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Episode 332: Bending Without Breaking · Positively 365: Inspire, Motivate, Support

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Positively three hundred and sixty five, a podcast
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  Speaker 1: by Joe Wattis.
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  Speaker 2: We wish to entertain, instruct and motivate.
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  Speaker 1: If nothing else, Hopefully we can entertain and inspire you
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  Speaker 1: to live a more positive life three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: five days a year.
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  Speaker 2: We hope you enjoy this message.
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  Speaker 3: So there is this guy one day who's walking through
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  Speaker 3: the forest when he stumbles upon a talking frog. The
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  Speaker 3: frog says to him, Hey, if you kiss me, I'll
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  Speaker 3: turn into a beautiful princess. The man looks at the frog,
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  Speaker 3: then carefully puts it in his backpack. From inside the bag,
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  Speaker 3: the frog yells, hey, you didn't hear me. I said
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  Speaker 3: I'll turn into a beautiful princess if you kiss me.
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  Speaker 3: The man shrugs and says, Honestly, at this point in
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  Speaker 3: my life, I'd rather have a talking frog. Welcome to
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  Speaker 3: Positively three sixty five, your weekly moment of calm, clarity
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  Speaker 3: and positivity in a noisy world. I'm your host, Joe Wattis,
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  Speaker 3: and today we're diving into the quality that's essential to
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  Speaker 3: living well, not just surviving, but thriving. Today's theme is resilience,
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  Speaker 3: the ability to bend without breaking to keep showing up
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  Speaker 3: when life gets messy, uncertain, or downright difficult. It's not
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  Speaker 3: about pretending things you're fine. It's about becoming fine eventually
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  Speaker 3: because you choose to keep going. But first, before we
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  Speaker 3: get into all of that, it's time for our trivia question.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready for it? Here? It is what small
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  Speaker 3: animal can survive being frozen solid and thought out again,
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  Speaker 3: continuing life as normal. We will have the answer when
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  Speaker 3: glad you did. Thanks for listening and happy reading. Welcome
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  Speaker 3: back listeners. Do you know the answer to this week's
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  Speaker 3: trivia question? The question was what small animal can survive
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  Speaker 3: being frozen solid and thought out again, continuing life as normal.
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  Speaker 3: The answer is the wood frog. Native to North America,
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  Speaker 3: this amazing little creature can literally freeze during the winter.
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  Speaker 3: Its heart stops beating, its blood stops flowing, and then
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  Speaker 3: when spring comes, it thaws out and goes right back
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  Speaker 3: to hopping around like nothing ever happened. Scientists say it
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  Speaker 3: does this by flooding its system with glucose, which protects
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  Speaker 3: itsels during freezing. Its weird and wonderful as an example
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  Speaker 3: of natural resilience, a reminder that sometimes surviving the freeze
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  Speaker 3: is just part of the journey. Resilience isn't about being
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  Speaker 3: unaffected by life. It's about being affected deeply and choosing
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  Speaker 3: to rise anyway. We all have our own freeze moments,
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  Speaker 3: a loss, a failure, a setback that knocks the wind
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  Speaker 3: out of us. But over time, if we nurture it,
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  Speaker 3: resilience helps us to bounce back, not unchanged, but stronger, wiser,
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  Speaker 3: and more compassionate. Resilience doesn't mean you're always smiling through
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  Speaker 3: the storm. It means you trust that the storm will pass,
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  Speaker 3: that you can rebuild, that you are not at your
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  Speaker 3: worst moment. And like the tiny wood frog, sometimes the
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  Speaker 3: world goes cold for a while, but given time, you'll thaw,
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  Speaker 3: you'll heal, and you'll move forward again. This week, let
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  Speaker 3: me leave you with this true story. In two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and eight, a man named Jiya Haxia, who was blind,
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  Speaker 3: teamed up with his friend Gia Wenji, who lost both
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  Speaker 3: arms in an accident. Together, they started planting trees in
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  Speaker 3: rural China to combat deforestation. One man can't see, the
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  Speaker 3: other can't use his hands, but together they planted over
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  Speaker 3: ten thousand trees. They didn't let their limitations define their impact.
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  Speaker 3: They adapted, They supported each other, They refused to give up.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's resilience. So today, whatever you're facing, remember this.
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  Speaker 3: You may feel frozen tired, sit back, but you are
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  Speaker 3: not defeated. You're still here, You're still capable, and your
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  Speaker 3: story isn't finished just yet. Thanks for listening to Positively
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  Speaker 3: three sixty five. Keep going, keep growing, and as always,
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  Speaker 3: stay positive.
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