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Introducing your host, Roxanne Derhodge · Authentic Living

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Welcome to authentic living with Roxanne on Global Voice Radio.
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Join Roxanne Derhodge and her thought provoking conversations, the catalyst to live your life
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to the fullest This is Denise Joy Thompson, CEO of Global Broadcasting, LLC, and Global Voice
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Radio.
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And today, it is my to have Roxanne Derhodge.
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1 of our global voice radio hosts, Roxanne Anne Hills from Ontario, Canada.
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So I'm so excited to have her as part of Global Voice Radio.
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And even though she's currently living in Canada.
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She is actually from Trinidad.
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So it's great to have this internet personal personality as part of global voice radio.
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And Roxanne has a very interesting and very career.
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Roxanne is a best selling officer.
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She is a relationship expert, a radio, talk show host, a therapist, coach, and founder of
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authentic voice publishing.
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And I'm very excited to have time to introduce Roxanne to all of her, listeners to the other
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host on Global Voice Radio, and I am definitely looking forward to hearing what Roxanne has to
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share with all of us on her show, authentic living with Roxanne.
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So Roxanne, welcome.
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I'm so excited for you to be here.
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I'm excited for our past conversations getting to know you And like I said, I am just blessed
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that you have said yes to being part of global voice radio.
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Well, thanks for having me, the opportunity just kind of unfolded, didn't it?
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When we were talking, because I thought we were just gonna talk about resilience, I believe.
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And, it just naturally led to you and I coming up with the idea that I should, join the your,
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your, conglomerative, conglomerative radio show.
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So I was very, very, very, very humble to be asked.
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And, I look I'm looking forward to the opportunity and, being able to, to really
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spread my word, about the things that are important to me in the world.
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So thank you so much, Denise.
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So a couple of things to start off our conversation, about you, about your journey,
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your business, and, of course, authentic living with Roxanne, your show on Global Voice Radio,
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Let's talk a little bit about you and and your journey in bringing you where you are today.
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Well, that's a that's an interesting thing now that I have to talk about.
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I really have to think about it, but, you know, I often say that, My little brain kind of came
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up of the idea of helping when I was about 11.
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I, I grew up in, turned on to Bagel, like you had said, a little Caribbean Islands, and I
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went to an old girl's school, and which I loved.
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It really helps, you know, in retrospect, I look back and I see the significance that, that
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having, that camaraderie and that connection really impacted my life.
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Because at that point, there was, some uncertainty at home with my parents' marriage.
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There was, unfortunately, unfortunately, a bit of violence since, you know, things had, 5
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siblings and, you know, my parents, you know, did the best they could, but what I found is
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that at that point, I needed somebody to talk to.
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But guess what?
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You know, what, where does an eleven year old go?
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I mean, I think they had counselors, but I don't even really remember talking to anybody.
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So I felt the need to really share with my friends, and we would do that on lunchtime, but
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what I start to realize is that not only did I feel better, but I also could offer that error
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to my friends, and they felt better.
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And I kinda, like, started to really find an affinity to sharing and also listening and
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helping.
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And, then I thought, I wonder if I can do this for a living, you know, at, you know, eleven,
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twelve years old.
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Not really realizing that it was something that I could do, but as I went on and, really
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focused in on psychology, I realized, wow, I'm, I can, I can help people So that's where the
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birth of, of becoming a psychotherapist really started when I was eleven or twelve years old?
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You know, one of the things that was so interesting about us connecting is the
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similarities in our backgrounds.
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And how we started off as therapists, clinicians, and then as our professional life
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evolved, we are where we are today.
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But so tell me a little bit about how you came to Canada?
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Well, you know, what the reality was that, my parents say and I'm I'm so grateful, and I
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think one of the, inserts that I wrote for, your, your new book.
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On gratitude is I, they recognize the value of knowledge and education in the world.
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So they, they, they both themselves hadn't had the privilege of going on to school and really
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wanted to educate all of their children.
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So what happened was, you know, at, at a quite a young age, they thought, well, we're gonna
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send them all the way to school.
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There was one university on the island and you know, they wanted other options, so they sent
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us all the way to Canada to go to school at that point.
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And that's kind of how I ended up in Canada, at that time.
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And went to University of Toronto, did a criminal, criminology and psychology degree,
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and then moved on and did my grad school in accounts sling where I just, you know, I, I did
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have a job out of, my undergrad, but what I realized as I was getting kind of bored, I
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actually was in business with my partner at the time.
