Rejuvenation: I am Bat El

[Music] hi everybody eve herro li mode UK I guess it's Christmas Day I'm looking out on the miserable weather and I'm nice and warm and cozy in my hotel it is December 25th 2018 17th day of Tibet actually it's dark so it's 1850 vet 57 79 and I am sitting with a new friend because one of these people that I just feel like wow I've known her for much longer than just the few minutes that I've known her but del Bornstein who presented a fabulous show here a couple of hour ago hours ago here at Lima Duque and of course like everybody else I flocked over to her like some starstruck person afterwards and asked if if we could do an interview so we're sitting here together first syllable el thank you so much for agreeing thank you for having me thank you so much we were just mutually complaining about the food here oh don't get me started but yes mmm it's not a great cuisine nobody comes through the food we've already discussed that it's my first so now I know that nobody comes for the first I just stayed to granola bars from my bag while while I was waiting anyway tell us tell my listeners a little bit about your journey and what got you up on the stage today and a lot of people in Israel know you but tell you're very well known in Israel but I think for my foreign listeners which is most of you you don't know who she is and I think you should I think because it's right here no one can see me we should say that my height is 48 inches I was born in there Romania and I grew up in Israel and I always dreamt big and always wanted to create things for myself and I always wanted to be an actress and I did the regular journey as an actress of acting studio and whatnot but in the last five years and because I had some kind of a financial hardship I created my own show which share in that show I talked about all the moments in life when I felt humiliated in all the moments I felt great and it's an inspiring inspirational show with songs and and dances and and there's some jokes and that's what I do I travel the world and I share with them my life experience I need a great voice also part of the show is singing thank you thank you so I'll just tell it because I was in the show so I can tell the listeners some of the things that you were in the Israeli army which couldn't have been so simple they didn't want to take you I knew as you said you went in the back door yes in Israel everyone goes to the army most of the population goes to the army and it was clear to me that I will join the army as well I I never even thought that there will be a problem and when I went to the recruiting office they told me that people under certain height or certain weight for that matter can I join the army so I am more than welcome to turn around and go back home but it didn't really fit for me from my point of view so I volunteered to the army I served for three years usually girls in his reserve - I served as a soldier social worker for the parachutes and a broadcaster actually in their military radio station which is a very big station in Israel and I think it's a common thing for the earlier experience of my life that I see a challenge like I come face a challenge and I say okay some people would think that I will do what they say they say no sighs okay then no but I I don't see that I think the challenges are you are the way for you to perfect yourself it's like to be you know diamond you find a diamond in sturdy and and rough but and you like challenge the diamond to shine you like beat him or I don't know so I think challenges in life is a blessing because it makes you eventually who you are and if you are attached with yourself and with God then maybe you wouldn't have to go that challenge again because you already been through that so yeah I day I joined the army I actually got a career out of it as a broadcaster in in Israel and it was a good lesson for life so did it take you a while to get to that place we realize that and we all have challenges and one of the stories I hope I'm not spoiler alert you should still go see the show there's just a couple things that stood out that you were thinking one day there's this procedure that takes a year incredibly painful which will stretch you out a little bit at 8 inches or something and you went to talk to your some of your friends who as you said our normal height and they were still complaining about the cellulite on their legs or their breasts are big whatever it is whatever it is girls complained about and you realize like you know you might be challenging your height but other people are dealing with their own things but were you always in that place like when you were a little girl were you raised you know to feel like what you might say could have been a difficulty is actually was a blessing because it created you for who you are today I think I was raised by a very Jewish Soviet mother and it wasn't connected so spiritually as what you said but she never gave me and she never make me made me feel like I was different for the motor in our house is everything someone can jazz you need and know and we'll do it better so I until like very late in my years didn't even know I was different because nobody in my immediate environment treated me as as as different like I was raised to do what everyone does better as I said so in school awesome everyone just related to in after-school activities in sports like really he was yeah and so it was a very pro-active environment that like she literally threw me in the deep water and said swim this is the way as I grow older and a process that I'm going through in my life I realized that um that it is a blessing that it made me who I am that I have a job and a role in this world that I'm not she that everything has a reason and I'm not tiny for no for no reason and I I never I will not ask her I wouldn't want to be in a regular hide or I wouldn't want to be someone else because then I know for sure that I will have other problems dealing with being tiny is at that I feel like I can write the book now new problems I don't it's not for me I think that's what resonated with everyone in the audience because I was looking around I don't know if you get to see people in the audience if the lights on and everybody's just kind of shadowy but I was looking around and realizing that at different times you said something that struck everybody because everybody most of us I think get in our own way okay we try we don't look at problems as blessings we we a lot of us I think do you have a sense of entitlement we're entitled to be healthy we're entitled to all these good things and then when something happens and takes it away from us what happened how could that happen and I and what I was hearing from you and what I was feeling from the audience was that you were saying you know your issue was right there it's not like something that was hidden and therefore you dealt with it in a very healthy way and I'm watching