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Hi, You're Gonna Die. In the Mean Time, Are You Even LIVING?? · All In with Allie

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Hi. In this episode, I'm going to lovingly remind you that all of
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our time here on earth is fineite, and we're going to do a little
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check in to see for even really living in the way that we say that
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we want to live. Let's get into it. Welcome to Allie with Ali
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Podcasts, the podcast for online business owners and entrepreneurs who are ready to create
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the life and business of their dreams. I am so happy you are here,
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and I'm having existential crisis. Way, guys, I don't know what
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it is. I mean, I kind of do. I made a list.
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I made a list. I was like, what what is going on?
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The other night? I was in bed and I do this, I
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get like, actually, saw, oh man, what is that couple.
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There's a couple. I know they're really big on TikTok, but I see
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I don't have TikTok, I don't have ticketalk the tikatok, but I see
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them on Facebook all the time. They're short videos. It's like a comedy
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couple. They're super cute. It's like Alex and I forget her husband John.
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I think his name is John. Do you know what I'm talking about?
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They're so cute they're so funny. They both have dark hair. They're
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freaking hilarious. But she did a video that Chris and I were dying over
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because it was a video where she talks about she gets the nighttime Zoomies or
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the bedtime Zoomies, where right when you get in bed, like all of
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a sudden, you get hit with all of this energy and you get super
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goofy. I do this. I've done this for years and makes Chris crazy
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and he talks about it all the time because I'll be like super tired all
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day, especially leading up to bedtime. The later it gets in the day,
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I'm like dying. But the second I take my makeup off and we
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get in bed, I'm like we I'm like super excited. And then I
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want to chat and I want to hang out and I want to look at
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my phone and I want to read and I want to play with Chris,
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and he's just like, dude, what where did this come from? Anyway,
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they did a funny video about that and it was spot on, so
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go find that. But anyway, the other night, I got the nighttime
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Zoomies and Chris, bless his heart, was trying to fall asleep and I
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was like, hey, hey, I'm like tapping on him and he rolls
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over. He's like what. I was like, We're gonna die and he
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was like this is your first day, Like what the hell is wrong with
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you? I was like, I don't know, but do you realize like
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and actually what I really said, I was like, do you realize that
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every second of every day, like this second, in this second, in
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this second, we are getting closer to dying. We are getting closer to
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our death day. And he was like, oh my god, help me,
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you know, but I don't know what it is. Like. I
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know, part of its having kids, you know, because when you have
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kids, you see how fast they grow and it is a trip, right,
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all of a sudden, I have like a five and a half and
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a one year old, and it makes like it makes no sense in my
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mind. I've just had no children and now I have like like whole ass
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children. So that's part of it. Like that just like warps your time
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and your perspective of time. And then you know, I'm in my mid
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thirties, which is so weird. I'm like the wrong I'm on the wrong
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side of thirty or the right side of thirty. I used to think it's
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the wrong. Now I'm switching my mind set. It's the right, skip
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the better and better. I'm not even in my prime, okay, but
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like that's a part of it. I don't know, like I think the
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state of the world and all that's going on. You know. The other
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day, I don't know when this podcast is going live, but I did
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a podcast, which one was it. I talked a lot of shit in
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it. Oh, it was that your mind is either creating or destroying you.
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But in the beginning of that podcast, I talked about how like I
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was sad lately, or there was a couple of weeks there where I was
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just really sad, you know, I just kind of talked about it and
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I kind of glazed over. But one of the big reasons that I was
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sad specifically around that time is because that's when all of the crazy, awful
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attacks on Israel was popping off, and the you know, just the innocent
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people of Israel and Palestine, and it's just it's so devastating and heartbreaking,
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and that's just one part of the world. And you know what I mean,
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we could go on and on, and I don't know, I just
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think it's a culmination of all of these things that just kind of freaks me
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out a little bit, not to mention the years are going by so much
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faster. And by the way, that's scientific. I don't know if you
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know this, but like the older you get, because you've been on the
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Earth longer, now, your perspective of a year is a lot different than
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somebody younger than you. Right when you're young, a year feels so long
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because you've only been on the planet for a short period of time. But
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the longer you've been on a planet, your perspective changes. So the years
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just seem to be flying by. I mean the fact that we're we're about
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to be in Christmas time. And Chris the other day we were talking about
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Halloween. He was like, I'm about to have to put up the Christmas
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lights on the banister of the stairs. He was like, I literally just
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took those down. I was like, no, you literally just took those
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down. How is it already Christmas again? So can you tell? I'm
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just like, what is life? What is life? Oh? My gosh?
