SUMMARY KEYWORDS
dog, vet, sanctuary, rescue, day, maggots, animals, die, brave, friend, find, happy, people, podcast, street, love, mia, puppy, bali, healing, natural, ticks, fleas
SPEAKERS
Julia Malcolmson, Martin O'Toole, Mia Nurislamov
Martin O'Toole 00:30
Jules.
Julia Malcolmson 00:31
Hi, Martin.
Martin O'Toole 00:37
So, who are we talking to today?
Julia Malcolmson 00:40
Today we are talking to Mia, Mia is a nine year old. And she is she blows me away. Incredible girl.
Martin O'Toole 00:50
truly phenomenal creature. So what's what's Mia' main vibe, what do we talk about?
Julia Malcolmson 00:57
We actually covered a lot with Mia. And I found that kind of surprising. She just kept coming out with these pearls of wisdom, which is sort of a lot of life lessons that many of us are searching for. And she just drops them into conversation. Yeah,
Martin O'Toole 01:14
she's got she's like a little Buda. She just is crazy. Just just like drops the mic with some knowledge. age nine, and you just kind of, yeah, I will apologise in advance to to, to the audience, because there were there were points during the interview where she just sort of dropped the mic, and we were just sort of speechless. Right. Yeah. And occasionally, she brought tears to our eyes because she's a profoundly interesting and knowledge knowledgeable young woman and, and she has a passion, specifically for animals, of course.
Julia Malcolmson 01:56
Yeah. And she is very passionate about animals and about wanting to help animals. And through these discussions. I mean, she dropped in, you know, wisdom about happiness, and living your passion, living your dreams, and also about death, and impermanence, which is a topic I know we discuss regularly. And to hear a nine year olds perspective on impermanence and how to deal with with death, and how to how to be happy.
Martin O'Toole 02:28
Yes, she's got a wonderful perspective on so many things and worldly wise for a nine year old. So Mia has a healing sanctuary, here in Bali, in, in being in in the bucket on the peninsula, which she essentially just decided she was going to have built and went out and raise the money and blah, blah, blah, and we're going to hear all about that story now. Yeah,
Julia Malcolmson 02:51
no fear. Just she just has she wants to do something, and there's nothing standing in her way.
Martin O'Toole 02:57
All right, let's dive straight into our conversation with Mia.
Mia Nurislamov 03:01
Ready said let's get word. Let's get started.
Martin O'Toole 03:07
Okay, well, we are started. So thanks for the cue Mia, welcome to How to die happy.
Julia Malcolmson 03:13
Welcome.
Mia Nurislamov 03:14
Thank you.
Martin O'Toole 03:16
And this is your first podcast, I understand. Yes. How's it going? So far?
Mia Nurislamov 03:20
Super nice. And super happy to be here?
Martin O'Toole 03:24
Well, we're super happy to have you as well. .
Julia Malcolmson 03:26
She's a natural.
Martin O'Toole 03:28
Do you think you might have your own podcast?
Mia Nurislamov 03:29
Of course,
Julia Malcolmson 03:30
we believe that at some point,
Martin O'Toole 03:32
what would your podcast be called? I don't know. What would it be about?
Mia Nurislamov 03:38
Of course, my healing sanctuary.
Martin O'Toole 03:41
Yeah. And what's your healing sanctuary all about?
Mia Nurislamov 03:43
It's about helping the Bali street dogs because many of them has a really bad condition, like skin condition. Some of them are poisoned. Some of them have injuries. Many of them like have serious cases.
Martin O'Toole 04:00
So and how long have you been running your little pet sanctuary then?
Mia Nurislamov 04:04
That's been we started the construction last I think March I'm not sure but I think last March. So and then in the Part one is finished right now it has living with her dogs. It does my friend. She has 34 dogs. So we wanted some and she had a small house and working all week. So we wanted to make a better life for her. So she Yeah, we build a house and a bigger place for the dogs to be there. And now she only works two days a week.
