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it's your hot ticket to travel I discuss
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this and much much more with my very
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special guest Travel event connector and
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founder of genius etc rose to FOIA on
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today's show welcome to the super boomer
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lifestyle show where we are all about
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super boomers and beyond and we talk
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about things that will Hance your
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lifestyle your health your empowerment
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and come back and visit us so Rose
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Tafoya she's our special guest today and
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she always likes to say better together
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when we travel together we're gonna be
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talking about that I love that that
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slogan she's the founder of genius etc
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an entrepreneur travel connection
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adventure service and she encourages
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traveling on purpose we're going to talk
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about that as well she's also the super
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boomer lifestyle travel expert and I am
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excited to welcome her to the show today
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so come on in Rose join the show how are
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you today uh hi Karen how are you I am
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so awesome it ought to be a sin I know
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it's great thank you for having me on
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today this is gonna be so much fun I
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can't wait well I'm really happy that
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you're here I'm really happy that you're
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here you know this is premiere of our
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season three so welcome to the very
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first episode of season three excited to
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be back in the saddle and we're going to
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just start right off by talking about
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super boomers because I'd like to ask
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people what a super boomer is and then
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they asked me and they go I don't know I
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don't even know what a super boomer is
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so let me give you my definition and
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then I'm gonna ask you what yours is
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when I think super boomer I think super
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boomers are not defined by their age and
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they're fearless and they it's how they
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show up in life and they don't
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they don't say well I'm this age and I'm
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supposed to do that that's how I
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describe a super boomer what says you
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rose what's a super boomer I think a
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super boomer for me is it lifestyle
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it's a lifestyle of fun and never saying
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no and being curious I mean I think
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being a super boomer means that you're
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flexible you are willing to go that
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extra mile and not to just think that
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you're getting old because that's just
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the thought that can go away you know
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staying youthful being playful having
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fun you know it's it's all part of just
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life so don't let age define you and
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travel right and travel absolutely
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Travel goes without saying Travel is
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like yes it goes without saying and as
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our good buddy Joey Garrity likes to say
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you need to be prepared and at the drop
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of a dime to start and you know get
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ready to travel right and so um we're
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gonna jump right in you know back in
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2012 I actually produced over 20 events
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I hip-hop across the country back and
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forth yeah I know what was I thinking I
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don't know what I was thinking and I
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actually swore I would never do it again
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but at the end of the year after doing
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all of those vents we actually took a
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business cruise 50 people joined me on a
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business cruise and we went off the
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upper florida we went all over the place
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and we had great speakers because I got
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it I got the idea that when you travel
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you get to meet lots of really cool
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people right and you get to learn lots
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of really cool things and you are a
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travel connector that's what you do so
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you advocate traveling on purpose what
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does that mean traveling on purpose um
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bottom line is that when you travel
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travel with an intention of what is it
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that you want from that travel trip do
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you want to meet new people do you want
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to experience new foods new cultures do
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you want to learn something new do you
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want to help the environment in that
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area what is it that you want to do when
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you travel or do you just want to go
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away on the beach and just relax and
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just have some R&R for yourself what is
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love driving so traveling on purpose
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that's what that comes from I totally
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love that and I'm always prepared I just
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put up an image up here
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I travel believe it or not in my car I
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have a little suitcase this one that
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basically and I'll put it up there so
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but you can see it it has all my cords
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because I'm a geek right it has my phone
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cords it has my computer cords it has my
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my power cords it has everything do you
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have something like that it's called my
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purse my purse my purse becomes that I
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love it I love it you know so guys you
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know what one of the things that I like
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to encourage you is to go check out the
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super boomer lifestyle store because all
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of these things that we're going to be
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showing today and we're going to be
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sharing with you you can get in the
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store so that you are prepared now one
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of the things that I really like that
