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MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS AND BUILDING A COMMUNITY IN MIDLIFE · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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  Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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  you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
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  professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
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  Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
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  Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast for
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  women over 50. We have so many things to talk
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  about. We'll kick it off, of course,
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  with what's on our radar. And then we're going to get an
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  update, Christine, from the friends that you introduced us
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  to from Bream, which is that online community for women over
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  50. Yes.
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  And then you've got an organizational tip for us at
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  the. End.
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  Oh yes, I always have that. You always have that she's got
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  something up her sleeve at all. All times.
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  Yeah. OK, so let's start with what's
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  on our radars. Do you want to kick things off?
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  Yeah, I would like to kick off since you just had your 60th
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  birthday. I want to know how did you feel
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  leaning up to it and how did you feel like on July 2nd?
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  You know what I mean? Like after.
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  So I felt so birthday festivities aside, because I am
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  one of those people that feels so weird on their birthday, like
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  the attention and that I know that sounds strange cause
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  because I'm a person who is on TV and on the radio and on a
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  podcast and on social media and it seems like, oh, she must love
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  attention. But to constantly have people
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  saying I've always felt weird on my birthday.
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  It's just a weird feeling. It's just a weird, I don't know.
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  It's weird because I am. And we we're going to talk about
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  this more on another episode, but it makes me always feel like
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  when people go out of their way and treat me so special, then I
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  start saying, am I doing a good enough job on other people's
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  birthdays? Do I make them feel special as
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  they're making me feel? Interesting.
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  I know I've there's a lot to unpack.
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  Wow. But, but as far as how I felt
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  about the age, I fully embraced it because to me, I'd rather be
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  60 than 59 because 60 is the youngest age in that decade
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  versus being the oldest. Age in that.
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  Decade and the next day I felt physically the same, but my ego
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  felt big because you had a whole day of people saying you're 60.
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  So yeah, I felt good if it was fine.
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  Do I now recognize I'm starting to really hone in on the fact
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  that I can't remember crap that my legs sweat all night in my
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  sleep? There's a lot.
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  Arthritis starts. Let me tell you, I'm just going
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  to give you all the fun things to look.
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  Forward bring it on. Bring.
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  It on, you know, your carpal tunnels, your carpal tunnel, all
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  kinds of stuff. Friends with all kinds.
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  Of yes, yes. Well, I'm so glad you had a good
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  birthday though. Thank you.
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  I definitely. Did, and now we're looking
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  forward to the big party. Yes, which?
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  I'm very much looking forward to, by the way.
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  Oh, me too. Me too.
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  But we're going to talk a little bit more about that in another
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  episode because we are. We're going to talk about all of
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  the hang ups I have about being the subject of a party.
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  Yes, exactly. So there's there's more to that.
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  So on on my radar right now more than ever before are all of
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  these anti aging products. You know, you're usually the one
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  who has the different products, but I, I started getting very
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  bombarded, as you can well imagine, with all kinds of ads
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  and I'm so suggestible. So Instagram and Facebook, when
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  they knew I had a birthday coming, they wanted to make sure
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  that I saw every product that there is out there that could
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  make me feel and look younger. So I did pull the trigger on one
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  called Skin and Bones by that doctor, Mary Claire Haver.
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  You know the the menopause. Specialist.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  And this is a product that she claims is a kind of a collagen
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  that is supposed to. She starts out by saying, I'm a
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  skinny person with Cellulite. So instantly I'm like,
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  Cellulite, Let's talk. What do you got?
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  Yeah, That's one of those things they always say there's nothing
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  you can do, right? And so she's saying it's this
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  kind of collagen, and it's good for your skin and your nails and
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  your bones. So I bought it and I can't tell
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  you if there's an improvement yet, it's only been a week.
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  Oh, OK. Yeah, but we'll see.
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  But I bought it. You know, one thing I'm learning
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  and it took me, I think like this past full year is I have
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  been very wary about buying things that like if somebody
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  recommends something but I see on the bottom that it says add
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  or they get paid for it, I just don't buy into it anymore.