Martin O'Toole 04:40
So how How did either she called it? How did either fight wind up with 35 dogs and where did she have them before you you took them into your sanctuary?
Mia Nurislamov 04:52
First it's about meeting first so when I met her I was like playing football with my friend but Then she came with two puppy called DITA and Dino. And I was like, my Indonesian friend told me that she has like, she rescued many dogs. And yeah, she rescued so many dogs. But she lived in a small house and she work all day. So he wanted to make like donations. So then I started to sell like dog bandanas, some little bows, and some bracelets to get money for her. But now I was like, I want to do more, because because that cat cannot take more dogs, she don't have any more space, but there's just so many dogs to help. So I decided to build a healing sanctuary for dogs. We started in March. And then it's been almost one year. So we need to bid to build the second part, which is my friends, Evans family is going to be the living there with his wife and his kids. And they're going to take care of the puppy that they found that we found on the street to help the community. Because every week like twice a week we receive message like I have a puppy, what can I do? Can you can you please help me? So that's why we're building the healing sanctuary.
Martin O'Toole 06:16
Wow. So let's, let's have a backtrack. How old are you? Maybe nine
Mia Nurislamov 06:21
I'm gonna be 10 in January.
Martin O'Toole 06:23
Wow, this is so and you just decided one day, I'm going to build a sanctuary when When did you have this realisation that you had this love for animals?
Mia Nurislamov 06:36
First when I was in Canada, there, I rescued and helped some animals. Guess my first rescue animal that I rescued was three baby birds that fold out of the nest. And then we put them back in feed them. And yeah, and then I started to have a passion for birds. So I put like a bird feeder outside. I take photos of them every day. But then we decided to move to Bali. We sold everything we didn't know because it was our first time but we were sure that we were going to like it. So we came but the first time I like the first second that I come to Bali. I saw some I was like what's happening with all these dogs like why do they have so much problems? And then people told me that these are bullies to dogs. It's normal here to see some dying or some with so many injuries. So I wanted to help.
Martin O'Toole 07:32
And how many animals are you currently looking after in your home?
Mia Nurislamov 07:37
My home I have three rescue dogs, Snowball brownie and brave. Do you want me to tell you their story?
Martin O'Toole 07:45
Well, I did. I also wanted to know do you? Do you have a one eyed chicken?
Mia Nurislamov 07:50
Yes, I had her name is Stella I had before but she passed away
Julia Malcolmson 07:54
Oh, I didn't know that
Martin O'Toole 07:56
Oh, yeah. Sorry to hear that.
Mia Nurislamov 07:58
That's okay.
Julia Malcolmson 07:59
Stella was very lovely. Yeah,
Martin O'Toole 08:01
she was well, we'll talk about that shortly. But yes, I would like to hear the story of your your three dogs that you got you got into your house. So these are these dogs who were supposed to stay in the sanctuary, but then managed to stay long term.
Mia Nurislamov 08:17
We actually my friend found her in November. Then she brought it to my friend but her friend didn't have space. So she anchors Snowball was a little cute, tiny puppy. He had almost like no friends at all. He had real bad skin issues. And his mother was hit by a car and died. So he could not stay on the street. So she gave it to my friend and my friend gave it to eat up but then I fell in love when I saw him. So we decided to foster him for one week. And then we and then my mom said if I was taking good care of him, I could keep him and that's what happened. He was my first rescue dog.
Martin O'Toole 09:01
And haven't you got a little puppy as well.
Mia Nurislamov 09:04
I got brave. Yeah, brave and I got him one week ago brave was rescued from a maggot case. He has an Indonesian family and a matar but they don't take good care of him. And he had a big wound with maggots, maggots or fly eggs that hatch into worms and that eats you till death. But we decided to take him to the vet and we rescue him save him from that.
Julia Malcolmson 09:31
And you you help with that, didn't you?
