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Classic Suze School: Don’t Turn Your Back on Yourself · Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)

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  Robert: September 3, 2026. Welcome to the Women and Money podcast
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  Robert: as well as everyone smart enough to listen. Hi everybody,
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  Robert: it's Robert, the producer here. For today's classic Suze School,
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  Robert: we're going back again to an episode called Don't Turn
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  Robert: Your Back on Yourself. Now, when we do these Classic
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  Robert: Suze School episodes, sometimes I need to cut out the
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  Robert: part that's only relevant to when the episode was originally published,
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  Robert: and that's the case for today.
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  Robert: So we're gonna pick it up where Suze is telling
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  Robert: us what happens when she opens up podcast at ask Suze.com.
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  Suze: I do this thing where I like to spin them,
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  Suze: and up comes an email, and I punch it, and
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  Suze: I go, OK, that's the one that needs my attention.
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  Suze: And one after another after another were from women, who
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  Suze: are in their either mid-40s, mid-50s, mid-60s, even mid-70s.
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  Suze: All having been left by their husbands, their spouses, or
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  Suze: they've even chosen to leave.
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  Suze: And somehow, one after another.
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  Suze: They've gotten themselves into a state of such incredible anxiety
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  Suze: and fear that they are paralyzed.
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  Suze: They are paralyzed from doing anything that is possibly constructive
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  Suze: for themselves, possibly even positive for themselves. They have given
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  Suze: up hope. They have given up faith. They have all
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  Suze: decided that they're never going to trust anybody again. They're
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  Suze: always going to live a life of fear. They're never
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  Suze: going to feel secure, and on and on and on.
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  Suze: And I've spent hours and hours and hours, writing them back,
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  Suze: going through their finances with them, one by one, statement
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  Suze: by statement. Don't do this, don't do that, no. Here's
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  Suze: what I want you to do.
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  Suze: But even with the best advice from me. They're all like,
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  Suze: I can't. I don't know da da da.
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  Suze: So KT saw that I was angry. And whenever I'm angry,
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  Suze: she said, go do a podcast, go do a podcast.
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  Suze: 'Cause it's not about anger at them.
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  Suze: It's about anger at the fact. That we turn our
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  Suze: backs on our own power.
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  Suze: Anger because it really is all of our profound fear of
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  Suze: loss that keeps us from gain.
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  Suze: All of us are... the ones anyway that I've been reading.
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  Suze: They are holding on so tightly, to the little bit
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  Suze: that they have. That their hands aren't open to receive
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  Suze: that which is meant to come their way.
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  Suze: And then you put on top of that some of
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  Suze: the worst, the absolute worst financial advice I have ever
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  Suze: seen in my life, being piled on top of the
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  Suze: fact that these women are emotional wrecks right now and
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  Suze: rightfully so, it's never easy to be left. It's also
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  Suze: never easy to leave.
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  Suze: It's hard to do so. But sometimes you have to
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  Suze: just get through it, and it takes time.
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  Suze: But to have financial advisors giving advice that is 100% wrong,
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  Suze: that would hurt these women, it makes me even go nuts.
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  Suze: So of course, I do my best to try to
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  Suze: help them.
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  Suze: And then I think about the Women and Money podcast,
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  Suze: and I think about how I've said now, not just on
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  Suze: this podcast, but on the Suze Orman show. Every talk
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  Suze: I've given, every book I've written, every blog I've ever posted,
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  Suze: I've said.
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  Suze: I hate variable and universal life insurance policies, but it's
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  Suze: as if it goes in one ear and out the other.
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  Suze: I tell you things that you should not be investing in,
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  Suze: and it goes in one ear and out the other.
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  Suze: What happens to you when you sit down in front
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  Suze: of a financial adviser and he or she says to you,
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  Suze: this is what I think you should do, and you
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  Suze: just say, OK. What causes you to give up your power?
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  Suze: What causes you to make moves that are so radically
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  Suze: wrong and that will hurt you financially speaking rather than
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  Suze: help you.
