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Episode 39: Turning Challenges into Opportunities · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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  Once again, we're doing a podcast on the fly, on the go, because this application,
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  PopBeam, allows me to do it.
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  And I'm over here once again in New York City, because that's where I reside,
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  in beautiful Union Square, enjoying the weather.
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  Well, I'm over here under a little shadow because it's a little hot.
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  We're expecting a heat wave of some sort here in the east part of new york city
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  or the east part of united states so everybody's just under the shadows and
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  just relaxing and we doing our thing and once again i you know i just want to
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  apologize to my audience my family that did as listening,
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  deconstructing topic podcast family because once again i i keep i don't want
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  to sound like a broken and records sometimes, but I say to myself that stuff happens in life.
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  I definitely want to put a lot of content out there. I had to,
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  one of my goals and one of my things is to start doing the, how can I say,
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  video podcast, the video things going on there.
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  My main goal was to do it sometime in, start in May, but because life happens
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  and this is the reason why I'm doing this little to podcast today because,
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  you know, today I took some time from work. I'm sorry.
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  I'll be here like studying. Like...
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  But I had to take some time from work to do a couple of personal things.
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  And every time that I go to work here in New York City, I like to hit the gym in the morning.
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  And when I hit the gym in the morning, I come across my beautiful brothers and
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  sisters and everybody in between.
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  There's people out there that I don't even know their names in the gym.
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  But I say, hey, what's up? Good morning. What's going on?
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  Or either I know your name or either I forgot your name or whatever the case
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  might be. That's a beautiful thing going on in the morning.
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  And I saw this beautiful sister in the gym today, which I, how can I say to
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  you? She's one of the regulars.
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  And I saw like, I don't know her or anything like that. And I saw that she was
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  not in the gym for a while until the other day.
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  I had to approach her and I was like, hey, it's been a long time.
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  And yeah, it's been a long time. And basically she was telling me that she was
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  dealing with some stuff there.
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  And I'm like, yeah, me too. I'm dealing with some stuff too.
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  She was like, you know what? I just had like a little setback.
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  And I'm like, you know what? But that's interesting because I was thinking about
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  that and I was thinking about a podcast.
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  And please feel free to subscribe, share, hit the like button,
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  make a comment because I definitely want to interact with you.
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  For those people out there on a mission, on a goal, whatever it is that you
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  want to accomplish, whatever.
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  If you wake up and feel like you're doing something or you want to do something
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  and you're moving forward to do something, sometimes in life stuff is going
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  to happen that we're going to have some setbacks.
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  Whether it's minor whether it's major whether it's
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  been made for those people out there a setback would
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  be something that kind of stops you a
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  pause whatever it is let's just say for the sake of you saving money to go on
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  this vacation to alaska i'm just using an example you're saving money and you
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  have five thousand dollars but then the setback would be that some emergency
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  happens that you will have to tap out from that.
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  And basically you would have to kind of like postpone, if you will,
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  your trip to Alaska, as much as you would save it.
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  So when we have these minor setbacks, what I, and what happened in my life,
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  I had some couple of big major setbacks lately that's pushing,
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  not only is pushing my content to kind of not be where I want it to be at.
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  And again, I'm going to say this. There's no excuses. But sometimes when you
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  do kind of content like this, you need to be on the same page mentally,
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  physically, emotionally,
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  spiritually, all-ly, whatever-ly.
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  You put that-ly in there, we need to be that.
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  And one of the things that I found myself when I do content,
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  when I do podcast, is that because I speak from the heart, that means that sometimes
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  my heart has to be pumping.
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  Whether it's in a good way or in a bad way. But if my heart is not pumping,
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  it's not there because of whatever I'm going through mentally,
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  then I'm going to feel like I'm not going to create a content.
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  So we had that conversation. And when I was thinking about that and I was told
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  her, you know what's interesting?
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  Hey, listen, and I managed to give her my podcast business card.
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  And now hopefully she's part of the family.
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  I'll follow up with her. As we're looking for motivation, let's get it.
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  And today's one of those days i was networking like like
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  if there's no tomorrow but when i realized what happens
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  sometimes in life is that how can we get something positive out of setback because
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  a lot of times not all the times that we have some type of setback in our lives
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  not all the time it's going to be negative not all the time it's it's going
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  to be something negative.
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  My understanding, and always been, is that we have to kind of learn something
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  from even something that's negative.
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  You know what I mean? And that's where life's lessons come.
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  Look, when we go to school, let's be honest here. When I go to school,
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  when I went to school, in high school, whatever it is, I mean, it was very tedious.
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  And going there, waking up, listening to the same thing.
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  But, you know, I enjoy whatever because there's a lot of friends that I had
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  there. but I learned something.
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  I learned something from going to a place that I was not too big of a fan.
