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S2 EP9 | From Yoga to Nourish: Petra Kupkova's Wellness Journey · The Booth Juice Creative Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: All the juice straight from the makeup booth.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the Booth Juice.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to another episode of The Booth Juice.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today I'm joined by another fantastic guest who is making a change in the wellness industry.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_02: She is the owner of not only one but two unreal businesses here in Port Douglas, and I'm so excited to get into her story.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_02: Please give a warm welcome to the owner of Nourish Cafe and Yoga in the Tropics, my friend Petra.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so happy to be here.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for having me and for joining me.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: Now, Petra, I'm so excited to hear all about your story, but before we jump into that, um, I know that you were quite involved with the recent Port Douglas Wellness Festival.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: For our consistent listeners, um, you will have heard our episode with Michelle, one of the organizers of the Port Douglas Wellness Festival.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and Petra was such a big part of this as well.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: So I'd love to know um how did the event go?
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: What sort of things were you involved in?
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, what are you looking forward to next year?
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I think it was an amazing success.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, for a first year, yeah.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um it was whoa.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was literally whoa.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it was it was basically about six of us initially just putting it all together, little by little, meeting, week by week, and trying to create this.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: And as it was coming closer, it was a bit like, yeah, are we ready to do this?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: And then on the two days in the mornings, it was a little bit hectic, to be honest, on our end, you know, like oh shit, in that moment.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: But I think that's um always very normal when you're doing, you know, the very first event of something that you're trying to create annually, you know.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it was also the principle, like, I think we all like spent so much time on it, so much energy, and like the care was in it, like we wanted it to be great.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it was a little bit, you know, stressful naturally.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, for sure.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: But as you sort of settle into it, it was absolutely beautiful.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and um, I was just grateful to share a little bit of Nourish if our cafe there, so we had a little festival menu, cute, just a smaller menu, a bit of goodies.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I would say the smoothies were the biggest hit on a hot day.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome, yeah, I know.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was so it just like has turned into summer, hasn't it?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's so humid.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: Correct, correct.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: And then um, I just get to share one of my yoga classes.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: I called it yoga for joy because I just thought it's a beautiful way to go about it because yoga is something that can really help you to evoke that sense of joy, it's just that little bubbly surfed energy in your belly.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, did you do that on the Friday and the Saturday?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I was sharing on a Friday evening, we just did little snippets, little 20-minute sessions.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so I was right at the sunset with a little yin yoga session.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, it was it was a magic.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: Few clients mentioned that Petra you didn't see it, but there was these two sailboats just passing through because we had the doors of Sugar Wolf wide open, yeah, and they were just like that.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was magical.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there was amazing.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_02: What a special moment.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_02: Thank goodness it was like the weather was absolutely fantastic.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_02: So that the water was so calm, the sunset was beautiful, there was no rain, thank goodness, because we've had so much rain this year.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, and frankly, also the comeback was that sugar wolf as a venue.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, particularly lying down and feeling the wooden floor and being above the water, just the energy, particularly like going from say from the yin yoga into the deeper sessions, meditation and sound bath.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: Whoa, the just the vibration within that space was beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: So definitely, um, I think we nailed that.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the way it was set up.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I managed to pop down on the Friday afternoon, um, not for very long in my busyness, but um, it was just beautiful looking at all the market stalls, and there was some live music performances, and you could I wandered over to the sugar wharf and got to witness a bit of um I think there was meditation or something going on, or maybe a video yoga or something, um, when I popped my head in there.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but it just everyone just seemed to have this sense of content and kindness towards one another, and I just love, I love that.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: I love seeing a community come together, and particularly in such a warm space, yeah.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's beautiful.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think it turned out really beautiful.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was from those, we started at four o'clock, yeah, started with more of dance and more active, and then we were slowly unbining, you know, just taking the volume one by one down, and the crowd was just building up, like literally as we, you know, started with Zumba, and then the crowd was just growing bigger and bigger as the night was unraveling.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like, literally, the people who started they took it to the finish line, and there was just I I thought that's absolutely beautiful that people were so committed, I think is the word to to try, to experience, to feel.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, next year, let's go again.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, well, I think it was wonderful, and it's so wonderful to hear that you guys really got out of it what you were trying to, you know, give the community.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: So, on behalf of the community, thank you for all your hours.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure there was so much work that went into an event like that.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and it probably will be next year, but at least you know what to expect.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: But that's the thing, you can make the reflection and know what to improve, what's not, you know, what already just worked very well, and so on and so on.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: I found you know, doing ice baths on a really, really hot day, great idea.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the amount of children who suddenly want to do ice bar was quite amazing, but definitely, yeah.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: Looks forward to the round two.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, awesome.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: And if anyone has feedback about the event, um, I know Michelle would really love to hear it, and I'm sure you would as well.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_02: So um, if you want to head to the wellness uh Port Douglas Facebook page or Instagram, um, you can write to them and let them know what you loved and what maybe they could include next year or things like that as well.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um that would be very helpful.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'll leave it in the show notes as well.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_02: Now you're a busy bee.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: On top of running the wellness festival, I know you did have a quick trip overseas as well to run a retreat or something.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: Can you tell us more about that?
