BOOF - Trista's PL8STORY Podcast Plate 40 with guest Sarabheth Yamiolkowski

This week we meet Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski and learn the story behind her license plate, BOOF. Sarahbeth is currently a Specialist in Digital Licensing Operations for BMI in Nashville, TN. She and her identical twin come to Nashville by way of Virginia Beach VA where most of their family still lives. We talk about lots of stuff including music licensing for podcasters and vloggers, toastmasters, dogs, family and more. I know you’ll love getting to know Sarahbeth. Let’s go chat with her and hear her story.

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BOOF Transcript:

[00:00:00] Trista, Host: [00:00:00] Welcome to this week's episode. We are here with Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski from Nashville, Tennessee. Her license plate is BOOF. So let's jump into that story. Welcome, Sarahbeth.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:00:13] Hi, thank you for having me.  

Trista, Host: [00:00:14] It's great to have you. So that's quite a unique license plate booth, B O O F. I just love the sound of it: BOOF.

I mean, I just want to say it over and over, but I will restrain myself why don't you tell us the story behind it.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:00:28] So when I was, uh, three years old, my little brother was born. And due to my name being Sarahbeth, that's quite long. So my mom and dad, would shorten it to call me Beth or Bethy or the ever dreaded Sarah, which I have a cousin who's six months younger than me... and her name is Sarah. So people do shorten it to Sarah, but it is definitely not Sarah it's Sarahbeth. And as my brother started talking and he heard my parents saying Beth, or Bethy he pronounced it, it pronounced it Boof or [00:01:00] Boofy. So it just kind of stuck. I was always just Boof growing up or, yeah, and I hated it at first because I couldn't figure out why he couldn't figure out how to say my name.

It's not that hard. And he used to tease me all the time when he started to be able to talk better and he'd just be like Sarahboof.  

And eventually it just stuck to everybody calling me Boof  

Trista, Host: [00:01:25] So, is that what people call you now that know you real well?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:01:28] Yes. So if you're in my inner circle or my family, um, I'm Boof or Boofy,

Trista, Host: [00:01:34] I love it.

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:01:35] I never, my name rarely gets used in the house. Anytime my brother had a girlfriend, I was always introduced as his sister Boof and people would stare at him and like, uh, okay. Or I had a roommate in college who introduced me to his grandma as Boofy. And his grandmother goes well, what's the name her parents gave her.

And he honestly forgot what my name was. So he [00:02:00] just looked over kind of and goes, uh Boofy. And I was like, well, that is true. That's what my parents called me. However, and then I introduced my real name.  

Trista, Host: [00:02:10] That's so funny. My sister has two kids and they're really close in age. So when her daughter who's just turned three was born.... her son who's four and a half or so. Uh, he had a lot of trouble with her name. Her name is Anabelle. So Anabelle like Sarahbeth is a mouthful and he started calling her Abba, which I think is just so adorable.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:02:36] That is adorable,  

Trista, Host: [00:02:38] but he's getting better at it and he's correcting it. That's the thing about these adorable things kids come up with because they can't quite do the language is they tend to grow out of it.

So I do love that you got to keep yours.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:02:52] My brother and my, my sister, I have a twin and her name is Jessie. And just for the hell of it, her middle name is Ann. So [00:03:00] when he wants to annoy her, he just calls her Ann. Oh, yeah, she doesn't get a cool nickname like me.  

Trista, Host: [00:03:05] That's too bad. You got lucky in that department.   So she's a twin. Are you guys identical?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:03:11] We are indeed identical.  

Trista, Host: [00:03:13] And did you do anything to mess with people growing up or could they kind of tell the,  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:03:18] um, we tried, there was a few times   in school where we switched usually   one of us would end up blowing it by looking up when they called.

Yeah, we, and now she has shorter hair than I do. So it's kind of easier to tell us apart, but we're still roommates. She called me Out to Nashville, so  

Trista, Host: [00:03:40] that's awesome. So you guys stayed very close your whole lives. Yeah. As twins tend to do. That's awesome. And it sounds like you're pretty close to your family.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:03:50] I am. It's nice.

Unfortunately, we don't live... there back home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, all of them, my mom, dad, and little brother, his wife, and then their two [00:04:00] daughters. So I don't get to see them as much, but like I said, my sister followed me out here about a year after I moved out.  

