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Karen Glasser here and welcome to this
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episode of the passion point this is the
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show where we follow passion East is all
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around the world who are really making a
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difference in the world that we live in
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and today I'm really excited about our
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special guest her name is Laurie Raymond
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is a multi best-selling author and book
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startup and messenger mentor and she is
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the founder and chief inspire Raider
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greater inspirator women as visionaries
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that seeks to empower women whose
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spiritual inspiration and information
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welcome to the show Laurie how are you
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today happy happy to be we are so
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delighted that you're here today we've
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got a really great show and I just want
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to just right out the gate I want to ask
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you what is your definition of passion
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Oh Karen stop eat your meal kidding well
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we're getting a little how do you cut
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out a little bit so we're gonna go do
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the thing that I told you to do go ahead
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and refresh yourself and as you're
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refreshing yourself and coming back in I
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will talk to our audience and then we'll
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bring you back in so go ahead and
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refresh yourself we're having some
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technical difficulties right now oh okay
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so what's really amazing about Laurie is
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she's got this really great group on on
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Facebook I'm a member and I think a lot
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of you may also be members
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it's her her her women is visionaries
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and it's really awesome what she does
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she has a lot of amazing women that come
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in and they speak to one another and
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they they talk about their projects and
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she's she's an amazing author she's an
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amazing coach and mentor for people that
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want to write which is one of the things
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and one of one of the reasons that I'm
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so attracted and actually Laurie
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resonates so well with me is because of
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what she does and how she helps other
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people and so we're going to be talking
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a little bit about what she does I think
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we even have another special guest that
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we're going to bring in as well
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and we're going to be talking about what
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Lori does and what things are coming up
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on the horizon so that maybe you can
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even share in the look we have a couple
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people that are on if you're here on
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replay we're delighted that you're here
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on replay make sure that you put
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comments down below because the
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conversation continues over and over and
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over long after we've gone so whether
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you're live or on replay go ahead and
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put your comments there and we've got
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Lori back in the show Lori welcome back
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hello hello I'm so happy to be here
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we're delighted you're here too so what
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is your definition of passion well I'm
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gonna borrow from Oprah and that her
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answer and it's my answer is that
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passion is energy and you feel the power
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that comes from focusing on what excites
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you and what excites me that's helping
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everyone but especially women rediscover
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or discover the pattern
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translating their opera ending or
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creative projects and the question I
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have for people is to think the word
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passion has two syllables right right
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two syllables I want you to break it
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into the three syllables again I am a
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writer so that if you break these
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syllables to this pass on question then
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is is what do I want to test life it's
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an i it's about sharing ideas about how
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is here hopefully this is going to
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straighten out right now that I never
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heard passion actually explained that
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way I'm going to go ahead and we're
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going to move on into the show right now
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we're going to tell you I would like you
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to tell me a little bit about your
