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Join Caren and Mel as they celebrate 1 year of Uncorked Live~popping the cork on living your best life in the #PeakStage. SO many exciting changes, personally and right here in the studio, and more are on the way. Grab your drink, sit back and enjoy, the best is yet to come!
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hi everybody i'm mel greenberg and i'm
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karen glasser and welcome to uncork life
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exposed in the most unexpected ways
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where what you see is not always what
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you get
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we are so proud to be on the vitalscene
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network and cork just loves being on the
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vitalscene network so thank you vitalsy
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so
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we're celebrating we are celebrating and
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we're going to do one thing we're really
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celebrating so we're going to hope that
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this
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okay
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yay
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i still got it that's my bar we're
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drinking we're drinking a rose prosecco
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today
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and when i told you that you went i made
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a face you made a face you said i don't
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like rose i don't
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but
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we're going to we're going to try to
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it's we're in pink glasses how pretty is
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this this is gorgeous so congratulations
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to you thank you and congratulations to
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you and to all of you thanks for joining
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us on this
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wild a little bit crazy journey this
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past year it's been pretty amazing
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amazing amazing let's see
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i'd rather cheers
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[Music]
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okay
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not a rose girl we're not a rose girl
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okay and i just became not a rose girl
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too
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oh my god
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all right
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well i won't be drinking any more of
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this
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so it goes but why are we celebrating so
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a year ago
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may
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was our first show
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and i think the coolest thing is so many
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you know coveted the whole everything
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brought people together from
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all walks of life and all corners of the
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world and we met
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and just this kind of evolved
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organically out of that meeting and
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it's been really fun and and thank you
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we've been having a blanking it's so
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much fun and we thank all of you for
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tuning in every single month to listen
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to us you know chit chat and do uh do
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our thing um it's been a year i mean
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that's just when you think about it
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that's hard to believe it's been a year
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and i remember when we did the first
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show we're trying what are we going to
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do it on you know
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and we decided at that time to honor
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mothers because mother it was mother's
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day in may and we're going to honor
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mothers and do that whole thing but a
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lot has happened um each month we had a
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different topic
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do you have a favorite topic
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i you know i really like and it's kind
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of two-fold i loved our december show
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and and part of it is that that was my
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favorite playlist so
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i love the holidays but i loved that
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what we talked about and how
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being connected at this that time of
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year and through such unprecedented
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times that it was the best for me
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and i love this should i stay or should
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i go because it kind of epitomizes how
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different we are and how yet we are much
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like but it was like i was staying you
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were going
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and you know if you think back to when
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that was we all thought we were like
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okay we can go now i didn't i wasn't
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ready but we can go now and you know and
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now we fast forward and now we really
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can go now which is and you're right
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which is good i'm ready it's kind of
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it's kind of a cool thing yeah totally a
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cool thing
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but other things have changed so when we
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started we were kind of on our own we
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were doing our own shows right
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and then we got an amazing opportunity
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um vitalsy yeah
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amazing opportunity it's an incredible
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platform
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and we really are changing the narrative
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of aging and right and
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and we don't really call it anything but
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living the peak stage and absolutely i
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love that because you kind of
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you know we're going along on our lives
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and that that
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description of where we are fits in such
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a beautiful way right
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and one of the other things that we
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changed as we were going along is this
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the fact that we are sitting side by
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side right and never just no longer you
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over there and me over here i mean if we
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have to do it that we will but thanks
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thanks to mel who schleps all the way
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into palm desert from from arizona and
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she insists it's only like how many
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hours did you say
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five i think that's a lot of hours but
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she comes and i'm i'm forever grateful
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that she does because we get to sit here
