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On today’s show, I sit down with wellness practitioner Kala Evans and talk about the power of touch. A two-time convicted felon, Kala knew she had to make a change and was determined to make something of her life. Today, as the owner and CEO of ATL Bodyworks her goal is to train the next generation of wellness practitioners through a much broader and sophisticated lens, encompassing integrity, mindfulness and self-respect. #bodyworks #wellness #makeachange
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hello everyone welcome to Karen Glasser
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live how does a two-time convicted felon
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turn her life around to emerge as
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Atlanta's true pioneering pure sculp
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specialist and Trailblazer we will talk
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about this and more with Wellness
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practitioner Kayla Evans stay tuned
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we'll be right
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back hello every everyone hey Kayla
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welcome to the show Hi how are you
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thanks for having me I am great and you
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look great you have the most amazing
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smile I just have to say that kind words
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I am thrilled to have you on the show
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and we're gonna start like I always do I
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want to talk about your journey you know
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I I kind of said at the very beginning I
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didn't just kind of say I just said a
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two-time convicted felon so let's talk
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about that and how you changed your life
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around well um I used to not want to
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talk about it but I realize um my
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message is in my mess um I can't give
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you a story of poverty coming up lack I
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was a spoiled kid my mother told me no
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and I had a good friend Asian and one
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was uh Caucasian and they taught me uh
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the game of identity
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fraud and I did a lot of white collar
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crime I also eventually worked into
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accounting so it just made sense for
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what I was trying to do now when I
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started I was a young teen mother and um
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just rebellious just hardhead you know I
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had a great mom who did the best I had a
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good great education but I just I chose
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another route um my son suffered in my
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opinion he's 31 now great guy um but I
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was lost angry father wasn't n present
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so um want it to people
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please and
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um yeah so I like that that life yeah
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I decided I wanted to change a horrible
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divorce terrible divorce and uh I wanted
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to find something else to do now mind
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you as I was going on this transition I
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was on the run because I was looking at
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a 45 year prison sentence I'm just wow
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that's all I want to say right now and I
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figured I figured well you know
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what when they catch
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me at least doing something I'm doing
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something to better
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myself
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and I found massage I went to the
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Atlanta school of
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massage and uh I didn't pay attention I
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was just looking for something easy
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quick to do I didn't realize that it
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specialize in mind body and spirit and I
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healed in so many areas I learned about
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my biases too first day a class there
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was some very interesting people that I
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did not want them to touch me I was like
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they're weird and I don't want them to
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touch me right now these are some of the
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most amazing friends that I have so
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that's how that's how that happened
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before you continue if you're just
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tuning in we're talking to Kayla Evans
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you have a question for her whether it's
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live or on replay make sure you make a
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comment
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oh look at this so from Tiffany thank
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you for being open and honest I see your
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growth thank you so much we appreciate
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you so much and we have a couple of of
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comments let's just put them up uh Kanda
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hello ladies hello back thank you for
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tuning in continue I'm sorry Kayla
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that's okay so I um massage opened me up
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to several
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modalities and I really wanted to tap
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into Asian studies so a lot of my
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expertise is in you know Tai yoga a lot
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of uh Eastern body work and I love it um
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I started to get into body I wanted to
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get into the Aesthetics I start seeing
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honestly that was that was kind of a
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popping thing here in Atlanta but as I
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know about the human body everything
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that looks good is not always healthy or
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beneficial to the body right and I'm not
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one always jump on bandwagons and I
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started seeing some things that I just
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didn't feel were correct for the body so
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I started looking for holistic um
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during covid I found you know you were
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home studying and there was a lady I
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used to watch her do some things I found
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out about the pure sculp pure sculp by
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the amazing uh the founder is Iris
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botero if I'm saying iris's last name
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correctly and I flew out to Utah and had
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the one onone training with them and
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pure sculpt is a uh it's clay clay herbs
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and oils in a frozen state so it's not
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really Pure Ice you can't put ice on the
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body it'll burn just know that guys
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don't put ice on the body it will burn
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you um and it's in its frozen State and
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what it does it mold Contours it it uh
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helps convert the
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um it helps convert fat into energy
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through thermogenesis so you're freezing
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honestly it's cold it's very cold it's
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like jumping in a cold pool um and you
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get immediate results you also get an
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exfoliation toxification it helps with
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inflammation and it helps Contours the
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body now as I'm on this Contour run
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learning about different ways to help
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women be the best version of themselves
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um I then learned about uh ma therapia
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would ther be both of these concepts are
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from Mexico and I learned the tools to
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contour and sculpt the body and then I
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was like wow so I'm an instructor for
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both well instructor for both I was the
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first pure sculpt specialist in Atlanta
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now we have a bunch of them right but um
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but you're a Trailblazer you're a
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Trailblazer and you did things thank you
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well no but it's true I mean you did
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things before others did um and I'm sure
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from your perspective it's like okay I
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was there first we're what are all these
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other people doing right now
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[Laughter]
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right you said that miss Karen not I
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know I did I know I did because I kind
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of resemble that so you say a lot of
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different modalities I know you also
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yoga yes the tie TI body work yes
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definitely it's
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um 7 to 10 day protocol now the thing is
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I um I'm a cpt2 I intended to go on to
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do the instructor Georgia stopped that a
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lot of holistic Body Work Georgia does
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not recognize it far as cus so you know
