds me of a powerful quote—or at least an idea—from Mr. Rogers: “Don’t forget your inner child. Don’t forget what it’s like to be a child.”

I think so many adults nowadays forget what it’s like, and that really shows even in the treatment of their own children, especially in public.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yes.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Do you remember how you used to feel? Or what you wanted—not just toys or cake, but what was important?

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah. That’s exactly it.

Having the understanding that I am protecting this inner child who lives within my heart also means knowing that everybody else has an inner child. It is so hard to look at that child, know what they went through to get to where you are, and still be able to say, “I love you just the way you are.”

It’s really emotional. I know it was for me. I had to let go of a lot of stuff.

I also had to make a lot of boundaries with people who were not supportive or empathetic, and who didn’t want to look inside themselves for that self-love in order to create what they wanted. They didn’t do that for anybody else either.

I’m not judging anybody. That’s a path that we can all take. I just chose the one I’m talking about.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Right.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
What you were talking about with Mr. Rogers connects here. When you can see and feel that child who lives within your heart, you know everybody else has one too. That helps grow empathy between people.

I can only speak for myself, but when I start repairing my body, repairing my home, and looking at repairing my community with the mindset of protecting my peace, I feel like that helps everybody else.

That is the whole intention of this show. You can dream as big as you want to dream, and you can make a difference. You are literally doing it just by breathing and by making the choices you are going to make right now.

The next part of this led me to a question: What kind of environment lets a human being thrive?

If I am responsible for protecting this little person inside of me, what kind of environment would actually allow her to thrive? Not an imaginary perfect world. Nothing imaginary. The world as it actually exists.

I started looking at housing affordability, food, transportation, physical safety, environmental conditions, maintenance of all those things, and what happens when something breaks within that experience and environment.

I was taking in all of that information from my mind, and I asked it: Can this be repaired?

Having that repair question—“Can this be repaired?”—helped me see what was valuable and what needed to be looked at again.

The whole idea I had been working with on a personal level was: What do I need to stop participating in within my life so I can find more peace?

This is just scaling that up.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah. That’s the big thing.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
So would destroying everything and just starting over be better? I don’t think so. I think there is still a foundation to work with in what we already have.

At the same time, I was working with another question: How do we get out of relying on a system that has become so abstracted?

Just like in our last episode with the housing example, the foundation of our previous home was crumbling. We found a way to bolster it so we could figure out what we were going to do next.

That is what I’m trying to do for everybody on a larger scale.

Excuse us, by the way. We’re both a little sick, so if we cough, sorry.

Did you have anything you wanted to share, Justin?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Just the repair-versus-maintenance idea. As long as things are maintained, that increases their longevity, but everything eventually breaks over time. It’s a question of how long you can keep it going before fully needing to replace it.

I don’t know why, but it brings up Roman roads. They’re thousands of years old, but they’re still here after all those years of maintenance and repair. I know that’s kind of a segue, but—

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
No, that’s perfect. That’s actually a really good segue.

Christmastime was really inspiring for me, and that’s when I started looking at the repair question. Like the Roman roads, there are things that can outlast a human lifetime.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Many things.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
They can become a sustainable foundation for future generations of humans. That is essentially what I was trying to give us a chance to explore with all of the previous work we did.

The question I think is really interesting is: Could repair itself become an economically supported activity?

The first recipient I sent this idea to was Tractor Supply. I sent the idea on December 28, 2025, to the board contact email on their website.

Let me make something clear really quickly: You don’t need AI to do this. It is only a tool. It’s a way to help translate what you’re feeling into language that people who make policy can understand. Literally anybody can do this.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
You used it as part of your idea to submit to the Tractor Supply board contact.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

The idea was that instead of having people go in and buy new work boots every six months—because work boots are very expensive—we could support repair.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Work pants and durable clothes are very expensive too. That’s a big cost that tradespeople and skilled laborers have to deal with.

Instead of having people throw their old pair away, I wanted to ask Tractor Supply: Why can’t we start teaching people how to cobble shoes again?

If there are shoe-repair people in town, why not contract with those people and give them more business repairing what is already there? That would also encourage a return to more sustainable materials, like actual leather.

Instead of sending Levi’s, construction pants, and other heavy-duty materials to a landfill, why not have the option to contract with tailors or do sewing workshops at each Tractor Supply?

Then each location that people rely on for work supplies can become more self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Another thing I was working with is the fact that a lot of people are worried they won’t have a job because AI is going to take it over.

I think there are plenty of opportunities for people to explore skills and contribute to their communities, but we have to give those opportunities back to communities.

Unfortunately, a lot of jobs were taken over by corporations. That’s where I felt I needed to start: asking them, “Please give those jobs back to people who actually live in that community. Give them a chance to contribute to the future and sustainability of their own people.”