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what's your journey how did you get to
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where you are today oh my I think that
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I'm a forever student teacher that
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started as an elementary school teacher
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in Selma Alabama bartenders because of
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the digital age it's that teaching and
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that learning what I am passionate about
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which goes back which is about people
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discovering their passions but
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translating that authentic voice through
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writing and creative projects and my
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writing career goes back to when I was
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seven years old and I really have a I
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wrote something like two dozen people
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every Saturday family and friends for
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years and that's really where my writing
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career began that's wonderful and so
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let's fast-forward to today and what
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you're doing today with the women as
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visionaries and and the things that
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you're doing and especially something
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that's coming up in the future
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yes well right now it's really exciting
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that I'm birthing if you would 3d cream
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up monthly right thing gathering and we
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just love it here it at the historic
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Peninsula in amazing writing region of
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October and event they'll listen online
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course is starting this fall so you can
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see it's writing writing and more and
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more writing so what would you say needs
5:45
to recharge their creativity and why is
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it such a need I mean why do why do you
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talk about stuff like that I think right
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now if you just are aware of what's
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going on in the world we just been
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Steff full thunder moon it has a lot of
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other names we've got a name he's your
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soul August 21st whether you're aware or
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not the last time it's the it's the last
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time it'll happen for three hundred
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years we also have something called
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Mercury retrograde happening and then
6:17
we've got dog days of summer so nobody
6:20
knows anything about in astrology you're
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feeling what a friend of mine Carey
6:26
Price called summer brain just don't
6:31
have energy but how do you get that
6:32
energy for these final months with your
6:35
business and your personal projects so
6:37
that you can finish the you can finish
6:40
strong for 2017 and have the energy to
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plan for 2,000 so everyone is very busy
6:48
and today showing the jet stream some
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cool ideas that you can align with these
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energies and shift and not let the
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swirling tsunami of busy I mean I heard
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somebody say today oh I'm so busy and
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I'm like who isn't busy I think we
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should just have busy our foreheads I so
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we're gonna ask our viewers so you know
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what as this conversation is going on if
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you're busy if you think you're busy
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tell us what you're busy with and listen
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to some of the suggestions that we're
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gonna hear right now from Lori as to how
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to better align right with August energy
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tell us some ideas well I want everybody
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to grab their paper and their pen
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because we are gonna give you some cool
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ideas and how you'll walk away with at
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least one really cool idea that you can
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implement tonight and then another one
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tomorrow so I wanted to tell you a story
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and that is is that this very
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interesting I guess you can see it this
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very interesting called life and light
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flash light showed up yesterday yeah it
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so what I discovered is is that that
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became a metaphor for what I wanted to
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share with people tonight to recharge
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their creativity mm-hmm idea is just to
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look around for the orange metaphor
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those analogies that will recharge your
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creativity and what a cool idea is them
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that secures the characteristics of this
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ordinate or this metaphor and I'm gonna
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give you some examples
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so the second cool idea after just using
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ordinary metaphors that she didn't know
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that this was going to happen and it was
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just so cool is that some of the cool
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features of this flashlight it's called