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And I was good at it, but I was kinda like, is this all there is?
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Cause I was twenty one with my first degree.
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And then I started grad school, and what had started to happen is I realized, while my
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passion really is people.
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Not that you don't get it in, in business, but I wasn't getting the same kind of feeding of my
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soul that I really started to get when I went back to grad school.
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And that's where I said, oh, you know, business is all well and good.
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However, my passion is ready to help others.
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And, going on to be, you know, a therapist that's specialized in, and marriage and family
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therapy.
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And then I kind of took the root that a lot of therapists do I ended, I started in trauma
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frontline with the police, at 21, you know, I thought, what, you know, what, what am I doing?
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But like, wow.
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A place to start.
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And boy, did I ever figure out, what I was wired to do?
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And I had the certain elements that made it, made me capable of seeing some things that were
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really, difficult, but being able to cope and and be able to help.
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So that's, that was kind of my forage in.
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And then kind of went from situation to situation like you where I ended up in
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corporate consulting because, you know, I wanted, I wanted to try everything in the
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field, right?
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I taught I was in trauma, I was a family therapist, and all those things.
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And then the corporate consulting opened my eyes where and I went on to work with 1 of the
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biggest corporate consulting firms in Canada, where I manage up to 40, 50 companies, with
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different sectors And then, you know, kind of after that evolution, decided to go out on my
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own and start my own consulting business where the, where the book kind of, birthed that whole
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idea and here we are today talking to each other about speaking and consulting and
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coaching.
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But one thing that we could never have imagined the path that we have had I mean, you grew up
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in Trinidad, an island in the Caribbean.
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I grew up in a small town in Iowa You know, here we are, talking Internationally, right,
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Canada to Texas.
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Right.
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Talking about sharing our voice, sharing our messages globally on global voice radio, We
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never would have imagined that.
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And I one of the things I see as being able to do is to show other women and men that there
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really is no one way.
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There is really nothing to stop anyone from creating a life even though we didn't know what
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we wanted to create.
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I mean, I think both of us love our lives now, and we were so excited about what is going on
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in our lives.
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We are modeling for others because we came from situations that were common, right?
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I wasn't born with a lot of money.
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I've worked.
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You have worked.
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We have achieved And that's one thing with sharing our message.
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We help others to achieve also.
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And I think that's so, so important because I often said, you know, that little girl, that
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felt alone, that wanted help.
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Is real and so so relatable to so many children in the world, that they don't know where to
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reach out.
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And I think being able to share, I think what when you see someone like myself or yourself
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when I'm on stage and the perception is like you've never been through anything.
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And I think that's what, the whole idea of a therapist inside Cider's guide my book was
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based on because what I intuitively did is, I analyzed my own life.
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So I thought, here we are, right?
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Like, know, people see you and they perceive that, that there's nothing.
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You know, how did you get there?
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Not recognizing that it's been a journey.
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It's been great, but I've had my potholes also.
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And to really, I want the average person that self delves themselves that have had stuff
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happen, whether a man, woman, or child, to be able to say, I have a goal or I have a dream,
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and I can achieve it regardless of where I came from.
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I am not what I was exposed to, And then things that can be done to be able to build that
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internal muscle to be able to achieve the things in life, you just have to figure out you
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know, what are the anchors along the way that I need to hold on to, because they're always
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there to be able to help you, help you along.
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And I know I had immense help along the way.
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And I'm always looking too for others to be able to help them along.
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So hopefully, you know, in my show, but also all the other shows on, on, on your network
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will allow people to recognize that anything is possible.
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Really anything is possible, And, but you just really have to break it down.
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You gotta get around really good people, and you gotta stay connected because you know,
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those kind of, you know, crazy monkeys in the brain exist in all our lives, but what to do
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with it to be able to quiet your mind, that really becomes,
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Right.
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One of the things that came to mind as you were talking and you you talked about having people
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around you staying connected and we need to ask for support and ask for what we need and what
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we want Now maybe the person we're talking to isn't able to give that to us.
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There could be a referral out of that.
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Or we then learn, okay, that avenue is not as helpful as I thought for whatever reason.
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Mhmm.
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I can now go to the next avenue.
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I can now go to the next person.
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And oftentimes, and I think we see this more in women than in men, we are not asking for that.
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What the support or the referrals or the mentoring or sometimes we are not willing to
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spend money for the professional guidance in mentoring and coaching to help us along.
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And absolutely.
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And what we know, obviously, in the field is that when we're down, our instinct is to kinda
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shy away, right?
