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Do You Have an Attitude of Gratitude?
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Nov 3, 2021
The holiday season is here and 2021 is shaping up to be like no other. Do you struggle to find joy, to let yourself 'go' and just be? Is gratitude an attitude? Join Mel, Caren for this deeply personal conversation, peeling back the layers of gratitude. It's there, but acknowledging it, embracing it, can be challenging. #gratitude #attitudeofgratitude #holidays 📌 Subscribe to the Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc Look what we’ve Uncorked this month!” Curated list of our favs: https://bit.ly/UNCORKEDLIVE This show is brought to you by Vitalcy, the guide to living in a stage of growth, purpose, and discovery.
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hello everyone mel greenberg here and
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i'm karen class here and welcome to
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uncork life exposed in the most
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unexpected ways where what you see is
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not always what you get
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today uncorked is brought to you by
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vitalsy the guide to living in a stage
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of growth purpose and discovery so
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whether you're here live or on replay we
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love you make sure you comment below let
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us know where you're watching from
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today we're talking about gratitude but
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specifically
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is it an attitude is it something you
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cultivate you're born with can you
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really fake it till you make it but
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first things first because we are
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uncorking here and today we are
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uncorking our favorite fall libation a
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little kentucky bluegrass bourbon
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so cheers everybody cheers
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mel it's especially fun because uh this
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is the first show that we're taping
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together side by side and what our
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audience doesn't know is that we had
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never met personally how how cool is
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this so i i love taking online
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relationships offline so i just had to
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make a mention of that well and actually
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that's a really fun place to begin
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because
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thinking of gratitude and we really we
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live in a place i live in a place you
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know we always do mel versus karen but i
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think both of us will
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express this looking for silver linings
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and one of the silver linings of covid
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has been this virtual world we are all
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living in and that's how we met karen
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interviewed me we connected we started
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so many things together
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but we had never met in person and now
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as the world is turning as it is we've
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had the opportunity and we live close
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enough and and we i and i we love it and
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even though we joke the male versus
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karen we have so many things that we are
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like on even though we have you know
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things that we disagree on and i think
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that's the way the world goes right
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absolutely so
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i guess the first question that we're
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going to talk about is how do you find
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gratitude in this world well i i do
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think that i look for silver linings and
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and
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i find them and i kind of ruminate on
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them with laughter and if i can if we
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can't especially you know what we get to
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this age i'm 61. if i can't laugh at
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myself and about myself
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what's the point so that gives that
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brings me to a lighter place of being
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and if i can stay there
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regardless of how heavy the world gets
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or my world gets i can find something to
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be grateful for and from there i can go
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forward
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and
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since i'm a geek
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i love to do things just a little bit i
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love to do things um online and
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digitally um i like to do gratitude
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challenges
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because sometimes
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i have i struggle figuring out what what
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i'm grateful for we you know we live in
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a world of so many things going on and
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sometimes you just you have to you know
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get there and if you feel grateful and
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so um the great the gratitude channel uh
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the gratitude thing that i do i'm like
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challenge um basically every morning i
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wake up i pull my journal out and i
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write down three things that i'm
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grateful for
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it can be the same thing every day maybe
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it is i'm grateful for my husband i'm
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grateful that i woke up today all of
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those things and so it's it's literally
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a challenge and i i throw it out to you
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guys as well
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if you want to join us on the challenge
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yeah let us know we're you know we can
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we can do a lot of different things and
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i know mel is going to join me on the
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challenge i am and we're going to start
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out this month
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and i think that three is easy to manage
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right and like you said you can find
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something to be grateful for i'm glad i
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have my coffee in the morning if you're
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you know and then there are other days
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where i'm glad that that a mammogram
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came back negative right
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you know that so there's little
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milestones but you can find gratitude in
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everything abso absolutely and it's fun
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to share because sometimes it's i'm
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grateful for my friend right and that
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might be what you put when you are
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dealing with your friend or working with
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your friend or doing the challenge with
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your friend so if you want to join us
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let us know we'd love to have you join
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us
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so
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it's a mel versus karen
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it's november
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thanks thanksgiving
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it's here
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so so when we were talking
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as you know we've already gone through
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how you
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put things together entertained and i'm
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the detail and and get it all out there
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and i love it and so for thanksgiving
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well and again the past year or two well
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this will be kind of the second year
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it'll be nicer um i love having my
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family around me and friends and in the
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past we weren't home when our son was
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playing football we were at his games
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every year and we did friendsgiving with
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the coaches families
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and that was really special and i
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actually do miss that so now home
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and back to family and we're adding
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friends and opening our home as it's
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available to do that to have people that
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maybe don't have family with them and
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have you know right but the more the
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merrier the bigger the better so what
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are you making
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well we don't like turkey
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so
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so uh roast chicken
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and that's kind of our go-to and then um
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we love brisket and to be honest with
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you it's sort of a rosh hashanah redo
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yeah with a couple changes
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so we don't like turkey either
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we don't do chicken we do sweet and sour
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meatballs okay
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it's a tradition i do it every year even
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if we're not going somewhere and again
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we didn't go anywhere you know last year
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and we're not going anywhere this year
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as well but we do do the meatballs so
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mostly because that's what my husband
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will wait he won't eat anything else i'm
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thinking my husband might be i don't
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know
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yeah he would like that so
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again food you know you do it doesn't
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matter what you're eating it it matters
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the actual getting together being
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together whether it's on zoom whether
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it's personally uh whether it's on a
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live stream however you're doing it it's
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breaking bread together and we literally
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did thanksgiving on zoom last year and
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we ate together you know with the food
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coming out of our mouth and that is what
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makes the memories right and that's what
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creates the traditions that carry on
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so
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let's talk about families
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kind of just nose dive into that as i
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said i did we did a thanksgiving zooms
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um and and since there's my family is
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large we literally had like seven
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different windows open wow and we were
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looking at my youngest brother is a