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and just do our thing without without
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worrying about what's going on on the
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other side of the world or the other
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side of the state and also i think it
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changes our energy so i'm grateful for
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you i'm totally grateful for you and the
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fact that it was fun for me to come here
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i i
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as i shared i grew up in southern
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california right so i get to visit
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friends and family
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and then and then be here and i love the
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coachella valley so a lot of exciting
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things have happened though in addition
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to that so you know we're on the
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vitalscene network so that's where you
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go to watch the shows but some people
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like to
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listen to a podcast every so often right
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so we launched on spotify which is
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freaking cool yeah because it's spotify
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you know it's right it's kind of a
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spotify
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but what's really cool about spotify
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also is that we actually have the show
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there too so we want you to stop off
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first and vitalsy because we want you to
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go binge watch all the shows but if
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you're so inclined because you want to
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take us on the road in your car or while
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you're walking while you're at you know
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last month i know we did a whole thing
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on you know getting exercise and
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everything but we're we did spotify
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we're on roku we're on amazon fire we're
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all over the place as i like to say and
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we're growing and that's grown we we
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started it was just like let's give it a
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try and see what happens and then
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um platforms you know started reaching
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out and the opportunities to keep
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growing and our greatest
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gift and we're so grateful to be on the
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vital c network oh we love it there too
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it's a total game changer um we love
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everyone there i mean they're they're
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the best they're so supportive and we're
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supportive of them we i think it's a
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mutual admiration society at this point
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so we're what we're saying is we're
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going to continue we're going to keep
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doing our shows and we have some really
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fun things coming up in this next year
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and over the summer and
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we're going to i love taking a look back
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i you know i'm constantly flipping
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through my phone looking at pictures
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yeah it's just it's hard to believe
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it's only been a year and yet and it
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feels like a long time ago it's been a
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year yeah yeah and so one of the big
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things were when we first launched the
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show we had we called it something else
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it was not called
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of course it was called savoring midlife
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because about a year ago i think we both
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thought that was like the buzzword that
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was the word and we were going to use
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that word saber
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and we got through the first show and we
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both looked at each other and said
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that's we don't even like that i don't
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like the word and and what is midlife
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anymore i don't know midlife is at 80
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because we're going to live what is
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midlife and it didn't represent i think
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it did not represent who who we are what
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did represent us well i don't really
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want to drink it right now but what did
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represent us is that we enjoy we enjoy
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being together and celebrating together
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and maybe drinking together as we uncork
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whatever the topic is well and we what
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we liked about that and how the name
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kind of
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came into came to fruition was that
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uncorking is is really peeling back the
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layers on topics that impact us all
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and specifically
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50 plus 45 plus um
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they change and we're changing and
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rather than
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falling into the the
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right you know the contrived narrative
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we really want to peel back and talk
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about and share vulnerability because i
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think we try and we hope and that we're
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sharing and saying things that that
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you're thinking about
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right and want to talk about and we want
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to bring conversations to the forefront
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that need to be right
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and vulnerability is is one of the big
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ones one of the big ones you know for me
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it was it was becoming vulnerable with
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my hair which i know sounds kind of
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silly sometimes but growing my hair out
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putting myself out as who i really was i
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was me and i happen to have gray hair
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and i was going to go and do it did you
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know i have always wanted to ask yeah
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because i haven't always watched the the
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people that do the progressions and i
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know you did that once before i knew you
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but did you know you were gray
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underneath oh my gosh did you no i was
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gonna be
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my mother has been white since she was
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30 years old she's now 86 years old but
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she went white at 30.
