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Motherhood - Keeping it Real with Victoria Dang
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Aug 25, 2021
Are you a new Mom? Expecting a Baby? Babies? We are keeping it real when we talk with best selling author Victoria Dang and go behind the motherhood scene. Victoria believes that a Happy Mom means a Happy Home. Her new book "Go Momshie” is not your ordinary Mommy or Parenting book. It's every Moms ultimate resource to having a happy motherhood journey. Come be inspired and join the conversation August 24th at 6:30pm PT. Click button to get a reminder. Pick up a copy of the book here: https://amzn.to/3md3ssJ 📌 Subscribe to the Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc #motherhood #gomomshie #victoriadang Check out more shows here: http://carenglasser.tv Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser Visit The Super Boomer Lifestyle store: https://thesuperboomerlifestyle.com/
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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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welcome to the author spotlight i
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welcome guests from all across the globe
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here live or on replay make sure to say
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online author's office and we thank them
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today i am welcoming victoria dang to
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the show
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as a self-starting entrepreneur with a
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master's in education in international
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teaching and as a first-time mom
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victoria decided to share her stories
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and wisdom with mothers across the globe
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she is the ceo and founder of gomshy.com
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a platform for moms where they can learn
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and find support with each other she
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firmly believes that being a mom entails
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a lot of sacrifices but the role itself
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should not overshadow your own happiness
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and identity so without further ado i
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bring in victoria to the show
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how are you victoria
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hi
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i'm so excited right now
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well i i'm maybe i'm more excited than
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you are i'm not sure
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i am so excited for you to be on the
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show first of all um we're going to be
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talking about your book
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and i'm just kind of picking it up
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you've got your copy there too i it's
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it's an awesome book it's an awesome
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book and we're going to tell people how
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they can go pick up a copy of it
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as we go through the show so this is
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your first book right
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yes it's my first book so tell me about
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the process uh how long did it take you
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to write this book
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i think it took me around four months to
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finish the book
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but
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the process took me around
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to to uh to come up with a publishable
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book it took me around eight months
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because in the middle of the journey i
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contracted covet so i stopped for like a
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month me and my son got coveted so but i
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was on the middle of finishing the book
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that's why if you got the copy of my
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book you'll see
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uh for the last few pages of the book i
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wrote down my covet story in this book
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because it also entails
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my journey as a mother because you know
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how hard it is to be with your son when
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you're sick you know how are you gonna
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take care of us a little human being if
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you can't even take care of yourself so
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i was in a very vulnerable position at
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that time
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which tested my
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my my skills as a mother and my
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personality as a mom and also as an
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individual so yeah well and and that
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makes you very much an expert to have
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written this book i'm glad to see that
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you are healthy and um
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everyone's okay
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um you graduated laude with a degree
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in foreign service major in diplomacy
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and you just recently finished your med
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in international teaching first of all
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wow
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congratulations that is that that both
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quite accomplished um but how did you go
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from that
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to writing your best seller because
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you're a best seller by the way by the
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way she's a bestseller very cool thank
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you
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i mean being in school um getting your
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degrees laude doing all of that and
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now you're a best-selling author what
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was that like making the transition
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um it's actually pretty smooth because
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at first i i'm in that position that i
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don't really know what to do with my
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life i've been trying many careers i've
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been a flight attendant i've been in
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customer service i've been a dance
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teacher you know i've tried many things
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in my life but writing is something that
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i felt very passionate about and i'm i'm
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so lucky to find it at this age and
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uh being a mother actually
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uh
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helped me realize my passion so yeah so
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how old is your little one right now
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he's 15 months old
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it's a great age that is such a great
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age
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so um one of the things that when i got
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information on you you you say that
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you're a product of a rags to riches
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story so let's talk a little bit about
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that what does that mean
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so i'm when i was 12 years old my father
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died
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and
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my mother i have a twin brother and i
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have two more other siblings
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and my mom is the only one who you know
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tried to raise us the four of us you
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know made us go to school
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you know uh dresses up
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and
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stories like that so we're we're
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depending fully on my mom's family so
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that is something that actually inspires
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me to do better in school to do better
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in my life
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so i'm not really like
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i didn't come from a rich family you
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know i come from a pretty average poor
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pretty average family you know maybe i
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should say that because in college i
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have to
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to do a lot of gigs you know
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be a dance teacher on the side right
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yeah you know be a model on the side be
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a brand ambassador on the side you know
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doing some gigs just to
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uh come up with my allowance for the
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week so i leave day by day when i was in
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college until i graduate and i i
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actually uh um
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studied very hard to get the scholarship
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that's why i graduated laude that's
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how how hard-working i was to you know
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to survive the life
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is your mom an inspiration i would i
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would say your mom was an inspiration of
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course she's an inspiration she actually
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taught me some other perspective when it
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comes to motherhood she helped me a lot