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  And I used to buy into it and if someone is not 50 or up, I don't
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  buy into it anymore. I've really been careful about
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  that. So I I've been really good when
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  it comes to skin care. I've just kept it very, very
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  simple. Using three products, that's it.
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  And not buying into all of what everybody else is using.
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  That never seems to work on my skin.
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  Well, I did notice too. Now she has her own company now
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  and she's selling products which probably should have turned me
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  off, but this was she. She she hit the nail right on
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  the head as far as like she got me.
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  She got right. Let's just say it she won this
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  one. College in camp.
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  I mean, you're it's not. I mean, I'm dying to know
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  though. I need the results.
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  Yeah, me too. Let's see.
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  Let's see what happens. What about you?
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  What else you got? You know, I'm, I, I'm curious to
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  know about your 4th of July. I feel like 4th of July used to
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  be such a big, huge event when I was younger and had kids and,
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  you know, it was huge. And now I feel like, OK, the dog
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  is scared in a corner somewhere, shaking uncontrollably.
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  And then you're like the old person who's like, how long are
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  they going to keep doing those fireworks?
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  That was me. That was me.
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  Yeah, yeah. So I feel like now that I'm
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  older it I don't want anything intruding in my nighttime
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  routine. I think that's it.
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  I give, I give everybody July 4th for the fireworks tapes go
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  crazy. But when you start still
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  exploding them on the 5th or you're on the third testing them
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  out because you're so excited you have them.
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  I can't drug my dog for a week straight.
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  Please pick the one day and this being the 250th birthday of the
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  USA, go crazy. Let's have that.
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  I love that people are out celebrating.
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  I love that there's so much patriotism.
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  Supporting. The World Cup and people coming.
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  To our country. And finding Bucky's and ranch
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  dressing and all of the things. But what is, like you said,
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  very, very stressful. Is the dogs, Yeah, I mean our
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  poor dogs. And you got the good stuff.
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  You got the trans. Trazodone.
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  Oh my God, it would work like a. Have the foresight to call the
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  vet for that. So we were using like a
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  melatonin hemp supplement from chewy.com.
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  And so yeah, that was. That works for like, daytime
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  angst. I call it like, not when it's
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  fireworks or for my dog, any kind of construction.
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  And don't ask me why. Because she was a rescue, so I'm
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  figuring something happened in her younger years.
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  Forget it. Nothing.
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  No hemp CBD that won't even touch it.
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  So yeah, it's fireworks and construction where you need the
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  heavy duty stuff. Now, on that note of 4th of
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  July, let's talk bathing suits for women over.
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  So both on our ladies only secret little Facebook group and
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  also our uncluttered and unfiltered just regular Facebook
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  page, which we're starting to get a little more active on you
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  guys because we want to reach more people and that's the way
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  to do it. But I have a funny story to tell
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  you about that. But bathing suits that we said
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  like what? What?
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  Tell us your bathing suit situation.
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  OK, this you have to step away from the hole.
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  Like your body looks like this. Her body looks like that.
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  Their body looks like this. I'm just talking about comfort
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  level. Like what?
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  Given the fact that you might go to the beach or the pool, what
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  are you wearing? And you set a one piece.
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  I'm I'm a one piece and I rarely do any kind of activities like
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  that. Although I was in the pool 4th
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  of July. I know you find that shocking,
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  but I was. What about the hair?
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  Did you have a bathing cap bomb like?
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  No, I put my hair. But you're right, I did put my
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  hair up really high. So only the, you know, I, I
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  swear one thing I've learned is chlorine is so bad not only for
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  your skin, but your hair. And so I really try, I mean, it
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  just dries everything, your skin, your hair.
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  So I really try not to. The Ocean's different because
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  that's salt water, but a pool is.
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  Chlorine pool can be tough. Yeah, so we were asking you guys
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  this question and a lot of you said the tankini.
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  Oh, get old tankini, which is of course looks like a one piece.