Another thing I asked was whether they could contact community colleges or vocational programs to make training more possible, or reach out to local communities and ask, “Can we do a workshop to transfer more knowledge about how to repair clothes and shoes?”

That doesn’t mean commerce stops. It doesn’t mean we stop importing. It means giving ourselves a little bit of a grace period where we don’t have to import as much, and giving people a hand to hold while they are on the road to self-sufficiency.

Economic activity simply shifts from premature replacement toward useful-life extension. That was one of my main points.

Do you want to go to the Home Depot one next?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah. To touch on the clothing discussion a little bit, it made me think of the term “dead man’s clothes.”

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah, the idea of reusing.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Sort of.

When you take ripped-up clothes and things like that, they may get sent to other countries, including poorer countries, where I’ve heard them referred to as “dead man’s clothes,” because people may not get new clothes until somebody else passes them on.

What drove me crazy about that—especially pants, jeans, Levi’s, and things like that—is that when we were in the military, our shop rags were just cut-up jeans or cut-up shirts.

They all came from those clothing donation bins. I don’t know who or what dictates what goes where, but it always seemed like a waste of that resource to me.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

That actually reminded me of another thing I asked in my letter. When you buy a piece of work clothing, you could make it so part of that fee goes toward repairing it with someone in-house. That gives job security to people who want to do that work.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Right. Some places have done that. At my last job, if you paid out of pocket for the uniform, they would send it off to have it repaired. But that was only one small instance, and you had to pay extra for the service.

If I have a pair of Wranglers or Levi’s—which, the last time I looked, were around $58 a pair, although I’m sure I could find them cheaper somewhere—and they’re ripped at the knees or bottoms, just put another piece of denim on to repair them.

I’d rather pay $10 or $15 for that and keep the pants that are already nicely broken in.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
That’s the other option. I like to sew; that’s something I enjoy. If people want more sustainability, they can fix their own things.

But not everybody wants to fix everything, and not everybody has enough time in the day. This gives an option to people who don’t have the time to do it themselves.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
I’m really glad and thankful to live in a country where we have enough abundance that we can easily replace things.

But there are a lot of places, and a lot of people even here in America, who don’t have that luxury.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
It is a luxury to be able to go out and just buy new clothes or buy new things.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

The next one was Home Depot.

When I send these ideas out to companies, I send them with the intention that they are going to reach somebody. I send them specifically to the company, but I really want the idea to reach somebody it resonates with.

What I asked Home Depot was: What if successful repair itself were considered a valuable customer outcome?

Why can’t we reach out to local contractors or people who are interested in making furniture? Why couldn’t someone become an employee who makes furniture with materials already in the store?

Instead of relying on cheap IKEA crap that you know isn’t going to last very long, why can’t we give people a way to use materials that are already there to make something of quality that will actually last longer?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Our last couch was literally made of cardboard.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
That was really upsetting.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Another idea was reaching out to local people who do small-engine repair. A lot of people love to do that, but it isn’t always economically feasible.

The idea is to bring the ability to fix your community back into your community, in whatever capacity is possible.

Another part is classes: offering people classes on how to build furniture or carpentry classes. Spreading that knowledge around can actually bring in more business. It can create repeat business.

People can tell when you actually care about the sustainability of your community. They want to come back. They want to be part of the growth. People just need a chance to do that.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah.

I like hands-on learning myself. You can go to the library and check out books and everything, but as we were talking about, people don’t seem to know how to do things anymore.

A class at Home Depot, Lowe’s, or wherever could teach people how to reshingle a roof, do basic plumbing, do basic electrical work around the house, or simply know what to look for.

You can look it up. You can Google it. But if you don’t know the question, how can you find the answer? It’s kind of like a sea of ignorance.

I guess ignorance is no excuse under the law, but we need to bring that knowledge back. Give the older generation a chance to pass it on again, rather than having us rely on builders and contractors who may charge us through the nose simply because we don’t know what we’re doing a lot of the time.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
That’s actually a really good point.

It goes back to the beginning of this episode. If you have children and you don’t teach your kids how to do things, but then you get mad because they don’t know how to do them, that doesn’t make sense.

This is a way of saying, “Okay, we want to be able to participate. We want to be able to do things.”

I want everybody to have the right to repair their community. They have a right to participate in the growth of their own community.

We have a right to share knowledge and learn from each other, because if that knowledge isn’t passed down, what happens?

That’s where a lot of ideas about takeovers come from—situations where people lose their choice or their ability to consent to something.

You always make a choice.

We have let corporations come in and destroy small businesses in many towns. So how do we get that knowledge base back? How do we give people a chance to do that again?

