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Dr. Teresa A. Smith returns to Conversations LIVE · Cyrus Webb's tracks

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations Live. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus Webb.
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Teresa A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith, you all know her as Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Todd.
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  Speaker 1: She is back with us today to talk to us
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  Speaker 1: about how she's able to balance it all. We know
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  Speaker 1: her as a best-selling author. media personality. She's also a
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  Speaker 1: speaker and coach. I want to talk to her about
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  Speaker 1: what it's been like for her to be able to
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  Speaker 1: not only to provide the services that she is and
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  Speaker 1: use her platform, but also to make sure that she
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  Speaker 1: is living up to her own saying of taking care
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  Speaker 1: of herself first.
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  Speaker 2: Dr. Tiles, welcome back to the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me, Cyrus.
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  Speaker 2: Look, always great to talk with you.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought about, because the month of September is
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  Speaker 1: recognized for a lot of things, but one of the
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  Speaker 1: things is, of course, is about self-care. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that for you, because As I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: in my lead up, you are known for saying before
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  Speaker 1: you go trying to take care of someone else, make
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  Speaker 1: sure you take care of yourself first. What has that
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  Speaker 1: been like for you to live, Taz, as you've been
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  Speaker 1: building your business and your brand?
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, I understand it's hard to say.
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  Speaker 4: It.
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  Speaker 3: And so for me, I, you know, I'm constantly checking
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  Speaker 3: in with myself. And the great thing about it is
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  Speaker 3: when I do it, I see the results of it.
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  Speaker 3: And as a person who, as you know, I'm very transparent,
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  Speaker 3: I've gotten to the place where I listen to my body.
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  Speaker 3: You know, even this week I was sharing with my therapist,
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  Speaker 3: I said, you know, I can tell, I feel, I
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  Speaker 3: chose to do this. He was very happy. I said,
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  Speaker 3: this is my plan for the end of this day.
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  Speaker 3: And I activated the plan. I actually did what I
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  Speaker 3: knew I needed to do because my body was sluggish
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  Speaker 3: and I could actually feel it. And normally I would
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  Speaker 3: have said, oh, I can push through. And I think that's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the misstep that some of us make. We think, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to push through. I know I'm tired, but
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  Speaker 3: if I can get this done, then I won't have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with it tomorrow because I know I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be even tired of tomorrow. Well, you may not be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, tired tomorrow if you stop and then actually
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  Speaker 3: get the rest that you need. And so for me,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, it's something that I live every day
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  Speaker 3: and I've learned to give myself grace. I was just
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  Speaker 3: speaking with someone. I said, well, how was your holiday?
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  Speaker 3: And they were like, well, you know, I work. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 3: I do too. And I said to them, I said,
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  Speaker 3: you're moving sluggish, you know? And he said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he kind of tired. I said, I can tell. Because
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't his normal self. And I said to him,
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  Speaker 3: basically shared what I just shared, that, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: felt the same way the day before. But I realized
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  Speaker 3: it and I stopped. And this person, whenever they run
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  Speaker 3: into me, they always say, you're always working. Because they're right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always working. But what I wanted him to understand is,
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  Speaker 3: because he's an entrepreneur, you've got to build in energy.
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  Speaker 3: I know this is your busy season, but you've got
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  Speaker 3: to build in a day or half a day where
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  Speaker 3: you can stop earlier because I could tell, this is
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  Speaker 3: a person younger than me, I could tell that physically
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  Speaker 3: they were different. Their demeanor, they're still nice young men,
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  Speaker 3: but their demeanor was off. And so when you talk
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  Speaker 3: about September being self-care month, for me, it's about staying
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  Speaker 3: intentional and not just saying the words that I say
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  Speaker 3: with my sign-off, actually living that and being okay with
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  Speaker 3: living that. Because I think, again, that's the rub. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we say it, you need to do this, you need
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  Speaker 3: to do that. But then we think people are going
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  Speaker 3: to think less of us, I think, sometimes. And we
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  Speaker 3: don't realize that it's still people-pleasing. So my thing is, no,
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  Speaker 3: it has to be about me, because if I don't
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  Speaker 3: make it about me, then I can't help anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm living it that size because I know
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  Speaker 3: what the alternative is and I don't want that alternative. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, OK, so let's talk about that for the audience.
