We’re in Hakone, Japan, this week! We were planning to
take the week off and run something we recorded recently, but this one is fresh
off the software program.

Transcript

K: So I know we start off with, “Usually, I’ve been
thinking about” but if I talked about what I usually- not usually, lately

C: Lately

K: (laughs)

C: You’re discombobulated. Why are you so
discombobulated?

K: Because we’re in beautiful Hakone and oh my gosh, I
have been replenished by the mountain wind. Oh my gosh, it has been so hot and
so miserable in Nagoya for the month of August, and I think you and I both did
an amazing job of not puking that misery out onto the airwaves every week. It
was hard.

C: Yes.

K: It was hard to be pleasant. I did not feel like
myself at all in the month of August.

C: Yeah, it was… very hot.

K: So, for me, the month of August is a tricky thing-
we’re mostly going to be talking about Hakone because, hello, we’re in Hakone,
but I do want to talk a little bit about the month of August for me. So, the
month of August for me is a tricky month business-wise because about
mid-January I am notified of who’s going to be out of town in August and who’s
going to be in town for August. And so, that means anywhere between five to
twenty clients can go out of town and be gone for five weeks. And that has a
huge change in income for me. So, mid- and then, in mid-July, I’m hit with a
hereditary coproporphyria attack and a lupus attack, and they both attack me at
the same time and just kind of ping-pong back and forth between flares.  Or I’m- so for me, I’m just in a constant
state of flare for six weeks, and this month- this year, it was a full eight
weeks that I was in flare. And it’s just miserable.

And lucky for me, I was very fortunate, and thank you
to all of my clients, love all of you- I have a whole group of new clients, and
so now I have the stress of okay, how am I going to balance everybody coming
back in town with the new clients that I picked up in August because I had
space because they were out of town? And so I always kind of judge it with like
if you’re going out of town, and you don’t book an appointment for the week
that you’re coming back in town, you lose your time spot, and I tell everybody
that. If you have a specific timeslot that you’re in love with, you need to
give me that anchor appointment because then I can let people know “hey this
can’t be your regular spot, what would be- what would you want to be your regular
spot?” and all of that. And for the ones that didn’t, I already have clients
coming back in town who are like “where’d my spot go?” I’m like “well… you
know”

C: You accept appointments years in advance, literally
years in advance, so

K: Yes, like my Tuesdays and Wednesdays are booked
through 2020. And so when I say through 2020 I mean, through the end of 2020.
So, when I tell people this, I don’t know what they’re thinking when I say
that. Like, I don’t know if they believe me or not.

C: I don’t know.

K: So, lately, what I’ve been thinking about is how
(laughs) hard my life is.

C: So today shook you up.

K: Yes. Because we got on a train and so, weird quirky
thing about me, you plan the most amazing vacations for us, and I always want
to cancel them.

C: Always, yes. The day before, couple days before.

K: Yeah, so like, even this morning I was talking
smack.

C: Mhmm.

K: About canceling.

C: Yeah, even though at this point, the hotel was
nonrefundable…

K: Yeah, and we already had our train tickets and
everything. So, we live in Nagoya. For those who aren’t familiar with Japanese
geography, and Chad’s the better one when it comes to geography, so, hit us.
Where are we? Where’s Hakone?

C: Hakone is in Kanagawa Prefecture, just south of
Mount F