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you say you have this thing called TNT
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what is TNT stand for TNT is travel and
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transformation but it's kind of we all
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recognize TNT as dynamite yes yeah loads
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them you know just being a boomer so TNT
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is I bring the TNT and you bring the
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spark oh my gosh that's such a visual
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right that it's such a visual how many
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of you guys out there do you think that
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when you go to travel it's going to be
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one of those explosive occasions that
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you are going to learn so much put
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comments down there tell us about how
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you travel tell us about what that
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experience it is and let us know are you
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if Rose tells you we got an event coming
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up what she's going to do are you ready
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to get on a plane or a car or an
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automobile or a bus or it may be even
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your bicycle to go visit Rose this is
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all right so Rose tell me a little bit
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about your why why do you do this so the
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reason why I do this and why I travel I
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just you know I thought about this with
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my why and I've been thinking about it
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Karen I want to take you back a little
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bit alright I want to take you back to
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when I was a child and the why started
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there when I took a field trip traveling
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on an airplane for a school field trip I
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knew right then and there I wanted to be
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a stewardess we called them stewardesses
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and then you know why because it was
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traveling somewhere fun a new experience
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the stewardesses were very fashionable
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and they served people it it kind of
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tapped into everything that I do and I
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when I look when I thought about this
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question going forward I'm thinking you
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know I've been doing this my entire life
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this is something that I've been wanting
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to do so what I and why I do it is to
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help others discover some of the things
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I have experienced with traveling and
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also bringing education to it so the
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genius etc.the brings education and
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adventure together so it's building a
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platform so people can travel and learn
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while there while they're having some
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fun as well what are you thinking
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together why do you think some of the
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challenges are as we get older as we
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become those super boomers and and we
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get a little bit older are there
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challenges that we experience as an
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older person or is it just travel as an
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experience doesn't change what do you
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think well I think that the normal
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things about traveling as we get older
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sometimes where we're not as tolerant
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maybe our bodies aren't as tolerant in a
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in a seat for so for so many hours but
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really when it comes down to it you
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really choose how you want to travel
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there's different types of traveling
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it's really where you're at mentally
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where you're physically and you find a
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group or you find a tour or you find
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some your your keeps and your tribe to
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travel with so that you're all on the
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same page so no I don't think depending
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on age it doesn't really matter what
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your age is there's there's types of
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travel for all age levels all activity
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levels so yeah so you know this this uh
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I've actually changed as I've gotten
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older a stick I used to travel with oh
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my gosh and I'm sure a lot of people are
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like this I used to travel with so much
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luggage that it is surprising that I
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actually got anywhere because I would go
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stand in the in the luggage place and I
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would sit there and wait and wait for
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the gazillion bags that will come I now
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travel with one bag I'd literally I
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don't know I maybe you do the same thing
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I want something that I can put under my
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seat on the plane or in the overhead and
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I travel light what are some thoughts
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and some recommendations for people that
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to travel well I think when you want to
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travel so you can travel light because I
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believe that is the number one thing
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travel light it will make your life so
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think about what you're gonna put in
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you know go at the same color scheme of
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what your wardrobes going to be breena's
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scarf that you can intertwine with a lot
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I typically wear black and Gray's and
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then I bring different scarves and
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things that will accent that outfit so
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you're wearing less clothing or you're
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bringing less clothing in your bag
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there's ways that you can find fabrics
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of clothing that rolls very easily and
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it doesn't wrinkle so those are some of
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the things I think about when I travel
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is you know finding the Wardrobe that
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can go for many many days and that you
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can rinse and wash in your room and dry
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really fast and be able to wear the next
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couple of days or whatever see and I
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tend to have stuff already packed
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believe it or not I use these little uh
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packing cubes and I know that I can just
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grab I throw it in my suitcase I have