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: So that's how life kind of happens, right?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: Planned unplanned.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, I was just literally prior to the festival.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: I had a five-day retreat in Bali that was facilitating.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: So it was literally just coming back the day before the festival.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then straight into doing the festival.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, it all works out.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like you sort of, I feel like you get into the flow, get into the zone.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then once that was over, it was a bit of a like right, decompress.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was definitely like I was taking a Sunday off and taking the time to do literally just digest it.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like to take the time to process, reflect, and and sink it all in.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's such a good tip as well, like for busy people.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_02: Like just I think so.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_02: Intentionally rest.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because otherwise, I feel like you just jump from one thing to another, but you don't really get to truly feel what's what's just not happened, what you've just created or where you've placed your intention.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so you can really have that like okay, the time of this really worked well, yeah.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think I could have improved this, you know, all that kind of stuff.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's really healthy.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_02: Very important.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was having the same conversation the other day with a friend, and I said, My life is just so busy at the moment that I don't even have a second to absorb what has just happened.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I caught I hadn't seen her for a while, and she was like, and you've had this and that and that and that, and I'm like, Oh yeah, I forgot all of those things because I didn't allow myself to really like go, oh you did those, or that happened.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_02: So I think that's it.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like you you sort of get into the flow of it, which is great.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I think when the flow is there, you're sort of trying to work with it, but at the same time, you do do want to have those pauses and actually acknowledge that you've done this and that's you've created this, or you participate in this, and so on.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I think it's really important so it actually like you sink it into your body, yeah, rather than just you know, being that photograph and then getting into a next photograph.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, yeah, for sure.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_02: So, are you able to sort of work that into your weekly schedule as well as you know, these other events?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_02: Because I know you're a busy bee running both your businesses side by side, you know, physically and you know.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_02: Do you do you take a second to sort of breathe and go, okay?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good question.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think those who know me know that it's it's not easy.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like um, particularly the first year in business, yeah.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: That was that was hard, and I think every small business owner, including yourself, you would realize that the initial phase is just it's a baby, yeah.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: And you sort of work in it all out.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: How?
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: How does this work?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so that was for me the first year was was challenging.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: I would lie if I say that it wasn't, yeah, particularly with the cafe.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I think the yoga business I've already had for maybe five and a half years as yoga in the tropics, it just wasn't one physical yoga studio, it was more of my different offerings of yoga waterfall hikes and you know, working with retreats and resorts and so on.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: But when we created the two venues as a yoga studio and a Whole Foods Cafe, the cafe business, hospitality, I was just like, I have no background in hospitality, so it was kind of cooking out of the water, you know.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um and uh it's been a huge growth.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's the conclusion to the whole thing.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Ris lots and lots of learning, sitting in discomfort for a prolonged period of time.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, probably the biggest challenge for me was just stuffing situation.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's probably something we all will always experience in this small town.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: I agree, yeah, because it's so seasonal and everything as well.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: Um, for context, um for those who just don't know you at all, can you give us a little bit of paint a little bit of a picture of what your two businesses are and maybe how you got to here before I get too far into what's happening at the moment?
