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I welcome Christine Lee to the show to talk about her new book "My Hero; A Love Letter to My Mother". Pick up a copy of her book here: https://amzn.to/3gk3kEP Christine takes her inspiration from the most important person in her life: her mother. Drawing on her international experience spanning from South Korea to the United States, her story of the sacrifices her mother faced raising her aims to energize the love we all have for our mothers. Her emergence as a strong woman and entrepreneur serves as a model for personal growth and a loving reminder of the significance of motherhood.
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today i invite you to tune in weekly to
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so today we have a great show we are
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welcoming christine lee to the author
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spotlight
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an author and successful businesswoman
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she takes her inspiration from the most
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important person in her life her mother
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drawing on her international experience
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spanning from south korea to the united
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states
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her story of the sacrifices her mother
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faced raising her
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aims to energize the love we all have
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for our mothers
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christine's emergence as a strong woman
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and entrepreneur serves
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as a model for personal growth and a
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loving reminder of the significance of
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motherhood so without further ado i
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welcome
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christine to the show hello christine
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how are you
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hi thank you so much for having me today
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karen
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oh it is totally my pleasure i'm
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thrilled that you're on the show today
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we have lots to talk about um
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specifically
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uh we're going to be talking about your
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book um
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and and it's called first of all it's
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called my hero right and
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um the fact that you talk about your mom
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the way you talk about your mom is the
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way i talk about my mom and we've got
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mother's day just around the corner as
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well
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so it's a perfect time to be delving
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into
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the whole concept of how important our
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moms are so tell us
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a little bit about your mom and how she
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made such an
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impact on you yeah so
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um we all have someone in
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our mind someone who is
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on hero in our eyes and she was
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my mother my mother is my hero and she
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is the one of the person who really
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impacted me
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in my life since i was ever born in
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humble birth in south korea
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and she has been my biggest inspiration
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and
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her courage and her will and
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strengths and her legends and
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her wisdom and her intuitions
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has been stated who i am here today i'm
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her product
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there is doubt about it she has been
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serving
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prayer warrior for jesus christ in south
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korea in small
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terror villages in small country in
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south korea back in
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only 1950s family and we're going
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through
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a lot of the adversity
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and fire bombing because we're the only
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christian family
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in that in that area of small villages
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in south korea but she
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never will give up her family oh my
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goodness
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that's how she raised us so her
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intuition has been impacted in my life
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and this is why there's no doubt about
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oh my gosh what a wonderful tribute so
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tell me what the book is about i mean is
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it a book about your mom specifically or
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about
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what she has imparted on to you what's
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the book about so
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more of the immigration story from south
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korea small villages to
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1962 united states
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back in 1970s that immigration
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story from how i grow when i came
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in mid preteen that was when i was 14
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with my siblings with my mom when
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how my mom has to be so she was very
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weak and she was very sick
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but you will never blame no one not even
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one person for her
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environment the looking glass of
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environment she says
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it's a brand new day from the gift from
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the god
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that we are here in blessing united
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states with a christian country
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so we don't have to go through what we
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went through from north korea to here
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so it's immigration story it's a culture
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it's about something about the my mom
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has gone through what she has gone
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through when she was young
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weighed colonized in japan that she has
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the reason why she was sick the reason
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why she has to come to united states
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with us took us here
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and then the more of the story in united
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states that we went through when i was
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teens
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my brother's suiciders because he
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couldn't
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adopt the cultures he wasn't strong
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enough to go through
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what we had to go through with older or
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the adversity that we had
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right and you talk about sacrifices you
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talk about sacrifices so what kind of
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sacrifices did your mom
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make and what kind of sacrifices did you
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all
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mom make that for us so this is why our
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moms oh hero my mom especially
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will get up three o'clock in the morning
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365 a day
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no matter how sick she is no matter what
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condition she is
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she will get up three o'clock in the
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morning she will stop praying
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and she will dress very nicely like she
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will go to the wedding
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i cannot she would walk to the snow
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when it was so high up to her stomach
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and in the town in korea didn't have
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no tennis shoes no boots or no nothing
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like that
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but she will wear whatever that she can
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wear
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and she'll walk 11 miles to the church
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wow wow yeah i mean that's a sacrifice
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for
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prayer war and and she will praise
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until three o'clock getting up coming
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back home about nine o'clock
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wow eight o'clock just send us to the
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church i mean the school
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so that's the sacrifice and then
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yes and so if you're just tuning in
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we're talking to christine lee we're
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talking
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about her book my hero and specifically
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we're talking about your mom
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and what impact she had on you and you
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talk about her i can see
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just in your entire being how much she
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means to you
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and and it's so wonderful to hear this
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um you you talk about what happens when
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you live
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an unexamined life so first of all what
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is an
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unexamined life yeah so
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on examined life is is
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is something that if you don't if you're
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not aware
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it's all about the self awareness like
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jesus christ
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are teaching us in the bible you we
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supposed to be all aware
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of the level of the aware when you are
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there
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you will not failed you will listen to
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your
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intuitions if you i mean if you don't
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listen to your
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intuitions that's on examine the light
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because you're telling you're faking
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yourself
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yes you're cunning yourself you are
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i i used to do that i'd be honest with
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you i was a loser when i didn't listen
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to my intuition what my mom was telling
