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I Choose ... to Let the Sunshine In - Bonus Episode with Gabby Reece · I Choose Me with Jennie Garth

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. I
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  Speaker 1: had such a great conversation with Gabby Reese and at
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  Speaker 1: the end of it, I hit her with some rapid
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  Speaker 1: fire questions. She drops so many nuggets of knowledge. This
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  Speaker 1: woman has so much wisdom and I really felt like
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  Speaker 1: I needed to share it with you. So enjoy this
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  Speaker 1: bonus content of my interview with the incredible Gabby Reese. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you have your own podcasts all about health and nutrition
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  Speaker 1: and fitness and all the things we all need to
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  Speaker 1: know about. Yep, thank you for putting out content like that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thanks, because I don't feel like there's an ever,
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  Speaker 1: there's ever enough because everybody hears things differently and wants
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  Speaker 1: to hear it from different voices, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. My help with the conversations I'm having is I
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  Speaker 2: always say sharp ended the stick information, so people that
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  Speaker 2: I know are best in class, but really trying to
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  Speaker 2: meet people where they're at and make that achievable because
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  Speaker 2: the problem is is now we do have more information
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  Speaker 2: than ever, too much. But my hope is that what
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  Speaker 2: I'm also trying to encourage people to do is they
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  Speaker 2: have to build a practice. Yeah, it doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 2: much information that we all have if we don't have
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  Speaker 2: a practice that makes sense to who we are and
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  Speaker 2: where we're at in our life. If you and I
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  Speaker 2: had newborns right now, our practice would look different, our
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  Speaker 2: work practice or our physical fitness practice whatever. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the hope for me is that I do the vetting,
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  Speaker 2: I do the curating on like, I know these people
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  Speaker 2: know what they're talking about to the best of my ability,
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  Speaker 2: and then say cool, but what does that really mean
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  Speaker 2: in like an everyday life? And if we want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about high performance and optimizing, that's fine, But I
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  Speaker 2: feel like those people are taken care of. It's really
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  Speaker 2: the majority of the people who have made a myriad
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  Speaker 2: of excuses. They never learned maybe they you know, didn't
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  Speaker 2: grow up that way, and they're what they're going like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thirty, I'm forty, I'm supposed to go lift weights,
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  Speaker 2: Like what are you talking about? And they're also told
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  Speaker 2: to be skinny, skinny, skinny, and so the cardio, cardio, cardio,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the things are. So my hope is just to
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  Speaker 2: present information in a way where people go that sounds
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  Speaker 2: good for me, I'll take that and just encourage them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the way to do it. Meet
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  Speaker 1: them where they are.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the only realistic you know, any coach knows
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna take an athlete from here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: up to the to the next to the next without
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  Speaker 2: building a foundation. And so it's really giving people the
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  Speaker 2: confidence to say I'm going to build a practice that
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  Speaker 2: represents me, but then simultaneously not letting them off the
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  Speaker 2: hook because don't talk to me about what goals you
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  Speaker 2: want if you're not willing to do the practice. And
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  Speaker 2: so you know, again there's always in life, right, it's
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  Speaker 2: that constant yin and yang of hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be soft, let's cut the shit, you know, like we
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  Speaker 2: got to go in and out of those right and
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  Speaker 2: if people again going back to like not getting where
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  Speaker 2: they want or victim mentality, it's like, okay, well I'll
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  Speaker 2: be in charge of that one. But it's hard, Like
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  Speaker 2: especially women, I've been learning this about middle age. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of women doing a lot of the right things,
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  Speaker 2: not getting the results they want. And it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: how can we support you and get you some information
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  Speaker 2: and maybe some new ideas that might support you because
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  Speaker 2: you are doing all the right things.
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  Speaker 1: You are trying.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so it's it's kind of going, well, this isn't working. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I want to do a little quick fire
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's okay, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: What is one non negotiable in your morning routine?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? It's My training has been always, I mean even
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  Speaker 2: if my kids were new, if it was twelve minutes, fine,
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  Speaker 2: it's training. I don't mess around. I schedule my day,
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  Speaker 2: my life, my work unless it's something I just can't change.
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  Speaker 2: That block of time doesn't get moved for anyone or anything.
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  Speaker 1: I love that me too. Yeah, you do it every
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  Speaker 1: day though, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: You know when I can, but it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: five days, it's six weeks. I don't kill myself. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I do, but not every day.
