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Erik Michielsen: How are you learning to apply your passions in new ways?
Audrey Parker: Well, it's kind of coming naturally, I found that I've had time to rejoin a choir,
I've been a singer all my life in my spare time, and I really just -- it's kind of a
natural thing. I've had the time and I've wanted to get back into that and I have more
time and energy to devote to it than I did before, so it's actually having an even more
fulfilling impact on my life than it did before when I was trying to wedge it in between a
work day and you know, work business travel and all sorts of projects, I can actually
have time for singing. I can have time for a healthier exercise routine. Physical health
is one of my passions and before it was not something that I allowed or made the time
-- really made the time to do. And again, that was my choice but to have the time for
those things, to have the time with family, to have the time to go spend that -- spend
time outside. My husband and I both really love the outdoors and we can just go and just
sit somewhere and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors. I've always loved nature and it's
something that I've gotten to enjoy more now that I've had more time. I also realized that
for about the 5 or 6 years that I've been working so hard, I pretty much missed all
the movies and pop culture happenings that had been going on in the world, and so my
husband's had fun kind of saying, "Well, let me show you this movie that you probably never
heard of." Because it came out in 2008 or whatever and it's true, I've gotten caught
up on movies and things that have happened, you know, in the world that I just -- I didn't
have time for before.