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Doodle Training Wins: What 3,000 Doodle Parents Changed in 5 Days · The Doodle Pro®: Positive Dog Training for Calm Doodles

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  SPEAKER_00: More than 3,000 doodle families, 13 countries, all 50 states, five days.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one golden doodle named Willow who finally clocked out for the night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I have spent years in doodle training, you guys, and I've never seen a week like this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two things before we jump in.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, this is a celebration episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Over 3,000 of you registered for the five-day doodle parent challenge this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Day one landed on Labor Day, and a couple hundred of you still showed up live.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to tell you what happened in there because some of it is just incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, the doors to Zoomy's to Zen are open.
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  SPEAKER_00: And near the end of this episode, I'm gonna tell you about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you right when I get there so nothing sneaks up on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: So picture a live chat with doodle parents from all over, all typing at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hashtag teamgoldendoodle was very, very loud in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had burnadoodles, sheep a doodles, a mini yossidoodle, a schnoodle, and everything from six-month-old puppies to doodles well past five.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's what I noticed: a lot of you are not new to dogs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not even close.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wendy typed in the chat she's had six golden retrievers over the last 30 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this one, her first golden doodle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Susie wrote this, and I'm reading it exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: After four golden retrievers that very rarely barked, I need to understand my little barker.
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  SPEAKER_00: My little barker, I love that so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: And look at the words Susie picked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not stop, understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the part nobody says out loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you've raised four or six wonderful dogs and the old playbook stops working, it's so easy to decide you're the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or your dog is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither one's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doodles are different, wonderfully so.
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  SPEAKER_00: They arrive with this special combination of social drive, expectations at home, and the way our houses are set up.
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  SPEAKER_00: A playbook that worked beautifully for your last dog just might not fit this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a mismatch.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a mismatch we can fix.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sharon has Cooper, a six-month-old golden doodle.
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  SPEAKER_00: On day one, she typed, I felt like I'm doing it all wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not Cooper's fault.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then a little later, same call, it's all clicking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sharon, if you're listening, I want you to hear me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not Cooper's fault.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was never your fault either.
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  SPEAKER_00: I say that as someone who years ago sent my own dog to a board and train.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when my dog came home, the issues came right back home, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: I trusted a professional.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all do the best with what we know.
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  SPEAKER_00: One more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Early on day one, Jeannie admitted she called her sweet, energetic schnoodle Rio, a bully.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 40 minutes later, she typed, love your phrase.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rio's having a difficult moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same dog, 40 minutes, a completely different lens.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the lens changes, what we can do next changes too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, let's talk wins because you guys went home and did the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kelly and Willow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Willow's a one-year-old standard golden doodle who lives with a 10-month-old Rottweiler sibling.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you know, a very calm and quiet household.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kelly messaged me midweek.
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  SPEAKER_00: Willow had picked a job, neighborhood watch, 24-7, always pacing, always at the window or the sliding door.
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  SPEAKER_00: Settling in the house just never happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Kelly tried one idea from the challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: While Willow was napping, Kelly pulled the blinds and shut the curtains.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that night, in Kelly's word, a totally different dog.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not constantly worried about what was going outside.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the next morning, the part of the day that's usually running, jumping, mouthing, total chaos with two dogs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kelly only had to stop the rough housing once.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when Kelly took the what's your doodle's job quiz, Willow's result was the overworked doodle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's what I want you to hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Willow was never being bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Willow was on patrol, and nobody ever told Willow the shift was over.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, the curtains didn't teach Willow anything new.
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  SPEAKER_00: They just took the job away long enough for the whole house to breathe.
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  SPEAKER_00: The teaching is what comes next.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy and Lucy Gray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lucy Grace usually jumps straight up when the leash comes out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So since day one, Kathy's been asking for a sit before the leash goes on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the sit doesn't come right away, Kathy just says, I'm waiting, and the sit comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the FedEx driver showed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy thought he was leaving, but no, he came back with a second package.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every instinct, Lucy Grace said, run, jump, go say hi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy asked for a sit, and Lucy Grace sat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy had to remind the stay a couple of times, and Lucy Grace held it while that driver walked right by outside.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that Kathy told me the imperfect part because that is what real training looks like.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then she wrote this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, we still have to work on visitors in the house, but we are making progress.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, why did that work?
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  SPEAKER_00: So many of us have tried turning our back or pushing a doodle down or saying off about a hundred times a day, and it doesn't stick because none of those things ever show your doodle what to do instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: A doodle can't sit and jump at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we pick the behavior we want.
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  SPEAKER_00: We make it super easy and we pay it over and over until it's the obvious choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: On day three, I gave you three steps for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Name the paycheck, stop the rehearsal, pay the alternative.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's what gets me about both of those stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kelly got a totally different evening in about 24 hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy got a sit in front of a FedEx driver in four days.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's five days, you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a taste.
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  SPEAKER_00: And both of them told me in their own words, there's more to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy said it straight out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Visitors in the house are next.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the gap, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: A challenge can show you what's possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can't walk you through the full doorbell and the dinner guest and the walk week after week.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to be really honest about something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zoomies to Zen is not the challenge that I've just hosted, just longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not 3,000 of us in one live chat that's moving faster than anyone can read, especially me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a structured program.
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  SPEAKER_00: One skill at a time with me demoing it with a real dog on video with a week to actually practice each one.
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  SPEAKER_00: A brand spanking new digital workbook and a live coaching call every Friday with me, where we talk about your doodle, your doodle's name, your front door, your FedEx driver, and you don't need to have done the challenge to jump in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've listened to this podcast for months.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe life happened this week and you didn't get to make a single live call.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's completely okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody's behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all start together on Friday, September 18th.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if all of that happened in five days, imagine what we could do together in six weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine a dinner guest walking in and your doodle sitting there, tail going instead of launching at them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine the delivery driver coming and going without a single lap around the living room.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine a walk where you two are actually on the same team.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't promise you a perfect doodle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody honest can.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I can promise you is a plan, a week at a time, and me live every Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, here are the details.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if Zoomies to Zen isn't right for you right now, that's a completely fine answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Skip ahead to the last minute because there's one doable first step in there for everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's how it works.
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  SPEAKER_00: We kick off live on Friday, September 18th at 2 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern, Noon Mountain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we meet live for coaching QA every Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your lessons and your workbook are on demand.
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  SPEAKER_00: So one busy week doesn't knock you out of the group.
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  SPEAKER_00: We even have a catch-up week built in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Six weeks together.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's$497 or three payments of 167.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doors close on Wednesday, September 16th at 11 59 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern.
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  SPEAKER_00: After that, this group is set and we get to work.
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  SPEAKER_00: To jump in, go to thedoodlepro.com slash zoomies to zen, all one word.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the doodlepro.com slash zoomies to zen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The links in the show notes too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're maybe, I want to hear from you, go ahead and email me at office at the doodlepro.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: It'll go right to me and tell me your doodle's name and the one thing you'd most love to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you honestly whether Zoomies to Zen is a fit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, your one doable first step, whether you join us or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pick one moment your doodle practices every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The front door, the counter, the window, just one.
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  SPEAKER_00: This week, decide what you'd love your doodle to do there instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And pay that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Generously, not a whole training plan one doorway.
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  SPEAKER_00: And be gentle with yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: You showed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Over 3,000 of you showed up on a holiday for your doodles.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the Doodle Pro Nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I am so proud of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if that's what we did in five days, imagine what we'll do together in six weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Doodle Pro Podcast, where we celebrate how doodles are different, wonderfully so.