Trista, Host: [00:04:06] Awesome. So you at least have her with you,  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:04:09] which is nice.

Trista, Host: [00:04:10] Yeah. So what brought you to Nashville?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:04:13] I got a job in the music industry with a performing rights organization called BMI. My degree is actually in music business. I came out to Tennessee the first time for college. I went to a local school here in middle Tennessee state university. Got my degree in music business.

Couldn't get a job right away in the industry. It's, it's really tough, but, uh, a job opened up a few years ago, and I jumped on that opportunity and moved back out to Tennessee.  

Trista, Host: [00:04:39] That's awesome. So you do licensing. I do. And then I think unless you're in the licensing business or you've gotten licensed music, it's very mysterious.... so can you explain a little bit?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:04:51] It is. And even when you're in the industry and using licensed music, sometimes you don't always understand license, especially because I work in [00:05:00] digital licensing, which is a whole nother level of complication then licensing for uh, in person events. So I work in... we're performance licensing.

So that's when a business is using music in a public setting, they are required to get a license to do so. So that's your bars, your hotels, your concert halls, pretty much anywhere you can go where music is being used. Even your local governments have a license to use music in like city parks. A lot of people don't know about everybody has music license.

Well, moving into the digital realm now ....There's the performance licenses needed when you use a song on the internet, but there's also other licenses involved like sync licensing, which is anytime you put music to video. And then there's the mechanical licensing, which comes from that actual sound recording, which those rights are held by the record labels.

Or sometimes the artists themselves, whereas public performance licensing, we represent the underlying composition, which is the songwriters, composers and publishers.  

[00:06:00] Trista, Host: [00:05:59] Wow. That is complicated.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:06:01] It is.  

Trista, Host: [00:06:04] Now, are you also a musician as well, or did you always do the administrative side?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:06:09] So I started as a musician and a singer at age seven and church choir.

And I developed my love of music and just knew that I never wanted to do anything else, but like music. So I did marching band drum Corps, symphonic band, jazz band, any band in middle school, high school throughout college. You name it? I tried it and I just, now I just play for fun. I don't do any kind of bands.

Trista, Host: [00:06:34] So, what do you play?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:06:35] I play seven different instruments, play tenor, sax, bass, clarinet, mallet, percussion drums, a trumpet, well more mellophone, which is the marching French horn. And then, uh, a little bit of fiddle and mandolin thrown in there.  

Trista, Host: [00:06:51] That's awesome. Wow. You are quite the musician.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:06:54] ADHD. Couldn't choose which one to stick with so had to venture to every [00:07:00] section.

Trista, Host: [00:07:00] That's great. I actually have very musical people in my family. In fact, my uncle cool, um, was the band director for his high school and my cousin is now the band director for his and also plays in symphonies, including he's a sub for Broadway. His kids are both professional musicians. One's a flutist. The other one is a Viola player.

My other cousin was on Broadway. She's a singer as a lots of music in my family. Yes. Yeah. That's awesome. Um, do you have a favorite instrument that you play? Um,  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:07:38] it'd probably be a tenor sax, or I do like, uh, getting up and playing the drums every once in a while. And I basically learned drums drums because my little brother is an amazing drummer.

The dude should be playing in bands, but he chose family life, which I don't blame him. He actually, when I moved out of my parents' house, turned [00:08:00] my bedroom into a music studio, complete with foamed off walls and his drum set and all recording equipment.  

Trista, Host: [00:08:05] Wow.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:08:06] So I basically just started to learn drums because I couldn't let him play something that I didn't know.

I'd be good at it. So it's fun to play a set. I don't get a chance too much. Cause you know, the drums are back home in Virginia with my brother.  

Trista, Host: [00:08:22] Well Nashville's such a musical city. Do you ever get to perform, do you ever go out to like open mics or have you become part of any kind of band?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:08:30] I haven't. I've been asked a few times to do some things.

I just, I just haven't done it yet. I'll probably once, you know, Corona ends and things open back up and maybe something that I personally, yeah, I haven't yet.  

Trista, Host: [00:08:44] Absolutely. Well, it's available for sure where you are.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:08:47] It definitely is. And I do like going out and seeing gigs and live music. I'm just not one to go up and play myself.