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um, because I love I love knowing, you know, obviously you've got an accent, you know, so obviously there's a story behind, you know, we weren't always here in Port Douglas.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: So can you lead us a little bit more into that before I asked you too much about um because I know you and I can just talk forever.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: And I forget that there's some people that probably don't know you at this you do, the others meaner.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um so really I was born in Czech Republic, so originally from from Europe.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I never intended or planned to live in Australia or be in Australia at all.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: That was never the dream.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, but here I am now, really.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't even know about Fort Douglas when I was younger.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but really the journey just led me this way.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I came here once backpacking when I was when I was still having businesses in Europe.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, what kind of businesses did you have in Europe?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: So so that's basically what I used to do is I used to teach children.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I started when I was younger in my teenage years, I was always loved kids.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: So there was a lot of babysitting and netting, and then uh it took me overseas, it took me to California to do an opera inter-exchange program.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I ended up living five years there, and I was studying Montessori, which is a particular philosophy of teaching children.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: Right, okay.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: So, and then that's what led me into working with children uh furthermore.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: So, when I returned to Europe, I created a babysitting business, but really the niche was sort of I was targeting the expats, so I was doing babysitting in English, yeah, because I really just didn't want to speak Czech, which was absolutely weird thing, like literally, that was my thing.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I'm living here, but I don't want to speak Czech.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, anyways, weird thing, just odd one.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, cool.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I created that little business.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I was moving around a lot different European countries, it was quite fun, you know, and I had a bunch of girls as a team, and we were just moving around.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, fantastic.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then it took me backpacking for a month um as a tourist to Australia.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um when did you start backpacking?
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I flew into I started in Sydney.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I literally just had one month, so I wasn't a full proper backpacker, but yeah, as backpacky as it got for me at that time.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, so I did Sydney, Brisbane, Tassie, around Cairns.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I did basically a week in sort of around each location, all on East Coast.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and what year was this for contacts?
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that would be probably about 215.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, probably about 2015-ish.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just yeah, yeah.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, not actually really exactly sure.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: I have to scroll in my phone and look at the photos, but around that time.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Around that time, and then basically that's what led me wanting to come back here.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: So it was a bit of that, it reminded me of California, which I really loved.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I was like, mmm, kind of would like to try to live in Australia, get a better taste.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: So a year later, yeah, um, I ended up coming here on a student visa, and I was studying in Brisbane, and then the rest is history, and I'm here in Port Douglas.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: And when you moved to Port Douglas, do you know what year that was?
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I would be now about six years ago.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like in 2020, yeah.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Sort of around the COVID COVID mark, just sort of before as it was starting.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: And so you were like set on moving to Port Douglas before.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_02: Not ever kind of hit.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: No, it also was just completely kind of spontaneous and organic how opportunities align because um I had a Montessori business in in Brisbane.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I was doing uh homeschooling for different families and setting up families' homes in a Montessori way to help the development of children zero to five.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and uh meanwhile I was teaching yoga classes, but it wasn't my main source of income, like it was just in the evenings or mornings, you know, maybe five, six classes a week.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I found on Facebook there was this post that yoga and the beach was looking for teachers, and so called them, blah blah blah.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: And then the rest is history.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: So I started coming up seasonally for them to teach, and then I met my partner here, and then COVID started to happen.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it was all sort of leading, well, are you gonna stuck in lockdown here?
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Or yeah, and then I just made my life work here.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, oh my goodness, that's that's really cool.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_02: So then once you've moved to Port Douglas, do you find that you just take on yoga full-time then because you're not doing the children's stuff as much?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was it was a bit of a transition because initially I sort of was like, oh, how can I do this here?
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: I tried to sort of keep working with the families online, but it doesn't work.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's I'm such a face-to-face person, and the energy, what you do face-to-face, and particularly with little children, you know, and supporting the families, it just did not work online.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: So I eventually ended up sort of you know easing that out.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I had to work out what the hell am I gonna do?