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We wanna close down.
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We wanna text, but really what resilience is about is about opening up.
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It's about you're recognizing that none of us can do it alone.
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And, you know, I'm sure there's people out there saying, well, you know, lucky for you,
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you've always had someone.
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And when I tell my story when I was that young, even though I was around people, I didn't get
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what I needed without asking.
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So whether it's talking to a friend or, reaching out to a colleague or those types of
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things.
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So it's, it's, it's the power of learning to use that voice, which is the concept of of
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your, your network in my show because what happens is, you know, I'll give you an example,
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you know, just recently I was, you know, thinking about doing a lot more speaking.
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And I thought, you know, who am I gonna talk to?
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So I picked one of the biggest, speakers that I could find.
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And he was, you know, a friend of a friend, so indirectly, and I reached out.
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And this man lives in in England.
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He took the time you took an hour of his time to be able to sit with me across the pond and
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share his wisdom of 25 years of being in the in the world, in the world of speaking.
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So what I recognize is it's like once you get, you know, it's it's difficult at first, right?
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Cause you think, you know, who am I?
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Who's gonna take the time?
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But there's so many people in the world.
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That are see the world as being abundant.
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There's so much for all of us.
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There's that and some.
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And when you actually, you know, find the nerve to say, you know, I've I've seen you, I've seen
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what you've done.
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Wow.
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I'm inspired.
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Would you mind?
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What you'll generally find is four times out of 5, those people will take the time.
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And before you know it, you've kind of met someone new, And then, you know, that opens up
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a whole other door to other possibilities that you weren't even thinking about when you
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started to ask for the assistance in the first place.
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So that's kind of what's happening with my career.
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It's kinda, if I thought that was something I thought, wow, I wonder if I can do that.
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And then I connected to someone, and then they said, of course, you can do that.
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I've been doing it for years.
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So I think it's that connection and that natural ability to recognize that the more that
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I reach out in whatever capacity, it gets easier.
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And you actually find the right people to surround yourself within the world.
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I think of the people that I'm around in the world now based on what all the changes that
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I've made in my life in the last 7 years.
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And that's what I dreamt about.
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That's what I visualized.
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I dreamt about myself speaking internationally.
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I dreamt about being able to get on stage, you know, with the people like Les Brown's of the
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world.
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I dream- I dreamt about being able to help the average person and things I hadn't done before,
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you know, before I, I thought about it in my brain.
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So there's the elements of connection, but there's there's also the elements of you know,
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telling yourself that this is possible and taking the steps.
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Small, daily, important steps that make things happen.
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You know, I think one of the things that was sort of useful is the fact of taking those
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small steps.
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We don't wanna be overwhelmed by looking at the whole picture or thinking, well, how many years
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would that take me to accomplish that and the goal?
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Because we can start today putting pieces of the puzzle together.
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We Exactly.
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When we create a puzzle, we put it together piece by piece.
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We put together the foundational parts of the puzzle the foundational steps of our life to
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achieve what that end goal may be.
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And every step we take is part of our achievement and is part of building us to where
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we want to be.
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So, Roxanne, talk a little bit about your decision to write your book in that process.
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Well, what happened is I was always doing a lot.
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You know, And sometimes that could be, a good and a bad thing.
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So there's always a, you know, a yin and a yang.
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So at the time I, at a young son.
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He was, that time, he was 8.
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There had been concerns in my marriage, I would say, I would say about 7 years or 9 years in,
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you know, kind of getting pregnant with him, but my ex and I were kinda tried to work things
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out.
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It was not so good.
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I was selling at my, my corporate consulting situation.
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I had great friendships, I had great family relations.
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Life was pretty good, but there was one gaping hole that I kinda tried to figure out, you
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know, how can I make the changes?
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But what started to happen was that there's a couple of significant things that happened.
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Things were tough at home.
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My son was a, a complete blessing.
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But then, obviously, the pressures of being parents and, and being married, that was
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waning.
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I was, you know, in Toronto one day and, I was walking out of a corporate meeting.
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I got knocked out by a complete stranger.
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I mean, physically knocked out.
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Okay.
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And I often say is, you know, if there are angels, I think that angel may have been a dark
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angel, but that catapulted changes in my life that has never stopped changing from that day.
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So that happened, and I physically had to, you know, my, my jaw had to be realigned, those
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steps.
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The concern is it was not somebody I knew, it was just somebody that was not well.
