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The 50/50 Pilot - 50 Years Now, 50 More with Annvi Fuller · PHLV Radio

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Speaker 1: Welcome to fifty to fifty, fifty years now and fifty more.
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This show is more than just conversation. It's a movement,
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a celebration, and a call to live life fully after fifty. Hi,
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my name is Andrew Fuller aka missus f and you
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are listening to PHLV comes the Poe Maha Kababayan's Philippinas
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Ditos America at saba ibangsu Londo. Excited and excited today
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that hell ittopo and pilot episode now adding programma fifty
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to fifty. Yes, I am very excited to talk about
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what we us golden gals and guys do when we
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turn golden. But before that, let me tell you about myself.
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I grew up in the Philippine Tubon kes and Citypo
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Lachin QC. I went to the University of the Philippines
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Molac Kindergarten Hangang Colehio, and I worked as a stage manager,
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event coordinator and a movie producer. I also danced and
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choreographed shows professionally. I moved to the US and got
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married to mister puller Aka and I live by. I
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live by as a gig worker Kumbagito, I temp or
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temporary worker. As a brand ambassador, I represent different brands,
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different companies at trade shows and sometimes I am an
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events staff. But the hair and makeup hair makeup styling
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at Pinasaen and for ten years I traveled the world
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to manage conferences. It's a fuller life indeed. But then
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a health setback made me rethink about everything, all of
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these activities. I was in pain for a long time,
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and I thought it was it was normal for active
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people like Meko lugging me back pains because I always travel.
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But then I went to the doctor and eventually got
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diagnosed with spinal stenosis, so I had it fixed with
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a spinal surgery. Imagine from being super active traveling the
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world NonStop adventure to staying home in a neck brace
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for a while. It was unimaginable even to my friends
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and my family because they know me to be super
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active all the time. I made sure I recovered fast
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so I can give my fuller life another goal. And
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the most that I can do at that time that
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I was allowed was to do was to walk, so
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walking long so the glad Laco every day until I
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was eventually after a year cleared to do more. Kaya lang.
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The nerve pain didn't one hundred percent go away. So
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after that surgery and the recovery, chronic thing became a
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part of my daily norm. And sometimes I have to
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slow down because but not like a young energy and
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you drive goal because mobilis aramapagod. And also I guess
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effected on medication for me to be able to move
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and to live productively. And this happened shortly before I
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turned fifty. I am not so now zip go wait
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a minute, this cannot be. I have to bounce back.
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So this new condition cannot define me, especially when I'm
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about to reach my milestone milestone year. So reaching fifty
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is a gift to me. That's how I see it.
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And sadly, you know, I have friends and I'm sure
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some of you two friends and family. I have friends
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and family who didn't even make it this far. And
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so I am here. I am alive, and I will
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live my golden years as as amazing and as intentional
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as I can possibly I can, I possibly can, and
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I hope that you do too. And this is not
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just for me, but also for those that I missed,
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so for for the loved ones that my friends and
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my family who didn't make it this far and they
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have to continue their journey to their golden years over
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there up there in heaven. So in this show, we
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will celebrate the ever evolving lifestyle of individuals age fifty
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and beyond and whether you're approaching retirement, redefining life, family life,
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exploring new romance, or just getting started on long held dreams,
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fifty to fifty is your place to be seen, heard,
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and inspired. So Manga Susana episodes, but among travel stories,
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fitness journeys, wellness, career transitions, financial strategies very important, especially
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for the Golden people Golden community. Bagab. I'm adding involvements
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add in communidad and of course and relationships, not in
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not just you know, romantically, but with our families and
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our friends. We will also feature trends in music, fashion, art, photography, culture,
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anything that sparks as as joy at fifty, and we
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want to inspire those who are yet preparing for their
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Big five oh by showing them how we keep adding
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value to the world by investing in ourselves. Because living
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a fuller life after fifty means saying yes to joy,
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yes to growth, and yes to the next fifty years
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of possibility. I remember when I turned eighteen, I thought
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I'd hold on to that age forever, pa eighteen, forever
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me and my friends. That's that's what we thought. And
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then I turned nineteen and I realized, oh my, that
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year went by fast. That wasna one year long, pala
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young eighteen No, no, no, get it. At that point
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my mom turned fifty. Then I thought that number was
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very far from me. I could not imagine, like, will
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I ever get there? At that point, I ask a
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few younger people what they think of being fifty. And
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these two young ladies are my baby cousins from San Jose, California,
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Aileen Enjoy. Let's hear them out.
