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I welcome back International Bestselling Author of Red Lipstick Never Hurt Anyone and Founder of Online Author’s Office - Pashmina P. to The Author's Spotlight. Her first book The Cappuccino Chronicles, received worldwide renown and a steadily growing readership and was endorsed by a former news anchor from CNN and CNBC. While working on her latest book, Red Lipstick Never Hurt Anyone, she followed her dream to creating a global community…. That online network is now known as The Online Author’s office.
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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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welcome to the author spotlight
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interviews with some of the best-selling
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authors from all around the world
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today's show is sponsored by the online
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author's office a platform for aspiring
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writers who seek that quantum leap to
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marketing their books now make sure you
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say hi in the comments and tell us where
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you're tuning in from i love to see
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where everybody watches the show
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today i am welcoming back international
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best-selling author and founder of the
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online author's office pashmina p her
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first book cappuccino chronicles
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received worldwide renown and a steadily
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growing readership and was endorsed by a
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former news anchor from cnn and cnbc
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while working on her second book i'm
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just gonna hold it up
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red lipstick never hurt anyone she
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followed her dream to creating a global
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community that online network is now
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known as the online network
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the online offers office so without
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further ado pashmina welcome to the show
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hi karen thank you so much for having me
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back i'm so honored and privileged to be
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back here with you well the honor the
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privilege and honor is with me i i'm
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just really happy that you're back i
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know you came on when you had cappuccino
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chronicles and we did a whole show on
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that and i've been waiting with baited
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breath to bring you back on so welcome
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back to the show so just to kind of get
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going here tell us a little bit about
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yourself what your story is you've lived
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all around the world
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tell us about all of that
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well um
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actually my uh the red lipstick never
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heard anyone is actually my fifth book
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because the cappuccino chronicles is a
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trilogy and then there was my children's
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book called what is a gupsy and then
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the uh this book which is kind of like
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my business card it's where i wanted to
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give my audience all my secrets away so
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that they could have somewhere to go to
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um being a global resident if you want
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or part of a global community it's kind
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of difficult to be on zoom 24 hours a
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day
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and
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i'm a working mom i have two beautiful
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children so i needed to really maximize
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my time so what i did was create this
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book so that all the answers were you
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know all the questions were answered for
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my my um my community so that they
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wouldn't have to
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feel like i wasn't giving them enough
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attention and in accordance with the
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book we created a course my marketing
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manager and i created a course that goes
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with the book where people can follow
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step-by-step guidelines
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on how to publish and market your book
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right and we'll talk a lot about that as
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we get into that the program and all of
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that
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um
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tell us a little bit though about your
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background you you recently moved you're
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no longer living where when i first met
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you you were in
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where were you i was in bangkok yeah and
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you're not in bangkok anymore where are
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you right now i moved to the south of
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thailand to phuket which is really
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island life and
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it really has been so wonderful to be
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here because it's given me space and
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time to actually be in nature and write
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and i really feel that being out of the
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hustle and the bustle of the city has
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given me some kind of calmness to
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actually sit and write my seventh sixth
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book is coming out am i the one in 2023
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which is a collection of nine short
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stories and i'm hopefully hoping that
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the same with the cappuccino chronicles
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that will be made into some kind of
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other medium maybe tv or movie or
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something i have no doubt i have no idea
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i mean you're clearly a go-getter you
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clearly just hit the floor running
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you're never satisfied with just the
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status quo and i know that i i know that
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about you which i think is really kind
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of cool so i apologize it was the fifth
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book so
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where what year did you write your first
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book
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2016.