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you know my my pair of jeans a couple of
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tops that I might want to wear if I'm
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going to go to a business event I might
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wear a pack a pair of black slacks that
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kind of thing and I'm always prepared
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with my toiletry bag because who wants
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to pack your toiletry bag in fact that's
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one that is one of those things that if
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I have to do it each time
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I'm not going to travel I'm just not you
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are so right on and you know Karen it's
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so funny this year I traveled with my
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daughter to Bali a couple of months ago
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and I saw that she did not have a
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toiletry bag with anything I said Tiana
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brush oh no do you have this no I'm like
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oh my gosh so you know what I did for
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her for Christmas as I bought a bag and
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I filled with all the toiletries that
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you need you know even like down to the
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shout that you put for like a stain all
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the things that you would need when you
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travel and I was just in LA in her area
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and she was traveling and guess what she
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had taken the whole bag with her but she
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was so jazzed about it that gift she's
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like oh my god it's all there you know
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all those things that you think you need
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and you can just make little travel-size
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and have that bag ready to go so you can
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apps absolutely I mean because if you're
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not ready to go and again you know Joe
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give a shout out to Joey you know she's
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always talking about be prepared so if
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you get the call to come do a speaking
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engagement or if you get the call to go
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to an event that you're not thinking I
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don't have the time to do this be
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prepared it's like a Girl Scout right be
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prepared all right and also be prepared
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with your passport that's one thing that
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some people need to think about as well
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so you have to have six months left on
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your passport to be able to travel out
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of the country so if your passports
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going to expire within a month and you
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need to travel you need to look at that
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so and also with your pages you need to
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have six pages if you're doing visas or
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whatever so make sure your passports
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current and ready to go as well I
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actually I'm going on a cruise at the
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end of the year and my passport is going
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to expire two months after the cruise
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has started and I know you have to have
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six months so I'm right now in the
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process of getting my passport renewed
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and all of that that's such a great tip
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any other tips that people should
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remember if they want to be ready to
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I think probably that and also just you
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know be prepared like with your health
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you know have all of your your medicines
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up-to-date you know if you know you're
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going to travel make sure you get your
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prescriptions refilled or you know do
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all of that maintenance for yourself
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your health and and just that's one
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thing I always say that you know be
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ready to go like if you're wanting a
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manicure if you know that this for
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example you're a speaker you need to be
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ready to go you need to make sure your
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eyebrows are waxed your your fingers or
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your fingers whatever you want you need
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to have the maintenance done so that's
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something that should always be ready to
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go so for those of you who are watching
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live or on replay how do you prepare for
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a trip how do you get ready are you
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ready in advance do you have a travel
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bag do you have the the cubes packed you
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have all your chords in one place how do
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you prepare for a trip comment below let
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prepare because that's important I see
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right behind you rose you have this
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beautiful image and I actually put it up
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on the screen as well tell us a little
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bit about this okay so this this really
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speaks to me I bought this print in Los
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Angeles a month ago for an event that I
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was doing down there
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and I was looking for something to put
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on my table and I ran into this and it
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just speaks to me because it's really
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where my heart is I love to travel I
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love our country I love our world I try
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to do everything I can to make an impact
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in our world so this whole globe of
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loving each other and loving the the
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globe and to travel and to know new
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cultures and to know new people and to
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explore just it's just an amazing and of
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course you can see I wear hearts I
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bought this in Rome I saw this in a in a
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window and I passed it when I was
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traveling and I went and I went a few
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blocks I'm like I think I need to go
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back and buy that so I did and you know
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I'm all about love and hearts and just
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at the passion that I have for living
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life and to traveling and meeting new
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people and and I just enjoy that so yeah
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so that painting speaks to me that
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that's that is wonderful so you know I
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always like to ask my guests this
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question because we have a network of
