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What's Next? Life After Homeschooling, Learning New Things, and Making Wigs · Making Everyday Magic: The Podcast

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  I'm making wigs now.
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  Welcome back to making Everyday Magic.
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  My name is Shanna.
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  If you are new here for a home schooling family of four, we are in our 10th year
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  of homeschooling and today I just want to talk to you about
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  what's next.
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  Life outside of homeschooling.
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  Before we go any further, if we scroll down, hit
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  turn on that bell for notifications and give this video a thumbs up.
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  As always, you can find me down in the comments
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  or over on Instagram at Making Everyday Magic.
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  So I if you guys have been here
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  for any period of time, you probably know that I am.
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  Busy. I
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  someone who truly enjoys to learn new things.
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  I am somebody who is always thinking about a need
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  that needs to be filled, or something to do, or what's next.
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  And I have what I would argue is a habitual problem of trying to
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  monetize those efforts.
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  And I don't
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  I don't mean that to sound as negative as it does,
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  but I just feel like if I'm investing a lot of energy and effort, it should,
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  you know, pay me back in some way, for lack of a better term.
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  So I have been thinking, and part of it is a bit of an existential crisis
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  as we enter our last year of elementary and our first year of high school,
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  and I recognize that my days are coming to an end with my main pursuit
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  being homeschooling my children with my main pursuit
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  being my children, my family, and my home life.
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  And so I have naturally started thinking about what's next.
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  What is next?
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  I am not in the trenches.
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  I'm not in the nitty gritty of parenting.
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  I have big kids.
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  Okay?
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  I don't need babysitters for a night out.
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  I don't need constant handholding.
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  My kids can do things for me. Now.
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  We are on a path where I just.
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  I have big kids and so my role is different.
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  Of course, I'm still needed.
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  Of course I'm still support person, but there's so much that I am not doing
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  right now that it has allowed me to really kind of get my head above water.
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  That little mirror cat that pops up and looks around and says, what's next?
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  So for me, I just want to share with you because I think it's important as
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  especially as primary caregivers, especially as mothers and women,
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  most of you, not all of you, but as primary caregivers, it's important
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  to start addressing, you know, and whether you homeschool or not,
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  maybe your babies are in school for the first time.
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  I've had a lot of those
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  conversations recently, and maybe it is that they just need
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  you less and you have other interests, and there's things you want to do.
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  There's things it's okay to fill your own bucket.
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  And that's what I want to share with you and remind you, I am very passionate
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  about learning things, and I am very passionate about the fact
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  that everything is figurative
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  for me.
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  Something that I have seen firsthand a lot recently
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  is the professional theater industry.
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  And for me, with my background, my, you know, 20
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  something years of cosmetology license under my belt for me
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  with my child who is pursuing theater for me in a city
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  that has a lot of large theaters, I think that what I want to do
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  next is learn the art of wig making and wig styling.
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  Because y accessible, because y
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  flexible schedule you commit for a show and then you go on your way.
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  Three creative something I already have in my tool belt.
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  I have a lot of this gills that overlap because of cosmetology.
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  Harris Harris Harris hair.
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  There's some intricacies with wig making and development, which
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  I am working on, like lace ventilating and things like that.
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  So this is kind of like a fun hobby and a new skill that is marketable.
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  That could be fun.
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  That could be a thing that I can pick up when I am available
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  and put down when I am not.
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  So just the flexibility of that and checking all of those other boxes
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  that for me are really important creativity and,
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  you know, flexible
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  scheduling and not having like a real, a real and honest work day.
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  I don't think that's for me.
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  These are reasons why I'm like, oh,
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  this could be really fun, really, really, really fun.
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  And I am excited.
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  And because of that, I want to share with you
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  that it's good to start thinking about what's next.
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  If there's one thing that I have learned, if Shawna learns things, it is learning
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  that Shawna is always evolving and there's always something new and exciting
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  that I'm passionate about to learn about, or to get started or to share.
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  So I just want to come and chat with you.
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  Human to human, homeschool mom to homeschool mom, mom to mom, primary
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  caregiver to primary caregiver, woman to woman that this isn't all there is
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  and you should be doing those things for yourself.
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  Doing those things that make you excited.
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  Doing those things that stretch your gray matter and work on your dexterity.
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  I'll try to insert a little video because I have not made it very far,
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  entirely self-taught.
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  So I would like to just over.
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  But I think it'll be really fun.
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  I think it'll be really awesome to like, make a mustache.
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  I mean, I think it'll just be really entertaining.
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  So that is my new favorite fun passion project,
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  and we'll see where it goes and where it leads.
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  The worst case that'll happen
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  is I've invested a little bit of dough and it will burn up in my face
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  spectacularly, but I will definitely keep you posted.
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  I think it's really fun as we age and to model for our kids
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  that it is okay to be a beginner at things.
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  It's okay to learn things.
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  It is okay because everything is figured out.
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  There are ways that we can share the things that we do know.
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  Like I come here and share about in homeschool
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  and there are ways to share that we are learning something new.
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  And I think that's just really, really fun
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  because everything is figure out about other things that I am working on.
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  Learning right now is pairing planning our hopefully soon Parisian trip.
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  We're learning all the things that we want to do.
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  I've got a color coded spreadsheet and that is super fun.
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  I am learning a lot more about the back end of some of these platforms,
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  so just an example of things that I've had to figure out.