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  Speaker 1: What does your training look like?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Monday, Wednesday and Friday I do a land training,
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  Speaker 2: so there's you know, there's lifting weights and preparer reception
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  Speaker 2: and balance and working on one leg and doing all
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  Speaker 2: these things. And then when I can Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: I like we do an underwater pool training where it
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  Speaker 2: can work really hard but not crush my joints. And
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  Speaker 2: there's also a type of training called hypoxic training, where
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  Speaker 2: you're using you're becoming more efficient with using less oxygen.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm outside, So that's the other thing. Is one
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  Speaker 2: thing I've learned in this whole process of let's call
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  Speaker 2: it wellness that means so many things now is so
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  Speaker 2: you have your pillars, right, you have nutrition, which I
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  Speaker 2: would have said was almost number one, before you have movement.
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  Speaker 2: You have recovery, sleep and other things. People who meditate
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  Speaker 2: that would go in there, breathing practices community. Okay, but actually,
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  Speaker 2: and I've said that lately, being outside, being in the sunlight.
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  Speaker 2: We've been made to be afraid of the sunlight. But
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  Speaker 2: so many of our processes start and are initiated by
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  Speaker 2: our eyes looking at light. And you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: think it's more important than we realize. So my pool training,
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  Speaker 2: I'm outside, I'm in the sun. And if I could
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  Speaker 2: also encourage people, like if you go on a walk,
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  Speaker 2: it's great, But if you could not wear sunglasses, that
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  Speaker 2: would be even better, because your eyes are the you know,
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  Speaker 2: they read for your brain, and then your brain is
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  Speaker 2: the pharmacist and set your body accordingly, even your skin, right,
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  Speaker 2: the melanin in your skin, well, if you have sunglasses on,
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  Speaker 2: you're not getting a real clear communication about what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: So your body's actually not as protected as it could be.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's things that we do now. If
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  Speaker 2: you're on a mountain and it's snowy, or you're driving
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  Speaker 2: and you see reflection, it bothers, you fine, wear sunglasses.
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  Speaker 2: But if you could be outside sort of in your
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  Speaker 2: raw self, not at high noon, right like go early,
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  Speaker 2: go late, put a cap on if you want, but
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  Speaker 2: let your eyes see the light. It's so important and
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  Speaker 2: it's overlooked. We don't give any value to something that's
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  Speaker 2: free and right outside. So true, we just.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let your eyes see the light. How do you
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  Speaker 1: handle emotions in business?
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  Speaker 2: I just have cultivated mail energy, so I remember it's
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  Speaker 2: not personal. I don't need to, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 2: be like, well you can't talk to me like that,
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  Speaker 2: or I'm going to show you. It's like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening? How do I solve this? That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't allow the emotions to take over.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the appropriate place. Occasionally it happens, not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm usually tired when that happens. I'm usually over inundated,
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  Speaker 2: over detailed, over decision. I've made too many decisions for
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  Speaker 2: the day. That's usually when it shows up. But generally
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  Speaker 2: it's like, no, this is not personal, so let's figure
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  Speaker 2: out how to solve it.
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  Speaker 1: What is one thing your husband does that surprises you
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  Speaker 1: or makes you feel like you're falling in love with
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  Speaker 1: him all over again?
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  Speaker 2: Such a good question. My husband does a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: One is every morning, hampty's the dishwasher before I get up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when we start having kids, you started doing that. So
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  Speaker 2: when I came to make breakfast and all that, I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't unloading and loading and cooking and all that. But
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  Speaker 2: also what's been interesting for me to see my husband
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  Speaker 2: is certain men will as they get older. They have
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  Speaker 2: a wisdom that allows younger men to go first, like
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  Speaker 2: they're like, oh they're going to learn that one or
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  Speaker 2: if they're going to go on a bike ride or
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  Speaker 2: they're go out, it's like, you know, the twenty something
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  Speaker 2: year old is out front, like are you know? And
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  Speaker 2: I've watched laird who's highly competitive, very physical, very capable,
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  Speaker 2: be like oh we got a live one, watching him
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  Speaker 2: develop his male wisdom, his acceptance that he'll never understand, right,
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  Speaker 2: he has three daughters and a wife, and he just
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  Speaker 2: sits there like, huh. It's something I've really learned to
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  Speaker 2: appreciate because there's a stillness and a grace and a
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  Speaker 2: dignity that I've watched him develop over the years where
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  Speaker 2: the allowance of like it is what it is, and
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  Speaker 2: he exercises it quite a lot. And you like that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because it's a profound strength that he has developed. And
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  Speaker 2: just really showing up for his family over and.