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people out there that know love and like
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us right they just say they like us but
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they don't know everything about us is
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there something that you want to share
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about yourself that maybe your own
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network your family doesn't know about
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you well I think um I think what maybe
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people don't really realize about me is
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I'm pretty creative and I really can
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spend hours creating I can spend hours
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putting together collages of photos or
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just creating new things as a supporter
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typically in someone that does events
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and travels and I'm always on the go I
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don't have a lot of time does really
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just sit down and create but the times
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that I do I really really enjoy that I
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leave Journal when you're on trips I do
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I do I love to write that's one of my
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passions I also write for thrive global
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and Huffington Post and I've written a
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novel so writing is one of my passions
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is that all you written for her Oh oh
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darn you might you know what I'm after
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the show let's get some of that
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information and we'll put it in the show
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notes so that people can go check that
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out the next thing I want to talk with
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you about is your actual trips and your
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ear adventures you have something called
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entrepreneur adventure how clever is
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that tell us what that is
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so entrepreneur adventures are basically
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adventure is education and adventure we
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bring those together for entrepreneurs
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we marry those together so when you
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travel you're traveling on purpose to
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learn and to adventure so that's where
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entrepreneur adventure comes from and
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you have an event coming up soon and I'm
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gonna put the link up here so that
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people can go in and sign up for this
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because again now that we're telling you
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need to be prepared I did tell you that
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we're gonna talk about an event that's
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coming up in the next couple of months
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so tell us a little bit about what's
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gonna happen okay so we have I'm working
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on right now and what I like to do is
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I'd like to collaborate with people that
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are doing wonderful things and I haven't
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done a lot of mentoring and I have been
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mentored myself I've been mentored by
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Andrew Eagleton who is a presenters
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coach and he comes from Australia and
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he's coming for the first time to the
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United States in April he'll be in San
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Francisco April 9th and then in New York
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April 13th so I had partnered with him
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so he will bring a group of people it's
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a solidity to mount of seats and hilt in
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he'll teach how to go from good
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presenting to world-class presenting and
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then the next day I am taking that group
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of people who sign up and we're gonna go
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take a trip to Napa and we're going to
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adventure so we get education one day
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with Andrew and we adventure the next
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day in Napa oh my god so those are the
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type of events that I like to put
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together that's awesome that's awesome
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and you know that I that I hail from
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Napa I'm actually really jealous I'm
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thinking that maybe I need to jump up
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and go up there and join you and do this
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I'm actually gonna put this up because
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Joey actually put the San Francisco
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April 9th it's coming but we will have
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all the information down below in the
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link they can sign up and they can join
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you I know that you and I just talked
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about some of the really cool places and
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so you guys when you sign up for this
17:47
first of all we're telling you that
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we're encouraging you to be ready to do
17:51
this so this is a perfect example be
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ready to do this learn how to be a
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presenter I think almost any business
17:57
owner can can be helped by those skills
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would you agree yes for sure
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and Andrews pretty amazing so go to his
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website and you'll learn more about who
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he is but yes it's it's really a good
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works that's awesome you know um we
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always get asked how do we get in touch
18:14
with our guests so I'm gonna put your
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website up its imagine that rose to FOIA
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com that's very clever
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I'm kidding if you wanna follow Rose on
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Twitter like I do go to at genius
18:28
underscore etc if you want to follow her
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on Instagram which I encourage you to do
18:33
as well again it's at genius underscore
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etc and finally go check her out on
18:38
Facebook and imagine that genius etc so
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you go over twitter and IG you can
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follow her just like I do and get some
18:48
great tips great ideas great stories and
18:51
and she's and it's gonna be it actually
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is going to enhance your life I really
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do believe this you know Rose you are
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you are doing something that I think a
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lot of people only think about doing you
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are following your dream I know you are
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passionate about this tell us about this
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passionate because I know it started a
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long time ago you know so um so Karen
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I'm a passion test facilitator like I
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believe you are as well right so passion
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and living with passion and purpose is
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just who I am with this I have gotten