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And in my kind of slowing down, physically and starting to really kind of look at what was
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happening home, it really started to make me recognize I needed to do something differently.
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Couple months later, I law, my I got a severance package from my corporate consulting
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job, which was a big thing.
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So then finance started to slow down in even more, and then I started to listen more about
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what I needed to do to make changes in my life.
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And then I left, my marriage.
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I had said, you know, I can't do this anymore.
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There had been a separation of reconciliation, but I think I recognized that the it was
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actually getting worse.
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It wasn't getting better.
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But going through those that process, what I did is I often tend to compensate it on all the
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other positive thing areas in my life, and I was kind of defocusing on the one area that I
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should have been focusing on.
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So in slowing down, that's what happened.
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I wrote about it.
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When people go, well, you know, most people kinda, you know, fall up in a ball and they,
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you know, don't see.
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I said, well, I, intuitively, because I'm a connector, I connected with people.
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And then I thought, okay, well, now I don't have a job.
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My marriage has ended.
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Okay.
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So I gotta do something, and then I was also hurting, obviously, after I've been with my
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partner since I was 18, and I was at that time, 44.
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My life was, guess what, met him?
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It it was changed, and I just had to catch, kinda catch up with what what I was gonna do.
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So I started to write about it, and I then kind of the idea of, why don't you just write it
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from the perspective of, of a psychotherapist, that have seen relationships from the front
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line all the way up to CEOs, but I changed where I analyzed my own life like I was the
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patient.
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And you can see at the cover of the book, there's a picture of me, but there's also a
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picture of someone, the back of someone's head.
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That's actually me.
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So I wanted to show people that, you know what?
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I've been through things, and even I had a blind spot.
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So what I want what I did is I analyzed all relationships, and I came up with what I call a
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blueprints.
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Where you can look at every area of your life and the areas that aren't working for you,
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there's, steps where you can actually create changes by exercises and things that I have you
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explore.
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And that's kind of what happened.
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It kind of started to be a diary, and then it ended up into a book, and then kind of that's
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how this, you know, my consulting business started.
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You know, one in front Roxanne that's divided is authentic.
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Looking at your life.
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And oftentimes, as therapists and coaches, that's difficult for us to do of all, we don't
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really want to admit that we have problems.
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We have
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a train to help everybody else.
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And sometimes we're like, well, wait a minute.
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I have all his knowledge.
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I know I shouldn't be angry or I shouldn't be depressed because I can do these exercises but
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we're human and you've allowed in your book, therapists, coaches, doctors, nurses, anyone,
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but sometimes we put up barriers or we create the idea that we are stronger than anybody
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else.
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To acknowledge that we are the same as anyone else.
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We might know more tips and tricks to get out of negative emotions, but that doesn't mean
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that we don't have that.
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Absolutely.
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And I think My example in the book is that I am openly honest.
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So, in every exercise, I actually worked through every exercise where I tell people what
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I was thinking or feeling of going through emotionally, and, you know, and then engage
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them.
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So really, to some degree, said, you know what?
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Here I am.
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If you would have seen me and not know me, there is no way in heck you would have known I
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was going through any of these things.
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So that element of we, I am a better coach, and help her know because I was real with myself.
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So the depth that I'm able to get to with people to allow them to create the changes has
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been go has gotten to a even more profound level.
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And we are people first.
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Yes.
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We have you know, lots of, you know, credentials behind her names, but at the end of
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the day, I wanted people to look at me and say, wow, If she can go through this and she can
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make the changes, you know, why can't I?
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Because we all can.
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You know, as we know, every neuron can be changed based on pathways that are in our
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brain.
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So gone are the days where we believe that You know, I'm done by the time I'm 6, we now
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recognize till the day till the day we die that, you know, those pathways in our brains
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that fire together, wired together.
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So what, what a great time to be doing the things that we're doing in the world, because
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you know, someone that is maybe going through something tough that sees no way out, if they
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can connect, like you said, if they don't have it around them reach out.
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There's always someone in the world that will take that time, that allows us to, to, to feel
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connected again, regardless of what's happening in their lives.
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Right.
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One of the things that you just mentioned about creating new neural pathways is in some ways
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the premise of live in gratitude daily, and you are now a contributing co author to the book
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Because it talks about our mindset.
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It talks about creating the mindset and lifestyle of gratitude, which affect all of our
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body.
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So we can change from seeing lack seeing competition, seeing the glass empty or half
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full, to understanding that there can be a lesson growth, gratitude, learning, and
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appreciation, and thankfulness for everything in our life.