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  Suze: Is it that you just want somebody else to take
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  Suze: care of you? Is it because when you've been left,
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  Suze: even if you have left someone, you still want to
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  Suze: be taken care of and you want to put your
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  Suze: trust in the hands of somebody else that looks like
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  Suze: they can take care of you?
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  Suze: I want you to be what? What have I begged
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  Suze: all of you to be over these years? How do
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  Suze: we end every single podcast: to be strong, safe, and secure.
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  Suze: But to do that, you have to have common sense. You
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  Suze: cannot just take a financial adviser's word for anything. If
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  Suze: they tell you that you could simply put in $15,000
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  Suze: a year for 20 years and then you would have
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  Suze: $1 million. Can you just simply do the math? Can
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  Suze: you do the math and see if that is even possible?
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  Suze: How much would your money have to earn per year
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  Suze: for you to have $1 million, after 20 years?
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  Suze: But no, you don't. You just sit there and go, OK,
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  Suze: I'll give you $15,000 a year. OK, I'll do this. OK,
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  Suze: I'll do that.
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  Suze: I'm telling you, you have more common sense within your body, seriously,
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  Suze: within your being than you have any idea.
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  Suze: If you would just simply be willing to take the
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  Suze: time to go within.
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  Suze: To ask questions, to look at it on paper and
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  Suze: say to the financial adviser, OK, I hear that this
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  Suze: is what you say I'll have. Show me where it says,
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  Suze: I'm guaranteed to have this.
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  Suze: Show me. Show me, but you don't. You don't.
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  Suze: You continue to go into another relationship with blinders on,
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  Suze: feeling like, OK, I'll just do this. It'll be OK.
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  Suze: I need you to come from this day forward, from
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  Suze: a place of common sense.
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  Suze: I need you to come from this day forward to
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  Suze: understand that your words and your thoughts are more powerful
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  Suze: than you have any idea.
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  Suze: They have the power to create or the power to destroy,
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  Suze: and the choice is up to you. When you say
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  Suze: you can't, you never ever will.
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  Suze: When you say you're never going to trust anybody ever again.
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  Suze: You never will.
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  Suze: When you say I am never going to be secure again,
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  Suze: you never will.
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  Suze: Because your words are mantra.
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  Suze: Your words are what create your future. I've told you
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  Suze: this before. I've told you, be very, very careful about
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  Suze: what you think, 'cause what you think you eventually say.
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  Suze: Be very careful about the words you use because your
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  Suze: words become your actions. Your actions become your habits, and
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  Suze: your habits become your destiny.
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  Suze: But yet I read it over and over and over again.
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  Suze: And what you hear from me over and over again,
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  Suze: are the words that I've just said is the other
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  Suze: saying I have, which is to be a warrior and
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  Suze: to not turn your back on the battlefield. And what
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  Suze: is that battlefield? That battlefield is your life. You are
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  Suze: fighting for your own freedom. You are fighting for financial security.
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  Suze: You are fighting so that you can wake up one
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  Suze: morning and feel true joy all over again.
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  Suze: And yet then what do you say to me? But Suze,
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  Suze: I never want to be dependent on anybody again. I
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  Suze: never want my kids to know what I'm going through,
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  Suze: and I'm sitting there thinking to myself, why not?
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  Suze: You gave everything to those kids.
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  Suze: And when you need help, what is it, women? What
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  Suze: is it, mothers?
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  Suze: That stop you from saying to your kids, I need help.
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  Suze: I want your help.
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  Suze: Your role is not to just make sure that everybody
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  Suze: else is OK. Your role in life is to make
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  Suze: sure that you are OK. You, a vital human being,
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  Suze: a mother, a sister, a woman.
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  Suze: A woman.
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  Suze: And yet for some reason, you turn your back on
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  Suze: yourself to make sure that everybody is still OK.
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  Suze: And when you use words like that,
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  Suze: When you don't want others to know the truth about
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  Suze: what's going on in your life, do you think that
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  Suze: you're hiding it from them? Do you think that they
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  Suze: don't really know? Of course they do.