Are you ready to go into the auto-parts discussion?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah. Your letter to GM.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

I sent all of these around December 27 and 28, 2025. I reached out to GM Genuine Parts and the ACDelco team as examples of the types of recipients I thought should receive this information.

Currently, with newer cars, if you take them in for service, you often need dealership software or licensed diagnostic access to retrieve and interpret error codes. Dealerships do not always readily share that information with local mechanics.

Local mechanics can apply for access or licenses, but it can be incredibly expensive.

That doesn’t sound like an empathetic system to me. This is a perfect example.

To me, it sounds like somebody found a way to extract more money and weaken small business.

Then we run into another problem. This happened in our personal experience; I don’t know about everybody else.

We take our Volkswagen into the dealership, and it can take them three weeks to fix a simple thing because they do not have the manpower to fix everybody’s Volkswagen.

That delays everybody who uses a car to get to work. That’s part of the trickle-down effect of the kind of society we’re participating in.

If the dealership gets all that business through software licensing, while local mechanics don’t have access, it becomes very hard for independent mechanics to diagnose newer vehicles.

The dealership gets all the business, but then the dealership may not have the facilities or manpower to reliably fix everyone’s vehicles in a timely way.

What I sent in was essentially: Maybe we could share. Maybe manufacturers could contract with local mechanics. Maybe reliable transportation—people being able to get to work and live comfortably—doesn’t have to be so inefficient.

Maybe that isn’t too much to ask.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
That has actually been in the news recently too—people trying to change laws around that and getting pushback over the right to repair your own vehicle.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Here, I’ll read the actual excerpt from the letter:

“In many vehicle-service cases, parts are returned or replaced not because the component itself has failed, but because diagnostic interpretation, tooling access, or repair context is limited outside dealership service.

“This can increase parts returns, warranty friction, and unnecessary replacement cycles.

“I wondered whether there may be value in selectively supporting a repair-first, distributed approach, such as expanding diagnostic guidance or tool access; creating tiered support pathways where routine issues are resolved locally and only safety-critical or unresolved cases escalate; and treating successful local repair using genuine parts as a positive outcome rather than a failed transaction.

“This kind of approach could help reduce returns and warranty claims, keep vehicles operational longer, and strengthen confidence in genuine parts across a broader repair ecosystem.”

Because people deserve the right to help their community and repair their community. That’s the bottom line.

A functioning automotive repair ecosystem may therefore require parts plus diagnostic information, appropriate tools, skilled mechanics, local repair capacity, and manufacturer support when genuinely necessary.

People who love fixing cars should be able to fix cars and do what they love. That doesn’t seem complicated to me.

It goes back to the broader system. If people love to do things that help their community, they should be able to do them.

What do you think about that?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
It makes me miss the days when you could buy a brand-new car with air conditioning and roll-down windows, then go get whatever parts you needed from AutoZone or ACE.

Now everything has a computer. Everything has a screen. Seat warmers and auto-start are really nice, but I’m not saying those days were better by any means. I’m just a little nostalgic for those times now.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
It’s kind of one of those things where we didn’t know what we had.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yep.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
And now it feels like it’s gone because of corporatism.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

One of my biggest hopes with these ideas was also to help Americans rely less on foreign manufacturing—to be more self-reliant and self-sustainable, and to give people more agency and more choice.

The next part I wanted to go through today is about knowledge: Who preserves the knowledge required to do all this repair?

That is really the topic of our next episode—restructuring how we value people who do skilled labor, and how much we value people who share information and want to teach.

I feel like the ultimate gift is being able to master whatever it is you are doing, like a guild master, and then share that mastery with your community and with other people who are interested.

Scaling the repair question upward in relation to knowledge sharing and preservation, I wanted to talk about how important sharing that knowledge is in relation to the self.

The self is an asset.

Your body and your experience are, ultimately, what an individual has. Your house is an asset. We talked about that before. A neighborhood is an asset. Transportation infrastructure is an asset.

All of these things can make our experience here better and more beautiful.

But how are we taking care of those assets? Are we repairing them? Are we maintaining them?

If I’m not taking care of myself, then who is?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Right.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Before abandoning the remaining value in something that seems like it may not be repairable, you have to ask that question.

Then you have to determine whether restoring or maintaining it produces the better long-term outcome.

That does not mean never replace anything. Things can fall apart. You can replace them.

But how do we genuinely look at repairing things first? How do we appreciate all the attention, love, and care that went into every part of the experience that got us where we are?

What parts of that do you want to keep participating in, and what parts don’t you want to participate in anymore?

The last part of this was a letter I sent to the Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration.

