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Today we are talking with the founder of the Human Contract Foundation, Maria Dolores. She talks about her team of the producers in The Human Contract foundation and how when we understand our human rights and responsibilities, we can better act with compassion and strength for ourselves and one another - for a more mature and peaceful world. Join the conversation.
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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and
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welcome to Karen Glasser live make sure
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you say hi in the comments and tell us
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where you're watching from we have a
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great show for you today we are talking
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about the about the human contract
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foundation with the founder Maria
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Dolores Maria is a Swedish human
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resource expert humanitarian and
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Leadership consultant in addition as a
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security consultant she trains
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management teams in crisis Management in
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her profession working with life and
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death Maria has insightful empathic and
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Broad perspective so without further Ado
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Maria welcome to the show how are you
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thank you Karen thank you and thank you
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for having me this is so wonderful to
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see you again oh it's wonderful to see
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you as well this is going to be a great
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show
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um yeah I think we just need to just
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jump right in and talk about the human
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contract yes what does that mean what
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what the heck is a human contract
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so the human contract the foundation the
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human contract is about that we have
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both human rights but we also have human
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responsibilities
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and so the foundation is based on seven
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principles of human dignity
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and and it derives actually directly
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from United Nations Declaration of the
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universal human rights okay but we also
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have responsibilities and that's like
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modern leaders we do have
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responsibilities and I think in this day
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and age if it hasn't if it isn't even
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more
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uh that we should be aware of that that
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we have responsibilities I think we
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definitely do so do you want let's talk
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about the seven principles yeah of the
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human contract so what's number one
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number one is about the body so the
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first three is actually personal and the
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second three is interpersonal and the
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last is collective so the first three
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the body thought and emotion you have
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the right to your body
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you have a responsibility for your body
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that's that's just how easy the human
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contract is right and then the second
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and the third is about our thoughts and
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emotions that we have the right to our
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thoughts
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and we have a responsibility for our
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thoughts and the same with emotions so
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you know as humans
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uh we we have we hate we love we feel
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sadness we feel grief we have crazy
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thoughts we have we have the same
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thoughts going over and over
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um and we have the right to Being Human
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but we also have a responsibility and
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most and foremost to ourselves
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and so it's it's really about physical
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and mental health
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that's and that is probably what it's
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all about right I mean that is yeah and
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then the coming three principles is
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interpersonal it's about how we
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communicate it's a move and it's about
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life so you have the freedom of
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expression we have we have the freedom
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of creativity and how we express what we
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create as humans we always have and we
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always have we will have
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but we also have a responsibility in our
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communication and our expression and
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that is
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uh it for me it comes back to a dignity
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for us um for us who's working with the
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foundation to communicate more about how
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can we express how can we create with
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more matureness
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how we can how can we create with more
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dignity and more mutual respect and you
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know from time to time living and just
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being uh you know there are so many
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platforms out there
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So eventually you know we we bump into
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you know we say we miss
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uh speak or or we we create things that
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are really really offensive to a lot of
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people and
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when we can acknowledge this and say you
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know I'm sorry or you know that was what
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and and to express what was actually Our
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intention what what did we really want
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to say you say that that is part of our
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responsibility as being human yeah yeah
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so that's the fourth principle it's
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about communication and the fifth
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principle is about Movement
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we as a Humanity we've been on this
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planet for more than 300 000 years and
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we we've been on in the deepest sea and
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up on the highest mountain and even up
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in space so we have the freedom of
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movements as humans but we also have a
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responsibility in our movement and that
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is both
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respecting other cultures respecting
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laws respecting other life
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in our movement and with life comes to
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the sixth principle that we have you
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have the right to your life
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right you have the right to live with
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whomever wherever and however you like
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but not at the cost of any other right
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and
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so if for instance so we're making a
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film in Uganda talking about forced
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marriages that is one way to communicate
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with the human contract
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um
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and uh
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I'm curious why did you why I mean you
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have such a varied past and you've done
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so many things what made you decide to
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go in this Direction I mean this is this
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is monumental
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yeah
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um just uh so the the seventh principle
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okay
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so the last the seventh so the first
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three is personal right and then the
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second three is interpersonal and then
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the last is the collective and the
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collective uh rights and
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responsibilities is about it's basically
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what you in English call moral courage
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or civil courage we could also say in
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Swedish civil crush and that is
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you know when when we as a Humanity when
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we collectively step up right we really
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matter yes we can really make an impact
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I'm thinking like just one example like
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the Berlin Wall
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and you know people just came together
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and say no we're not having it anymore
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and how we collectively can make a big
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change uh we have so much Devastation we
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have corruption we have
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um
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would you say it's more like a
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Grassroots kind of thing then it's a
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collective when we when I think gra when
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I think Collective that we as a
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community as a group of people can make
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change here in the states we kind of at
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least I think about that Grassroots
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thing meaning that people come together
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and they it's like a swelling of of
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humanity is that so am I making that too
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you know simplified or is it kind of
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people coming together in humanity it is
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it is so the human contract is not a uh
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it's as you understand it's not a legal
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contract it's for each human to step up
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and say yeah I I will
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I will
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do my part and this is about my physical
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my mental health this is about how I
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communicate this is about how I move in
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the society or how I connect with other
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people and this is how and that I
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together in this together in the society
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we do have a collective responsibility
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um so it I would say the human contract
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is like leadership for for Citizens I
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love that I love that and I love the
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fact that um it's the foundation of the
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human contract Foundation
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um is based on the United Nations
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Declaration of universal human rights so
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I go back to the question where I
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interrupted you and I apologize what
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made you decide to go in this direction
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and start a foundation for you know of
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all things why did you decide to do this
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obviously it's important to you and
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important to the world obviously but why
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why did you decide to do this
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there are so many facets of course of
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this and so one one is that I've done my
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20 000 hours on
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uh just self-development thinking and uh
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this is what it's
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crystaled out to be
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um part of part of this was also
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um
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in in
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2013 I divorced my husband
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and his grief
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his grave came out in a very destructive
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way and he followed me and it was a very
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fearful time in my life
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during this time he developed a brain
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tumor and he died of this brain tumor in
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2015.
