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#1282 - The Unboxing That Could Save Lives · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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  Speaker 1: Today's podcast is a little different to normal. Usually on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday it would be a doctor's desk conversation where
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  Speaker 1: we unpack the latest science. Today we're going to unpack
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  Speaker 1: something else it arrived in the mail. Today is an
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  Speaker 1: unboxing and unboxing on the Happy Families Podcast. You won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to see it, but you will be able
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  Speaker 1: to hear it, and we think it might be one
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  Speaker 1: of the most important boxes we've ever unpacked. Hello, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the Happy Families Podcast, Real Parenting Solutions every Day.
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  Speaker 1: This is Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast. We are Justin
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  Speaker 1: and Kylie Colson. I'm not going to even pretend that
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  Speaker 1: this is nothing other than a pure sales pitch today,
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  Speaker 1: but it has nothing to do with us. We have
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  Speaker 1: a platform, being Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast, where we
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  Speaker 1: can tell you about things that matter, things that can
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  Speaker 1: change lives. And Kylie, we've been through something that has
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  Speaker 1: been life changing, which is why I now do some
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  Speaker 1: of the work that I do, specifically with a group
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  Speaker 1: called Gotcha for Life.
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  Speaker 2: November six, twenty twenty three literally rocked our worlds as
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  Speaker 2: we were awoken to the news that Justin's nephew had
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  Speaker 2: taken his life, and as a result of that experience,
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  Speaker 2: the conversations that we have with our children, the conversations
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  Speaker 2: that we have with others has changed. It's different and
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity that you have to work closely with Gotcha
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  Speaker 2: for Life is an absolute reaction to that experience, but
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  Speaker 2: one that we hope will actually make a difference in
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  Speaker 2: lives of people all around.
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  Speaker 1: The world such privileged to work with. Gus Wallen to
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  Speaker 1: the team at Gotcha. For those of you who are
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  Speaker 1: not familiar with Gotcha for Life, they're based out of Sydney,
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  Speaker 1: but they do work up and down the East Coast
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  Speaker 1: and across the nation wherever they can. The goal of
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha for Life is to bring suicide to zero in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Some people say that's ridiculous, you can't do it. Gus
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  Speaker 1: is undeterred. Why because when you have been through it,
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  Speaker 1: you just don't want anyone else to ever ever go
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  Speaker 1: through it.
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  Speaker 2: The idea that we could bring that number to zero
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  Speaker 2: feels extreme, It feels so far fetched, it feels so
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  Speaker 2: unbelievably unachievable. And yet just the very fact that we
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  Speaker 2: have that goal, that that there is somebody or a
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  Speaker 2: group of people who are desirous to do that means
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  Speaker 2: that a life will change as a result of this. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: and one less life lost to suicide. It's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get to the point of what today's podcast
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  Speaker 1: is about. It's an unboxing. Got your Full Life have
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  Speaker 1: a relationship with Chemist Warehouse. Chemist Warehouse as a chemist
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  Speaker 1: have relationships with pharmaceutical and self care companies all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. And each year, at this time of the year,
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  Speaker 1: if you go into a chemist Warehouse, you will find
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  Speaker 1: box with the Gotcha for Life logo on them, this
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  Speaker 1: Men's care box. In fact, let me have a look
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  Speaker 1: at the box that I've got right here on my
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  Speaker 1: lap because it just arrived in the post today. Gotcha
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  Speaker 1: for Life Men's Care Box supporting men's mental health from
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  Speaker 1: Chemist Warehouse. You can buy it for twenty dollars and
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  Speaker 1: all money raised from the sale of these boxes goes
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  Speaker 1: to Gotcha for Life and doing the important work of
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  Speaker 1: inspiring meaningful conversations about the importance of opening up and
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  Speaker 1: sharing what's really going on. I love what Gus and
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  Speaker 1: Chemist Warehouse and Gotcha have done, and each year they
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  Speaker 1: send me one so that I can tell people about it.
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  Speaker 1: When I've got a platform this big, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell people about it. So Kylie, I'm going to dig
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  Speaker 1: into the box. You can make any commentary about it,
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  Speaker 1: because I might not know what all these self care
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  Speaker 1: products do, because I don't care for myself that well
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to this sort of stuff I'm opening,
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  Speaker 1: I could probably groom better. Look at this. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing I've pulled out is something from Swiss, the multivitamin company.
