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Introducing 100 Days of Actor Yapping · The Aligned Actor

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, and welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the podcast where I offer practical mindfulness tools
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  SPEAKER_00: and mindset shifts designed to help us all thrive in our full actor lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because as we all know as actors, actor life is a roller coaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is full of ups and downs, twists and turns.
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  SPEAKER_00: We never know what's coming next.
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  SPEAKER_00: The entertainment industry wreaks absolute havoc on our nervous systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the only way that we're going to survive in this business long term is
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  SPEAKER_00: if we're taking care of our nervous systems and we're taking care of ourselves
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  SPEAKER_00: and not burning out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the only way we're going to survive long term.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I want us to be able to do,
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  SPEAKER_00: to be able to handle all the stress that the entertainment industry loves
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  SPEAKER_00: to throw our way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So friends, it turns out that there are less than 100 days left in 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yikes!
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  SPEAKER_00: I know, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But also,
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  SPEAKER_00: good news,
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  SPEAKER_00: the delightful Dave Holmes,
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  SPEAKER_00: who you should definitely go find on social media everywhere that he is,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he also has a publication called Cockshore on Substack,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he's running a 100-day event,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he's writing an article a day over on his publication,
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  SPEAKER_00: Cockshore, and it's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's basically his ideas, like, it's wellness and habits and, like, It's good stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the quote I want to give to you from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a 100-day event to help us all, or to help... Oh, I put a typo in my own writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just going to fix that.
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  SPEAKER_00: To help us all wring some goodness out of the last 100 days of this mother of a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what he says.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can find those articles over on his publication, Coxsure.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've now mentioned that many, many times.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm putting a link in my Substack, which will go out to you very soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: You already have it now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can just look below and read the things that I'm looking at right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for my 100 days, I am choosing to build a habit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the habit that I'm going to build...
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  SPEAKER_00: Which I was a little,
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  SPEAKER_00: when I got started with it,
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  SPEAKER_00: and still now I'm a little like, this could be an epic fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the whole point is just to practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So my habit that I'm building is I'm going to post one yappy type video per day
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  SPEAKER_00: on Instagram talking about actor mindfulness and mindset,
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  SPEAKER_00: anything related to actors and how to make it easier to live your life as an actor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it is high time that I actually started sharing all my ideas
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  SPEAKER_00: and not just like hoarding them for myself or just thinking about them and wishing
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  SPEAKER_00: that people knew this stuff but then not doing anything about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I need to be sharing my ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: I share a lot of stuff on the podcast but I don't share really all that much stuff
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  SPEAKER_00: on Instagram and social media in general.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I want to get better at that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that Making it a practice,
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  SPEAKER_00: making it just like, okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: I just show up every day and I put something out there and I see what happens
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  SPEAKER_00: and we just keep going.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just a practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, so far I have posted seven videos, only 93 to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And actually, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I wrote this, I had only posted seven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I've posted eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: So take that past me that wrote this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So $8.92 videos to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm honestly having a lot of fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm really enjoying it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've also started to notice and feel the stress of making this change in my life
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  SPEAKER_00: where I'm putting myself out there more and doing a daily video practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: The novelty of that has worn off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now my brain is starting to go, oh, wait, what?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're actually going to make this change?
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait a sec.
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  SPEAKER_00: Change is scary.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I want to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I told myself going into this that it's just a daily practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the entire goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not about views.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not about going viral or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if the videos are messy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if they don't get a lot of views.
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  SPEAKER_00: The point is to just post and play around,
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  SPEAKER_00: experiment with my voice,
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  SPEAKER_00: experiment with You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: just showing up as authentically me as possible and just putting myself out there
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  SPEAKER_00: and being comfortable with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And seeing how I can grow and change and improve my communication skills through video.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I don't know if you've noticed, but you probably have on this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like to talk.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like to talk long.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I kind of will go here and there and everywhere and ramble around on a topic and
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  SPEAKER_00: And being able to condense myself to one minute,
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  SPEAKER_00: and being able to get an idea across very clearly and effectively,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think is a skill.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to improve that skill.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do think I'm good at communicating ideas, but I think I could also get better at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the point, is to get better and improve my communication skills through short videos.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I decided that why put all this work on Instagram and not share it also
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  SPEAKER_00: with you guys here on The Aligned Actor podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what I'm going to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably for the rest of the year,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be sharing like a week's worth of the videos here on Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, that's going to be the podcast episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I might break it up with other stuff too, other episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to do what I want.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to make the rules here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, but if you missed them on Instagram this previous week, you can enjoy them here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thought that would be fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today I have days one through seven for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in them,
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  SPEAKER_00: I talk about starting the challenge,
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  SPEAKER_00: why I wanted to start the challenge, what I'm going to be doing in the hundred days.