Mia Nurislamov 09:33
Yeah, I did and Brownie his story. We rescued him in December. He was already adult. And when we saw him because our neighbour told us at 7pm that they were a friendly dog in front of their house. So we go and it was really a friendly dog. So we bring him into our into our garage. And then he was like coughing, coughing so I make some research Watch. And if it looks like it was kennel cough kit, kennel cough is like a normal cold cough. But each it's coughing like every five seconds. And like it was intro ups like twice or third time a day.
Martin O'Toole 10:17
Well, that so the dog throws up three, three times.
Mia Nurislamov 10:20
Yeah, it throws up like saliva. And yeah, but then the vet can make injection three months later, he was fine. And like we posted some photos because we think maybe he was a lost dog because he's just too friendly and too beautiful to be a street dog. That no, nobody claimed him. So we decided to keep him.
Martin O'Toole 10:42
Wow. So what you just asked me that if she helped the vet what
Julia Malcolmson 10:47
Yeah, well, then you have you have a lot of knowledge about about veterinary skills and practices. And I have you have told me before because we've had many conversations, that you often assist the vet. So you're very you watch a lot of these processes. So I'm really intrigued to know a little bit about your experience with that, but also where all this knowledge is coming from
Mia Nurislamov 11:10
started from because, again, it's from the college for dogs and barley should cats, because they were just so many animals before I was like scared of becoming a vet because like animal would bite me and things like that. But now I love them so much like I really want to help them and take care of them. Like, I want to become a vet. Like if I'm not so much more friendly with animals not so afraid anymore. And yeah, and I watch every day, it's called Bondi red. It's a vet in Bondi in Australia, and also teach every day I watch and it teaches me so much like, already know how to do CPR if a dog is stroking how to take temperature. I know so many stuff. I know how to heal wounds.
Julia Malcolmson 11:59
That's really really inspiring. And also like I'm incredibly squeamish. I don't know about you, Martin, but a bit I you know, I follow you on Instagram and I know that you have watched a lot of procedures. How'd you find that?
Mia Nurislamov 12:14
It's I don't know what's procedure.
Julia Malcolmson 12:18
Oh, that's okay. The process so when you're watching the vet when she's helping, you know, like recently with brave and the maggots were coming out and you were very much there and part of helping brave that would make me feel pretty squeamish a little funny in my tummy.
Mia Nurislamov 12:34
Ya know, my kids, my mom wants to come cuz she's feeling like it too. Like she don't like it. But when you're passionate about it, like, you have to do it. Like, as the first time I feel a little bit bad. But then I got used to it.
Julia Malcolmson 12:50
Great. And that's that makes a great vet. Yeah.
Mia Nurislamov 12:54
Become it you can become.
Martin O'Toole 12:56
And so now you're totally used to it. So. So with Brave you said you had a maggot injury. What happened there then he had a he had a hole,
Mia Nurislamov 13:04
actually the flies, they come and lay eggs and they hatch into worms that are called maggots. But they because normally they would eat dead animals, but they'd have injuries. So they think maybe it's dead animals, but actually they're still alive. So this can kill them. adult dogs, they can die in two weeks pups in dates,
Martin O'Toole 13:27
and the maggots will eat them anyway. So you had to get them out. Houses trousers,
Mia Nurislamov 13:33
and he had like hundreds 1000s of them. But first they were small the first day. We came back the other day, they were still more but they were huge now. So in one day from tiny become became huge.
Julia Malcolmson 13:47
Yeah, scrap it, isn't it and how's brave doing now,
Mia Nurislamov 13:50
his wand is completely heal and he don't have any more maggots. So that's a great news. He's a maggot survivor. We had. We had 10 case of maggots, and only two survived.
Martin O'Toole 14:03
Oh, wow. So it's pretty bad. Yeah, maggots can kill. So now he's happy and healthy. Whereas brave going to live then is he going to go into live in the sanctuary?
Mia Nurislamov 14:17
We want to take care of him. But we don't know yet. I'm not sure.
Martin O'Toole 14:22
I see. I suppose you have to make sure all of your family is on board with having him in the house.