I wanted to send them something centered on connecting people and connecting related ideas, because a lot of our infrastructure is just totally messed up.

My idea included designing new railroads, creating more jobs, and connecting more people together.

I also sent them material about mining contracts that had opened in Pennsylvania and Ohio for what was transcribed as “ferrous iron,” as a way to think about creating more jobs and supporting infrastructure.

A lot of the infrastructure system is falling apart. For this example, I wanted to emphasize that there are things that really are falling apart, and sometimes you do have to replace things.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Maybe rail could even be a cheaper solution than flying.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah, maybe even a cheaper solution than flying.

I also sent the idea with the intention of giving thought to pilot sustainable-housing communities that would not disrupt current housing markets.

For example, if you wanted to make a cob house or an earthship-type home, you can get stuck in legal or code-related loopholes.

If we ended up building a large infrastructure line connecting more parts of the country, I felt that could be a good place to pilot sustainable-housing communities.

If people have the opportunity to become more self-reliant, start new projects, and repair more of their communities, then people can also start connecting with one another.

That was my intention with that.

Sometimes you have to ask your mind, “What protects my peace?”

If there is an opportunity to repair something, can you repair it, or do you have to replace it?

Once you establish that, then you can ask, “Okay, now can we connect what is being created?”

Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah.

I guess it’s kind of like asking: How far gone does something have to be before it’s completely FUBAR’d?

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
Yeah.

That connects with the question we discussed before about minimum viability. What actually is the standard?

That is the question I asked myself. What is the standard I hold for my inner child? What is the standard I hold for my body? What is the standard I hold for my home?

It’s scalable.

What do I need to repair? What do I need to replace?

Because I’m here right now, and I want to have this experience.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Even with something small, when you talk about repair versus replacement—I don’t mean to keep bringing up old stuff, but I am—I’m sure some of you remember appliance repair.

You could have somebody come in and fix your TV, dishwasher, washer, dryer, or refrigerator.

Even my grandmother was saying it is starting to get more expensive to replace the same compressor in her refrigerator than it would be for her to just outright buy a new refrigerator.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
That’s what happens when constant replacement becomes the mode of operation. That is what I was trying to send to these companies.

Eventually you hit a wall where it isn’t sustainable anymore.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
With our TV, for example, it feels like you’re meant to replace the whole unit. The components are so small and soldered in. You can’t just replace the LCD easily—maybe you can; I don’t know that much about it.

That goes back to the cars too. I strongly get the feeling that some products are produced with the intention of eventually breaking down so that you have to keep replacing things.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
That is what I was trying to point out. You can only keep doing that for so long.

Then you hit a wall. You hit a choice point: “Okay, this isn’t sustainable anymore. What do I do?”

If we keep going this way, stuff starts falling apart. People don’t have reliable access to the things that make them feel comfortable or safe.

We’re already seeing it with the prices of everything.

So this is an opportunity to start getting our hands dirty, doing work, and putting out what it is people want to start seeing.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
And accepting that you can be loved just the way you are.

We can build a better world. We can make it more sustainable. It really is up to the individual, though. It begins with the self.

There were a couple of other things I wanted to go over today that we sent out and that Justin helped me with.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Oh, yes.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
One was connected with a Department of Aging and the idea of elderly people having another way to get around town.

I don’t think we’ll be able to cover that fully today. We’ll try to do that in the next episode.

I called another idea the “American Craft Continuity and Restoration Program”: restructuring how skilled labor, practical knowledge, and knowledge transfer are valued and compensated.

People with that knowledge are priceless. So how do you even compensate something priceless? That is a really big question.

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Yeah.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
I think we’ll probably have to leave it there today.

Is there anything else you want to say in closing?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
No, I think we pretty much covered everything.

I’m excited for the driving program. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings or anything like that, so I just want to preface it that way. But there are a lot of good ideas there.

Speaker 2 – Kenna:
I think so.

You may agree or disagree. You’re free to do as you please.

I’m really grateful to be here today. I’m grateful to be able to share this information. I’m grateful to be able to translate how the little girl in my heart feels on the radio.

I’d like to thank BBS for giving us this opportunity to share this information and maybe offer a different way of looking at things.

I had a really interesting insight the other day that I wanted to share at the end of the show.

People commonly talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. From my perspective and my experience, there was no real light at the end of the tunnel.

It was just a mirror, and I was looking at myself.

You can be the light in the darkness. You can create the world that you want to.

I just hope everybody knows that.

From the little child who lives in my heart to yours: I love you just the way you are, and I’m grateful to be here with you today.

Ready to close out?

Speaker 1 – Justin:
Oh, yes.

Thank you all for joining us today. Again, this is Justin and Kenna. I want to tell you: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.

Thank you very much.