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Simon Squibb: entrepreneur and influencer reveals why he's committed to helping Kiwis fund their dreams · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Simon Squibb is known for one simple question, What's your dream?
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  Speaker 2: That's what he asks. He's a British entrepreneur who asks
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  Speaker 2: people this when he meets them on the street, and
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  Speaker 2: if he likes the answer they give, then he gives
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  Speaker 2: them twenty five pounds to make their dreams come true.
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  Speaker 2: He's got millions of followers on social media and we've
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  Speaker 2: discovered he's in New Zealand because we spotted a video
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  Speaker 2: on his install where he meets a chef in a rebby.
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  Speaker 2: We're a cafe.
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  Speaker 3: I need to speak to the chef without you get
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  Speaker 3: the chef. Yes, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: This pastor is the best past I've ever had in
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  Speaker 4: my life.
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  Speaker 3: You are so talented. I have to ask you wats
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  Speaker 3: your dream?
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  Speaker 4: I wants you have.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to help you try and make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So we watched it. We got in touch with
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  Speaker 2: Simon Squbb asked him, if you're in New Zealand, can
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  Speaker 2: you come on the show. He said, yes, Simon, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: It's great to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Simon. Why are you in the country. Have you come
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  Speaker 2: here with a view to handing out dollars?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of.
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  Speaker 4: I have family that live in Auckland, so primarily here
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  Speaker 4: to visit the family.
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  Speaker 2: And so you're so you were actually here on a
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  Speaker 2: family visit, but you're still doing your thing where you
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  Speaker 2: hand out twenty five thousand.
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  Speaker 3: I can't help it.
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  Speaker 4: I love hearing people's dreams and so there's no holiday
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  Speaker 4: from helping people that need it. And so yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: have actually now helped four people in New Zealand with
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  Speaker 4: their dreams, which is pretty exciting. And yeah, it's part
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  Speaker 4: of my life. I don't have work life balance. I
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  Speaker 4: just have life. So I like my work and I
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  Speaker 4: like my life that I mix them together now.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm in the clip that we played just before,
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  Speaker 2: is a chef who you were. You were eating pasta
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  Speaker 2: in a place in Auckland. Loved the pastor so much
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  Speaker 2: asked for the chef said to the chef, you want
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  Speaker 2: to make her dream come true. She wants to buy
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  Speaker 2: the restaurant that she works in, which is for sale.
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  Speaker 2: Has she bought it? Because you haven't delivered that club yet.
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  Speaker 2: Has she bought it?
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  Speaker 4: So the clip is out in a minute, and shall
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  Speaker 4: I Shall I let.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone go watch it? Or shall I? Shall I break that?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 2: But I can't wait. You've got to tell me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to ruin it for everyone, though they
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  Speaker 4: might might like watching the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: Ah No, you've got to tell me.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to know, all right, all right.
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  Speaker 4: The short answer is that Pink Broccoley is alive in Auckland.
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  Speaker 3: It's now hers.
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  Speaker 2: This is what she wanted to call her a restaurant,
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  Speaker 2: Pink Broccoli, And so she's exactly my can you, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you must be aware of how life changing that is.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's a woman who just randomly cooks you a
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  Speaker 2: pasta in someone else's cafe, You come and eat it.
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  Speaker 2: Now she owns her own place. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It's his fate though.
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  Speaker 4: So the backstory is I went there with my family
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  Speaker 4: for breakfast. I'm staying nearby an Airbnb and I just
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  Speaker 4: went there for a breakfast, totally random. And then, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the clips, we can't show every detail
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  Speaker 4: because it's too much, but she popped out and said, oh, hello,
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  Speaker 4: I'm such a big fan of yours. I bought your book.
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  Speaker 4: We just released the book in New Zealand. So she
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  Speaker 4: bought the pook and she I love it and I
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  Speaker 4: have a dream. I was like, oh, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: And then the bell went off and she had to
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  Speaker 4: go into the kitchen and start cooking again. And so
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  Speaker 4: I was just talking and like, oh, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: There's a fan here. That's so sweet.
