Streaking Into Self Discovery with Noelle Labrie

Michael Dargie (00:01.382) All right, welcome to the Rebel Rebel. I'm your host, Michael Dargie Somewhere across the world, we're gonna find out where. Please welcome to the show Noelle Labrie. How are you? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (00:10.494) I am fantastic. How are you, Michael? Michael Dargie (00:13.266) I am also fantastic, thank you for asking. It is a beautiful day and the birds are chirping, the sky is blue and I've got no complaints. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (00:23.768) Same here. I feel exactly the same way. Even including the sky is blue and the birds are chirping. I can hear them from my window. Michael Dargie (00:27.095) Excellent. Oh, that's so nice. And here we are across the world from one another. Where are you exactly? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (00:34.854) I am actually in northwestern Florida, so I live in a little tiny beach town called Miramar Beach, and I know it's so pretty. It's so pretty. It is truly, it's the Emerald Coast of Florida, so I'm way up on the Panhandle, way, way, way west, but I am telling you seriously, white sugar sand, crystal clear, gorgeous water. I mean, you... If there were more palm trees on the beach, you would think that you were like in the Caribbean. I feel very, very fortunate to be here. Yeah. Well, mom and dad retired here and I said, you're going to the beach? okay. I think I can do that. Michael Dargie (01:06.816) my god. No kidding. Well played, Noel. Michael Dargie (01:20.262) Well, you got to look after your mom and dad. That's awesome. So what is it that you do know? Well, like, let's let's start there. Let's give people some context for you know what this beach beach goer does on the day to day. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (01:22.35) Well, I do. I do. Absolutely. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (01:36.302) Well, there's a few things. The easiest thing to tell people with regard to my profession is that I've been a learning and development professional for a number of years. My focus right now, truthfully, is helping restaurant owners with their not just with their operations. I would say I help restaurant leaders, but no leader likes to be told they're bad at leadership. That's not really the best way to go into a conversation. So I look at things like, let's talk about your turnover. You know, what's going on with your staff? Let's talk about the culture of your staff or let's look at your online reviews. You know, what are they saying about your food or your service? And then take that info back into the restaurant and help the Michael Dargie (02:18.309) and Noelle Suzanne Labrie (02:30.342) management and the chefs figure out how they can serve their staff so their staff can serve their guests. So I do that through, you know, training, implementation of systems, know, efforts with communication. And again, leadership skills, it all comes back to how the team is being led. Michael Dargie (02:36.594) Love it. Michael Dargie (02:50.996) That's really cool. What's like one of your favorite styles of restaurants to help like? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (02:57.854) Well, I'll tell you, mean, I love, I love the independent restaurants because I mean, truthfully, a lot of them, it's so fascinating to me because people will say, you really like to cook. You should open a restaurant or, you know, you enjoy the hospitality. You're, you're good at serving others, you know, being there and providing for others. should run a restaurant. And if they had any freaking clue how hard it is to run a restaurant, it is not easy. It's not just running food. So. Michael Dargie (03:21.974) you Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (03:27.854) or making food and running food. I love to serve those who have a true desire to provide for people. They just might not know the systems that they need into place to be able to do that. In particular, my favorite, favorite, favorite people to work with are the young... Michael Dargie (03:37.288) Yeah. Michael Dargie (03:44.04) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (03:52.862) managers and chefs and not necessarily young in years, just young in experience, newer to their role. You know, what happens a lot is, and this is true in other industries as well, but I see it in my industry all the time, is you've got a fantastic server or an awesome line guy, and then they get promoted into a supervisory role and they don't know what to do. They really start to suffer or to, you know, kind of flounder a little bit because Michael Dargie (04:09.372) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (04:20.774) they were out drinking with these guys four weeks ago and now they have to hold them accountable to being sober at work. Like, you know, and nobody teaches them how to do that. Nobody teaches them the numbers and how to pay attention to a P &L and how to control your food costs, your labor costs. those, those people who have the desire and have the potential to do well, they just, they just don't know how. Those are my favorite, favorite, favorite people to work with. Yep. Michael Dargie (04:24.776) Yeah. Michael Dargie (04:35.728) Wow. Michael Dargie (04:46.832) Love it. Yeah, I love it. I've had some friends that have been restaurateurs, some successful, some not as successful. And yeah, I'm just fascinated by the machinations of what it takes to make a restaurant run, the number of hours that you have to put into it, the systems that you have in place to make sure that that guest experience is seamless to us when we go in and do the thing. And yeah, wow, that's so cool. What's your favorite meal? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (05:10.382) Right? Absolutely. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (05:17.71) Oh, gosh. Oh, man. How do I answer that? just if you could see me from here down, you would know that I like to eat. So, gosh, I just I mean, I cook a lot at home. So I love all kinds of I live near the beach. I love all kinds of fish. I'm a huge seafood person. Love sushi. I am sure this will come up. So I'm not hesitant to tell you that I worked for a Chinese concept for 15 years. So Michael Dargie (05:17.884) Just out of curiosity. Michael Dargie (05:24.881) Hahaha. Michael Dargie (05:36.293) and Noelle Suzanne Labrie (05:47.214) into all the Asian flavors and yeah, I just, I like food. Michael Dargie (05:48.571) Yeah. my god. Okay. Carb loading or not carb loading? And I'm leading, I'm going somewhere with this. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (06:00.654) I know exactly where you're going with this. Carb loading, but only the night before a big race. You don't have to stuff your face with pizza or rice or pasta the entire week ahead. Like you got to be mindful of that. Yeah. Michael Dargie (06:14.748) Gotcha. Yeah, so and I want to this is a very clever segue to talk about your streaking career. So tell us tell tell us about how you streak. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (06:19.47) You Yes. Well, as of today, I have streaked for 3,792 days and I am, I know it's a little over about 10 years and four-ish months. But yes, I am a streaker. am a run streaker. I have run at least a mile every single day for the last 10 and almost a half years. Yeah. It's crazy. It is crazy. Yeah. Michael Dargie (06:54.088) That is so cool. Like, wow. OK, and I mean, holy moly. That blew me away when I read the notes that you did this. And I wanted to talk about it. Like, what motivated you to do this? Did it just happen by accident? Talk to me, goose. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (07:16.526) Talk to me, goose. So I was never a runner. played sports in college, I mean in high school rather, but I never was a runner. That wasn't my thing at all. again, going back multiple years, was bartending for said Chinese restaurant and a couple of the people that I worked with came in and they were all jazzed up and they're like, well, we went to this thing last night and... There's this really cool opportunity to train for a marathon. And if you raise money for this group, they're going to put you on a plane and put you in a hotel. You don't have to pay for anything. You just got to raise, as it turned out, almost $8,000. But it was for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. And so I went to an informational meeting and completely fell in love with the process. their big thing, and this was 20 plus years ago, their big thing was, we'll take anybody of any level. Michael Dargie (07:56.87) Whoa. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (08:12.778) and we'll show you what you need to do in order to successfully complete a marathon. And the marathon that I happened to choose was in Dublin, Ireland. So my mom's side of the family is Irish and I thought, you know, I've always wanted to go to Ireland. This is something healthy I can do for myself and physically something I can do for somebody else as well, you know, for this amazing organization. Michael Dargie (08:23.912) Amazing. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (08:40.928) And so I did it. And out of the four of us who initially signed up, I was the only one to actually go and do the fundraising and complete the race. And it was tremendous. I mean, it was just the most amazing experience. I completely fell in love with Ireland, like from the first second that I got off the plane. was like, my God, I'm home. It just, it was such an amazing experience. So that was in honor of my 30th birthday. So I was celebrating my 30th birthday and that's what I chose to do. Michael Dargie (08:48.608) my God. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (09:11.506) And of course, you know, during all of that experience, halfway through the race, I'm like, I'm never doing this again. What did I do to myself? my God. And then I finished and signed up for another race, like six weeks later. So for, for a little while, I, I stayed pretty steady with it. And then, you know, life happened and my job changed and I started traveling a lot for work. so, you know, things in my world shifted quite a bit. Michael Dargie (09:20.069) you Michael Dargie (09:25.596) Yeah Noelle Suzanne Labrie (09:41.985) And then I kind of got back into it once my work world stabilized a little bit and I wasn't traveling as much. And I was now still working for the same concept, but I was working overseas and as it was in Costa Rica and my contract as it happened ended sooner than I expected. So I have this conversation with my boss and You know, we agreed on a date that I would finish up my final projects that I was working on and then, you know, picked a date for me to head home. And it was about a month and a half away from the date we had the conversation to my end date, my travel date home. And I thought, what if I could run a mile every day for the next 40 something days? And I did. you know, just again, kind of keeping myself mentally healthy and it's Costa Rica for heaven's sake. So the weather was gorgeous every day. Michael Dargie (10:34.729) Yeah. my God. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (10:36.75) And so I came home and thought, all right, well, I've already run for 40 days. I wonder if I can run for a hundred days. And so I did. And then I just kind of haven't stopped. That was 10 and a half years ago. But it's become, you know, I think when I first started, Michael, it was more about Michael Dargie (10:50.441) my god. This so cool. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (11:01.922) you know, my physical health and taking care of myself. And like I said, I like to eat. So, you you got to balance that out somehow. And more and more over over the last 10 years, it is so much more about my emotional, spiritual and mental health than it is my physical health. And it's just been such an incredible. An incredible thing to be able to do and set my attention on a daily basis and think about, all right, you know, I'm clearing my mind. What am I going to accomplish today? Michael Dargie (11:05.907) Yeah. Yeah. Michael Dargie (11:19.699) amazing. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (11:32.162) And that's how my day starts. Michael Dargie (11:34.877) God, I love it. You've done six, seven marathons? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (11:38.959) Six marathons. Yeah, so I ran my first one in Dublin for my 30th birthday. And then I ran the most recent one. I did New York City in 2023 for my 50th birthday. So yeah, yep. I am, I am, I am. Nope, but thank you for that. And that's, I appreciate it. But yeah, yeah, I ran my last one for my 50th birthday. Michael Dargie (11:51.187) Yeah. my God. You don't look 50. Come on. You're like 30. What the hell? Holy sh- Damn. Michael Dargie (12:07.913) Huh. Star Wars Episode III? OK. Dot, dot, dot. Yeah, what I'm wondering, because I just jumped from place to place, and I was just looking behind you, and you've got like an old school R2-D2 there and some Darth stuff. my Star Wars was the 1977 episode. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (12:14.028) Yes. No, mean, I'm like dot, dot, dot continuation of that question. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (12:28.898) Yep. Yep. Michael Dargie (12:37.639) Was it three, four, five, four, five, and six? Four, five, six. So yeah, was that your Star Wars? OK. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (12:39.372) No, four, five, and six. Yep. Four, five, and six. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. remember I was still pretty young when the first one came out, but I remember seeing seeing Empire Strikes Back in the theater with my dad. And yeah, yeah, pretty cool. Pretty cool. Yeah, that's what I mean. Always. It's it has just been it's just been such a part of my life. I mean, since I was a little little girl. Yeah. Michael Dargie (12:57.698) my god. That would leave a mark. Michael Dargie (13:08.795) So cool. Gosh. Talk to me about would you want an invisible jet or a lasso of truth? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (13:20.405) Oh, God bless. mean, if we had the ability to have a lesson of truth, I feel like so many issues in the world could solve themselves because holy cow, some of the stuff that's out there right now, you're just like, really? So, yeah, I might have to, I can get anywhere if I need to. I do have modes of transportation, but yeah, that lesson of truth might be pretty helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Michael Dargie (13:23.803) Hehehehe. Hehehehe. Michael Dargie (13:34.404) Hahaha Michael Dargie (13:40.199) Yeah, that's true. All right, fair enough. Yeah. Linda Carter, was she your Wonder Woman? Nice. Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (13:48.245) Absolutely. Yep. And damn, she's funny. I mean, if you follow her, like on any of the social platforms, she is hysterical. She's super, super sharp. Yep. Michael Dargie (13:56.337) Yeah. She's a character. I it. I often sign, lately I've been signing books or I've been signing off with Carpe All the Diems. And I know that you have a book, I want to say. Or no, Carpe Diem Leadership, not the book, a program. Can you talk a little bit about that and what that's about? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (14:09.916) huh. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (14:19.243) Right, right, yep. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (14:24.777) Yeah, it's an eight week program that can be, you know, certainly customized. Again, I do focus on restaurants because that's where I've been, but it's essentially taking life lessons, things that happen on a daily basis and flipping the script a little bit so that this normal thing is something that now I can learn from. And it's all because it is, you know, restaurant focused. very small manageable tasks. It's each week of the eight weeks, there's a in theory in practice and in review segment. you know, yeah, so we have a topic, you know, let's call it communication. So we're going to talk about communication. Then there are some, you know, very quick digestible things that you can put into place on a daily basis. That's your in practice. And then at the end of the week, you know, is let's let's Michael Dargie (15:03.209) Nice. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (15:21.369) talk about what happened. How did you use these things? Did it work for you? then so each there's a every other week is a group meeting in between weeks or individual meetings. it's like I said, it's just a mean, manageable way that even in the midst of crazy operations, you can take just a little bit of time to slow down and focus on yourself and your own growth and development. Yeah. Michael Dargie (15:48.519) Yeah, that's really smart. And I hate to just bounce back and forth, but it's how my brain works sometimes that when you like is does your run your your one mile or however many does that happen at the same time every day? Does it change? And if so, is this something that you do to cleanse? I think you mentioned that this was how you sort of set intention and stuff. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (16:10.061) Yeah, yeah. It's typically speaking, it does. find that if, if I, obviously after 10 years, I am going to run at some point during the day. mean, it's unless I have a broken bone or something like I will run as long as I am physically capable. But I find that if I don't run first thing in the morning, two things happen. First is that I am fuzzier longer in my brain in the morning. And then secondarily is the day goes. Michael Dargie (16:24.926) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (16:38.841) by it's easy to make excuses or to think I'll do it later or I'm tired now or, I have this work thing to finish or whatever it is. And so by doing, it might not be exactly the same time every morning, but by getting up, getting my day started and getting out on the road, it does, it really helps me set my day and just kind of clears my mind and whatever might've happened the previous day or I... Michael Dargie (16:46.461) Yeah. Michael Dargie (16:52.369) Yeah, it is. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (17:07.307) happen to be a very, very vivid dreamer. And so if through the night I've had some really crazy stuff in my brain, it just, helps me to kind of clear and reset and then get ready for the day. Michael Dargie (17:20.137) Have you ever, and I ask this a bit of a weighted question, loaded one, because I have an Apple Watch that has tried to kill me in the past. And in particular, just trying to close those frickin' rings. And have you ever gotten to the end of your day where you're like, I don't know how fast you run a mile, but have you got to like 11.30 at night and you're like, oh my God, I haven't run my, and I can't break my streak? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (17:28.289) as they do. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (17:43.407) No, I mean, I think maybe, maybe early on I had, you know, had some occasions where it was later in the day and I thought, okay, I really ought to get out there now. But no, I never have because I do, I do do it first thing in the morning. But I have had nightmares that I have woken up exactly that scenario that you're talking about where it's like, I look at my clock and it's, you know, 11 58 and I'm like, oh my God, if I start now but finish after midnight. Does that count for this day? But I'll tell you truthfully, I have had to make some pretty interesting choices of where and when to run in order to get it done. So as I mentioned, I've traveled quite a bit both for work and for fun. And the craziest experience was, this was 2018, my brother-in-law is from New Zealand. And so my sister and Michael Dargie (18:14.301) Yeah. Michael Dargie (18:23.453) Noelle Suzanne Labrie (18:40.047) her husband and the kids were already there visiting his family. And my mom and dad and I decided to join them about halfway through their trip. I was living in California at the time. My parents came out to LA. We flew together and had to make a stop in Tahiti and to have the plane refuel. And I was telling one of the girls I worked with about this. was like, what am I going to do? I'm crossing the international date line and we're going to be on a plane from Michael Dargie (18:43.742) Yeah. Michael Dargie (19:00.838) you Noelle Suzanne Labrie (19:09.835) I, we take off on February 13th and we land on February 15th. Like, I mean, but on the way back, I get two days. like, does that, does one make up for the other? And so then, you know, we're talking about the trip and the layover and she goes, well, where's your layover? And I said, well, it's in Tahiti. We have like, you know, an hour and a half and not even two hours. And she goes, well, can you run there? And I was like, well, I can't leave the airport. And she goes, can you run in the airport? Michael Dargie (19:14.954) my god. You got two days. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (19:37.871) And so I did. I brought like a pair of, you know, junky shorts and I didn't even have running shoes. I ran in my flip flops. But here I am in this little teeny open air airport in Tahiti running in like in between the seats and up the stairs and around this little whatever. mean, I'm sure they all thought I was completely crazy. But, you know, I did my 15 minutes on February 14th, 2018 in the Tahiti airport. Michael Dargie (19:39.241) hilarious Michael Dargie (19:49.577) I know the kind. Michael Dargie (19:59.247) hilarious Michael Dargie (20:09.351) What's the craziest and or best place that you've traveled to? A world traveler. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (20:15.287) man. Well, be frank, I New Zealand was just absolutely incredible. God, go. It's so amazing. Ireland, like I said, was home. But I'll tell you the place that surprised me the most and I absolutely fell in love with was Turkey. Yeah, never, you know, before I started working internationally, I never had the desire to visit Turkey. just didn't... Michael Dargie (20:21.897) That's on my list. Michael Dargie (20:34.204) wow. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (20:43.225) I don't know why it never really came on my radar. And I was, I was living in the middle East. I lived in Kuwait for four years and got to travel a bunch because it's kind of central. So strangely you can get to quite a few places fairly easily from there. And we were opening a restaurant and in Istanbul and you know, I went for the initial kind of pregame set up with everybody, lots of conversations and whatnot. And I absolutely fell in Michael Dargie (20:45.385) Yeah. Michael Dargie (20:53.896) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (21:12.815) love with the city of Istanbul. Felt in love. And then when I went back to open the restaurant that we opened there, I was there for, I don't know, maybe a month or so, maybe five weeks. And just, if I could speak the language, I would have stayed. I mean, it was just incredible. Just incredible. Yeah. Yeah. Michael Dargie (21:34.163) That is so cool. I've had the occasion recently, more so in the last couple episodes I've had guests on that are travelers, and to ask this question, how important do you think it is for people of the world to travel and see the world? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (21:53.743) I personally think it's incredibly important. When my first nephew was born, I said to my sister, I think I'd like to set up a college fund for Luke. And she said, well, what if he doesn't want to go to school right away? What if he wants to travel? Because in the Kiwi culture, that's very common to take time and to explore a little bit. Granted, they live on an island that's like 4 million people. 40 million sheep. you it's good to get away from there and to see some different things. But I said, you know, I said to her, was like, that'd be great. I think that there's such a different kind of education that comes from travel and whether it's, you know, music and culture and tradition and dress. mean, all of it is is such a different kind of of education. And yes, you can get it from, you know, watching movies and TV and reading books, but to experience it. Michael Dargie (22:22.979) Yeah. Michael Dargie (22:33.533) Yeah. Michael Dargie (22:46.194) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (22:52.257) is just so incredibly powerful. know, to Michael, mentioned a few minutes ago how crazy our world is. I think it gives us a better understanding of who we are as human beings to see others in their world and in their environment. And if I can tell one more story really quickly about that. When I was living in Kuwait, I lived in an apartment building and Michael Dargie (23:04.851) Yes. Michael Dargie (23:12.985) please. Yeah, this is this is for. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (23:21.345) I always dressed pretty nicely to go to work. It was important to have that appearance there in my position. So I was coming out of my apartment one morning and I'm standing there and I'm locking door and the lady who lived next to me was going in to her apartment. So here I am and I just kind of looked at her and smiled and realized that I was wearing a black suit I had on a black blazer, black top and black slacks. And here she was all in black from head to toe with her hijab and her traditional dress. And I just looked at her for a second and it stuck with me always because here I was the single woman on my way to work. Here she was the single woman probably coming home from work or wherever she had been. And I just thought to myself, are we really that different? Michael Dargie (24:00.371) Yeah. Michael Dargie (24:12.968) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (24:18.871) And it was incredibly powerful. So that's what travel does, is expose us to those things. Michael Dargie (24:24.809) Yeah, yeah, though we're not so distant. That's amazing. If you're, I don't know, let me just say that you're off running somewhere. I'm going to make up a place that you're running. You are running over a hill and over a veil in Scotland. I don't know if you've ever been there, but let's just say that. Yeah, all right. So there you are. You're running. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (24:42.933) I have it, but I want to go. on my list. Michael Dargie (24:48.137) Maybe you're in Aberdeen and it's beautiful and it's coastal and you're sitting there thinking to yourself, Noel, I just wish the world knew this one thing. What's the one thing that you wish the world knew? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (25:02.863) Man, that is a loaded question. Truthfully, Michael, just going back to that story, it might have to be that, that we are much more alike than we are different. I wish that we could, certainly everybody is gonna have their various beliefs and ideas and philosophies about things. And at the end of the day, aren't we all just trying to do our best? It might look differently, but isn't that what we're hopefully trying to get to? So yeah, I wish that we all could have a little more compassion for each other. We could have a little more empathy, just a little more understanding that everybody's just trying to do their best. Michael Dargie (25:52.861) Love it. Hot buttered popcorn or candy corn. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (25:57.197) Ooh, man, because there's perfect occasions for both. Like when you go to the movies, it's got to be hot butter popcorn. But if it's Christmas, then it's then if it's a, you know, Halloween, then it's candy corn. If it's Christmas, it's got to be caramel corn. So I don't know. OK. Michael Dargie (26:03.485) I know. Michael Dargie (26:15.121) Yeah, all right. I think that's enough of an answer, actually. I think that's clearly well thought out. OK. Luxurious bubble bath with bubbles or just a killer hot shower? Killer hot shower. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (26:31.605) killer hot shower. I'm not a bubble bath kind of girl. Yep. Michael Dargie (26:35.473) All right. right. Your favorite mode of transportation. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (26:41.646) Other than my feet, because I really do enjoy walking places and being in, like when I went to New York, mean, most recently, man, it was awesome, you know, just to get to see things. But I don't know, I drive a little Mini Cooper and she's so cute and just drives really fun. so, I mean, quite frankly, I really like my car. Yeah. Michael Dargie (26:48.926) Yeah. Michael Dargie (26:59.27) you Michael Dargie (27:03.495) Alright, Mini Cooper, got it. What's the one thing that you haven't done yet that you need to do before the end of it all? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (27:10.49) I just had a very life of Chuck moment when you just said the end of it all. That's kind of crazy. Truthfully, you you were mentioning and I know you have written books and are currently working on others. Same for me. I've been a writer my entire life and journal on almost a daily basis. I've written quite a lot of poetry, but I would love, love, love to write a novel. I'd love to write a novel and I also Michael Dargie (27:15.689) You Michael Dargie (27:35.335) Yes. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (27:40.191) fairly recently. I think you can see it from here. It's a little bit behind me, but my, lost my godfather not too long ago. And yeah, he, it was very unexpected and he and I had a standing date on Friday afternoons and we, talked every week and he just lived an incredible life. And I would love to, especially after going to his services and hearing some of his Michael Dargie (27:47.394) I'm sorry. Michael Dargie (27:56.123) Noelle Suzanne Labrie (28:06.361) For instance, he was 80 and you should have seen the number of people that were there. It was incredible. But I'd love to write about him. I'd love to write either a version of a biography or maybe a little bit fictionalized version of his life. That's definitely on my bucket list. Michael Dargie (28:09.234) Wow. Michael Dargie (28:24.553) write them in as the protagonist of your great American novel. man. I don't know why I'm asking this question, have you ever ridden a burrow? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (28:27.609) Yeah. Yep. Yep. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (28:37.839) I have never ridden to Burrow, no, I have not. That is one mode of transportation that I can safely say I have not taken. Michael Dargie (28:44.553) just popped into my head. just like, why don't you like, she's ridding horses and I'm just like, burrows maybe? do you do that? I don't know. All right. Okay, I have one more weird question then we'll get back to all this stuff that pops into my head. Do you have a favorite animal? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (28:49.655) No, no, can't say that I have. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (29:02.287) Um, well, I did have a favorite animal until I learned something fairly disturbing about them. Um, have you ever, do you know what a quokka is? Oh my God. Yes. They're so, they're so cute and so smiley and they just have the most adorable little faces. And I read somewhere and this could be again, lasso of truth moment. I might need somebody to tell me whether or not this is actually for real, but Michael Dargie (29:11.719) Yeah, the derpy super happy. Yes, I love them. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (29:29.781) I read that little mamas will throw their baby in the face of danger and run away so they can escape when something scary is coming. And I was like, that's terrible. So I need to do a little research about that, but. Michael Dargie (29:39.027) my That's probably capybara propaganda. The capybaras are like just... because they're just... we're the cute ones. Look at them. They throw their babies at stuff. Yeah, big capybara lobby. My God. Okay. Well, there's these people in the world. I call them rebels and waiting. And they are... there are these people that are going out on their own. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (29:47.138) Maybe. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (29:51.567) Wait, look at us, look at us over here. Don't look at those guys. Right? my God. Right. Michael Dargie (30:12.371) they're deciding to rebel against whatever the status quo, whatever it is in their life. It could be inertia. Like it could be, you know, I've decided that I've listened to this episode and I'm going to run every day for the next 10 and a half years, whatever. What advice do you have for these rebels to help them get to where they're going? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (30:15.375) Mm-hmm. Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (30:33.647) gosh, I think the first thing. In your journey, okay, a couple of things. First of all, in your journey, be gentle with yourself. I think that we have, especially if you are a rebel and have a rebel soul and are adventurous in whatever way that might be, I think that very often we are really, really hard on ourselves. And I can say from personal experience that we, I, I'll make this my own statement. Michael Dargie (31:08.807) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (31:09.193) I sometimes talk to myself in a way that I would never speak to another human being. And I think that's what I would say first is, you know, that it's okay to show yourself some grace. It's okay to be kind to yourself, to take the time that you need. And of course, you know, do the thing, whatever it is that you want to do. Yes, motivate yourself to do the thing and be gentle with yourself along the way. Michael Dargie (31:14.687) yeah. Michael Dargie (31:28.445) Yeah. Michael Dargie (31:39.196) Love that. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (31:39.577) kind of the second part of that then is along the way, along the journey, know that your best is going to look different every day. Yeah, I well, yeah, like who I am today is is what I and what I can give today, the best of myself that I can give today is going to be different than what I can give tomorrow. And as long as you are doing your best or trying your best and giving your best. Michael Dargie (31:50.409) that's big. Michael Dargie (32:01.501) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (32:09.839) to know that, you know, some days your best is going to be 100 % and some days your best might be 14%. Yeah. And, and that's okay too. Be gentle with yourself when you realize that. Michael Dargie (32:15.561) 10. Yeah, totally. Yeah. that's perfect advice. Thank you for that. That's a gives such great context. where can people learn more about Noel? Noelle Suzanne Labrie (32:24.431) Yeah. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (32:32.425) gosh, well, probably the easiest place is on LinkedIn. I am the only Noelle Labrie on LinkedIn. Okay, perfect. I do have a website as well, which folks are more than welcome to check out. is try with an I, so TRI-skillconsulting.com. And of course I have a, know, contact me on there as well. So yeah, I'd say both of those would be pretty easy. Michael Dargie (32:37.801) Okay, we will put the notes down there. Michael Dargie (32:57.597) Nice. Michael Dargie (33:01.077) Amazing. Well, this has been so much fun. It's long time in coming. Thank you so much for making the time and you've inspired me to get those running shoes put back on. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (33:11.289) Just take little steps, like just take them out of the closet and then maybe inch them closer to your front door. So just a little at a time. Yeah, okay. Okay, well gotcha, no worries. Then in that case, I'll call you tomorrow and you can tell me off where you went. Thanks so much, Michael, this was fun. Michael Dargie (33:14.653) baby steps. Michael Dargie (33:20.265) I'm not that guy. I am a jump into the ocean guy, not a wade in guy. Okay, I love it. Thanks, Noel. You're the best. Michael Dargie (33:37.309) Just like that, my friend. Yay! Did you have fun? Me too. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (33:39.151) Yay! Yes! Easy, easy. I love the total goofball questions off the wall stuff. I love it. I just think that's fantastic. Michael Dargie (33:47.113) And then just the shit that shows up. Thank you. Yeah, it was so fun. I can't wait for this to come out. It'll be a couple of weeks. And either myself or the team will send you a whole bunch of stuff when that happens so that we can all amplify and spread the void. Amazing. Well, do say hi to the ocean for me, if you would. I was standing in my ocean yesterday, and now I'm in the prairies and I miss it. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (33:55.918) Okay. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (34:02.543) Perfect. Yep. I definitely will do so. Yep. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (34:11.128) I will. Noelle Suzanne Labrie (34:17.023) it's, yeah, I realized was it after I came back from Babs actually, cause I had been gone, you know, most of that week and then jumped right back into work stuff. And one day, middle of last week, I was like, I just need to put my feet in the sand for just like five minutes. Can I just stand here? Yeah, it's necessary. It's, it's the water. It is. It's just the water. Yeah. Okay. Michael Dargie (34:17.129) So. Michael Dargie (34:33.671) Yeah. Michael Dargie (34:37.737) How you doing? Yeah. I'm going hit the stop button so that we make sure it uploads.