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  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned in my intro, you're you're you're
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  Speaker 1: an author, you're a speaker.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have services that you offer your audience.
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  Speaker 1: A media personality, how do you decide what you're going
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  Speaker 1: to focus on?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Cyrus, it's interesting. As you know, I'm a planner.
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  Speaker 3: And I was in a consultation with someone very recently,
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  Speaker 3: and they informed me that they were going to have
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  Speaker 3: some things that they had not planned for occur. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course, it's going to impact our work, and they're
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  Speaker 3: waiting on, you know, the medical professionals to get back
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  Speaker 3: with them. Because I was asking, did we know the
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  Speaker 3: dates yet? And I said to them that whenever I'm
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  Speaker 3: having surgeries or anything like that, I start planning what
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  Speaker 3: I want to do before, what needs to be able
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  Speaker 3: to still function while I'm recuperating, and then what has
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  Speaker 3: to be in place afterwards. Well, that's just the way
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  Speaker 3: my brain works. So for me, even looking at 2027,
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  Speaker 3: I'm well into 2027 and planning. You know, I have
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  Speaker 3: to take off all of the service hats and put
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  Speaker 3: on the CEO hat. I can't do everything that I
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  Speaker 3: want to do every day of the week or every
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  Speaker 3: month out of the year. So when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: what am I going to offer, I look at what
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  Speaker 3: my end is and then I start mapping backwards. And
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  Speaker 3: so that's what's going to drive what I do. For example,
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  Speaker 3: I love my talk with Tasha, but there are some
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  Speaker 3: things that I want to put in place that's going
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  Speaker 3: to impact when the next season of Talk With Cause airs.
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  Speaker 3: I already know that. And I've had to come to,
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  Speaker 3: I had to get myself to a place I'm at
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  Speaker 3: peace with that. It doesn't mean that I won't be
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  Speaker 3: still helping people. I will be. It doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 3: maybe something special comes up and I do an episode
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  Speaker 3: or two. But the way the current seasons have been designed,
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  Speaker 3: I won't be able to do that because there's just
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  Speaker 3: not enough hours in the day nor time in a
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  Speaker 3: year or for a quarter for me to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do that. So basically all of that to say
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  Speaker 3: is one, I'm honest with myself. I'm doing a survey
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  Speaker 3: to see what is possible. I'm looking at the long-term goal,
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  Speaker 3: seeing which things are going to feed into that goal
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  Speaker 3: and then getting to a place where I'm okay with
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  Speaker 3: saying not now, does it mean not never or ever?
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  Speaker 3: It just means that I have to plan for it.
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  Speaker 3: And for me, That's the only way I can do it,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what I try to teach other people also,
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  Speaker 3: because you can't do everything at the same time, because
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  Speaker 3: if you are, how are you going to take care
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  Speaker 3: of you? Because there's nothing left.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's balance that then.
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  Speaker 1: So you are living your life. You are doing these
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  Speaker 1: different things that we're talking about here. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you are sharing with your audience the importance of self-care.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's because of your realizing what happens
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  Speaker 1: when you don't take care of ties, why that is
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  Speaker 1: such an important part? Or are those reminders ties more
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  Speaker 1: so for you than.
