Living the Dream: Choices and Freedoms with Corine La Font

Tim Melanson: [00:00:00] Hello, and welcome to today’s episode of the Work at Home Rockstar podcast. Excited for today’s episode. We’re talking to a communications specialist and consultant, and what she does is she helps people find their voice and use it with purpose. I love that. So we are talking today with Corine La Font.

Hey Corine. You ready to rock?

Corine La Font: Of course I’m ready to rock and roll. Where’s the band? Where’s the band?

Tim Melanson: Brilliant. We’re gonna rock out. So we always start off here on a good note. So tell me a story of success that we can be inspired by.

Corine La Font: Oh, a story of success that I’m living, the life that I’ve always been dreaming of. You know, it has reached that point. I mean, I’ve, I’ve been doing it, but it has evolved, and when I say doing it, I mean I’m able to be at peace. The kids are grown. They’re not living with me. Yay me. You know? And that’s important, you know, as a mother, you know, you do your part as a mother.

And, um, I don’t think when, when you’re growing kids, you’re [00:01:00] thinking, when will this end? You’re trying to hold on to the kids as long as possible. But I was like, oh my God. You know, when will listen, you know? And, um. It’s good that my life is in a place now that I feel, um, thankful for the kids are grown and they’re doing their own thing, working, accomplished.

I don’t have to worry about them. So I’m at a good place and I’m not there like other people may have been when they retire. You know, people will see at 65 or 60 when they retire, they could do their own thing. I don’t believe in that first to begin. I don’t believe in anything called retirement. I don’t know.

Who came up with that hood, that rumor. Um, because I dunno what you’re retiring from. You have life in your, you know, life in your body, and you’re still a sane individual. They could do a lot of things. So I want to spread the joy of being in a good place, um, feeling good about myself. I’m [00:02:00] healthy, I’m happy, I’m contented.

Um, I could make choices. But there was a time where, you know, you couldn’t say no to certain things, especially as a solopreneur, you probably have to try and take on as many things as possible to try and make ends meet. But you know, saying no. And that’s one of the things I want to bring out in your podcast too, being able to.

Say no and having the choice. You know, people talk about freedom, you know, when it comes to working from home, you know, remote, that type of thing, and they think, you know, I don’t know what they think and what freedom is, but for me, freedom is being able to have the choice to say no. That you don’t have to say yes to everything and stress yourself out just because you’re in a situation and not, and not being in a desperate position.

Or feeling that you’re desperate, that you have to say yes, you know, um, even if you are in a desperate [00:03:00] position, you should not even say yes because you are betraying yourself. And you see that part, Tim, is it kills me more than if I were to drink poison. It, it. Self betrayal has been a significant thing for me, especially lately I’ve been coming to terms with it and, um, what just popped into my mind as I said this, when you work from home, you have a lot of time to think, to self-reflect that the environment is right for it.

Once you don’t have kids or anything distracting you, your thoughts tend to slow down and you have the time to be able to slow down so that you’re able to think about what you really want. What you really don’t want, and to be able to set those boundaries. So that’s the joy I’m spreading today.

Tim Melanson: Yeah, that’s a great story. And I, I agree. I mean, the freedom, I mean, when it comes down to it, we all have to do something. We all have to work. Um, but like, I think that, [00:04:00] uh, your story is very similar to what I want to inspire people to do. I, I, I want people to be able to choose, like when you’re working in a, in a job and someone’s telling you what you need to do or you get fired, right?

I mean, that, that’s a different scenario then perhaps a client. That telling you what they want you to do and you being able to say, uh, I I, I don’t want to do it. And dropping them as a client potentially and going to find another client. You, you have that, that ability to do something like that when you’re self-employed.

But when you’re stuck, you know, and, and, and you don’t have any other choice, then that, you know. ’cause I, I agree with you. I mean, what are you retiring from? I I Is your job that bad? Is your work that bad you need to stop? Right?

Corine La Font: Yeah, and even if it’s, you have the choice to choose something else that you enjoy. You see the mistake I think people are making is that they’re living for other people. They’re too concerned about what other people think. You know what your family would think, what your husband would think, what your sister, it doesn’t matter.