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a seat belt cutter blade it's right here
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so if you're in a car you can cut the
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strap and it can release you so you
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definitely want one of these in your car
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or home Oh interesting
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yeah the cool it yeah just goes right in
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here I'm not gonna demonstrate them my
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finger and my image mister folks is the
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answer what's holding you back what seat
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belt do you have strapped on that's got
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you stuck and you know once you define
9:20
where where you're stuck or who's then
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you can cut that seatbelt and you can
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move on so what a cool cool feature very
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cool cool idea number yeah well like
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other cool idea is that here on the tip
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of it there are four high-powered
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magnets that you can then mount this to
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the trunk of your car so my invitation
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is for you the cool idea is to find four
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friends five would be better that you
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part of a creative mastermind an editing
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team a full or just a creative brain
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trust I'm finding that as I reach out
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and I'm vulnerable and I say so what do
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you think about I'm getting amazing
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for that other cool idea and if anybody
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has a mastermind group or a creative
10:20
group like that that would be great to
10:21
hear I think that the idea is awesome
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yeah that's the fifth idea that this was
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the magnet and now we're going to look
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at I hope you can see it can you see it
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you got to rave it a little higher okay
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is that there is a there's a compass and
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so my cool idea for recharging your
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creativity is to stay true to your ideas
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and your messages and your branding
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shift do you think that the masses want
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or you went on a call like this and you
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change everything and I'm reminded Karen
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of Stephen Covey who wrote the mega
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bestseller seven Habits of Highly
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Effective People what at my favorite
11:10
book talked about yeah he talks about
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staying true to your North Star and so
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why he says that is that changes its
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position in the night sky so that is
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your mood thing to your writing and your
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creative projects and you've got your
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stay true like the North Star and let
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your inner compass of intuition those
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whispers that come to you guide you if
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you and then the final cool idea is that
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this guy this I can see yet not yet
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raise it a little higher there you go
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okay I'm I'm not ready for cutie so what
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is that exactly what what this is what
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the crate there are three batteries in
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this this is called a batter of a power
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generated crank dynamo no adapter needed
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so once you in here you can recharge
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your battery so for me I live in Florida
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I've got hurricanes and storms I don't
12:21
have to worry out worry about it and it
12:22
is something like 10,000 hours just on
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the battery but I can wreak rank it is
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for you to think about you've got this
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these inner batteries they're always
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and you can do what I just did which is
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to reach your charge them and it will
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call like this but what I love the
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message about this this hand-crank
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generator is for you to do this
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so yes trust as you said your your inner
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oh don't sticks cool ideas that I hope
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people they really thought wow this is a
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not to mention buying this battery
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called again live and light something I
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went ahead and bought two I bought one
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I've got one in my bedroom and one in my
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car I'm gonna go get one as soon as
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we're done off the show I'm gonna go get
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one that is way cool so Lori I'm gonna
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ask our viewers to you know listen you
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just gave us six really great ways and
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ideas and tips on on what we can do if
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we have I'm saying it's not the video is
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not playing for will there be a replay
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hmm Carol you might want to refresh your
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screen because I appeared that we're
13:49
live and I see we have four people on so
13:51
I'm not sure what that is so go ahead