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, and it was sort of easing into the low season here, so like we were finishing teaching on the beach, and I just started a class in one of the local studios, but you know, you gotta earn some you know reasonable money.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, Whoa, what could I do?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: So it was all kind of working out slowly, yeah.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I worked for a few months.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: I worked for Nectar, yeah.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I was working there I met you.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think the first time a lot of people I employed a girl called Sophie Wigan.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Swigan as she's listening.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: And Sophie worked for me and she m moved up from down south and she was the best.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: And then she got a part-time job at Nectar as well.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_02: And so then I was introduced to Petra through Sophie.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I actually showed I took Sophie to her first yoga class and then got she got hooked on it.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: Because I'm too busy, and so she got hooked on it, and then you guys worked together, and she continued on with it a lot more, and then so I would be more familiar with this Petra girl who Sophie would hang out with them.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's so funny how it and that connects, you know, and it's wonderful to see also Sophie's journey now where she's she's a yoga teacher, exactly.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's beautiful how yeah, things just kind of align in life, you know, how people meet.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, and that was just a nice little sweet period, and probably the only hospitality experience I had proud to nourish.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you, Nature.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: But um, and then that's sort of giving me the time to start to create my sort of yoga in the tropics.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that was happening sort of in the background, and I started to, you know, create different classes, and it it kind of was initially a lot of collaborating with the resorts and starting to teach with the resorts, and which I'm keeping, you know, up until now.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of private teachings with the resorts or regular classes for the resort clients.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_02: So I didn't realize that that's cool.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that's that's been really nice, and I love that.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's always nice, you know, to come to one of the beautiful villas and just the people are on holidays, and they're just so grateful to have you there and get to unwind.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um that's that's really how it sort of gradually happened.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_02: So you're you've moved to Port Douglas, you've done a little bit of hospitality, but mainly your yoga, you're working on your yoga business a lot.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: How does nourish then come about?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: I know that's again, never thought that I'm gonna ever have a yoga studio.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: I never even thought I'm gonna be a yoga teacher, nor that I will ever have a cafe because I had no idea about any of that before.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: I have always had the passion about whole fruits, about healthy eating, about like literally ever since I was at high school, I always was the kind of girl who was curious of what is good for us to eat.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I would be buying the magazines that talk about you know, healthy lifestyle and so on.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: So there's always the curiosity of that, and that's really what was behind Nourish because my initial initial intention was I actually really wanted it to be fully organic, like complete organic, also have like an organic fruits and veg and all that kind of stuff to sell, but it just was unsustainable in this town because it would be financially exhausting for me to do that.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I obviously had to make decisions, and that's where it turned into okay, well, that's fully whole fruits, yeah, you know, and very strict principles around no seed oils, no vegetable oils, like those really bad things for every single person.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, you know, I made those decisions to use different alternative milks than everyone else, and it was quite interesting because initially the feedback people would be like, mmm, this tastes different.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she's using an organic milk.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Mmm, my coffee tastes different.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: So initially, I feel like I actually got a negative feedback.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like it wasn't Wow, that's surprising.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I would have thought there'd been enough people up here or on holidays that would be interested in that sort of thing.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was interesting.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: So initially the feedback was negative, and that's what put me to a place it's like, okay, Petra, you need to understand that not everyone wants to go the organic and clean way, like you do.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I came to understand it's like, okay, you have your values and create this beautiful stuff, but maybe you offer the organic, but you also have the option of the everyday milk that people are used to from everywhere else, and so on.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I just sort of made little adjustments to make it inclusive for all people for those who really choose to have the organic and fully clean, but also have the option for those who just want to have the everyday, and that's that's the way they want to go.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, so it was just an interesting observation of you know, humans' choices and how to navigate that.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: It's really interesting to hear because I Yeah, I mean we're the same, you know, in the retail and sector.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I would love to have everything 100%, you know, correct, correct, correct, you know, when it comes to manufacturing everything, but unfortunately you can't, and unfortunately, you've got to kind of yeah, run a business and keep your business alive, so you have to tweak it to make it survive.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_02: So I totally get it in that sense.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I admire you for trying to make it as best as you can.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: It's yeah, thank you really.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's just it is a learning, it's or maybe just understanding that not everyone um yeah, I guess has the same needs and same values as as you do, and uh, I guess it's making it inclusive, right?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I feel like I've known that very well, had to do that in my teachings because I've really been a teacher most of my life, right?
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: But with the cafe, I really wanted the best for people, like it was like, but I'm offering you the best possible, like, why don't you want it?
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you know, that's just for some people, that's how they are, and that's okay.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think it's still fantastic that you are just still trying to offer um, you know, a space where if people do choose to go and do that, then they can come and find you, which is really nice.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_02: So now that you've got you know Nourish working well and your yoga studio side by side, what does a regular week look like for you?
