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LA Trip Ep. 3: Conscious Leadership & Human Connection with Gwynn Simpson · We Built This Brand

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  Welcome to, we Built This brand.
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  I'm your host Chris Hill and Adhrucia is currently
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  in, um, on one of the panels talking right now.
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  So she's not joining us for this interview.
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  Um, but I'm really excited today to have Gwen Simpson with me.
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  Gwen, thank you for, um, your time and happy to talk to you today about your.
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  Um, your company, Phoenix Rising Consultants.
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  Okay, thank you Chris.
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  I'm here at the Equity Angels, uh, conference for
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  Entrepreneurs and I was here to introduce Stacy Spikes.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Who just finished authoring Black founder and it's a
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  bestseller and uh, I'm happy to be here in California.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, it's great to be here and I'm glad to have you.
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  Um.
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  And yeah, I thought your introduction to Stacy was really great.
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  I mean, yeah, I think he said it best himself.
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  He is like, I'd like to meet that guy.
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  So you clearly had some very kind, very
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  insightful words, um, to say and to introduce him.
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  So
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  yes, Stacy, that was really good's, a visionary and, um.
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  I am a metaphysical practitioner.
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  Okay.
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  So I believe in intuition and premonition and dreams.
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  Mm. And my goal is to help others believe in that
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  intuition and to exercise that to be successful.
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  Oh, interesting.
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  Interesting.
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  So what, what led you to, um, to that career choice to that?
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  Actually my mother and my grandmother and my great-grandmother because
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  my mother remembered her previous lifetimes and shared that with me.
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  And, um, my, uh, relatives are originally from New Orleans, and we do believe
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  in reincarnation and we do believe that we are here in a lifetime to serve
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  and to ensure that others carry on a philosophy of higher consciousness.
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  Hmm.
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  Where everyone is treated equitably.
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  Uh, we do believe in the creator and we believe
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  we are all here and we need to be purpose driven.
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  Yeah.
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  To
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  raise the consciousness of society.
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  Hmm.
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  So I like to counsel, um, young people and inform them about potential.
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  And to give them, uh, a foundation of positive psychology
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  so that they feel whole and they feel, no matter what the
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  circumstances are, they can realize their dreams and their goals.
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  That's really cool.
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  Um, and so, so many questions come from that, but like.
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  It's, it seems interesting that like, so are you, are you
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  consulting with individuals as well as with businesses?
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  Or how does that, how does that, because then how does that get all combined?
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  Because I noticed you had human capital
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  development as also part of your business name.
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  Yes, and I do consult with businesses.
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  Okay.
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  And I do try to.
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  Them strategy so that they understand how to deal with employees and
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  that they understand what employee relationships are in the workplace.
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  Yeah.
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  I also have a private sector, uh, consulting where I consult one-on-one.
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  But that's been my goal in, in human capital development to
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  help companies, uh, achieve success through good employee
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  relations, because employees are the greatest asset, right?
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  And our people are our greatest asset and our youth.
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  Are going to replace us, and we wanna make sure that
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  they have foundations of positive psychology so that
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  they can move and achieve whatever dreams they desire.
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  Hmm, that's interesting.
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  Um, how do you, how do you see that helping, like startups and small businesses.
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  Startups have to use intuition.
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  They have to look at their strategy, they have to believe in the
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  subconscious, they have to ensure that they have a positive foundation
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  so that when they are knocked down, they know how to get up.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And, uh, entrepreneurs are great examples of that.
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  Everyone's had struggles during a business.
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  Hmm.
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  But
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  do you let that struggle keep you down?
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  Or do you wake up and say, no, I'm gonna make it.
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  I'm not gonna let this struggle break me or break my company.
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  I'm gonna keep on moving.
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  And to understand that there are people in circumstances
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  that happen naturally so they can continue down that path.
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  Yeah, that's, that's really, um, that's really interesting and like.
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  How about the, how about like our current generation?
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  Like what, what are you finding to be some of the
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  challenges maybe now that didn't exist years ago?
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  Or is it just all the same
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  history?
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  Repeat repeats itself, but we have new technology and I think what we're
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  challenged with now is knowing what is real and wasn't what isn't real.
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  Hmm.
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  Because AI is a good technological tool, right?
