44: Linda Lieberman and Julia Fordtner of Aspire Realty Group

A little about our guests. Linda and Julia originally met in a theater group in Phoenix. Both enjoy singing and acting and they love playing with their fur-baby, a 13 year old dog named Abby. Linda is a self-proclaimed nerd. She loves Phoenix Comicon and with Julia used to run a Phoenix area tour group called Ghosts of Phoenix. Julia is a scuba diver who also enjoys cooking and playing the ukulele. Julia is also Aunt of the Year each year to her 6 nieces and nephews. A little about their business. Julia has been in real estate for 11 years. During some of that same time, Linda was a teacher in Phoenix Title 1 schools. Julia would help in the library at Linda’s school and Linda would return the favor by helping in the real estate office to the extent she could. When Linda decided to get out of teaching, she worked with Julia to get her real estate license and went to work at another real estate office. Several years later, Julia became a Real Estate Broker and Linda came on board as a Broker in her office. One piece of advice (the nutshell version) Keep open lines of communication between the two of you. No matter what industry you are in, have open lines of communications. Reading Material You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir by Felicia Day and Joss Whedon - http://amzn.to/1Wo9ssY Dirk Quigby's Guide to the Afterlife: All you need to know to choose the right heaven by E.E. King - http://amzn.to/1OBzJiq 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation by Clint Emmerson - http://amzn.to/1OsLfyt Get in Touch with Our Guests Aspire Realty Group, LLChttp://www.LLieberman.comhttp://www.AgentJulia.comAgentJulia2AgentJulia.comLinda@LLiberman.comJulia Fordtner Realty on Facebook Kitty Litter Cake (from http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Kitty-Litter-Cake) Ingredients 1 package spice cake or German chocolate cake mix1 package white cake mix1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix1 package vanilla sandwich cookiesGreen food coloringSmall Tootsie Rolls Prepare and bake the cake mixes. Follow the directions on the boxes, but don't worry too much about pan sizes: we're not going to frost it the normal way! Allow the cakes to cool to room temperature. Prepare the pudding mix. While the cakes are baking, make the pudding, and let chill in the refrigerator. Crumble the white sandwich cookies in small batches. You can use a food processor (scrape often to get every little piece), kitchen mallet, or just crumble them by hand. Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1/4 cup of cookie crumbs. You can either mix them together with a fork or shake them together in a closed container such as a jar or Tupperware. Set aside for now. Crumble the room-temperature cakes into a large bowl. Toss gently with half of the remaining white cookie crumbs and enough chilled pudding to moisten (not soak) the crumbs. Make the litter. Add the cake, cookie crumbs, and pudding mixture into a brand new, clean litter box. If you don’t have one, find a large rectangular Tupperware container to act as a stand-in (or sit-in). Temper your Tootsies. Heat three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave-safe dish until they're soft and pliable. Pinch off the ends so they are no longer blunt and look convincingly like what cats put in the litter box. Repeat this process with as many Tootsie rolls as you'd like to add, microwaving them in batches of three. Reserve three for the final garnish. Half-bury the shaped Tootsie rolls in mixture. Sprinkle them with (normal-colored) cookie crumbs to make it look like litter has been kicked onto them. Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly over the top. This will mimic real litter, where many of the grains are often blue or green. Heat and shape the last three Tootsie rolls. Scrape them on top of the cake. One can hang over the side of the litter box. Sprinkle them lightly with cookie crumbs to make them look more recent. Eat it up, yum! Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around. Serve with a brand new, washed litter scooper for that extra touch! Serve it with a cow patty for extra yumminess. Take a scoop of chocolate ice cream and flatten it out on the plate. For extra realism, thoroughly mix crumbled shredded wheat with softened ice cream, shape into cow patties, and re-freeze.