Trista, Host: [00:08:56] Yeah. A friend of mine has been in Nashville for years. He's a [00:09:00] guitar player and musician and he's in the circuit and another friend just moved to nashville. She's been a singer for years in New York city. And just relocated makes me wonder if she did that because of COVID or some other reason, right.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:09:15] Or just, Nashville's a lot nicer than New York. Um, I did some internships up in New York city and I lived in LA for a couple of years. And I have to tell you, Nashville is the place to be.  

Wow. If you really want to make it in the music industry and be around good people. Not that everybody in New York and LA are bad people,  

Trista, Host: [00:09:36] but of course.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:09:38] There's it's, you know, when we're on the phone with other industry people and they're telling us, you know, Oh, we just love dealing with the Nashville branch.

Everybody in Nashville is just, it's just a different atmosphere. And I'm like, yup. That's why I'm here.  

Trista, Host: [00:09:50] Yeah. And how about your sister that moved with you? Your twin, Jesse.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:09:56] Jesse.  

Trista, Host: [00:09:57] Yep. Does she also have any [00:10:00] musical inclinations like you and your brother?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:10:02] She does. She was in band with me the whole time. She plays... She's the reason why I learned the brass instruments, trumpet player, mellophone, baritone horn. And so just because she could play him, I needed to learn too. So that's  

Trista, Host: [00:10:17] starting to see a pattern here,  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:10:19] I have a very competitive side, and I can't do better than I am at anything so if they know it I have to know it .

Trista, Host: [00:10:29] That's great.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:10:30] She does that, those instruments that's pretty much it. Yeah. Learn everything like I did.  

Trista, Host: [00:10:38] Um, so where does your competitive side show up? Do you bring that to the office as well?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:10:43] Oh, definitely. Um, I'm also in a public speaking group called Toastmasters.

I'm the president now of Toastmasters branch with BMI. We actually have our own corporate branch, which is awesome. So anytime I get a chance to get up and do table topics, um, I'm [00:11:00] gonna win.  

Trista, Host: [00:11:01] Great. I have to tell you I've been a speaker my whole life. I always considered myself a very good speaker and my mom had joined Toastmasters and she raved about it. I'm like, I don't need it that I already know how to speak. I don't, I don't have fear of speaking. I can talk very well on stage, I don't have filler words, you know, I don't need all that stuff.

Right. But. A friend who had been in a local chapter for years and just kept inviting me and kept inviting me and kept inviting me. And finally I said, okay, you're having an open house, your speaking, I'll be there to support you. And they got to the table topics. And I was, yeah. Terrified to speak on a topic that I didn't have any pre planning   knowledge or, time to prep.  

So we'll, we'll just like make sure people who don't have Toastmaster's background.

  So table topics is the off the cuff speech. They pick a topic. You [00:12:00] don't know what it is in advance. You speak for one to two minutes and you it's volunteer. Anybody who wants to participate can go. And what I noticed was I was just like holding my hand down, like sitting on my hands. And I realized if I am going to call myself a   proficient speaker, and this is something I'm unwilling to do, there's something I can get out of being in Toastmasters.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:12:26] Oh, definitely. I, I, you know, I heard about it. Uh, one of my bosses, actually the boss that hired me at BMI back when I was in the customer relations department, she was in Toastmasters and I was just asking for better ways to improve in the company.

Cause she was also my direct manager. So I had all my performance reviews with her and she suggested, well, you know, just come join Toastmasters or at least come to our open house.  

And I told my dad about, he's like, Oh my God do it. He's like, that's going to be amazing on a resume. It's great for your personal development [00:13:00] and professional development, like, and that's going to help you go far in life.  

I became a board member, sergeant in arms and then a VP of membership and then this year I was just elected president of our chapter.  

Trista, Host: [00:13:12] That's awesome. Congratulations. Yeah. The tea table topics made such a huge difference for me. It's why I joined Toastmasters.

And then I got to learn how to evaluate... to do evaluations for people.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:13:26] And the cool thing is, you know, a lot of companies have corporate closed clubs, but there's also community clubs. Right? So if you just go to the Toastmasters international website, you can find a club in your area. If you're interested in just, you know, attending one.  