Mia Nurislamov 14:28
Yeah. Especially my dad.
Martin O'Toole 14:33
But I bet your dad likes Brave because he's a very cute dog. He's brave.
Mia 14:37
Yeah, he's only 2 weeks old. He opened his eyes and one week ago,
Julia Malcolmson 14:42
and he's a famous pop now.
Mia Nurislamov 14:43
Yeah, everywhere I go. People are like, Oh my gosh, he's so cute. Can I pet him? Can I hold him? He's rarely like super famous.
Martin O'Toole 14:52
And he's on your Instagram so so let's talk about your your Instagram for a moment. So when you decided to Out of the blue to build your own animal sanctuary, as you do when you're nine years old. What How did you you How did you go about raising the money to do this?
Mia Nurislamov 15:12
I have a first I talk with my without Instagram. First I started Instagram because I know there's many people on Instagram. So I talk about my project. Everybody liked it. So people donate it. I have a PayPal account and GoFundMe if you want to donate. And yeah, so that's where they started to donate. And then they've, they donate so much money, like we could build all the sanctuary. And then we had like many dogs rescue and everything, so they pay also for the vet bill. That's super cool. And now we just need like more money to build part two.
Martin O'Toole 15:49
Well, we actually have a link to your GoFundMe page on our website already. So if anybody's keen to find out more about me as sanctuary or donate, I'm going to plug this lots during this podcast. So it's how to die happy podcast.com forward slash on dash, the dash show and then you'll find me as profile click on there and do the rest. When you're not loving animals and doing when you're not loving animals and doing other stuff.
Julia Malcolmson 16:20
Yeah, we'd love to know what a day in the life of Mia looks like.
Mia Nurislamov 16:25
A day first we go and eat at my mom's restaurant. We are Christina and then like in the at 4pm Go street feeding every day. And that's where our SAT that's where like it started from because the sanctuary also came with street feeding. Because out one day I was bore. I was it was so boring. But then I call my mom was like we can do street feeding. But my friend also district feedings. She was like, Okay, I will call our friend. But I was like, No, we go street feeding ourselves. So we got to the pet shop, we bought some food, starting to feed dogs and then we sing dog food. And now they come to us. That's been eight months we feed them and from all our dog that we rescued there from the from the street fair.
Martin O'Toole 17:18
And so you're so you, your mom and live your little sister. Is that right on a on a scooter on a scooter with a big bag of dog food?
Mia Nurislamov 17:28
Yeah, with a bag of dog food. And sometimes we do many rescues. They're like yesterday, we did a rescue for a puppy that had a really swollen leg. She's been she has been not moving for three days. So we brought her to the vet and now she's at the sanctuary healing well,
Martin O'Toole 17:47
that's good to hear. So we need to hear listen out for that song. Dog food. Yeah. And if we haven't got any food and we can we can come out. Yeah, same time and get fed.
Mia Nurislamov 18:01
If we don't have the if we don't sing dog food. The dogs don't know that we're here and come food so nobody will come. So we have to sing.
Julia Malcolmson 18:08
Yeah. And I think as well a lot of the dogs have really they've got to know you haven't they? Yeah, and I think you said the other day your scooter smells like dog food.
Mia Nurislamov 18:16
Yeah, we're like when we go to cashew tree or to restaurants when there's dogs. They're always like calm and and they sit and wait for us to get food or scooter smell like food. We need to wash it like every month.
Julia Malcolmson 18:31
And who do you go dog feeding with? With my
Mia Nurislamov 18:34
mom and my sister sometime my father, my dad. And yes, sometimes we have people that wants to see how we're street feeding so we bring people sometimes and we're street feeding 25 dogs.
