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[EP38] Authenticity: Why it helps you win in life & business · AWAKEN with Dylan Ayaloo: Inner Work, Healing, Yoga & Meditation

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  Why authenticity helps you win in business and in life.
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  Following on from last week's session message where I talked about vulnerability, right?
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  So they're related topics.
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  So in a world that's constantly trying to tell you who to be, or it feels like that anyway,
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  authenticity is a, it's not a silent superpower anymore.
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  It is actually quite obvious.
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  If you look at anywhere from social media to business, to relationships,
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  or any other area in our lives.
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  The people who are succeeding, if you want to call it that,
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  bring a level of authenticity, a realness, right?
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  So that's the topic for today that we're going to look at.
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  So whether it's in you're building a business,
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  you're navigating relationships,
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  or you just want to feel good in yourself,
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  comfortable and confident in your own skin,
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  trying to be someone else is just exhausting.
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  It's the route to burnout.
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  And pretending to be someone else in this world that feels, demands it, is a highway to burnout.
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  So being who you are is where success and freedom is, however you define freedom and success to be.
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  So in this message, or in this session here, in this video, I'm going to be looking at three parts.
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  So the three parts of the message is why authenticity is the most magnetic currency that you might have, if you want to call it that at all.
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  And how to tell if you've been performing or being in people-pleasing.
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  And as you might have heard me say before in sessions, if you've been around this work, pleasing is manipulating others to like us or want to like us.
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  talk a bit about that and then what it takes to live to love and to lead as your true self
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  and authentic version of you so why does authenticity win the world is actually right
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  now saturated with curated personalities and highlight reels and false confidence right so
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  people just like beating their chest so to speak and portraying a certain version that they think
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  and that's what's needed or that's what people want to receive and what breaks through the noise
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  is this truth honesty and vulnerability and people can own their life story themselves who they are
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  and show up, be courageous enough to show up imperfect
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  because that's what it might feel like
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  and to be real, essentially.
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  So in business, authenticity builds trust, connection, sustainability.
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  In relationships, it builds safety, respect and freedom.
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  So let's talk about that.
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  In business, authenticity builds trust
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  because people buy from people who are a made-up version
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  that we think they want to receive.
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  and sustainability because no more, you don't have to perform anymore. So you're not hitting
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  performance burnout and your work is coming from an aligned place within yourself.
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  Excuse me. And in relationships, authenticity builds safety, respect, and freedom. So in
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  relationship, authenticity builds safety, respect, and freedom. So safety, emotional honesty is the
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  foundation of intimacy right so if there isn't that level of honesty and realness then what is
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  the relationship our actions so therefore they know where they stand and freedom like you don't
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  have to hide or perform to be loved right that you can just accept the love that is there and
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  show up as yourself or show up as yourself and receive the love that is there so authenticity
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  This is how we stand out in a world that is addicted to fitting in, to pleasing, which is basically pleasing, right?
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  Manipulating others to like us, which doesn't sound very nice when it's said like that.
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  But essentially, that's what pleasing is.
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  Fit all together.
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  So if you relate to that, maybe you're constantly performing in your brand, your relationship, your self-image, and how you portray yourself to those around you.
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  And it's just sucking the life out of you.
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  of your life force and your joy that is within you.
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  It's difficult to be joyful when we're not being real.
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  We're not showing ourselves.
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  It takes the joy away.
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  It sucks that energy out.
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  Number two, you're second-guessing what you really want to say.
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  So you edit yourself so that you can avoid being rejected or judged.
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  And you worry more about being liked than being true.
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  And the third is you just feel misaligned.
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  And even if everything looks good, successful, together on the outside, you're achieving and you can feel it.
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  Because whatever level of success that we might be able to get, however you define that, without being real, without a realness, without an authenticity, it simply is just hollow.
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  What is it really based on?
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  And authenticity doesn't mean just saying everything that's on your mind.
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  it means what's true for you within, like your inner truth and your outer expressions,
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  there's a match. So what's going on internally, what you feel internally, and what you're
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  expressing. First is self-connection over self-image. That means connecting with yourself.
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  So you can listen to all the opinions and thoughts and all the knowledge around you
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  But ultimately, where do you stand with that thing?
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  What do you think or feel about the thing before you actually express it?
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  So rather than being worried about the self-image and how we are seen,
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  put the energy into what's true for me.
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  And that's why you hear me in sessions.
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  I always say, take a moment just to be with that for a moment.
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  And what's true for you?
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  And what is it that you think or feel?
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  Write and then say that.
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  which is that, say the thing that you're afraid to say.
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  So in conversation or content or relationship and business,
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  and say what you mean, not what sounds polished
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  or what we think others want to hear.
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  And say what you mean and mean what you say.
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  Or don't say it.