[00:05:00] It’s your life. They have lived their life. You know, or they are living it and nobody should have any authority on the decisions that you make. You know, you’re an adult and what if you mess up? What if the world is not going to come to an end? You’ll still be breeding hopefully the next day. You know, uh, you know, just let it go.

I think we are taking things too personally and we are allowing, we are giving permission to too many people in our lives.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Yeah. Well, and, and then that kind of leads us to the bad note because like, like you say, I mean, you are gonna make some mistakes. Things are not gonna go as planned. And I think that a lot of people, you know, put off. You know, doing what they really wanna do because they’re worried about those mistakes.

I’m wondering, can you share with me like something that didn’t go as planned and share it with the audience and then maybe help us like see how you recovered.

Corine La Font: Um, I can’t think of any major thing, but one of the things that I have [00:06:00] been, I wouldn’t say it’s a mistake. But I, I can, let me share the story. Okay. So like, I, I’m also a podcaster and I’ve been doing it, like I said to you off air from since about 2010. I’ve taken little breaks in between, but then when I assess it recently, ’cause I was still even pushing, I revamped it.

I, my, my whole imagery, my brand, everything. I had done all of that recently only to realize I’m just not as gungho about it anymore. I’m not just giving it. You know what it deserves. I’m not that, I’m not feeling it anymore, and I had to sit down, take a step back and say, why? Why is this happening? What is, what is going on?

And it just wasn’t in alignment with who I am and who I want to be going forward in my life. But I felt. This kind of a chaotic situation, but Corine, you have done it, you know, and everybody’s expecting it. And then you have had so many [00:07:00] hundreds of guests who love to come back to your show and there’s so much great reviews and, and again, it is coming from other voices that was coming at me and I felt like I had to.

So there are times that you’re going to feel like you have to do something, but where really is that have to voice. Coming from where really? And is it really in alignment with you, the now you, the now Tim, the now Corrine, you know, and the Corrine going forward. And the Tim going forward, is it matching?

And I’ll tell you this, Tim. When I let it go, I just let it go. And I was like so relieved. I felt such a. I don’t know, like I was carrying this weight that I didn’t realize I was carrying and even talking to you about it. No, I just feel such a joy of letting go of my podcast, which [00:08:00] seems so crazy, but it’s just not going forward with me.

It’s like a friend. You know, you have been friends with somebody for so many years and you’ve been doing everything together, but you are, but you wanna do something that’s different and you can’t take that friend with you. As much as you wanna take that friend, you just can’t. He can’t go with you where you’re going.

She can’t go with you where you’re going. The love is still there for my podcast. The love is still there for your friend, but the journey that you’re on now, you have to shed a lot of things. So I wouldn’t really call it a mistake, but the mistake or a failure is more of understanding where you are, the journey that you’re on.

To be able to know it’s okay. There are things in your business that I, or in my business, many years ago when I started working virtually, I had taken on a lot of stuff and then I had to shed it. It just [00:09:00] wasn’t me. I didn’t want to do it. It was, could you imagine you’re doing something, you start a business because you want to do a particular thing.

You want to have the flexibility, the freedom, but then you are quarreling with yourself every day. You are mad going to bed every day that those two things just don’t go together,

Tim Melanson: Yeah.

Corine La Font: you know? So we, you know, it wasn’t really a mistake. I think the mistake was trying to hold onto it. You know, if you wanna look at it like that, trying to hold on with a tight grip and not letting go.

So when you decide to start your own business, you have to make those kind of decisions and it’s okay. And I may resume the podcast probably a little later on who, who’s to tell my life may evolve into that and it may attract that type of thing. Well, right now mm-hmm. I’m good. I did it from 2010. I can’t even do the mats on how long that has been.

Tim Melanson: Yeah, it’s funny. So I think I, I, I think that’s probably. A really relatable message to a lot of [00:10:00] people. And just that once you do something or you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re with somebody or anything like that for a long, it’s like the longer you’re with them, the more connected you feel to it or, or, or loyal, I guess you feel to it attached and.