Julia Malcolmson 18:49
That's a lot of dogs. I know Martin and I were very lucky we came with you constantly to to watch you in action and do some street feeding
Martin O'Toole 18:57
on the convoy. The motorboat Conboy? Yeah,
Mia Nurislamov 19:01
it's amazing street fitting because after that you're rescuing dogs or a street fear. You're feeling good inside because you help someone? Yeah, yeah, it's really nice feeling
Julia Malcolmson 19:13
that is a lovely thing to hear. Isn't it?
Martin O'Toole 19:15
Very much so heartwarming. In fact, Mayor but then you are just a giant walk in heartworm, if you want my honest opinion. So we didn't finish your day in the life so you when do you strictly do the street feeding in the morning? No at 4pm to 4pm So what happened? What do you do for the rest of the day then? Because I understand from your Instagram also, that you do a lot of homeschooling? Yeah,
Mia 19:40
cuz I'm homeschooling I never go to school. That's why I'm super smart. And also, I draw I paint and that's why I did my healing sanctuary also because if I go to school, I could not do this project. I'm going there every day.
Julia Malcolmson 19:57
So so is the project the homeschooling project. it yes it is.
Martin O'Toole 20:01
Because is your mum that mainly helps you with the homeschooling? Or does your dad do it as well?
Mia Nurislamov 20:07
For building the sanctuary, she helps me. But if I want to look are searching something I go on the computer and I have my answer.
Martin O'Toole 20:16
Okay, so mum helps you with homeschooling?
Mia Nurislamov 20:20
Yeah with this sanctuary?
Martin O'Toole 20:23
And do you get involved in all the different aspects of it? So do you make the finances your maths lesson and marketing your English lesson? Is that how you do it?
Mia Nurislamov 20:35
No, I don't I do the English lesson and the math lesson myself. Like, if I want to learn like I'm playing and learning and the English because I live in Bali like I'm learning every day. So English I don't need any English lesson. It's just talking to you. It's making me and English lesson.
Martin O'Toole 20:55
Well, you make a very good point. Yeah. That's the best way. That's the best way to learn. Did you not speak English before you came here then?
Mia Nurislamov 21:04
I speak with just little when I was in Canada, because in Canada, I lived in Quebec, the French part so we speak French. But then I started to learn English a little bit for two years before we move in Bali, because we're like we really wanted to move. So I had to learn English. And then arrive here just speak a little English. But now that's been two years I'm here. And I learned am speaking English really? Well.
Martin O'Toole 21:32
Yes, you Oh, yeah. Very good. phenomenally well. And then what do you do on an evening then? Do you actually relax?
Mia Nurislamov 21:39
Sometimes? Yes. Sometimes I go with my friends. Sometimes I do some stuff. And also, yeah, I have so many projects. So sometimes I'm busy. Sometimes I have free times. It depends. Each day is different.
Martin O'Toole 21:55
Do you did you know the Bondi vet show? Do you watch that every day?
Mia Nurislamov 21:58
Yeah, every day when my sister is sleeping at night.
Martin O'Toole 22:01
So that's what you do every evening, you you. You learn about new veterinary practices.
Mia Nurislamov 22:06
Yeah, cuz you need to if you if you want to help, you need to learn at at least the basics of choking or CPR. These are the basics.
Martin O'Toole 22:17
Speechless, so I'm gonna put in a good way because you super impressive. I'm gonna just play a little question from one of our audience members for okay.
Mia Nurislamov 22:28
Martin O'Toole 22:43
That's a nice summary, isn't it?
Mia Nurislamov 22:45
Yeah, I love it.
Martin O'Toole 22:46
By this lovely chap called Dwayne forest. He was a friend of ours. Okay, question,
Vanny 22:52
what do you think about any strangers who rescue a dog? And after that they released the dog again? Cause they don't find any adopter. And also, they must be back to their hometown. Do you agree about their decision?