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And am I doing it right? Right? What are we doing?
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Why are we doing this? I promise you I'm not gonna like have a
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panic attack on this spot. I have things to talk about, I've got
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notes, Okay, so I'm gonna stay focused. But I guess I've just
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been more hyper aware of what is this all for? Right? Like?
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Am I this is what I'm focusing on right right now? Like does it
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even matter? You know? And this is this is a slippery slope.
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You know, this could go into a downward spiral really fast, because even
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from the angle of this conversation, we kind of assume that we'll be here
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on average seventy eighty seventy god eighty ninety years, right, we assume that,
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but we don't know that. We don't know that, right, So
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like when you really start to realize, holy crap, I could be game
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over next week, that's when you really start tripping. Okay, But at
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the same time, isn't that such an interesting angle to also look at your
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life? Right? Like you know, people say, like live like you're
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dying. If this was your last day on Earth, what would you focus
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on? What would be the things that And I don't even think that's a
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really good way to do it, because obviously, if this was your last
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day or Earth, your last week on earth, you'd be with your family,
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you'd be maybe you know, Scydaven like that stupid song or who knows.
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Okay, But realistically, I think like a better way to look at
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it is, you know, if this was I think we don't even have
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to get morbid. We don't have to say like if this was your last
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ten years, because even then. But I think we can think about this
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from a healthy perspective of if we were just to keep the perspective of our
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time is ticking, Our time is finite. We are not going to be
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here forever. Okay, if you believe in reincarnation, you'll come back,
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but it ain't going to be the same game. And you know, if
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you don't, then it's done. So it's ticking based on that, which
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is very easy to forget. What's up? What are we doing here?
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And how I think about this myself is again trying to put it in perspective
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of like does this actually matter in the grand scheme? Is this worth my
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time and energy? Almost like a new filter to run things through, you
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know, And now I have like a new perspective, an appreciation for you
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know, like your best hell yes, or only saying things that are like
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genuine hell yes, versus you know, trying to people please and saying yes
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to everything or whatever. Like I feel like the older you get, that's
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one of the perks is hopefully you begin to care a little less about what
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other people think. And maybe if you have people pleasing tendencies, that tends
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to kind of shift and go down a little bit. Because I think the
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reason why is because you realize the value of your most precious commodity, which
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is your time. So I wanted to bring this here for a couple of
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reasons. I want to talk about this through the angle of your business and
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your passion and your purpose work, but then also in the perspective of your
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time too, because we live in this really cool moment of time where the
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possibilities and the opportunities are nearly endless. Depending on where you are in the
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world, we have a lot of opportunity. We have a lot of different
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avenues and tools and paths. You know, I say all the time,
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you can put any point on the map, like any place that you want
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to get to from the perspective of a career, put it on the map.
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There are ten plus paths to get there, Like there are so many
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options for us if you have a general vague idea of what it is that
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you want to do, so many options, right, But with that I
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do believe comes with a lot of confusion and a lot of opportunity to waste
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a lot of time. And I realized too that this is almost like this
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conversation is very controlling, This is very like, I don't know a little
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too in the mind, because I know a lot of people would argue,
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like, yeah, that the point is to live life and to make mistakes
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and just just kind of flow and not overthink it. And I think that
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absolutely you're you're correct, But also this is a different day and age where
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there's a lot more noise and there's a lot more opportunities to end up.
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I mean, I know there's no like technically right or wrong path, but
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just end up prioritizing things that you normally wouldn't right, like if you were
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at the end of your life and you're like, man, a kind of
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way, I didn't focus so much on that specific thing, and I just
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went to the part that I that I actually was passionate about. You know,
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So anyway, let's talk about this through the angle of our businesses.