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amazing chef so he was showing us his
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spread which was like this and you know
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we had our meatballs here
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but it's you know it's okay yeah did you
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do you did a zoom thanksgiving right too
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no we didn't we had you buddy
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i love that but because we had everybody
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in our hometown right and i have my kids
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back with me now
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and
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we had a beautiful beautiful you know
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smaller than normal but still just being
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together again whether it's on zoom
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or you know in person is the most
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meaningful the time
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so i'm excited that thanksgiving is
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rolling around um
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not that you ha that's the only day you
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can be grateful or count your blessings
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every
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is for me thanksgiving i give thanks i
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feel blessed i truly feel blessed after
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the years that we've had i feel blessed
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i feel blessed that my family is healthy
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that i can still see them even if just
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on zoom yeah right
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they're there they're totally there and
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i love the idea of a friendsgiving
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yeah and we all brought you know some we
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did something and something i always did
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because so many of them had young
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families i was the one that i would
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bring games for the kids and set up
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tables and activities for all the
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children and so that gave me a chance to
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kind of get back to those years and now
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starting over with the grandbaby in the
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house that whole cycle will start again
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and for that i'm very this year has been
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an amazing year for us for our family
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and isn't that so wonderful to be able
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to say that in this day and time yes i i
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truly and i love your shirt
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grateful heart
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all of us always always always
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guys you know that we put a kit together
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uh every show and today we're actually
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going to show you some of the items this
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is different we're going to actually
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show you some of the items so i'm going
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to go ahead and put this up here
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the journal and when you spoke about the
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gratitude challenge that you do i do
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morning pages and i write and that's my
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my gratitude and i write through them
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and a journal is a great way to keep it
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and i use paper journals and because
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it's just stream of consciousness
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writing
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i i you know what i do my ritual is to
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burn them at the end when that because i
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just get they're really they're about a
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month pages and kind of release that out
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into the universe so with its intentions
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and love and
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i'm curious why do you burn them
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because that lets it it lets it out into
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the you know
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wow
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maybe i should try that
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maybe what's our next item our next item
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is
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family family right thanksgiving we take
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all these pictures whether it's a zoom
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screenshot or in-person pictures
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it's really cool to be able to share
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your pictures right well am i like this
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the digital because we keep at least i
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do i keep everything on my medium and
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you tend not to get them printed out
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right in the ways that we used to and
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these digital frames are amazing because
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you literally can upload your phone so
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you if you put it into a file favorites
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folder load that on your camera and then
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it's a revolving cascade i love it it's
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beautiful and everyone in your family
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yes makes a great gift actually everyone
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in your family if they have one of these
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and you upload these pictures they can
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see the same pictures that you do which
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is so phenomenal i mean again we live in
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a different time here do you remember
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the slides and the um kodak
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the polaroids all that stuff i just
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thought of something what a fun
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thanksgiving dinner thing send these out
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to the family members prior have
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everyone load their pictures and share
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them at the dinner i love that that
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would be really oh my gosh that would be
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really fun a good idea really good idea
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okay
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better idea
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even better idea
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we're drinking cheers
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but these are really
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very very beautiful
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classy
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highball glasses i really like simple
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pure to hold your drink absolutely
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cocktail of choices exactly and when
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i have to say mel's the one who picked
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out all of these things because she's
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got great great taste and she came up
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with this and i went oh my gosh i want
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one of those what is this so it's like a
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mold for an ice cube and i'm gonna full
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disclosure my oldest son's favorite
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drink is is old fashioned and his
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favorite restaurant is republique in l.a
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so i think it's labrador wilshire but
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they they have the cube that takes the
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whole glass and they do have the best
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old fashions by the way i will also
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attest to that
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but this is such a fun thing and we were
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talking how you could make it festive
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for the holidays you know christmas red
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and green a little food dye gold blue
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whatever
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birthday you know you can add some
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excitement to it in every way you can
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imagine so it's a really fun little and
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one of the things that i like to do with
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ice cubes regardless of whether they're
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their balls or squares and anything so
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that it doesn't water down your drink i
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take the existing drink and make ice
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cubes out of that uh not everything's
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not like vodka's not going to freeze but
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some other um
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alcohols will freeze
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just a note yeah that's a great idea all
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right and of course what's thanksgiving
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without the spread yeah i'm william
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sonoma on every level just a great go-to
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for some great ideas good products
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and we wanted to share that with you
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even if you know their catalogs just
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scroll through their website or any of
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them just to get some ideas this is a
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really really fun book and so you know
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we talk about the kit so i'm just going
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to put the link to the kid up here uh if
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you go to
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uncorked live which is the name of the
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show you will find all of these items
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you're going to find your book in there
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as well
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because because i'm grateful for that
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because i love it yes absolutely because
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um we'd like to hear from you guys we
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really would we'd like to hear what you
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think um what do you think about the
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holiday of thanksgiving what do you
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think about
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being grateful being having gratitude
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what are your thoughts put them in the
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comments down below
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because we want to know
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this isn't this is
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this is actually a little shorter show
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than when you i want to go eat is what i
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like
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yeah and we
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we have a lot to share and we we have
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but also we wanted to just throw some
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things out there for you to think about
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and
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with regard to gratitude and again
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finding it in a time and a world when
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there's so much going against that
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entire
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process
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um yeah and that's okay too maybe just
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be grateful for the ability to be able
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to reflect reflect on it and pick one
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thing
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and and try and find you know something
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to find
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yeah
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i agree
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beginning in the introduction that our
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everyone