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  Express instead of impress or want to impress.
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  And this is how people can actually feel us
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  because we're giving them the truth.
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  And the feeling that they are left with is the impact that is created.
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  I think it was Maya Angelou that talked about people always remember how you make them feel.
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  And the third one is let go of who you think you need to be.
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  So trying to be professional, perfect, inspirational 24-7 is a really great recipe for burnout.
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  And start to bring the human that is within, right?
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  the human behind that, the wall of perfection. Because real always is far greater than perfect,
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  always, every single time. And for those that are watching the recording or listening to
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  the podcast of this message, if you're new to this work, if you have not been to this work,
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  then here's my weekly little plug. Authenticity isn't about finding yourself. It's about removing
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  everything that's not you, right? So it's not about you finding yourself because where are you
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  looking? Most of the time you're looking outside, but rather it's actually looking within. And as we
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  start to remove the layers, that is the knot you start to get more and more connected with the
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  truth of who you are. Right? So that's essentially where you want to express from. So for those who
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  are listening to the recording and not in this body of work, on the 21st of this month of April,
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  our next seven-day free trial window for our Elevate Premium Membership opens. And you can
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  come and check out the Wednesday morning meditation, the Saturday yoga meditation,
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  and the Sunday there's going to be a mini-awaken where we'll do some work. And if this is a topic
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  that relates to you.
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  And if you want to come and work on removing the layers,
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  that's a really powerful session where we do that work.
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  So my final thoughts or closing thoughts on this topic
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  is if you think about it,
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  the most magnetic person in any room isn't the loudest.
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  I certainly spent a good part of my earlier years
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  in my teens and twenties,
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  always thinking I wasn't good enough.
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  And the person who was the loudest in the room,
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  the most boisterous, loudest person,
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  seemed to get attention. At that time, I wasn't even thinking of it as attention.
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  It's not the loudest. It's not the most polished person, but it's the one that's most real,
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  most authentic. And our truth is in our power. Our power is in our truth. And when you live
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  from that place, that's where everything starts to change. So from an inner work perspective,
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  when we look at this topic of authenticity, what's underneath not wanting to show ourselves
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  be real, to express ourselves. Because there's this fear of, oh, but what if I show me and they
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  see me and then they don't accept me? Or who I am is not good enough? Or who I am is not going to
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  earn the level of love that I would like to have in my life? So therefore, we stay in that fear
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  and just show like a curated version of ourselves,
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  a made-up version.
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  Or we taper things down because I speak for myself.
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  I used to think like some of the things I'm talking about,
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  oh, this is too much, too weird, too crazy, too out there.
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  The meditations we do, for example,
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  it's just compared to other more kind of body scan type meditations,
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  which obviously we do body scan in ours too.
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  I just thought with the energy work, it was just too much.
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  It's too weird. It's too crazy. It's too out there. I can't share that.
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  And what my fear was is that what if they see my crazy?
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  But then what happened was as I, the pandemic kind of helped because it kicked my butt in just thrusting me forward and I had to do it and I had no choice.
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  What I realized was that the more I show my weirdness, the more I started to attract people that align with that.
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  and here we are, right?
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  Like a bunch of weirdos in a good way.
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  So if you're willing to show you
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  the parts of you that you think,
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  oh, that's too much, that's too weird, that's too crazy,
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  I can guarantee you there's others there
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  that are thinking that
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  and they're probably looking for other people
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  that they can connect with.
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  And here we are in this session doing this
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  Those of you listening in the recording, the podcast, if you're still here and listening to the episodes, you know, you're weird in a good way too.
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  So welcome.
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  And here's the other part of it.
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  You know, the people who are going to think things about you, the people who are going to not like you or not accept you or just don't align with you, they probably already are thinking that.
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  and actually it doesn't matter
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  because it doesn't make you any less
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  or more of who you are.
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  Right?
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  It doesn't actually affect you in any way.
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  So they can think that
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  and it doesn't mean anything.
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  It only means what we make it mean.
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  So it's okay.
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  Let them have that opinion or thought
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  or dislike if that's the case.
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  I find most of the times in my life
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  people don't dislike.
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  They'll just step away.
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  else that aligns more and that's perfect whether it's in life or business certainly in business
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  you don't want to be trying to attract people that are not right not aligned it's just bad
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  like a long term it's just bad for the business and in the business of our lives because we are
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  the ceo of our lives same thing you don't want to attract the wrong people because when you know
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  You feel brave enough to show you.
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  And suddenly it's, whoa, who's this person?
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  And because we weren't real right from the beginning.
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  So it's never too late.
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  And you can start now in case you're thinking, I already have these people around me.
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  It's okay.
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  Those that align will stay.
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  And those that don't align won't.
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  And that's okay.
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  They can do that too.