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me
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and well it's the inner voice of the
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truth not knowing what
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not knowing is intuition it's a compass
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in your compassion that you're supposed
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to listen
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but i didn't listen so if it is
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if you didn't listen then that's the
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unexamined life because
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you are not listening right true story
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of your inner voice
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and then you're going to your guts your
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voice
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and then your face the chaos that's what
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i've been doing
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before i'll be honest with you but
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well i mean i understand that i i truly
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do understand that and again the book is
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called
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it's all about my hero right um and
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you say that it's really important to
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find the hero
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inside all of us so how does one go
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about doing that
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well you know everyone has
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someone they really admire
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in their lives you know and then i
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believe everyone
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everyone has their passion whether they
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will say
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i don't have a passion or i do have
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passion
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if you go sit down yourself and listen
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to your voice
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and write writing down what i want and
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what i what i really truly
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with my goals of purpose i believe that
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there
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is all your passion that you will find
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out
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so that is what i am you know
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trying to write down my book here today
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saying
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that you've got we we do have a passion
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we do have a hero whether it could be
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your teacher
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whether it could be your mentor you know
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like my my mentor is my hero
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bob proctor you know my friends that i
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have
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they're my treasures they're my mentors
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they're my hero
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i mean my mom is my hero of course but
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you know you do have a hero in you and
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then you know why you have a hero in you
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because
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we always matter somebody's footsteps
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ahead that who has done
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already for us right so i put the book
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up on the screen for those of you
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who are struggling with um what to get
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your mom
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for mother's day possibly this would be
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an amazing gift because i think
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um it it will tell your mom how
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important she
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is to you would you agree christine a
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book like this right
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a love letter to my mother so i'm going
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to encourage you we put the link to the
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book
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in the chat so when you click on that
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it'll take you over to
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uh pick up a copy and send it over to
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your mom
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now you have exciting news that you
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shared with me before we went live
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and that is about the book would you
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like to share it with our audience today
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right so we're um
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signing we is going to be filming in the
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movie
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and then yes and then we'll actually
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uh write the or screenplay on may 1st
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wow hollywood and then i'm very grateful
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for that
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and also i wanted to tell you that um
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i translate this to south korea korea
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will be launching it in south korea
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in mother's day at the same time nice
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very nice yes with the korean version
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with america
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i mean english version together you know
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so it's very exciting
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and then the reason why i think it's
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very important for us to do that because
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nowadays even i have a two kid
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millenniums and news new cultures it's
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like
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everyone is just a friend friend is good
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but i think we should
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never forget about how our parents
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sacrificed for us
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and specially when it's mother's day i
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think that it will be a great gift to
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give to global mom for a book like this
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or something else
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just recognize them and give them the
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recognition of
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how whatever what you've done for me yes
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never without your sacrifices i would
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never be here
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so this is very important messages i i
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think that's wonderful
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i know that um i have picked up a copy i
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sent it off to my mom
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um i haven't seen her in a year and a
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half because everything that's going on
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and so um i i always want to find ways
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to let her know how important she
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is to me and this is a great way to do
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it i also asked you before we went live
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do you have another book coming out
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and you said yes you have a children's
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book coming out
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how exciting what is this children's
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book going to be about
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yes it's the title already it is a
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dusted person it is regards the
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materials it's just
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that regarding of how my mentor by
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practice
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teaching us the sixth senses with a
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stick person with
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smelly sense taste touch and hair
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this is a physical world that most of
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many people lives because they see it
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they they they convict it with the seed
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they
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hear it and they taste it and but
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nowadays with the pandemic and
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everything right i believe
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most of children wouldn't like to be
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aware
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when they are young already how about
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another voice without
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without gifted doubt with
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reason memory and wheels
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and imaginations right and there's uh
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there's another one
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um i yeah so those are the those are the
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uh
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books that i i will be launching it and
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then i'm i actually went to the all
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children's books classes and then
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i wrote about content about half of it
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and then
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i am trying to make it with a class
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curriculum
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on september because this is very
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important
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that we are aware our childrens are
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aware
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not only smell and taste and touch with
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the six senses
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but we do need to listen let them know
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we do have a inner voice every power
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that we have god has given
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each from in us in our world not
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outside of the circumstance that what
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you're you know controlled by it's just
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the only looking glasses
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so this book will be very fun with the
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small little children
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so let's talk about your what your
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writing process do you write you have
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like a certain
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many hours that you write a day do you
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go into your room you close the door
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do you have any kind of quirk that you
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do what is your writing process
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so i i decided to become myself
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very disciplined i said okay well then
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if i'm gonna write the book
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i'm gonna put aside a couple of hours
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every single day until i finish it
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it'll be early in the morning i will get
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a five o'clock
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and then i will i will just go to my
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garage
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in my car when no one's around and i'm
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gonna start right whatever that is
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coming from my inner voice