Trista, Host: [00:13:41] Yes, that's what I did. Now we were talking before about your family and I, you had told me before, when we spoke that they have license plates to o...you're quite the vanity plate family.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:13:51] We are the vanity plate family! And it's so funny because my dad was never really into them. Like when I grew up, my dad worked for the [00:14:00] Navy. So we were in Connecticut. And we never had vanity new plates were never interested. And then when he retired and we all settled down in Virginia Beach, we all just kind of went licensed slate happy.

So every single one of us has a vanity plate now.  

Trista, Host: [00:14:15] That's awesome. So, um, do you have any advice for people that are either podcasters, YouTubers, creating content when it comes to finding music.

I'm on a bunch of different groups and they're always asking like, where do I find music? How do I license music? How do I find music that's not needing to be licensed being somebody inside the industry. what's your advice on that?

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:14:37] So if you want to go the route of not having to pay for any licensing fees, you're going to want to use your YouTube, your Spotify, your Apple music, and just host your content there. As those platforms already have performance licensing with BMI and at least ASCAP, there are two other performing rights organizations in the United States. Those are GMR and C-SAT, and I'm pretty sure they have [00:15:00] similar deals.

However, those are privately owned companies. So they can kind of do whatever they want. Whereas BMI and ASCAP, we are bound by a consent decree from the department of justice. So all of our rates are already set. Uh, we have to have a, we have to license all like businesses the same. So everything there is kind of, if ASCAP is doing it, or if BMI is doing it, the other one's doing it as well.

Um, another thing is there's these great things called production libraries. And what they do is they have deals with us on the backend, but they actually go out and license all the music themselves from the songwriters so that the user doesn't have to you'll pay like a $5 fee for this one track. And it comes with all the licensing.

So that's another way to go about doing it. There's also a company called sound exchange, which is if you're going to be using audio for like an online radio station, they get all the master rights clearances for you for those mechanical licenses. And there's also the Harry Fox agency. [00:16:00] And their program, rumble fish, which does a lot of clearances as well.

So that you, as the individual user, don't have to seek out those individual licenses. You can go to those services and they do a blanket license it's for you, which a blanket licensing is all encompassing, everything in their catalog. And that's how BMI ASCAP CSAC, GMR. We do blanket licenses. So you don't license an individual song from us.

Your licensing fee covers everything in our catalog.  

Trista, Host: [00:16:27] Okay. That's handy. Now. I also, I know you have a furry friend somewhere around, so we have to talk about that

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:16:33] his name is Baboo. He's a three year old German shepherd. Nice. He was a rescue. So he did not have the greatest start to life, but he's a great dog. Now we're working on a few of his little, he likes to mouth.

He can get a little mouthy and gnaw on people. So that's something that we're working on. He hasn't severely injured anybody. Thank God, but he's not, it's not a good habit to have, but he's very loyal. He was [00:17:00] wild when I first got him, I mean, I was constantly scratched chewed on. Um, and I didn't think I was going to be able to keep him, but I just saw something in his eyes and I was like, you know, this dog deserves, you know, no, one's going to be able to give him the love in a home.

That he deserves, like,  

Trista, Host: [00:17:14] yeah. Thanks for taking a chance and being patient with them. What do you think made the difference that had him finally come around?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:17:22] I think just showing him constant love and explain, you know, letting him know that I'm not going anywhere. You can chew on me all day, you know, and bite and scratch.

And I'm still gonna give you kisses and hugs. And I still want you to come cuddle with me cause he would, when I first got him, he would not come near you  

Trista, Host: [00:17:39] say, you know anything about his background.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:17:41] I know a little bit, um, I know that he was bought, it was a divorced family and the dad bought it for the kid who lived with the mom and the mom at first, when he's a cute puppy, you know, he's, he's a 80 something pound German shepherd and he's yeah, he's large.

Even for a German shepherd. He's a big boy. He was definitely not the runt of the [00:18:00] litter. Right. And so it's a cute puppy at first, but once he starts getting nippy and biting and just German shepherds are very high energy, especially when they're younger and they would just, you know, eventually lock him in a closet to keep him away.

Yeah. I just, it wasn't a good start for him. So like I said, first got him. He would not cuddle. He would not sit with you. You couldn't get him on the couch. you had to like pick him up and try to hold him. And then it'd be all, you know, wild. But eventually I just broke him down. You just kept, like I said, showing him love and now he's laying on the floor next to me.

No, he sleeps with mommy every night and easily on the couch. And if mommy's not home, he does love auntie, but not like mommy.  