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And what it is that we're here to do our purpose. So this podcast
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is called all in with Ali okay, because I truly believe in getting clear
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or doing things so that you can get clear on what it is that you
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want to do and then you do it with your whole asshoart, you go
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quote all in on it. You know, that's like what it is that
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we're doing here. Also, the other angle of that is as women,
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we're very dynamic. We don't just have one passion, we don't just have
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one priority. We can do multiple things very very well. And we also
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live in a moment of time where we have those opportunities where we have tools,
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where we have or it's appropriate to have teams and nannies and all the
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things so that we can be bosses in an office for a little bit,
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and then we can be home with our kids and then we can you know,
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be with our partners, and we can travel the world and we can
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work from here, and we can work from there and and focus on this
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business and then move over and focus on this hobby. Right, we can
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do all of that. So when we're thinking about this and you know this
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perspective of like am I I don't want to keep saying, am I doing
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it right? But am I? If I? If I really knew how
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limited my time was, is this what I would be doing? That might
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be I think that's a better way to say it. If I knew just
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how limited my time was on this planet, Is this what I would be
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doing? Is this how I would be doing it? Is this who I
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would be doing it with? I think these are really powerful questions to ask
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yourself, because I get a lot of questions or comments from people who say
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a lot I want to do that, but I'm scared. I want to
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do that thing, but the fear gets in my way. What if it
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doesn't work, what if it doesn't whatever? And it's like you're scared of
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what You're scared of it not working. But have you considered how you're going
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to feel in a few years again, if you really knew how limited your
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time was when you never gave it a shot, what is scarier to you?
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So some of the biggest year in the year that I saw, I
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don't know if it was the most growth, but a big, big,
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big shift and burst of momentum in terms of growth in my business was from
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the year that I technically started this business in twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen,
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because in twenty eighteen, actually in twenty seventeen, I knew that I wanted
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to start the business that I have now, right, But there were a
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lot of things that I was scared of, and there was a lot of
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things that I was confused about, and I felt like I wasn't prepared for
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I didn't know the answer for. So I was like really kind of freaked
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out and tripped up on a lot of things. So two eighteen comes I
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started the business, which okay, we got started, but that whole year,
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nearly nearly that whole year, I spent it planning. I spent it
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posting on social kind of, but I never made an offer. I you
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know, I did some things, but like a lot of the things that
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I that I knew that I really needed to do that would actually move the
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needle and get me somewhere, like for example, creating content with video,
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because that's when video was like really popping off. But I had, believe
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it or not, a serious fear of video. I hated the way that
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I looked in video, I hated the way that I sounded in video.
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I just tore myself apart, and every time I would create video, I
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just would damn near cry, sometimes genuinely cry because I was like, I
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can't put this out there, like this is so bad. I couldn't speak
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to save my life. I barely knew what I was talking about, or
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I at least didn't know how to articulate it. So I drug my feet
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there, drugged my feet on, like you know, So I wasted pretty
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much a year. Now, at the end of the year, I finally
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got my head out of my ass. I put out an offer, I
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launched something okay, and we ended up negative five K in revenue because I
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didn't even try and start selling until September of that year. And then,
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you know, that's when I actually started learning things. But by then it's
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the end of the year, right, And I got to the end of
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twenty eighteen, and it was like New Year's Eve of twenty eighteen, and
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that's when you reflect, right, That's when you reflect on how the past
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year is gone. And I remember thinking to myself, wow, it's already
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been a year. I remember New Year's Eve of twenty seventeen, how excited
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I was to start my business, and I remember like the vision of how
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far I would be in a year, and my hopes and dreams for finally
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getting this business off the ground, and again just like how much I would
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learn and how much growth would happen. But I had this awareness. I
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was like, I've barely moved. It's been a year, and I'm pretty
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much right where I left myself a year ago. And that scared the ever
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living shit out of me. It just something about that freaked me out,
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and I was like, oh, I'm not doing that again. What a
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waste? What a waste of a year? Now again we can look at
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this and from so many angles and like, is it actually waste? No,
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It's not a waste. Okay, that's not what I'm saying. But
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also I had a level of respect. I took a level of responsibility,
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and I knew I could have done more. I knew that that a big
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reason why I hadn't moved more and gotten further along and helped more people and
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done the thing that I really wanted to do that year is because of fear,
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because of confusion, because of uncertainty, instead of moving forward anyway and
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figuring it out, which is how you actually learn. I barely did that,
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and I made it out of myself that I would never experience that again.
