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Bonus: Empowering Our Children with Spiritual Tools · The Spiritual Parent: Mindful Tools for Raising Spiritual and Conscious Kids

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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You were born perfect.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You were born this best version of yourselves.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You're amazing.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And I look back and I'm like I remember that feeling of insecurity.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So what can we do for our kids, to empower them?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: What do we do to lift them up?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We can do a daily dose of guided meditation.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm going to take you guys on one that I've been doing with both of my kiddos lately and it's one of my favorites.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So we're going to take you guys on one that I've been doing with both of my kiddos lately and it's one of my favorites.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So we're going to try that one.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'd love for you to try it with your kids and then also do it for yourselves, guys, because as you are continuing to grow, heal, learn, change, face challenges.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: As a parent, it's always going to be something different, right as soon as you get the baby toddler era down.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, now they're in preschool era.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, now they're in elementary era.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And it just continues to be different phases of challenges.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi Conscious Parents.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's Keri here and I am here with a little info about raising our mindful kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I've got some tips and tricks about breaking free of the box and becoming who you are and teaching your kids how to do that.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Along the way, Join us.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi there and welcome back.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's Keri, your friendly mama intuitive, here, and I'm so excited to have you today.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I've been doing a lot of self-learning in the spiritual realm and so it's really fun to connect with you guys today.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I wanted to share a little bit about what I have been feeling and learning and hearing that we need to share today.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That includes thinking about your mama journey, your motherhood rising era, as we connect with ourselves and as we spiritually grow as parents and mothers.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's so important that we continue on our journey.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's so important that we don't stay stagnant in our development, stagnant in where we're at as a parent.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Wow, this past week I was talking to my almost 10 year old and he's really in a zone where things are starting to get harder in third grade and because he is a GNT kid or gifted kiddo, he's not used to having to learn something new and third grade has brought about a little bit of challenges.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So when we see some challenges or things that do not come easy, it can be hard to say, or it can be easy to say I'm checking out, this is super hard.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Or it can be really easy to not believe in ourselves anymore.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Think about when you first became a parent?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Did you know everything?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Did you know everything to do right away?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Were you like I can walk into this and know exactly how to handle this child?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Of course not.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Even if it's your third or fourth baby, it's still going to be a different scenario, right?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Even this mom right here that was a early childhood development specialist, a former teacher.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I thought I knew everything, but what we need to learn is how we can maintain our empowered selves while also learning, growing, healing and connecting with ourselves.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's why I turned the phrase for this year light me up, because I wanted to heal, grow, learn and challenge myself in new ways.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So when we're looking at our kiddos, I can now see why my mom was always like Carrie, you're amazing, you're beautiful, you're smart, you're fun, you're sweet, you're kind, you're a best friend to everyone.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And I was like, oh, mom, yeah, you're saying that because you're amazing, you're beautiful, you're smart, you're fun, you're sweet, you're kind, you're a best friend to everyone.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And I was like, oh, mom, yeah, you're saying that because you're my mom.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Now I see that in my kiddo, when my kiddo was like, oh, I don't like such and such about myself.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Or oh, I'm not as maybe I'm not as smart or as cool as I thought I was.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm like what are you talking about?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You were born perfect.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You were born this best version of yourselves.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You're amazing.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And I look back and I'm like, oh, I remember that feeling of insecurity.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So what can we do for our kids, to empower them?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: What do we do to lift them up?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We can do a daily dose of guided meditation.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm going to take you guys on one that I've been doing with both of my kiddos lately and it's one of my favorites.
• 4:07
  Carrie Lingenfelter: So we're going to try that one.