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involved with a platform an educational
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platform for entrepreneurs called genius
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you and a couple years ago I just ran
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into this looking for something again
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to help her with entrepreneur her skills
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and I ran in and now what I'm doing with
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entrepreneur and genius you is just
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putting together all sorts of events for
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them working with them
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they do a lot of educational workshops
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so bringing people to those workshops
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and then doing some adventure having
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some fun after we're done learning or
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taking our learnings and doing something
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with it making an impact doing whatever
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do so that's just where I've been for
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the last couple years but you know my my
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whole lifespan is just following my
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passion and that is the writing and the
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traveling I was a travel agent for many
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years so I'm using all the skills that I
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know and have and bringing them all
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together and the other thing that I'm
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doing as well coming forward is I'm
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going to be doing workshops on my own to
20:23
really enhance the talent of teams and
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how to build teams within companies so
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it's talent dynamics so I'm doing that
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with genius q and bringing that together
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so you'll see more of that coming up for
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me and doing more of my own workshops so
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I now will be able to take those
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workshops too I want to take and I'll
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put this out there and we can probably
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do something and do this together with
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super boomers is to go to Italy and
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Spain and Jun and do a trip there and do
20:52
a talent dynamics workshop and then
20:54
travel so this is where I'm going with
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this and how we can incorporate to teach
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to learn to educate and have fun
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everyone needs a rose in their corner
21:06
that's all I could say and I think I
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heard Italy and I'm there Italy is
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amazing the food everything and again
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you're showing us how we can be prepared
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and to go I do believe that everyone
21:19
needs a rose in their corner is there
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any last-minute thoughts that you'd like
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to share with us before I drop you into
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the green room well let me see let me
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put my glasses on and see if any notes
21:30
that I wrote out if that's anything yes
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I do want to I do want to say something
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that I think is really important in
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another thing that I live by is showing
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showing up and this is the book that I'm
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working on right now it's called showing
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up never lets me down love it because
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when you show up that's when the magic
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happens it's only show up in your life
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for whatever that is and whatever that
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looks like weather travels involved in
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that or just a workshop or just being
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with friends and family whatever that
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looks like just show up and be present
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and enjoy your life live your best life
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and you know not don't be afraid to
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learn I'm a learning leader I I think
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learning and being curious is really
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what keeps me alive and keeps me focused
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on where I want to go just don't be
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afraid to learn we need to learn
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something new every day and be curious
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oh and they like just do it right yeah
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Rose Tafoya I want to thank you from the
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bottom of my heart I am I was excited to
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have you on for the premiere show Travel
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is I think is going to be the topic for
22:37
the year we need to get out of our own
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way we need to get out of our own box we
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need to get out of the fear we need to
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step into being a super boomer and you
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epitomize that so I want to thank you
22:49
for being on the show I'm gonna drop you
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into the green room as I get ready to do
22:53
my super boomer moment one of those
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things that I think just was an aha
22:57
moment for me and again I just want to
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thank you for your time today
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Thanks thank you Karen thank you so much
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I really had a fine thank you everybody
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so here is here's my super boomer moment
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you know as I've gotten older and I
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think I mentioned at the beginning as
23:19
I've gotten older I am a little less
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anxious to travel and maybe it's because
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I've done so much travel and I don't
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mean traveling around the world I mean
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in in the country you know we're going
23:29
to this place I used to I used to have a
23:31
post that I would say I'm on the road
23:33
dot again because it was so much
23:36
traveling but now as I've gotten a
23:38
little bit older and I put that
23:39
traveling behind now I can travel with
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purpose as Rose says and I love that
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have a purpose have a reason that you're
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doing this go to an event to learn
23:48
something go to an event to experience
23:51
something go to roses event in San
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Francisco and then in Napa to have some
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great wine and to learn how to be a
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great presenter I just think that we
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need to get out of our own way as super
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boomers as anybody for that matter but
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we need to get out of own way and just
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do it I want to thank you guys for being
24:09
on the show today we know that you have
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a choice as to how you spend your time
24:12
and you chose to spend it with rose and
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I today on the premiere episode 1 of
24:17
season 3 we want to thank you for doing
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that and I want to thank all of you down
24:22
and whether you're on the replay or
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you're here live we want to thank you
24:26
for taking the time to join us today and
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we'll see you next week on the next
24:30
episode of the super boomer lifestyles
24:33
show goodbye everyone