Trista, Host: [00:18:41] It's not the same. It's  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:18:42] not the same. Even though we're twins, he knows the  

Trista, Host: [00:18:44] difference knows the difference. You cannot fool a dog.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:18:47] No, he knows it. He knows the difference between mommy and auntie.

Yeah. He's was very much a mommy's boy. And luckily I work from home right now because our office is closed. And so he's with me 24 seven.  

[00:19:00] Trista, Host: [00:18:59] Yay. This has been so much fun. Yeah. I really enjoy learning about your plate story and what you do for a living. And I'm. I think I failed the, uh, music licensing course, but I really tried really hard. So many people do cover  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:19:14] it. I cried my way through copy right law for two semesters.

Trista, Host: [00:19:18] Oh my gosh. Well, it's been super fun. Do you have a question you'd like to ask me before we wrap up?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:19:25] I do. So I know that you are close with your family as well. Um, so what is your favorite childhood memory with your sister?  

Trista, Host: [00:19:33] So that's a trick answer because I was an only child until I was 13.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:19:40] Oh. And so, yeah,  

Trista, Host: [00:19:43] so I don't have like super young, young childhood memories.

But one thing I'll tell you is I have two sisters, they're both half sisters, which, and they're actually not related to each other.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:19:56] Oh, that's even more.

[00:20:00] Trista, Host: [00:20:00] Right. Exactly. Um, but what I'm really proud of, and this is what I'll share is that I'm really close to both of them, even though there's a huge age difference. So there's 13 years difference with my one sister and 19 and a half, 20 years difference with my other sister. Wow. Um, and so I got to be the unconditional love older, wiser sibling.

Definitely. Didn't try to take over a parent role. Right. You know, I didn't try and fight my parents for authority in any way, but I kinda got to be the one they could come to, to talk about anything and have an unconditional supportive BFF sister to talk to no matter what. And they knew that they could tell me anything and that's true for both of them.

And so, even though I didn't get to grow up with them, I feel like I got to really positively impact both of their [00:21:00] growing up cause of my, um, Commitment to being part of their life, not just as a sister, but as a wise sister.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:21:11] That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So you get to be like the fun aunt, but you're also the sister.

Exactly. That's awesome.  

Trista, Host: [00:21:18] It's a good combo. Yeah. Um, yeah, so I made sure they got, you know, Easter baskets when I was in college and they were young. And, um, I made sure that they got care packages when they were in college, you know, just like fun things that you can do when there's a big age difference.

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:21:37] That's awesome. I would not know what being an only child is like. I didn't even get my own egg. I split from the same egg. So I didn't even that.  

Trista, Host: [00:21:46] Who was born first? Who's older?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:21:48] So technically she is however that's because that was a C-section and they pulled her out, had been natural. I was in [00:22:00] line to be the first one.

Trista, Host: [00:22:01] Has she been cutting in front of you all your life?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:22:04] No, you can definitely tell that I was meant to be the older sibling. I went away to school the first year she stayed home. She went to college, but it was a local school versus I moved out to Tennessee. Um, and she followed me out the next year. Um, so I'm kind of the leader of the family. And then my siblings kind of follow suit.  

Trista, Host: [00:22:26] I love it.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:22:27] I was naturally supposed to be born first and you can tell whatever, however I do let her fight my battles for me. So if I there's just an argument, I'm just more kind of laid back. And if there's something that needed to be, you know, have taken care of and I need kind of a stronger person, I was like, what would Jesse do?

  I channel Jessie? Or I just have her do it.  

Trista, Host: [00:22:50] It must be wonderful to have somebody that you're so close with. Like having a twin like that. My niece and nephew are going to [00:23:00] be like that because they're so close in age. And, um, yeah. And I, I feel really happy for them. Like when my niece isn't around my nephew, who's older he's always wondering like, where is she?  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:23:15] That's going to be my nieces too. Cause they're less than two years apart. Yeah.  

Trista, Host: [00:23:20] I guess my nephew was with my mother. Um, you know, his Nana recently and they were eating something that he thought was delicious and he was like, I'm sorry, I'm sad that Annabelle can't have it too.

Like, I wish she was here so she could enjoy it.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:23:36] Oh my God. That's so sweet

Trista, Host: [00:23:41] So I definitely am envious of having a sibling growing up. I would have loved to not be an only child growing up, but now that I have two amazing sisters totally made up for it.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:23:54] That's awesome.  