Martin O'Toole 23:09
That's from a lady called Vanny. from Bali
Mia Nurislamov 23:13
cos. First, when you rescue a dog. It depends like first the first thing first, you will rescue a dog, you have two decision. You call rescue centres like Bhawan Mission Possible. Or buddy Dog Rescue Squad many otters are lucky dog rescue body bad. The problem is that right now, most of them are full. So your best choice is to bring your dog to the vet immediately. Because if they have a virus or something, they could die at any moment. So bring to the vet is the best choice. And then you decide if you're going to another country, you can give it to your friend or to somebody that will take good care of it. And if you're if you're not like if you're staying to Bali, you can keep it or keep it till you find us somebody or something to do with the dog.
Martin O'Toole 24:04
Yeah, that's good advice. So probably. So I think what Vanny was wondering was What's it? What do you think about people rescuing dogs, but then taking them to the vets or whatever, making them well, and then letting them go again. So I think what you're seeing is if you there's a way that you can keep them or you can get someone else to look after them after you've rescued and then that would be better than throwing them back.
Mia Nurislamov 24:28
If they are puppies or abandoned puppies. First you need to know if they have a monster or not yet. First to save they have a modern normally they're at their welfare, because they had to they're drinking milk normally around two or three months. But if they're skinny, it's the first sign that they have no matter and if there's only one puppy or three puppy These are the signs also that they're no matter and they have been done. So you can take them but puppies with no matter will never see survive in the wild, so you better take them. If they're adults. It depends on the case. If it's like shadow a dog that we had here, Shadow had an injury, maggot injury, a big wound on his back. And he had maggots. So we remove them treat him and then we release come every week, give him medicine and see now his wound is is completely healed just need for to grow back. But it's okay. So depends on the case, if it's a poison dog, you better like spot, the place where he found it and where is the poison, because if you release it, he could be eat poison again and get poison, you have to do it all over again. So first, you need to see if it's a poisoned case, or something really serious. You need to see look around and try to find all the poison and remove them. Or that if it's like a little case, like shadow hat or hit by car, but now it's all it's already here. You can try to release it because some dogs like because my friend she rescued a dog, adult dog 20 years old. And she tried to bring him to the vet. But he jumped out of the car and ran away. So that's dogs that wants to be free. If the dog is super friendly, and like it don't want to leave you means it's he wants to stay with you. And, and also, with those two dogs, you need to be careful. Because belly street dogs if there's a dog that lives to more than one year, it's a miracle that he's still alive because many dogs die at Puppy age.
Martin O'Toole 26:41
A lot of dogs die in Bali, don't they?
Mia Nurislamov 26:45
Yeah. And there's a dog in our street. His name is doggie and he is 15 years old. So it's a miracle that he's still alive right now.
Julia Malcolmson 26:54
Wow. Dogs got some will to live.
Martin O'Toole 26:57
Yeah. So you deal with death a lot then don't you?
Mia Nurislamov 27:03
Yeah. I have so many case that died. But first, cuz dog cuz the first dog that died. I was like, it's sad, but not enough to make tears come out. Curse the dog. I just met him like today, if it was a part of my family, it would be different story. But I just met him like today. Like it's not a part of my family. Or it's not even somebody that I know. So it's like, okay, he died. That he's not a part of family. So it's not so sad. It's sad because he died. But the deep end is not the end. It's a new beginning.
Martin O'Toole 27:43
As a lovely perspective, can you can you tell me a little bit more about that. So when you say it's a new beginning, what do you think?
Mia Nurislamov 27:51
It's like because the end? It's never the end? Actually, it's a new beginning because like, okay, somebody died, but it's a new beginning because he's not gonna be there anymore. But you will still love him.
Martin O'Toole 28:04
So his energy is still around energy still
Mia Nurislamov 28:07
around. Even if he's not there. You can talk with him.
Martin O'Toole 28:10
And he'll hear?
Mia Nurislamov 28:11
Yeah, yeah.
Julia Malcolmson 28:13
And then what do you obviously, you know, you've had to deal with a lot of a lot of dogs dying and what do you do
Mia Nurislamov 28:19
a lot of animals also, what do I do if I if like I rescued a dog, but the dog died like, on the tree going to the vet or tanks, we go and buried the body. I draw some drawing some pictures, take some flowers, and buried with him with the drawings and flowers sending good energies. And but if the dog die at the vet, it's the vet that bury that I'm just sending good energies and good vibe to his to their souls.
Julia Malcolmson 28:49
Beautiful practice is a beautiful remindful
Martin O'Toole 28:53
what sort of things do you draw?
Mia Nurislamov 28:54
I draw the animal that die i i write some kind words i i also write the reason why I die like poison or things like that. And I'm saying like, I will never forget you or things like that. Just kind words. So make your soul happy.
Martin O'Toole 29:14
Bless your heart, young lady. So Mia, as you might know, there's a common thread that holds our podcast together the how to die happy podcast, and the common thread is the 10. Common deathbed regrets. So a lot of people when they're dying, they have the same regrets. You know what? I regret it? Yeah, I know. And one of those regrets is that I wish I'd had the courage to live my dreams to do what I really wanted to do.
Mia Nurislamov 29:49
But you didn't did it. So you're sad.
Martin O'Toole 29:51
Exactly. And it's really it's a really sad list because if you think about it, these people have all of these regrets. Too late. him because he can't do anything about him. Yeah. And that was one of the reasons why we wanted to get you on the show. Because you're nine. And you're doing, you're living your dreams, I think, is that fair to say?
Julia Malcolmson 30:15
Yeah, I would say so.
Mia Nurislamov 30:17
Yeah, that's my dream.
Martin O'Toole 30:19
So, age nine already living your dream. What's next for me then?
Mia Nurislamov 30:25
What's next is being a vet and a professional dog trainer.
Martin O'Toole 30:30
Okay, talk to us about that.
Mia Nurislamov 30:33
First, I'm already learning how to be a dog trainer. My dog already knows so many tricks. snowbowl knows 16 tricks brownie knows to two tricks and brave knows what tricks and about fed. Like I told you for a reason. I really want to be a vet. I'm going to be a professional vet when I'm older.
Martin O'Toole 30:56
Okay. And do you know what, what you have to do to train to be a professional vet?
Mia Nurislamov 31:03
Yeah, I know what to do. I'm going to learn online and I'm going to do my infrared is going to be a bit different because I'm going to have some natural healing fat because I I know how to get rid of ticks and fleas naturally, like only with apple cider vinegar, alcohol and baking soda.
Martin O'Toole 31:23
Tell us about that.
Mia Nurislamov 31:25
ticks and fleas. The most dangerous I would say is ticks kids, if they drink your blood, they can give you a virus. How to Get Rid of ticks. You can take you can take a tweezer or something to pull out the tick. Or you can put the spread soldier apple cider vinegar, baking soda, alcohol and water and misbranded sick it will. It will get out and die in one hour.
Julia Malcolmson 31:54
So you can do it naturally. And I have to give the dog chemicals. Yeah, and
Mia Nurislamov 31:57
it's the same thing for fleas.
Martin O'Toole 31:59
So what you spray the dog with the with this mixture, and then the fleas don't want to stand the dog.
Mia Nurislamov 32:05
No, because this is like a poison for kids and for ticks. They will come it will make them come out and die. Okay. So it's a it's a good thing.
Julia Malcolmson 32:16
Great. Well, this is I have I have absolutely no doubt that I don't think it'd be long before me it is a bit.
Mia Nurislamov 32:24
Yeah. Some because, uh, you need a diploma like to be a real vet. But if one day I'm going to vet school, I'm going to be like, like this, like, I'm going to be like, Oh, I know this. I know that. Like in one day I have my diploma already. You know.
Martin O'Toole 32:41
I love her modest you are? Well, I suppose you will be what's the what age do you have to wait to them before you go off and do your read stuff that stuff.