Like, uh, we’re allowed to change our minds, right? I mean, just because it was the right business to start, it doesn’t mean that you can’t just change and do something different, but I think that a lot of people just don’t. They, they don’t. And now I think that another big lesson about that right now especially is that the world is changing pretty drastically.

And I think where this could really cause people problems, like. Yes. There’s problems, like you say, of just not being aligned and just not liking it anymore. And that’s, that’s a problem, right? Because it’ll, it’ll hurt your, your mental ability, but you, you could still be. Productive and paying the bills and everything could still be going good, but what about if you get stuck doing [00:11:00] something that maybe that that job market is disappearing.

Maybe the world is changing, and now you’re still doing something that is going away, but you feel so connected to it and attached to it,

Corine La Font: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that’s, that’s something that we have to deal with that that term called attachment is what gets us in a lot of trouble.

Tim Melanson: Mm-hmm.

Corine La Font: Because we are not seeing it objectively without bias. If someone was to come to you and tell you that same story of what they’re going through with attachment, you would say, boy, why are you still holding onto that girl?

Let that X, Y, Z go. It’s easy to give advice to somebody, but when it comes to you, you are not, you know that same situation is happening to you. You are not, it’s hard for you to, to take that advice. Why? Because you are attached to it.

Tim Melanson: Yeah.

Corine La Font: If you remove that attachment to anything, whether it is a parent, a spouse, a friend, and you say, if this wasn’t my friend, [00:12:00] if he wasn’t my spouse, if she wasn’t my wife, if he wasn’t my child, if that wasn’t my boss, you are going to see it very, very clear.

The attachment is on the title that person holds, husband, wife, son, daughter, best friend job. If you remove that. It makes it extremely clear what you are dealing with. You have to remove the attachment in order for you to get clarity, and that’s what I do as a communication specialist too, because I help people to gain clarity in, in situations and what they’re dealing with because you’re mixing it up with the emotional attachment.

You have and the title that person has to you, my mother, my father, my husband, my daughter, my son. I can’t, no. Yes you can. Yes, you can remove that attachment and it becomes clear your child is doing something. If [00:13:00] somebody came to you and they said their son was doing that, you would not, you would say, but why are you tolerating that?

You are the mother. We have to be able to remove attachment, and that’s the only way to do it. Remove that title, remove that emotional tie that you have to that role that that person has in your life.

Tim Melanson: Agree. Agree. So let’s talk a little bit about the jam room now. You’ve been working from home for a long time, and so tell me about how your home office operates. Like how, how is that built for you?

Corine La Font: My home office is on my bed. I love working for my bed.

Tim Melanson: That’s awesome.

Corine La Font: That’s the beauty. I am in my pajamas or whatever you wanna call it went for as long as I want. You know, I, I mean, we know how this whole remote thing started. You could be wearing all sort of stuff here, but you might not be wearing, but don’t worry, I’m wearing something.

So, no, but it gives you that sort of real freedom. [00:14:00] You know, real comfort and the mistake people make is because they think you are comfortable and they think you are free, that you’re not working. But it actually does a lot for the mind. It does a lot for the mind because you are comfortable and because you have freedom to think space.

You know, no clutter, no distractions, no noise. You are able to perform. Some people are best in the day. Some people are best in the night, like I was mentioning to you off air, you know, when I was a a, a young child, you know, I used to be studying two, three o’clock in the morning. I love that. And especially when the rain starts to fall and you, you get that sort of, you know, background simulation and, and I just used to soak in everything.

Now that I’m old, if I have to read something, it’s so difficult. You know, if I read something it takes me hours and I’m like, no, this is not making sense. Put on the book, you know? But then, you know, I used to be studying like that and when I have to work now, I [00:15:00] could work any time. And it works, like I say, with global time zones.

Because when you’re working two, three o’clock in the morning, it works pretty well with anywhere else. So it’s, it works for me. It works for me. I have been doing it for so many years, like you said. But in between those years, I did have to go into in office work, uh, at times, but I guess you would call it probably a hybrid.