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  Suze: Of course they do.
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  Suze: And if they're your children who really love you and
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  Suze: you love them, they can feel your pain.
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  Suze: And they wanna help you, but yet you don't want
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  Suze: them to help you.
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  Suze: You'd rather just break your back and mow this lawn
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  Suze: of yours that is taking all weekend after you're working
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  Suze: three jobs and you're working 20 hours a day and
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  Suze: yet you still have to mow your grass and you
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  Suze: still have to do this and yet you don't want
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  Suze: to ask anybody for help. What is the matter with
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  Suze: all of you? So I'm angry.
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  Suze: I'm angry because I know what's possible. I even know
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  Suze: what's probable. I've seen thousands of people turn their lives around.
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  Suze: But those are people who are willing to use words
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  Suze: of hope.
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  Suze: Have feelings of encouragement to not sit there and dwell
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  Suze: in anger, dwell in fear and dwell in shame.
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  Suze: Which always brings me back to the three internal obstacles
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  Suze: to wealth which are fear, shame, and anger.
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  Suze: And yet you choose, you choose to turn to that,
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  Suze: versus to turn in you and understand that everything that happens,
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  Suze: everything is a blessing.
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  Suze: And I know that's not easy to say or easy
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  Suze: to believe.
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  Suze: That you have to because what is your alternative? What
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  Suze: else can you think? What else can you do?
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  Suze: So, this isn't a long podcast today, and I'm sure
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  Suze: this isn't one that you expected to tune into.
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  Suze: This isn't even one that I expected to do. But
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  Suze: I know that when I feel like this. It's because,
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  Suze: not that I'm disappointed in you. But it's because I
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  Suze: know what's possible for you, and I see many of
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  Suze: you turning your back.
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  Suze: Your thoughts, your feelings on the probability of true happiness
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  Suze: of one day being able to say, Oh my God,
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  Suze: thank God he left me. Or even thank God she
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  Suze: left me. Or thank God I had the courage to leave.
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  Suze: So, I do this podcast in so much love for
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  Suze: every single one of you.
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  Suze: In the desire that every single one of you lives
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  Suze: your most fullest life, a life when you wake up
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  Suze: in the morning where you're happy to wake up, you're
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  Suze: happy to go to sleep, you're happy to see people,
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  Suze: you are just happy and you feel fulfilled with every
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  Suze: breath that you take.
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  Suze: And how does that happen?
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  Suze: It happens by making sure that every thought, every action,
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  Suze: everything that you do passes through the three gatekeepers that
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  Suze: I've talked to you about. Is it kind? Is it necessary?
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  Suze: Is it true?
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  Suze: Are you doing that, or are you just finding it
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  Suze: easier to dwell in your anger? To reside in your fear.
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  Suze: And to really just sit in your shame.
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  Suze: I am begging you. I am begging you to have faith.
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  Suze: That there is a life out there that is just
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  Suze: waiting for you to live it.
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  Suze: But you have to have faith that you're going to
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  Suze: get through this time. You have to really believe from
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  Suze: the deepest part of your core.
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  Suze: That you can and will do anything.
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  Suze: That you will not just survive, you will thrive, you
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  Suze: will once again live the life that you've always dreamt
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  Suze: of living. But you can't live a life of dreams
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  Suze: when you're spending your time creating nightmares in your thoughts.
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  Suze: So, very unexpected podcast from me. I hope it's one
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  Suze: that you're sitting there going, what the heck was that.
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  Suze: Maybe you're one of the people that needed to hear
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  Suze: what I just said.
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  Suze: Maybe you're not. Maybe you know somebody, however, who is
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  Suze: in that situation, and they need to hear these words. So,
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  Suze: maybe you could ask them to listen to this podcast.
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  Suze: Always know that every single word whether it sounds harsh,
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  Suze: whether it sounds angry whether it sounds whatever that I'm
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  Suze: giving to Suze slapdown is grounded in the most incredible
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  Suze: love, hope and joy in what's possible for every single one
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  Suze: of you.