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Goddess A Musical Conversation with Glenda Benevides
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May 13, 2021
On Caren Glasser LIVE! I welcome award winning singer songwriter Glenda Benevides for a musical conversation. Glenda says music and art allows people to see their self and the world in a new way! She will be singing live! Come be inspired #livemusic #glendabenevides #Goddess 📌 Subscribe to the Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc Check out more shows here: http://carenglasser.tv Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser #livemusic #glendabenevides #Goddess
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and welcome to karen glasser live
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where you are watching from today we
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welcome glenda benavidez to the show for
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a musical conversation
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a little bit about glenda she is an
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award-winning
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singer-songwriter with a new ep out
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called goddess
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she has been in the music industry since
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she was 16 years old having toured
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asia europe canada and the united states
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a social activist since nine years of
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age i want to hear all about that
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she continues to raise awareness and
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works with the foundation for
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climate restoration so without further
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ado
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glenda welcome to the show how are you
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great thank you karen
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good to see you it's great to see you
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i'm so excited that you're here today
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a little bit of a technology glitch but
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you know what that's
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that's the gods the tech gods gene
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welcome to the show as well
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we have a great show for you today and
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especially because glenda you're going
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to be singing for us and
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that's a little bit different for what i
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normally do so i'm
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thrilled i think i can say this is a
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virgin show for me
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so you i'm a virgin i've never been a
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virgin as no
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okay we'll leave that out all right so
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let's let's just
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jump in because i want to talk about
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music first i believe that
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music speaks to those who might not hear
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otherwise what do you think
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yeah um that's a that's a deep question
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actually
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um it's funny we were just talking about
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that
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not too long ago about how music is so
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pervasive in our world and
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how it uplifts people how it makes
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people go into their feelings their
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moods their
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you know expression it it dates them and
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dates the time that they were dating
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you know there's all these wonderful
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memories that are associated with music
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that activates our heart and our soul
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and our spirit and it's so important and
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i think one of the
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the kind of the downsides to what's been
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happening with the music industry
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is that it's really gotten homogenized
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and it kind of
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pushes out people that really have
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things to say
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or that are really creative and and it
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touches people's heart just as much
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and you can see this homogenization this
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kind of
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kind of white toast kind of stuff that's
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just happening
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which is really strange um
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and we were just talking about that and
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how it's really
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we can't lose the entertainment value
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but we also can't lose
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the the expression and the words and the
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heart
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with people want to share and how it
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uplifts people so
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i think that's that's really important
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with with
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just music in general i so agree i know
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you've said that
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music and art allows people to see their
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themselves
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and the world in a whole new way and i
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just love
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in a different way yeah yeah absolutely
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um so why do you do this i mean
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why are you out there doing your music
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all around the world
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first of all you are an incredible
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musician and
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um i'm always curious as to why people
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get into the field and then
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just just go crazy with it and you you
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have
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so tell me why why do you do this yeah
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it's so funny it's a strange story and
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here's another
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plug for making sure music is in the
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schools
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because when i was um in grade school
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my first experience with music was like
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xylophones and you know
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violins and you know those things
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and i remember starting this is really
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interesting and just was naturally drawn
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and then i i just kept going and i
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started singing
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and just expressing it was just
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naturally there and by the time i got
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into junior high i was in like swing
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choir and all these things that were
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just
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you know really fulfilling as a as an
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artist it helped me grow
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as a young woman and i remember walking
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through the halls
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and going why do i want to do music
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and i asked myself that at like 13. i
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said because i really want to make a
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difference
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i really wanted to share myself and um
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and whatever abilities i had and there
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was just uh
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it was intrinsic like there was just
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this love
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of art and music and myself like it was
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inseparable
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you know and that was how it started i i
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look and then it just kept going right i
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mean you just
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you just kept going and i just never had
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anyone in my life saying
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oh that's bad or you can't do that or i
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wouldn't get to get a job or you should
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you should go to college if anything i
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was telling my parents hey should i go
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to college and they were like
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no no yourself you know
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i love that and that's a new job that's
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actually fair
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yeah and that's a little unusual i think
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when parents say no no no it's okay you
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don't have to go to college
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be you and that's awesome and we're
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about to
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have you come on live right now and sing
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a song what is the first song that
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you're going to sing for us what's it
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about
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um i am called walken i called it walkin
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and it's actually it's actually one of
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my first song
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uh not my first songs but it's it's a
