194|From Farm Girl to Teacher: How Curiosity, Joy & Presence Apply to Business

Welcome, Verla Wade.

Thank you so much.

It's great to be here, Laurie.

Your website is called Ask Verla, and that's how I met you.

I actually, I think I wished you a happy birthday, and you told me about this amazing, is it a calendar?

No, actually what I did was I got really interested in the astrology of this year, and I'm not an astrologer by any means.

But what I did was I was writing due to an injury.

I started writing again.

So what I did was I did a deep dive into the astrology for this year.

And lo and behold, it's the fire horse year in Chinese astrology.

So I wrote my first e-book.

I just published it for free on my website because it's my first one.

And it's a guidebook with a lot of pictures because I'm really visual and I like color and fairly artistic.

And so it's a guidebook with questions and a journal if you wish and that kind of thing.

And so I decided on my friend's birthdays, I'd send them an option to opt in if they wanted this e-book.

But they have to say yes, right? Yes.

They

don't want

to junk up their e-book.

yeah that was very thoughtful that you said would you like it and the thing that really when I saw it I was really excited and I I've started reading I haven't finished yet but because I had done an interview with someone who had had mentioned the year of the fire horse and how when that happened last time um women tried not to get pregnant because they didn't have a want to have a girl that year and so I was like wow this is powerful

Yeah, it's a very unusual year.

And of course, with the Chinese astrology, it's a 60-year process because there's the 12 animals.

And then for each animal, there's the five sections, earth, water, air, fire, and metal.

Every 60 years.

So fire horse comes around every 60 years.