There are times I was home. There are times I go in, sometimes I was in office every day, but. I was able to still have that flexibility, but now, oh my God, I, I love it. I have been doing it for a while. As a matter of fact, now I demand that I work remotely. I really don’t wish to be mixing with human beings.

I love them very dearly, but I like them through the screen. You know, I like them through the screen. I don’t have a need for, and, and this is what traditional workplaces push. Oh, you need to socialize. Um. I don’t know what they call it, the Friday [00:16:00] evening things and, and team and it’s for the team. No, no, no, no.

That, that’s not true. We, we could do that online as well. And there are some people who really don’t need to mix. I am quite happy being by myself. I want to choose who I want to spend my time with. When you’re in the office, you can’t get to choose, so they take away that freedom. I’m mixing with Tim, the guy who talks a lot, you know, when I come out and in the social gatherings and he wants to drink all the time, I don’t wanna, you know, so it, it, it takes away that from you, you know, and I, and we know the studies have been done, you know, about.

Work productivity increases. You know, people are so much better. That whole mental health capacity, we don’t have that, but they just, it, it’s coming from a place team of control. You see, they have been so ingrained and programmed, and when I say they, I mean the organizations, the agencies, the [00:17:00] people who are hiring you, whoever they are, they want control without seeing you sitting at a cubicle desk and office.

They don’t. They don’t know what to do. They’re like a fish out of water, you know? But that’s a damn problem, not a me problem. You know? That’s a damn problem. They need to get therapy for that. That’s insecurity. And they probably are having the mental health issues. We don’t, you know, and that’s something they need to reverse the, the projection because they’re projecting on us that we are not working when that is clearly not the case.

You know, the, the society and the environment has turned into more performance as opposed to sitting at a desk. ’cause I could sit at my desk all day, you know, I mean, people are very good at that. I could sit at my desk Oh, and do nothing. And do nothing. And at the end of the day, at the end of the month or two weeks, I, I am coming for my pay.

You said you wanted me. Here I am here. You know, I don’t necessarily have to do [00:18:00] anything, just pay me my money. But you find that people are more productive when they’re at home. They’re getting things done because they’re managing their self, managing their time. Making the necessary adaptions, you know, to get the stuff done.

And it’s more on deliverables, more on what you need to deliver at a particular time, more than being in a particular space, sitting down and you telling me, why are you doing so and so, who are you talking to? Why are you on the phone so long? Why you didn’t coming to to office at this particular time?

What, why did you take lunch so long? Control. Control. But they have the issue. It’s not us. They are the ones who. And like I said, our, our fish out of water. When they’re not able to see you and tell you when to come, when to go and shout at you or embarrass you or manipulate you in front of other people, you know, they can’t get to do that.

You know, so they need therapy team. They need therapy,

Tim Melanson: Probably they do. Yeah. I, I agree. And, and you know what I mean, there are probably different [00:19:00] personalities. I know that there are some people that probably do work better in an office environment, and maybe they do need. I, I mean, those control mechanisms are probably there because people do take advantage of it.

I mean, like what you said earlier, I mean, if someone just sits there and doesn’t do any work all day, they still get paid. And there are people that game the system like that. However, I would argue that that’s not good for the soul. I think that we are meant to create, we’re meant to be productive, and we’re just happier when we’re productive.

Right.

Corine La Font: Of course.

Tim Melanson: So I, you know, for me, I just think that we’re better off to, you know, get into a type of work or a type of job where we feel the most productive and we feel like we’re contributing the most. I, I know that in my previous job was a very, very large company and I never really saw the end of any project.

I was just like a small cog in of this huge machine, and it just, it, it didn’t feel like I was doing anything, like I was

Corine La Font: Contributing your life. Yes.

Tim Melanson: [00:20:00] Yeah. And, and so when I started my own business and started working for myself, I see the start, the middle, the end of every project, right? Like you feel like you’re con, like you’re doing

Corine La Font: Your, your life means something. Yes. Your life means something or contributing to something. And that is something even true. It, it is called like a legacy. When I leave this earth, you know, what do I leave? What’s my footprint? That matters to people. You know, there’s some people who might matter too, and that’s fine.