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  Speaker 2: For the audience?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's both sides because, yeah, I don't do
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  Speaker 3: a lot on social media. I do a lot, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't spend the time on social media that people
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  Speaker 3: would think that I do because I do do all
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  Speaker 3: these other things. But one of the things that I've
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  Speaker 3: noticed in the last, I'm going to say 72 hours,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen where there are a lot of social media
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  Speaker 3: influencers who have died for multiple reasons. And it registered
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  Speaker 3: with me because, of course, I am a personality and
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  Speaker 3: I do work on social media. And it got my
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  Speaker 3: attention because my question becomes, regardless of what was going
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  Speaker 3: on with that person, you've got people who are sharing
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  Speaker 3: their life through social the social media platform, but these
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  Speaker 3: individuals are passing. I'll say it that way. They're passing.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like, okay, because I'm always looking for a
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  Speaker 3: less solicitor in these circumstances, but it read me. So
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  Speaker 3: when you add for me, it's both because no one person,
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  Speaker 3: let me see how I'm going to say that. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I can only speak for me. I am not able
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  Speaker 3: to do everything that has to be done in my
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  Speaker 3: big plan, which includes my primary job also. I can't
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  Speaker 3: do all of that and everything else and still be
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  Speaker 3: a healthy, functioning person in all aspects. I can't. And
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  Speaker 3: it's okay to realize that and then intentionally plan out everything.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's a reminder for me, but it's also
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  Speaker 3: my way of saying to the audience, it's okay. Just
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  Speaker 3: because you work a primary job, which most people do,
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  Speaker 3: and then you are pursuing your goals, it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that it's either one or the other. It just means
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  Speaker 3: that you have to be more intentional about how you
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  Speaker 3: balance things and look at what's feasible given what your
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  Speaker 3: priorities are.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So then when you're thinking about the different books that
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  Speaker 1: you write and then, of course, your shows, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times you are known for doing these
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  Speaker 1: series now. You have these themes that you're able to share.
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  Speaker 2: Even in your books.
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  Speaker 1: How does it feel then, Taz, to see the audience
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  Speaker 1: make the connection and see themselves.
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  Speaker 3: In what you're doing?
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  Speaker 4: I went around the room, Al, as they would say.
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  Speaker 4: It says to me that, one, the audience is resonating
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  Speaker 4: with the material, but also that I'm making the right
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  Speaker 4: decision because they don't know all that goes into what
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  Speaker 4: they see, whether it's a show, whether it's a product,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's a service. And it also reinforces for me
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  Speaker 4: that you have to make a decision.
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  Speaker 2: Of the year.
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  Speaker 3: What's going to be important for the next? And in planning,
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  Speaker 3: planning is so important. And I'll tell you in an audience,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I've been working on an e-book about planning.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to scrap it and I'll scrap part seven
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  Speaker 3: and I'll revise it because planning is just such a
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  Speaker 3: second nature thing to me. I don't think about it.
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  Speaker 3: But I realize how important it is. And I think
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  Speaker 3: for those who are trying to figure out how do
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  Speaker 3: I just get started, especially when they've got their primary work,
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  Speaker 3: they may have children, they may be a caregiver for
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  Speaker 3: a parent or whomever, a loved one. It's a lot,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And so I've been so that it seems more,
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  Speaker 3: it helps them to see how to plan their life
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  Speaker 3: so that they can work consistently towards their goals. without
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  Speaker 3: having to sacrifice anyone else or the responsibilities that they have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Taz, you were breaking up just a little bit there.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to let you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that is such a great connection, though,
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do something that you love, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, something that may even sound second nature for you,
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  Speaker 1: like the planning part, but then, of course, be able
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  Speaker 1: to find that connection with the others, which is the
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  Speaker 1: main thing. I want to say for those who are
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  Speaker 1: just tuning in, welcome. You're listening to Conversations Live.
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  Speaker 2: Dr. Teresa A. Smith, a.k.a. Dr. Todd's, is back with
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  Speaker 2: us today.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking more personally, though, about how she's been
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  Speaker 1: able to balance all that she does, what it's been
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  Speaker 1: like for her to speak to herself, which she's also
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  Speaker 1: sharing with her audience, but also to making the connection
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  Speaker 1: with her audience as well.
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  Speaker 2: One of the ways you've done that has been through
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  Speaker 2: your series. Talk to us about, though, Taz.