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Speaker 2: What do I think about being fifty? I think being
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fifty is being fabulous. You live your life figuring out
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who you are from your twenties, thirties, forties, and I
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feel like when you get to the age of fifty,
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you truly understand who you are and who you want
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to be as a person. And watching my cousin Anvy
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and seeing how she lives her life being fifty and fabulous,
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I aspire to be that. What do I expect for
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me when I become fifty? I feel like I would
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know more about who I am, what I want in life,
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be more secure and stable and just being able to
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live life, travel more and enjoy the little things that
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life has to offer.
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Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Joy.
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Speaker 3: I am currently my forties and I am Anvie's cousin.
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Speaker 1: How I feel about.
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Speaker 3: Turning fifty is that I'm excited to see where I
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will be at at that time, if my family will
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grow and I'll be traveling more and just enjoying my
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life and getting closer to retirement. So that's how we feel.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I must have been a good influence on my cousins maybe,
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but truthfully, I am so glad that that's how they
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look at this milestone age. I love that they look
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forward to it and that they have plans. Manacy Gourrosakin
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and this next young lady another friend of mine, Sheela
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is a local physical therapist here in Las Vegas. In fact,
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when I used to travel a lot, I would call
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her before I fly back in Las Vegas to book
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an appointment may massage. And that this is what Sheela
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has to say or.
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Speaker 5: The first question is what do you think when you
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were in thirties or younger, what do you think of
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the people pall who turned fifty. So when I was
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in elementary, my mom, I think she's turned forty or
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in forties, and I thought of her, she's very old.
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I thought the people in forties fifties are very old,
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and when they turn sixties, they're super old. But when
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I was, when I was in thirties, I don't think
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people in fifties are very old because they're not much
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older than me. But I was telling to myself that
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I still have long way to go before I get there.
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And I was wrong. Because now I'm forty seven, I
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only have three years before I turn fifty. So you
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get to that realization that time goes by fast.
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Speaker 1: Ala Mochelle the Acipic Causin I'm Billy snoopo forty seven
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fifty Kanano. You can't just really that, because it's right there,
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it's coming. And this last one from one of my
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best friends and childhood childhood friends in the Philippines. Her
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name is Sharon, or Sharon or Aaron is what we
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call her. We practically grew up together since kindergarten Yanangang
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college and our birthdays are only one month apart. And
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I asked her what she thought about turning fifty when
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we were in our thirties.
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Speaker 4: When I was younger, fifty years old for me then
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felt like real adults in my thirties may big bosses
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then were already in that age bracket, and they were
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already established experience. And I saw that age with authority
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and leadership.
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Speaker 1: Sharon and I we were about to turn nineteen, was
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a ritual. I'm saying goodbye to being eighteen, and then
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the years piled up just like that. But I am
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so glad that we are still growing all together until
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our fifty s and beyond. We're still very good friends
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right now, and that to me is very precious. Here
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is how she imagined her golden years to be.
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Speaker 6: Like, what do I expect or imagine myself and I
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turned fifty physically, I imagine myself still being healthy and active,
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with enough energy to do the things I want to do,
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whatever I want to do, and still no maintenance meds
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and just probably having and keeping up my skin maintenance.
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Speaker 1: Tama maintain that in young skin regimen Nayan, you know
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priorities not it Kayota your friends skin prep is kita
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laga for turning fifty, I will not lie speaking of preparations,
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I did prepare for my own fiftieth birthday so many
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years ago. Wow many you know, I worked as a
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photo booth attendant for a fiftieth birthday party at the
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Belajio Hotel you celebranch. She looks so amazingly useful and Ganda.
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She looks strong, she looked healthy, she looked accomplished. And
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the people who attended the party were all dressed up nicely.
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They're polite, and you can tell that they cherished her.
