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10 Minutes to Start Your Day Right: Your Ultimate Motivation for 2023 · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can
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  Speaker 1: really figure out what your fight is and how you
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  Speaker 1: need to fight it. Throughout ancient times, institutions of learning
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  Speaker 1: have been built on top of hills to convey the
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  Speaker 1: great struggle is required to achieve degrees of enlightenment. Each
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  Speaker 1: of you had your own unique difficulties with the heel.
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  Speaker 1: For some of you, the challenge was actually academics. When
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  Speaker 1: you hear the words magna cumlarti cumlarti.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's that's not you. That's not you. You
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  Speaker 2: You you worked hard, you you.
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  Speaker 1: Did your best, but you didn't make a's or b's
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  Speaker 1: sometimes c's.
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  Speaker 2: You never made the d's list. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: You're here on top of the hill, and I wanna
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  Speaker 1: say something to that. You know, sometimes your grades don't
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  Speaker 1: don't give a a real indication of what your greatness
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  Speaker 1: might be, so it really is okay. For others, it
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  Speaker 1: was financial. You and your family struggle to make ends
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  Speaker 1: meet every semester of your matriculation. You had to stand
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  Speaker 1: in one line to get to another line, to get
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  Speaker 1: to another line for somebody that might help you.
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  Speaker 2: You had to work an extra job or two, but
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  Speaker 2: you're here.
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  Speaker 1: For a lot of you, not all, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you.
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  Speaker 2: Your hardest struggle was social. Some of you never fit in.
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  Speaker 1: You were never as cool and as popular as you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be, and it bothers you. So your social
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  Speaker 1: struggles here became psychological.
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  Speaker 2: Even though you.
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  Speaker 1: Made it up to heal, you carry the baggage of
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  Speaker 1: rejection with you but you're here.
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  Speaker 2: Or some of you went through something traumatic.
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  Speaker 1: You made it to the top of the hill, but
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  Speaker 1: not without scars and bruises.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you fit in too much.
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  Speaker 1: You were on the yard, wrapping on your frat block
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  Speaker 1: where you were supposed to be in class, or you
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  Speaker 1: got caught up in the DC party life.
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  Speaker 2: You carried the baggage of too much acceptance.
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  Speaker 1: When completing a long climb, one first experience is dizziness, disorientation,
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  Speaker 1: and shortness of breadth due to the high altitude. But
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  Speaker 1: once you become accustomed to the climb, your mind opens
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  Speaker 1: up to the tranquility of the triumph. Oftentimes the mind
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  Speaker 1: is flooded with realizations that were, for some reason harder
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  Speaker 1: to come to when.
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  Speaker 2: You were at a lower elevation.
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  Speaker 1: At this moment, most of you need some realizations because
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  Speaker 1: right now you have some big decisions to make. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: I urge you, in your breath, in your eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: your consciousness, invest in the importance of this moment and charity.
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  Speaker 1: I know, savor the taste of your triumphs today. Don't
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  Speaker 1: just swallow the moment whole without digesting what has actually
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  Speaker 1: happened here. Look down over what you conquered and appreciate
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  Speaker 1: what God has brought you through.
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  Speaker 3: People want to know how to stop the laziness, and
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  Speaker 3: they want to how to stop the procrastination. And they
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  Speaker 3: have some idea in their head, do some kind of
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  Speaker 3: a vision what they want to do, but.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know where to start. They don't know where
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  Speaker 4: to start it.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know where to start.
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  Speaker 5: And I think most people that are miserable or that
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  Speaker 5: are really like dying to be great and dying to
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  Speaker 5: have more. We want to change, We want to live
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  Speaker 5: a better life. We want to create more for our families,
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  Speaker 5: We want to be happier. The desire is there.
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  Speaker 6: Just do it.
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  Speaker 7: Just pick up a camera and start shooting something. Don't
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  Speaker 7: wait to be asked, because nobody's going to ask you.
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  Speaker 7: And don't wait for the perfect conditions because they'll never
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  Speaker 7: be perfect. It's a little bit like having a child.
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  Speaker 7: If you wait until the right time to have a child,
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  Speaker 7: you'll die childless. And I think filmmaking is very much
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  Speaker 7: the same thing. You just have to take the plunge
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  Speaker 7: and just start shooting something.
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  Speaker 6: Even if it's bad.
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  Speaker 7: You can only hide it, but you will have learned something.
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  Speaker 8: Wisdom uninvested in labor is wasted attitude, even the highest
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  Speaker 8: of attitude, which is faith. Faith uninvested is wasted produces nothing.
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  Speaker 8: So the name of the game is not faith. The
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  Speaker 8: name of the game is not philosophy. The name of
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  Speaker 8: the game is to put faith and philosophy into activity
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  Speaker 8: so that it starts making progress.