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  But AI does not have a soul.
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  Only humans have souls.
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  Right?
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  And so we as humans have to remember that
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  we are humans having a spiritual experience.
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  So you can create robots, you can create technology, you can create
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  applications, but human relationships are the most important on the planet.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I, I would agree with that.
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  And I mean, just, it's amazing to me how personable AI can be at times
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  and almost how deceitful it can be in making you think, oh, it has a
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  solar, oh, it knows me better than any person I've ever known in my life.
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  Right.
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  And, um, how it can drag you down a path you may not want
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  to go down if you're too reliant on it, as opposed to,
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  um, you know, trusting on actual human advice and wisdom.
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  And that's some of the challenge that I used.
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  Are experiencing now because they're so tied to their cell
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  phones, they're so tied to social media that they do not
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  engage in human contact as much as generations prior to.
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  Hmm.
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  So we don't wanna lose that.
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  Yeah.
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  And we don't want our youth to think that they're not
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  loved and that no one shares the feelings that they share.
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  Right.
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  But because of social media and because of the cell phone and because of ai.
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  That human contact has declined, especially over the last two decades.
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  Yeah,
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  so we wanna ensure that they understand your people first.
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  You do have a subconscious, you do have a heart chakra.
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  And while AI may give you tools to, uh,
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  handle business, AI does not have a soul.
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  Only the creator can put a soul in a human being.
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  What is one tip you would give to someone who wants to, um, you know,
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  maybe incorporate more of this consciousness in their business and.
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  And how they operate with their employees.
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  Learn who you are.
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  One of the ways I teach individuals to learn who they are is through astrology.
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  I've, uh, studied Carl Young, who did over 4,800
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  charts, and when you learn your son, your moon.
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  Sentence sign and what behaviors are attached.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  You can look at the pros and cons of those behaviors and try
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  to follow the pros, the positive behaviors, so that you're
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  a good human being, being service of service to others.
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  Yeah.
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  That's interesting.
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  Um, I, I find that, you know.
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  Most people will say, you know, learn, you know, the
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  Myers-Briggs or, um, oh, what's the, what's the Enneagram?
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  The one with all the numbers on it.
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  Right?
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  Um, but I've always joked that like, Enneagram, especially
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  where I come from, Enneagram seems to be just the,
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  the conservative Christian version of the horoscope.
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  And it's interesting how all those things can
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  help you learn about yourself in a deeper way.
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  In religion, if you look at religion, there are great,
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  great prophets throughout all religions, and they all had
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  dreams, they all had intuition, and they all followed that.
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  And so good human behavior follows.
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  Every religion on the planet, whether it's the Kabbalah, whether it's
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  Judaism, whether it's Christianity, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam,
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  Hinduism, all of the great religions teach us good human behavior.
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  No.
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  Well, that's really awesome.
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  Well, um, in terms of this podcast, this is, we built this brand.
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  I always like to ask at the end of an interview, um,
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  you know, what brand do you admire the most right now?
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  And so like in the theme of this, like what brand
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  would you say is being the most conscious right now?
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  Or using human consciousness, or maybe that's the wrong way to say
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  it, but what brand would you say you admire the most right now?
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  I admired humanitarian service, and so I would like my company to be
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  known as a service to raise the level of consciousness in humanity.
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  Hmm.
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  So, so who would that company be though,
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  if you were to pick one right now that that is doing that?
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  I think brands through their charity and their philanthropy.
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  Are catering to that human service and humanity because they're
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  all giving to people who are less than people who need help.
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  So I think all Fortune 500 companies, smaller
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  companies, mid-size companies are charitable companies.
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  So I think it's that charitable arm that's really servicing humanity.
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  Gotcha.
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  Well, very cool.
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  Well, Gwen, thank you so much for coming
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  on the podcast for this brief conversation.
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  Um, where can people find out about you and,
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  and reach out to you if they wanna learn more?
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  They can uh, email me at G nineteen82@gmail.com.
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  Alright, we'll make sure I'm also
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  on Instagram Bunny dot Simpson.
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  Excellent.
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  Well, we'll make sure that that's in the, um, show notes and, uh, yeah.
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  Thank you so much for coming on.
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  It's been a pleasure.
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  Thank you.
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  All right.
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  Bye-bye.