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which was the trilogy i think i met you
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in
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2017 or 18. around there yeah yeah
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because that's when all three books had
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been completed uh in the trilogy um and
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it's at the moment it's like being it's
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it's a labor of love i'm rebranding it
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and putting it under the oao um as the
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publisher
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and um i'm moving towards getting an
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option agreement for it to be
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in a tv series i am so excited for you i
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don't even know how you sit still i'd be
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i'd be all over the place getting
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excited
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and we called the show red lipstick
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never hurt anyone it's a great title
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it's a great title for your book it's a
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great title this whole thing with the
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kiss program
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um and it's it's during that time when
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you were writing this book that the
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online author's office came to life i
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mean it really came to life at that part
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so let's talk about this global
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community because it really is global i
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mean i'm here in the states but you have
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people everywhere
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what is it like having a global
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community that's very unusual
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well we never sleep the online author's
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office is always awake somebody's always
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there i've got you know um project
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managers in
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you know the states in canada in the uk
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even in nairobi
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you know we're touching like different
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continents all over um and it feels it
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feels very like the world has become so
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small
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um the intention of the online author's
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office was never to actually be fully
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online and it became that way when covid
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happened wow you're kidding
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okay
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yeah i mean my i i fell in love with
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this idea of being a digital nomad where
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i could be anywhere in the world and
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take my computer and then go and visit
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my client which is which is what i was
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doing in 2016. i mean we had traveling
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you know storytelling where we had book
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signings in hong kong we had one in
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canada we had one in thailand we were
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just traveling all together and then
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covet hit and we were forced forced to
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be online so it was never my intention
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to be fully online so now that the world
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is slowly opening up
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um get ready karen i'm going to come and
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visit you
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waiting for you here
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so interesting that you're saying it
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never was meant to be all online and yet
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you were prepared for it i mean you
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really were prepared for it it may not
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seem like it i mean what was that was
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the name of the the organization called
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something different than online
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news no
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you were prepared for that and i'm just
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going to point that out you were ahead
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of the game and i would venture to guess
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that the fact that you were able to go
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online as quickly and as easily as you
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did it probably gave you a step up
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faster and you can thank the crazy two
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years that we had that forced you to do
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that i'm just making an observation
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i mean i've met people from all over the
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world being online
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and they feel like my family like being
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with you here i feel so comfortable i
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feel like i'm sitting in your living
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room or you're sitting here in my office
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yeah um you know and it's it's really
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important to create these connections
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but for me because my my background or
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as somebody used to say my past life i
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was a theater arts teacher you know the
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head of the visual and performing arts
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department at an international school in
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bangkok i feel that the human connection
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is what really keeps us alive i agree
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so i'm ready i'm ready to like go back
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to the intention of what the online
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author's office was really all about
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i love that i i love that and when you
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come to visit because you will
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we have a room waiting for you thank you
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and when you come visit me here we have
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a room waiting for you too as well when
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and if i ever get on a plane again to go
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anywhere but yes i would love that thank
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you for the thank you for the invitation
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if you're just tuning in we are talking
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to pashmina p the founder of the online
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author's office we're talking about her
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books and we're going to be talking
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about right now her kiss program so
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what is it
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and who is it for
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okay so if you know me well and karen i
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think i've known you for a number of
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years so you know that i always never
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show up without my red lipstick i mean
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we're in different time zones here at 7
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30 in the morning here and uh yep and
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that's that's me that's my that's my my
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signature you know i mean i won't i
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won't go anywhere even if i don't have
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any other eye makeup or other makeup on
