High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 737: Calm in the Storm: High Performance Lessons from the Weather with Belinda Jensen, Chief Meteorologist at KARE 11 & Creator of Bel the Weather Girl

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

In this episode of The High Performance Mindset, Dr. Cindra Kamphoff sits down with Belinda Jensen—Chief Meteorologist at KARE 11, science communicator, children's book author, and beloved "Bel the Weather Girl"—to explore what it takes to perform under pressure when the stakes are high and the forecast is uncertain. With more than three decades on live television, Belinda shares how she manages stress and decision-making during severe weather events, when clarity, calm, and trust matter most. She explains how high performers stay grounded when conditions change rapidly—and why preparation, presence, and purpose are essential to sustaining excellence over time. Throughout the conversation, Belinda reflects on her unconventional path into broadcasting, the resilience required to stay energized across a long career, and the mindset habits that help her balance demanding deadlines with family, writing, speaking, and community impact. She also shares why making complex science simple is a leadership skill—and how clear communication builds confidence, reduces fear, and helps people take action. Belinda also opens up about her passion for educating kids through her Bel the Weather Girl books, especially helping children manage anxiety around storms and inspiring young girls to see themselves in STEM careers. This episode is a powerful reminder that high performance isn't about controlling conditions—it's about learning how to stay steady, confident, and purposeful no matter what the forecast brings.     You'll Learn: How to stay calm and focused during high-pressure moments Mindset strategies for making decisions when outcomes are uncertain Why clear communication builds trust and confidence Lessons in resilience from a 30+ year career in broadcast media How preparation and presence fuel consistent performance Ways to reduce fear and anxiety through education and understanding Advice for performing at your best—on air, at work, and in everyday life     Episode Resources & Links Learn more about Belinda Jensen: https://beltheweathergirl.com/ Download our 2025 National Confidence Crisis Study: https://confidencestudy.com/ Request a Free Mental Breakthrough Call with Dr. Cindra or her team: https://freementalbreakthroughcall.com/ Learn more about the Mentally Strong Institute: https://mentallystronginstitute.com/

In today's episode of the high-performance mindset, I'm joined by Belinda Jensen. Belinda is the chief meteorologist at CARE 11, a science communicator, children's book author, and the creator of Bell the Weather Girl. We talk about what it takes to perform under pressure, when the stakes are high and the forecast is uncertain. With more than three decades on live television, Belinda shares how she manages stress and makes decisions during severe weather events, when clarity, calm, and trust matter most. She explains how preparation, presence, and purpose help high performers stay grounded,

even when conditions change quickly. One of my favorite parts of this conversation is when Belinda talks about the importance of making complex science simple. She explains how clear communication helps people feel more confident, reduces fear during severe. severe weather and helps communities take action when it matters most. Belinda also shares her passion for educating kids through her Bell the Weather Girl books and inspiring young girls to see themselves in STEM careers. This episode is a powerful reminder that high performance is about learning how to stay steady, confident, and purposeful, no matter what the forecast brings. Let's jump in. I'm joined today by Belinda Jensen, aka Bell the Weather Girl.

So Belinda, thank you so much for joining me. I want to just start with just talking about how such a powerhouse you are in broadcast meteorology, 33 years on CARE 11, 36 years total on air. And I'm just so excited to have you here today. Thank you so much for being here, and I can't wait to talk to you. Well, thank you, Sandra. I'm glad that we had a chance to meet just a couple weeks ago. And thanks for asking me.

I appreciate it. Absolutely. And to get us started, you have some big announcement you want to share. Tell us a little bit about your recent decision. You know, I have made a big decision. My family, my husband, you know, it's, you know, as you can imagine, a family effort to make a decision like this. But after 36 years in the business and after doing, you know, television weather and broadcast shows and such, I am going to walk away from. Matt. Actually, this year on May 2nd is going to be my last show. I am the chief meteorologist at Caroleven. So I do four nights a week there on a typical week. And then I do the Saturday morning show, which is from 8 to 10. And I've been doing that show all 33 years. And so I wanted that to be my last show because that's the show that, I mean, my heart is in that show. I, it's, you know, I kind of coined it as my show.