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  Maybe you have a little slice of skin maybe, but really it's two
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  pieces, so it makes it easier to go to the bathroom.
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  The tankini is always a solid choice I.
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  Like that's a good choice. I I what do you wear?
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  I wear OK, so I do wear a bikini with like a boy short kind of
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  bottom, but I don't walk around like that.
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  I almost always have like if I have to get up when we go to the
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  beach, if I'm getting up, I usually throw on a cover up.
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  I mean, it's you're not going to see me probably strolling down
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  the beach in my bikini. And that's, that's not because I
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  think somebody else shouldn't do that.
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  It's just a comfort thing for me.
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  I go to a beach where I know so many people because we live in a
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  beach community and it's just not my thing.
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  But I mean, you know, I mean if I'm.
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  Going to be interesting. You know why I find that
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  interesting? Because if I had your body, I
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  would walk around naked and I always tell you that because
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  you're in such great shape and so I find this fascinating that
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  you wouldn't walk on the beach in your boy shorts with your
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  bikini top. You you should do it now.
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  Do it now. I did get up and walk down the
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  beach to my friend's area like that, but I'm just saying I'm
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  not going to be like where we go to the beach like there's a bar
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  area like I I probably wouldn't go standing at the bar and just
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  my bathing suit or I would throw on a long shirt or something
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  You. Know.
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  But you know what? As my mother said, you never
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  appreciate the age you're at and how your body looks and your
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  face looks. And then in five years, when
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  you're 60, you're like, God, I should have walked in a string
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  bikini up the beach. Should come to work.
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  Right. So yeah, I hear you, but no,
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  babe. So Tankini was the winner.
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  Tankini so far is looking like the winner.
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  That and. Interesting.
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  The boy shorts look, etcetera. So we have that going on on two
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  places. And let me tell you the funny
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  story about our Facebook page. So we have our Facebook page,
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  which is like open to the public.
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  And then we have our ladies only group.
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  Now in the group, what we're saying to you is you're, you're
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  protected. We're you have to be LED into
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  this group. Well, a man commented on a post.
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  Oh, I said, we posted today. What's the last thing you lost?
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  And a man said 150 lbs And some woman came in and posted that's
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  great, but how did you get in this?
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  How did you get here? How are you here?
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  And then I came on and said, no, it's okay, this is our page.
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  It's it's fine. Ladies, I love that.
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  You're I love giving. The group This is amazing, yes.
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  That's our space. Get back out of.
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  Here, right, because we want our own space, yes, but that is
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  fabulous that he lost that much. Weight that is fabulous, but
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  it's even more fabulous that that she came on guns ablaze and
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  said what are you doing? Get out of here.
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  You don't belong here. This isn't your.
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  Spot and ladies, if you're on the ladies only, we always love
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  getting questions to give us topics on what you want to hear
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  us talk about, so don't forget to do that.
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  Yeah, like the other day, I forgot to put in our show notes
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  about the bed. The making of the bed.
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  You had seen that one. In I saw that one.
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  We were asked like where is it hold us accountable?
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  I forgot to post it because I'm 60 so I forgot so.
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  Also, I saw the bed of the woman who sent us the picture.
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  Yes. I mean, I thought it looked
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  great, although she said her husband.
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  I didn't like sleeping with king pillows, which I kind of get
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  that. Yeah.
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  So it's kind of a tough one, you know, like decoration versus how
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  you really feel comfortable sleeping.
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  Yeah, it is. But it looked great.
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  I mean, that is a lifestyle change if you're used to a
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  certain kind of pillow. Yeah, certain harshness of
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  pillow, length of pillow. Some people want to wrap their
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  arms around their. Pillow, right?
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  But yeah, it looked great. It was laying those pillows flat
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  was really like the biggest difference from the way I do it.
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  But I loved that. So yeah, share, share with us
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  anytime I have other things on my radar.
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  But we we can do that in a whole other episode.
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  If you're ready to take a quick break and come back with our
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  friends from Brain, what do you think?