Mia Nurislamov 32:52
To get the tip long you need to go to vet school and to go to vet school you need to be 19 but for learning you need to you can be any age. So I'm gonna when I'm going to be in my own house, we're going to meet moving in bingin maybe in one or two years. And I'm going to have like my own place like my own little vets room. And I'm going to be like healing my own pets and everything there
Martin O'Toole 33:19
What's he gonna have a little little veterinary surgery in your bedroom? Yeah.
Mia Nurislamov 33:23
And emergency room?
Martin O'Toole 33:24
Does your dad know about this?
Mia Nurislamov 33:27
Yeah, he knows.
Martin O'Toole 33:33
Brilliant. Well, I think we've established that you are very happy. helping animals. Yeah. Can you add another question for me about happiness? So yeah,
Julia Malcolmson 33:43
I want to know what else makes you happy?
Mia Nurislamov 33:46
What else makes me happy. Especially when I help somebody or some animals, like I save their lives. It's making me feel happy. Or when I create something like I'm feeling like I just did a project or something makes me feel happy. And when somebody like die, our animal die and I'm like, sad bad. I remember all the beautiful souvenirs and moment that we have together so it makes me feel happy. Also know
Martin O'Toole 34:18
that's a wonderful perspective you have there for you. You as a nine year old, you're obviously still very young, but doing all of these amazing things and they all seem to make you happy. Would you have any advice for an adult who can't find happiness?
Mia Nurislamov 34:36
Okay, the advice I have, like for finding happiness, you need to find like a passion like what you what you like to do, like me is being a vet to passion about animals. You need to find your passion to find happiness or help somebody yours or an animal to be happy or help them do something that like compassion, like I told a passion can make many people happy.
Martin O'Toole 35:05
Love the idea.
Julia Malcolmson 35:05
Very, very good advice. Yeah.
Martin O'Toole 35:07
So essentially, you will find happiness through helping others.
Mia Nurislamov 35:13
Yeah, normally it's like dad or true passion. Or a beautiful
Martin O'Toole 35:16
perspective. Yeah, isn't it? Yeah. And
Julia Malcolmson 35:20
how long does it take most people to get to that point?
Martin O'Toole 35:22
Well, it took me 44 years before I stopped being selfish. Okay. So and obviously as as listened to listeners to the podcast, no, no, dedicating the rest of my life in service to others in some way, shape or form, not in a in a worthy ways is via this podcast. You got any more questions for me or the the mini do little?
Julia Malcolmson 35:51
Me I would love to sit and chat with you, I find you very fascinating to talk to plus, I'd like to converse with you in a very equal way. Because you're so knowledgeable. And you're so you're so easy to chat to, you know, we can chat about, you know, your passions for hours. And then I think I'd like to know, Do you Do you see how you inspire other people you like perhaps do you notice that you inspire other people in the community? Or maybe other people within your family?
Mia Nurislamov 36:26
Yes, I do. Because I see many rescue centres that inspired me that I think I'm the only kid who did a healing sanctuary for dogs. So I know how much I am inspiring for other people's
Julia Malcolmson 36:38
great, and that's what we need more of, don't we we you know, through inspiring other people. Slowly, we started to change. And many
36:46
people also don't know what its purpose of life, purpose of life, your life could be long or short, doesn't matter. If you're happy, I'm happy purpose of life is being happy, or at least one time in your life.
Martin O'Toole 37:06
I can't say anything better than that. So I think on that note, we're going to thank you very, very much for coming on the how to die happy podcast. So just a quick reminder to everybody if you liked what Mia had to say, and you feel inspired by this, this nine year old creative being that's going to make some phenomenal waves in the next few years. I've no doubt about it. You can find a link to her GoFundMe page on our website how to die happy podcast.com forward slash on dash that dash show. I just made Jules do an arm there. Well, well done, Jules. And thank you, Mia. Thank you so much.
37:52
Thank you so much for having me. I had so much fun.
Martin O'Toole 37:55
You have been a wonderful guest and I can't believe this was your first podcast. I know that you are a very confident speaker. However, you were phenomenal today. So thank you very much.
Julia Malcolmson 38:05
Thank you much.