because I've been a part of it for so long and kind of laugh that I've, the old widow of the show, because I've gone through, I think I'm on my sixth co-host in 33 years. And so that show is a fantastic show because it's two hours long and we have a ton of fun and I think we deliver a really good product. So I wanted that to be my last show. Yeah, that's wonderful. Congratulations. And I just think about all the different topics we're going to talk about today if it's your mindset under pressure and being resilient for 33 years. And just I also think about what does it take to stay at a job for 33 years and a career for 36 and particularly this like this public facing job that can you know be everyone watches you and you know, I'm sure you've been criticized over the last 33 years.

So what does it take to to stay that long? That's a good question. question. I think that answer has evolved. That answer has changed because the job has changed so much. The job has evolved so much. You know, when I started 36 years ago in Salt Lake City at 22 years old, I, there wasn't, I mean, we didn't even have email. There was social media. There wasn't a way to reach me with a second. there was an Instagram or Twitter or X or Facebook or anything. The only way people could let me know how they felt is they would have to leave me a voicemail or they would have to send me a letter. And they did. And they did. And now and for the last, let's say, 15 years, they can get to me in about three seconds.

So I am very blessed that I didn't grow up in this age right away because I think it's much harder now to start as a young learning person that is beginning because when I started it was sort of like ignorance is bliss a bit, you know? I believe in myself and hope that I was putting. out a good product and listen to constructive criticism and learn from it and and then open the letters or take the voicemail and be okay with what they were saying knowing that I have to be true to myself and so when I first started in Salt Lake City at the ABC affiliate in the morning, I was a morning meteorologist. I wasn't very polished at all. It was pretty rough, very rough.

I fell backwards into this whole broadcast business. And so I wasn't planning on being a broadcast meteorologist. I was planning on being a teacher. And so I knew every day that my mom and dad had moved out to Salt Lake City when I was in college. So my mom would call me and she would be like, oh, you look so nice today, honey. And I can't believe it's going to snow that much. And I thought you did a really nice job. Of course, that's what a mom would say.

And I would say thank you and talk to her about how I was feeling. And then I had a small group of people around me that I knew because I wasn't, I didn't, I grew up in the Midwest. So Salt Lake City was not home to me at the time. And I think that that was a godsend because then I wasn't just absolutely exposed to everything. And so I could get my feet under me. I could figure out who I was. I could stumble and stumble and hurdle and grow without having to deal with that moment by moment. Pressure to be perfect.

And for and and, you know, constant judging. And, you know, because it is such a public job, I mean, it's not in surgery. Let's remember that. This is not brain surgery. It's not brain surgery. It's television weather. And I know that. It's not that important.

It is, but it isn't. Okay? So I put myself in those shoes too. I mean, I have friends that do amazing things that have actually like huge jobs that are changing the world. I feel like my job for me just being so public, you know, I had to figure out how to have the right clothes and fix my hair and do all the things. because all I thought about when I started was getting the weather right, which sadly is not even important at the end of the day. It is now. It always was. But you know what I mean by that? Yeah, I do. That there's like more that people are criticizing you about or judging you about

than your accuracy of weather. And you know what? What I love about watching you and I lived in Minnesota here for 17 years is I love just like how you show up real and authentic. And that also makes it like fun to watch you because I, I, when I also think about, you know, practices of the high performance mindset and how people thrive and how, what are the traits to do that? And authenticity is absolutely one of the practices. And that's what I most admire about you is like, when I watch you, I know you're the real person, you know? And so I'm curious about how you've develop that and how do you show up authentic even though you might know someone's judging you on the other end? I don't think there's a concerted effort to be that way. That's just who I am.

Cool. I can't imagine not doing that. In my 36 years, I have worked with many people who are different on television than they are in person. And I think that that is absolutely way harder than what I'm trying to do. I can't imagine having the two personalities and the two voices and the two cadences and the two delivery methods and the two thought processes. I mean, that would be harder than what I'm trying to do already, which is I'm trying to harness the chaos theory and figure out the weather. I mean, that's hard enough, right? We all know it's not easy and it's not a perfect science. So my challenge every day is that. I can't imagine trying to be another person. I can't imagine trying to be another person, too.