That is also their digital footprint. They’re leaving. Just go with the flow kind of energy and that’s fine too. And yet you are right. There are some people who need that structure because I know some people who prefer to go in, they need it, and that’s okay, but that’s just not everybody. And I think coming from an HR perspective, we need to re-look and evolve human resources and look at the way people.

People think people operate how best they want to work. [00:21:00] And, and, and like I mentioned to you even off air, uh, Tim, you know, um, as a woman, we are childbearing creatures. We produce children, we go through a lot of hormones. Like I said, I can’t speak for men, but we go through a lot of up and down in our lives, and like for me, I’m going through perimenopause.

I don’t know when that will end. I mean, I just discovered this whole thing. As a matter of fact, let me take that back. It discovered me and, and I just had to go with it. And it is not something I met before to say, well, hey, perimenopause, good to meet you. What do you do? You know, and have a conversation. I didn’t have that.

It just came to me and decided I’m taking over and, and, and there was no get to know you kind of thing. So it’s, as we go along on this journey, I am learning about perimenopause every day. Yesterday is not the same as today, and it will not be tomorrow, you know, and so. Workplaces to me, and I hope this gets out [00:22:00] in a, in a magnificent way, because this is important.

Workplace is supposed to consider the phases. We go train in life. If you think back when you were a teenager, of course you had a lot of energy. You, you, you could, you could take over the world, you know, you have so much things that you wanna do and whatever, and you had time, nothing is gonna happen to you.

Time is, I mean, you control time and then as you’re getting in your twenties, you know, you probably might have a girlfriend or somebody serious that you might be thinking of. And you know, you’re going through a different phase every decade of your life. And as you hit the forties, it’s a different thing.

You know some people, they say, I, you should have had children, or you may have, or you’re thinking about a house or investment savings, all these things that matter to you. You know, and physically things are happening in your body. How you used to move as a teenager, you’re not moving like that in your forties, worse yet, in your fifties and sixties.

So it’s, you know, it’s, they have to [00:23:00] really create work and the environment, particularly to consider. All those different phases that you’re going through in your life that some may not want to work until their forties or fifties. Some may wish to work until they’re in the seventies. Some may not wish to work at all.

Some may wish to work, you know, from home all the time. Some may want longer vacations. That that’s another thing that I find ridiculous. I am on vacation every day. You are not to tell me when I am to go on vacation, how much sick days I have, when to get sick, how to get sick for how long casual leave I have to beg, you know?

I mean, this is crazy. I am on vacation every day. Every day I am on vacation

Tim Melanson: You’re on vacation and you’re working.

Corine La Font: and I’m working. Well, it’s a working vacation, so

Tim Melanson: yeah, yeah. I love that. I.

Corine La Font: I, I’m on a working [00:24:00] vacation, okay? I could step outside on my veranda and take in the natural birds and the breeze and, and the trees and the sew that people buy on YouTube and download. I have this naturally right here. I’m in the Caribbean. Come on.

I take advantage of that. Why should I be sitting down in a concrete office?

Tim Melanson: Yeah. And it’s just so awesome that we, and, and hey, I mean some companies probably will develop, develop that like as I think that as you know, companies evolve. They’re starting to see that they need to, you know, be a little bit more mindful of this ’cause people just aren’t gonna go to the jobs anymore.

However, uh, you know, in the meantime we could start something on our own and we can control these, these variables ourselves. Right?

Corine La Font: Of course it’s all up to you. You see the choice is yours as I, I come back to it. Nobody should dictate or have that authority. You are not to give anybody permission to do that, you know? Um, take a chance on you. [00:25:00] I, when I see people say, oh, they post on LinkedIn or whatever, that they were fired or let, whatever it is, I’m like, celebrate, this is the opening.

Celebrate, this is the opening that you, you needed. This is the the time where the doors are open for you to do whatever you wanted to do or do nothing if you didn’t want to do that. This is your moment. Celebrate, say thank you. Thank you, God. Thank you. Thank you.

Tim Melanson: I agree. I agree. It’s, it’s, it’s an opening, right? And door is closing. A new, uh, new one is opening and it’s your choice and what you wanna do

Corine La Font: course, it’s your choice. It’s your choice and nobody should be guilting you and nobody will guilt you because you’re fired, so you, you know, you have that freedom to do whatever you want, you know?