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during when i transitioned from you know
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being pregnant to being a mom to be an
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actual mom so that's
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very uh challenging
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she helped me through some tough times
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so yeah
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so
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why did you decide to write this book i
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mean with all of your education and
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everything else
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what made you decide that i'm going to
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write but i'm going to write this book
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on on motherhood what was that deciding
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factor for you
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it's because i i took it
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from my experience
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when i became a mother i felt alone i
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felt like i needed some people to
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listen to me i felt like i need some
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encouragement
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and because of what's happening around
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the world you know people stuck at home
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people can see each other so people rely
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on books people
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read a lot online so what is what i
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thought that's why i thought about
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writing this book in order for my story
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for my message and real problem and real
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solutions to be out there to well with
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the hope that i could inspire and help
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other mom she's around the world so yeah
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so i'm going to put up a copy of the
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book right here so people can see it
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while we're chatting so you decide
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you're going to write this book and by
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the way if you're just tuning in we're
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talking to victoria deng she's the
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author of the international bestseller
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gomshi so let's first talk about the
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title
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what the heck is a mom she
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yeah i've been saying mom she many times
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but i haven't even explained what the
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meaning of it okay so mom she is an
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endearment here in the philippines it's
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but it's
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uh literally uh
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means mom
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but
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we use it here in the philippines to
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to uh to call out to call or to refer to
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our best friends for example even though
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you're not a mom yet
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if you're my close friend for example
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hey mom she was up like that so it's
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like uh
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yeah it's an environment yeah totally an
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in endearment of that so you decided to
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call the book go
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mom she so it's is this really as it's a
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calling it's a call to action for moms
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yes it's actually uh
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it's like a cheerleader
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it's the book symbol it's like a i want
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the book to be the cheerleader of moms
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to push them and to encourage them to do
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whatever they want for themselves and
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for their family that's why it's go mom
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she's like go mom she you can do that so
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you're the cheerleader you're you are
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the cheerleader yeah so
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obviously you know we've talked the main
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focus of the book is is for moms and
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raising kids when somebody opens the
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book what are they going to see in there
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tell me what they're going to see
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so the book is full of uh my authentic
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experience as first time mom at the
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first page you'll find it funny
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because it's all about you know my
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experience and me being naive and being
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like shocked with all the experiences
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that i've you know
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um saw firsthand so you might laugh
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about it but then at the end of the you
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know in the middle of the book you'll
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realize the realizations that i had when
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i encounter those problems and also the
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real-time solutions it's also a journal
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by the way because oh okay
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so you can write down your feelings
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because i believe in the power of
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journaling because writing down your
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thoughts and fillings down it could help
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you create a wiser decision it's a help
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self-help book because
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uh i know how how hard it is to be a
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first-time mom or to be a mother in
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general right right and sometimes we
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need to fill our minds with positive
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thoughts encouraging words that's why
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this is a self-help book
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for mom she's out there to realize
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uh the goodness of motherhood journey
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that even though life can be tough
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there's always a rainbow
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after the rain and there's always a
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light at the end of the tunnel yeah uh
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always i mentioned when i was
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introducing you that you're the ceo and
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founder of the of gomant
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and it's a platform for moms where they
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can learn and find support for each
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other so so it's not this is not just a
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book this is a movement
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so if they
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they go to this platform what are they
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going to find there
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so they can find them uh they can find
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my contact details in that website and i
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also have a gomsh support group on
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facebook right and they can join freely
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so they can
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because go mom she is a book for moms
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who
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uh were looking for encouragement
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looking for positive words we're looking
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for
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for those uh moments that they need in
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order to move forward to their life so
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if you need someone to talk to i'm there
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i'm gonna be in in the website i'm gonna
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be in my facebook group so feel free to
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reach me out anytime and we're gonna
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show everyone how to do that in in just
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a second
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um is there a second book coming out are
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you going to be writing another book
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yes of course the second book coming up
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before the baby number two
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you heard it here first before the baby
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number two yeah you already have an idea
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as to what you're going to be writing
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um so far i'm in the process of my
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self-reflection
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and observation so i haven't really
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decided what's going to be but for sure
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it's all about motherhood
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or maybe
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you're going to stay in that same poor
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motherhood
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got it totally get it so
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um do you have any like interesting
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quirks when you're writing do you do
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something that's like a little unusual
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i've had authors on here and they say