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_02: Because obviously people see you teaching, but they may not see the early mornings or the late nights and things like that.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_02: So, what is a regular week kind of look for you?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Great question, yeah.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: I guess uh yeah, every business owner would would relate to that.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: That it's kind of never stops.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was it was a new thing to me to starting the hospitality business, just that suddenly this would be far harder to stop.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: Did you find there was like lots of like um you know, licenses and all that sort of stuff?
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, lots of legal, lots of legal stuff definitely with the hospitality comes into place.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: And that was new to me.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: I also found quite um quite challenging for me was all the technical stuff.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm not it's not something that I necessarily go go for, you know.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's not my strength, I suppose I can say, so I really have to put myself into that.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, how's this PRS gonna work?
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right?
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, you know, and then uploading everything there.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like it sounds like small things, but in the in the big scale of everything, um, it can be quite big, and those are things to me that like I like to postpone because I just I just don't necessarily feel like comfortable with it.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but as far as how does my week look like regularly now these days, so we are basically now at the end of second year with the business.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I feel like it's now we're settled and there is a better flow.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I do teach still about on average, probably about 20 classes a week.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: So it's still a fair amount, and like I think I would like to get to some healthier number of if that's eventually.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um and how many staff do you have in the yoga?
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: So so it sort of changes quiet quiet to busy season.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um at the moment I just have to utter local teachers.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um but when it was busier, I had three.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, you sort of work with it however it it comes.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's I don't plan it.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's like the teachers sort of come to you, if that makes sense.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so that that's been working well.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: So basically the classes are offered in the mornings and evenings generally.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: There is not much around the lunchtime, particularly not now because it's it's hot.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: Far too hot.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's far too hot.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: So it's generally I get up, I get up nice and early, and the early morning is is my little time, my self-time.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: So it's and when you say early, what what time does that sort of mean?
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Usually it's like the 5, 5:30, 5:30 mark.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and just you know, get myself myself ready and then take the dog to the beach.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: And that is basically every morning.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: Totally.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people would know me.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's Tommy, Tommy the dog.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: He teaches yoga with me and he hangs out with me.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: We should have brought him on, actually.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: I thought that just before he came.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, damn, I should have got her to make Tommy.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_02: It would be pissed for me.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: He's the most like calm dog you've ever met.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he lay he knows where to lay when you're in the class doing yoga.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: He never says a boo, like he's just the sweetest dog.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he does know, like you know, and as soon as he comes to Namaste, he blasts off to the door to get his troy to make sure everyone gets to play.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_02: Sweet.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: So sweet.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, but definitely always starting the day with him on the beach, but it's also for me, like it's to me, it's like grounding time of just my feet in the sand, and it's like, okay, whatever the day brings, like I'm sort of preparing myself for it, you know, because there are other days that I come to the cafe and then stuff didn't show up, and then coffee shop is not open, and I'm like, great, life is great, Petra.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: Keep calming if you liked it.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: Open the shop.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: It can probably be a bit ironic, you know.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_02: It can be a chaotic kind of industry while trying to promote wellness and calmness.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there is times when I'm just like, hmm, yeah, spray.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: Spree, Petra, literally.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but most of the days it's it's beautiful because we will have this nice little morning ritual time together.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then just go to the cafe, yeah, have a coffee, or just just relax, set up for my first class, you know.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of the times it's it's time also when I get to sit there with my partner if if he's not working away.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: So we would do that, and um, so it's just like a little bit of a quality time to myself and all that.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's beautiful.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I start teaching, and basically then I go through the mornings teaching, whether it's in the studio or in the season, I would also go teach on the beach, or I head off to private's um in the resort.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: So that's usually the morning schedule for me.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then usually if I have the time on the day around over lunchtime, I would be taking over in the cafe, and sort of people can find me there over that time, or at least sort of floating through and you know, restocking and just new retail for the shelves because I always like to make sure there is some yeah, always something something new, a little bit exciting.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I wondered how how much of your day is spent in the cafe as well, because obviously you are teaching yoga classes, but I wasn't sure if your staff predominantly run the cafe and you're able to have a break from it.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: But that's cool to know that you do have a part of your day that's so it varies, yeah.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: So it's really depends how much busy how busy am I with my teachings, how many because my classes say it that's that's scheduled, that's weekly the same, you know, mornings and evenings generally, but then there is the privates that are booked in, so that's usually either the late mornings towards lunchtime or the early afternoons.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: So, and then that's schedules for me.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, am I gonna have time to be myself in the cafe, or what can I do, or am I just home officing?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: Because obviously emails admin needs to be done, you know, class preparations and so on.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: So it sort of fluctuates the midday for me, it fluctuates um depending whether I'm in the cafe or whether I'm sort of more doing the planning and stuff like that.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because also when I'm leading up to retreats and you know, events, and because we do all these different things, then it obviously takes my time and I need to remove myself from the cafe absolutely, yeah, because I need some silence to do the planning so I can be you know focused and present perfect.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um yeah.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_02: How many retreats do you would you do on average, like a year sort of thing?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: Is there a few?