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  Speaker 1: The media personality. That seems to be something that was
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  Speaker 1: almost inevitable for you in some form or fashion, but
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  Speaker 1: what has it been like for you now to have
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  Speaker 1: these several shows that you've been able to introduce, Taz?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Cyrus, that is just, it's like icing on the
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  Speaker 3: cake because whether I'm interviewing individuals or whether I've got
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  Speaker 3: the show with Miss Gloria, which is my mother, and that's,
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  Speaker 3: I love that because I get to share her with
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  Speaker 3: the world because Mama's a hoot, as she knows. I
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  Speaker 3: always say that because she is. And I love the
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  Speaker 3: way that people respond to her on YouTube because they
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  Speaker 3: love it. And that says to me that the wisdom
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  Speaker 3: and the knowledge that she gave me That's still relevant,
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  Speaker 3: which I know is relevant, but other people are gravitating
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  Speaker 3: towards it and they like hearing it. And so, but
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  Speaker 3: that also reminds me about the differences in people. We
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  Speaker 3: can't assume that someone else knows something just because we
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  Speaker 3: know it or they know it to the level that
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  Speaker 3: we know it because they may never be exposed to it.
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  Speaker 3: And so I love it when people make comments about Mama.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you, Mama's probably the most popular show
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  Speaker 3: I got. I can release a clip on mama and
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  Speaker 3: mama could get thousand views. And sometimes she might get
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  Speaker 3: 20 or 30 hearts. So again, for me, that's like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I get to share mama with the world and folks
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  Speaker 3: like it. Also, when it comes to my show with
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  Speaker 3: Jay and my sister, folks, I think it's interesting because
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  Speaker 3: I really never thought about it, but I've been thinking
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  Speaker 3: about it. You know, you got two sisters who are
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  Speaker 3: from two different generations because we're 18 years apart, same parents,
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  Speaker 3: 18 years apart. We didn't grow up in the same house.
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  Speaker 3: We are very much alike, but we're very different. So
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  Speaker 3: you get a chance to see how we interface, because
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  Speaker 3: what you guys see online is what we're like. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we just tone it down a little bit. But that's
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  Speaker 3: what we're like when we're talking. And we can be
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  Speaker 3: on the phone. I won't even tell you the number
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  Speaker 3: of hours. As the people at home, this is a
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  Speaker 3: colloquial friend. They say, you dropped your false teeth. We'd
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  Speaker 3: be on the phone a long time, but we'd be
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  Speaker 3: working through life. hours we're working through life her issues
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  Speaker 3: my issues you know it's like coming up with ideas
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  Speaker 3: about how to do different things in our lives that
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  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with our public life so being
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  Speaker 3: able to bring that knowledge and you know we're both
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  Speaker 3: young women so we are experiencing life and I think
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  Speaker 3: that the audience realize oh they're going through the same
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  Speaker 3: old stuff that we're going through I'm going through it
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  Speaker 3: so I like that connection also and so I think
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  Speaker 3: that you know to bring a message to the audience
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  Speaker 3: in a different way. And then, of course, with the shows,
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  Speaker 3: you know, folks can, the live shows, people can interact
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  Speaker 3: with us. And so I enjoy that audience participation. So
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  Speaker 3: it's just fun. It's the fun part of life.
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  Speaker 1: You hesitated earlier, Taz, as you were talking about some
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  Speaker 1: of these public figures that have been passing away. And
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  Speaker 1: when you were talking about yourself, you hesitated in calling
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  Speaker 1: yourself Taz. a public figure has that, what has that
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  Speaker 1: been like for you to embrace the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: do have your audience, that you are an influencer and
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  Speaker 1: you are someone that people pay attention to?
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to, and you can quote it better than
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  Speaker 3: me size with great power comes great responsibility. I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm quoting Peter Parker's uncle, right from Spider-Man, but you
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  Speaker 3: guys get the point. When you walk into that sort
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  Speaker 3: of arena for me, because I'm a Southern girl and
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  Speaker 3: raised in the church and, and everything, that's a responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: So humility is there for me. And also the fact
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  Speaker 3: that I don't want to leave people alone. I get
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  Speaker 3: a little, I get a little feeling of who, like
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  Speaker 3: I want to tear up at that because I know
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  Speaker 3: that as a Southern girl raised in the church, raised
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  Speaker 3: by Miss Gloria, I'll see how my mama is. There's
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  Speaker 3: a cost to that. Cause I always tell people I'll
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  Speaker 3: have to pay for that. When I say that guys,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Christian. So that means that, In the afterlife,
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  Speaker 3: I'll pay for it if I do something wrong. And
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  Speaker 3: we're going to pay for it regardless. And I think
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  Speaker 3: I'll pay even harder if I know I'm doing wrong.