13:53
and refresh your screen and if you're
13:55
listening right now or even on replay
13:57
how was which one of those ideas
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resonate with you and put them in the
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comments so that we can have a sense of
14:04
what the community is thinking right now
14:06
now I know that you have an event coming
14:08
up tell us what the name of the vent is
14:10
and then I we have a special guest that
14:12
we're gonna bring in as well what is the
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name of the event yes yes absolutely yes
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if you like just some of these ideas
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about reaching your creativity and I
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passion enough to join me in 24 other
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writing sisters for the Gulf port
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writing retreat the tagline is renew
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your body and creative soul it's October
14:35
29th through November 3rd being
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waterfront town that borders st.
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Petersburg and we're going to be at the
14:43
historic Peninsula in mm-hm and she is
14:50
young imagine a a flat ow water for a
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hundred and twenty-five years and oh by
14:59
the way first name isn't will inspire
15:03
our writing it sounds inmate what can so
15:06
what can our creative listeners expect
15:09
if they come to this event what can they
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expect I'm just a retreat and lots of
15:16
times okay Laurie you're cutting out
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right now don't you were we are getting
15:27
some really bad interference right now
15:28
so I'm gonna ask you to refresh yourself
15:30
and I'm going to actually introduce one
15:33
of your special speakers that is going
15:36
to be joining you on the on the retreat
15:38
so if you refresh yourself I'm gonna
15:40
bring in Karen true Hahn and as I drop
15:44
you out and I'm gonna drink Karen in and
15:48
she's coming in right now
15:50
Karen true Han is a thetahealing and how
15:55
you doing Karen she's a same healing
15:57
instructor and we'll be doing a two hour
16:00
workshop up your creative soul learn to
16:03
ride the wave of possibilities with
16:06
thetahealing and you live also on the
16:08
east coast of Florida so I have a
16:09
question for you right off the bat what
16:11
the heck has stayed a healing well thank
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you thank you for having me I'm excited
16:16
to be here and share in this forum
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static healing is a killing meditative
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technique that accesses a theta
16:27
brainwave so if as we're having our
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daily thoughts in our brains that the
16:34
constant chatter is a beta brainwave
16:37
alpha is usually in yoga or Reiki energy
16:43
a meditative state theta brainwave is
16:48
normally in a deep sleep in your dream
16:50
state or in hypnosis and so what it what
16:58
attracted you to becoming a practitioner
17:02
in this particular kind of healing what
17:04
you well with my background as a
17:07
registered nurse and then went into the
17:08
holistic do Reiki and other modalities
17:13
and meditation the thing about
17:14
thetahealing is they have first premises
17:19
to have an a belief in a higher source
17:22
so whether you call it Buddha universe
17:24
but for me the attraction was this has
17:27
to do with your limiting subconscious
17:30
beliefs so every experience that we've
17:34
had in our life and even when we were
17:37
before we were born and gestating is
17:40
held in our DNA so what are like one or
17:45
two key benefits that someone's going to
17:48
expect when they come to this particular
17:49
session that you're going to lead so for
17:54
the creative they may have some blocks
17:57
that why am I not writing why I do not
18:01
have time to put my thoughts down am i
18:04
too concerned about what other people
18:07
think about what I'm writing that able
18:10
to with data healing in that session we
18:15
can muscle test if you really believe I
18:19
can be successful in writing people want
18:23
to hear my voice or might read my words
18:25
I know for me personally when years ago
18:28
and I was recording a video I mean a
18:34
meditation that there was always a block
18:36
when it was time to record it and so in
18:40
thetahealing you go up to the creator
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and ask what is that about for that
18:44
person what's that block that they have
18:46
and I had a belief that no one wanted to
18:49
hear my voice oh right and so there's a
18:55
way to show the writer the creative soul
18:59
muscle test them to see that they have
19:03
this belief because someone might say oh
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I don't really have that right it's
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really only 10% of what's going on with
19:10
us it's conscious 90% is subconscious
19:12
right but below below the surface yes so
19:17
I asked or as a practitioner witness the
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belief of no one wants to hear my voice
19:26
leaving my cells of my body and you have
19:29
to witness it however that is and then
19:31
have almost like a download that I know
19:34
that people want to hear my voice right
19:38
my voice so I feel what the writers
19:42
different people have different blocks
19:44
and that we can clear those you know and
19:48
have them feel you know in their entire
19:51
being and that's right you know that has
19:55
people you know they should trust their
19:57
inner intuition they're a true person
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they're true authentic self so I'm
20:02
hoping to share that and inspire and
20:05
increase their creativity and be able to
20:08
do that successfully and also easily
20:11
sometimes people think that whether it's
20:15
writing that it has to be difficult and
20:17
hard it has to take a long time and
20:19
that's not really the truth right so I'm
20:23
just going to make the assumption that
20:24
if you're a writer or a blogger or an
20:28
author or a poet this might be
20:30
beneficial right yes
20:33
so how will that the poet and I'm sure
20:35
Laurie wants to chime in in this how how
20:37
does how do all of these things support
20:39
us as writers as creators how does how
20:43
does that help well I had a running
20:46
retreat in April wonderful state a
20:49
healer there and we've been on Monday
20:52
the very first day of the full day of
20:55
writing because I thought we need to do
20:57
this at the beginning and have people
20:59
get in touch with what's blocking them
21:02
in these these beliefs so that the rest
21:05
of the week that they've spent time and
21:06
they're gonna spend treasure and you
21:09
know they move more freely on the
21:11
two-hour session which Karen was at the
21:15
Gulfport writing retreat was just one of
21:18
the favorite parts of everybody for
21:21
whole week so I'm just thrilled to bring
21:25
someone of her level and caliber of 38
21:30
you know traditional and non all the
21:33
wonderful things we just do a whole show
21:35
but with with Karen and and to add that
21:40
conference that special kind of workshop
21:43
right was a guest expert she's an expert
21:46
at this it's just you know this just
21:49
didn't happen yesterday so I'm hoping
21:51
that just fries and recharges the
21:53
creativity from everybody from from the
21:56
get-go so again it's a interest to put a
21:59