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so over the past two years, there weren't as many as I would love to, because it's just a cafe has consumed a lot of my time and energy, and even just the mental capacity because it was a lot of new things.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but sort of towards the second half of this year, I already really felt like okay, like I've just gone back on top of working out how do I need to navigate the two businesses together, not just one.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so we just recently um had our Bali retreat, which was absolutely beautiful.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_01: Loved the venue as well.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: So we will definitely be doing a retreat there next year again.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, all the people that were there want to go again.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: And on those retreats, what sort of things would people expect to be doing?
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it's it's kind of a beautiful opportunity.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: One to take a little holiday and you know, remove yourself from the everyday and have the space to actually really just come back to yourself.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it also for those perhaps who practice with me regularly and coming to the retreat, it allows them the space to to go much deeper than if we're just in our regular weekly classes because I'm fully there to just be um basically holding the space for them day and night, kind of.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so so we would do morning and evening sessions.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Generally, they are either 90 minutes or even two hours, depending.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's really intentionally sort of planned from the start, whatever the theme of the retreat is, whatever I want to go through with the clients.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: And then that's sort of whatever we're learning at the start, we are then practicing through the other sessions and embodying, but um, it also involves not just yoga principles of the movement and the breath, which is what a lot of people associate with yoga, perhaps spirituality.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's really going into the depth of yoga is a practice of everyday life, basically.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like that is what the intention of yoga is in a nutshell, in a you know, Western world words, is on the math you are practicing your skills um for life, basically, you know, your ability, how you show up for yourself, how you show up for others, what is your discipline like, how you navigate when things are challenging.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_01: Do you just quit or do you continue on?
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: How do you, you know, activate yourself?
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: How do you bring yourself back to your truth?
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: And so on.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: So you practice all that.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and obviously, I take try to go into more depth within the retreats because we have the time and the space, and we do use naturally prompts like journaling and so on, but also I like to work with um with breath work and ice bars and things like that, which is you know one of my other trainings that I've done.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: So within the retreat, it offers me the space to take people through different modalities, and but all it brings together that one picture.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_02: That sounds like heaven.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's so beautiful.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think everyone like needs you know, time away.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's like I think retreat is like holidays, but sometimes holidays is associated more with just having fun and drinking and so on, there's nothing wrong with that.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm you know, believe believer of balance in life.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, but retreat, you can also have a cocktail or whatnot, but the intention behind it is like you're really there to to recharge, to refill, to to do something good for yourself.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes when you're on holiday, you come back just as exhausted, don't you?
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_02: Because you just have a opportunity to reset.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I totally get the the difference of that for sure.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: And it can be even just the act of slowing down, or perhaps sometimes it's people who are like-minded that just helps you so much to go, right?
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: Make the reflections and go like, maybe this is what I'm lacking in my life, is the people who you know meet my values that I get to spend time with, or you know, it can be so many different things because when you get the time to slow down, you suddenly see things more clearly.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you get to feel, you know, rather than just think all the time.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: You get into the body and you just have the clarity a bit more.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's so beautiful.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have any more retreats coming up in the near future that people might be able to book?
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: So, as I said, only just goodbye.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: So sort of been in the space of reflection and digestion.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, but definitely we'll be doing um two overseas retreats next year, so 227, right?