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  Speaker 1: Over every day that just makes you fall more and
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  Speaker 1: more in love with them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's hard and it's quiet, and sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: take it for granted on both sides, right, So I
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  Speaker 2: think it's you know, a thank you to a father
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  Speaker 2: or to a partner goes far. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: I've learned lately that my husband likes words of affirmation
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  Speaker 1: and being who I the person that I am. I
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  Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of time worrying about that, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about that, or giving that, and so I've been making
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  Speaker 1: such an effort to just say I love you, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: anytime during the day, and he kind of stops him
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  Speaker 1: in his tracks.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, thanks, Yeah, I think you know, listen, as females,
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  Speaker 2: we've had our own things to deal with. And I
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  Speaker 2: understand culturally how like men certainly have been in charge
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  Speaker 2: of certain things for a really long time. But if
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  Speaker 2: we just talk about like most men everyday, men that
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  Speaker 2: are trying to do exactly what women are trying to do,
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  Speaker 2: do their best, show up for the loved ones, work
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  Speaker 2: hard that we have really forgotten them. And a slight
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  Speaker 2: gesture like that, I think is not only really powerful,
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  Speaker 2: but I also think it's really important. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: It feels good when I do it, so I know
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  Speaker 1: it's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Would you ever want to coach volleyball?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I like coaching athletes. I coach them in
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  Speaker 2: more in the fitness side, in the pool and in training.
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  Speaker 2: I think that I prefer kind of doing that over
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  Speaker 2: because listen, when you coach volleyball, that's what you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: that's your life. And and good coaches. I had a
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  Speaker 2: good coach in college who changed my life who's still
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  Speaker 2: my dear friend today. So they are gold. And it
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  Speaker 2: is full on.
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  Speaker 1: What is your holy grail when it comes to health
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  Speaker 1: and wellness? Like one thing, one thing, it's hard, it's
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  Speaker 1: all things, all things no, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, listen, it's it's really it's simple, and it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: We live in a world that's kicking our ass right
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  Speaker 2: like blue light, the phones and MS over the routers. No,
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  Speaker 2: all this stuff is silent, even like whenever goes Oh
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  Speaker 2: they're spraying that. Yep, all of it. It's a toxic
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  Speaker 2: load on us, like nobody's business to the airport. Everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Everything.
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  Speaker 2: So what you want to say, I always say to
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  Speaker 2: people is yes, and you can't control it. So fortify
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  Speaker 2: your immune system, do the best you can, and the
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  Speaker 2: best thing you can do is not to worry. So
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  Speaker 2: that means eat real food. Try to back it off
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  Speaker 2: a little bit before dinner, like a few hours before
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  Speaker 2: eating ways that makes sense for who you are, Moving
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  Speaker 2: ways that make sense for who you are. Get outside
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  Speaker 2: out in nature, make sure you have some people to
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  Speaker 2: hug in love and hang out with and have a
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  Speaker 2: laugh and get to bed and after that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what else to tell you. The other thing, too, though,
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  Speaker 2: is I remind people that go to their doctor, the
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  Speaker 2: doctor works for you. If you don't like your doctor
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  Speaker 2: or what they're telling you, it's all on you to
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  Speaker 2: really be in charge of that and it's okay to
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  Speaker 2: ask hard questions, and it's also okay to fire them
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  Speaker 2: even though they're doing the best they can. So really,
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  Speaker 2: to be an advocate for real.
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  Speaker 1: For your health yep, so important. Yeah, what is one
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  Speaker 1: thing you do to reconnect when your life gets chaotic?
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  Speaker 2: I don't usually let it get that crazy, I've learned.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know this about myself until recently. I thought
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  Speaker 2: I was like a goal setting, achieving, grinding kind of person.
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  Speaker 2: I am. But what I didn't realize is that actually
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  Speaker 2: the thing I've been working the hardest at was to
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  Speaker 2: have a family and be connected to my family, and
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  Speaker 2: that all this other stuff was actually on the side
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  Speaker 2: because that was for me. That's what I wanted. I
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  Speaker 2: just didn't know because the other seems so obvious, being
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  Speaker 2: in sports, doing other things, But it was the other.
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  Speaker 2: So those are the I take care of those pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: But on days I feel overwhem by the way I've gone.
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  Speaker 2: Twice a year or so, i'll come home, I'll be
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  Speaker 2: like I'm done for the day. It could be six o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: six thirty. I look at my family. Literally twice a
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  Speaker 2: year I'm out. I just go to bed this or
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  Speaker 2: I go to my room.
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  Speaker 1: I just go to my room.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. I just need some I'm done. And so
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  Speaker 2: I know. And I also schedule things in a way
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  Speaker 2: that there's a rhythm. I say no all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I make sure that there's flow. And yeah, certain days
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  Speaker 2: you might be like today's crazy, but I don't make
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  Speaker 2: my whole life like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's so important, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Perseverance, its preservation. Yeah, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want? And what is everything you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: What is in your calendar, everything that reflects that, and
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  Speaker 2: if they're mismatched, then you got to change it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, so good, Okay, thanks Gabby Reese, thank you