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Happy Hour #217: A SMNTY Update · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff I Never Told You production of iHeartRadio, and welcome
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  Speaker 2: to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you
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  Speaker 2: choose to drink or whatever you choose to do, please
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  Speaker 2: do so responsibly. But before we get into this Happy Hour,
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  Speaker 2: Samantha and I have a very exciting announcement.
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  Speaker 3: So exciting.
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  Speaker 2: at sea. We're going to be doing interactive activities with
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  Speaker 2: you listeners, because we would love to hang out with
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  Speaker 2: you and to meet you and for you to see
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  Speaker 2: how how this whole thing works. And it's it's going
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  Speaker 2: the coming weeks months, but for now, you can go
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  Speaker 1: We would love to see.
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  Speaker 4: You, yes, and not to hop right into about me.
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  Speaker 4: I know that the voyages have been exciting for so
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  Speaker 4: many people because not only do they get to have
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  Speaker 4: this amazing experience like seeing how we work behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 4: seeing how stuff you should know works and all of that,
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  Speaker 4: but also you can interact with us. And if one
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  Speaker 4: thing I'm going to have to do is take a
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  Speaker 4: couple of these fitness classes. I know in the past
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  Speaker 4: they did have zoomba classes, which looks really really cool,
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  Speaker 4: which is what I'm going to talk about today. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to give you all an update. It's been
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  Speaker 4: a minute since. If you need to update, I think
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  Speaker 4: the last that I had told you was that, yes,
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  Speaker 4: I am teaching and I am experiencing new things.
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  Speaker 3: Annie first and foremost.
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  Speaker 4: Since this is a happy hour, are you partaking in
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  Speaker 4: any happy hour events right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? I am drinking a rose oh yes.
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  Speaker 4: Lovely, I am sparkling water a up, Yes, and I can.
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  Speaker 3: On our voyage we could be having some exciting times
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  Speaker 3: where we could also talk be happy houring together with y'all.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, maybe we should have that set up for those
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  Speaker 4: who are going to actually be there, have an actual
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  Speaker 4: happy hour time.
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  Speaker 1: Yes with y'all.
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  Speaker 4: That would be amazing, award winning drinks and restaurants. Hello,
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  Speaker 4: let's do this anyway back to yes, So I am
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  Speaker 4: in my zumba era. As y'all know, I've been in
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  Speaker 4: my zumba air for like ten years. I've done this
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  Speaker 4: for ten years. Made friends just recently did a whole
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  Speaker 4: big event at one of our community events called Atlanta
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  Speaker 4: Streets Alive, where they go around every month in different
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  Speaker 4: parts of Atlanta shut down the streets and let people
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  Speaker 4: become pedestrians, use their bikes and kind of tour their
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  Speaker 4: own home because it's differ when you walk on the
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  Speaker 4: streets and not actually drive, because you can pay attention
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  Speaker 4: to see what it's around. I know I've done that
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times where we're like, oh, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: know that was here. Oh I didn't know this existed here.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a lovely thing. So during that time, myself
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  Speaker 4: and four other amazing instructors came together and did like
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  Speaker 4: a three and a half hour long session. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 4: sure my voice issue is partly due yes to that event.
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  Speaker 4: But it was so windy it was, and the collin
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  Speaker 4: was so heavy that like my eyes swelled and was
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  Speaker 4: so red. Taking my contacts out felt like I was
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  Speaker 4: stabbing myself with alcohol, like indirectly into my eyes. You
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  Speaker 4: know when you put like hot pepper on your fingers
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  Speaker 4: and you accidentally touch your eye. That's what it felt like.
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  Speaker 4: It was intense. But with all of that, I have
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  Speaker 4: been having the best time. My classes are slow growing.
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  Speaker 4: So right now though I'm teaching zoomba at a club
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  Speaker 4: La Fitness, they are not a sponsor. That's why. That's
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  Speaker 4: just what happened to where my classes are and I'm
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  Speaker 4: getting like ten to fifteen. But as newer people come in,
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  Speaker 4: people are talking about how they.
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  Speaker 1: Love my class, how they get so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: I'm different.
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  Speaker 4: My music and my dance are typic the original choreography
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  Speaker 4: I have. Before I even started, I told y'all I
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  Speaker 4: needed ten unique numbers. I have like ten, twelve, fourteen,
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  Speaker 4: nice and they're slow growing, thank you. And I have
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  Speaker 4: my die hard people who have always been friends, who've
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  Speaker 4: been friends through other classes, that have been showing up
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  Speaker 4: and supporting me. You supported me this weekend, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: In a very funny way.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately my set was not on Our schedule was so
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  Speaker 4: ahead that we were thirty minutes early. So you friend
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  Speaker 4: of show Katie as well as my partner did.