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I would never get to the end of a year and be like that
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was that was a waste because of fear, specifically because of fear right,
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And like, I want us to take that and kind of zoom out on
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the perspective of our life. That's what I would like to do. Because
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the amount of people that again come to me and mention fear in the same
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sentence of their business, It's like, I get it, But what is
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more scary to you? Is it so scary that you move forward on this
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thing that you say you actually want to do that would actually be, you
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know, something that you could pour passion into that you would enjoy doing,
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that you would enjoy serving people in this way that would give you purpose.
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Would it be so bad that you actually go for it? And if you
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don't get the results that you thought in the first year or in the first
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few months, is that so bad? Who doesn't have that story? By
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the way, how many times have I told the stories of my failures on
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this podcast? That's part of it. That's where you learn it get like
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how you go through it is you go through it. There's no shortcut to
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that, right, So like it always like the way that I put in
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perspective is like, but what if you don't do it? What is more
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scary to you doing it and it not working out the way that you think,
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or not doing it at all and realizing it's been another year, another
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five years, another fifty years, because at some point time will be up
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and it's never too late to start. I genuinely believe that. So if
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you're listening to this and you're like, oh my gosh, this has been
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me the past ten years, I'm screwed. No you're not, because if
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you're listening to this, that means there's still more time. So move sister,
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Let's go and you know, and use that as fuel to move forward.
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And this is I realized there are a lot of you who have gotten
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started on your business. You're not scared to not start. You're already in
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this thing. But what is it that you're scared of? Are you doing
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your business in a way? Are you playing at the level that you would
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be proud of? For example, last year, actually shared this in an
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email recently, but last year, when I was pregnant with RHTT, it
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was a big growth here for me, and I had a big goal to
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prepare for my membership because I knew that I wanted to start scaling my business.
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So one of the ways that I wanted to do that was to launch
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a membership. But before I launched the membership, I wanted to make sure
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I had a good library of offers ready to go and created so that when
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I talked about the membership, one of the perks is you get in and
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you get instant access to this beautiful library of programs. So that's what I
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did. And in addition to launching and creating so many programs last last year,
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I was just a selling machine. I had so much energy. I
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was fortunate, I had a great pregnancy. I felt amazing, and I
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was just on one where I was just hustling and crushing it and it led
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me to my highest revenue month to date. It was July of twenty twenty
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two, and we hit over one hundred and twenty something in revenue that month,
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and then the month after that it was like ninety something, like close
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to another six figure month, And it was amazing, right, like such
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a huge mind milestone. Something I was so proud of. As a matter
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of fact, all of last year, it was just milestone after milestone of
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like these massive revenue months and massive moments of impact. You know, I
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served a ton of people. I taught and coached a ton of people last
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year, and I'm really, really really proud of that. But right after
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that, I had my second child, and things changed. Right Like before,
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Cruz was, you know, going to school some of the week,
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and he had a nanny, and he's a little bit older so he can
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kind of like do his thing, and it's good for him to have some
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space for me and Chris, So it's it's perfect. I could dive into
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work during the day and then see him, you know, throughout the day
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and at night and on the weekends. And it was beautiful. And then
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right came along and this beautiful little boy who needs his mommy, and things
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changed. And the cool thing about twenty twenty two was that it brought in
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a ton of revenue, but at the expense of a ton of my time,
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like a lot of my time. And I mentioned to you that the
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whole goal was to prepare to start scaling, right, Like, my big
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goal in twenty twenty two was to kind of slow down to speed up,
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so to speak, so that in twenty twenty three I could create these more
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scalable offers. And we did that. But after those months and once I
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had ret and once I kind of like slowed down and I kind of had
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you know, I mean postpartum, and then you know, as you know,
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lost my mom. Right after that, hit this big wall. All
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of a sudden, my energy goes from through the room to non existent.