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so at 30 when my white started to come
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in and when
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not doing that because back then
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35 years
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35 years ago god i'm old uh 35 years ago
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now i'm just peak stage
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back then if you had gray hair white
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hair as a woman not as a man but as a
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woman i was i we would have difficulty
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getting please a man it's distinguished
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women we're old and i i kind of bought
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into that
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and so
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every two weeks because my hair grows
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literally i mean look at this uh two
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inches a month i'm sorry one inch a
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month and if you have white hair you
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every i mean it's growing right and so i
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would go in every two weeks to get my
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hair colored and i'd sit with the
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hairdresser for two hours
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the most the biggest waste of time in my
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in my estimation just sitting there for
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two hours taking time for myself how
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silly is that right taking time for
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myself and i hated it
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and every year i would say i just need
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to let it go and then i would say oh no
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because you know i won't get a job
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when and here i am sitting on camera
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week after week talking about being
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authentic and in my head this was so not
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authentic my dark hair my hair was black
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i mean my hair was black black
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so i thought you know what i'm just
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going to do it
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so did you dye it gray and then let it
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go no you've just i
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like in fact you know what maybe we'll
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air this one time but i literally every
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week i had a guest on my show and i
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would say it's time for the reveal
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and i would go like this
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and i would go like that and each week
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my white kept getting longer and longer
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and longer sort of like an ombre kind of
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thing did you cut your hair nope
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i just let it go let it go totally cool
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and i loved it because the minute i did
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that i made myself like everybody else i
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was just a normal person
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and up until that point
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people uh there seemed to be a tendency
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that they that people that knew me
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thought i was different than i really
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was
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i'm interested i was me i was me just
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like everybody else but this really was
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the best thing i ever did so your black
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hair was maybe a bit more of a mask oh
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totally a mask totally messed i i had
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totally gotten into that
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long dark flowing black hair sexy ash do
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you think that we do that and maybe more
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as women
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um that we we
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find or conceal our identity in our hair
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whether it's long hair or
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color my hair defines me i don't know
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about my hair defines me i am about my
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hair and i'm letting it go i actually
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bought in for a while that older women
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should not have long hair
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i've literally bought into that and i
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thought okay i'm gonna start cutting and
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i was cutting it cutting it
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and now i'm not cutting it because you
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know what i like it it should be and we
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talked about this last month you should
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be who you are what are you so happy
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what what you wear how your makeup um i
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do find that i
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have
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deeply streamlined my makeup
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because i you know used to always get
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the colors that were out and just and
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less is more for me
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and
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you kind of find the colors that work
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which tend to be very neutral
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um and simple i mean literally my travel
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bag now is like this and i used to have
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bags of makeup i i am i'm totally i'm
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very low maintenance always have been
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though yeah i mean i i did not say i was
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nominated
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i
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i forget the only thing that i really
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should put on because i disappeared is
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my lipstick and i forget to put lipstick
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on and people always say after
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what happened to your lips or if i'm
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sitting behind a white wall my head
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disappears
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into the white into the water into the
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white so my same thing with me makeup
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has completely
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become that's kind of nice a couple of
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things i get ready and i'm done right
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now it's kind of like i i find myself
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doing that in our home
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you know just
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getting rid of i just things i don't
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need a lot of things i like nice things
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right like i said i'm never said i was
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low maintenance but
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i just i just i need the plethora of
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every little thing that comes out and
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every new thing that comes out right
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although my husband might do it because
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i
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do like to shop it's fun i i used to
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like to shop um i think coveted put a
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kibosh on that because i stopped
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shopping i stopped going out oh but
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that's not true i shopped online didn't
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i i shopped online so maybe i do still
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like to shop i still shop a lot online
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because i'm in a small town
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so many stores that i like and the
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brands that i like are not local
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so i do a lot of shaping online you know