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  Speaker 6: So if you want to make real progress then you
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  Speaker 6: really got to look at your life in a different way.
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  Speaker 6: You got to say I got to take control this
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  Speaker 6: process and not just hope it's going to work out
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  Speaker 6: like people do who make a resolution.
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  Speaker 9: Being able to make the right choices in your life,
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  Speaker 9: being able to go down the right path and not
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  Speaker 9: the wrong path.
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  Speaker 2: And even if you make that mistake and find yourself
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  Speaker 2: in a position that you really didn't want to be in,
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  Speaker 2: don't be so.
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  Speaker 9: Hard on yourself as long as you had the right
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  Speaker 9: mindset and the right.
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  Speaker 6: Content, you can learn from that and build from that
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  Speaker 6: and continue to push forward and move.
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  Speaker 3: On every day, making yourself stronger and faster and more
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  Speaker 3: flexible and healthier.
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  Speaker 10: Reggie Jackson struck out twenty six hundred times in his career,
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  Speaker 10: the most in the history of baseball. But you don't
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  Speaker 10: hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs.
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  Speaker 4: Fall forward.
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  Speaker 10: Thomas Edison conducted one thousand failed experiments.
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  Speaker 4: Did you know that?
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  Speaker 10: I didn't know that because the one thousand and first.
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  Speaker 4: Was the light bulb fall forward.
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  Speaker 10: Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You've
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  Speaker 10: got to take risks, and I'm sure you probably heard
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  Speaker 10: that before, but I want to talk to you about
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  Speaker 10: why that's so important.
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  Speaker 4: You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it.
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  Speaker 10: You will lose, you will embarrass yourself, you will suck
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  Speaker 10: at something.
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  Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 10: And I know that's probably not a traditional message for
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  Speaker 10: a graduation ceremony, but hey, I'm telling you embracing because
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  Speaker 10: it's inevitable and I should know. In the acting business,
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  Speaker 10: you fail all the time. Early on in my career,
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  Speaker 10: I auditioned for a part in a Broadway musical, perfect
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  Speaker 10: role for me, I thought, Except for the fact that
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  Speaker 10: I can't sing it, I didn't get the job.
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  Speaker 4: But here's the thing. I didn't quit. I didn't fall back.
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  Speaker 10: I walked out of there to prepare for the next
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  Speaker 10: audition and the next audition and the next audition.
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  Speaker 4: I prayed, I prayed.
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  Speaker 10: And I prayed, but I continue to fail and fail
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  Speaker 10: and fail. But it didn't matter, because you know what,
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  Speaker 10: there's an old saying. You hang around the barbershop long enough,
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  Speaker 10: sooner or later you're going to get a haircut, so
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  Speaker 10: you will catch your break.
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  Speaker 4: And I did catch your break. Last year I did
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  Speaker 4: a play called Fences on Broadway. But here's the kicker.
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  Speaker 4: It was at the Court Theater.
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  Speaker 10: It was at the same theater that I failed that
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  Speaker 10: first audition thirty years prior.
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  Speaker 4: The point is, every graduate here today has the training
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  Speaker 4: and the talent to succeed.
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  Speaker 10: But do you have the guts to fail. If you
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  Speaker 10: don't fail, you're not even trying. I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 10: If you don't fail, you're not even trying to get
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  Speaker 10: something you never had.
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  Speaker 4: You have to do something you never did.
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  Speaker 10: So imagine you're on your deathbed, and standing around your
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  Speaker 10: deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential, the ghost
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  Speaker 10: of the ideas you never acted on, the ghost of
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  Speaker 10: the talents you didn't use. And they're standing around your bed, angry, disappointed,
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  Speaker 10: and upset. They say, we came to you because you
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  Speaker 10: could have brought us to life, they say.
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  Speaker 4: And now we have to go to the grave together.
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  Speaker 10: So I ask you today, how many ghosts are going
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  Speaker 10: to be around your bed when your time comes.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible. You can begin again. You
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  Speaker 9: can believe God again, you can trust again, you can
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  Speaker 9: be successful, you can overcome your addictions, you can heal,
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  Speaker 9: you can feel alive again. This is when you realize
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  Speaker 9: that those things are possible. You are getting a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 9: So I want to encourage you right now. Don't give in,
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  Speaker 9: go for it, don't give up, don't throw in the towel.
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  Speaker 9: And even if your back is up against the wall,
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  Speaker 9: even if you are on the ropes and you are
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  Speaker 9: receiving a rope, but dope financially, listen, you got to
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  Speaker 9: fight back. You don't get in life what you want.
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  Speaker 9: You get what you fight for. And when you decide
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  Speaker 9: that my future, my health, my marriage, my freedom, my happiness,
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  Speaker 9: my joy, my peace, my children. Is worth fighting for?
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  Speaker 9: You are securing your breakthrough