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Intro: Welcome to Zone2Speak: Conversations Beyond the Ride · Zone2Speak Podcast

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  Music.
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  Everyone. This is our very first podcast. Well, it's a first for both of us.
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  We're virgins here. This is Zone to Speak.
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  This is a new podcast about cycling. I am Debbie. This is Juliana.
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  We are best friends who met in cycling.
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  There's fun backstory there. We'll get to that eventually.
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  Music.
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  But we wanted to do this because we love other podcasts. We love sharing.
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  And we wanted to talk and get a platform out there. We're so excited.
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  This is so new for us. We're both nervous, but we're going to go on the fly
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  and we're going to hope that this resonates with people, that we get to engage this way.
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  No other way to do it, right? Rip off that bandaid.
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  Okay. We're going to do this episode like a fun formula. Who, what, when, why, where.
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  So reigns us in, keeps us in check.
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  So let's get started. This is Zone to Speak. Who are we?
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  So we are your hosts debbie and
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  juliana myself like debbie said
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  we are best friends for many many years
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  we met through cycling in miami i have a triathlon background and i learned
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  so much about cycling with debbie and the triathlon evolved now into ultra cycling
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  and gravel i think that's the fun part about cycling there are so many ways
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  that you can do this you know not even Even as an athlete,
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  you can use it for transportation, leisure, anything.
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  But I love listening to podcasts. So does Debbie. We live in different continents.
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  So we have our video calls here and there to catch up. And one day we're both
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  talking about like, oh my God, we can go on forever. We should have our own podcast.
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  And I was like, I was thinking about that.
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  So here we are. Our idea is flourishing.
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  That's why we also call it Zone 2, because we are on our Zone 2 of podcasts
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  as well. It's our comfortable zone.
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  And we hope to have the podcast evolve and that people will enjoy.
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  We want to talk about anything and everything and have fun. So Debbie,
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  tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Okay. Well, I am, just to kind of share a little bit, connect with my viewers.
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  I grew up in Miami, Florida.
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  I am a mother of two boys, six and nine.
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  And I love cycling. I mean, I grew up cycling around my neighborhood and there's
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  no mistaking why I'm in the industry right now.
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  Right now, I currently work in a bike shop, a local bike shop here.
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  Shout out Elite Cycling and Fitness. We love you.
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  Yeah, it's a small business. It's a great bike shop.
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  It's just kind of taken on a new role in my life. It's become kind of a way of life.
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  It's more like building relationships, getting to help somebody realize their
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  connection to cycling And how it works for them.
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  So, and that's just kind of the way I approach stuff. I started out doing sales
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  and that was the last thing I wanted to do. I was like, I don't want to work on commission.
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  I don't want to be forced to do something that's going to take the love out of cycling.
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  But there was never any pressure. And then throughout the years that evolved,
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  I've been doing that for like seven plus years.
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  And now I'm primarily doing fittings. I actually got retool certified.
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  So that's fun. That kind of takes us back to zone two and why we named it that.
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  And for me, I thought zone two was perfect because it's a conversation.
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  It's building upon a conversation, building upon what we know and building that good, strong base.
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  Music.
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  And from that, it builds up and you can only perform better.
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  Better so it's like a base starting point
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  and I thought that was just awesome I thought it just
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  went perfect it kind of organically came about plus two different
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  time zones come on yeah coincidence there tool says
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  I taught her a lot about cycling she taught me a lot about life and just a true
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  friendship I think I always struggled sometimes trusting other women and it's
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  funny that we actually met in a women's cycling group we knew of each other
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  but we didn't and actually connect together and become friends till we reached out to each other.
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  And we're like, you're actually cooler than I thought you were.
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  And it was funny. The first ride, right? We were laughing at each other because of our backstory.
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  Yeah, there was some tension on our backstory. But then once we met,
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  immediately I knew I wanted to be your friend and nothing else mattered.
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  So I'm so glad we were able to just, you know...
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  Not be petty just you know we like you said you I
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  think you were I don't remember dm each other and then
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  we're like let's meet for coffee and then after that it
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  was just like instant a true friendship you
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  know like and I think that's one of the reasons we want to have this podcast
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  because we always share so honestly and we want to talk about a lot of the topics
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  we talk about that we think it's important with everyone and also funny stuff
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  and fun stuff not just important stuff we We don't want to be serious all the time.
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  We want to talk about the industry, about women issues, about guys issues.
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  It's not also, this is not a just female podcast.
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  We are having this first episode now, just voice, but we plan to also have YouTube
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  channel so you can meet us as well.
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  And we can interact in that platform as well.
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  I agree. People have to get to know us. And it's nice to let them listen to
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  us first and resonate with us.
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  And then it's always fun when you get to put a face to the voice and say,
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  now there's a new layer. I think it's more relatable.
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  Right. I agree. It's a little bit more relatable. Yeah. We kind of cheated there. We said, what?
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  We gave that away. Cycling!
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  Yeah. I know. We love cycling. We're both obsessed with it.