presenter into a retreat that song
22:02
that's so important and I know that one
22:04
of your other guests that was going to
22:05
be joining us today and has some
22:07
technical difficulties the Reb ferry
22:09
Elaine silver she's going to also be
22:11
participating tell us a little bit about
22:13
what she's gonna be doing yes well
22:17
ferry Elaine as I call her is just a
22:19
multi-talented songwriter recording
22:22
artist healer metaphysical minister
22:26
she's conducted hundreds of moon
22:28
ceremonies moon circles with women all
22:31
over the United States for a couple of
22:34
she's also produced 18 CD known authors
22:40
including Ellen Cohen Marianne
22:42
Williamson Wayne Dyer and Deepak
22:45
Chopra's she travels in the literary
22:47
world as well she's going to be
22:50
conducting a private moon ceremony and
22:54
concert for just the women who are in
22:56
attendance so I'm thrilled that she is
22:59
going to be with us again again her her
23:02
time with us for about two hours was one
23:04
of the highest-rated activities in our
23:07
six days so ferry Ling will be back with
23:11
us and I'm just I'm thrilled that we've
23:13
got there Elaine we've got Karen and we
23:16
also have a third guest expert presenter
23:19
so lots of options and opportunities
23:22
beyond the group instruction and the
23:25
individual it's a nice balance of both
23:28
and this sounds like so much fun I mean
23:33
it's so much fun and so much value and
23:35
kind of like you want to say pick me
23:37
pick me I want to go to so let's talk
23:39
about how people can actually find out
23:43
about the retreat where can they go sign
23:45
up how do they find out more yeah
23:48
absolutely thank you Karen and touch you
23:52
in any way and you're just interested I
23:54
don't expect you to sign up today it's
23:57
an exploration to see if this is a good
24:00
fit for you and so you can go to the
24:02
website which is there on the screen
24:04
writers viscom and the words are
24:07
intentional that as a writer you are on
24:11
a quest you're on a journey and it's
24:13
just my honor and it's my privilege to
24:15
be that writing tour guide and to bring
24:19
other dear ones that I care about and I
24:21
know talent like Karen and Ferriero Lane
24:24
and others just supports you in that
24:26
journey now there is a really amazing
24:30
offering so if you go there to Writers
24:32
Vision Quest and you check out the
24:35
information until August theory there's
24:38
an early bird pricing and save up to
24:40
four hundred and sixty three dollars
24:42
this is a real value also something
24:46
exciting Karen is the first seven women
24:49
register are going to get this bonus
24:52
coaching session with me there hey she
24:57
is gifted her book the art events for
25:00
India Ward number one in writing and
25:04
publishing she's helped over 200 people
25:07
a lot of women pushed their books oh
25:11
yeah time with her on do not stop do not
25:15
pass oh this is a very tangible she
25:19
chair are just three hundred us for an
25:21
hour of her skill levels so if you've
25:26
got a book you've got a project she will
25:28
actually look at some of your pages and
25:30
do some coaching with you so again until
25:33
August 29th and you'll find out about me
25:36
I'm not going to change and move the
25:38
earlybird date just because people are
25:42
responding or not if I say it's August
25:44
29th it's August 29th and you can hold
25:48
me to them people will tell you about
25:50
tell you that you're a woman of your
25:55
word you're a woman of your word
25:56
and that that's important yeah and
25:58
that's important I know how frustrating
26:00
it is how frustrating for me and I'm
26:02
sure for a lot of people you hear things
26:04
on on the on the internet and it must be
26:07
I'm serious you know but you hear things
26:09
and then you realize that it's time that
26:12
you know that's very priority I think we
26:16
lost you Laurie oh okay we we have lost
26:25
sound here I'm not sure what's going on
26:28
Karen let's see if you have a sound can
26:30
any last thoughts I don't hear you any
26:33
thoughts from you that you'd like to
26:34
share courage people to check this out
26:36
so that they can meet you Lori and
26:38
fairly well I think all the things that
26:41
Laurie talked about are amazing and I
26:43
think that community of women together
26:45
of writers is inspiration as well plus
26:49
beautiful st. Petersburg we're getting
27:01
feedback oh my goodness weather coming
27:04
in to wherever you guys are and we
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totally lost Karen she's gone so as I
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like to say we're only as good as our
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technology on any given moment I'm going
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to try to bring Karen back into the show
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right now as we get ready to say goodbye
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Laurie any last-minute thoughts that
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you'd like to share with our with our
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viewers as to how they can get engaged
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with you or maybe not so I'm going to
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encourage you all to go to writers
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Vision Quest dot-com check out the sites
27:38
tip of the iceberg syndrome so we're
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going to apologize for the for the sound
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today we're having some major technology
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issues in terms of connectivity but I
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know that you can go and get in touch
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with Laurie and we're just going to
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raise the roof right now right
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woohoo and I want to thank you for being
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with us today and I want to thank our
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viewers we know that you have a choice
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as to how to spend your time and we want
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to thank you for spending time with us
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Laurie is doing the hand dance
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over there any last thoughts maybe let's
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see if we can get you in just before we
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take off Lori any last thoughts can you
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hear me sometimes okay I want me to
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close with a quote which was from Audrey
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Hepburn who's a favorite
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she said the beauty of a woman is in
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caring she lovingly gives the passion
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she shows the passion quote I love
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passion quotes thank you that's
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beautiful thank you ladies thank you all
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of you who have been watching today we
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want to thank you for joining us today
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and I will see you next time on the next
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episode of the passion point the bye