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how can you feel powerful at any age
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that question and so much more on the
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next episode of the little white lie
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hello everyone it's karen Glasser and
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happy new year i cannot believe we're
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already in the second week of January
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first show back and I am so delighted
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put the hashtag l WL so today we were
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talking about the statement how can you
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feel powerful
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at any age well our very special guest
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Morris weenie she's as a child she
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dreamed of traveling the world and
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making new friends and as a matter of
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fact she just came back from traveling
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the world so you you create what you
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think she left the matrix at age 23 to
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pioneer her own path to happiness
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passion and power and today she's an
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author a podcaster she also is a
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contributor to Huff Post who's been
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featured hundreds of times in the media
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for her views on influencer leadership
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and identity and she also is an
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international speaker as I just said
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she's been all around the world and I
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hope that she talks a little bit about
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where she was this last time and who she
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spoke for she's also the trademark
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ambassador of happiness how cool is that
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and what's really important to note
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about Mara is that she has accomplished
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all of this it has been self created
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self generated and self styled guess
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what starting at age 50 so without
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further ado I would like to bring in our
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special guest Laura Sweeney hello there
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hi Karen thank you for having
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I'm thrilled to be here today oh my gosh
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I you know we've been talking about
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doing this I think for over six months
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at this point and partly your schedule
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you've been all around the world and
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we're going to talk about that but
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somebody wants to say hello to you so
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I'm gonna put it on up here Yvonne heats
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and she's saying hello date to you and
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to me hello Karen from Coca Canada
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welcome so glad that you're here so
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before we start the show I always ask my
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guests what their little white lie is so
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Mara what is your little white lie
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take it away oh this is very easy and
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very appropriate for this show my little
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white lie is that I started getting gray
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hair at the age of 15 one-five and I
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started coloring it by my mid-20s I am
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all white but unfortunately I don't look
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as beautiful as you do at that that is
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hysterical well you've got me because I
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didn't start going white till I was 30
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but you know I mean that's part of the
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whole idea of the little white light
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it's not that you should have and here's
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what comes to mind I think many women
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hear the word power or powerful and they
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conjure up these ideas of what do men
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look like who were powerful when they
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were growing up or when they were going
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through the decades and they think of
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domineering they think of taking over
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and you know this is one interesting
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thing I've had women tell me that when
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they got into the workforce they started
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taking on all of those same attitudes
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for me power has nothing to do with
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domineering or taken over other people
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but it's the whole idea of year of
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living inside your own energy and then
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exuding it everywhere you go from the
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inside out which is why I always use
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that mantra living happy from the inside
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out
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your energy is your power I love that
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answer
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I look I have to just ask you you're the
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ambassador of happiness weird how did
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you get that title and how cool is that
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you know I actually made the decision as
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a small child I was gonna grow up to be
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happy and I was going to grow up to be
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free even though it supposed to be
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growing up to be a lawyer but that was
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what I chose
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I wasn't really happy as a child I
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always felt like I was in a box but I
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got the title or the name when I was
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invited to speak at the inaugural Nelson
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Mandela Day celebrations outside our
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nation's capital it was hosted by the
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UNESCO Center for Peace and they wanted
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to know my title and I said well it's
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just me and they said we have to give
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you a title and they realized I travel
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the world I wrote about what makes us
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feel happy from the inside out and that
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was the United they said we've got it
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you're the ambassador of happiness and
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once everybody heard it it was like
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Maura that's exactly what you are is
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they said go trade market so now I'm
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official I love that Maura that is an
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amazing story and it just goes to the
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power of the mind right you're just out
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there doing your thing and look what
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happens you know what thanks for saying
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that care because I am so much about the
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mind you would think like looking at me
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I'm animated that I'm an outside person
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but really everything I am started from
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the inside and I really envisioned
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myself the Goodwill Ambassador as a
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child I didn't have a title for it and I
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think that whole everything that I ever
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did was all in preparation for these
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things I'm doing today so again I made
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it up out of my own minds well it was a
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very nice place in there Kim Castle said
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love that me too hi I just really I
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really like this so okay I'm kind of a
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structure girl and I'm a list maker and
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in surprise for anybody that knows me
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but are there steps to developing your
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power I mean is there like a checklist
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if I do this and I do this is there such
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a thing I've never thought about it as a
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checklist but I do have a couple of
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ideas
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first of all spend a little bit of time
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every day by yourself and with yourself
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do you know most of us are always
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getting all of our ideas from everybody
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else and then we mistake their ideas for
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our ideas their values for our values
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and their stuff for our stuff so I would
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say spend even a couple of minutes every
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day by yourself and say to yourself
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whether it's the morning or the evening
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what do I feel good about right now what
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am i enjoying what makes me feel
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empowered or what we
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makes me feel disempowered hi April I
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know I feel painful crudos in there for
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April who introduced us live here Thank
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You April April the next thing I would
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say is never you always have this choice
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in every situation am I making myself
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into a victim or am i turning myself
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into a beneficiary and if more than
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anything caring that has carried me
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through life because it's a little child
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I used to feel like a victim I can't do
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this I can't go there and I used to
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think I am miserable being this way so I
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need to say how can I turn this around
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to something good and a beneficiary
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mindset is I may not like where I am
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right now but whatever it is this is
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working together for something good
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which is where you get beneficiary from
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goodie love bad that is power that is
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such power I kid you not
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those are great great great tips okay so
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now you have one more no I could give
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you more I could keep talking on
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anything carrying those you've been
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commenting down there let's look little
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bit more give us one more I'm going to
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look through the comments and then I'm
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gonna put some stuff up here you know
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what else I'm gonna give is another one
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that I love get out of your comfort zone
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if you want to know your power step out
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of your comfort zone so many of us want
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to do things we have an idea we have
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where maybe we're creatives maybe
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there's something we never did before we
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have to give ourselves permission to
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step out of the comfort zone just say
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I'm gonna give it a try I'm gonna give
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it a whirl and you know it's in the
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doing of it that we get our power we
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lose our fear to me overcome
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insecurities we become far more
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forgiving of ourselves we grow in
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knowledge natural confidence and there
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it is that's a biggie that is a huge one
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and you left that one for the last oh my
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gosh all right and by the way since I
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could do this because I guess we could
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do anything on your show I wrote a book
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about exiting the comfort zone and
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anybody who wants to write to me you
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figure out how they could do it they
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could write Mora out more for you calm
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or they could do for you it doesn't
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matter if they've been your idol right
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applause all right I will send the
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the book exiting the comfort zone it's
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all it's all for them on gaining their
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map number four right for number four
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maura number four letter you calm calm
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okay guys and putting it up on the
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screen you just heard it here first
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you're gonna get a complimentary copy
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sent directly to you from our thanks
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Laura thank you that's very very nice
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thank you doing things I appreciate that
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I really appreciate that okay so I know
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that you have been you just got back you
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were all around the world I mean you
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were speaking everywhere tell us a
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little bit about your journey I thought
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you were on television you were what
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were you doing again I made it up but I
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was Bob I joined my husband thank God
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for this man who could get me from point
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A to B to C today we were gone for about
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four weeks and we went to Albania
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Macedonia Kosovo Serbia and Greece and I
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spoke in 15 venues to leadership
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conferences universities to American
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embassy outposts oh gosh a woman's
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entrepreneur group and I was on national
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TV in three of those places so it was a
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busy time I loved it I met new people
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plus I got together with other people I
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already knew and Here I am I'm literally
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doing everything I love getting to meet
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new people being in different
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environments sharing ideas hopefully
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inspiring people and who's fun I
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literally I'm this I'm in awe of you
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actually because you you created
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something out of what started as a trip
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with your husband I'm gathering to go oh
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I say I joins him because he literally
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could figure out how to get me on
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special buses and and everything but no
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he sends me on my own to well in a
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couple of months I'll be going back to
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The Hague to speak again at a Women's
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Conference and so our viewers it's clear
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you need to get to know Maura
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okay need to get to know her and one of
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the things that I want to bring up right
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now is that more I know you have a
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special it's hate that we use the word
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offer but but you you have a program
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it's called foundations of having
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why don't you tell us a little bit about
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it and I'm gonna actually put a link at
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the bottom here it's you can its
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hyperlink you can click on it you're
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giving 50% off the program to our
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viewers so why don't you tell us a
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little bit about the program okay it's
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very it's a self-study course and I
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actually had to put it together because
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so many people after hearing me speak or
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reading some of my blogs or listening to
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my podcast would say Maura I hear you
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but I need to know more of the house how
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do I take myself from where I am to
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where I want to be how do I have more
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power how do I feel more like my
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authentic self so instead of being a
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one-on-one coach I just created this
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program it is it is totally immersive
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there things to read like as in stories
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there are videos to watch there are
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audios to listen to and what it is this
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self-study course that goes into your
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mind what are your thoughts about what's
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the narrative you've given to yourself
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maybe what are some unforgiveness issues
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where do you want to grow what did you
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always want to be how do you change
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where you've been and even should we
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reposition the fabric and the design of
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your life and use all of those elements
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the good the bad the things you thought
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were wonderful and the things you
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thought were terrible and put them
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together and reposition yourself into
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something new and fresh and authentic
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empowering and most of all happy and I
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think the happiness really comes from
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being free to be yourself and express
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yourself I love that you know what when
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I grow up I want to be you I want to
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have what you're having I truly do I
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want to have what you're having you
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really inspire me you inspire me by your
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ability just to get out there and do
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what you're doing and getting out of
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your own backyard and as my good friend
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Joey Garrity likes to say the
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uncomfortable is the new comfortable and
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sometimes we just have to be
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uncomfortable go visit more on her
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website you can also visit her via
12:51
Twitter and if you want to go check her
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out on Facebook here is all of her her
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facebook link it's it's there's no
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should not be two little dots there so
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please disregard it should be FB com
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/for for you and go check her out there
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any last words you want to share with
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our viewers before
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we say goodbye because we we have
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already ran out of time
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oh my gosh I knew it was gonna be so
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quick but good Karen I would say for
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anybody who's listening today there will
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never be another you and the world has
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been waiting for you so what things you
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have within you that you want to explore
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that you want to express give yourself
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permission today to do it and to step
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out of that comfort zone and if you
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don't give yourself permission know that
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I just gave it to you how's that is a
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good clothes that's a great clothes but
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we're actually gonna say we're big fat
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liars because I have a question here
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from evil rubber and if you can take a
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couple of minutes maybe let's we look at
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this and see if we can give her some
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tips what should people do who don't
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like to do anything by themselves you
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have any tips for people who find
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themselves wanting to transform with an
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accountability partner any tips oh see
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with this they don't like to do anything
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by themselves do you know I used to feel
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that was the model you had to do
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something with other people and I'm
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gonna tell you why I became something
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else is because I wanted to be a
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positive model for my daughter I
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purposely made myself go to events
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sometimes it was social events sometimes
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it was networking events sometimes just
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to the theater I would go all by myself
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and I would learn to make myself
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comfortable and guess what now I have to
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tell this to April
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there were times that maybe I'm going
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somewhere my husband said hey you wanna
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invite so-and-so to go with you and I
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think no I don't want them to slow me
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down just do it I love it start small
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great at the great answer and I want to
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thank you because it's a great way to
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kind of come to a close for this show we
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want to thank everyone for taking time
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out of your busy schedule to spend it
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with us cuz we know you have choices
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we're busy out there thank you for
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sharing it with us we will see you next
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time on the next episode of a little
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white lie goodbye everyone
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