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What Is “Real” Anymore? (Podcast) · The Providers Playbook Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you something.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: That picture is real and it is spectacular.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, my beautiful providers.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's Saturday.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Podcast time.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Turn me up or turn me off.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let's fucking go.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're at a point where we just can't trust a photo or a lifestyle or
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: a social media feed.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because software can fake just about anything.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: I've read about people renting jets,
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  SPEAKER_00: private jets and elite cars or lavish houses that can film content in,
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: showing a life they're not even living.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't have to tell you about the news that's selling us anger and division.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's posting all the wins and cutting every single ugly.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not above that.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: I've fallen for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the point that I want to emphasize on today's podcast.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let's control what we can control.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll start first.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to spend my free time feeling that I'm behind as a provider.
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  SPEAKER_00: My kids are behind as children.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not living our best life because I'm getting fed a curated life.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you that.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: My wife wants to throat punch me because I can be a dumbass.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've already talked about how I can lose some weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: My kids are not valedictorians or D1 athletes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We certainly aren't above cutting coupons.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not taking skiing trips in Aspen in July.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't have two homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: That shit is real and it's enough for us.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: But hey, if you want to still scroll...
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not taking your phone away.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just asking us as providers to lead our household that is something beyond a screen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I'm thinking about this week and what I mentioned in my written article,
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  SPEAKER_00: have a face-to-face meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sit down with somebody you care about or somebody you want to talk to.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sit down, have coffee, have a beer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sit down with somebody face-to-face.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if you have 50,000 followers on whatever platform,
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just asking you to find one person face-to-face.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't want to do that, a phone call will do.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Ideally, you'd like to do both, but call somebody.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: Don't text them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And hey, I love the text.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's efficient.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes you don't need to be efficient when we're talking about relationships here.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to go do this for sure.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: I have not read a newspaper in a while.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to go get one.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to get a coffee.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I believe that this is going to be something I won't regret.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll probably want to do going forward.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then lastly, And I do this a lot as well and I get so much benefit from it is get a book.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Read 10 pages on Sunday.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Let's take this shit old school and trust me, you'll thank me later.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's the update for the week.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know how I'm going to close this thing.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Get outside.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get some exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get some vitamin D. And...
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  SPEAKER_00: If you feel that there's a provider who could benefit from either the written
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  SPEAKER_00: or hearing this as well, help this thing grow.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: We're all going to win together.