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  Speaker 1: Not make it to your specific set to mind.
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  Speaker 4: So y'all came man, and you're like, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: it's cold? I think I'm gonn think there's a bar
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  Speaker 4: right here. Let me go into here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So we went inside and there's the glass windows there,
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  Speaker 2: so we had perfect view of trumantics working out while
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  Speaker 2: we were being on our peers, and we got a
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  Speaker 2: very funny selfie of the three of us together and you're.
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  Speaker 4: With my head the back of my head like jumping
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  Speaker 4: because I've been I was doing a routine.
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  Speaker 1: It was quite funny.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what is this yellow hysterical? I will
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  Speaker 3: tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Just like in any other anxiety written experiences, I feel
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  Speaker 4: quite under prepared, under educated in this level in expertise
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  Speaker 4: that like teaching classes is still seemingly like I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if people are coming out of sympathy, which is
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  Speaker 4: not true, because I've had many of them telling me
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  Speaker 4: how good I am, how much they love my stuff,
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  Speaker 4: how much they love my music. They've asked for my playlists.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of the biggest compliments to me, right honestly,
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  Speaker 4: telling me I have the best playlist. I'm like yes,
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  Speaker 4: uh telling me of have many of them telling me
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  Speaker 4: that I've got all the bangers that you got. Your
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  Speaker 4: your songs are banger after banger. I was like, yes,
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  Speaker 4: I love you.
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  Speaker 3: So getting that kind of validation.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting to see because obviously, if you know much
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  Speaker 4: about Atlanta, at one point in time, it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of called like the Wakanda of the South because we
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  Speaker 4: have a very strong black community, strong hip hop community.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting to see how I travel from place to
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  Speaker 4: place and how different the community is like the classes.
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  Speaker 4: As as beautiful as Atlanta can be, there's a level
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  Speaker 4: of segregation that is interesting and for me, as a
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  Speaker 4: woman of color who was not black, going into these spaces,
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  Speaker 4: it's really obvious about some of the ways the city
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  Speaker 4: has been laid out, and it makes me really sad
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, like, I'm excited that I can
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  Speaker 4: go to the different communities and teach my style, and
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  Speaker 4: I do I change it up to where I am.
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  Speaker 3: I will do.
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  Speaker 4: Say, like some of the classes, I make it more
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  Speaker 4: complicated because I know they can get it. Some of
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  Speaker 4: the other classes that not so complicated, I know they
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  Speaker 4: can't get it.
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  Speaker 3: I have a lot of mourning.
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  Speaker 4: Classes which have a lot of older people in there,
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  Speaker 4: so I try to make sure that I'm on a
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  Speaker 4: level that they can enjoy themselves and not get frustrated,
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  Speaker 4: but also keep it hyped up enough for those who
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  Speaker 4: want to get it in can get it. In my
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  Speaker 4: motto at the beginning of classes, always thank you for coming.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure you're listening to your bodies, modify if you
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  Speaker 4: need to know injuries here, but also push where you
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  Speaker 4: can because you should be able to push yourself a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. And I enjoy it even in the days
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  Speaker 4: that I'm like this is weird, the vibe is weird,
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  Speaker 4: because you can tell a vibe. It still feels nice
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  Speaker 4: to be able to do these things. But I also
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  Speaker 4: come away thinking they hate me sometimes they or they
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  Speaker 4: didn't like this, or if people go missing for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of classes, I think they don't like me anymore.
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  Speaker 4: So I very much navigated getting my personal anxieties, performance anxieties,
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  Speaker 4: and like just self esteem issues at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: And then basking and those who are giving so much
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  Speaker 4: to me, like those who are supporting me, who are
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  Speaker 4: coming out, who coming out to different classes, who travel
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  Speaker 4: to see me, like that is a joy. And I
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  Speaker 4: will also say like the people who I've had seen
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  Speaker 4: as mentors being there for me has been beautiful. Two
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  Speaker 4: specific ones I've talked about Cardio jam and DeMarco before.
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  Speaker 4: He was my introduction to these classes or ten years ago,
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  Speaker 4: eleven years ago, I think, and he has been with
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  Speaker 4: me when I teach a class and if I ask
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  Speaker 4: him for help, he is there immediately, and I can't
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  Speaker 4: talk about how amazing that is.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of support can be.
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  Speaker 4: I had a woman who I used to do classes
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  Speaker 4: with she now teaches, and she reached out to me.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, oh my god, I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 4: I need to come to a class, we need to
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  Speaker 4: teach together. And I love those moments. And then Fred,
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  Speaker 4: who is my zoomba instructor that I love and a
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  Speaker 4: door he was the one that actually gave me the
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  Speaker 4: confidence to be like, you can teach, you actually can
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  Speaker 4: do this.
