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Bonus : Inside Amazon Warehouse 1 · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Welcome back to my podcast spending time with
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  dr. Christina We are now in the bonus episode
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  of the Amazon experience as I mentioned before
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  there's just so much to share That I do anticipate
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  doing a part two for sure sometime in the near
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  future However, I do want to share even in this
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  current season a few different things that also
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  caught my attention So tonight will be story
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  time true stories, but story time And I have
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  mentioned about a lot of policy issues with Amazon.
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  Quite a bit. Policies that are just marketing
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  ploys. And for the most part, when I saw that
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  a lot of the employees wanted to get Amazon's
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  attention, such as this leadership team, what
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  they would do is they'd place messages on the
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  internal whiteboard. Well, I remember a time
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  where there was a young woman that was also being
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  bullied and Again, we're going back to workplace
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  bullying as I talked about before She was being
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  bullied by some other people Young girls her
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  age and just jealous. Thank God her mother was
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  there at that place of employment and her mother
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  stood up for her and put it on this whiteboard
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  and kept staying on it until they got her daughter
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  back to work. But what I found that was so unusual
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  is that it takes all of that just to bring to
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  the intention, all of that meaning going on this
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  whiteboard over and over again, trying to get
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  the attention of senior leadership. What is going
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  on? What is going on? What is going on? To get
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  them to do something about it. And this includes
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  even HR is on this board. And these are the things
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  that are problematic with this organization.
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  See when you hire folks that don't know the law.
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  They don't know policy. They don't know protocols
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  and procedures like their human resource or even
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  their management team. Management depends on
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  HR for certain things and HR doesn't know and
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  HR is calling outside consultants to get help
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  or legal experts. I mean this is problematic.
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  And again where I was located they had only one
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  truly competent HR professional. The rest you
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  can just forget about it. And I bring this up
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  again as a readdress because for those of you
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  out there that may be Amazonians or have people
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  in your family that work at this organization,
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  make sure they know what their rights are. Make
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  sure they know to document whatever's going on
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  with them, to seek legal help. If there's something
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  they think Eve is a bit wrong and they have no
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  other place to go. And most of all, make sure
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  they check out their local Teamsters. I cannot
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  admonish enough how important the union would
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  be for folks at Amazon. you know the unions will
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  help them know their rights and stand up and
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  get the protection they need and not just arbitrarily
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  lose their jobs so again for those of you out
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  there please look into getting a union at your
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  particular amazon location because this is what
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  is needed especially for again the vulnerable
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  population the population that thinks that they
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  have no rights and they can't speak up because
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  they're going to be fired at whim So many people
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  need their jobs and hey, we're approaching holiday
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  season So many families are in need of work and
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  for the most part they want to be an Amazon because
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  Amazon it pays better than most of these warehouses
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  not as good as UPS, but you know that work can
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  be brutal But they pay in Amazon also offers
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  full -time versus UPS just hires a lot of part
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  -time positions Unless I think you're a driver
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  So I also do want to share this I want to tell
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  you folks out there If you are experiencing problems
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  in the workplace no matter where you work, but
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  especially at Amazon go with your gut Go with
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  your gut also believe in yourself because so
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  many there They want to do more and they're not
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  given the opportunity. And I've also seen so
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  many that want to do more and want to cut corners
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  to do more. And that's really not the way to
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  go about things in life. But for those of you
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  that genuinely work hard and are looking to do
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  more, and there's so many of you folks in there,
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  you didn't do high school, you didn't finish
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  it, or you just finished high school, believe
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  in yourself to do more. To be of value and if
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  you find that you're in an organization where
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  there's Amazon or not and they don't value you
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  then move on I can't tell you how many young
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  folks that I've seen there and You know, they're
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  happy they're doing so many things and then they're
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  fired I've also seen people that brought about
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  the firing on themselves you know by doing whatever
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  they were doing they weren't supposed to be doing
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  um because hey some people still consider it
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  like a high school but for those mature adults
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  and that can be a rare find in that organization
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  at times but for those that are mature go with
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  your gut if you want to venture out And I meant
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  so many that wanted to be say truck drivers and
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  start their own trucking business and you thought
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  you'd come to Amazon and learn about it Take
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  that step of faith and do it We're not promised
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  tomorrow and you don't want to close your eyes
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  and wake up 20 years later and still believing
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  in someone to Promote you that has no intention
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  of doing it. I can tell you just again as an
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  experienced leader, you know just know when people
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  are being fed bull and I've seen a lot of people
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  and they would be excited and I would never try
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  to knock it but I always try to have them to
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  look at things sensibly for example if somebody
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  is just a PA how are they going to help you become
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  something more if they don't have Certain experiences
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  certain connections certain leadership qualities
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  How are they going to lead you into a position
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  of management and at the same time? How can a
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  new manager? make promises to get you into management
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  I remember I had this friend and He mentioned
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  that someone was going to help him become a manager.