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i always go out with a little bit of red
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lipstick on um so the kiss course is
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called keep it short and spectacular
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because it is something that i want
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writers who
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need the information
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um in a very succinct kind of way and
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very like not long and drawn out because
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we live in a society right now where
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everything is fast and everything is
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instant so my course runs over eight
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modules and is connected with the book
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and each module is very simple it's very
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short it's very simple and basically it
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goes through some of the chapters and
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some of the chapters combined together
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and there's exercise pages
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there's exercise pages in here i was
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trying to see if i could find something
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i mean you've got all sorts of things in
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here yes how to create which is
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fabulous fabulous yeah so we really want
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our authors who are just you know
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stepping into it and wondering what is
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this whole thing all about to actually
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physically write in the book look at the
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modules and create some kind of momentum
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for themselves
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because it's very important for a writer
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to write and i keep saying this on all
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interviews you need discipline
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and
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when i when i lacked discipline in my
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writing i was all over the place so i
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really wanted to give that wisdom and
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those ideas to upcoming authors
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that you need to do these exercises in
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order to move to the next step
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so true so true and i think discipline
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is a great word
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so many of us don't have that discipline
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i don't think it's just writing books i
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think it's business it's family we don't
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have that discipline and if you can
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discover that and you can nurture that
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the whole world opens up it's your
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oyster
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so
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why why do you do this why why are you
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doing this i mean you could do almost
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anything you you could you could be
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writing your books and traveling the
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world and doing interviews why are you
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helping other people why is this so
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important to you
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i i think i i have i have this thing
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inside me where i want to show my
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children that
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empathy and gratitude and service
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is what makes you a whole human
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um and meeting people has been one of my
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one of my best pleasures
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i love meeting people i mean and i love
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learning from other people so as much as
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people learn from me i learn from them
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and i really do believe that learning is
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endless i'm never going to stop learning
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i'm never going to stop meeting people
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and i do it because it gives me a sense
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of joy
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and a sense of setting an example
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i mean i could do anything i could i
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could be in the corporate world i could
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still be a teacher but what i want is
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for my children to see that the world is
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really their oyster
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um and they can do it they can they can
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actually be who they want to be i mean
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just thinking about my visions and what
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i want for the future my eldest she
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wants to be a new york times bestseller
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she's going to study you know politics
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and journalism the youngest one wants to
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be an actor in new york and open up her
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own theater and a bookstore and i'm like
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these are all
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what my dreams that i'm kind of like you
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know imparting and they're saying it by
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themselves
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so it's it's for them it's really for
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them
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i've seen pictures of you with your
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daughters i mean you're such a role
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model for them and they clearly adore
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you and i think it's really great what
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you're doing and
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what what message do you have to
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people that are considering becoming a
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author
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you know they they not quite sure what
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is that message that you want to get out
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to
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the hereto for writers that have not
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quite taken that jump
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i really noticed that a lot of writers
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it's the fear factor they're so scared
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of so many things you know and my main
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thing in this book is to teach them to
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refuse to give up on themselves
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because once they find that internal
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feeling of who they want to be and what
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they want to be it's just full speed
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ahead
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of course we all go through the oh my
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gosh what's going on am i doing the
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right thing should i go back to
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corporate should i go back to teaching
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should i do something else should i go
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into baking you know whatever it is you
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know whatever
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yeah
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but my motto is like refuse to give up
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on yourself because you're the only one
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that is going to push yourself forward