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  Speaker 3: It's one thing when we do stuff that we don't
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  Speaker 3: know that we're doing the wrong thing. But when you
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  Speaker 3: know you're not being vigilant about your influence, because that's
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  Speaker 3: what we're talking about, influence as a public person, I'm
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  Speaker 3: very mindful of that. And I want to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that when I make steps and I say things that
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  Speaker 3: I'm being an accurate person. Because I know people will listen,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't want to steer anyone the wrong way.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, it's a responsibility, and I don't take
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  Speaker 3: it lightly because I don't want to do something wrong.
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  Speaker 3: It's bad if I hurt myself, which is bad, but
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  Speaker 3: that's one thing. That's me. I don't want to do
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  Speaker 3: something that may cause somebody else harm. And to me,
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  Speaker 3: that's the responsibility that comes with being a public person. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Your newest book, Cracks in the Empire, kind of references
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  Speaker 1: a bit of this, which is why I was leading
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  Speaker 1: up to that, Taz, how we can be in a
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  Speaker 1: good place and still make bad decisions, whether it comes
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  Speaker 1: to ourselves and to others. We can still allow the
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  Speaker 1: wrong people into our space, and that impacts us. Talk
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  Speaker 1: to us about Cracks in the Empire and how that
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  Speaker 1: continues to be a reminder for you, not only in
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  Speaker 1: how you show up, but who you show up with.
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  Speaker 3: You know, size, what is the saying? Birds of a
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  Speaker 3: feather flock together. Years ago, someone told my mother, oh,
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  Speaker 3: don't worry about such and such. They're not going to
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  Speaker 3: amount to anything. And this person had no qualms telling
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  Speaker 3: my mother this. But I understand as I've gotten older
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  Speaker 3: why she made that comment and why she felt comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: because she was looking at the company, and she knew
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  Speaker 3: that when people kept a certain sort of company, then
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  Speaker 3: it was going to impact their thinking, the way they
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  Speaker 3: interface with other people, and it could limit their opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: And so for me, I tried to show that concept,
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  Speaker 3: that idea in Cracks in the Empire, Because like you said,
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  Speaker 3: you may think they're a good person and they may
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  Speaker 3: be a good person, but they're not the right person
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  Speaker 3: for that component of your life. And getting to a
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  Speaker 3: place where you can accept that and realize you haven't
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  Speaker 3: done anything wrong, the person hadn't done anything wrong, you're
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  Speaker 3: making an informed decision. And so that's what I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to show when practicing the empire with Desmond. Once he
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  Speaker 3: got burned, then he began to understand the importance of
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  Speaker 3: making decisions that were not going to just benefit him,
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  Speaker 3: but to make sure those decisions would not negatively impact
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  Speaker 3: harm other people. And it kind of goes back to
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  Speaker 3: what we were just saying. And as you draw that,
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  Speaker 3: the connection, when you are a public person, you have
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  Speaker 3: to be mindful that people are looking to you as
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  Speaker 3: a role model, whether you see that or not. And they,
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  Speaker 3: they learn vicariously through you. And so, you know, with
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  Speaker 3: Desmond and with Cracks in the Empire, that's just one
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  Speaker 3: of the many lessons that he learned that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to remind us of. Because when they said
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  Speaker 3: the children are looking and they're listening and the folks
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  Speaker 3: were looking and listening and Desmond thought that he had
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  Speaker 3: a great reputation. He did for some circles. But where
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  Speaker 3: it really mattered was he took his clothes off and
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  Speaker 3: you saw the real man. Those people didn't really mean
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  Speaker 3: anything to him. Where it really counted, he didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a good reputation. But he turns it around.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing for us. So as you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of moving throughout the rest of this month and into the.
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  Speaker 2: Last quarter of this year, Taz, what are you excited about?
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  Speaker 1: What is it, as we kind of talked about the
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  Speaker 1: different things that you're involved in, What is it you're
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  Speaker 1: excited about you can share.