Yeah. Yeah. So I think it just comes with the territory. I think probably it's how I was raised, my family, big Catholic family, four brothers and sisters, grounded down-to-earth people. I was the first person in my family to go to a four-year college. I still am baffled by what has happened to me. I didn't expect this. I didn't.

This wasn't in the cards for me. It's been just a blessing. And I think that's at the core. Yeah. Yeah, your upbringing who you are as a person. Well, we'd love to hear, you've been fascinated by whether since you were a kid, what was the exact moment that you decided like, this is what I want to do? Because I also heard you say that, you know, your first path was going to be a teacher.

Yeah, I always tease that I'm not a person who had a thermometer on my crib. And some people that I know, you're all just do. It's hilarious. They really do. I was a kid who went to a very small high school, middle school. I was born and raised in Prescott, Wisconsin. I was born in Apple Valley, but I was raised in Prescott, Wisconsin. And my dad wanted us to live on the St. Cray River.

My dad wanted us to live out in the country. He loved the river and everything had brought to our lives. So we lived on the end of a mile long driveway with a farmer on the hill and one of their neighbor who thankfully had five kids. And they were all the speeches as our kids. So our, my, my siblings. So it was really a blessing. And I lived four miles outside of a very small rural dairy town. And my dad drove the city every day, which.

was very odd back then, but people do that now. And so it's a bedroom community now, but it wasn't back then. So I was a kid who didn't think that weather and meteorology was going to be my career. I just loved nature. I just loved being outside. I just enjoyed all of that. I love the river. I loved all of that. And when I was in high school, I had a very, very great, very wonderful mentor, teacher, Mr. Gavin, who prompted me to write a term paper about weather, about meteorology, because in 10th grade, because he thought that I would be interested in that. He knew that my older brother was really smart, and he was kind of teasing me, well, you're not as smart as Dan, but you are pretty good at the science and engineering. And I took that as a compliment because

my brother, Dan, was very, very smart. And, um, and he, went to Madison. He was a badger. He thought, hey, guest, you could do that, Belinda. I never in my wildest dreams thought I could. And I wrote a term paper about meteorology in 10th grade. I interviewed the only meteorologist I knew who was Paul Douglas on television. He answered the phone. I interviewed him. I got an A on the paper. And then I ended up getting his job. So, and I interned for him. I interned forum. He's the one who brought me back here. He is another amazing mentor of mine. Yeah. Well, it sounds like having people, supportive people along the way is, you know, we know that's really essential for success. Bell, I also wanted to ask you a few other questions related to this idea of the

high performance mindset. And particularly, I think, about pressure and how, you know, especially when there's severe weather and, you know, there's weather kind of forecasting when there's like high stakes, right? How have you learned to manage your stress and pressure and particularly making high pressure decisions on TV in front of others? Well, that comes with practice. As you mentioned, practice is a big part of that. And of course, it wasn't like that when I first started. I didn't have that under my belt. I didn't know how to do that. But I did learn from some amazing meteorologists that I worked with that were older than me that that mentored me along so I watched them but I think at the end of the day how I how I how I frame my brain and frame my message

and frame my performance on a tornado day or a blizzard day or one of the days that we have here in the Super Bowl of weather here in Minnesota is if you're sitting home and And you've got kids or you're, and you're worried about your mom who's elderly that's over another part of town. And you've got a baseball practice or you had plans to get on the boat or you are trying to figure out your life. I picture myself as that person and I say, okay, what does that person need to know? Exactly what do they need to expect?

and when is it going to be a problematic situation, a severe situation, and when is it not? And I always say that we always have been the calm before the storm at Carol Evan. And when I get excited, you should get excited. But if I am not, you should not. And we do not. We do not amplify the weather for the reason of just, you better watch me because something could happen. I mean, we don't do that. So I try to give the big picture. I try to get down to the communities. I try to give timelines. I try to give the perspective. I don't want to interrupt your

entire evening of television watching. People don't watch regular television anymore. They're streaming. They're here and there. You know, we're putting everything on this. We're putting everything on social media. We have so many places to put out the message now that we have to be synced. We have to be as accurate as we can. We have to be transparent if we're wrong. We have to continue to update and we have to clear the situation when it's better. Yeah. I appreciate that because I think like you could amplify the weather and then everyone freaks out for perhaps for no reason. You know, so. And that's true as that happens all over the place. That is a bad part of our business. And I would never be a part of that. And especially I think about myself as a speaker and as a consultant.