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  Speaker 3: You should try it.
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  Speaker 4: And then Gigi, whom I love, she was the first
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  Speaker 4: one to pull me to the front and let me
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  Speaker 4: have a spotlight. I was like, what, maybe I can
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  Speaker 4: do this. So this has been a really empowering moment,
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  Speaker 4: which I don't say that often about myself, like I
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  Speaker 4: don't I can't oftentimes label those moments. I don't talk
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  Speaker 4: about people who I see is influential or influences, not
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  Speaker 4: because there's not people who've influenced me. Obviously there have,
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  Speaker 4: but oftentimes for me, there's so many conflicts in our
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  Speaker 4: belief systems that I don't feel like it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean like it's been a pill battle in so
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  Speaker 4: many ways. Love and support is always there, but mentoring
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  Speaker 4: and being someone that you can truly look up to
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  Speaker 4: is a whole different level. Also in understanding that we're
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  Speaker 4: all human, putting anybody on a pet soul is dangerous
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  Speaker 4: and I don't do that because people are fallible no
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  Speaker 4: matter what. You are going to have different opinions. No
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  Speaker 4: matter what, there's going to be a moment where you
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  Speaker 4: feel disappointed in yourself or they may feel disappointed in you,
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  Speaker 4: or you feel disappointed in them. And a part of
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  Speaker 4: humanity is to be able to work it out. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you can't, hopefully you can. But all those things to
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  Speaker 4: say is that to have a moment of like this
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  Speaker 4: is what encouraged this path has been interesting, especially late
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  Speaker 4: in the game, especially when it comes to like.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing immediate critiques. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Does does that make sense? But yeah, so it's been interesting.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still struggling. I'm still struggling with balancing. There's also
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  Speaker 4: been a whole level of understanding how to say no. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: constant struggle because I've had to or I would be
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  Speaker 4: teaching two classes a day for every day. There's no way.
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  Speaker 4: There's no way. My body cannot handle that. My body
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  Speaker 4: can barely handle this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have to say, you looked like you knew
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  Speaker 2: what you were doing when I was at the event.
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  Speaker 1: He looks really good.
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  Speaker 3: From inside the from inside the building, you.
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  Speaker 1: Looked wonderful with my beer in hand.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were in like hoodies and coats because we
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  Speaker 4: were so cold.
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  Speaker 2: It was we would have stayed outside. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what we were thinking. But my friend Katie was
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  Speaker 2: She was in shorts and a like short there's no way,
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  Speaker 2: and I felt okay, but I could tell as time passed,
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be cold. So yeah, we did on sure inside.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe I would too. I was like, oh no,
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna be so miserable. It was fun. The events
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  Speaker 4: were on Atlanta Streets Alive, so if you are local,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm sure there's other events other places I have
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  Speaker 4: events like this, but I do adore. I remember when
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  Speaker 4: it first started, yeah, and how fun it really was
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  Speaker 4: because it just felt like a community coming together, seeing
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  Speaker 4: new businesses, seeing small businesses come together, and being able
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  Speaker 4: to see things that are happening, getting news about Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun.
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  Speaker 2: It is fun. I told you this the first time
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  Speaker 2: I saw it. You know, I don't drive anywhere, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm walking around or I used to bike. I hardly
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  Speaker 2: do anymore, but that's what I do anyway, and so
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I would run into these and I'd.
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  Speaker 1: Be like, why is everybody on the street? Like I think.
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  Speaker 2: It took me a couple of years before I realized
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  Speaker 2: it was a vala and I would just be like,
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  Speaker 2: what's happened here? Did they close the street down because
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  Speaker 2: something's gone wrong?
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  Speaker 3: That's funny. I think I went to the first inaugural
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  Speaker 3: one it.
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  Speaker 1: Was cool, nice nice pree covid.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh yeah, I just stumbled on one on
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  Speaker 2: constantly on once and then one year Piedmont.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: That means nothing to people know, but those are streets
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  Speaker 2: that are near me. They're like well known Atlanta streets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm happy for the update. I'm happy it's going well,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure you'll continue to grow. I believe, I
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  Speaker 2: believe that you are probably very popular teacher, so.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you when I get over twenty people.
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  Speaker 2: I think ten to fifteen's pretty good, honestly. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: let me know, keep me updated, all right, listeners. In
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  Speaker 2: the meantime, you know we love hearing from you, what
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  Speaker 1: You're up to.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure to check out the voyage.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, make sure to check out the voyages at Virgin
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