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  Speaker 1: It's I don't know how to say it, luronic acid
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  Speaker 1: skin glow. I'm going to get a glow up. It's
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  Speaker 1: got vitamin C from Aceerole. It contributes to normal collagenformmation
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  Speaker 1: and healthy glowing skin in peach flavor that is in
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  Speaker 1: the box. Each that in and of itself. Just to
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  Speaker 1: highlight this is a twenty dollars gift box. This thing
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  Speaker 1: would cost you twenty dollars or more just for the
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  Speaker 1: just for the glow up.
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  Speaker 2: I was literally just going to look that up right
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  Speaker 2: now because I know how expensive these are.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck spelling it as well as that. Oh look
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  Speaker 1: that there's a sampler of you remember yup the toilet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice, I'm going to be smelling way nicer than
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  Speaker 1: I normally do with the yup. I've got a Listerine
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  Speaker 1: Total Care ten and one. It's one hundred miles of listerine,
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  Speaker 1: which means you can even take it on a plane
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  Speaker 1: overseas and be allowed to use it. I'll look at this.
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  Speaker 1: There is a Gillette skin guard razor, three steps to it,
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  Speaker 1: all the great shaved stuff that's said. Holy smokes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to be able to fit this on the
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  Speaker 1: desk here.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm still stuck on your hydra.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say it either. On the Ironic Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Acid skin glow. They retail for twenty three dollars, so
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  Speaker 2: literally that one product gives you your money back.
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  Speaker 1: You know how much it costs for a Gillette razor. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: there's also, like I said, the listenerine, there is a
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  Speaker 1: I call it a shower puff that's probably not what they're.
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  Speaker 2: Puff would be.
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  Speaker 1: Shower puff puff a men's exfoliating sponge. I got one
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  Speaker 1: in last year's box and I'm still using it. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of the best ones I've ever used. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying it's a really good one. Spend forty nine dollars
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  Speaker 1: there's a there's a Gotcha flyfe special. You can get
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  Speaker 1: thicker full of hair. You can get a discount with Nihox.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some twenty band aid strips. There's a Fuss
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  Speaker 1: Free Naturals Original Man Mask. This is a mask that
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  Speaker 1: goes over your face. But it's beard friendly. Not that
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  Speaker 1: I'll ever have a beard. You won't let me, you
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  Speaker 1: won't kiss me if I have a beard. There's a
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  Speaker 1: skin control pimple patch. We've got some goat soap with
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  Speaker 1: lemon myrtle. When I say goat soap.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's what I can smell. As soon as you
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  Speaker 2: opened that box up, it was instant.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I mean the goat soap's there. There's there's
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  Speaker 1: also white glow whitening toothpastes in there. The laureal Men
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  Speaker 1: Expert Intense Relaxing Shower Jel. I love that. It's intensely relaxing.
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  Speaker 1: How do you have something less intensely relaxing that feels
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  Speaker 1: a little bit too. There's also the dentist Formulated Fresh
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  Speaker 1: Breath oral rints from Thorough Breath. I think I've said
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  Speaker 1: that right. I hope I got that right. There is
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  Speaker 1: some freshwater farm Australia, Lemon Myrtle and Manica honey body bar.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, that's the smell. Oh my goodness, it smells
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  Speaker 1: lemon Myrtle. I could if I.
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  Speaker 2: Just have to correct you if I die Manuka, Manuka?
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  Speaker 1: What do I say Manica? In Camper they say Monica.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of Bond Eye, Protein Company, Collagen and
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  Speaker 1: protein bars. There's also a couple of level Up hydrations,
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  Speaker 1: and last, but not least, there is a Headgear high
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  Speaker 1: performance matte shaper for men with hair like mine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to check that all back into the box. Now,
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  Speaker 1: twenty bucks for the whole thing. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know one hundred dollars worth of gear in there for
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  Speaker 1: twenty dollars. I mean it's great because you get a bargain,
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  Speaker 1: but I think the main thing is it actually makes
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  Speaker 1: a difference in the lives of people who who need it.