And there was a couple weeks ago where I couldn't travel to work with a sports team that I worked with because I wasn't sure about the weather. And it was like in the middle of, you know, nowhere that I was driving. But accurate weather really does impact people's decisions and ability to do their jobs or not. So yeah, what an important job. Hi, this is Cinder Campoff and thanks for listening to the high performance mindset. Did you know that the ideas we share in the show are things we actually specialize in implementing? If you want to become mentally stronger, lead your team more effectively and get to your goals quicker. Visit free mental breakthrough call.com to sign up for your free mental breakthrough call with one of our certified coaches.

Again, that's free mental breakthrough call.com to sign up for your free call. Talk to you soon. I'm curious about your resilience and your ability to bounce back after things haven't worked out perfectly, right? 33 years. There's got to be something that wasn't perfect in that. So could you tell us about a moment in your career that tested your resilience and how did you grow from it? Yes. There's a number of them.

I would say we can talk weather in a minute. I have to say as a co-host on the Saturday morning show, that is not what I would to school. for that is not my forte i am not a television personality i don't have a journalism degree i didn't try to be an anchor i didn't go to school to be an anchor i never interned as an anchor and now i'm an anchor so i had to learn how to do that and um and that was um interesting and challenging and with that i have to say a lot of times it was one of these things where i would just fake it till you make it because you had to just kind of take a deep breath and hope that what you're doing is right at the beginning, you know, 33 years ago doing the set. But I had a lot of failure there where things went okay,

but they didn't go great. Like afterwards, I'm like, oh, my goodness, I messed up that interview so badly or, oh, my goodness. And I remember specifically. And a lot of it came down to who the producer was. So the producer, of course, you know, creates the interview, creates the graphics, tells you who the guests are, tells you who the content, what the content is, and then you facilitate the interview. So you don't do any of the back. I mean, I do sometimes, but you know what I mean by that? So there was an interview right out of the gates. And I had, I had a doctor and I had a gal who had an interpreter. So the gal couldn't speak English at all. The interpreter could. And then I had a doctor who I couldn't understand who was East Indian and super duper smart and that was the interview

right out of the gates. Someone I can't understand really long name that I probably messed up interpreter who was good but not great woman in the middle who had the disease who couldn't speak English. That sounds like a perfect storm. Yeah. that was a lot for a person like me. They shouldn't have given me that interview at the beginning of my career, but they did. So that's something that I've learned.

And now I control the situation in a different way. Like I look at things and I go, no, no, no, no, no, we're not doing it that way. Let's do this. Let's do that. Let's do this. Make sure this is up. Give me video. Give me this.

Give me that. Let's make everyone comfortable. You know, whatever. So I learned how to control that situation. so that at the end of the day, it's not helping me, but it's actually helping the people understand what the interview was about in the first place. Like, why do these people talk? You know what I mean?

But obviously the after effect is it helped me deliver a better product, let's just say. So there's that. With weather, I'll never forget, there's two instances. One of it was Friday night in July when I first started. I was weekend meteorologist at that point. The main meteorologist was Ken Barlow. The chief was Ken Barlow. They sent him on a thing called Festival Fridays.