people around thinking like what do I have that I'm not dealing with and what do I have that I'm blaming other people for or whatever it is and and the word that I was hearing really was how inspiring you were to so many to so many of the people in the audience is that why you're doing this I mean you said you had financial problems so you could be out on the stage just to pay the bills which is also legitimate or do you understand the effect that you have on people when I first started I just wanted a recognition as an actress I just wanted to do something that has meaning meaningful mess but now and I'm doing it for the last five years in this may we're gonna celebrate five hundred performances it's not we are doing it a lot and it only gets better in my experience because now I feel that what I do or what I want to create is this and synthase are how to synthesize synthesis synthesis of love I come and I give the audience love I give them an experience I give them a good laugh I share my personal things you know but I get much more I get the love from the audience I get into I I never met you before and now here we are and I feel that in a way it's my job to spread love and light and and it's not my it's not that I've such a lovable or I'm that this and that I I don't think that it's only my credit I think that I got a gift and I need to share that gift with the world because if I will not do that I will be alone in the dark with a gift and what if it's not that fun you know so as my perception changed about why I am doing that and it and it got wider I get more successful because the energy the the the excitement the joy that I brought to the stage it's a whole new world since if you only do it for money or for success I don't care if 90% of the audience didn't enjoy it if one person it's touched him I did my eye I don't think about I just I come to give and I get much more so this is why I am doing that so that's great that limit found you and brought you here and expose you to a whole different audience yeah yeah and it's it's it's for the last a year we are doing it we mean my has my husband is there in English in Israel I'm obviously doing it in Hebrew and it the fact that I have a show in English it exposed me to a whole different communities and audiences but I think that every person can see themselves in my story because we all deal with challenges we all want to find love we don't want to develop in life and spiritually or financially or in your career and it I can perform every I don't mind who the audience is I'm coming to give that in Chinese or in Spanish or I don't know Chinese but I will like I will if they want me out I will come and do it in Chinese because in a way I feel it's a greater message then then what I experience it's just it just came to make the audience feel a little bit I think it's a universal message to a great degree we all have that inside us yeah and if you want and if you are open for it God loves you and you have the right to live this life with excitement and joy and it doesn't matter who you are who are your parents what size or shape or height you are it's up to us how our life will be it's just packaging so in Israel you perform for a lot of children what is the main thing that you do I perform with the show I perform teenagers and up like 11 and up I do it in high schools in army bases but everywhere that has a stage that can hold me contain me I'm coming universities whatever government offices whoever wants me I'm I'm there very easy girl so now I'm sure your English is excellent did you have such good English before you started doing I'm very self-conscious no I watched a lot of MTV growing up so this is how I got my English and I think because I spoke a lot of languages as a child not English it got me I got okay I got a thing for languages and I always wanted that you know for us Israelis we are very influenced by the American culture like all the TV shows that I saw all the music videos that I saw the series the films the stars most of them came from America and being a small kid in a small suburb in a small country and watching those I don't know celebrities for me to be able to translate my Israeli story in a wider way in the language that I fantasized on like I always like took the microphone in my room and like I was imagining that someday I will have any radio show and I will sing and dance and if if I could show that little girl that the it will happen you can relax now don't be so stressed everything you want will happen I would do this so but I think that because that girl didn't know that would make her like really anxious and it's got her to act to do something about it that's the message you give kids because I find sometimes I do that like it will be okay I don't whatever will be it will be okay because we are so worried when we're young about what's going to be we spend a ridiculous amount of time worrying about the future and if we could all just like you said and I think there's a TV show out now this is us where she has I hope I'm not ruining this for anybody Kate has a dream where she goes back and she actually talks to her 12 year old self and says like it'll be okay you know and I thought wow what an amazing thing if I would be able to do that and just say it will be okay so if you can do that to these kids now and just say to them like it was okay for you it'll be okay for that in a way I think that fate does that I think that life without it starts in a very in a basic way where you have to be in yourself you have to believe in the world you have to believe in in the goodness that there were but that thing to me is a bit limited because even as a grownup I would find myself worried about what will happen what's gonna be am I gonna find a husband am I gonna fulfill my dreams and since fate came into my way believing that everything that happens happens for a reason and that God is good and that that really frees you from anxiety more than anything else it it really kisses in ginza anxiety goodbye and faith to me and I think that their most generous thing that you can give to a person is the love of God or faith in some way because it's really I don't see myself as a ghoul or as a person that can really I don't wanna I don't want it I don't feel it I have the tools to real don't feel like you're a spiritual adviser yeah in a way I feel that I'm here to to spread light and love but it's not only my message it's a gift that I got from God so I'm only doing yeah yeah it's not like let me it's it is me but I'm not doing it for for the I don't want to be and go I just want to touch people's heart yeah I totally relate to that because also I feel that I have a gift and some of the things that I do but that it's because Hashem wants me to have it and therefore you need to use it otherwise I'm kind of spitting in his eye because he gave me something for a reason and also that sense of everything will be okay and that feeling