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Caren Glasser goes live with Ann Collins on the next episode of Caren Glasser Live! We talk with her about her book Hope Loss enCourage. Pick up a copy of the book here: https://bit.ly/35PwWDj
Even through hardships, we all have the ability to find a little ray of light and hope. Hope Loss enCourage is a roadmap for anyone seeking to find their sub- conscious winner.
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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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welcome to karen glasser live i welcome
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today i am welcoming ann collins to the
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show
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anne's education is from life and from
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the ohio state university she has
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professional experience
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management sales marketing development
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and indiana politics
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in fact in 2016 anne ran from the
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road monroe county indiana treasurer
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anne enjoys writing however it doesn't
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come easy her book began as a journaling
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exercise towards healing when she lost
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her
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campaign and knows that the power of
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writing has given her hope through loss
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and she encourages her readers to engage
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in journaling as a way to express
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subconscious feelings and ultimately
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work through the difficult spots
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in their lives recently married and i
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mean recently
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like a month ago uh she now has seven
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adult children and
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four grandchildren so without further
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ado welcome to the show
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anne hi everyone
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so one month ago you got married and you
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now have
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lots of kids you have a wonderful hubby
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who i know is sitting right there with
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you
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so we just say hi to barry i'm glad that
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you're here
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um today our conversation is on your
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book hope
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loss in courage i love the name and i
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love
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how you actually named the book about
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what you went through in order to um go
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through that situation of not winning
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the election so first let's just start
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from the beginning tell us a little bit
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about yourself
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your background and how you came to be
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here today
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well like you said in the introduction
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i've done
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a lot of different things and kind of a
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jill of all trades
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an expert of none um
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but i've always i've always been a very
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uh people person
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and i love to encourage people i love to
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motivate them
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help them and that's where the writing
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and the book came from
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and writing is new to me but i
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so enjoy it so especially when you see
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that face of on someone
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that smile or eye contact that happens
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and and it's always fun to also see your
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book in the bookstore or on
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online right i'm a public author
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which is great so i normally like to ask
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my authors how long you've been writing
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but clearly you have not been writing
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that long in fact this is your first
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book and it just came out
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so how long ago did you start on this
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well i started thinking about writing i
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should say
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thinking uh after the election
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uh in 2016 it takes me a while like i
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mentioned in the book
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there was a lot there that i had
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kind of worked through um
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but when i started to think about what i
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went through
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and how i learned a different way of
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just trying to look at myself
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more positively i knew other people
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could use that
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too so let's talk about what the book is
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about what will people read when they
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open up your book and the inspiration i
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know is from the election but i'm sure
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it wasn't just the election you pulled
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from all facets of your life so what's
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the book about
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the book is about
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a struggle and maybe something that you
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just
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know you are going to win you're going
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to do great and
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you and then you don't your face
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and that's what the book's about and how
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i learned to look not at
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the actual falling on the face but to
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actually
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look at all of the the experiences
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that led to that day where i fell on my
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face
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and that's how i figured out
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each one of those experiences
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actually was a win because i met
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somebody
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i encouraged somebody i learned
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something
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all kinds of things and i think the
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message because you've said it now
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several times already in in the short
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time that we've been talking
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you fell on your face you fell on your
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phone so
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would it be fair to say that the message
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in the book is
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even if you fall on your face yes
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there is there is hope and there is a
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way to come
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out of that is that your inspiration is
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to be able to help people
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yes it is because i think obviously the
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older you get the more experiences you
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go through
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you realize that experiences are
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very valuable whether they were pleasant
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or not
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because you've met somebody you've
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learned
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something you've experienced an emotion
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and all that stuff is for us to grow and
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to learn
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and i just want to help people
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kind of look at the positive side of
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some of the things that aren't so
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positive
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and i think that's so important um in in
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in every day and every time but
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especially in this time i think that's
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so
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important you say that winning is
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finding the wins
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in everything you consider to defeat and
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using these to move forward would this
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be a good example
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yes um and i i think
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uh my book is not a political book but i
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think
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it's actually uh would be a good
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encourager just because of you know
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life in general the world with covid
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we have to kind of look at things
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differently and and find the value
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we do so we were talking about using our
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our our wins to
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take care of the defeats right that
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we're finding the wins
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in everything that we considered a dif
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if you're just tuning in we're talking
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to ann collins about her book
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hope loss encouraged so obviously we've
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already talked about hope loss and
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encouraged
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is that what where did you come up with
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this title it's a really great title
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well thank you um i think
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we all need a little hope and i
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the word lost is because every human
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being
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on the face of this earth is going to go
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through a loss
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you can get through life without it and
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encourage with the emphasis
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on courage because you need to encourage
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others based on what you've learned in
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life but also
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sometimes it takes a lot of courage to
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stand up and keep going absolutely
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absolutely um what do you hope
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your readers are going to take away from
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this book
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well i think it's it's more than just a
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um
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interesting read it's a short read i
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think there's some humor into it
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um so it's it's a fun read
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but i hope these they can see throughout
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the book
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the process of you know and it could
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have been something that happened
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a week ago or five years ago but
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how you can actually process that
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experience in your mindset
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and look at that loss or
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failure or mistake and actually find a
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win
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in it so you say
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i am only one but i am
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one what does that mean
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well i think a lot of us use
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i am only one person and use that as an
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excuse
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an excuse well i can't
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cure cancer or i can't feed the entire
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world so i shouldn't do anything because
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it doesn't matter
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right um but it really does because
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i can influence one person feed one
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person
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uh you know help one person
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and that changes the world it does
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it really does and it sounds like that's
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something that's really important to you
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that you do want to change the world so
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the question begs to be asked are you
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going to run for office again
