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S2 Bonus You Can Rebuild Without Having It All Figured Out · Get It Got It Girl: Midlife Rebuild

• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Hey everybody, welcome back to Get It Got It Girl.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Rebuilding My Life at 54.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: I need to talk to y'all something about something because I don't know what's going on with me today.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Short, short, man is stuck in my head.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't mean I've heard it once or twice.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean the song has apparently moved in.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: It has unpacked its bags.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's decided to pay no rent.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's living in my head.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sitting here thinking, why this song?
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then I remember the story of yesterday's podcast.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: And all the things that I could be thinking about right now, like my goals, my future, this podcast, my life, the things I need to get done.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: What am I going to do with myself at 54?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: My brain says, short, short, man.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I think we take ourselves way too seriously.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like for me, I'm always serious.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm always studying.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm always, oh, it's exhausting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now in this season of my life, I'm trying to rebuild.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm thinking about my future.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to figure out what I want the next part of my life to look like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I feel like I have almost everything figured out.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like I need the perfect plane.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plane.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see I'm thinking about flying.
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  SPEAKER_00: The perfect morning routine or mindset or the next step.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there's me sitting here with short, short man playing in my head for like the 900th time.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I'm okay with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that re that's because yesterday I had an encounter with a very rude man, even after I shared my eye condition, and he was very short.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: So my brain must have been in protection mode.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I just wanted to share this part of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you more about the inside because maybe rebuilding your story doesn't always look like some beautiful inspirational moment.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't always have the answers.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But maybe sometimes rebuilding looks like getting your stuff together.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it looks like laughing at yourself because your brain has chosen the most ridiculous song possible to obsess over.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what I want this podcast to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not me here sitting that I've completely figured out my life because I don't have it figured out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm 54, I'm rebuilding.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also like the word reignited.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm still figuring things out.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Some days I'm motivated, and some days I don't even know what the hell I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some days I'm ready to conquer the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some days I'm just trying to get through the day without letting one little thing ruin my mood.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm still here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm still trying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that's the whole point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just as long as you are still trying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm here and I'm doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sharing my experience with you right from the beginning of where I'm at exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not as a finished product.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Before I thought I had to sound like a finished product, and then I'm like, I kept struggling because we're all works in progress.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think when we're done and we're finished, well, we know what time that is for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: That we're just maybe that's our purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know, I'm still here.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to have your entire life figured out before you start rebuilding it.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I I would never rebuild.
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  SPEAKER_00: How many of us would rebuild if we had to have it figured out?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go brick by bit brick.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: And apparently I cannot speak, but I'm gonna keep this in there.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: I still have not learned to edit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will find someone to edit.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know, you don't have to figure your entire life.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: You can start exactly where you are, and that's what I'm doing with whatever I have.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like I've been cleaning my room mostly clutter, and I live in a 10 by 10 bedroom.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: And here's one thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think by not taking the edits out of my video, I feel like it's more real.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's because sometimes you know what?
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: I need a drink in the middle of talking.
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  SPEAKER_00: And where I am, the button doesn't pause.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, whatever I've got.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right now, I'm grateful I'm in a podcast room in the library, free of charge.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am grateful for what I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if what you got today is a ridiculous song stuck in your head.
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  SPEAKER_00: So consider this your warning.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: You might come to this podcast looking for somebody who has all the answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not getting her.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: You're getting me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a 54-year-old woman rebuilding my life, figuring things out, laughing at myself, and occasionally losing my train of thought.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: And apparently, I'm listening to short, short man against my will.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I think we're gonna be okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll talk to you next time.