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And once I got back into business mode again a couple of months after having
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REHT, it was like, I not only can I not do that again
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at that level, like what I just did, the hustling, the selling,
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all of my time, the back to back launches, the layered launches,
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not to say I'll never do it again, but like like, not
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only do I not have the capacity to do that again right now, but
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I don't want to. You know, Like money's cool, but have you
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felt time freedom? You know what I'm saying, Like, there's there are
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times where your priorities shift. And also there are different seasons, so I'm
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sure there will be another season where HT gets a little bit older, or
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when they both are older and they're both like not as attached to us and
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they'd much rather be with their friends, and you know, I can't pay
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them to hang out with me. So then it's like, Okay, I'm
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gonna focus, and that would be like a great season to get back in
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and do to hit it hard. Different seasons for everything, but for now,
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you know, I had to ask myself that question, like is this
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the way that I want to do? This? Is the money worth it?
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And to me the answer was very clearly no. Now that hasn't been
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easy because I haven't hit I haven't. I've made a conscious decision to not
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push as hard and to not grind so much and you know, burn the
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candle at both ends, and revenue hasn't been as high as I'm typically used
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to, so it's been a trade off. But the you know, a
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good thing is it's like, okay, how do we remedy this? We
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continue to scale and we continue to put systems in place that will allow me
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to continue to compound and earned passively, which is what we're doing, which
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is what we've talked about. That's why Brie and I partnered together to create
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a passive social sales which we'll link that in the show notes. If you
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want to grab that and learn the way to do this, you know.
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But it's like that that was a moment for me where and a thing for
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me that was like, Okay, my time is ticking, my babies are
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getting older, I'm getting older. Is this what I want to be doing
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in this way? In this way? How can I be doing this that
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is a better representation of my priorities. So I had to make that change,
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and you know, and there's a short term loss, I guess if
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you you know, maybe depending depending on your business. But for me,
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it looked like a short term monetary loss when I made that shift. And
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it's okay because in the meantime, I've had so much more time to be
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present with my kids and you know, to take days off and do what
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I need to do. And I wouldn't trade that for the world. So
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if your issue isn't getting started or getting started on the thing, then I
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would reflect on if you were really cognizant of your time being limited, would
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you be running your business in the way that you're running it currently. I
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think it's a very and we want to ask ourselves that question all the time,
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even if we're not looking at it through the morbid lens of, Hi,
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You're going to die. We always want to be checking in with like,
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Okay, is this on par and reflective of what I'm prioritizing? You
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know, Like what am I spending the most time doing each week? Is
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that reflective of my values? Is it something we always want to ask ourselves.
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Okay, So how I'm navigating this myself through my own little existential crisis
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is I'm just, I guess, like using this as a filter for the
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things that I'm saying yes to, the people that I'm spending time with,
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the things that I'm creating in the world, the things that I allow to
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take my time, and I'm funneling it through the lens of is this is
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this worth it? You know? Like, when I'm on my deathbed,
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am I going to be glad that I did this? Or if I'm or
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am I going to be like? What the frick? Why did I Why
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did I allow myself to be pressured into that? When in the grand scheme
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it just doesn't matter, or you know, I was people pleasing or you
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know, had my priorities messed up or whatever. So every day, to
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the best of my ability, I try really really hard to make sure that
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I am being mindful of three areas three to four areas. Number one,
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the big priorities, right, which would be my health and my family.
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If I ain't healthy, then that time's really ticking, okay, So that's
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a big priority of mine. And also obviously my boys and my husband my
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numero unos Okay, So that's number one. The second area is spiritual connection,
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my connection with the divine, my connection to spirit. This keeps me
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sane, keeps my mind right, keeps my perspective sunny, and serving me.
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And then the third area is my purpose, work, my legacy,
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you know what lights me up. No matter what I'm going to work,
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I'm you know, I'm obsessed with my business. So being able to serve
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you with the podcast, with my business, with you know whatever, my
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my priorities and my responsibilities are through that, those are the areas that I'm
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just to the best of my ability. If I am prioritizing those areas,
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then I feel like I'm doing a pretty good job in the grand scheme.