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  I've built all my own websites myself just by figuring out what I needed to do.
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  I built this entire channel
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  filming, lighting, the entire situation just by figuring out what I wanted to do.
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  My child's entire like, theater pursuits was just by
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  gaining the information and figuring out what to do next,
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  where to find those resources again, entirely on our own.
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  Kind of out in the wilds.
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  No hand-holding here.
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  And it's been kind of great.
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  Other things microdosing pet ownership is something that I am particularly proud
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  of, and I will insert a little picture of our newest best friend,
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  Little Orphan Annie, who is available for adoption through Houston SPCA,
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  in case you were wondering.
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  But being able to kind of like, figure out how we can have pets without that burden
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  of having pets all the time, I feel like was pretty awesome.
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  This new book that I am obsessed with, it's like little brain challenges.
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  It's like Sudoku, but also like murder mysteries.
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  And I think it's so fun.
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  I will link it down below or up in the corner.
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  Currently figuring out how to do these Michael Thompson vocabulary worksheets
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  that I want for myself, which, by the way, the kids are loving more.
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  Couple of weeks in, scores are off the charts.
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  So good, so happy, so pleased with that.
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  And now I need to figure out how to share that with you, which I will.
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  I will likely share it with you via my own personal website,
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  and then also have it up through like teachers pay teachers.
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  Not 100% sure how that's going to work yet.
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  But again, every single little thing is figurative
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  and I do want to continue sharing things that matter, like Michael
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  Thompson worksheets that we put together
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  to make our lives easier, like my pursuit of being a beginner at things.
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  Because I think it's important to highlight
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  that so often people come here and they're experts on this and experts
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  on that, and so rarely are they figuring out things.
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  And I think that's important.
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  Something else that I really want to focus on right now
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  in the kind of especially in these times going forward.
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  There are a lot of people out there who are extremely frugal.
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  Coupon clipping won't spend any money,
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  and there's a lot of people out there showing you all the things
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  and all the extravagances and things like that, but something that I personally
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  have always been passionate about is maximizing value.
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  So getting the most out of the dollars I do spend, so it's not spending the least
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  and is not blowing it up.
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  It's making sure that every dollar that I spend is stretched
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  to get me the maximum amount of value.
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  And there's a balance in that
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  with effort and energy cost, time savings and what you're actually getting.
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  So I am I have secured all of the handles
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  and things for more value, more life.
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  I probably will not talk about it here much, but if you are interested
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  in seeing what that's like going forward, just everyday tips and tricks.
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  And I'm not even talking, you know about blowing up
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  5000 credit cards to get a million
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  and a half points. I'm talking about things
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  like the membership pays for itself after two visits.
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  I'm talking about things that every single person has accessibly and can do.
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  Because just like homeschooling, I don't want cost to be the barrier
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  to things that you want to do, the things that you want to enjoy,
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  and the time that you want to spend with your family, and the new endeavors
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  that you want to search out and find along the way.
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  Guys, I hope that you have found this helpful, entertaining, or informative.
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  If you have these, scroll down, hit that big red subscribe button,
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  turn on the bell for notifications and give this video a thumbs up.
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  Let me know what are you working on right now?
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  What is your next thought?
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  What's your plan for after you are no longer needed as much in the home?
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  Like what does this look like for you?
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  I would love to hear it.
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  What is your.
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  When I'm old, I want to be a museum or docent.
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  I want. I'm so excited about the idea, the prospect of that.
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  I love it so much.
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  The idea of wig making and wig styling is so exciting to me for so many reasons.
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  It's such a specialized in niche field.
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  It's a thing I already have in my pocket.
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  It looks entertaining.
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  You meet creative people, you get to see shows and be in the theater.
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  You could travel because they even need wig contracts on cruise ships.
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  Like, I am excited about the prospect of what this could mean
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  and what this could bring.
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  And even if even if I never get good at it, and even if I never do it
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  in any other aspect, then right now it's exciting and motivating.
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  That's enough for me.
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  I just want to share with you that we're growing,
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  that we're evolving in the same way
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  that our kids are figuring out what they're going to do.
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  We are also always figuring out what's next.
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  What's new, how's it going?
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  And I have pursued many things and failed spectacularly at a lot of them.
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  But I've been mildly successful with most and incredibly successful.
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  I would argue on the one that in this season of life matters
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  most, and that is my home, my home life, my babies and our homeschool.
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  So yeah, share with us. Share with us now below.
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  How are you growing? How are you stretching your brain matter?
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  How are you staying fresh? How are you staying motivated?
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  What are you excited to see your children watch you do I have one of you here?
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  You're wonderful and you know who you are.
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  Picked up figure skating like as an adult.
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  It is the most inspiring thing.
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  The most inspiring thing.
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  And I love it so much because that's what I want to share, that life is short
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  and we deserve to be happy, and we deserve to pursue
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  good things for the sake of pursuing them.
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  And yes,
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  I always try to make a dollar off of the things that I'm doing
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  because there's a lot of effort and energy, but it is good enough
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  and valuable enough just to enjoy things, to bring yourself joy.
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  Because the world is on fire and life is short.
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  So get out there and live and share with us what are you doing for you?
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  Let's grow this list.
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  Let's inspire each other.
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  Let's remind both of the little girl inside us and
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  the grown adults who have to.
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  Whether these storms in the world that together we can keep making every day magic.