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And not that it occurs, the very moment something happens.
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I mean, we're gonna we're gonna go through all of those other human emotions But at a certain
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point, by creating an understanding of gratitude and how quickly we can switch our
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thoughts to gratitude.
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We're creating those new pathways in our brain, which affects our thoughts and our mind so that
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we are more positive and gratitude has shown to be helpful with resiliency.
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Absolutely.
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Because at any I mean, I often say to people, you know, I just saw a patient now, and I said,
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we're gonna get triggered till the day we die.
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Right?
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Because a lot of people say, tell me how not to be stressed.
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And I go, alright, you wanna get up you wanna get out of bed tomorrow, don't you?
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I said, because we all need to get out have something to get up for.
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But we are going to be triggered.
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And we are negative emotions are always gonna be.
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Negative thoughts are always gonna be there.
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But it's kinda like, where's the energy going?
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If you get repel back into something that's tough, sit with it, learn the skills to deal
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with it, And then it you don't have to spend as as long.
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And every time you're able to come back a little bit quicker, that means you've adjusted
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your brain.
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Every time you sit in it, you reinforce it, but every time you pop out of it and do something,
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now the brain and the body has a different experience.
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It goes, woah.
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I think I like this better, and then we might more than likely go to that.
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So that whole element of gratitude, you know, even I just, released a new edition of my book,
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And I wrote the, and and I've blog, and I what I talked about, it was all everything that I've
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been grateful for.
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Like even, you know, my separation in the 25 years with my ex, you know, I looked at all the
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positive things.
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I went through a loss.
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I lost my youngest sister last year, and that was the toughest year of my life last year.
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And even in that, you know, I, I looked at, you know, the love the things that I learned, all
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the people that were around me, all those things, toughest year of my life, but still,
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You know, there were so many things that, and, and even, even in loss, now it makes me
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recognize even more why I should not lose a moment.
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Worrying about little things, because, unfortunately, life will still bring us those
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big things where we need, you know, we need that worry muscle and, you know, we can't, we
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need to honor it.
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So I think it's, it's like anything else.
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The more grateful you are, you, you focus on a different plane.
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And, yes, things will happen.
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But at the end of the day, it makes life, you know, that much more, beautiful.
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And it is beautiful.
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Yes.
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There are bad things.
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Yes.
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There will continue to be things that will happen.
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But when you focus on abundance and what we see from something bigger than us, aren't we lucky?
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You know, so I think I've, you know, in the last year, even more so, it showed me the
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importance of that.
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So for everybody, the reason that we're talking today is that you are now a host with Global
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Voice Radio.
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Your show is titled Authentic Living with Roxanne.
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And so I would love for you to share sort of the the mission of your show and some of the
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things that you're going to share with your listeners and talk about.
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And I know that there's probably some tips that you're going to share definitely from your
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years of experience, your book, the things that you're doing in your coaching business.
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Talk a little bit about that.
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Well, I think going back to that whole element of authenticity, what I hope with, my show will
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be able to achieve is to I hope to have guests on there that have really had a path where
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they're gonna share their journey.
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And if they've been disconnected, I want them to tell you how, what they did to get
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reconnected, and what strategies did they do on an ongoing basis to be able to stay connected,
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you know.
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And, I met phenomenal people along this path in my, since writing my book and speaking, And
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what I hope is that what whoever I have on there will be able to teach me something and
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also you because there's always something to learn about being authentic.
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I often say this is my way I think of it as we come in the world, authentic if you think of
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newborn babies.
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And what happens is as we go along, we get pricked and prouted, and that authenticity
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almost gets hidden or shrouded.
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And the, you know, like they talk about, you know, a butterfly metamorphicizing, it's the
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most difficult thing to go through, but it's so powerful at the end, and those are the people
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that I hope to, have the privilege of having on my show so that they can they can share their
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expertise, you know, whether they've been through, a sickness or whether they, teach
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people how to speak or whether they are coaches in different arenas, these are the people that
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are actually living, you know, walking the walk, talking the talk, and, but living
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authentic lives.
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So I'm, I, for me to be able to have someone on, they have to have something that has really
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resonated with me that I think it's gonna be a benefit to my audience.
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So that's weekly, that's what I hope to be able to achieve with, with my audience.
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One of the things that is so important for us as human beings is to be able to get back in
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touch with our inner self getting in touch with that authentic self, and it is difficult.