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song
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that i really wanted to kind of talk
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about the music industry
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and and how shady it really is and
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i guess there's a part of me that that
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especially when i want to talk to
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younger people it's like
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don't follow that i'm going to get a
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deal
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there's no such thing anymore you know
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and i really
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understand the industry which they kind
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of shroud it
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um it's not like what you think it is
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it's not what they tell you it is
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it's it's very quite it's quite
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different it's about commodity it's
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about business
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it's about product and you have to look
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a certain way and all these other things
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whatever style it is you know for the
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the true artists are out there probably
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struggling
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you know just to get someone to listen
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to what they have to say um
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so i kind of wanted to write a song
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about that about selling your soul
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because the ones that do
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they they probably don't know that
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they're young enough they probably are
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get introduced into that industry and
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they just don't know really what it's
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all about they get seduced by oh
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it's like i'm going to make money i got
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girls i'm going to
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you know your roadies right you're going
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to have your roadies come with you
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and it's going to be all fun and games
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oh all fun and games lots of running
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bling
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you name it you know not in it and it
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isn't
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exactly not so much so you heard it here
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i'm going to put you on solo let's
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listen
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to the melodious tones of glenda here we
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go
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all right it's called walking
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[Music]
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i'm walking my way down
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[Music]
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that dirty old road
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[Music]
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i'm walking my way down
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and i don't wanna go
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i'm walking my way down
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to something i know
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[Music]
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i'm walking my way down
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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no no no no
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[Music]
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i saw my soul
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on the big bright lights
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[Music]
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signed my name yeah
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and it didn't feel so right
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[Music]
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and nobody told me
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i would pay the price
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and i sold my soul
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[Music]
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for fools paradise
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[Music]
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gonna pay the price
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and i'm walking my way down
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that dirty old road
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and i'm walking my way down
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[Music]
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and i don't want to go
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i'm walking my way down
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something out yeah
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and i'm walking my way down
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[Music]
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and i don't wanna go no no
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oh no no
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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yes this is how it goes
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i saw my soul
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for the big bright lights
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[Music]
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sign my name yeah
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and i didn't feel so right
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and nobody told me
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i will pay the price
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and the devil won my soul yeah
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in his con game yeah
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[Music]
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i'm no no no
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yeah for the big life gotta pay the
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[Music]
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price
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and i'm walking my way down
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that dirty old road
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lord and i'm walking my way down
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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and the devil won my soul yeah
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yeah i don't wanna go yeah
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oh no no no
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and it's the end of the road
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that was walking i was walking with you
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wow
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that that's amazing that's beautiful is
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this on your new
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um ep this is not this is on my next one
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my next dp
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well there you go it's an ode to uh
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the south and the blues delta blues and
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um
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and uh yeah we've got a couple more
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coming along right now so that should be
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out but the goddess album is
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it's just as prolific but it's like
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in its own special way so
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you you talk about being a disrupter and
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that you create
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conscious activism first of all what
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does that mean
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conscious activism huh no i'm joking
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but um conscious act
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to me conscious activism is when you
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are very clear about what it is
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your purpose and your passion and
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really being out there with okay i
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really want to
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talk about planting trees or i really
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want to
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really get involved in raising awareness
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for uh the emissions that we have for
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co2 levels
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that kind of conversation what what
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groups are actually
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doing that and how i support them or how
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can i
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you know share that through a song um
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and just you know just really coming
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together as a community to me that's
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very conscious
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and that's activism you know it's like
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let's get in action you know let's do
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something together
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and not just pass it off or pass the bug
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or just
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talk about it just or just talk about it
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right
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do it walk do it walk your talk so you
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are raising awareness and works with
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you're working with the foundation for
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climate restoration i put the link
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into the comments and also the rain
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forest
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action network what's that so tell us
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about great
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they're down in south america and what
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they do is they buy up land
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and so they can't destroy the land and
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they
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um give that to um the tribes that are
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there and they help them replant
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interesting that's interesting they do
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so how long you've been work
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how long you've been working with them
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uh since 1997.