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  Speaker 2: I want, so I spend my twenty dollars to get
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  Speaker 2: one of these boxes. Where does that money go to?
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  Speaker 1: It goes to Gotcha and all of it. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they donate the lot Chemists warehouse doesn't keep anything here.
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  Speaker 1: This is a donation. These brands, White Glow and Headgear
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  Speaker 1: and listenerin Laurel and My Oxen and Swiss and Fuss
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  Speaker 1: Free Naturals and My Beauty in Calvin Klein and Thera
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  Speaker 1: Breath and Jillette and Go It's Open whoever else fresh
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  Speaker 1: Water They have all donated. So this is a donation
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  Speaker 1: so that Gotcha can continue to do the really important
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  Speaker 1: work that they do as we work towards a suicide
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  Speaker 1: free future. I just think it's great.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if men are the same, but if
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  Speaker 2: I got a box like that, I would be stoved.
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  Speaker 1: Yes you would, Yes you would. I'm pretty stoked. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty stoked. But what I want to do now is
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go down to Chemists Warehouse and buy
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  Speaker 1: a couple of these for some guys in our lives
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  Speaker 1: that need to know that they're love.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I have. Actually, as we've been talking, I'm literally
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  Speaker 2: making a list thinking about people in our lives that
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  Speaker 2: could really do with knowing that somebody's looking out for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll sell out. So when you listen to the pod,
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  Speaker 1: get down to chemist ware House straight away. If you've
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  Speaker 1: listened to the entire thing, thanks so much. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit I don't know, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: see what we're doing. And I've just rattled off a
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  Speaker 1: big list of all this cool stuff that I've been
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  Speaker 1: surprised by as I've opened up the box. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to wrap it up there. Just a huge plug for
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  Speaker 1: the team at Gotcha. Check out their Mental Fitness Gym
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  Speaker 1: online and have a conversation with someone. Just check in,
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  Speaker 1: ask them if they're doing all right, tell them what
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  Speaker 1: you're noticing. If things aren't quite right, let them know
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  Speaker 1: that you're there. And if you're having a hard time,
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  Speaker 1: seek support. The conversations matter, and new matter, and the
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  Speaker 1: people around you matter. We've got to do so much
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  Speaker 1: better at helping so that we can get this to zero.
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  Speaker 2: Just as we wrap things up, I was thinking about
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  Speaker 2: an experience I had the other day on the bike.
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  Speaker 2: You and I ride our pushies first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's pitch black, Yeah, it is a moment.
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  Speaker 2: And the other day, as we were riding, I watched
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  Speaker 2: this bike coming towards me, but all I could see
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  Speaker 2: was a headlight. I knew that it was a bike.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't see anyone or anything.
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  Speaker 1: On the stands side of the roads.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could just see his headlight. It wasn't until
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  Speaker 2: we were literally parallel with each other that I realized
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  Speaker 2: not only was it a bike, but there was a
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  Speaker 2: guy sitting on that seat, peddling furiously underneath that light.
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  Speaker 2: And when I think about this experience, so often we
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  Speaker 2: see the light that's a life, right. We see somebody
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  Speaker 2: going about their day to day. We have no idea
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  Speaker 2: what they're experiencing or how hard they're peddling to stay afloat.
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  Speaker 2: And what Gotcha for Life does is just gives us
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to be mindful of the people around us
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  Speaker 2: and let them know that they're seeing that they're loved
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  Speaker 2: and they're valued.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well said, They might look like they're just cruising along,
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  Speaker 1: but when you get up close, sometimes you can see
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  Speaker 1: a very different picture. And it's worth asking the questions
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  Speaker 1: and doing the investigations. Got You for Life Men's care
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  Speaker 1: boxes available at chemist Warehouse. Grateful to be an ambassador
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  Speaker 1: for Got You for Life and on their advisory board.
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  Speaker 1: What a privilege to be able to do that work.
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  Speaker 1: I wish that we didn't have to do the work,
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  Speaker 1: but what a privilege to be able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: The Happy Families podcast is produced by Justin Roland from
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  Speaker 1: Bridge Media. Mimhammonds provides research and our admin support. If
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  Speaker 1: you'd like more information and more resources to make your
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  Speaker 1: family happier, visit us at happyfamilies dot com dot au