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of course having a great you know
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support system helps
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but at the end of the day if there's
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nobody there for you you only have
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yourself right and i i think that's
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really important i think that's kind of
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what we're missing in our world right
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now is we're alone we are isolated we
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are
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so many things so i think that's it's
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important and that kind of leads into my
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my next thing you say refuse to give up
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on yourself now you met with the dalai
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lama
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yes
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i want to hear about that that's that's
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a that's amazing and i'm jelly
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how was that first of all how did that
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come about and what was it like
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well i i was collaborating with another
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author and we were just collaborating
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with each other and i helped her to
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write her book and she said to me i've
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given i've been given the opportunity to
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meet the dalai lama would you like to
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come with me and i was like get out of
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here you know like is this true right
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like really and she said yes we've been
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you know
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um
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offered the opportunity to present our
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books to him because he's looking for
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literary works and like looking for
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people who are writers and i said of
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course and she said you can bring one
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person with you
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so it was like a huge discussion in my
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family who's pashmina gonna bring so
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you know my husband wanted to go my
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daughters wanted to go and so i thought
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i'm going to bring my mom you know she
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gave birth to me and
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i mean she cried when i said okay mom
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you're coming with me
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and i i have a picture of it in my book
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where she's
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hugging me
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you thank your mom though in the you
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actually thank your mom i i did i
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haven't gotten through the whole book
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yet but you actually thank your mom
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obviously your mom is important and i
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want to touch on that so you took your
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mom
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yep
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and uh and it was just the most profound
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experience um
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he put he was talking to us as a group
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and i presented my book to him and he
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said what is this about and i told him
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it's about women at a coffee shop you
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know just from their 20s 40s and 60s and
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he couldn't stop laughing
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like he has a great sense of humor and
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he's a very worldly human being
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um and and he said is there any violence
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in here and i said no no it's just you
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know very fun loving and he said okay
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i'm gonna give it to one of my
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apprentices to read and
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at the end of it we were just talking
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and brainstorming and he put his hand on
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my head and he said pashmina
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do good and be good
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and i was like okay what does that mean
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and he said just remember that do good
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and be good and my mother
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always says that to me now do good be
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good like if she sees me going off the
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rails somewhere she's like remember what
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he said and i remember turning around as
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i left you know the the the actual you
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know meeting with him and my mom was
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holding his hand and she was crying so
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much
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and he said don't cry everything is okay
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everything is okay
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and you are a good mom everything is
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okay
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and and you know she kissed him on his
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on his uh uh hand over here and then we
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had to go because i mean there was
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thousands of people waiting to see him
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you know
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and she was just my mom was just so
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overwhelmed by that meeting and
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to be in the presence of someone so
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peaceful and so funny and
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just i mean he's a global citizen too um
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just my heart was just so full and like
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you know i never felt like that in my
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life ever
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so that experience
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clearly was life-altering yes respects
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right um
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what would you if somebody if you were
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just going to say one
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message other than do good and be good
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which i actually had written down you
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talk about it being a ripple effect
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yes so tell let's talk about that let's
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let our audience know what you mean by
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that and why working together and being
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together is so important
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i really believe that we're all here for
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the same reason it doesn't matter you
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know where you're from or who you are if
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you're what man woman gay transgender
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whatever you are that we are all part of
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a collective
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it's all part of this light that we are
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we we should be
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honing in on which comes from our heart
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you know and when we start to think with
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a heart and brain coherence like