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so this was not just something that you
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woke up yesterday and said hey i'm gonna
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get involved and i'm going to be a
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you know do conscious act you you've
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been doing this a very long time
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um you know when you were in second
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grade right
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1997 second grade yeah
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yeah yeah
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my first i'm gonna tell my age here but
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um
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my first little activism thing which i
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never even thought about
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was um do you know the jerry lewis
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telethon
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love jerry lewis and he used to for
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muscular dystrophy
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and i wanted to help and so my mother
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bought me the jerry lewis hit and i got
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to have
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a i put on a uh like a circus not a
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circus but what do you call it like a
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show a little show a backyard thing with
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you know you got dunking people i don't
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know
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something a carnival to raise money and
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money and i sent it to jerry lewis's
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telephone so you've been doing this a
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long time you really oh yeah
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really when you were young um in my
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blood something it's in your blood
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it's in your blood so you know you we i
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mentioned earlier the global badass
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goddess what does that mean i know
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you're supporting women
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but tell us a little bit about that yeah
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um
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my i it started a few years back
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um a girlfriend of mine was standing in
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my kitchen
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and there was a couple other ladies
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there and we were all chatting and she
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turned to me and she said glenda you are
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such a
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badass goddess and i was like
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what at first i was like no no no no
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i'm not that you know and then i really
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sat with it for a few minutes and i
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thought
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you know what you should own that
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because it's really a being a badass is
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really about
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empowering yourself yes you know it's
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really taking on
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all of who you are and expressing that
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in in such a free way it doesn't mean
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badass does not mean you go beat
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somebody up or you get aggressive or you
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get angry or nasty
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i know it's got a lot of connotations to
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that but it's not
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if you go to my website i have i broke
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it down
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badass running for beautiful you know
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like that um
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authentic beautiful authentic um i
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should memorize all of it but
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um it's um it's really about
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that and so stepping into that
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jean i was sharing that with jean and
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jean's like let's let you know let's do
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something around that so we did a
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seven-day startup
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um of seeing if we could put a business
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together and so we did
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and um it was my global badass goddess
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it was crazy it was crazy gene tully was
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the
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the leader for that we we did a we did a
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magazine
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um an online magazine and podcast
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and i did that for about a year we got
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some
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but we were just too tired to do
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more music and that type of thing and so
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we kind of segwayed
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yes you can go to my website we have it
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online
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and it's really to support women to st
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into their clarity their courage
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their confidence their commitment
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and their community and why do that
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through
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creating a workshop i have a workshop
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i've got a retreat that's going to be up
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in about a year
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and um and i've got a circle so we can
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actually come together and talk
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you know and just really connect and
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share i put a link up i put a link up
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right on the screen
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uh bitly um what are they gonna get when
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they go over there is this gonna get
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they're gonna find out more information
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right about your global data yeah
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there's there's several things yeah they
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can they can um
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they can see what badass means badass
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goddess means and
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they can hear that see the testimonials
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and then they can also if they wanna
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they'd actually like to um do a workshop
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with me a two-day workshop
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i i teach them those things and also
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about self-care
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like what does that mean for you and we
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design that
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on a deeper level yeah so you know
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so do you sing to them i don't sing to
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them
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[Laughter]
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i do i do i have um i do have a
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meditation
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um and and my music will be added into
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uh more of our retreat so i don't
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do that that makes sense that yeah that
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makes sense though
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so without further ado i'd like you to
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come in with your second song tell us a
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little bit about the second song what is
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it called
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and uh where did it come from okay
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um this one's called answer and um i was
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actually standing in here
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this is our our our studio area it's a
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performance area that we've designed and
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developed
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for like intimate groups you know
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intimate connection
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you know small small performances like
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20 to 30 people excuse me
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and um i was standing here with my
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mandolin and i was
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messing around and i just i was playing
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with these cords and my girlfriend
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walked through the door and she was just
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standing over there and she was kind of
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moving back and forth
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and all of a sudden i just got this song
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idea of like
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it would be this i just saw this kind of
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exotic witchy gypsy woman at this
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kind of fair or something and she was
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dancing
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and then this guy was really attracted
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to her and
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he's just been trying to fall in love
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with her have her fall in love with him
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actually
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and um and it just it's this
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not gonna work out right but it's this
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challenge of like i'm in love with this
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woman she's very
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exotic oh that's kind of how it came out
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mandolin here
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so as glenda is setting up we're going
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to be putting her on solo oh my gosh
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that is a beautiful mandolin is there a
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history to that
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uh yeah jean bought it for me for my
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birthday yeah my birthday that's the
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history all right
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well thanks amazing i know he's not
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talking but he's really amazing he's
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when he stepped into my life that that
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story is magical how he even connected
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but