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  I think. Well, it has been a few months
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  since our friend Ryan told us about an adventure she was
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  embarking on called Bream, and we'll let her fill in the blanks
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  there. And now she brings Kim into the
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  mix because we wanted an update. So welcome ladies.
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  Thank you. So glad to be here.
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  So for those who didn't hear the episode, Christine found you
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  online and was completely intrigued by the idea that there
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  would be a community spot for women over 5055 ish and older.
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  So tell us what it is exactly and how it's going.
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  Sure, So Bream is a community made specifically for women over
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  50 to find new friends, affinity groups, and fun experiences,
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  both virtual and in person. Since we were last here, Bream
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  is now available to anyone in the country and it's now in your
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  pocket. We've launched our app, which
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  was our most requested thing from users and we do have in
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  person meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston and
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  Denver, and Kim is a member. I'm so excited to have her here
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  to talk about her experience inside the community.
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  So, Kim, tell us about it. You joined.
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  And then what happens? You find an affinity group,
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  which means what? Yeah, So what I, I saw Ryan's
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  TikTok and I just kind of hit this age in my life that it's I
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  just wanted some more friends, kids out of the house and and
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  changing careers. And so I saw this on TikTok and
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  I went to sign up for the beta and it has been amazing.
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  There are so many different ways you can join, which is one of
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  the things I love. Ryan already said the virtual
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  and in person there's, there's connection through interest
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  groups, so there's connection through geographical location
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  and it's just great because you show up how you want.
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  And I've only been there a few months, but I have met some
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  really amazing friends. Have you met them in person or
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  just virtually? Virtually?
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  Virtually, OK, but you can meet up in person.
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  I was reading about the pods where you group people with like
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  interests. So does that work in your town
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  as well? Yeah, that's a great question.
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  So our pods are we, we match you with a small group of women,
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  usually around 10 women and you're paired based on location,
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  interest in life stage. Those are the three biggest
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  things we're thinking about when we match you.
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  So some of our pods are local, like people are meeting up in
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  person and some are more regional depending on where it
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  is in the country. So yeah, it depends.
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  I think for people it really like when people join Breen,
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  they get to tell us, do I want in person, virtual, a little bit
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  of both. So we also have a sense of that
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  and it's really a mixed what people want and how they want to
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  participate. So we try to.
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  Meet. I can't wait to see.
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  I can't wait to see like a year from now when maybe people
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  travel with each other or travel to each other if it's across the
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  country. And I've experienced this with a
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  virtual running club that I was in.
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  So I believe in it very much. You know, I've seen it happen.
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  I've been a part of it where people get on a plane and
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  they'll just go see somebody that they've never met in
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  person, but they know more about them than they might their next
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  door neighbor. So I love this.
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  Yeah, Eden, that's such a good point.
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  I think that was something also that was requested by our
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  members. Like I'm traveling to a new
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  city. I've never been, and I want to
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  meet up with a Breamer there. So we do have my city.
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  And you can, you know, you're connected with women in your
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  city in that larger group. So it's a larger group than your
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  pod. But you can go into other cities
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  and say like hey, I'm traveling here, would love to have dinner
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  with someone or something. I love that.
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  Kim, what did you put down as your interests, if we could be
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  so nosy? Yeah, that's quite all right.
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  Oddly enough, I've been wanting to be in a book club for quite a
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  while. But you know, I like, I have
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  things like I like doing outdoor, not necessarily the
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  hikes, but I love being outdoors and coffee and just connecting
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  with women. A lot of, for me, creativity.
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  And so there's this great creative group that we get
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  together every week and we just bring our own thing and we work
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  on it and we kind of get to know each other and just in general
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  connection. So we do our coffee chats and
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  kind of a happy hour so we can meet everybody's time needs.
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  And yeah, that's, it's been amazing.
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  And this is all virtual. It is all virtual, yes, and I do
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  have some in person things coming up.
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  For me, the virtual works really well because first of all the
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  women I get to meet are just like all over the country, which
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  is great, but also just from a timing perspective and what my
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  schedule allows. I love that though.
