Episode 156: Amber Lea
Amber Lea is a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother figure to her husband's two kids. She's an incredibly intelligent woman with a great sense of humor that has taken on the challenge of facing health and medical issues with an admirable sense of strength.
She's also the owner of Dear You Tattoo (4470 Rainbow in KCK), and she's my guest for Episode No. 156.
I usually chat with my guests for a few minutes before we launch into the conversation, and somewhere along the way in that transition, I cut off Amber's name in introducing her, and went straight in to Dear You details, so my apologies to Amber for that oversight. Talking with Amber was really great, though.
Every once in a while, I get to sit down with someone who gets the art of conversation and the concept of being real in doing so, and Amber is, for sure, one of those rarities; I consider our chat to've been a blessing.
We talked about family and growing up and the pursuit of genuine customer service. We shared a couple of laughs about a few random things like Cheech & Chong, and raved over a few MTV Unplugged (which has been around for 29 seasons and over 100 episodes!) performances. And of course we talked about a few of Amber's favorite albums, which she was kind enough to break into two lists:
All-Time Faves
Ministry's With Sympathy (1983)
Pretty Hate Machine (1989), Nine Inch Nails
Portishead's Dummy (1994)
Mezzanine (1998), Massive Attack
Modern Brain Ticklers
Services (2015), Tempers
Public Memory's Wuthering Drum (2016)
I'm Waving, Not Drowning (2020), Matte Blvck
Health's Disco4, pt. 1&2 (2022)
Please check out Dear You on Instagram (@dearyoutattoo), or peruse their super-handsome Web site, dearyoutattoo.com. They've been at it for going on a decade, and will definitely make you feel valued as a customer.
On a personal note, this marks three full years of weekly episodes for the podcast, so I'm pleased to've gotten this thing off the ground and kept it alive for this long. Now on to the next 52 weeks!
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the audio samples contained within this episode. They are snippets from a tune called, "Vandenburg Suite," by The New Mastersounds. I lifted it from their 2005 album, This Is What We Do, c/o One Note Records.