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that they they have a particular thing
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sitting on their desk and you know as
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they're writing they only write x amount
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of words a day is there something that
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you do that you're routine
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when you're writing
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i think what i always do before i write
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is i always
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connect with myself look around because
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i cannot write if it's not
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real and if it doesn't uh personally
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affect me
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so once i feel connected with that
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situation that's a time that i feel
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inspired and connect so if there's
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something that i do when i'm writing to
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get me inspired maybe
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um
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i have to hug my uh
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my how to my inspiration which is my
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baby your baby
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yeah so if for example i'm writing and i
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feel like sharks i don't know what to do
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or what to write anymore i'm running out
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of ideas or words so i have i'll have a
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like five minutes break and then i just
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want to see his face and hug him and i
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was like
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yeah okay
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yeah
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right
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i get it my babies are not babies
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anymore my my youngest is just turning
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36 so i remember those times but
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not really because it's so long ago but
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i do remember wanting to like you know
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pinch those cheeks because they they're
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only that young for a certain amount of
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time you mentioned something you know
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that when you you for you don't have the
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words and you need some inspiration you
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go hug your little one do you ever get
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writer's block
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sorry oh yeah yeah yeah the writer's
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block yeah
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so i have it many times yeah
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but then my my mentor who's like the oa
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the oao miss patch every time i'm having
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a writer's black i always talk to her i
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always talk to my husband and it's like
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i don't know what to say anymore i don't
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think this is the
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right path for me i always doubt myself
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yeah
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and so that's why you need some people
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in your life to give you some
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information to give that reality check
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right right you know yeah
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so that's what i do
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the online author's office she's great
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miss p is great pashmina is awesome and
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if you're listening and you're saying
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you know i have a book inside of me this
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is a great organization to reach out to
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they can help you they can motivate you
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they can be there for you because this
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is not a journey you want to take a loan
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would you agree
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yes no
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it's quite hard
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many people in your in your uh
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in your back pocket you know cheering
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you on we've talked about a couple of
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things and i'm going to put some um
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information up you can go over to
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victoria's website at victorian.com
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and you can see all the contact
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information and the journal you know the
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stuff that the information that you can
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use while you're you're on this uh
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journey of being a momshee
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um you can also
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check out your podcast which is on
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spotify the go mom she podcast what is
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that what is the podcast about
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so uh what i do in my podcast is i
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interview momshees around the world to
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talk about uh their authentic experience
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as well because in my book i talked
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about my authentic experience and i want
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to hear
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other mum she's experiences too that's
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why i created this platform to
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to share you know different journeys
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that could shed some hope and light to
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other moms who are listening to us on
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spotify i think that's wonderful and
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spotify is a very cool place to have a
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podcast so congratulations to you thank
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you
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you're also on instagram
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at go mamchi there's going to be a theme
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a common theme amongst here
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on facebook ads
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go munchie.com just type that into the
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search and you will find you up there
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and they can go over to amazon to pick
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up a copy of
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gomamshi and i encourage you to go do
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this i really do if you're a new mom
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you're thinking about being a mom and
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you want to be a mom she i love that
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endearment by the way totally love that
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endearment and and congratulations on
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being a bestseller that must have been
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very very exciting for you right
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yes yes
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that's in part working with um uh
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pashmina over at oao they're they're
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awesome what they do
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um and so congratulations to you i just
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have one more question for you and that
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is if you were to give
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um
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something to the people that are
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listening up just a motivational piece
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of information what would you tell
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everyone right now either about being a
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mom writing a book any of those things
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what would be your message to them right
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now
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my message is so simple you do you
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you know yourself better than anybody
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else
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so don't let the society or the people
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around you dictate your
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motherhood journey you create your own
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journey whatever that works for you and
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for your family
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that's beautiful and there's no question
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in my mind that you are an amazing role
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model there's no question in my mind
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that your next book coming out will also
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be a bestseller you'll have to come back
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and tell us all about it
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thank you for taking time with us we're
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in different time zones so i'm really
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thrilled that we were able to do this
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the way we did it um
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i want to also thank our audience you
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have a choice as to where you spend your
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time and you chose to spend it with
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victoria and i today and we thank you
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for that we are very grateful for that
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so go out give somebody an awesome day
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and we'll see you on the next episode of
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the author spotlight goodbye everyone
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