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  And what happened is that sometimes in life, sometimes we're going to,
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  there's a lot of negative things that's going to happen in life and we can't
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  sometimes control what's going to happen.
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  But what we control and what we can master control would be how to get something
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  out of it, how to learn from it.
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  And for those people out there who are doing podcasts, for those people out
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  there who are doing whatever they're doing, whatever you think that you're on
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  a mission, whatever it is, whatever your goal is, whatever you want to do,
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  we're going to have setbacks.
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  But don't let that stop you from what you want to do.
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  Setbacks are setbacks and they will happen. And I don't want nobody to feel discouraged. courage.
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  I don't want nobody to feel like, ah, we can't do this.
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  We can't, you know, unfortunately, I could understand that sometimes there's
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  things that we just have, don't control.
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  Or as one said, it's out of our hand, but we still in control.
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  And for me to have those setbacks in my personal life and what's going on,
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  what have i learned is that be patient
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  just take a deep breath just be
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  patient and you'll be all right and hopefully i've addressed a couple of things
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  but there's a lot of things that i want to address so please that person that's
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  listening out there do not do not feel discouraged every time you have a setback.
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  Because unfortunately, what happens is that when we do have these so-called
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  setbacks in life, then it's going to become a habit.
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  So what happens when it becomes a habit, then it's on us. It's no longer on the situation.
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  So just relax, calm down, take a deep breath, do what you need to do.
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  And today I woke up because what's happening in my household,
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  So what's happening in my personal life, there's things that are being addressed, which I love.
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  And today I woke up and lately in the last couple of days, I've been waking
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  up like, wow, let's get it.
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  Let's get it. Something great is brewing and I love it.
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  And that's the reason why I decided to do this podcast. To let it out there, let you know.
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  Whatever setback that you have, it's all right.
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  Sometimes you're going to be hard on yourself. You're going to knock yourself.
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  You're going to want to just grab a drink. I need a drink.
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  You're going to grab a little bit of that good smoke. New York City legal. Get some of that oils.
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  People get intoxicated. People go on a shopping spree to release some stress.
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  People do whatever it is, but they still go back to the same thing.
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  And you're going to be like, oh my God, how can I get out of it? How can I get out of this?
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  So just think about it. Don't let yourself down.
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  When something comes up, when one of these things that you feel like,
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  damn, I just had a setback.
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  Then I had one of my gym brothers who got hurt and he was out on disability for two or three months.
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  And unfortunately what happens is that here in New York, When you go on disability,
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  after a while, there's a certain amount.
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  If you got a good job, you're good. But I think what he was telling me that
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  if he was out in his company, he was out more than three months,
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  then he's going to go what the regular disability paycheck is, which is $1.70 a week.
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  And $1.70 a week for getting hurt outside of work in New York City, that's nothing.
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  So he just had to manage, get himself back on track. And he's back on track.
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  But he was telling me he had a
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  little setback for a couple of weeks financially. but he's back on track.
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  Again, I want you to realize that this is what life is about.
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  Life is all about that situation.
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  There's a lot of people out there, you know, that might live a good life and
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  say, hey, look, listen, and this and that.
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  And then, you know, sometimes I say to myself, the best motivational speakers
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  are the people who have been out and done and out.
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  Sometimes and sometimes I'm just saying that those people who got money,
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  who lived a good life, whatever it is, and then they want to go out there and
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  tell you how to live life. I'm like, relax.
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  What you know about struggles? Not a lot of people.
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  And I speak to you because I've struggled many times and I'm still struggling.
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  And sometimes I say to myself and I fight that I need to put myself mentally,
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  physically, emotionally, spiritually all in the same page.
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  When I'm all in the same page, I'm going to be a monster. And believe me,
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  believe me, and I believe in you that's listening to out there,
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  we all going to be monsters. Ain't nothing that's going to stop us.
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  So next time that, for those who are listening, And the next time that you got
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  like a little setback and you think that that's it, that's it,
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  it's the end of the day, the worst day or whatever it is, the end of the world, man.
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  Believe me, it's not because we together can make things happen.
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  I got a kid down in the Bronx who's running for District 14 there in the Bronx
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  against incumbent Richie Torres.
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  For those who are maybe not into politics and not aware, whatever the case,
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  he had a couple of setbacks, but
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  nothing stops him from seeing the bigger picture, being the bigger goal.
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  Ain't nothing stopping him. If it's not stopping him, it's not stopping me.
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  It's not stopping no one. So let's make it happen for sure.
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  And this is always like a love letter to my listeners, to my people that's out
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  there listening, sharing, caring, whatever it is. We make it happen.
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  My name is David. David, I forgot to tell you, my name is David.
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  I'm the host of Deconstructing Topic Podcast, a cool podcast that you need to
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  know, you need to put it out there.
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  Let's make it happen. Together we can. I'm out of here. Peace out. I'm out.