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  Speaker 4: And then we said, oh, why don't we pretend to
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  Speaker 4: complain about the food, which is kind of the worst
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  Speaker 4: thing you can do with a fan who's a chef,
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  Speaker 4: You complain about their food, right, That sounds like the
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  Speaker 4: worst thing you could do. But the food was amazing,
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  Speaker 4: so it was the opposite to a complaint, as we
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  Speaker 4: saw in the video. And so so then I basically
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  Speaker 4: didn't actually hear her full dream. So I said, what's
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  Speaker 4: your dream? She tells me it's to own her own
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  Speaker 4: cafe one day called Pink Bocoy, and it just got
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  Speaker 4: me the name just instantly. When I hear someone's thought
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  Speaker 4: about it that much, I know it has to become
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  Speaker 4: a reality. And then she told me that the cafe
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  Speaker 4: that she's working in it's actually for sale, which again
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  Speaker 4: it's just fate, and I'm like, well, why don't why
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  Speaker 4: don't you buy it. She's like, well, I haven't got
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  Speaker 4: any money. I can't buy it. And I'm like, we
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  Speaker 4: have to fix this. You know, I'm visualizing in my
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  Speaker 4: head this branding pink Broccoli. It has to happen. The
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  Speaker 4: food's amazing, she's amazing. She just doesn't have any money
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  Speaker 4: to kind of make the dream and reality, and so
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  Speaker 4: I feel it's my obligation to help make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: So I had to put the money up to buy
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  Speaker 4: the cafe and see Pink Brockley coming on.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So what do you do? What'sn't it for you?
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  Speaker 2: Do you do? You take a steak in it?
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  Speaker 3: I take absolutely nothing. I don't. I do invest in businesses.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of the things I do is I invest
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  Speaker 4: in businesses and I take equity stakes in businesses. So,
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  Speaker 4: for example, I've invested in a business called Lovable, which
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  Speaker 4: is actually a six billion US dollar company right now
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  Speaker 4: that I invested in early. And you know, so I
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  Speaker 4: do invest in businesses and take equity steaks, but that's
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  Speaker 4: a tech company.
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  Speaker 3: It's very scalable.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to take a dreamer's business. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: a dragon on dragons then, or a shark on Sharks Tank.
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  Speaker 3: I just if I could help.
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  Speaker 4: Someone with a little bit of money, a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of marketing, a little bit of love, a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of support, a little bit of business knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in.
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  Speaker 4: Reality, it's not huge money. I've made a lot of
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  Speaker 4: money in my life. I've been very lucky, and so
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  Speaker 4: it's just giving back, you know. And I do it
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  Speaker 4: because I enjoy it, and that's a selfish thing. I
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  Speaker 4: really enjoy hearing people's dreams and then finding a way
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  Speaker 4: to make it happen. But I also was fifteen once
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  Speaker 4: and tried to start a business and didn't have any money,
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  Speaker 4: didn't have any help, and it was so hard, and
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  Speaker 4: so I vowed, when I make it in life, I'll
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  Speaker 4: give back.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what this is. Really.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like helping that fifteen year old be if
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  Speaker 4: you're talking to a psychiatrist, that's what they'd say, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what it is really.
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  Speaker 2: So how do people you know, if somebody was like, jeez,
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  Speaker 2: I just need to come across Simon Scrubs radar and
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  Speaker 2: it will change my life, how did they do that?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: First thing I would say is most of the time
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  Speaker 4: people's dreams they can make happen.
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  Speaker 3: They stop making excuses.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, people do make a lot of excuses
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  Speaker 4: they self sabotage themselves. So just check do you really
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  Speaker 4: need Simon script because a lot of the time you don't,
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  Speaker 4: And so I think that's important. I don't want people
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  Speaker 4: to wait for, you know, a hero to come along
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  Speaker 4: and save you.
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  Speaker 3: You have to save yourself. You have to take agency
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  Speaker 3: over your life.
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  Speaker 4: So look, if you want, if you want to get
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  Speaker 4: my attention, it's it's very simple. Follow your dream and
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  Speaker 4: tell the world about it. At some point we'll cross paths.
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  Speaker 4: I have set up a double of dreams in a
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  Speaker 4: couple of locations around the world where you can go
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  Speaker 4: press a button to pitch your dream, and then we
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  Speaker 4: upload it and try and help people.
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  Speaker 3: You can go on a platform I built.
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  Speaker 4: It costs you absolutely nothing to use it called helpbank
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  Speaker 4: dot com. You go there, you tell your dream and
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  Speaker 4: there's three hundred thousand entrepreneurs on there ready to try
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  Speaker 4: and help you for free. So yes, you can bump
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  Speaker 4: into me in the street, or you know, I can
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  Speaker 4: bump into you.
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  Speaker 3: That's another way.
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  Speaker 4: But I always tell people a lot of the reason
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  Speaker 4: I do this is to not just help the person
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  Speaker 4: in the video, but to help someone watching the video
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  Speaker 4: realize how easy it actually is to make your own
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  Speaker 4: dream and reality and stop making excuses.
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  Speaker 3: Just go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant, It is so nice to talk to you. Enjoy
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  Speaker 2: you stay here, and yeah, thanks for making the time
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 3: Not at all.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for doing a story and giving a shout
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  Speaker 4: out to to the amazing dreamer.
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  Speaker 3: Go there and eat. You will love the food.
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