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And it emotional, and it can be painful because we're letting go of a lot of things that are
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comfortable, and we have learned to live with, and we sort of carry as a shield.
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And so as you talked about the butterfly in some ways, we have to let go of a lot of stuff,
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a lot of, stories, when we come out that our heart, our soul, our spirit, is free.
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Absolutely.
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And I think that's the power once you've been through adversity.
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Right, I often say you can go left or right.
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And if we look at the world, unfortunately, with what how people are coping, Some people
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are really people are trying to find solutions, but they may not recognize that the solutions,
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even if it may be a temporary solution initially, that it's maybe, you know, sending
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them down a rabbit hole.
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So my hope is that, you know, people that are struggling, whether they're, you know, doing
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drugs or they're, you know, they're involved with the law, or they they're in, abusive
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relationships or, been through trauma.
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That they recognize that once they are able to learn those steps to be able to get
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reconnected, and don't let themselves be defined, but why, why, what they've been
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through or what they've done to, to connect to that core deep, deep, profound level within
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themselves, anything is possible.
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Is it painful?
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Absolutely.
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I'm gonna tell you I got you a ton of pain in the last 7 years, even more pain in the last
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year.
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But what I recognize is that I, I honor it, I bear it, and then I let it go.
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And that's something because most of us learn in our society, more so in the west than in the
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east, to bat it away.
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And what happens is that just grows it.
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And with, with authentic, living with Roxanne what I hope to do is to, you know, have people
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on that will talk to us about once and have embraced the pain.
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Work through it.
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I gotta tell you when when they failed also, because we want we wanna hear about the real
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stories.
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And I think the platform that you've created, Denise, is a phenomenal one to allow people to,
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if they've never felt that they've had a voice, to know that there's a way to connect with it
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because we all have a voice.
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So that's that's what I hope people will get out of my show.
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And hearing your expert tips and also the the lives and tips from your guests.
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And I wanna make sure that people know how to contact you.
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So can you share, your contact information?
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Absolutely.
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So my website is, roxanderhogs.com.
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That's Roxanne derhode.com.
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You can just go to the site.
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You can Google me.
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I will come up based on where you are in the world, I do have a toll free number, which is
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833 929-0131.
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So, you know, or send me an email, you know, which my email is just
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roxanne@broxanneverhogs.com.
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What I try to do is to get back to people in a relatively within a 24 hour period.
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Based on what's going on in my day.
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And I wanna hear your feedback.
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This is a new experience for me.
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I have been, doing podcasts for a while, but I want I want you involved.
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I want you to tell me what you really think.
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I want you to tell me what it, you know, if if you didn't like something.
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Because I wanna know how do I meet the needs of the people that are listening?
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Cause I want you to come back and listen, so hopefully you'll reach out and you know, give
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me a wave on Facebook or, send me a message.
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If something inspired you, or if there's a target that comes up and you say, Hey, you know
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what?
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I'd like to hear about X Y Z.
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I know a lot of birch in the world, and I can probably source out someone, if I don't know
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someone to come on my show.
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So those are the things that I'd really like, people to do once they once my show begins.
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So Sue can come across Anne, through her website, through her Facebook page and also
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connect with Rockcan on the global voice radio page and definitely join our Global Voice Radio
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Facebook group because we want to have conversations with our listeners and have them
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know the hosts, right?
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So you'll be able to listen to the shows and comment, ask questions, So we definitely want
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communication with all of our listeners.
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And Roxanne your book, is available on amazon.com.
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Is that correct?
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Correct.
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Yes.
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And also, if you connect it through my website, you can also get a copy, either electronic or
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if you wanted, an actual hard copy, that's possible too.
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So definitely, connect with Roxanne.
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If you have any questions or comments for her.
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Join Global Voice Radio, Facebook group, meet our other host.
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Listen to shows, communicate with us, and I am just excited how we are ending 2017 and how we
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are looking for to 2018 and sharing voices, sharing messages, and creating impact
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throughout the world.
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So Roxanne, thank you so much.
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Again, for joining Global Moist Radio.
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Thank you for your time today.
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And I look forward to all of the future endeavors and adventures that we're going to
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have.
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Thank you.
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So grateful, Denise, so very grateful.
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And, well, I'm excited, for the opportunity.
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And I think there's gonna 2018 is gonna be the year.
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I can feel it.
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Yeah.
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So thank you very much.
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And I know that we'll be, talking again soon.
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Join authentic living with Roxanne every Thursday, 11 AM Eastern on Global Voice Radio.