of tremendous love I got on the beach in Costa Rica don't ask a couple of years ago when I was there where I just had the sense that someone's in control everything will be okay and I just have to do what I have to do and do it in a good way and touch people as as often as I can so I totally get what you're saying it's amazing and also it's frees you that make you free not freezing yeah in in the from that fear that you are the only person that is in charge of your life or it makes that I think that sometimes people put their happiness in other people okay if I will have that guy I will be happy if I lose weight I will be happy if I get that job I will be happy but but but no you will just want other like the next thing happiness comes from believing in my opinion and it's and if you will open your heart to that it's like I don't know if you have it but in Instagram there is filters you know you have you take a picture and then you put it on a filter and some filters make the picture with brighter colors for me it's an image to what fate does to your life it makes your life with brighter colors you feel things you are grateful more and more to everything and you don't need Omega extreme events for you to feel something because you are moved by the leaves by the lake by the Sun by the moon you are just grateful to to be here and to be able to do to live faith brings that gratitude yeah yeah which is why it seems sometimes in Judaism were always saying thank and we're always blessing things but it's because it's not coming to us and we want to feel grateful for that so you got you go around the world yeah we just started I I came back from a tour in Australia last month this is my first time in Birmingham any mood we did Copenhagen and Edinburgh Festival actually in Scotland two years ago so we are very in the beginning of the way but we really want to to meet as many souls and touch as many hearts as we can speak Russian you said your mother was from the Soviet Union I can speak Russian like an Alaska - like a but I yeah but give me a month in Russia and I wonder if that's I mean I want that's a place if you have almost the language that you could go to to maybe if you have a gift for the languages the world is at your feet yeah wow that's uh that's it's really amazing what you do so those are your goals to just reach as many people as you can so that's what I want you to ask you any problem with being in Israeli are there places that you would like to go to and they be - yes whatever it is some stood out like that because yours really very good question um my first shows abroad the first time I did I performed in English was in Scotland in the Edinburgh Festival and a year ago before I came there was a huge demonstrations by the BDS for an Israeli theatre company that came and they shut down the company and the company lost like 300 thousand shekels and it was a very big mess I remember I remember when that huh yeah yes so I came as an independent artist I wasn't related to the Israeli government like they because they got money from but it was the first time and the last time I hope that I sense aside myself I didn't talk about the army and all and today I will never do that I will never do that again because I it was as an Israeli you in Israel you don't you I really don't feel anti-semite Sam or any pressure I just lived my life as an Israeli in my country that I loved in my city that I love and I'm proud of from like me being in the Army is such a big moment for me I'm very proud at it I'm it was and for me to to to hide or to be ashamed of something that I'm so not ashamed of it was a big lesson and then we'll never do that again because I was afraid because I invested so much money my own money in that performance that I was I said okay I'm not dealing with them they are more I was alone me and my husband and they were hundreds like the the BDS movement is a very very big in Scotland they're like but in a way I think it's just your average bully you know it's it's bullying and with bullying you need to react you cannot just freeze or or okay we will do it your way you have to say say your your thing or to stand on your feet and and not to be afraid of that I think that shunning boycotting anything is a bully the bully bullying way and it actually hurts the most to the Palestinians because if you hurt the Israeli economy the one that gets hurt from it the most are the weak links in the society and unfortunately the weak links in the society are in some kind of way the Palestinians and they get hurt if you will not help today the economy but if someone from the videos like really opened their eyes or how the dialogue with Israeli or Palestinian they will know that but I think it's clear that they it's not so much that they want to help the Palestinians is they want to hurt his rayless and that's kind of been outed for a long time I don't know if a lot of them realize that but a lot of us do realize that so what you just said is very Israeli like we live in a neighborhood with a lot of bullies and you have to stand up for yourself and not collapse so you're actually in your own private life being over Israeli that's what the country does and you're a little person and it's a little country and it's that same kind of attitude like no you're not gonna step on me I like Israel tiny and strong seriously work that into next the government would love that and beautiful by the way all right so are you doing another show here this was one one day only got me for one but if you want I will give you a private show [Laughter] okay so do you have a website if somebody's let's say and they say wow this lady rocks it we want to bring her into wherever it is that they are you can go on YouTube actually and check my TED talk I have a TEDx talk it's called bigger is better and became very very viral in Israel that's more than 2 million views so you can check it on Facebook or on YouTube you will find it and my website called I am battle comm so you can find it also the 80 capital al in the internet it's all yeah dat yeah which means by the way the daughter of God I have a good dad the best the best that's amazing okay so everybody look her up first of all watch the TED talk and see if you have some clips of some of the shows that you did and if you can't bring her in you won't be sorry it was I think and I have to present twice today wait what coming to your show is definitely the highlight of my day thank you so much thank you for having me I really enjoyed talking to you and doesn't she has the best voice like in the world or that idea don't you like just fill your brain melts into your eyes and when you listen so thank you guys thank you for having me but I'll say that's me we sat down to talk she said I feel like my brain is being massaged by your voice I don't know if you guys feel that but in any event the massage is over so thank you for 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