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The Return of Hannah: Embracing Life's Challenges Together · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Eye Opener Society.
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  And it's spring, or at least on this day of recording, it's spring,
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  and there's a whole bunch of new changes in the air.
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  And I've been trying to get a lot of stuff because I got so many ideas for this
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  podcast, and I'm trying to get them all done at once.
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  But we're trying to become more of a society where we're going to have multiple
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  people on here as far as co-hosting and all.
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  But I do want to let you know this episode right now,
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  And continuing on from here, I want to welcome back somebody who I know everybody
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  misses, the true co-host of this show, the one and only Hannah. Hey, everyone.
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  I want to thank you so much again for listening, but I do want to thank Hannah
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  so much for being able to do this.
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  I know it's going to be a little difficult getting, we're not under the same
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  roof anymore, so it's a little bit more difficult to get episodes recorded and all that.
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  So I'm just happy to have you back on the show and yeah, and we're going to
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  start off slow and we're going to, you know, try and build things up because,
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  you know, I know you've been back for a couple episodes, but this is going to
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  be more permanent and hopefully we could get our rhythm going again.
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  So I've been doing a lot of shorts on YouTube. So I usually read a quote,
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  give my little inspiration about it.
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  And I think I'm going to continue on with this with you just to give us some
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  ideas because we kind of thrown this together without any topic or anything
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  like that. So this is the one.
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  And it really applies, I think, to you and I, for sure.
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  Be the type of person who can face a breakup, lose their job,
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  deal with debt, and still say, fuck it, I'll figure it out. Yeah.
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  I mean, I think we've been pretty much doing that. We might
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  have not hit every check mark on that box but we're damn near
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  close to it and a lot of um what i've been saying to everybody it's just like
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  things have gotten so bad but at some point you do you gotta say fuck it and
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  continue on and move on with life
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  and you're gonna be struggling for sure yeah i think with me it's like,
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  i am going through so much since october in my life um,
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  To start off, the main reason for my break from the podcast is I am getting divorced.
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  So it's been a whole journey with that in my life. I live alone now.
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  Well, I have my son too, of course. But so I've been going through that.
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  And it's just been the most challenging thing for anyone to go through.
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  And I don't want to get too much into detail about it right now.
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  Um but i think you know
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  to go with the quote it's just like as far
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  as you still say fuck it and i'll
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  figure it out um it's it's for
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  me it took me a long time to get there and i'm not saying like oh fuck it like
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  fuck the situation or whatever it's just like i i have to have that perspective
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  um because otherwise i just find myself drowning in my thoughts and so at some
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  point in my time i I was just like, you know what? Like, this is my life now.
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  I can't dwell on it. I just have to like, I sometimes have to like laugh and
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  I have to just be like, fuck it.
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  Like, it's just another day. I'm going to figure it out. Like, get by the day.
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  Just take it by day. Because if I don't and I'm overwhelming myself, then I'm in like.
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  Blank slate of like, just, I can't even describe it.
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  Um, and that's what I've been going through for the past couple of months,
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  but it's, I mean, it's life altering.
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  This isn't just like, Hey, I ran into some bad luck, a couple of bad things
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  that happened, but we are literally talking about life altering major changes,
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  not just small ones, your entire life changes from one moment to the next,
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  you're in a whole nother situation,
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  a whole nother world that you're just not used to.
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  And getting over there or overcoming that becomes a challenge. It really does.
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  What it does to you mentally, physically even, it can destroy most people.
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  But if you muster up enough strength to say, listen,
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  these changes are for the better and I'm going
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  to move on and I'm going to go day by day and
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  hopefully i get through each and every day you will
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  i've seen it go from bad to
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  worse to better you know yeah and i think
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  that's how i like am at this like moment in my life is just like i'm in an okay
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  spot right now um but for a while there it was just like i felt so so defeated
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  and like every day it was like a struggle waking up and it was like what do
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  i do now how am i gonna to do this.
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  But I knew that, like, I always had that thing in the back of my head.
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  Like, I knew I was going to figure it out.
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  Fuck it. I'm going to figure it out. Like, it was literally,
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  that's what kind of kept me going, was you're going to figure it out.
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  And it's kind of made me reflect just from, like, October to now that going
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  through what I am going through in my life, it has affected me mentally.
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  It has affected me physically.
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  It has affected financially. Everything in my life is just completely...
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  Different and struggling still. I have good days. I have bad days.
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  But I think the most important thing for me is just like at the end of the day,
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  I know that the better is coming.
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  So it's okay to have a bad day. And I think from then, like I said,
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  from then to now, I've come a long way as like now things happen.
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  And I'm like, you know what?
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  I would have overreacted about that like like, a month ago, but now I'm just,
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  like, I'll figure it out.
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  Like, it goes on. What am I going to do? I'm going to sit and cry about it.
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  No, I'll cry about it because I'm pissed off, and then I'm going to do my shit
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  because I need to get it done.
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  And that's, like, a really, I know it sounds silly, but, like,
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  sometimes you have to kick yourself in the ass and say that.