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And from then, I told myself when I turned fifty,
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I want to be surrounded by people who truly know
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me and who I deeply care for, Kumagata, people who
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matter to me and the people I matter to kumagad.
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So even if it's just a hand it's okay. It
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doesn't have to be thousands or hundreds or you know,
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a lot of people. It's okay, a handful. I'll be
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happy with that. And what matters is that the quality
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of our relationship. Since since then, I worked on my relationships,
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of course, and invested on myself and invested on my
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relationships with them and Chempre when I was in my thirties,
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because when the asip to prepare for this milestone year
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like who would write? But in my forties, I started
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paying attention to a healthier lifestyle. I started preparing for retirement,
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which actually by norm it's too late, especially here in America,
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choosing a better circle of friends and doing the things
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that I love. Yeah, and these things, these items I
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started paying attention to. I became more intentional with my time,
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my energy and baga. Then THELS helped set back na
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nayarisa akin. When I was forty seven, I gave more
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room for self care, so I put more time for
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working out, meditation, for sleep plus you din casume advice
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act and physical therapist go is that to to for
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me to extend my battery kumbaga my life'span. I have
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to make my body strong. So I really needed to
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find time for working out and for wellness. And to
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be honest when anam soolid plans for my life when
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I was in my twenties, like who does you know?
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But it hits different when you're at the onset of
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your golden years. That but masolid plans canna for the
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very near and upcoming future. So we have come to this.
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When I bounced back from the health setback. I started
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planning for my fiftieth birthday actually birth year cause in
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the one day in celebration called Boong because it was
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a whole year of celebration for me. My husband and
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I flew in and met with cele family members and
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friends in Baraki, Philippines. Inte plan called because I am
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an event planner myself. I told myself, I'm not gonna
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plan for my my fifty eh like that hard. I'm
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simply going to tell people, my friends and my family,
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this is the hotel and this is the time that
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we're we're going to be there and we're going to
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see each other. That's it. And I only said one
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request now is that for you to be there at
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the dinner that my birthday dinner, and the rest is your.
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You know, your vacation. You do whatever you want to do.
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So there you go, and my husband and I flew
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in and met with select family and friends in Baraki, Philippines.
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And this is what happened. And so my friends who
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flew in and celebrated with me, they're actually from Up
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samask On, which is a performing group in the in
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Up in the Philippines, and so hocoming performers that come,
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dancers and actors and my healing MC TikTok you isa,
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they are Divinagras who is part of the Retro siblings
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if you look them up on TikTok. And of course
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the evening that dinner birthday dinner of mine wouldn't finish
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without a TikTok sessions. So here watch it.
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Speaker 7: Mana wait.
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Speaker 1: Moselles and of course the next day nineties and eighties
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eighties movie. So they literally just called me and told
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me that supposedly Maxesan bathing is a beach, right, but
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then they told me and we come here by the
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Beachataia walking shots down and I'm glad. But then I
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got there Capila Sila and they were already dancing the
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girl Hurst Sila, and I was so frantic, and because
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I haven't danced in a while and then years clan.
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Then when I got there, counting movement Alan, So this
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is so fun. I really missed dancing and performing with
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this so with with them.
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Speaker 7: So what this.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that was so much fun for me. That was
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an epic fiftieth birthday celebration. But you know it didn't
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end there. Of course, Pagalistnam and Barakai. My husband and
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I continued on our vacation, which is the real vacation
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that I really you know, I really wanted for my fiftieth.
