00:00This is a boat for you if you want to go in it.
00:03Roll, roll, roll with the boat.
00:05You want some help getting down?
00:08I was standing in her doorway and I just hear this conversation happening
00:11and I just see her out there looking down at something.
00:14It's such a detailed conversation which was like the funniest part.
00:17She was just so entranced with the slug in this dream world
00:22where she's kind of a forest fairy and gets to talk to these things.
00:26It was like Dr. Doolittle vibes.
00:28I was like, oh, she's in it.
00:37It's like the cutest thing ever.
00:39What is your background with just animals and nature and like what drew you there?
00:44We were living in New York in the concrete jungle
00:47and then when the pandemic happened we left New York
00:51and then moved back here with family in the Pacific Northwest
00:58it's actually so awesome to have a yard and to be surrounded by nature.
01:03I'm a biologist and so I was one of those kids that was obsessed with caterpillars and slugs and snakes.
01:09So just taking our kids out into our forest yard and showing them things, flipping over logs, looking under logs.
01:17Yeah, there's no log that is left unflipped.
01:20Oh, you're holding it.
01:22Show them up.
01:26What?
01:27She just kind of has a magical way in nature.
01:32She's always talking to animals and that's something that we've taught her since she was young.
01:37Have you found that people who come across your content are learning something themselves maybe?
01:43Like what have people been sharing as the effect it's had?
01:46I think it's so much nostalgia.
01:48Like everyone realizes that they were that little girl or they've seen their kids start from here.
01:56And I think watching her talking to the slugs takes me back to my earliest memories of school.
02:00They had us like raise caterpillars to be butterflies and you like release them or something.
02:04And I was like, gosh, I forgot how meaningful that was, especially at like a super young age.
02:08Yeah, people just, they're reminded that there is that magic out there in nature.
02:13And as an adult, sometimes we're a little bit too busy for that.
02:16When you're a kid, you're engaging with it all the time.
02:19A lot of people just get a lot of wholesome feelings.
02:22It's really, really amazing.