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  SPEAKER_00: I tell the story of how I became an actor,
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  SPEAKER_00: where my mother features as a guest player in that story.
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  SPEAKER_00: I talk about my podcast,
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  SPEAKER_00: so please don't get confused at that video and think that we're somehow starting
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  SPEAKER_00: over the episode or that you've skipped to a new episode because I start that video
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  SPEAKER_00: with, hello and welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I thought that would be fun to do when I was hyping my podcast over on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't get confused.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're smart.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think you're going to get confused.
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  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, I do a video on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do a video on the way that the entertainment industry wreaks absolute havoc
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  SPEAKER_00: on our nervous systems as actors.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a video on the...
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  SPEAKER_00: I tell the story of the time that I got dropped by an agent via a certified letter
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  SPEAKER_00: that my stepmother opened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also talk about how I overcame a bad audition habit that I had.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I wrap it up this week's worth of videos with my career and life motto, ABC.
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  SPEAKER_00: Always be celebrating.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, without further ado, please enjoy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It turns out there are 100 days left in 2026, which is both fun and fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Terrifying for some reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, Dave Holmes,
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  SPEAKER_00: the delightful Dave Holmes,
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  SPEAKER_00: suggested that we all do something for those hundred days,
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  SPEAKER_00: like start a habit or end a habit or start several habits and end several habits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get a good sprint,
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  SPEAKER_00: like a good like run up to 2027,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I love because new year, new you, That doesn't work.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's probably scientific evidence for that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'm stalling.
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  SPEAKER_00: My thing that I want to try to do that might fail miserably is talk about something
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  SPEAKER_00: for one minute and one minute only related to actors and acting and mindset
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  SPEAKER_00: and anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's my thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wish me luck.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am an actress because of my mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: This nice lady behind the glare.
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  SPEAKER_00: There she is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Holly Schloerb.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's me.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were driving in Vermont on a dirt road.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the summer after I had graduated from college and I was hemming and hawing
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  SPEAKER_00: and going, I don't know what to do with my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I had just gotten a theater degree and a sociology degree and that was real practical.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she just very simply turned to me and very simply said,
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  SPEAKER_00: well, your dad and I think you should just go out to Los Angeles and go for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was this beautiful permission slip because that's what I wanted to do,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I was kind of too afraid to admit that to myself or to anyone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think sometimes we need somebody else to give us that little nudge and say,
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe in you and you should go for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thanks, mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, and welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the podcast where I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts
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  SPEAKER_00: to help us all thrive in our full actor lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is what you will hear today when you go listen to the new episode of
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  SPEAKER_00: The Aligned Actor Podcast that just dropped today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I have a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I talk about it sometimes on Instagram, but probably not nearly enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so today's video is about the fact that I have a podcast and you should go listen to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called The Aligned Actor Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said,
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  SPEAKER_00: I share mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive
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  SPEAKER_00: in our full actor lives because actor life is a stressful rollercoaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the only way that we're going to survive long term in this profession is
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  SPEAKER_00: if we're taking care of ourselves and soothing and fortifying our nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And mindfulness and mindset shifts help us do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The entertainment industry wreaks absolute havoc on actor nervous systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rejection.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're constantly putting ourselves out there and usually we're not getting
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  SPEAKER_00: the response that we want.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uncertainty.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't know when the next job is coming or if there even will be a next job.
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  SPEAKER_00: My dogs vehemently agree with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're saying, preach!
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah!
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  SPEAKER_00: Urgency.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got to get the self-tape done now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And oftentimes we can feel like we're falling behind in our careers
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  SPEAKER_00: if we're not able to succeed and make it right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rejection, uncertainty, urgency.
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  SPEAKER_00: That all feels so uncomfortable in the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: It produces very real...