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The celebration is that to just be relaxed, beach gyanagaway,
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no itenerary, just really just relax. So he took me
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for ten days. Yeah, yeah, we were in Bali after Baraka,
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we flew out to Bali for ten days and I
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really enjoyed that. And then of course after that Pagan
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and us, my cousins came over, flew over and celebrated
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with me and the whole year round. The whole year through,
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I have had friends who came over and visited, or
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my friends here in Las Vegas. We went out to
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celebrate meek idin't ekn a birthday in January, because like
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I said, it's a big celebration for me, and I
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did that for all year round. But enough of my
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fiftieth birthday. I want to show you some of the
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fiftieth celebrations by First off, Sherry Owens. This is her
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eighties party. Sherry is a good friend of mine here
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in Las Vegas. She loves, loves the eighties. She's an
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eighties baby. So Latyena Damien gears in the eighties, and
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she hosted a party at it's now called lex What's
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that It used to be the Artisan but yeah, there's
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a DJ, and they really prepped everything eighties mimha props,
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my backdrop, everything. And that was a party celebration for her,
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and I want you to see some of what happened
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during her party. That was a beautiful eighties party. Fiftieth
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birthday celebration for Sherry. I could not forget that, although
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maybe she forgot the rest of the evening because maybe
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she got I don't know, drunk. And this one is
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my husband's fiftieth birthday celebration, and we call it the
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Vintage Dude theme. He loves wine, beer, spirits, and so
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what I did was I hired a bartender to pour
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pardakan puma, and then there's like a wine tasting or
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beer and wine tasting, So we shopped for different kinds
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of wines, different kinds beers and meat tapos, mashar quiterie
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and every guest had their own tasting glasses and that
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was like a really nice afternoon, very easy. I wanted
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him to invite more friends, but he wanted it more simple.
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But you know what, this is his fifty eighth So Champre,
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I went all out on the course and I made
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sure that he enjoyed his day. So this is what
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happened to his party. And that was a beautiful vintage
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dude theme party that I of course created for my
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husband this time the man with Jenji Claire Castilio. She
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is from Kalahi to point zero and she wanted a
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Great Gatsby birthday's theme. And so the beautiful thing about
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her party is that she had friends who came over
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the Lega to help her decorate her space, not prepare
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now drinks and prepare no food. And I love, love
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love it when people or when friends come in and
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they really prepare for your party. Costume, everyone's decked out,
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They followed the theme, and they really enjoyed the evening
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telegan Great gats Being party and she cherished this and
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she really she's very proud of her party and of
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course herself and her friends. And who would not be
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right if you have that kind of community of support
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that will help you make your milestone birthday that epic.
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And I want to share with you some of the
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photos from her birthday, and that was the beautiful, super
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fun fiftieth birthday of Geni. Wherever you are in life,
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whether you have solid plans for the future or just
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winging it, whether you are preparing for your golden years
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or not, one thing remains true. Turning fifty is a gift.
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This is the age where most of us have already
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achieved or are very close to achieving our goals. Medon
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Satin celebrating their fiftieth with a pivot or a huge change.
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Maybe we already found where we really want to be
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and we're happy there. Or maybe we've found that spot,
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but we've been achieving so much but we're na truly happy,
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and so we hop into a new business or work,
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a new career, new lifestyle, maybe a new partner, or
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maybagupas a buhai or many new personal epiphanies, just like
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what happened to me when I was recovering and marisat
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in after fifty nex Palama abota manapara. It is a
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gift to be where you are right now at fifty.
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You know why. Sadly we do have loved ones who
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don't even make it this far. Si. I have friends
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who were part of my life, my childhood, my academic
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and my professional journey who had many dreams as I
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do as I did, but simply had to continue their
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journey in heaven. For this very first fuller minute on
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the pilot episode of fifty to fifty, I would like
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to take a moment just to remember these people dear
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to us, and they prompted me to celebrate the you know,
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the golden years and beyond and to live life to
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the fullest. And I will make sure that they will
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always be a part of this. And you guys do
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do this at home too. Take a minute think about them,
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recite their names in silence, and let's all make a
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promise that we will celebrate for their beautiful souls in
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our golden years and beyond the next episode of fifty
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to fifty, We're gonna take our listeners around the world today.
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If you have desire in your heart to go out
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and travel, I encourage you now to do it. Join
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us next time for another empowering episode of fifty fifty,
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fifty years now and fifty more. If you would like
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to be featured on my show and share some insights
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about being fifty and beyond. Send me a message, tell
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me what topic you want you want to cover and
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I'm sure we will have listeners there who will find
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your story very expiring. And shout out to our listeners
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here on PHLV my one million tents soon. So where
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to find us? Email us at PHLV radio at gmail
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dot com or n V A N n V I
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dot coler f U L E R at gmail dot com.
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Marami Marami salamat bo and I hope you enjoyed my show.
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I will leave you with take care of yourself. Bye.
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