And that he went high from a festival. He, they flew him in the helicopter to Brown County, which by the way, folks, is very far away to a festival. There wasn't supposed to be severe weather. There was a slight, slight risk. We could have a couple of bigger storms with maybe some hail. That did not occur. we had 13 tornadoes in the metro that night oh wow and ken couldn't get back because he was in brown county with a helicopter as transportation so i had to go live for eight hours oh my goodness and i was

young and i was new in the market here and uh it was a tough night but it worked and i figured it out and I did everything I knew how to do. And it was a big learning moment for me and a big pinnacle pivot in my career. Because I knew then I knew I could do it. If I could do that, I could do it. And it was Mother Nature threw me a curve ball and I didn't have an option, which is kind of what my job is about. The other thing I remember is just being disappointed in the fact that it was a Father's Day

weekend. And it was probably 10 years ago. And we thought that this rain that was very, it was very rainy June. So now we're like mid June. And it'd been raining and raining and raining and raining the whole darn month. And Father's Day comes along and there's twins games and there's events and there's all the stuff, right? And I, everybody in my team thought the rain would stay north.

And we thought we'd be okay in the metro. And we weren't. We weren't. It was a deluge. And I just remember being in my house going, oh, my God, everyone's day is completely wrecked. We said it would be nice. It's not nice.

It's pouring. And that's hard. That's really hard. I mean, that's the impetus. I mean, that's my message. That's my job. Like, I know it not in control. I realize that.

But at the end of the day. day it is my message it is my job and so being that wrong on a father's day weekend was very much a memorable a moment of failure how have you learned what you first learned from that father's day uh weekend and what have you learned about moving on quickly when things don't go perfect because you can't control the weather, right? So it's not something that you can completely 100% predict all the time. No, no, it's it's the chaos theory. So that's true. Well, I don't get a choice. I guess the answer is I don't get a choice. I'm going to be on TV the next day. I've got to explain myself. I got to like say, okay, so folks, I know it rained all day yesterday. I know I told you it wasn't

going to rain all day yesterday. This is what happened. If you're interested, this is what happened. and then you move on. I mean, that's the thing with weather, you know, you got to do the job the next day on TV. Well, people appreciate that transparency and that realness. You could just, you know, rush under the table and not even address that it was that you got it wrong. I couldn't do that because I need to settle it in my heart, in my soul, in my, too. You know, I didn't sleep the whole night. I am a wreck.

I need to talk about it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, and it sounds like that one eight hours on air actually grew confidence. You know, we just did this national research study on confidence about what actually grows it and what does it. And we know, obviously, preparation and being your own internal coach and letting go judgment are just three ways to grow confidence. How have you kept your confidence strong in 36 years of being on air? Well, I think I do things. I think I have really great people wrapped around me that support me and help me with those factors.

Like, you know, they, hey, they say, okay, that was really good. I like the way you did that. Thank you for, you know, clarifying that. You know, next time maybe do this, but you did this well. like, you know, listening and and trusting them that they actually are doing it for the right reasons. And then I think the second part is in my business, I think there is a point where you don't look at the comments. Yeah. Because it's not going to help you.

You are your own worst enemy truly in this kind of business. you know if you're good at if you're if you're trying to be good at your job you know when things don't go the way they should and so you're the one that needs to go and get the advice from the people you trust the people that you know how to to tell you exactly and be truthful to you and you don't need 47,000 people telling you something that is just going to kind of damage the shell because it's the shell you have to have a shell because they're going to talk about your hair. They're going to talk about your coat. They're going to talk about, you know, why didn't you wear the right makeup? What were you talking

about? Why do you use this? Why do you move your hate in this way? Why do you do this? If you read all of that, you would be just crumpled up in a corner. So you can't read all that. because a lot of it's just I mean thankfully Minnesota people are very very nice and I've been here a long time so they give me some grace and but if you're young

and you're starting I don't think that it's helpful just like you know if you look at Facebook comments on anything that's even slightly controversial or X comments it's just a bunch of people just going at each other

