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Weekly Journals: Taking life seriously · Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, Yes, indeed, you are
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  Speaker 1: the author of your story, of your journal. In this journal,
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  Speaker 1: you will get to know yourself better, and who better
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  Speaker 1: to get to.
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  Speaker 2: Know You may have heard of move It Mama. The founder,
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  Speaker 2: Lisa Fong from christ Church Just a Mum, wanted to
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  Speaker 2: help other moms to get back in shape after having kids.
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  Speaker 2: While the platform exploded, and now she inspires thousands of
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  Speaker 2: women every week, my wife included. She's the mother of
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  Speaker 2: four young boys, Rico, Louis, Carlos and Tay, and is
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  Speaker 2: married to a man called Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Lisa's husband recently went to hospital for what he thought
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  Speaker 2: was whiplash from a surfing accident, but the diagnosis was
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  Speaker 2: much worse, a real form of leukemia. The treatment has
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  Speaker 2: been brutal. It's ravaged Dan's body, but he battles on
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  Speaker 2: and just recently some hope some positive signs that the
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  Speaker 2: treatment is taking hold. Lisa has been a warrior, fighting
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  Speaker 2: for her husband and to find strength for her boys.
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  Speaker 2: Dan used to take her rugby mad Boys for training
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  Speaker 2: every week. It was his thing, and on social media
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  Speaker 2: she says she finds that filling that void particularly triggering.
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  Speaker 2: So do you know who stepped up to help. On
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  Speaker 2: hearing of the battle this Chroshutch family was facing. Richie Muwanga,
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  Speaker 2: the boy's hero, and his wife did a five hour
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  Speaker 2: round trip to show up for her kids, to support
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  Speaker 2: a family he has never met because he heard their story.
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  Speaker 2: It's if that's not the mark of a good man,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what is. And Lisa and Dan Fong
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  Speaker 2: and to the boys, Rico, Louis, Carlos and Tey, we
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  Speaker 2: are right behind you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hugely.
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  Speaker 4: Hear that story to her and I just thought, Mwanga,
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  Speaker 4: you're such a good man.
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  Speaker 2: What a good guy. Yeah, I totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, journal something happily a couple of days ago that
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  Speaker 3: stopped me in my tracks and then made my day.
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  Speaker 3: It was the simplest of things, but the most generous
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  Speaker 3: of gifts. It was a busy afternoon in a random supermarket.
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  Speaker 3: We've all been there. I've done the arter school peckups,
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  Speaker 3: and now's in that hustle zone between sorting dinner and
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  Speaker 3: getting the kids their sports practices and arts classes. The
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  Speaker 3: juggle is real at that time of the day. So
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  Speaker 3: as I was darting away from the self check out machine,
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  Speaker 3: a voice cloaked in a wonderful Scottish accident, said Jason,
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  Speaker 3: as if it was a question. I turned to see
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  Speaker 3: a man in a T shirt and a base cap
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  Speaker 3: growcries in his arm a toddler in the trolley seat,
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  Speaker 3: and he too looked like he was on a mission,
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  Speaker 3: but he had his hand out stretched to shake mine.
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  Speaker 3: He introduced himself as David and simply said, I listened
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  Speaker 3: to you guys every morning. You make my day. And
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  Speaker 3: he went on to explain that he used to listen
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  Speaker 3: to Coast when he was in the Army and still
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  Speaker 3: does to this day. So I thanked him for putting
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  Speaker 3: up with us, and he laughed and he replied, well,
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  Speaker 3: someone has.
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  Speaker 4: To be the map.
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  Speaker 3: But it didn't have to He absolutely did not have
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  Speaker 3: to reach out and say hi. He was busy, he
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  Speaker 3: was hustling, but he took that chance to say hello,
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  Speaker 3: and it made my day. And we all have that
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  Speaker 3: power to do what David did. Tell a random stranger
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  Speaker 3: that you like something about them, their smile, the color
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  Speaker 3: they're wearing, if they were in glasses, tell them they
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  Speaker 3: suit them, find something anything that's not creepy for you.
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  Speaker 3: It might only take a second or two, but that
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  Speaker 3: one act of kindness can change someone's entire day, be
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  Speaker 3: the reason someone smiles because that's always worth it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's lovely. So he's heading on you, but that's fine,
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  Speaker 4: dear journal. So the netball season is coming to a
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  Speaker 4: close this week right across the country, and I've been
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  Speaker 4: reflecting on the past six years that I've been coaching.
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  Speaker 4: I've loved it, every minute of it, but I have
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  Speaker 4: had a regular comment said to me year after year
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  Speaker 4: from various randoms that generally don't know anything about the sport,
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  Speaker 4: and that is WHOA, you're so hard out or you
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  Speaker 4: take your coaching really seriously. And my answer to that
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  Speaker 4: is yes, yes I do, and I make no apology
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  Speaker 4: for it, because this is what taking seriously looks like
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  Speaker 4: to me. It means actually committing and turning up to
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  Speaker 4: training so I can help the young athletes develop and
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  Speaker 4: be a good example of dedication. It means seeking out
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  Speaker 4: extra tournaments so everyone gets more game time and feels
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  Speaker 4: confident when the season starts. It means taking extra players
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  Speaker 4: from school to the games every week because I work
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  Speaker 4: in the mornings and lots of parents can't get off
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  Speaker 4: work and time, but can meet us straight at the game.
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  Speaker 4: It means ours working out positions so every player can
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  Speaker 4: flourish and have the best chance of success. It means
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  Speaker 4: making the team culture an environment addictive so everyone wants
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  Speaker 4: to sign up the following year and todate, I've had
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  Speaker 4: no dropouts. And mostly it means striking a balance between
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  Speaker 4: focus and fun. And ironically, most of our funnest moments
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  Speaker 4: have come because we have been focused and have really
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  Speaker 4: enjoyed the ride. So yes, I take it seriously and
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  Speaker 4: that ain't gonna change. So if you're a serious George
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  Speaker 4: like me, you won that.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Don't phone coming second Street. We did come second this year,
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  Speaker 3: so the remind us Sorry, okay, letter we snapshort of
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  Speaker 3: our week. Hopefully you've been a nice one and either
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  Speaker 3: way your weekend is even better. Thanks for listening Tony
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