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How to Listen Within, Align and Become Your Authentic Self · The Inspired Speaker Network

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  You are listening to the Awakening Woman on
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  the Rise.
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  If you are a woman who is seeking
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  to live a more authentic life but are
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  feeling not enough to step out fully just
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  yet, you are in the right place.
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  If you are a woman who is looking
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  to live your personal truth and make the
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  impact you truly desire, you are in the
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  right place.
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  I'm your host, Wendy Yacboski.
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  Let's step out in this together.
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  So what I'm feeling called to remind us
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  about is the willingness to question what we
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  have thought is the truth up until now.
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  And how you'll know how it needs to
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  be questioned or whether it needs to be
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  questioned is if things aren't going well in
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  your life in terms of what you're wanting
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  to do, how free you're feeling to do
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  what you want to do.
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  Because if you're not feeling free in what
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  you want to do, then there's a belief
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  behind that.
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  There's an experience behind that that is still,
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  how can I say, grabbing onto you in
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  some way, wanting to keep you smaller.
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  And maybe not to get that truth of
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  yours that is your soul truth out into
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  the world.
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  There's so many other things that I think
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  are so important to remember.
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  And that is that if we're wanting to
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  find our truest answer, our authentic answer, we
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  need to find it within.
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  You'll remember me saying that in order to
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  find that true answer within, we need to
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  pause.
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  We need to pause, we need to become
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  still, and then we need to listen.
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  It's amazing, you know, I'm just reminded of
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  when I've done various exercises in groups that
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  I've been in, and they say, you know,
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  list the top 20 things that are most
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  important to you in life, the things that
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  you want to achieve.
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  And, you know, you write and write and
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  write.
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  What I learned was that the first 20
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  are what I always think.
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  It doesn't go down further.
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  So the top 20 things that we think
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  that we really want in life or to
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  do in life are really just scratching the
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  surface.
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  And when we can allow ourselves to push
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  beyond 20 and to be more still within
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  ourself and see what bubbles up that, oh,
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  yeah, I really want that.
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  And it's a whole different feeling in the
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  body.
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  It's like the body is saying, yes, yes,
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  this is what it is.
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  This is what it is.
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  So we need to be willing to push
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  out.
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  We need to be willing to question and
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  we need to be willing to push out,
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  but not with the force of the mind,
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  but to be open to feeling within and
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  remembering what it is that's important to us.
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  I know that when this podcast became a
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  gleam in my eye, do you know what
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  brought me to it?
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  Remembering a fantasy I had, a fantasy that
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  even though you're hearing me solo these few
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  times to get to know me better, what
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  I remembered in this fantasy was that when
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  I would watch an interviewer interviewing people, which
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  I will be doing further on in the
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  podcast, I thought to myself, it was as
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  simple as I could do that.
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  I want to do that.
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  But at that time it was on television
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  and I had a belief that television is
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  not in my lot in life.
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  So give it up, Wendy.
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  But times change and now there's video, which
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  makes it more accessible to not only me,
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  but to everyone.
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  So now I can do that interviewing, mining
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  the gold in others and helping others to
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  have a new thought about themselves, a new
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  belief about what's possible.
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  Because if we're not listening to others about
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  maybe what they've come through and is now
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  possible or what they used to believe would
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  never be possible and is now like, oh
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  my God, it's possible, we can never change.
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  And change is normal because life is changing
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  all the time.
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  So why wouldn't change be normal for you
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  and me?
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  It is normal.
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  And that is one of the things that
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  is so important to me about this podcast
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  in each episode is to remind us that
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  life is alive and we are, and there
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  is so much more possibility than we could
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  have ever, ever known.
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  Now, one of the other things that's really
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  important to remember is that unintentionally, I believe,
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  that we grew up learning our parents, our
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  teachers, perhaps our clergy's belief about what was
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  right in life, what was possible in life,
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  and what was right and possible for each
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  of us.
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  But if you have gotten anything from these
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  podcasts so far, you may remember that I
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  shared about how at one point at some
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  younger age, maybe in my, my, you know,
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  maybe around 15 or whatever it was, but
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  I just felt like I had maybe a
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  two-foot radius like around, around my body.
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  And I just thought, this is what I've
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  got.
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  This is my life.
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  You know, you step inside the circle, you
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  stay inside the circle, there's nothing that's mine
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  outside the circle.
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  And I can only tell you now that
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  that was the biggest untruth ever, but I
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  didn't know better.
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  So once I had the help to be
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  able to question what I believed about myself
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  and what was possible for me, my life
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  started to change.
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  Something that's really important for me to tell
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  you, because I was afraid to question myself
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  for the longest time, probably because it was
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  scary.
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  I didn't know who I'd be if I
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  wasn't living the way I've always lived.
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  But when you're with your people, and I
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  hope I'm one of your people, but when
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  you're in this podcast series, you can always
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  be safe in questioning yourself.
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  Because I believe that when you question yourself
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  with as much self-compassion as you can,
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  as much courage as you can to be
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  able to move out and up and to
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  connect with your soul and your intuition, those
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  parts of you that call to you, even
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  when you try to push them down, they
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  can call to you.
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  But there's no judgment.
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  There's no judgment in the pure universe, whatever
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  it was that got us here.
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  I don't believe there's any judgment.
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  There's only opportunity.
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  There's only opportunity to go, what if I
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  could?
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  You, my friends, are essential.
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  You are absolutely what this world needs to
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  uplevel, to shift in a way that is
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  a win-win.
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  I believe that women are brought into this
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  world with a heart, with compassion, with consideration
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  for others, on win-win.
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  And I will say, I'm not in a
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  soapbox here, but I will say that I
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  think erroneously, we have believed that in order
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  to succeed, we need to do things how
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  men do it.
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  But the thing is, is we bring our
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  feminine power into it.
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  We bring our heart into it.
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  We bring, I believe we bring a greater
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  world picture that we hold within us.
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  We can hold that.
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  And I think that the world needs every
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  woman who is willing to not only question
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  what she's come to believe about herself that
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  is making her small, but that there's a
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  courage within there.
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  There's an inspiration.
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  There's a passion.
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  There's a soul inside that has something absolutely
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  what the world needs.
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  Absolutely what the world needs.
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  We have such a great capacity within ourselves
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  to help co-create a world where everyone
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  wins.
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  And that's what I want to see for
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  the world.
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  And I invite you to join me in
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  this because as one grows, I believe we
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  all grow.
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  And so let's grow together in courage, in
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  what's possible, and what's beyond what we might
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  think is realistic right now.
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  Truly, the world needs every one of us
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  to become the better world that serves everyone,
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  that represents everyone.
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  I am focusing on women because at this
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  point, I believe that women have been less
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  supported in being vocal, in being active in
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  what's important to them, in living their life.
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  In this, I am going to be creating
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  a membership for women and all who are
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  sensitive to living our life to the fullest,
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  listening to our soul, bringing forth what's a
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  win-win for everyone.
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  And so as we move along, I invite
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  you to let me know if you and
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  when you are interested and ready to step
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  forward into a community that will really value
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  you, really support you, see your strengths and
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  help you to know you are so welcome
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  beyond this podcast.
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  You are welcome in this world and it's
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  going forward.
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  I really, really value you and I look
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  forward to meeting with you in community as
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  we move forward together in making this world
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  a better place for all.
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  Thank you for being here.