it's not smart to even put yourself in that arena Yeah. It's negative for your brain and for yourself. And it doesn't help you at all. It makes me think, Belle, a lot about, like, professional athletes that I worked with. And many of them actually, like, just during the season, they will just close their accounts, right? Or tip the app on their phone. Yeah. And it's really important because I worked with a pro athlete one time did the opposite. And it really shredded his confidence. So. Yeah. And I, the thing is I can't turn it off because my job is on it. So I have to put this stuff out there. But I don't have to read every comment about my post. I just have to put myself out there because it's part of my job on my public pages, which I will and I do because I have to to reach the people anymore because they're not watching the TV. Yeah, they're not watching live. So one of the things I wanted to ask. you about is, you know, I'm so inspired by your book, Spell the Weather Girl. Tell us a bit about those books and especially the ones that focus on kids, anxieties around storms and just, you know,

tell us a little bit about why you decided to write those and what people could expect when they purchase one. Thank you for asking. Yeah, you know, it was kind of a passion project. I wasn't even a good reader. I'm not a bookworm. So the fact that I wrote six books is kind of hilarious. They are for kids. They are weather books. I wrote them seven years ago. They are available. It's been a wonderful thing from beginning to end. So what they're about is when I was going into classrooms to talk to mainly second graders,

because second grade is the first time you actually learn about the atmosphere in a real way. So the level of the books is from late first grade up to late third grade. But anyone from first to fourth grade is perfect. first to fourth grade. And so I was in these classrooms talking about weather and the students were the ones, the children were the ones who made me want to write the books. Because whenever they had a light bulb moment where if I was talking about, you know, how a hailstone, hailstone forms from a raindrop and is on a roller coaster inside of a cloud. And I explained that maybe development of a hailstone, they were all totally. Totally into it. And I thought, gosh, that's a good book. I should write a book about Joe the Hale. You know, that was like, how I started.

So when I went to read books, they asked me to write six. So I wrote the books because most kids are one of two things. They're either enthralled by the weather. And every time there's a storm, they're looking out the window, they're looking at their mom's phone. They're looking at the iPad. They're watching the radar. They're watching the TV. They're watching whatever.

They're really into it. or anytime there's a dark cloud, the other half of the kids are literally in the office, telling the teachers, telling the counselor they need to go home, they're in your bed during the thunderstorm, they're wrapped around your leg on the couch, and they're scared as heck. So there is an anxiety wrapped around weather. And I think that my business is part of the anxiety because news is a 24-7 situation. And so if there's a massive tornado at Oklahoma and somebody gets it on camera and everyone has a camera now. So lots of pictures come from everything.

And that tornado gets becomes viral. And you see it on every single platform on every single screen. That kid is going to see that tornado, the one that is anxious anyway about every dark cloud. And they're not going to understand or delineate the dark cloud in Plymouth to the tornado F5 destroying a town in Oklahoma. They're not. They're going to think every dark cloud is that tornado. So I thought it would be really important to explain the nuts and bolts of weather to kids. So one of the books is about tornadoes. One of the books is about lightning and thunder. One of the books is about hurricanes. One of the books is about clouds and all the different kinds of clouds. And then one of the books

is about, I'm forgetting, blizzards. So, and Bell, the Weather Girl is eight years old. And she's smart her mom's meteorologist she has her dog and everything which is my dogs because my dog was totally afraid of the weather a lot of dogs are afraid of the weather they are then at the same time i wrote them i had a three-year-old or no i had a it was well i wrote him when tory was young i can't remember how old she was and what happened was every time the weather was bad not only was she afraid but then mom went to work yeah she left because he was he he often be at work. And so then my husband was in charge and God love my husband, but he didn't handle the situation. One time he thought it would be a really good idea to go to the grocery store.

So he's driving to the grocery store. And I said, why are you driving to the grocery store? There is a huge hail storm coming into our town, into our suburb. And he goes, oh, it'll be fine. Sure enough, it wasn't fine. And they got caught in a hail shaft. And my baby was in the back. in the car seat. Oh, no. I wanted to kill him. And so I wrote them personally from my kid, too. Oh, that's awesome.

And they're bringing those books back into the classrooms and having a PowerPoint with the books and going through all the things of the lightbulb moments with the kids who gave me the light bulb moments, which ended up books. That's awesome. Where can people get your books or find more about, um, Obviously, we got to meet each other at a speaker showcase. And so you were the MC, which you did an incredible job, get so personal. And then I heard you speak about your own 10 minutes.

