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glasser live i welcome guests from all
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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
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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 campaign
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and knows that the power of writing has
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given her hope through loss and she
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encourages her readers
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to engage in journaling as a way to
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express subconscious feelings and
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ultimately work through the difficult
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spots in their lives
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recently married and i mean recently
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like a month ago uh
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she now has seven adult children and
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four grandchildren so without further
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ado
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welcome to the show anne hi everyone
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so one month ago you got married and you
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now
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have lots of kids you have a wonderful
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hubby who i know is sitting right there
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with 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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for anne um today our conversation is on
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your book
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hope loss in courage i love the name
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and i love how you actually named the
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book
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about what you went through in order
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to get through that situation of not
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winning the election so first let's just
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start from the beginning tell us a
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little bit 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
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on someone that smile or eye contact
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and it's always fun to also see your
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book in the bookstore or on online right
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i'm a public author which is great so i
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normally like to ask my authors how long
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you've been writing but clearly you have
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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 too
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so let's talk about what the book is
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about
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what will people read when they open up
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your book and the inspiration i know is
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from the election but i'm sure it wasn't
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just the election you pulled from all
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facets of your life so what's the book
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about 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
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and you and then you don't
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your face and
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that's what the book's about and how i
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learned
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to look not at the actual falling on the
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face
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but to actually look at all of
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the the experiences that led to that day
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where
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i fell on my face and that's how i
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figured out each one of those
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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
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already in in the short time that we've
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been talking you fell on your face you
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fell on your phone so
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i it would it be fair to say that the
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message 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 very
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valuable whether they were pleasant or
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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 it's actually
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uh would be a good encourager
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just because of you know life in general
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the world with covid we have to kind of
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look at things differently and
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and find the value we do i'm getting a
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message that
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somebody's saying the timing on the
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video is way off i'm going to ask you to
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do something right now and it's going to
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sound really bizarre
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but right next to where you put the url
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in there's a little
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way to refresh your browser can you go
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ahead and just refresh
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the browser do you see that little
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circle to the side of the url
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because i have a feeling that and i'm
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going to do the same thing so buck
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thanks for letting us know we're going
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to go in and come out so
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did you find that refresher okay go
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ahead and oh i refreshed it yeah
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i think well it would take you out of
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the show
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so here we go we're going to go and i'll
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be right back here we go
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and we're back um so
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we have somebody who's watching and buck
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was saying that the timing was off
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and i'm not and now we just lost
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anne so i'm gonna wait for her to come
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back
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in and
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and here she is
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and you're going to have turn your
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camera back on
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and she's back here we go
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all right so hopefully the timing is
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better on this um
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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 when
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finding the winds
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in everything that we considered if
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you're just tuning in we're talking to
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ann collins about her book hope loss
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encouraged
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so obviously we've already talked about
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hope loss and 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
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a loss you can get through life without
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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
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also sometimes it takes a lot of courage
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to 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 the process
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of you know and it could have been
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something that happened a week ago
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or five years ago but how you can
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actually
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process that 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 in it
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so you say i am only one
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but i am 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 i can't feed the entire
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world so i shouldn't
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do anything because it doesn't matter
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right um
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but it really does because i can
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influence one person
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feed one person uh
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you know help one person and that
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changes
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the world it does it really does and
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it sounds like that's something that's
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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
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asked are you going to run for office
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again no
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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 hey that's fair
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that that's totally fair if you're
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tuning in and you want to know a little
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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 the subtitle
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scenes from life's wins that's exactly
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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
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this planet that has not had a defeat in
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something
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and i think the trick is to figure out
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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 and
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are 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 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
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and i don't think or at least i didn't
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know before
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i did this writing is very powerful
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um emotional mentoring
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cathartic maybe yes and it's actually
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somewhat physical i've noticed when i've
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gone back into my 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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uh 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
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do you have a super power and i i grab
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my little
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you know my little uh wonder woman and
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my super powers i'm fearless i will do
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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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because as i say in the book there there
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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 you know i i i've 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 you
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have to have to find a way to come back
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out of it and you have to just uh put
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that smile and
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and and and move forward right and and
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do it again back get back on that so you
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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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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 linkedin it's and
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dash
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collins so what's one tip that you can
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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 uh doesn't have to be a quiet
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space that
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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 and as a
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as the mindset you can look at something
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that didn't work
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out and really find the value in it and
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then
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life is a little different because i've
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fallen on my face so many times now that
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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
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and step into their their their wins
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from their defeats
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yes i mean even like a bad day at the
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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
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and say this is an experience i am going
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to meet 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 time so people can go get a copy of
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it hope loss encourage scenes from
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life's
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wins by ann collins the link is sitting
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in
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the uh comment area right now so you can
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go take a look at 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
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we just love them over there um and i
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want to thank them for introducing me
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to you um because i i'm i have not yet
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read the book i have it on order
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actually and it's on its way to me
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so i can't dive into the book any
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last-minute thoughts you want to share
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with everyone before we
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say goodbye um
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just uh step back and look at your life
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and find find the beauty in it because
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it's there
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it is it is definitely there i want to
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thank our our
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guest anne for being on the show today
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uh we really appreciate you taking the
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time i was i was laughing
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it looks beautiful out there it looks
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cold where you are and i'm sitting
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sleeveless top you know 110 degree
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weather
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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
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us today i am internally grateful as i
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know anna's
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and we hope that you come back and join
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us on the next episode of
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