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Jessica Danel

Jessica Danel

Jessica Danel is an author, podcast host, and entrepreneur — host of the "Jess Saying" podcast and author of the memoir "Bucket List from a Redneck Girl."

Sep 10, 2026

EllieHOST
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yeah, yeah.
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So then I did get my license.
64:16
OK, so word of mouth.
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I I wanted a school that was like educational and fun.
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And like the kids would come home with an art project and a daily report and they would eat well.
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Like they had good meals, you know, wasn't just like chicken nuggets every night.
64:31
And so I just had a waiting list.

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EllieHOST
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the wrong way.
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Not really.
5:18
So what I did is I thought, well, I've never done a podcast.
5:21
Now I've done editing for videos before and I've done photography.
5:28
Those two things I've done in my past, and I'm really talented.
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I think I'm talented when it comes to that.
5:35
I've done videos for my high school yearbook when I was in high school.
5:39
Well, I videotaped my entire high school year, and then it was 10 years later, about nine years later, I created the video yearbook when technology got a little bit easier for people to do home videos.
10:28
And now I want to ask, was there a time that you felt like your podcast is boring, you're tired? And then the issue of editing, how do you go about the editing that doesn't become overwhelming?
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it's
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kind of a scary thing.
3:55
But then came along my daughter.
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Now, Piper, my daughter, my 16 year old.
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Oh, my gosh.
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So.
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So Piper was a week late.

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try to handle

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