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  I Didn't say anything, but I knew I knew even
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  though I would talk to this particular manager
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  Who also made a promise to me, but I really didn't
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  I didn't need it And I saw that the promises
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  he made to me even failed so I am a person that
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  can pretty much navigate on my own and just being
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  in that place of Seeing managers lead people
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  on getting them to work hard and to do things
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  knowing at the end of the day It's going nowhere
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  is one of the saddest things That you can witness
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  as say a mature adult as someone that you know
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  has accomplishments and you look and you see
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  People being led on I think it's horrible. That
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  is something That also just kind of fills up
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  in that Amazon Valley and it said I have watched
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  Just one manager in particular. No, let me make
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  that. Let me take that back to Making promises
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  to people that they could not deliver on and
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  they know this and I think for a lot of you out
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  there Hey put your thinking cap on know when
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  someone is about it and when they're not when
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  they're leading you on and when you know when
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  to walk away when to walk away from a position
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  where you know that if they say hey if you do
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  all of these different things and you gather
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  all these people together and you help us all
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  to get these numbers this is going to help me
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  to help you and I'm going to get you promoted
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  Well, if that was the case a lot of those managers
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  would be on the high road themselves they would
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  be promoted and They're not however What I want
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  to say also about this is that for a lot of you
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  that are on that path and You want to be a manager
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  at Amazon which really is not hard at all believe
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  in yourself I would tell you I did meet one lady.
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  She was having such a hard time and you know,
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  she was having such a hard time and it was kind
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  of coming out of her ears. What I mean by that
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  is that she was so frustrated that people knew
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  it. But what did she do about it? How did she
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  get the control back and start again? She transferred.
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  She transferred and she got a clean slate and
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  she started again and she learned her lesson
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  because she let the organization or let the environment
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  get her to a point where She's explosive and
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  you should never let that happen Never I know
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  this same friend that I had in the workplace
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  at one point we were very close and Again, I
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  believed him to be a Christian but the environment
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  He became explosive It was hard to see him in
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  a calm way I had to avoid him and Just kind of
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  be high and by because what happens is that when
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  the environment gets inside of you and this even
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  goes where Wherever you are, maybe at home your
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  neighbors are bothering you or maybe it's another
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  situation with the spouse or something in your
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  family never let that get the best of you never
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  work through the issue stay calm and also walk
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  in truth because no matter where you are telling
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  the truth the truth not what people say today
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  oh this is my truth no there's no such thing
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  as my truth there is the truth right black and
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  white issues yeah this is it so um walk in the
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  truth don't be in a position where someone is
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  pushing you into a lie and i say that because
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  people are always watching you people are always
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  looking and they want you to lie and they want
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  you to misstep but stay in the truth i can't
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  tell you how many times no matter what people
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  are thinking and sometimes you will pick up on
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  people just being negative and wanting you to
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  misstep but no matter what keep going forward
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  and go forward calm and go forward in the truth
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  and not misled because so many will try to mislead
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  you on this road and especially those who want
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  to be managers so Want to close with I wish everyone
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  the best and I believe I'm gonna share one more
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  Story with you guys in a bonus episode when I
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  talk about some quirky things that happened at
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  Amazon Everyone I wish you all again a good week,
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  too