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um uh he's just
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he's i've played guitar but i was like
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never playing guitar
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i had a guitar and i never played it for
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years i had a i had a
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a music teacher that completely turned
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me off
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at like 13 and i never picked the guitar
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up again like that's
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how important it is to have really good
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teachers
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um and then when i met jean he was like
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oh yeah you can play that here
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yeah you can play that here and it comes
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from a cool background of like
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everybody plays everybody well i love
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you know what
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that's so important and uh the fact that
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what you said you had a bad experience
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when you were 13 years old um i don't
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know how many music teachers out there
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that tell kids oh don't sing you don't
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have a voice
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or sing quietly you know and that makes
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me
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crazy because we all can sing
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some better than others but we can all
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sing and it can totally
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change your life my dad was told not to
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sing he had a terrible voice and to this
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day
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he will not open his mouth and sing even
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though all of the singers and my mom
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sings
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you know he won't open his mouth so good
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for you to to take that
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and turn it into something really really
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positive
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so glenda and jean are you ready i'm
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going to turn you
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on here we go thank you all right
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it's called the dancer
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[Music]
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she danced into the night she didn't
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care
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[Music]
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weaving magic signs in through her hair
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[Music]
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she danced into the night without a
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prayer
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[Music]
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chanting spells into the midnight air
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[Music]
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boom
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[Music]
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a long night has come about to the land
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summer she takes into her hand
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she looked into my eyes with love's
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command
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leaving me wondering my heart's in
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rematch
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[Music]
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into the night she didn't care
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leaving magic signs into her hair
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[Music]
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and she danced into the night without a
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prayer
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[Music]
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oh
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[Music]
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light of the candle whispers for you to
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beware
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[Music]
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summon gods of shadows delights declare
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faithful kiss you feel you can't compare
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that in the morning comes in sheep she
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isn't there
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and she danced into the night she didn't
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care
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leaving magic signs into
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and she danced into the night without a
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[Music]
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prayer
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[Music]
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[Music]
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and she danced into the night she didn't
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care
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waving magic signs in through her hair
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and she danced into the night without a
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prayer
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waving magic signs into her hair
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oh and she danced into the
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night without a prayer oh
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and weaving magic signs into a hill
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and she danced into the
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[Music]
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oh
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[Music]
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i think the allergies got me uh
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beautiful beautiful beautiful sue says
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favorite amazing ladies and of course hi
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gene
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so hygiene thank you for tuning in
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um okay so i'm sure people are are
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listening in on this and they're saying
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we
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need to pick up your music yeah so we're
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going to
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um i'm going to put up on the screen
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right now how people can
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pick up your music and go to your name
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dot bandcamp.com
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and they can pick it up there they can
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you could they can listen and
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you've already let the cat out of the
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bag you have another
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ep that's coming out um and so they're
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gonna want to get the one that's out now
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goddess and then of course the next one
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once they're hooked they're hooked
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for sure uh for those of you who are
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looking to stay
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in touch with glenda and jean
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uh you can go to her website at glenda
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benavidez.com you can go to
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instagram at linda benavidez music
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also you can go to youtube and imagine
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that it's
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at glenda benavidez and you can also go
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to linkedin
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you're everywhere glenda geez you know
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everywhere um
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any last thoughts you'd like to share
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with the audience right now in terms of
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the importance of music
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your music that's out there are you
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touring anywhere are you
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well i should say that once the pandemic
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is
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over are you going to be touring
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anywhere
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well we're hoping to um we are going to
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be out may 21st which is a friday from 4
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to 7 p.m only plane
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um at a really beautiful winery um it's
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in point richmond called
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riggers loft winery
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and we'll be there from only four to
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seven on that day and that's kind of our
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first
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out outing and uh it's outside so it's
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it's nice the backdrop is san francisco
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it's absolutely gorgeous
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and it's owned by musicians so oh
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wow yeah and um
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i think the next step for us is you know
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finding a
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an agent or actually hiring somebody
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to come on to our company and really
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work our schedule for us so i love it
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i love it yeah i want to thank you for
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joining us today
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and singing i i love your voice um
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there's something so
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um emotional about it and
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um it speaks to the soul it speaks to my
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soul for sure and i want to thank you
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both for coming on today
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and sharing your gift with all of us um
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and we want to thank our audience
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because they have a choice as to where
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they spend their time right
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they don't have to be here today or on
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replay but they do
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come and they listen because what we do
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here is so important
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sharing talent across the networks
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across all around the world so i want to
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thank you i want to thank our audience
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and i want to make sure that you join us
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on the next show
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coming up very very soon so we'll see
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you
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all later goodbye everyone
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