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  I mean, there's a reason why you're doing ultra events. Because I never thought
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  I would be able to do this.
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  And what made me believe in myself was because I also did alpine climbing.
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  And when you have those mountain summits that you are out there for 15,
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  20 hours, I thought, you know, if I can do this on foot, I can probably also do it on a bike.
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  It's different, but it gave me the courage to try.
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  And I'm really enjoying it. Even though I have had a few DNFs,
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  I still feel so accomplished, you know, super accomplished.
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  When I did the race around Rwanda, it's a thousand kilometers around Rwanda. It's a small country.
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  A lot of elevation gain. What is that? 1,600, no, 600 miles, I think.
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  I did not finish. I did 730 something kilometers. I don't know what is that in miles, 500.
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  But I still feel journey. It's such a journey and it's so beautiful to see a
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  country like that and be totally emerged in that culture.
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  So it's more than a sport.
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  I'm really, really enjoying it.
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  Yeah, I can see how it has already changed you.
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  I mean, I always saw that from the start. I noticed it kind of leveled you out
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  when you started cycling more, but especially when you started doing the triathlon.
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  It wasn't just about, I'm joining for a group, somebody's going with me.
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  It was something you said, this makes me feel good. I'm going to go do this.
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  I don't care. Being a triathlete is really a singular sport.
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  You can go train with other people, but when a push comes to shove, it is all you.
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  And that comes down to you, just like with the climbing, everything.
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  You're there. You're in the body. You got to make that work.
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  You got to find those zones to tune into everything.
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  It's that kind of a sport. And it's very mental, all of them in different ways.
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  But you can train all you want, but if you don't have the mental strength to
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  get through it or know what is your motivation, why you are doing this.
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  It gets harder to get through it. You'll figure it out.
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  If you're not in the right place, oh, it's going to come to mind and you're
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  going to be like, fuck with my thinking.
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  Absolutely. I'm stuck here now. And then it's funny when you do that,
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  something turns off and you say, all right, I'm just going to enjoy this.
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  And then you can kind of come back to it and say, I get it. This is what it's about.
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  And that's what you realize too when you decide to do something for yourself.
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  It doesn't become about joining and doing that.
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  And that's all fun too. Trust me, there's a time and place.
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  And then part of cycling is camaraderie and community too. But learning about
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  that teaches you so much about yourself.
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  I mean, I can't even begin. There's too much.
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  We'll tackle that in a lot of episodes because it is such a mind, body, mental aspect.
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  But what I can say is I saw that change you over the years.
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  From all the reiterations of being triathlete, climbing, running,
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  the different injuries, moving to Dubai, just the different climates,
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  the different places you had to go. Yeah, you've been through all my stages.
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  Like me, I'm always here in Miami. Where'd you go? Key Biscayne. Where'd you go? South.
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  Like, there's what? But still, you are where everybody wants your vacations.
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  I know, I know. I can't not. Tell us about where you are now because it's amazing. It's gorgeous.
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  It's been three months. It's really a mecca of cycling and gravel.
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  I'm still discovering, you know, there's so much to discover on the community,
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  the culture, the cycling.
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  So hopefully there's more to come here on the podcast that I can share with
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  everyone. But I'm excited to be in this new location.
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  Dubai was an amazing 10 years, but it was time for a change.
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  But anyways, yeah, so we are here sharing with you who we are and why we started this.
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  We are just gonna
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  have fun with this new adventure and our
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  plan is to have one or two episodes a
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  month we want to have i don't
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  want to say short but 30 to 45 minutes episodes we'll
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  play with that and see where it goes if we decide to we want to do podcasts
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  we're just us talking and then we do want to have guests on we want to have
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  our community on anything from a professional cyclist to your everyday cyclists
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  and how it's affected their lives. What does cycling mean to you?
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  I think that's kind of where we're heading, right? Yeah, yeah.
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  I mean, I think the podcast world is super vast and it's a beautiful community
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  of content out there and we hope it will contribute and that you enjoy.
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  There's so much for everybody out there, so why not, right? Yeah, so look for us on...
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  All the platforms. We are at Zone to Speak, number two. So Zone, number two, Speak.
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  We want to engage. We want to build a community.
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  We can't wait to do that with everyone. We get to spend time together.
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  That's the best part. We haven't done that enough.
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  Like we're always messaging each other. And yes, we get to a bunch of cycling stuff.
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  But this is really also a way for me and Juliana to plan our conversations and talk to fun people.
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  We are looking forward to recording our next episode and have you there with us on this journey.
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  Yes, we will release some sort of a teaser on our YouTube channel and Instagram
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  about our first episode, when that will launch, what our topic will be,
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  maybe a teaser if we have a guest.
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  So zone in to speak with us, but just follow us, keep track,
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  because we'll let you know when it's coming, okay? And we can't wait to go on this adventure.
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  We hope you'll listen to us and give us a chance.
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  This is an opportunity for us as well as our viewers. All right, everybody.
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  Thank you. We did this. Thank you for listening. Ciao. Ciao.
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  Music.