Trista, Host: [00:23:55] Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Any last words before we wrap up?

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:24:00] [00:24:00] I don't really have any, I just do want to give a shout out to my ...idle childhood idol growing up, um, which is how, how I got connected with you. Her name's Jessica. She was my choir director when I was seven, and she really she's the reason that I fell in love with music as much as I did. Oh  

Trista, Host: [00:24:20] gosh, we have to talk about her. Okay.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:24:22] So  

Trista, Host: [00:24:23] yes, you and I were connected by Jessica Dugas who has The Breakthrough Show podcast and and the Project Joy podcast. I was actually a guest on both.

And that's how we met was that I was a guest on her podcast and I adore Jessica. She's amazing.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:24:42] Oh my gosh. She was literally my idol. I was about when I joined choir. I was seven and she was about 16 or 17 and she was our director and she played the piano for the choir. And I guess I, she was my idol. [00:25:00] I just love spending time with her hanging out with her,  

Trista, Host: [00:25:03] you know, what was it about her that you liked?

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:25:05] Just her person.... She just has such a welcoming personality and she just, just, you know, pulled me right in. And you know, I was really shy. You probably cannot tell this now, but when I was a little kid, I was super shy and she just got my sister and I to open up. And I just loved everything about her... wanted to be her. Wanted to be just like her. So she's the reason I learned to play the clarinet because that's what she played. And. Yes. You know, every era, she was everything when I was seven. So  

Trista, Host: [00:25:40] she, she had such a huge impact on your life.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:25:44] My whole life. She literally shaped every, you know, everything I am today with my love of music was due to her.

And I let her know that. Um, and I just, you know, I'm thinking well for her pretty much every day.  

Trista, Host: [00:25:57] That's wonderful.

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:25:58] And we met in [00:26:00] Connecticut when I was living there. She was too. Neither one of us live in Connecticut nor really have any time family, you know, our families aren't from there. So we don't really have ties to Connecticut.  

Trista, Host: [00:26:12] But you got to say thank goodness for social media. That's one wonderful thing about social media.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:26:17] Yes. And that's how I sent her a letter. I believe it was through Facebook, just letting her know, you know, how much she meant to me and we reconnected and it's been nice.

Trista, Host: [00:26:28] Those important people in your life that makes such an impact. It's wonderful when you can keep them in your life over your whole life.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:26:36] Definitely, definitely is a great thing to do. And I don't know if you saw my, my little guy was just here for a second.

He was, Oh, Bubba, come here.  

Tell me your mama.  

I call him Bubba. Bubs, you  

Trista, Host: [00:26:49] gotta have a cameo from the dog.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:26:51] Hi, Bubba. So he just watches out the window every day.  

Trista, Host: [00:26:56] What a cutie. He's beautiful.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:26:58] He is gorgeous. [00:27:00] That's another thing too. I just couldn't let him. And he was just too cute to let go and got him when he was tall.

Trista, Host: [00:27:05] German shepherd height. Yes.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:27:08] He's a big boy. I got him when he was about 11 months old. He was tall and lanky and he's filled out a bit now. Yeah, he is, he was my constant companion. I'm glad. I'm glad I have him. I got him about four months after I moved to Tennessee. Oh, wow. So it was nice, especially when my roommate was a helicopter pilot out a lot.

So I was home alone and it was nice just to have someone there. And now he's living with his girlfriend. I bought a house, he bought a house. We all split ways, but you know, now I have my sister, but I still have my Bubba's.  

Trista, Host: [00:27:41] Yes. Good boy. Believe me. If I could do a podcast where I interviewed dogs all day, I would do it.  

  It's been so much fun getting to know you, Sarahbeth, thanks so much for being on. Maybe we will get to meet your twin once she has a, her own vanity plates,  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:27:58] definitely when she gets her own [00:28:00] plate when she finally decides what it is. Cause it's going to be a big decision. I know it's going to be a plate story behind it.  

Trista, Host: [00:28:04] Exactly. Yes. Awesome.

Thank you, Sarahbeth so much have a great rest of your day.  

Sarahbeth Yamiolkowski: [00:28:10] Thanks  

Trista, Host: [00:28:10] you too Trista.