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I had about 800 and I was like well wait
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a minute what do you mean so um if I do
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the true thae work I have to step out of
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the scope of
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massage because in thae I can talk to
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you about diet nutrition you understand
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under the scope of that that's not what
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my license in the state of Georgia
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covers so I have to be you know careful
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with that so certain clients Case by
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case I'll do that but it's like seven to
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10 day protocol where redo um the
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systems in the body and it's amazing
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work
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what do you what why do you like this
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why do you like this so much I see your
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light your your face literally lights up
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as you're talking about it what is it
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about this that you're changing bodies
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changing lives uh changing attitudes
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what is it about this why do you do
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this I love what I do first of all
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um
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I I know what it did for me and a lot of
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people don't understand there are
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emotions in the
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muscles um people are crying out
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silently from body pain Mobility
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stiffness their diet mindset you know
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what I mean the the the toxicity in life
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sometimes you know to me life is simple
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we complicate it and it's like for the
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massage you know I'm really really known
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you know for massage just a lot I'm
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blessed ACC according to you have the
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best hands that she's ever
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felt thank you dear I appreciate
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you
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um the body talks to me it's like a
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audible conversation that we're having
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when I put my hands on the body it's
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just a welcoming you know what I mean
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some people don't understand it's like
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God gave me a gift when someone lays on
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my table it's like an a an altar
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sacrifice honestly you don't know what
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I'm GNA do you got you have people out
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here I mean I could be crazy and do some
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really weird things but at that moment I
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appreciate I have you from anywhere from
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60 to maybe two hours or maybe you want
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to spend you know a date with
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me that I I appreciate that because I
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don't know what you're dealing with I've
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had situations where I've had husbands
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tell me thank you thank you so much you
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know my wife's cheating on me and I
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thought about offing her I mean
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literally and that me like whoa I was
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like wait a minute do you want to talk
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he came to see me I'll never forget it
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he came to see me nice young nice guy
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met his wife too and she was very happy
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like thank you he told me what happened
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thank you um you know like it's it's on
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that level like a real cellular level I
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also now um do the Tibetan sound bowls
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and with these bowls I am
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massaging the I'm I am Mass I'm relaxing
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the mind and massaging the cells you
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know what I mean like I'm really on that
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deeper level because I just I just feel
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we're we're just bald up with so much is
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that a connect is that the same thing as
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the binaural beats absolutely yeah
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absolutely which is if you have if those
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of our viewers who are watching now
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replay whenever if you've never
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experienced this check it out talk to
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Kayla about this you know also go on
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YouTube I mean there's all these things
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out there the binaural beats and
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different uh megahertz right and it
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allows you to you know sleep it's
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amazing I I I use it for Sleep actually
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so I'm fascinated by the fact that
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you're using it
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also the for the sound and the
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everything you incorporate Mind Body and
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soul that's what it sounds like yes yes
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and it's
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awesome
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so where have you been or where do you
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want to go that is inspiring you or
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motivating you right now in your life
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that you'd like to
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share where have I
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been mentally I have been to the pits of
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Hell in my opinion and I fought my way
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back yeah so I know there is another
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side
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um there is power in the tongue what we
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speak a lots of times we speak so much
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over our lives and we just don't
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understand just just a simple
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conversation or what we say to ourselves
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the
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body has trauma we've had traumas from
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when we were kids we and sometimes you
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need to just release it I learned EFT
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emotional frequency technique you know
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tapping tapping really just tapping into
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the body asking it to forgive you asking
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it to line up with you and people
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sometimes you know think I'm just I'm
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nuts no I'm I can hear them say woo woo
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it's woo woo it's it's it's stuff that
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doesn't make I don't think it's so much
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to think you're crazy it's that they
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don't get it it's not in their world
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it's not something that they've ever
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done and so for most of us if we don't
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understand it the first thing we do is
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we back up and fear absolutely
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absolutely that's that's a bunch of you
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know hogwash anyone who then steps into
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it and starts to learn about it realizes
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it's not it's not it's your teacher it's
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the person who's actually going to show
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you how this is not and you're it you
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are it um thank you and I'm not saying
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this literally not to compliment you but
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it's fasc I'm just listening to you talk
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about all the different modalities you
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didn't just stay with one you you have
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explored and I my guess is you're
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continuing to explore the different so
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what's next I mean what what are you
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looking at that might you add to your
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portfolio of services well I've been
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procrastinating for quite some time
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teaching I need to get you know of
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course the digital products there was a
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lot of things I know I should have done
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but it just wasn't the time yeah I don't
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beat myself up I just know you know you
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could be a lot further but this is a
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choice you make this is why this is
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this um I want to the fall I will be um
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starting Retreats the goal is to start
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in Costa
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Rica uh I really I really I I want to
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tap into teaching couples how to care
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for one
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another um and like I said I I
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definitely want to attract uh a a star
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team because what I'm seeing now is not
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body work is just forgive or take sorry