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no and i hear your your husband in the
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background no
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not not going to do that at all
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i ran in 2016 and then i ran again in
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2018 for another position
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and um and i lost that one also
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so i think i will just add to the
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the world and the environment a
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different way
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hey that's fair that that's totally fair
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if you're tuning in and you want to know
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a little bit more about this book
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hope loss encourage that is the name of
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the book you can see it on the screen
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and i've just put a link to the book in
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the comments
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uh for you to go pick up a copy because
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i think that this is really i love first
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of all i love the
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the subtitle scenes from life's wins
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that's exactly what you're talking about
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um and i think this is important for all
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of us i i don't think that there's a
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single person on this planet that has
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not had a defeat in something
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and i think the trick is to figure out
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it
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how to turn it around and make it a win
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and and it sounds like that is exactly
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what you have done
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with this book why do you do what you do
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i mean why did you run for office why
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did you just i mean i know why you
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decided to write a book it took you
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through your journey but
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why are you doing what you're doing are
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you going to write another book
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yes uh it's actually about done so book
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number two will be out soon
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congratulations
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um i do what i do because
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again we're all on this earth for a
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short period of time
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and i want to make that time
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memorable i i want to help others
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if i can encourage people that makes me
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feel good
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and then i know my life made a
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difference
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so is writing books for everyone what
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would you tell someone if they'd said
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you know i had this thing going on and i
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think this makes sense for me i'm going
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to write a book what would you tell
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somebody who wants to go write a book
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i'd say get started and do it
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for several reasons uh through
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journaling
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and writing this first book that's what
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showed me that writing is powerful and i
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don't think
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or at least i didn't know before i did
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this
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writing is very powerful um
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emotional mentoring cathartic maybe
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yes and it's actually somewhat physical
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i've noticed when i've gone back into my
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journals
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there you could actually see how hard i
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was writing
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usually when i was upset or angry
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about something but you literally can
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see the difference of the pressure of
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the pen
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on the journals so if you want to write
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a book
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get started now because it may take
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six weeks it may take six years but
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it's valuable time for yourself
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because you are very important
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absolutely absolutely well
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i think that's great i think it's great
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before the show went live i said to you
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um do you have a superpower and i
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i grab my little you know my little uh
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wonder woman
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and my super power is i'm fearless i
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will do almost anything
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just just ask what's your superpower
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oh so uh you cut out just a little bit
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but um i would say my uh superpower
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is to encourage and that's not only
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encouraging myself
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that's encouraging others and
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doing all i can that way so buck says
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nice twist to the title he loved the
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title one of the hardest things is to
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find the courage to move forward after
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any type of loss thank you
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thank you for the comment would you
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agree yes
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vegan because as i say in the book there
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there were
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there was a short time where i just i
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didn't want to come out
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i'm sure i you know i i i never run for
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office i've never done
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any of that kind of stuff but there have
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been times i'm a singer where
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i've done something and and afterwards
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it's like
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it was no good it was not good but
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enough you have to find a way to come
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back out of it and you have to
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just uh put that smile and and and and
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move forward right and and do it again
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back
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get back on that so you did run again
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but instead of but instead of running a
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third time now you're just going to keep
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writing those books
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which i think is awesome which i think
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is awesome
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for those of you who are wondering how
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to stay in touch
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with anne we're going to give you some
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uh places to go because she's everywhere
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you can go visit anne on her website at
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author anne authorannecollins.com
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uh she's also on facebook and you can
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find her on facebook at
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author anne collins and
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she's also on youtube at ann collins
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imagine that and on instagram you can
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also find her there at
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author ann collins and finally on
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linkedin if you go to
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linkedin it's and dash collins
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so what's one tip that you can share
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that comes out of your life that has
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really made a difference in your life
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that you can share with our audience
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what's a tip you can share
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um the one tip i would tell people is
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to take that time with themselves
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personally
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uh doesn't have to be a quiet space it
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don't be closing your eyes while you're
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driving but
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i i think it's uh mentally emotionally
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important
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and as a as the mindset
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you can look at something that didn't
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work out and really find the value in it
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and then life is a little different
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because
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i've fallen on my face so many times now
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that i'm really not afraid of it anymore
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um interesting and is that what you
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think
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will happen when people just kind of you
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know step into that and step into their
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their their wins from their defeats yes
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i mean even like a bad day at the shop
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i will maybe not be in the best
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mood but i will look at that day and say
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this is an experience i am going to meet
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someone i am learning something
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and so it just makes it easier to get
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through the day get through the day
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happy
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and just know that there is a win from
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every day
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i i love that um again i'm going to put
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the book right back into the screen one
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more
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time so people can go get a copy of it
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hope loss encourage
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scenes from life's wins by ann collins
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the
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link is sitting in the uh comment area
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right now so you can go take a look at
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it over there
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i want to again thank has mark
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publishing international for sponsoring
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us today they are awesome we just love
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them over there
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um and i want to thank them for
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introducing me to you
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um because i i'm i have not yet read the
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book i have it on order actually
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and it's on its way to me so i can't
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dive into the book
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any last minute thoughts you want to
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share with everyone before we say
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goodbye
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um just uh step back and look at your
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life and
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find find the beauty in it because it's
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there
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it is it is definitely there i want to
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thank our
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our guest anne for being on the show
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today uh we really appreciate you taking
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the time i was
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i was laughing it looks beautiful out
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there it looks cold where you are and
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i'm sitting
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sleeveless top you know 110 degree
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weather
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uh what a couple hundred miles you know
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thousand miles
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and i want to thank our audience because
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you guys have a choice as to where you
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spend your time and you chose to spend
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it with us today
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i am internally grateful as i know
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anna's and we hope that you come back
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and join us on the next episode
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of karen glasser live goodbye everyone
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