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh, in the first half and then towards the end.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: So aiming the first one will be probably March, and then looking more so at like October, November that we would do.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and in between that, there will definitely be uh some sort of one, two, or three days retreats around here.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, cool, like local retreats.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, local retreats.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_01: Because one of my things that I'm very passionate about is silent retreat as well.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I've hosted those before here at um at Tala Beach and Niramaya.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: Beautiful venues for it.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so definitely look out for those.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: That can be even just a one-day reset, you know, technology-free silence, and that can be confronting for some, yeah, but for others, often the mums, is like, oh yeah, please give me some silence.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: No children screaming to my ear for a moment.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you know, and and that can do so much, you know, and and then you know, it's also if it's just a one-day you know event, it's it's not a big investment, so it's more friendly, budget-wise for sure for everyone as well.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: So and if you're aspiring to go on an overseas retreat, this might be a good stepping stone to you know experiencing and testing, you know, different things out as well.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: And in that relation, um, it's actually this um this coming Saturday on the 7th.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're having a beautiful sort of like a satellite event to the wellness festival, and so we are doing um Naurish is gonna offer everyone 20% of everything food, beverage, retail.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: You can do a little bit of Chrissy shopping, all that.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and in the Yarga studio, we're basically doing a little bit of sampling within our venue of what we offer regularly.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_01: So it's just$10 per session, and we're starting on the beach at the sunrise, then class in the studio, then ice baths, then we've got math pilates happening, and we're finishing off with some drumming and cacao.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that'll be a super yummy day.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome, fantastic.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I will make sure to leave um those details in the show notes as well.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um if anyone wants to come along, then yeah, just go and check out yoga in the tropics or no shape.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's it.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, fantastic.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's so lovely.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_02: How exciting.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_02: I will see how I go with staffing, but I'll try to head in.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, a bit of a teaser for you.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_02: I know everything I'm like, oh, I'd like to come to that.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: I know that feeling.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_02: I'm glad there's other people.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's good.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: We're all in the same boat.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but yeah, definitely.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, fantastic.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much for chatting with me today, Petra.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_02: It has been so wonderful learning about your story.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I would love to have you on another time next year to talk about more about your retreats and stuff if anyone wants to jump on those.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but in the meantime, we should probably go and open our businesses very soon.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm going to ask you my final wrap-up questions.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_02: So there's two of them.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_02: First one is, what has brought you the most joy this week?
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_02: And my second one is, can you please leave us with a piece of advice that you know either you've been told or something you live by, or just something you'd like to leave us with today?
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, love those questions.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they're sort of very thoughtful questions.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh what has brought me the most draw this week?
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think just it's just seeing that how everything, because as I say, it was quite an intense, you know, past 10 days or whatnot, how everything actually unraveled so beautifully.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like how it all just it just came together, you know, like all that was happening was just being me, sharing what I love, which you know is yoga and being there for other people, and that's it.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like literally just seeing how it all worked out.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: So that would be probably the joy of this week.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love that.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's beautiful, and then a little piece of advice.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, one of the things that really yoga has has taught me and has been my own personal reflection recently is that I feel like I've always been a very patient and a compassionate woman to to everyone, yeah, to my students, to to my partner, to just just everyone, you know.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I would not necessarily always be that way towards myself.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like I think as a women, like I could I could be quite critical of myself, you know.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: And and that is something that yoga taught me, is actually to be patient, to be patient with myself, to offer that compassion that I offer everyone else, to actually have the skill to offer that to myself.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, and so that's what I would share with everyone.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, is that be patient with yourself, give yourself the time.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: You're so much and and that hug, you know, that you would give to a friend.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_02: You give it out so much to everyone else to you know to go, yeah, hey, you're actually doing anything.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly, exactly.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like to be able to actually offer that to yourself.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, I think that's one of the beautiful things that yoga told me, and I would definitely love for everyone to just be able to pause and be impatient with yourself.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, that's just wonderful.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_02: Everything, I mean, I love everything that you say because I always feel so moved by um your world and your beliefs and all that sort of stuff.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, if anyone wants to check out Petra's wonderful businesses, um, they can Google Nourish Cafe or go and check them out on Macross and Street.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and next door is Yoga in the Tropics as well.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so please go and give them a follow.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, if you're around on Saturday, go and check out that event.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and as always, just be kind to one another like beautiful Petra.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you so much.
• 41:45
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• 41:46
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• 41:48
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• 41:50
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• 41:51
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• 41:52
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• 41:55
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• 42:07
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• 42:09
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• 42:11
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