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i'm gonna continue write and write
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read write and read write and and then i
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let it
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i let it allow to happen because how
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many authors out there
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or somebody that who wants to become an
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author
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you just let it out write it whatever
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that is put that
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on without your pen with your pencil
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with your paper with your pen
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just write it down just don't should
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anything stop you
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just write it down and let your editor
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or or your friend someone just send them
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what do you think of this
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that's a great tip that's a great tip
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yeah
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it's a great tip and i think so many
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people get frozen they get paralyzed
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like they can't
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they they want to do it but they can't
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they just and you're just saying just
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sit down
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be disciplined whatever flows write it
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down
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and that's important right because there
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are people out there that are editors
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there are ghostwriter i mean there's a
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lot of people out there that can help
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you
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on your journey but you got to give them
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something first right
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you got to just you gotta just write
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something yeah you just got to be
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very uh disciplined to yourself you
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gotta commend yourself
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this is what i'm gonna do so this is
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what you're gonna do
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don't distract anything else but just do
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it every day two hours one hours a day
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before you go to work
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or before you do anything you know what
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i mean i mean it's not that hard
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because you're the only way on your
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life your only way it stops you is you
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looking at your mirror that's you
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exactly oh my gosh i could not have said
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that any better than you did
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um and along those same lines writer's
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block
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so i hear from a lot of writers i have a
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lot of writers that come on the show and
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everyone has their own opinion about
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writer's block some say there's no such
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thing as writer's block
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it's all in your head just do it what do
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you think about writer's block
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i writer's blog is it's the well you
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know what i'll be honest with you i was
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there
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so i i get that you know you're the only
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one who have a solution
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you have to tell yourself there's no
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writer's block i'm just going to write
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it
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whatever that is just write it i mean
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you
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and then of course you want to become
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you want to go to the program with your
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children's book
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programs writing book or there's a my
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my mentors um complete complete
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authors program from peggy because that
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she has
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i would really suggest that if anybody
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would like to write the book
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because that's the program that
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who got me into where i am here today
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but you gotta you gotta let yourself to
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invest
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in you right because if you're not if
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you're not going to invest in
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oh writing group is a lot of money and
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i'm not going to get to that
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program you invest in yourself because
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if you don't who will
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right you have to be able to be
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confident in yourself i put
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i put the name of the program up on the
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screen complete author's program with
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peggy mccall
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and after the show i'm going to go back
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in and put a link in there that people
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can click on so that they can go
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check it out all
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no writer's right i don't think so
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i don't think there's i yeah i i just
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think that people procrastinate i think
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that once they just get out of their own
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way
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um the words will flow we're talking
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with christine lee
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about her book called my hero a
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love letter to my mother the link to the
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book
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is sitting in the comments go ahead and
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click on it you know you want to
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right you know you want to you know it's
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going to be a great gift
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or your for your mom or just for you if
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you're a mom yourself
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i think that it's it for me it touched
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it touched me um you know you had sent
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me a copy of the book so i
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i know it's a beautiful beautiful book
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um i'm going to let people know how they
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can get in touch with you because people
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always
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on the you know when they watch the show
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whether it's live or on replay it really
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doesn't matter when they come to the
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show they always want to know well how
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can i
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learn more about the author so what i'm
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going to do right now is put up on the
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screen
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you've got a website
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www.christinerly.com
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you can also be found on instagram at
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chrle122018
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there must be a story behind that maybe
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it was the date that you
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opened your instagram account i'm not
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sure and then you've got a facebook
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account as well
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c-h-r-l-e-e-1-2
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go check her out you are awesome
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christine i want to first of all i want
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to thank you for coming on the show and
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i want to thank you for sharing
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your your wisdom your little pearls and
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your little nuggets um
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it really touched me today um is there
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anything that we that you'd like to say
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to our audience that maybe you didn't
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get a chance throughout the show because
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it's we're almost done can you believe
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that already
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is there anything else you want to share
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is there anything else you want to do
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absolutely
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just a short story that i would like to
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let our audience know that
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no matter how hard it is we
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we want to know if the door was closed
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this side
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make sure there is another door that's
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two three of them is
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already waiting for you to open you just
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need to be aware
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yeah you to do that you need to let
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yourself to know there's
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awareness how do you do that let's
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continue study
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let's not give up on your passion no
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matter how hard is
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life is you don't have to tell yourself
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life is hard
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it's easy if you tell yourself and open
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the door
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and make it happen because when sun is
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rise
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sunset then sun is rise to set
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it's the way it is it's life you know
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life it is life
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i want to thank you and um for all of
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our viewers stay in touch with us at
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20:15
linkedin
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wherever we are that's how you can find
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us karen glasser
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again christine thank you for sharing
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your wisdom with us and i want to thank
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our viewers you have a choice as to
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where you spend your time and how you
20:26
spend your time and we
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are grateful that you chose to spend it
20:29
with us today
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so go out and give somebody an awesome
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day and we'll see you next time
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on the next show
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