Episode #007 – Susan Beadles #becausewedocoolthings

ABOUT SUSAN

• I have been in Morgan Hill for about 24 years now
• I’m on this fun experience right now with my husband what we called, “cool things in our life”
• I am originally from southern California
• A couple of years ago, my nephew and his wife were actually at my house
• And he said, “Aunt Susan, you do such cool things” and I said, “tell me about this hash tag thing” and we started the whole hash tag conversation
• I said to Dan, “you know what, we have these 6 children together, the other one had just gone to college and the other one into the air force.”
• And all of a sudden, it’s Dan and myself, and 3 dogs
• We thought our lives have changed now
• So we really started to look at it and say what do we want to do and let’s really enjoy the moments of our life and the time that we have
• So we tried to pick something to do. We are really in a place where we can enjoy our time with our adult kids
• A lot of times, I see pictures of myself with my boys
• The goal is to do this on a monthly basis, even try to do it on a weekly basis – pick something fun to do
• We try to do the great big events
• For example, my eldest lives in San Francisco and I told him that we would go to Julia and Paul Child’s exhibit, and so we went there and that was our cool thing to do
• It’s the little things
• In life, you’re so busy in what you are doing and you forget
• Show up for things in your life and also be prepared

FAVORITE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE DONE

• One of the really great experiences I had recently was when 7 of my friends from junior high met in another friend’s house in Texas
• And we had the most wonderful experience
• And the best part of it was just being together and laughing
• The other fun thing that we did, with my other son, Alex is, he and his girl friend love to cook
• So we decided what kind of meal we were going to make
• An exotic one or a simple one, and they all came over and we had so much fun in the kitchen cooking
• That’s a whole different experience to just sit there, have a glass of wine, cook, and conversation
• I have found at this time of my life, that it is much easier to actually sit back and enjoy the moments that you are in
• And really recognize how grateful we are for all the things that surround us
• The one thing that I want to work on now is to be on time
• Be on time for things and with people
• Dan and I also like to boogie board
• When you are in the ocean like that, you cannot look at your phone
• You have no interruptions

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOUR YOUNGER SELF

• To be on time
• I am practicing how to do that – to be early
• The reason why is because, there is no stress in your time frame when you are early
• When you’re early, you show up more to things
• The second one is be where you are when you are
• Stay in your own feet
• The other thing that I have learned is don’t create a situation that hasn’t even happened
• It’s nice to be able to be very direct and have upfront conversations
• And that’s what I like about what you are doing, Tracee
• What I love about you is that you are very upfront and direct
• You say what you mean

WHAT DRIVES YOU TO KEEP GOING?

• When I was at the time in my life when I was doing triathlons, it was a moment in time
• I liked it. I like the discipline of it and actually doing a triathlon and the way you have to get ready for it taught me a lot of discipline in my life
• I did not start doing triathlons until I was 48 years old
• It was also a time when two of my boys did cycling and triathlons, and my husband as well
• I changed that part of my life because I wanted to be more relaxed
• And because it was the time that my youngest went to college and the other one went to the military
• And I had all these open spaces now
• I had an open space in my brain because it was not occupied with all the things with the kids
• And it was a little bit a sense of freedom
• And so I thought of what do I want to do now
• I have done salsa dancing lessons, belly dancing lessons, pole dancing lessons and ballroom dancing lessons
• It’s when you jump into life and you start to do things that you will find that different feeling about yourself

BIGGEST CLAIM TO FAME

• My three children
• They have turned into themselves and they are just really wonderful young men
• And I know it’s because of the parenting that they grew up in
• It is huge to be a parent
• Another one is when I was 48 years old and I decided I wanted to do a triathlon
• That was a huge accomplishment because I was not a cyclist and I was not a swimmer, but I knew how to run
• It was a huge accomplishment to get in to the water and swim because I was afraid

ADVICE

• Be here, be now
• Don’t get ahead of your feet

HEALTHIEST HABIT

• Drink more water
• Really focus on meditating consistently

FAVORITE QUOTE

• Be here, be now
• Stay where your feet are

MOST GRATEFUL FOR

• My health and the health of my family

FAVORITE BOOK

• The Shell Seekers
• Without Reservations

FAVORITE FOOD

• Chocolate
• Dark chocolate almond

GUILTY PLEASURE

• Häagen-Dazs chocolate chip ice cream

FAVORITE MOVIE

• Funny Face

FAVORITE NETFLIX

• Suits

COFFEE OR TEA

• Coffee

WHAT IS NEXT FOR YOU

• Continue on with my #becausewedocoolthings
• To see other places in the United States

Check out the previous podcast episode here

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