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  I think virtual would be great and if you want to meet up down
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  the road, you can meet up down the road, but you at least have
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  someone to talk to. Book clubs, even just sitting
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  and having a cup of coffee in the morning with someone.
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  I just think every little thing brings connection.
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  Yeah, I love the idea of sitting there and working on something
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  creative and everybody is just, you know, chatting.
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  Maybe you're just even half listening.
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  But, you know, then you look up and it's like, oh, what do you,
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  you know, how far have you gotten on yours or.
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  That's that's just a a fantastic concept.
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  So I. Humble she started that group
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  and it's good and it's. You.
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  Did. I also, I also started something
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  we call accountability buddies just to Christine's point, which
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  is we, we just need to focus. I just need someone else to
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  focus. And so there is a woman.
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  We get on probably twice a week and it's just like we start the
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  hour with, you know, what are you going to work on?
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  And then we just go do our thing.
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  And I can't even explain how powerful that is actually to
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  have someone sitting there with you.
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  I love that I. Love that you could clean the
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  house that way. And she does.
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  That's great. Phenomenal So.
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  And what age group have you seen it be?
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  Mostly just wondering. Yeah, mostly women in their 50s
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  and 60s. Love that.
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  OK. This is great.
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  I love this so much. I, I have to say that when I
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  first heard about it, I wasn't, I wasn't doubtful by any means.
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  I was very, very hopeful, but I didn't know how quickly the pods
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  would form. I think that you're going to
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  more virtual meet ups in more cities very, very quickly.
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  The pricing, I went online and it looks like it's like 29 a
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  month and then you can do it for the year when it comes out to
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  only being less than $20.00, right?
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  Yeah, it's 1999 if you do the year plan.
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  And the reason we have a a membership is because early in
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  our, our process we Co designed this with women and brought them
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  in to Bream studio and they're like, what do you want?
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  What do you need? And a lot of them said they were
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  very sick of social media and being spammed with ads and their
• 21:45
  their data and privacy not being considered.
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  So that's our promise to members is that we'll never serve you
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  ads and your private or your data stays yours.
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  That's huge. That is big nowadays.
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  And you've also gone to the trouble of showing us some other
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  ways that we spend money, much more money than that, on a
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  monthly basis for things that may not be as valuable as our
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  friend groups. So you've done the work and I'm
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  congratulations and Kim. Yay.
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  I know. I'm very excited.
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  I've met so many women and we're already planning trips across
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  coast. We're thinking of like this all
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  weekend. Nice.
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  So what if I'm just throwing different things?
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  So if you're a widow, is there like groups where they could
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  sign up and that type of thing, like where they're all going
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  through the same thing? Yeah, Yeah, there is.
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  We don't have a widowing like a widowers group but we do have a
• 22:46
  retirement group and anyone can propose a group so.
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  Oh, I see you want. To join and you want to propose
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  a group and we have like, for example, like a travel group.
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  So like Kim was saying, I don't know if that came out of the
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  travel group, Kim, but where you can plan trips with each other,
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  Crowdsource other people's knowledge on trips they've done
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  and loved. So yeah, it's kind of like when
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  I say interest based, that might be their moment in life is
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  centered around that or an interest like Kim's creative
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  group or travel or books or book club.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  Fantastic. I love it.
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  Well, one more time just for everybody to know how can they?
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  How can they find you? Oh yeah, sure.
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  So you can go to our website at Hello Bream, that's BR eam.com.
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  And then we're on socials everywhere at Hello Bream as
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  well. Great.
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  Well, ladies, thanks for taking a little time out.
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  I know we're on different time zones, so it's very early this
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  morning for you guys, but we appreciate it so much and best
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  of luck with everything. Thank you.
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  Can't wait to have another catch up again.
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  I want to like. We'll have to keep this
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  informed. Sounds great.