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  Speaker 2: With our audience?
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  Speaker 3: So I'm working on several e-books, and the e-books really
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  Speaker 3: align to services that I have provided folks really all
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  Speaker 3: of my professional life and for some people before I
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  Speaker 3: was a professional. And so I'm really looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: bringing those things to life. As you know, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: grant writer, and we're in an economy where folks really
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: are looking at different ways of supplementing their mission. And
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: so I'm going to be doing a series about that
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  Speaker 3: because I think it's important. And the thing with grants are,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes we jump into a grant or we
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: get our hopes up for a grant and we may
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  Speaker 3: not be funded, but we didn't check to see if
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: we were ready to be funded. So there's so many,
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  Speaker 3: you know, parts of grants and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, I want to educate people about that.
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  Speaker 3: because I have successfully written millions of dollars, received millions
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  Speaker 3: and millions of dollars of after-school funding, and I wrote
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: the grants, and I wrote grants for other people. So, again,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's another opportunity. When you have something that
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  Speaker 3: could benefit other people, you're supposed to share that. You're
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: supposed to pay it forward. And so I'm just really
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: kind of taking stock of some of the things that
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  Speaker 3: I could do to help other people who are working
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  Speaker 3: hard to create their goals and the things that I'm
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: working on that folks will see drop. And I want
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  Speaker 3: to say, as we talk about that, Cyrus, it's still
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  Speaker 3: stronger in transformation though, because some people might think, well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't see how that's still what she does, but
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  Speaker 3: it is because if I'm able to give a person
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  Speaker 3: a product, and maybe do some coaching with them that
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  Speaker 3: helps them to get their vision up and rolling, that's transformation.
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  Speaker 3: That person becomes stronger. Then that person can help the
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  Speaker 3: next person and so on and so on. And we
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  Speaker 3: have a movement because people are now able to walk
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  Speaker 3: in their purpose. And if we're trying to balance their
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: real job and then their purpose job, they're able to
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  Speaker 3: balance that and be happy and functioning. So all of
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  Speaker 3: it still fits together together. It's just where you enter
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  Speaker 3: the ecosystem with me. And I know different people will
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  Speaker 3: enter it from different places. So I'm really excited about
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  Speaker 3: that because I just feel there's a lot that folks
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  Speaker 3: are wanting done and they need help doing. And if
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  Speaker 3: I can help them some, then that will say Miss Gloria,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Laney's granddaughter, as I tell my mama sometimes, I
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  Speaker 3: was Miss Laney's granddaughter. Then Miss Laney's granddaughter, which is
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  Speaker 3: my mother's mother, guys, will have done a good job
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  Speaker 3: because When I say I'm Miss Laney's granddaughter, because you
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  Speaker 3: may or may not have heard me say this, that's
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  Speaker 3: a stamp of approval. I never knew my grandmother, but
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  Speaker 3: when I say that, I feel like she's proud of me.
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  Speaker 3: So then I'd be Miss Laney's granddaughter, and I'd be
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  Speaker 3: helping people.
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  Speaker 2: So how can our audience stay connected with you, Tess?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they can reach out to me. First, follow me
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram, Dr. Teresa Smith. And then they will see
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: my Linktree bio there, so they can get all the
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: connections to me there. They can reach out to me
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: if they want a 15-minute consult. They can also follow
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: me on YouTube, which is where all my shows are.
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  Speaker 3: And I am D-R-T-A-S, D-R-T-A-S on YouTube. I also have
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: my Linktree bio there.
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  Speaker 2: All right. And we'll make sure that we link that
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  Speaker 2: up as well. Again, everyone... Dr. Teresa A. Smith, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Taz has been our guest. Always great catching up with you, Taz.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to our next conversation together.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me, Cyrus.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, glad to do it. And we thank your audience
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  Speaker 1: for tuning in to another great segment of Conversations Live.
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  Speaker 1: Until next time, I'm your host, Cyrus Webster. As always,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy your day, enjoy your life, enjoy your world. Thank
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you for being with us here at Conversations Live. Let's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: go make today amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.