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  SPEAKER_00: Very visceral sensations in our bodies that are hella uncomfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's stressful.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's exhausting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for today,
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  SPEAKER_00: I just want you to sit with that and acknowledge it and know there is nothing wrong
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  SPEAKER_00: with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're just an actor.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one time at band camp,
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  SPEAKER_00: I got dropped by my agent via a certified letter that my stepmom signed for.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was like, here, this came for you!
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was all excited because it was a certified letter!
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I proceeded to open up one of the worst rejections that an actor can receive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in front of an outsider of our industry.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there was that added layer of like,
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  SPEAKER_00: you don't understand what this is and this looks really bad, doesn't it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And oh god, now I'm feeling really, really insecure about everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, rejection absolutely sucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rejection witnessed by somebody who doesn't understand all the rejection
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  SPEAKER_00: that happens in the acting profession and that this is kind of a common thing,
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  SPEAKER_00: this can happen to actors throughout their career, doubly sucked.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, all around, rejection.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a bitch.
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  SPEAKER_00: I used to have this really bad habit of talking myself out of the role
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  SPEAKER_00: before I'd even auditioned for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this would sound like, I don't know if I really play this kind of character well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I can hit this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I'm believable as.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was no good.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I got this one audition and I caught myself running this thought habit in my brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I shifted it and I went, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to list all the reasons why I am right for this role.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I went to work and I convinced myself that I was absolutely the right person
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  SPEAKER_00: to hire for this role.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it changed how I auditioned for that part.
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  SPEAKER_00: It made my audition 10 times better.
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  SPEAKER_00: I turned in a tape I was really proud of.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't get it, but that office has called me in so many times since then.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, don't talk yourself out of the role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Convince yourself that you are right for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am celebrating.
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  SPEAKER_00: First of all, today I am celebrating my birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yay, me!
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy birthday to me!
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  SPEAKER_00: And second of all,
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  SPEAKER_00: I am celebrating Day 7 of my 100 Days of Yapping videos,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm really excited about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've done one week!
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a celebration in and of itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I stuck with it for at least one week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hooray!
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  SPEAKER_00: Yay!
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, my life motto, one of my life mottos is ABC.
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  SPEAKER_00: Always be celebrating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because why just celebrate the big stuff?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why just celebrate booking when booking happens few and far between?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why not also celebrate getting the self-tape request?
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  SPEAKER_00: Putting the character together?
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  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate doing the self-tape?
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  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate sending the self-tape off because you did it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You sent it off into the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I choose to celebrate every single step of my journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's a really fun energy to live in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot like gratitude, but way more fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: So ABC, always be celebrating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that you found those videos helpful and inspiring and that you liked them and
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  SPEAKER_00: that you like these videos that I'm sharing with you,
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  SPEAKER_00: this sort of short form content that then I'm putting together for the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you did,
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  SPEAKER_00: I would really love it if you'd leave a comment here on Substack or on YouTube
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  SPEAKER_00: or wherever you found this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leave a review of the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: That'd be really fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, you can share this content with any actor that you think could benefit from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would really help me out and help me grow my podcast even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would love it if you would check out my offerings below.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're linked up below on the Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have various things.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do I have down here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, I have my Get Out of Your Head and Rock Your Next Audition meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a free guided meditation that I offer to people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably going to end up doing a video about that at some point because why not?
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  SPEAKER_00: I also have my Aligned Actor Mindfulness Toolkit.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a fun one.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's just $7 and it has a comprehensive collection of tools guaranteed to be
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  SPEAKER_00: the Dramamine you need for the rollercoaster ride of actor life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can go pick up that for just $7.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then finally,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's some information about me and a link to my website,
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  SPEAKER_00: which you can go check out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I would love it if you would check all that stuff out.
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  SPEAKER_00: That'd be fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clearly, I'm also still working on my calls to action.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and last thing, because I think I have to voice it on the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's how credits work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I used a little swoosh sound effect in between the videos of the different days
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  SPEAKER_00: of the seven days that I put in this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that video, or that sound effect credit is, the credit goes to Woosh by Long Cinematic.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Woosh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it has Dash Long Cinematic by JWSound,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then it has a hyperlink to that,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then there's a license of attribution of 4.0.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I needed to say all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I said it correctly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh well.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me, and I will see you next time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye.