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International Best-selling Author Janet-Lynn talks with us about her new book Forever is Today. You can pick up a copy her new book “Forever is Today” here: https://amzn.to/3cDCCFv As a woman of grace, self-starting entrepreneur, and mother of three girls she knows what it means to fight for the ‘now.’ As an author, speaker, mindset expert, and professional risk-taker, she thrives to embrace the power of love and positivity.
Janet-Lynn has overcome so many impossible situations in her life and each one has taught her how to not only survive but to thrive. Today, she embraces failure as her biggest teacher and is passionate about living life to the fullest potential
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coming in from so tell us where you're
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coming in from today we
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are welcoming janet lynn to the author's
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spotlight
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let me give you a little bit of
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information background about janet lynn
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she's a mother
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a business owner an author inspirational
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speaker and more
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she lives by the slogan live impossibly
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don't you just love that
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and state she has overcome so many
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impossible situations in her life
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and that each one has taught her how to
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not only survive but to thrive as she
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embraces the power
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of love and positivity so without
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further ado we bring
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janet lynn into the show hey gentleman
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how are you
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i'm very well thank you so much karen
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and thank you for having me here on your
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wonderful show
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well i am just so excited to have you on
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the show and first before we even kick
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this
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off i want to congratulate you on
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becoming an
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international bestseller for your book
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how exciting is that what did you
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celebrate
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i did i did celebrate i'm still
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celebrating today and
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you know a lot of people ask me about
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celebrating and it's really
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wonderful to have a wonderful feeling
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inside of you
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and that's really the best celebration
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is just being very happy with my
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accomplishment
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and i'm so happy that the book's out
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there now so thank you
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and i'm so excited that you're coming on
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and and kind of
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sort of launching today as well uh the
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book so
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the book is called forever is today and
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um
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first thing i'd like to really ask you
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is um
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tell me how the story first came to be
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did it start as an image or a voice or
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concept dilemma did you wake up in the
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morning at 4 am or 5 a.m in the morning
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and say
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i need to write a book how did this come
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to be
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i've wanted to be an author my entire
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life ever since i was a small girl
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and i've been trying to think of a an
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idea for a book
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that would be reengaging in something
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that's very different
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than what is already out there so i'm an
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avid reader
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i love movies and i was thinking
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of the book as a movie so
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i had an idea and the inspiration behind
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the book is one of my daughters i have
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three and my middle daughter um has
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something going on with her and i
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thought
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this would be very interesting idea for
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a book so i just kept thinking about it
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and thinking about it i love to go out
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for nature walks and really think about
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things and i kept inviting ideas to come
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to me
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and so the day that i figured it out was
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an amazing day and i ran
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home from my walk and i started to write
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and i didn't stop i wrote every day
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until i was done six months
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it's finished so it was wonderful
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awesome that's awesome
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so once you knew what you were doing you
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just you took off and did it
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your main character is joel and b now b
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is your daughter take is it
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is about is your daughter was the um
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the person that you had in the
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background as you decided to create that
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character who's joel
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i would say that joel is me
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i think that many uh he's narrating the
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book
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in first person and i just i think that
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a lot of his ideas
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a lot of his thoughts and emotion is
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really me and
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we all become the people that we spend
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our most amount of time with and the
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people that we love and
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keep in our lives are those people so i
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would say that not only is it me but
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it's little pieces of everybody in my
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life that i love and
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the the best parts of them are joel
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what a wonderful legacy that you leave
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for your family if you're just tuning in
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we're talking to janet lynn
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and we're talking about her new book
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forever is today if you have any
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questions you want to ask
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feel free to put them in the comments
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and we will put them up on the screen
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okay so before we went live today we
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were talking about how to read your book
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and you said something really
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interesting you said you know most
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people don't read the epilogue
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and you want people to read the epilogue
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how come i do very much so you'd want to
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start with the prologue and start at
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chapter one after that and go right
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through the book
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something happens and you're left
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feeling
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that like something like you know how
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the book is going to end
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but a real wonderful twist that you
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cannot see coming
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and when you read the epilogue it all
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comes together so don't read it first
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you have to read
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last and you'll be so happy that you did
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i love that so you heard it here
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first and um make sure you let us know
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come on back to the show after you've
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read the book and tell us what you
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thought about
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the surprise that's great now you know
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one of the questions that you ask
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is what would you do if you only had
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today i find that a very
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powerful question and is that where the
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slogan live and possibly comes from or
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is it something completely different
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where did you come up with this
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well the slogan live impossibly is
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basically i i love when people challenge
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me and say
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oh you can't do that i love hearing
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those words
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yet because it really fires me up right
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and
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i i've lived my whole life like that my
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mother said
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that she knew i was going to be a
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difficult child
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to raise because i came out but first
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and
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i have gone through my life just sort of
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doing things my way
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and finding um different ways to go
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about things so i do everything a little
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bit backwards but
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i get the most out of life that way and
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so i really like to invite
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the impossible into my life so that i
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can find ways to
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make it possible and as i mentioned
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before
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or as you mentioned there's a lot of
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things i've gone through in my life that
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were
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basically impossible situations and so
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when i asked people what would you do if
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today was your last day because forever
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really is today
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yesterday is finished and tomorrow is
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not promised
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and i think that for myself i
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like to ask that question because it's
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all about forgiveness and
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if you only had today wouldn't you want
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to forgive all the people who've hurt
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you and wouldn't you want to be forgiven
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so i think that that's a really powerful
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thing
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so true and especially in this world
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that we're living in
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right now where you just don't know from
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moment to moment
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um who might be afflicted by
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the virus or who might what might happen
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tomorrow so i i really love that
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question and i really love the fact
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that we should live in the moment um
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another thing that you say that i'm just
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fascinated with is that you have this
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whole thing
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um thoughts about failure
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do you like failure do you not like
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failure do you think we should fail our
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way to success
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what does failure mean to you be an epic
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failure everyone it's like bring it on
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again it's through our failures that we
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learn
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so i don't think of failure as negative
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at all and i think so many people are
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afraid of failure
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that they're actually missing out on a
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whole life
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for themselves so many experiences and
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opportunities to grow learn
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achieve and to become successful you
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must
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try things you've got to get out of your
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comfort zone
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you've got to start saying yes and
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opening up new doors
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new horizons and i'm just really
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passionate about
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um demonstrating that and talking to
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people about that and
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shaking them a little bit and waking
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them up and saying you know life is
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happening right now today
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and you just if there's something that
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you want to do if this something that
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you've always wanted to
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uh experience just go out there and do
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it and
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your whole life is going to change for
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that i i agree with you i like to say
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failure wasted to success if you're not
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failing
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you're you're you're doing something
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wrong because you
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grow we're talking to janet lynn about
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her new book and i just wanted to put it
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up on the screen it's called forever is
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today
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um there will be a link that goes into
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the comments in just a second if you
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want to go pick up a copy
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i know you do it's an amazing book so go
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check it out
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um and we're going to just keep on going
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i can see that
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that the book is actually sitting in the
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comments right now so
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i always like to ask the authors how
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many hours a day do you write and you
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already told me that you just kept going
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and going and going if you were to go
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and write another book
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at this point how many hours you put in
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every day
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well i actually do have a book on the go
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right now it's in the editing phase and
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it's going to be my first
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non-fiction book and it's going to have
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a global impact and i'm really excited
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about it so
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um in order to keep on with the fresh
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ideas
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i try to minimize my writing time to
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about two hours per day and the most
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important thing for me is just
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consistency to just do it every day so
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some days it might go a little over and
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some days it might be a little less
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but i make sure i write every day and i
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think that that's it
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the consistency is what what gets that
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book out there right
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i mean yeah exactly um
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so does writing energize you i already
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know the answer to this does
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writing because i can tell does writing
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energize you or does it exhaust you
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karen everything that i set out to do
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every day
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is something that energizes my soul and
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that just fills me up
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if it's not gonna do that then i'm not
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going to do it so
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it definitely does and it's just
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sometimes
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you can be tired once you've really put
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something out there
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but the effort and the fatigue it's a
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wonderful feeling and it is energizing
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it's energizing to feel that way it
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feels so good it's like look what i just
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did and
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you can just really be happy about
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accomplishing something
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oh it's so wonderful you know um
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do you have people asking you like what
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tips can you give me about writing a
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book i'm going to put you up on the on
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the screen
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solo so that you can just take over
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right now and what is one of those tips
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or two tips that you'd like to share if
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somebody is thinking i want to write a
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book what would you tell them
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okay hi um one of the
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tips that really helps me if i'm writing
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something that's fiction
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is i try to imagine that i'm watching a
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movie
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i love movies and so i will go
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scene by scene in my mind and i'll just
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start writing and
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and then it just sort of opens up so
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it's really a wonderful thing to do
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if it's non-fiction i think that the
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biggest thing that i can tell you that
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will help you and it has helped me
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a lot you need to believe in yourself
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and it's okay
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if you didn't get your arm bitten off by
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a shark and it's okay if you didn't have
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something
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major happen to you in your life it's
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not about that it's about
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knowing that you have been through a lot
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of different things and you know
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you and you have something that you want
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to share with the world
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and you need to do it so believe in
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yourself and just
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write oh i love that oh i
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i love that totally totally love that
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um do you do anything quirky
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when you're writing your books well um
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i think that i'm usually writing
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in the wee hours of the night that's
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when i find my
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creative side is that so i probably
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do a lot of different things that i'm
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not aware of but again i'd really like
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to see
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the book as a movie and i like to close
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my eyes and imagine
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that i'm that person and just come up
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with some really fun
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things and um i'd say that's kind of
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quirky
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so what is the last book you read
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or maybe more importantly what was the
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best book you read during quarantine
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because we're in quarantine
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um the best book that i read is written
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by
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dr joe dispenza and it's
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something about breaking your habits i
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read so much i
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don't even remember the exact title but
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dr joe dispenza i read a lot of
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non-fiction
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books and um i think it's just a
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marvelous book so
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you're a personal development person i
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read a lot of personal development
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and stuff like motivational books and i
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happen to agree with you on that
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do you have a favorite childhood book
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um when i was a child i was reading
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books that i shouldn't have been reading
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most likely i had a thing for stephen
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king books i have this other side of me
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that
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is just the allure of strange
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happenings and dark things um
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it interests me and it just helps me to
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i think deal with all the things in life
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that aren't wonderful it just helps me
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to
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sort of take them all in and i just like
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the imaginat
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the imagination part of it and just
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losing myself and the
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unreality of stephen king's mind and his
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amazing ideas well you and my son my son
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is a huge stephen king
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follower he i think he's read every
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single book that stephen king is
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has written um i'm just i'm interested
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i'm interested if you know people hear
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about
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writer's block right we hear all the
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time i have a writer what does that
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actually mean
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is that is that when you sit down and
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literally know words
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what does it mean to you and what do we
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tell people if they're saying oh i have
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writer's block what am i gonna i can't
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write
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i'm gonna get into trouble here but i
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don't believe in writer's block there
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you go
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that it's an excuse and if you do
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feel like it's real for you that's okay
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but i would really love to
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have you push through it and really
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fill yourself up with something that
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energizes you listen to some music
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if you're dancing if dancing's your
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thing then do a little dance
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get some ice cream go cook something up
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in the
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kitchen uh have a glass of wine go out
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for a jog just do something
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and come right back to it and just push
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through that barrier
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that feels like writer's block and it
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works every time i guarantee it
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so there are many different ways that
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people can get in touch with you and
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they can
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follow you the first thing i want to
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make sure that people go and visit your
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website
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um it's beautiful and they would go to
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www.janetdashlin
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and then there are lots of other ways
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that people can get in touch with you so
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i'm going to go ahead and and put
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the social media up on the screen and
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i'm going to put it on so long the
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reason why i'm doing that is that all of
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these links by the way guys who are
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watching right now and even on replay
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those links are going to go
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into the comments and on twitter you can
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follow janet lynn
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at janet underscore lynn 2020
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you can also follow her on facebook at
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janet lynn
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2020 and finally on
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instagram you can follow janet lynn on
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instagram at janet lynn
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morrison so lots of different ways to
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get in touch
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with janelyn as i like to say you're
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everywhere
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and the other thing that i really want
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people to take a look at is that we have
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that link that i put over there for your
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book we put some other things in this
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box
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of cool things like a kindle reader
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because your book is on kindle and
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people can go get the kindle white paper
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and they can read it
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on kindle they can also get the paper
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back because you are on different
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different kinds of ways for people to
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get their their media
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is there anything that you would like to
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share with our
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audience that we have not touched upon
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that you feel is important
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about the book and about you sure um
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first of all i just wanted to say
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quickly that it's going to be available
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on audible
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as well it will be later in february and
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early march
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and you get that to me janet lynn and we
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will put it
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into the all the information so people
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can go listen to an audible that's
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exciting
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yeah and it's my voice and there's a
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part of the book that my daughter
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reads which is really neat and then
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there is a portion of the book at the
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beginning so if you do
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happen to order the book it explains the
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augmented reality experience which is
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quite new
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it's come is the first to have it
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and you can download an app onto your
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phone
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and you'll get an augmented reality
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experience and again it's my
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my voice and my daughter so i think
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that's really exciting
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and i want to share with everyone too is
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a lot of people don't know this about me
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but i'm also a classical pianist and i
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just love
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classical music and i also run
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and running is something that um just to
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give a little bit of background on that
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i'm i'm not a runner i've always done
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sports and fitness and i love that
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and i was that person that used to see
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people driving by
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and um i'd be driving by and i think
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look at that person running like how can
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they do that and
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secretly i really wanted to be like them
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and many times throughout my life i've
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tried
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to go for a little jog here and there
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and i'm more of a sprinter
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and i just thought there's no way so
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something that people don't know about
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me and i wanted to just put it out there
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into the world
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and it's that i want to run in the
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boston marathon
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so i started training yeah last mother's
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day and i've been running
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almost every day since and i'm up to a
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very comfortable
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25 kilometers and i'm getting there
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so i'm very excited about that and i
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think it goes on
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that but that goes in alignment with
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what you were saying about failure
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and that is that you should just do it
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you you shouldn't worry about
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the failure because with the failure
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comes success
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and so even though you had never run
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before or competitive you are doing it
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and whether you whether you come in
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first or last it doesn't matter because
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you have done it and that is such an
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important message
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for me personally um i i live by that
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and thank you for sharing that
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with everyone else um you know we
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people always say you know how do i get
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in touch with karen and all that so i'm
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gonna put all of my stuff
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up there and put it up on solo you can
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connect with karen glasser on karen
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glasser live facebook
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you can also connect with me on
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instagram at karenglasser
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and you can connect with me on twitter
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i know at karen glasser it's
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so original at karen glasser i want to
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thank all of our viewers for joining us
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today because you have a choice as to
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where you spend your time and we
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are eternally grateful that you chose to
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spend it with janet lena and myself
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today
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i hope that you had a good time i know
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that you did go out and tell a friend
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about the show
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and oh you know what i completely forgot
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to mention something because this is
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really really exciting karen glasser is
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now
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on the roku channel how cool is
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that there is a link in the comments go
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ahead and
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click on it because you add it to your
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roku channel and now you can watch janet
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lynn
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on the roku channel along with all the
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other amazing guests
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go out and give someone an awesome day
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janet lynn you have an amazing day thank
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you so much for joining us today
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and we'll see you next time on the
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