• 4:09
  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'd love for you to try it with your kids and then also do it for yourselves, guys, because as you are continuing to grow, heal, learn, change, face challenges.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: As a parent, it's always going to be something different, right as soon as you get the baby toddler era down.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, now they're in preschool era.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, now they're in elementary era, and it just continues to be different phases of challenges.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So let's try this guided meditation today.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to close our hands.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to sit up, close our hands, we're going to close our eyes.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can close your hands if you want.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Sit up, put your feet on the ground, take deep breaths in.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can feel the seat of your chair underneath you, you can feel your feet placed on the floor.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can feel the weight of your eyelids being closed.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can feel your shoulders release any attention and we picture a green ball of light at the top of our legs that goes straight down into the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We picture breathing out all of our negative energy, all of our negative emotions, any big feelings we had throughout the day, any weird looks people have given us, straight down into that green tube, straight down in the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And we picture a green ball of energy that comes up the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: She is loving our earth, she is giving us this energy.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It comes up with this ball and it stops right in front of our chest and we feel this golden energy come down from the sun.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It stops in front of us and it mixes with that green ball and then it comes straight into our stomach and it fills every single cell in our body with happiness, gratitude, the true effervescence of who you are.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We feel another green ball come up the tube and it stops in front of our chest.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Golden light comes down and it mixes with the green ball of energy and it goes straight into our stomach, fills our body with loving kindness.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I love you, child, for who you are.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I love myself for who I am.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: The ups and downs, the turntable, the turmoil, everything.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I love you.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I see you, child, for who you are.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Another green ball of light the final one, comes up and it stops in front of your chest.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: The golden light from the sun comes down and it mixes, and then that goes into your stomach and it fills you with happiness and excitement for the journey that is yet to come, excitement for the journey that is yet to come.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Now we breathe in one more final golden breath and we release and so it is.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We tip our head to release any extra energy.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I want you to think about this parent.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We are on this path.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We are our kids' training wheels.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We are not the path layer.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We are not laying the bricks on our child's path.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Sometimes a child's path will be gray.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Sometimes a child's path will turn to purple, orange, blue.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's why I never choose my favorite color, because it's always changing in whatever era I'm developing in.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And so I want you to think about yourself as these training wheels along this path.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You are not going to be the brick layer.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You are going to be the training wheels that's helping your child, for when they fall over, you pick them back up.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can help to guide them when they have certain scenarios right, for instance, if my son was having a kiddo.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This is not a true story.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm telling a story of somebody else that I a friend that I helped you have your child has a friend who always comes to school and is very draining in their problems.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Maybe their parents are going through something and they're sharing it with their kiddo and the kid's taking it on.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Of course I share some pieces with the family like oh so, and so they mentioned this, such and such.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: How have you guys been?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Things like that?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's sometimes we check in with parents too.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Right For sure.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: But I also am going to teach my kids some protective tools.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: One of those can be the white light that surrounds us from the head all the way to the feet.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Golden light surrounds us from the head all the way to the feet.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Golden light surrounds us from the head all the way to the feet.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Recently I was talking to a friend and she shared the slippy slide for energy.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So she said you picture a slide and when somebody puts their energy on you.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It goes right off the slide, and I've been talking to my kids about that one.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's really fun.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Break it down, make it for our kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It is not your kid's responsibility to make this.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: But if I go in it with the attitude of how dare somebody drop all this energy on you?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm going to empower you, I'm going to change you.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: How is your kid going to respond to that?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This is their best friend, maybe.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So maybe we could try something like ooh, that sounds intense.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: How'd you feel with that?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Yeah, okay, and you give your kids some tools and you talk them through.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I think in that situation, oh, my heart would feel really, really heavy with all that intense feelings.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Maybe next time I might think about using my slippy slide to let those emotions go off of me where I'm not absorbing them.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's okay to bring out those training wheels, right?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're not laying those bricks, we're not controlling that friendship.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I tried that once.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: My kiddo went to school and told the friend my mom said I can't be friends with you anymore.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So that didn't go over.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Well, guys, take it from my stories, right?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So some tools to think about this week is you are the training wheels.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You are along this path.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You are guiding at some points.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You are along this path.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You are guiding at some points.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You are facilitating at some points, but you are not the bricklayer and you are not controlling the color of their path.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Right, they've already chosen that.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's already been decided in their own intentions.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Right, you are there to help them along the way.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Peace out, changemakers.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Well, that's a wrap.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Changemakers.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in and happy life, happy times, change maker families.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Bye.