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  Thank you for your time. Hey, we're back and it is time
• 24:02
  now for an organizational tip. So Christine Stone neatly
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  designed to be sure you're following the neatly designed
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  Instagram TikTok and all of those things for for nothing but
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  the organizational stuff. You get to go straight to to
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  that if that's your favorite part of this.
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  So what do you have for us today?
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  Today we're talking about entering your home.
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  And the reason why I like to talk about this is because I
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  think you set yourself up for clutter on how you enter your
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  home and where you put your things.
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  Whether it's wallets, keys, air tags, mail, anything that you
• 24:39
  throw somewhere entering your home because it eventually will
• 24:43
  end up on a kitchen counter, laundry room counter somewhere
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  and then more things get piled in.
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  And so I always like people to have an area, even even if they
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  say, well, I don't have an area. Even if it's the top of a
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  dresser you have in your foyer or you know some piece of
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  furniture somewhere that you can clear off the top and create a
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  space. All you do is get a simple tray.
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  It can be a hand me down tray. It can be an antique tray.
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  It could be a new tray. But keeping your items organized
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  for your phone, for your iPad, for your Airpods, anything that
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  you come into the house with needs a place that would include
• 25:31
  for your shoes, for your purse, because these are the things
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  that cause clutter in my opinion.
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  What do you think? I agree with that, and I also
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  say that even from the point of when you're exiting your car,
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  you're the one who told me make sure to have a garbage can.
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  In the garage. So like you get out of your car,
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  you throw away your trash, you have the things that you always
• 25:54
  have, you go inside your house and then where are you putting
• 25:59
  everything? Right and.
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  So I can't tell you how many times I've said, have you seen
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  my purse? And my husband says, yeah, it's
• 26:07
  on the hook where it goes because he's falling behind me,
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  right? And doing that, I could go and
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  put it on the hook. Right like hooks are great.
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  Hooks are great. What if Eden, in her 60s, puts
• 26:22
  her purse on her hook? That's huge.
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  I would be so excited. Yeah, because then we don't have
• 26:30
  to hear where's my air pods? Where's my keys?
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  Where's my purse? I just ordered a new lost air
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  pod today. Say exactly.
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  Where would you be without people like me to straighten up?
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  Oh I believe me if you people that are unorganized make my
• 26:49
  day. Honestly, they really do.
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  You don't judge me, you just you appreciate.
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  That I appreciate it if. Everyone was like you.
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  You wouldn't be as special as you are.
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  Well, thank you, but I also would be out of business.
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  So there you go. Right.
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  OK, Well, thank you. That is it.
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  That is a great one. If anybody wants to share a
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  picture of an area that they've created in their home to help
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  them when they enter, stay more organized Facebook ladies only
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  uncluttered and unfiltered as opposed to the other Facebook
• 27:19
  uncluttered and unfiltered page. I know it gets confusing.
• 27:21
  Trust trust me, you ought to be an admin on these sites, right?
• 27:24
  Very confusing. How many times have I told you,
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  wait a minute, which is the one right?
• 27:29
  Right. So the other day I was like,
• 27:32
  nobody's joining our ladies only group.
• 27:34
  And then you said, are you proud of me?
• 27:36
  I've been letting people in. I'm like, thank God.
• 27:38
  Yeah, ladies, I'm trying. I'm trying really hard.
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  I am really going to be more active.
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  I just. No, but it was just funny
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  because I thought nobody loved us anymore.
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  Just trying to get. In but you were in there letting
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  the door. Open the door for.
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  People which we love. So please do follow us.
• 27:56
  Please do follow us on all the socials.
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  Please do join us on the ladies Only uncluttered and Unfiltered
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  Facebook group. Share us with a friend that's
• 28:04
  over 50 and please do join us the next time.
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  And we hope that if you join Bream that you just heard about,
• 28:11
  you'll let us know about your experience.
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  We're very, very interested to hear about that.
• 28:15
  Yeah, I can't wait to hear if people join it's it sounds
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  amazing. Yeah, so, so letting geography
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  be the reason that you are alone without friends your own age,
• 28:25
  you can let it go. And don't look back.