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connecting the two together we
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understand that why we're here that
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we're all in this together no matter
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what
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so i always like to ask the authors to
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come on the show and i don't i think i
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know what your answer is going to be do
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you ever get writer's block
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is there such a thing in in your you
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know world you like oh gosh i can't even
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think what my next words are going to be
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because you have this
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coming out so
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do you get writer's block
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yes i do and i talk about it in this
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book like the best thing to do is to
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journal i mean i i have you know lined
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pages in here as well where people can
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go and do the exercises but i really
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believe that you i mean like one example
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i give is one of my characters in
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cappuccino chronicles i had to write a
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four-page conversation between her and
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her friend and i was thinking oh my gosh
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what am i gonna write about so what i
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did was i did something fun i just
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decided that she was gonna write a
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shopping list what she was going to
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write to go to the supermarket so
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actually getting into the psyche of her
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and having a little fun without being so
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serious about this conversation
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and i sent it over to my editor and
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she's like okay do this exercise and
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what is it and i said so the shopping
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list with cigarettes potato chips a
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bottle of wine and chocolate and she's
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like oh my god now do you see what kind
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of character this is like what about
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like lettuce and bread i'm like she's
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not thinking about that and she's like
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okay there you go you know
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there you go and i i just thought okay
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something so simple as a shopping list
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got me going into what she was talking
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about with her friend so these are the
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kind of tips and the kind of things that
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you teach your your your authors the
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people that are writing and doing all of
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this you you've we've talked about the
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kiss program and i want them to know how
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they can go
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find out more about it so they can go to
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and visit you on the web at passionate
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dashp.com when they get there they can
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find the kiss program they can find all
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sorts of things over there um
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what
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we'll talk about kiss again for a second
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but you also have your big program your
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master's program
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yeah
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yeah tell us a little bit about that
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okay so the kiss program is for is is
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like i only have three programs the kiss
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program which is a total online program
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with accompanied with the book and of
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course you get videos and modules and
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you know little tips here and there and
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it's just to start dabbling your feet
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then i have the vip author program which
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is the second tier where you have six
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people on the team with you plus me um
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you know you're getting your book
19:49
together and come you know making sure
19:51
that it's published and ready to be
19:52
uploaded and then we have the master
19:55
elite author program where you
19:57
it's a really extensive program there's
19:59
some ghost writing in there if you need
20:01
it it's media it's marketing getting you
20:04
on new york weekly getting you on new
20:06
york times billboard which i did as well
20:08
in november last last year um you know
20:12
so it's a really extensive course where
20:14
the author is building a brand so the
20:16
author might have more than just a book
20:19
they might have more wisdom to impart so
20:21
it's a very extensive program and it's
20:24
both of those are over one year but for
20:26
our master elite authors the ones who
20:28
sign up for the the higher tier program
20:31
this year in 2022 we are offering them
20:33
six months extra for free when they sign
20:36
on with that okay so there's something
20:38
for everyone and yes in every price
20:41
range as well so if you're watching this
20:43
and you're saying oh i can't afford this
20:45
i can't do it there's a program for you
20:47
there and i think that's really the
20:48
message is that there's that you can
20:50
come in on the entry level the kiss
20:52
program and read the book and get the
20:54
tips and the things from
20:56
this amazing woman right here or if
20:58
you're ready to take the next step
21:00
you've got vip and then you've got
21:01
masters which i think it's i think
21:03
you're very it's very clean uh on the
21:06
site i love your site it's very clean
21:08
you know where to find things so guys
21:09
when you go there you're gonna be able
21:10
to find all of these programs as well um
21:13
i know that you're on instagram so they
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can find you at
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underscore online underscore authors
21:19
underscore office you'll find it there
21:22
and they can find you on facebook just
21:25
to search for pashmina and pass i you
21:27
know i call you pashmina p but you know
21:29
that's that
21:31
that's that's just me
21:32
any any last minute thoughts anything
21:35
that you want to make sure that our
21:37
audience takes away from this
21:39
conversation
21:41
everybody is a storyteller
21:43
we were born to story tell and we are
21:45
part of a story we are in a story we
21:47
tell stories we're part of a collective
21:50
so when someone tells you that you can't
21:53
write or you don't have a story don't
21:55
ever believe them because we were all
21:57
given this gift to use our brain to be
22:00
able to inspire through storytelling and
22:03
storytelling is the key
22:06
for families for legacy for ancestry for
22:09
marketing for news it's it's there all
22:12
over all the time so believe that you're
22:15
the natural-born storyteller and that's
22:17
the first module that we talk about in
22:19
the kiss course be the natural-born
22:21
storyteller
22:23
i love that oh my gosh i love that so
22:25
much hey guys i want to make sure you
22:27
check out my website at karenglasser.com
22:30
you can find out how you can work with
22:32
me you know maybe come on the show maybe
22:34
you want to have a podcast you never
22:35
know
22:36
and for those of you who want to follow
22:37
me on social media i'm everywhere uh
22:40
just look for karen glasser on every
22:42
single social media you'll find me over
22:43
there between pinterest and you know
22:45
instagram and tick tock i'm on tick tock
22:48
now and uh youtube and all that stuff so
22:50
make sure you check us out
22:52
thank you for being on the show dude
22:54
thank you for getting up early to be on
22:56
oh today i love that i'm normally the
22:58
one that gets up at four in the morning
23:00
and you know does this so thank you for
23:01
doing that and i want to thank our
23:03
audience we know that you have a choice
23:05
as to where you spend your time and you
23:06
chose to spend it with pashmina and me
23:08
today we are eternally grateful go out
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give somebody an awesome day and we'll
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