But tell us more about where we can find your books and then learn more about your emceeing or your speaking. Well, I'm really excited that when I do leave Carol Levin on May 2nd, I am going to be able to do more things like that. And so speaking and emceeing and talking about science and STEM and how. important it is for everyone to understand science and for kids to understand science and for girls to understand that you could be a girl and be a scientist, you can be an athlete, you can be a scientist, you can be an artist, you can be a scientist. And I really, that's really what I truly want to do. And maybe it's back to the roots of what I thought I was going to do in the first place. But I have a website, bell theweathergirl.com, bell the weathergirl. B-E-L-theweathergirl.com.

And that's where the books are. That's where my information is. That is where I show what different speaking things I've done. You know, the one thing with CAREleven is that they've given me really a lot of opportunity in my 33 years. They've been really wonderful. And I've had a chance to do so much beyond the Saturday morning show and beyond the weather. Of course, Grow with Care, Minnesota Bound. I went to the Olympics for a month.

I have been able to emcee a million things because I want to, not because they made me. And they gave me this stage that allowed me to do. do things that really fill my heart and soul and fill my bucket. And then I'm able to give back in that way. And so those are things I want to keep doing. And those are things that I think will continue to fill me up once I'm not even on the stage anymore. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for sharing a lot. I want to end with just some fun, lighthearted questions. So my first question is, if you could invent a weather-related holiday, what would it be called? Oh, good. gosh, that's great. I've never been asked that question. Oh, man. It would be in the summer. It would be,

what is, it would be, maybe we call it perfection day or something like that. Like, what is your perfect weather day? What is your perfect summer day? Glory day, something like that glorious day. And then it would be perfect for you, you know, whatever that is. Like if you're a wind surfer, it'd be windy. If you're a, if you're a wake surfer, like I, am you want still water hot temperatures high humidity not a lot of people on the lake all that kind of stuff if you're a gardener you want you know this or that you know whatever it is yeah that's awesome what is your least favorite on-air blooper moment you've had if you've had one oh well it wasn't on air but yesterday i went to do the five o'clock news and i walked in front of the key

which is a green chroma key wall, and most people understand you can't wear green because you'd be invisible. I was wearing a white sweater coat, and I was invisible because the camera operator forgot to white balance the camera. So then, which, you know, it is what it is, right? So I walked off, I walked off,

and I did the whole weather off screen. And then we went to commercial break, and I afterwards was very upset. because I thought that again, there's another color I can't wear because things have gotten more confusing for the, for the photographer, the camera person, for the, for the studio. And I set a four letter obscenity off camera. And I had a number of people coming in for toys for tots, along with the volunteer who was my GM. Well, it sounds like you're just a real person.

That was a fun moment. That was fun. And the other thing is there's so many varmints in the backyard. So probably the most interesting thing is when I'm doing the weather sometimes, not only birds are watching me and birds are around, stray rabbits, but we have had possums, owls, raccoons, all flying squirrels. I am glad I'm top of the food chain in the backyard. It's a great studio. It's a great office.

It's a great place to have weather. But there's a lot of animals out there. Last question. What's your good? No to prediction for Minnesota's next season. Oh, well, we already know. Our current season. Yeah, our current season.

Well, we already know winter has been interesting. I mean, we started winter with the coldest, snowiest start in 22 years. We all remember how snowy and cold December was. And so this is, you know, we are in an El Nino year. And so this is going to be continuing to be rather cold and snowy. So buckle up and bundle up buttercup because here we go. This is a Mexican Minnesota winner. I'm glad you said that because honestly, I've been traveling a little bit.

And as I got back, I was like, what in the world is happening? I don't remember it being this cold. Okay. So I'm not crazy. You're not. Thank you, Bell. I so appreciate you. It's fun to get to know you more.

And thank you so much for joining us on the high performance mindset. Well, congratulations to you, too, because you spoke that day and you were phenomenal, and I appreciate you asking me to be on your podcast. And congratulations. It's not easy to have a podcast since the late 20s, 2017, you said, right? Yes. Congratulations on that. Thank you, Bell.

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