Tim Melanson: So tell me about, you mentioned that you like to work with people over the Zoom, right? So, so tell me about that. Do you, uh, do you hire people? Do you have employees? Do you have

Corine La Font: I [00:26:00] do. That’s a beautiful thing. When you work from home and you have your own business, you can subcontract. So I do consultancies and so these are for major regional organizations or intergovernmental organizations. That I may have to pull in people as needs be, um, to help me in terms of what I need to do.

Some things I do solo, but I manage it. I lead it, you know, at a higher level, make sure everything is on point and they’re delivering and on time. I’m very particular with that because it’s my name and my business, LA Foreign Associates. That’s, you know, the reputation. Yeah. So. I do hire people, I do connect with people, even on LinkedIn.

You know, I would see people, um, with certain skills. I would reach out. I would say, Hey, send me your portfolio. I’m not looking for anybody right at this minute. But it’s good to connect so that, you know, should I need somebody on the fly? Because sometimes these proposals that I send out, they’re like.

Within a day or two, I have to submit, you know? And so I need to have people’s information, you know, at my [00:27:00] fingertips. So I will connect with people on LinkedIn, so anybody hearing this, you know, feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn. You just never know where it’ll end up. And, um, yeah, so I do hire people, um, on occasions, you know, but I prefer to work people globally.

I, I like the difference of thinking, and that’s a me thing. Again, I, I am not into, um. Uh, same thinking. You know, I, I love diversity challenge, what I say. Um, of course respectfully challenge what the approach to things. I love that. And I don’t have to lead everything. Um, I would overall, because it’s under my name.

Make sure that everything goes fine. But if you are very good at something, or I definitely don’t wanna do it, I am certainly going to make you lead. I am gonna say, Hey, you take the lead on that, you know, we just update me. I I have no need to control or to, um. [00:28:00] To, to be in the spotlight. I would sit back and support.

I love doing that. I, I, that’s how I raised my children. I believe that people, once you work with someone, the, the, the, the ones that come after you’re supposed to be better than you, I’m supposed to be sitting back and saying, yes. You know, I, I had something to do with that. That makes me feel real good. We talked about legacy before.

That is what I love, my legacy, that I touch somebody’s lives and. And they are better off than me. They’re able to make that bolder step and, and do the things, you know, that, that they could do and stretch themselves. That makes me smile, that, that brings a joy to my heart. So I make people lead and I will support you.

I make you go up to the podium and present in front of a large audience, and I’ll be the, the person clapping the loudest and screaming the hardest, you know? Mm-hmm.

Tim Melanson: So let’s get into your solo then. What’s exciting in your business right now?

Corine La Font: Uh, [00:29:00] right now I am building out an ecosystem that I don’t wanna give too much details about, but I’m building out an ecosystem with my business that creates a sort of infrastructure that allows me to go even more global. That is exciting for me.

Tim Melanson: is exciting. Yeah.

Corine La Font: That is exciting for me. Uh, an infrastructure that is there for everybody, you know, but they’re just not doing it.

And I’m taking the time now as I have a little downtime to be able to just put in that solid infrastructure that allows me to go even more global. And, and that I find it very exciting because I’m learning new things. I’m testing myself, I’m stretching myself, I’m doing things in other. Areas, the skills that I’m performing is not even mine.

I, I didn’t learn it, but I’m learning and making mistakes as I go along. So I love that. And so, um, I, it is like tinkering. [00:30:00] You know, when you come across something and you tinker with it and you’re like, oh, I didn’t know I could do that. Oh yeah. Oh, let’s try this. So I’m, I’m tinkering and building an infrastructure at the same time.

So I love that.

Tim Melanson: Awesome. Well, how are people gonna be able to find out about this then?

Corine La Font: Oh, people can contact me if they have to contact me through the screen, through the screen.

Tim Melanson: Through this screen, they can book you on Zoom.