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In the grand scheme. But still even in that there's still things, you
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know, like like Chris and I, for example, we're like do we
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We're like asking ourselves. Do we you know, do we want to live
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here? And this is one of the reasons why we homeschoold one of them
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anyway, because we're like, okay, we both work remotely. Why are
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we keeping ourselves tied to one place? So, you know, and I've
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talked about that. I've talked about us potentially moving but with the market right
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now, that ain't happening, and that's okay, you know, but we're
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leaving. These are these are more questions that are asked that we're asking ourselves.
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There's like the immediate home priorities, but then there's like a bigger picture,
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how do we want to live our life like as a unit with these
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boys? What does that look like? Do we want to live at the
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conventional way where we live in you know, the house in the neighborhood and
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eventually the kids go to the school and we you know, we do the
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same thing every single day and we have our roots or not, you know,
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like like that's a big question, or do you do we travel or
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whatever? So we're we don't know the answer to that. But these are
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just more questions that we're that we're navigating and just being mindful of, right
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not letting them get pushed to the back burner where they never get seen again.
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And then again you have five years goes by and it's like, we
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hate where we live. Why are we still here? Right? Just things
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that think about. It's so easy to get distracted. That's another thing,
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Like, yes, we live in a day and age where we have so
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many opportunities, we have so many options available to us, and we're also
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more distracted than ever. It's so easy to like, for a second,
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have a moment of clarity and say, Hi, we're gonna die, how
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do we want to live? And then ooh did you see what so and
34:30
so is doing? And oh I need to you know whatever? Like it?
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We all do it, and it's fine. It's fine, Like we
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don't need to be stressed the f out all day on how we're living our
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lives and be morbidly aware that our time's ticking. That's what I'm saying at
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all. But also don't get so distracted to where you're not asking yourselves these
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questions and checking in with yourself. So I'm gonna end this with a few
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things I think we all can be more mindful about. If this is resonating
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with you and if you're like, Okay, I probably could do a better
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job in some areas. Okay, So these are some areas that I am
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personally being more intentional and mindful of when I'm filtering my decisions through this specific
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lens. Number one time wasters. This is a big one. Our distractions,
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right obviously, the freaking phone, social media, even TV. Okay,
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we can waste our whole freaking life living somebody else's being excited about living
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somebody else's. I get annoyed with myself sometimes because all like, if it's
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a Tuesday night and one of my shows isn't on, like one of my
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Housewives isn't on, I'm like, oh man, boring, can't wait till
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it's Thursday because of a show? It's like, ew, what a loser?
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Like? And I'm joking, but also it's kinda I mean, yes,
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there's something to be said for turning it off, shutting it down,
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and some mindless activity. We all need it, right when you're when you're
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working hard and you've got kids, Like, yes, it's so nice just
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to like tune into somebody else's drama and I really like, listen, I'll
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die on the hill. I think we all need it, and I think
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it's I think it's healthy. But also there's that fine line between like healthy
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moments of detachment and like lighthearted, you know, mindless activity at the end
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of the day and that being your source of pure entertainment and not just entertainment
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but like rush excitement, what you look forward to if what if you if
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the most exciting thing that happens in your week is watching somebody else on a
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screen or tuning into somebody else's life on a screen. We have an issue
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not saying just one week, okay, I'm saying like, you know what
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I'm saying, and it's really easy to fall into that trap. And you
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know I talked about this and the your mind is either creating you or destroying
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you. Episode that like people let their whole lives pass them by because they're
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getting you know, they're they're getting all of their excitement and endorphins from from
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tuning into somebody else's exciting life. Somebody else is pursuing their dream and it's
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like, yeah, you know that, I'm going to cheer for that.