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and uh
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then I wrote I wrote the book about a
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state of grace human rights and human
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obligations yeah that's the book it's uh
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currently uh that the content is
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currently in Swedish so we are looking
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into
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Translating that but it's about that we
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both have rights and responsibilities so
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I give my ex-husband the right you know
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to hate me but we also have a
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responsibility in uh with our emotions
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and how we express
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um
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and in the book I I talk both on
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individual level and group and
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organization which is also what I did
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when I worked with the human resources
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um both on individual and groups and and
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organizations and and then this is just
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leveling up about societies
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um
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many books has inspired me and and I
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clearly see how we we as a Humanity we
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are standing
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and
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if we look back in our 300 000 year
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history
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uh for each shift that we have made in
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our history we have always had
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technology supporting and driving us to
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the next level right so the way I see it
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now is that we we are standing very
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deep some Nations more than others we're
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stepping deep in in the nation-centric
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thinking
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and because we have the justice system
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and we have the political system and and
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we used to also have the the media what
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we refer to as the third state power
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um and these three powers together that
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were built hundreds of years ago and
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they
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they support us they have been
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supporting us in the nation-centric
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thinking and now we have technology
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supporting and driving us to to the next
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level so what is the next level it's
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and I see that it it's a global local
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world that we need to create so it's
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it's like it's going both globally
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because
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um technology is supporting and driving
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us to a global world but it also needs
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to be locally anchored
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um so it what we
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are creating a need to create is a
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global local World
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um
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and so the human contract is a way to
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navigate through this and just with the
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very very thin
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framework what you heard about our
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rights and responsibilities but the the
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framework is also a process because we
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are humans so we develop we develop in
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our emotions we develop in our thoughts
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and we develop in our interaction and
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understanding for each other
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so it's both a framework and but also
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acknowledging the human process to
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mature to mature as humans now you have
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a book coming out on this called the
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human contract right it's coming out
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towards the end of the year and what
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will people expect to see in this book
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or read in this book
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so I will talk about uh it I basically
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deepen the reasoning behind the human
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contract and the seven principles uh
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it's based on my previous book a state
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of grace right and the the
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phrase a state of grace for me is about
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that when you are in a state of grace
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and I am in a state of grace that is how
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we create the state of grace
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so peace in the world starts from within
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it's beautiful
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you know when I hear you even say that I
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just want I go ah
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that's nice that that's really nice now
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you talk about fear and growth and the
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istama concept so yeah what is that what
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is an istama good yeah istema it it's a
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fictive word that
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um
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soon we'll be
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something you can look up we'll have I
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have a an article coming up and uh
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more reasoning but so istama is when
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when we're going from one
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level of Consciousness you can call it
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and then we shift or if we go from one
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perspective and when we're broadening
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perspectives
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uh we usually don't go from you know
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from a uh from one set of perspective
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and just broadening it we're going
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and through a process and the process is
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usually going through grief anger fear
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frustration and and then we come to the
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breaking point and then then we're
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broadening perspectives
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I saw this pattern and this is istama
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and I saw this pattern both working with
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them
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uh grief grief recovery
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uh I I saw it in all kinds of personal
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development
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in uh
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like I gave example with the divorce
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with my husband
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um in but also when I was working with
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organizations and as a security
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consultant same process it's about you
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know quality and something needs to
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happen usually right and then and then
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we we improved then we shift then we
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mature
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and I see the same thing also in
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our human history
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that we we have come
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from our human history with 300 000
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years and each shift has cost
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both you know
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disturbance turbulence and and then we
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are
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changing perspectives
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broadening perspectives maturing as a
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Humanity so the the istama that we are
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collectively standing
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and in in this process right now is um
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is the shooting of going from a
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nation-centric world and nation-centric
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thinking
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and to a global local world
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and that's also why I made this
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Foundation because uh it it's not it's
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not about me and I love my team but you
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know it's not about us it's not about
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just this generation it's a it's for the
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coming Generations
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and to communicate about
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that we do have rights but we also have
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responsibilities
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can people join this Foundation can
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people join you in your mission and how
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would they do that would they go to your
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website yes yes definitely go to the
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website and look at what projects we're
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having
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and it will also be someone we are
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looking for seed money and support in