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to say soft porn and that's not that's
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not what we do that's not what I do and
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I want people to take it seriously
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because I've had every now and then you
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know you have someone uh that they're
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looking for something that I do not
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offer and won't offer as well as you
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have some people that are afraid of
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touch right and I with those individuals
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I just ask can we just start with the
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hands you use them all the time and some
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people wow I never because we're so
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guarded you know what I mean and a lot
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of people don't want to tap into why are
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we guarded why why why are you what is
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that so you know I I really just you
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know and like the little people we need
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to start with the little people because
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they will eventually be adults I work on
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my grandchildren they're five and eight
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and they love massage but I do have to
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be um mindful I had a client that um
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sent her daughter in to have her
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serviced and she just sent her in the
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room and I'm
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like no preparation um go none none and
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I was like sweetie have you ever had him
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with snow ma'am sweet little girl and
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that's when I went in Mommy and Granny
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mode sweetheart no one is supposed to
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touch you above here you know or below
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there and I just played in her hair
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rubbed her feet and her arms and I you
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know I told her mother I hope I didn't
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overstep but uh and it made me go home
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and think about that with my daughter at
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the time she's 23 now she was like 15 m
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and I asked her if someone would you get
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naked and she said yes Mom I would
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because you know you're Drake properly
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but that was a teaching moment for me no
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you don't know no you know what I mean
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so that's something that I with my
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grandsons keep your shorts on you know
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what I mean just little things like that
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Helena um just said hello to you hello
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back than that's Helena hey that's my
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that's one of my clients actually
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amazing lady if you're just tuning in we
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are talking to Kayla Evans you have a
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question for her or a comment or just
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want to say hi let us know where you're
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tuning in from whether it's live or on
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replay we want to know where you are
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tuning in from Kayla how do you want to
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be remembered at the end of the
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day I tell my kids all the time in the
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event something happens and I go before
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you um you
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know I want people to remember that I
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did the absolute best to become the best
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version of myself for my clients that
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whatever I want to attempt to
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do I'm going to do it right you know I
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have a friend that owns a brand uh do it
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ugly and meaning no matter what just do
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it just do it just do it just do it so I
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definitely want
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to
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um the goal for me is to
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become I want to be I would like to
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become the second female
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minority owned festar Forbes facility
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it's one Sheila Johnson Bob Johnson's um
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ex-wife she owns the salamander Resort
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and I'd like that's a big goal I want to
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compete with some of the elite locations
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I've worked at that's what I want and I
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I I want to build is the house of Kayla
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and I want people to be able to Journey
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with me the children can grow to high
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school college and bring their families
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I want to be able to have that wholeness
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Wellness experience for
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people be a global brand there's no
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question you're going to do that I mean
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look look how far you've come and you
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continue to go and um you you truly are
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somebody that we can look up to because
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you represent that you can change your
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life absolutely change your mindset
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change your strategy change your life
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change your strategy change your life
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exactly um It's actually an honor to
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meet you and to be talking with you we
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kind of met through something else and
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and it turn this but it really is an
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honor to meet you and to see what you're
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doing um and how far that you've come I
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want to let people know how they can uh
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contact you and actually get to know
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more about you if you're in the Atlanta
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area or if not if maybe you're visiting
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um your website is ATL Bodyworks co.com
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check it out what are they going to find
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there can they make an appointment with
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you there or absolutely they can make it
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yes yes they can send me a message or
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you know they can reach me on social
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sites um so I'm going to put the social
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up right now it's ATL bodyw works as a
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matter of fact as we're doing this right
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now I know that you are live on Tik Tok
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that is where some of your peeps are so
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they yes they are yeah which is great
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it's really great um and so you're kind
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of like I like to say all over the place
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which is awesome um because you are
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reaching people all over the place any
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last thoughts you'd like to share with
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our audience and viewers whether again
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you're here live or in replay what are
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your thoughts anything that you have not
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said that you want to
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share there as I said before there are
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em there are emotions in the muscles I
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want you to really hydrate and sit and
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sit and become one with your body you
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would be amazed how amazing the human
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body is healing can really take place in
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the mind and the body if you feed it the
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right sources
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um massage is not a luxury it's a
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necessity everyone I believe needs a
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massage every everyone um just needs to
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heal and be kind to one
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another that's really kind of
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bit and as I say to everyone else stop
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playing and come get these hands yeah
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and you have some fans here that are you
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they you have great hands I appreciate
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you guys I think I need to take a trip
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to Atlanta
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is what I'm right now I want to thank
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our audience I want to thank you Kayla
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for joining us today um this was fun I I
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learned a lot about you and I know that
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our audience did as well I want to thank
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our audience you have a choice as to
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where you spent your time you chose it
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to spend it with us and we are eternally
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grateful go out give somebody an awesome
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day and we'll see you next time on Karen
19:52
Glasser live goodbye everyone be well
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thank you
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