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Not saying we all have to go for fame or something really big, and
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not saying that we can't just exist. But I'm just saying, like,
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make sure you're doing that for yourself too, not just getting off watching somebody
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else do it, is all I'm saying. Okay, so we got to
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watch out and be mindful of those time wasters. We got to watch out
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and be mindful of the energy suckers. People, places, activities that you're
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saying yes to for what? Ask yourself the question, why am I hanging
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out with this person? Why am I saying yes to this? Why am
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I doing this? Because I think I should? Because I feel guilty if
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I didn't, because I always have, and like it be weird if I
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didn't anymore? Why pay attention to that. Fear is another thing we want
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to be mindful about. We kind of touched, We already touched on that,
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so we don't need to go deep. But like fear of what what's
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scarier failing in it, not going the way that you've thought, or not
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doing it at all, and then and then you're not even taking into account
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the fact that it could actually work too. That's the crazy thing, Like
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what if it actually works? Would that be scary? How would you feel
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about that? We want to be mindful about romanticizing too much into the future.
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This is where it's like I used to be the queen of this,
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right. I can't wait till it's Thursday because Southern charm and I feel good
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about drinking, or you know, looking forward to Friday, or looking forward
39:37
to the weekend, looking forward to Halloween, looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas
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season, and then looking forward to spring, and like we can look forward
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to it, but not at the expense of the present moment. That's what
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I was doing. I was like, it was always something in the future.
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I'd be like, oh, I can't wait for fall where I can
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wear all my fall clothes and then it's chilly and like spooky season. And
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then that season would get there and it's like, uh, okay, the
40:05
holidays are coming, yay. And then that would come and be like,
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ah, winter, man, I can't wait till it's warm again. And
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it's like, you know, and we do this with our businesses of course,
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too, where we romanticize that future goal. When I just get to
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this many followers, when I just get to this much in revenue, when
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I just get that brand deal, that client, and then it happens,
40:29
and then it's like when I just get to that next business goal and that
40:34
next client, and we like never stay in the moment with the thing.
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And it's so sick, but it's so easy to do. So watch that
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because life is happening now, you change your things, you do the things
40:49
from the moment of now. Everything happens now. Okay, we're not going
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to go deep on time, but check that out or check that. Romanticize
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using too much of the future. Same thing with the past, romanticizing the
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past, overthinking the past, giving too much meaning to the past, not
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saying that we have to pretend that something didn't happen. But don't dictate every
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decision that you made or every thought that you have of yourself and what you're
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capable of based on something that's that's already gone, that literally doesn't exist anymore.
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You gotta be careful about that too. You see a lot of people
41:30
do this one thing happens in their life and it's like that's the meaning of
41:34
their life now because of that one thing. And it's like, okay,
41:39
that that doesn't have to make you if you want it to, you can.
41:45
But we got what about now, what do you want to do?
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Now? Who do you want to be now and then finally, we want
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to be mindful about putting important things off those priorities people that really matter to
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us. And you hear I mean we all say this, We all hear
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this right, Like call a friend, now, send the text, now,
42:07
give the hug, Now, forgive the person. Now go do the
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thing. Now, start the business now. And it's real, man.
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All it takes is to lose one person very close to you that you're like,
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Frick puts things in perspective, doesn't it. But like, we don't
42:30
have to lose people to appreciate the ones that are here now. We don't
42:35
have to let our life go by or a year go buy to start doing
42:38
the thing that we prioritize, or that we want to prioritize, or that's
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important to us. Now, we don't have to ruin relationships to prioritize the
42:45
people that are important to us. Now. It's just really really easy to
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say, I'll do that tomorrow, I'll do that next week. This is
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hard, I'll start okay, next month, Okay, when the kids are
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this old, when the market looks like this, when so and so is
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president, then then I'll start that business. And it's like girl, you're
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putting a lot of faith in the fact you're going to live till ninety five
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and godwelling, godwelling for us all. But it's not promised. So do
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it now if you can. Okay anyway, Oh what an episode. I
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hope you like this. If you did, I'd love if you left me
43:38
a review on iTunes. Five stars would be lovely. If you don't like
43:43
this, then don't worry at all. Just like, keep it to yourself.
43:45
I respect you, but you don't have to listen anymore. Post this
43:52
on Instagram. I will share it, screenshot it, I'll share my stories,
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and yeah, I hope this served you. I love you and I
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will see you here next week. Bye.