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that sense so if they want to check out
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my LinkedIn and take contact then I can
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talk more about the foundation and in
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what way you can help
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and the foundation is is not only
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uh you know it's it's how we communicate
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so I have a wonderful team of producers
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and so I mentioned uh our Ugandan team
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they are making a movie about forced
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marriages
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uh but we also have a Sheila she's our
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TV show host she's uh our Oprah Winfrey
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from Ireland I love it yeah she is
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wonderful and so she will be
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interviewing a-listers and to talk about
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the human contract
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and how we
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and what they think about you know their
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rights and responsibilities and and
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their their taken and examples
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on uh as I listened to you Maria and I
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as I listen to you you know in you're
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going to be interviewing other people
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your producers doing this you're making
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such a great impact in our world and I
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know it's just the beginning and I think
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that's what's exciting to me as I as I
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watch you at uh certainly is you're not
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at the 100 beginning I mean you've been
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doing this for a while but
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it's starting to take on a life of its
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own and I'm very very excited for you
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you're doing good stuff and I think more
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and more people need to hear about this
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which is why I thought it was so
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important to have you on the show to
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talk about this because again I said at
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the very beginning we live in a world
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where I think a lot of us have forgotten
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our human responsibility to be nice to
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be kind just to be rather than to react
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inappropriately at least that's my
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opinion to stuff that's out there so
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kudos to you an Applause to you what is
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it that you hope at the end of the day I
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mean can you for can you look in 10
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years from now or even a year from now
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where do you hope to be in this journey
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of the human contract
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um
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there are four in 10 years from now
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that's a good question
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um
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I see that the human contract we will
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have four pillars and one pillar is
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where we're starting the media
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a media
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organization
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and with the help of many different
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producers to to communicate about the
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human contract that's that's one thing
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and then the second is to have a boat
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and cruises to talk about the human
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contract and a wellness Cruise oh my God
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that sounds like so much fun
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and then the the third is a world of
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Wellness houses because I really believe
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that the human contract should not be
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just you know a thought or some
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fluffy or also but inspirational thought
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but also it needs to be
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you know on the ground close to everyone
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and so while the wellness houses
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uh to be built and in different sections
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in different levels where you have a
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physical health physical
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you know food food court and like a
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Galleria and a mental help or or help
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with um
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uh relationships and then also
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organizations that are collaborating for
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a better
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Global local World
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um wow and the fourth pillar will be uh
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networking and uniting the good forces
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because there are so many great
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organizations that already are working
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you know with what we are talking about
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but they have their special take or
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segment
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like uh Wildlife organizations that
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would be within the realm of the sixth
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and the seventh principle uh or you know
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uh health organizations or mental health
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organizations or
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um and how we you know reporters or
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journalists Without Borders right right
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that would be the the fourth principle
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so there are thousands maybe millions of
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organizations the good forces in the
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world that already are working but it to
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support each other in what we're doing
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working for a better world right that's
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what I believe in so the four pillar
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would be both the media organization
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like cruises and buildings and also
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uniting the good forces together
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you are doing good work Maria I am so
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honored to call you a friend at this
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point and um be able to follow what
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you're doing right now in our world any
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last minute thoughts I want to put your
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um your website up again just in case
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people want to go check it out which
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they should and see how you can get
24:10
involved and also your LinkedIn uh
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direct message over to Maria over there
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because um if you want to participate in
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the seed money you know what what you're
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doing for that this is so important
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um I want to thank you is there any last
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any thoughts you want to share before
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you're getting toward the end of our
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time and I want to make sure that we
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don't miss anything before I say goodbye
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um just I just um
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oh all of my wonderful producers that
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already are working with this uh like we
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have uh Janet uh who's uh high
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functioning autistic Savant and she's a
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artist and and uh creating uh art
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science installation that is absolutely
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wonderful and the movie and uh and
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Sheila the TV show and uh also podcast
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so we are starting to work with the
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media but looking in a 10-year
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perspective it's
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um
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and
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um
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you can see where you're going you can
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see where where that journey is going
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and certainly I can see that light
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that's just beaming
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Maria thank you for what you do thank
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you for who you are and what you're
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bringing to our world and thank you all
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for joining us today because you have a
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choice as to where you spend your time
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you chose to spend it with Maria and I
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and we are grateful right
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and hope to inspire and just share Joy
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AB Joe oh my God you do you do you light
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up the screen you truly light up the
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screen
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go out give somebody an awesome day
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we're gonna see you next time on the
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next Karen Glasser live goodbye everyone
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bye thank you
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