Corine La Font: Through the screen. Um, the main place to, to catch me are two main places. Actually. If you reach out to me on LinkedIn while you see my name on the screen cor phone, you just do a search for me and you see this cute face. Of course you can’t miss it. So you check me on LinkedIn. And another major place I would love for people to go is beyond the lines learning.com.

That should be pretty simple beyond B-E-Y-O-N-D-T-H-E-L-I-N-E-S learning.com. Beyond the lines.

Tim Melanson: Awesome. That sounds awesome. Okay, so now I’m wondering, are you a fan of music? Who’s your favorite rock [00:31:00] star?

Corine La Font: Listen, you are my favorite rock star. Tim, I, you are my favorite rock star because I have to come and see you playing a band. I get excited and just to, just to say I know that guy. I want to be a better show as I know the guy who’s played a fan. I wanna do that. But my favorite artist has always been Michael Jackson, and it’ll always be.

I love Michael. I go crazy for Michael. I still don’t believe he is dead. I don’t care what you think, but I still don’t believe he’s dead.

Tim Melanson: I hope not.

Corine La Font: I don’t believe

Tim Melanson: back and he and he releases another album.

Corine La Font: I don’t think he would. That’s why I think he’s, he’s gone under just quiet. His life has been one that never allowed him to be the child. That he was meant to be because he grew up as a, he grew bodily physically as a man, but he was still a child, you know? And imagine, and I could relate to that because I behave very childlike everywhere I go.

You know, people are like, Corrin grew up. And I’m like, why? [00:32:00] Why? You know, his birthday is I think the 29th of August and I’m the 27th. Yeah. So we are just two days apart. So I love Michael. I could understand his vision. If you notice. He was extremely visionary. He always tried things, you know, he tinkered with things.

Even his movement and dancing is totally nobody. I mean, people always, even to this day, can you imagine, Tim, there are children being born today. They would hear of Michael and you’re going to see them in a video. Not too long practicing. Michael’s

Tim Melanson: Yep.

Corine La Font: doing Michael’s steps because the man is just immortal.

Don’t matter what time. He’s just immortal. So even if he comes back with her, he wouldn’t, he wants quiet, he wants peace. He wants, he wants to just enjoy himself. That’s why I feel he is not dead. He’s not there. The man is a mastermind. He’s a mastermind.

Tim Melanson: he is. He is. And his, I mean, his music [00:33:00] is so good. It’s just so much of it and it’s so, uh, I, I love it too.

Corine La Font: When I’m, when I’m in a mood or somebody gets me, you know, I like. Pop on my Michael’s music and start to dance. I’m like, yes, this is it. And by the time I’m done, what was I thinking? Who? Who was bothering me again?

Tim Melanson: Yep. You can always fill the dance floor.

Corine La Font: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. The dance floor. That’s my thing. Yeah.

Tim Melanson: Awesome. Corine, this has been an awesome interview. Thank you so much for rocking out with me today.

Corine La Font: Oh, it’s been a pleasure. It’s been a pleasure. I need to come and here you play a tip. Why don’t you pick up something now and show me. Do it live. Do it live.

Tim Melanson: Oh, no, no, no. We’re almost out of time. But

Corine La Font: Oh my God,

Tim Melanson: you, you can definitely see me. I’ve got, uh, lots of stuff on online. Actually. I’ve got, uh, my band’s online. You can go to randomzband.com

Corine La Font: see you through the screen. I wanna see the other colleagues and on the [00:34:00] screen. I don’t want to see you through the screen. I wanna see you live.

Tim Melanson: So that’s the exception. You like the screen for work?

Corine La Font: Yes, live.

Tim Melanson: Well, maybe at some point you can come to Canada. I’m in Canada. You’re in the, you’re in the Caribbean. I, I think I’d probably rather go to you. Yeah,

Corine La Font: built for the cold.

Tim Melanson: well next time I’m in the Caribbean I’ll look you up.

Corine La Font: I, that’s a very good, that’s a very good statement. Come to the,

Tim Melanson: Yes. Awesome. And this has been so much fun to the listeners, making sure you go to workathomerockstar.com for more information and we’ll see you next time on the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast.

Corine La Font: bye. Thank you.