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one of the things that i think i've
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learned this entire year as we've been
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doing these shows is that it's making me
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put myself out there in a way that i
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didn't use to put myself out there yeah
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right i mean the fact that we can sit
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here and have these conversations which
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we hope you guys are enjoying and and if
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you have any thoughts or any any input
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as to what we're talking about we'd love
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to hear from you let us know what you're
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thinking let us know how your year has
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changed from last year to this year yeah
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i mean i that really is the that was the
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impetus and it is the the driving force
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behind what we do to to spark and even
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if we don't hear from you that you start
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a dinner table conversation or right you
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know with your friends right
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um
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topics and and if you have type there's
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something that you've been
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bothered by or wondering about or would
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like a deeper dive into right now just
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shoot us an email and we'll touch on it
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you know we're not
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afraid of any topic
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we are not afraid of any topic so tell
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us about your writing what's going on
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with your writing these days from last
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year to this year are you you're writing
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another book you have another book i am
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and i'm actually um i mean the trilogy
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is it dances between women's fiction and
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romance but i am working on a true
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romance novel and it's really fun
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and it takes place um in the horse
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racing industry i love it again fun so
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um without saying anymore um it will be
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out
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well you know the question i'm going to
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ask when it does come out is why did you
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do it in that in the horse industry how
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did you pick that as your environment
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um the storyline it it just sort of it
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grew and and when i started thinking
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about the characters and the setting and
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what i wanted that setting to be
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um
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it all fit and i love as you as you may
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or may not know my youngest son played
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football at the university of kentucky i
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love lexington and i love
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the horse industry and
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um i love horses
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but just all of it i'm fascinated by it
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and we have friends in it so i have good
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resources and that's important to
14:57
authenticity of the story
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and so yeah it was a chance to get back
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to kentucky how fun how fun
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hey guys you know we were talking about
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how we're all over every place but we
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really do want you to go over to vital c
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go to vitalsy.com forward slash watch
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forward slash uncourt all of the shows
15:16
live there in addition to all these
15:18
other shows that are there we have a
15:19
sports show that is
15:21
going crazy with some amazing athletes
15:23
we have
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and it's a great perspective it's called
15:26
overtime yeah you know your identity and
15:28
we've talked about this on the show our
15:30
identity and and how that evolves
15:33
as an athlete and those athletes at the
15:35
top of their game um either as amateurs
15:39
olympians or professional right when
15:41
that's over yeah who are they yeah what
15:43
so it's really fascinating and some of
15:45
the guests are just mind-blowing
15:49
it's incredible i laugh you know because
15:51
i produce the show and i i sit and i
15:52
list i'm not a sports girl at all i mean
15:55
i literally i want to know what inning
15:57
they're in when they're playing football
15:59
i mean i literally don't have any
16:00
concept however i become a sports girl
16:02
because i am learning from all these
16:04
amazing athletes and their stories and
16:06
where where they came from it's it's
16:08
what they're doing now yeah and what
16:10
they're doing is
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in their pursuits and their pursuit of
16:13
great living
16:15
now that the you know they're off that
16:16
stage yeah absolutely and the other show
16:18
we i would encourage you to go check out
16:20
as the peak stage yeah i'm having a
16:22
blast with that we had dave cause on a
16:24
couple of weeks ago i mean i'm having a
16:25
blast and again it's all about the peak
16:28
stage it's all about
16:29
stepping into your greatness and your
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wonderfulness no matter what age you are
16:33
yeah and no matter where you are in in
16:36
your journey and something that that we
16:38
talked about last month that's new is
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the title sea travel oh my gosh
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and we have
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beautiful beautiful cruises coming up um
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beginning in september the first one in
16:49
alaska
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and i encourage you to take a look at
16:52
the site and you will see i mean we're
16:55
with seabourn uh legend and winstar
16:58
celebrity and beautiful i mean a
17:01
beautiful opportunity to travel with
17:03
concierge and an
17:04
experience that you're not going to get
17:06
anywhere else and that's through the
17:07
vital sea travel network with other
17:09
like-minded people so you will you will
17:11
meet other people that are that are um
17:13
doing exactly what you're doing and it's
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it's i'm so excited and mel's going on
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is going to be leading the first one so
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you you know join me join join mel
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that's going to be awesome totally
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awesome uh we want to make sure you go
17:26
check out the shop
17:27
mel has so much fun creating some really
17:30
cool items and this month is no
17:32
exception go to uncork dot shop and you
17:34
will check out them and shop go shop go
17:37
shop and lastly
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again this is all mel i i give her all
17:42
the credit uh is our playlist how much
17:45
fun is that for you i it's so so i was a
17:47
dj a club dj um in my
17:51
late college and post college years and
17:54
i love it it's and this is going back to
17:56
especially the era yeah you know a lot
17:58
of the music is from the the 70s and 80s
18:01
right and you know and into obviously
18:03
current day but
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it's really fun i used to make mixed
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tapes for all my friends and now i just
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do playlists i love it i love it this is
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the new world that we live in you just
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do you just do playlists
18:14
any last like
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thoughts before we say goodbye i mean
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we're just zipping by i i think what
18:21
i've really enjoyed about preparing for
18:22
this show was looking back over the past
18:25
year and obviously we did it in relation
18:27
to the show and where we started when we
18:28
came
18:29
but but i would encourage you to you
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know grab a glass of wine or or iced tea
18:34
or what you know and
18:35
give yourself some space and get clarity
18:38
on where because we're all
18:39
going through
18:40
some wild times right now right and and
18:43
look at where you've come and given give
18:45
yourself some grace for where you've
18:47
come from this past year and what you've
18:48
gone through right i agree i agree great
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thoughts
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go out there and give somebody an
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