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  Like, all right, you're going to cry about it. Cool.
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  Fucking cry about it, but then get your shit done. and that's
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  what i want to bring out from that like a
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  message from that quote is cool process it
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  but then take a step back and be like okay it's not
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  even that not not that serious i don't
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  want to say that but life goes on you're gonna
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  figure it out trust me trust me
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  yeah because mine was very chaotic right
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  and i know we discussed the last time um you
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  did a podcast with me that we
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  as a family have gone through the same things i mean we all you know it came
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  in different forms but yeah we mentally physically financially everything everything
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  changed scenery changed Places changed The way we live our lives now Changed
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  and it changed so rapidly.
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  But yeah I went through the struggle too Because I was just Everything was going on so quickly.
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  But Now that I'm here and now that I'm at this point Now and spring is starting
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  My whole mentality changed,
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  And I even woke up this morning And I said you know Looking back Going all the
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  way back a few months Like in October where I said, wow, that's gone. It's gone.
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  And then even looking at a couple, just even like last month with your mom's
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  car accident and everything.
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  That's gone. It's done. It's final. And I said, wow, yeah, this is exactly what we're doing.
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  We're moving ahead. Things figure, well, things work themselves out.
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  You have to put in some effort.
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  You know, that's the unfortunate thing. And there's a lot of work involved,
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  not just physical work, but mental work to get yourself prepared for this kind of stuff.
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  But life goes on. You continue and you start to realize nothing is permanent.
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  Everything is temporary and you'll soon figure it out.
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  I agree. um because that's all
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  like I know it sounds so cliche and I hate
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  when people say this to me but it will get
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  better and life does go on you know and the trick is
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  is just like you just have to train your mind it's just like like I said you
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  process it but you really have to train your mind just say like it life goes
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  on and it'll figure itself out you know like you said like it was a car accident
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  a month ago and we were all like oh my god like what are we gonna do what is
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  this doing And we, you know,
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  we did the shit, you know, I had to come and get my mom so she could watch my son.
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  And, you know, we had to go and find a new car.
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  And, you know, you have to figure out everything with the insurance and stuff.
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  But hey, it's done. And now it's in the past. And we moved on from it.
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  You know, life does go on.
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  And it's important to remember, like, in those heightened situations to take
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  that step back and be like, okay, it feels bad right now.
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  But in a month from now, I might just like shrug at it like,
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  oh, okay, you know, like, and I hate to say it. But like you.
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  That's just how I find how life works, you know, and I'm sometimes, don't get me wrong.
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  Sometimes I trip back and I'm like sobbing the whole day and I'm like, what is wrong with me?
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  Why am I having this worst day? But it's okay because situations are traumatic
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  and you hold on to trauma.
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  And, you know, as time goes on in your life, your trauma lessons and,
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  you know, you work through that trauma.
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  Oh, excuse me. but,
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  We go on. We do. We do. And look at where we are. You're back on the show.
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  I feel so great having you back. I do. And I know the audience does too as well.
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  I know a lot of people are waiting. Everybody misses you.
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  You know, eventually there's things you could talk about, you know,
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  come in the future. But right now I just want to focus on keeping us together
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  as far as the podcast goes.
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  A little bit shorter episodes right now, get you back into the swing of things.
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  But this feels so comfortable to me. right now it really does
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  this is just like the old days yeah we're not in the old studio you
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  know but we're here man yeah and we're
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  moving forward and that's what i am happy about uh
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  i've uh got some other things planned
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  like i'm gonna start doing a small series depending on availability um going
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  to mind's eye metaphysical and doing podcasts from jen's shop oh yeah uh this
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  way she could promote some stuff that she has going on and get a little bit
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  more background with the shop.
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  I'm looking forward to that. I am also going to, and I know spoke to both them,
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  Ann Lund and Sunset Child.
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  I want to make a trip up to New York, bring some recording equipment,
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  and the three of us get together to where I could hike with Ann Lund,
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  have her take me on some of her explorations.
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  And then I want to sit underneath the nighttime sky with Sunset Child to see what she sees.
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  And I'm looking forward to something like that. So, you know,
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  I've got, uh, I've already met, uh, Elaine from Arcane Oracle and there's just so many plans now.
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  I know I was going to try and cut back on some episodes, but I think now we're
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  moving forward and we're going to get things going.
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  So I want everybody to keep tuning in. things going to keep evolving and we
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  look forward to having everybody listen.
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  So don't forget, find us on eyeopenersociety.podbean.com. Follow us on Facebook
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  under Eye Opener Society.
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  And don't forget also check us out on YouTube because on YouTube,
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  neither do I have the video versions of most podcasts, but I also have,
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  I do solo shorts too as well.
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  Just little inspirational things, same way Hannah and I just did it,
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  where we get an inspirational quote and talk about it. And that's what I've been doing on there.
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  So check us out all across any platforms.
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  And again, iOpenerSociety.podbean.com.
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  Like us, follow us, do all that fun stuff for us. We appreciate it so much.
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  And Hannah and I will be seeing you soon. See ya.