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The Origami Balloon: A Path to Self Discovery
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Mar 8, 2023
Today we are diving deep with best-selling author Cheryl Moy. Her debut novel, The Origami Balloon: Becoming Mei-Rose, explores Mei’s path to self discovery as she comes to understand that her two cultures—the Western one and the Asian one—are literally worlds apart. It has always been Cheryl’s dream to help young adults find their way and their truth. As she says, learn to love yourself first, and then you will have the gift of joy to spread to others. Join the conversation! #OrigamiBalloon #westerncultureasianculture #loveyourself Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser
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Karen Glasser here and welcome to the
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today we are diving deep with
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best-selling author Cheryl Moy it has
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always been Cheryl's dream to help young
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adults find their way in their truth she
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really wants everyone to understand that
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their well-being is as important as
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their physical health so this too needs
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to be nurtured as she says learn to love
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yourself first and then you will have
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the gift of joy to spread to others so
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without further Ado welcome to the show
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Cheryl
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I am thrilled to have you on the show
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you are quite the accomplished author
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and we're going to be talking about
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the origami balloon today but we're also
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going to talk about a couple of your
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other books as well so let's just jump
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in I want to talk about your journey
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um becoming May Rose is your debut novel
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so what's the story about exactly well
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this is a story about a little girl
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growing up here and thank you thank you
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for showing the book I'm also have it
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here yeah it's about a little girl who
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is Asian descent grew up in America who
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have a culture who have strong
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background of who she is
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um and the Asian background in Rome and
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Western culture so she's learning how to
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become
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who she is growing up the progress of
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being growing up and accepting her
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Heritage as well as westernized culture
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I'm facing a lot of discrimination of
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substance oh wait you know traditional
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way of thinking so
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this is like not just you know her story
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this is really a
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story this is what's what happens in our
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culture I believe today why was it so
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important to you to get this story this
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message out
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I think it's very important because a
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lot of people just because you're born
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in this country doesn't mean that you
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shouldn't accept who you are originally
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from right you should accept embrace
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your parents as well as just raising the
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new ideas of where the culture is from
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so there's a lot of you know inner
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turmoil for everybody whoever it is and
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this good message now also because a lot
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of Asian especially right now there's a
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lot of during the pandemic it really
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emphasized a lot with a lot of hatred a
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lot of discrimination based on what you
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believe what your culture and all this
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stuff and I think is important right now
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to accept it and embrace everything you
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know that's an important message just
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learning too just because you're faced
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with a lot of obstacles doesn't mean
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that you shouldn't love yourself even
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though people think against it and
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that's the whole message you know what
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I'm talking about is to learn that
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you're unique and embrace it whatever it
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is and and that is obviously such an
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important message you talk about the
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internal conversation right what exactly
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does that mean what is that internal
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conversation I think internal
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conversation is when you feel insecure
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of who you are especially when you love
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you know your parents love you no matter
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what it is and then the phrase of
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discrimination or they don't want to
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stand out or speak out against it then
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you're going like should I speak out for
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who I am or who I want to believe or
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should I just shy and
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accept it what other people think of me
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and so that's a lot of internal conflict
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and the reason I put origami Blue Moon
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is because in Japan origami means the
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fold of life so each time you fold you
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fold whatever you want to be you know
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and that's the photo of the girl Journey
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of how she wanted to embrace you know
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who she is and each journey of her life
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and in turn I figure it's love because
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once you figure out the love and who you
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are accept it and everybody's shining
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around you there's people against you
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then you have to accept them and embrace
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them that's called bravery right that's
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very yeah so I mean I have to ask is
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this your story
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is my story about what I face is not a
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story about me as a biography a lot of
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people think it's like a biographer of
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me but no there's a lot of people who in
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relate to who whatever ethnicity it is I
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have people come home it's like this is
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a blessing I learn about Asian culture
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or I learn about I embrace it because I
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figure out that my culture I'm also
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first generation born American and I
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face the same thing so I think it's
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really unique because I think it's
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Unique story
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we're talking we're talking with Cheryl
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right now about her book The origami
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balloon become
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May Rose go ahead and scan the code you
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can go pick up the book
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um it will take you directly over there
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but don't do it right now because I
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won't stick around and watch you know
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watch the show I'm curious what was the
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process like writing this book
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oh my gosh that's just a really good
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story
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um I took about five years to write this
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book and each time I said I'm gonna
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write a book and I never have a chance
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to write it I met amazing sponsored by
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online author of you know on offline
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she's so amazing and her team is so
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amazing it helped me brought the story
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to for version okay it took a while for
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me to write it but it was important
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message that I wanted to convey and
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um I want to write it as a storybook so
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people could relate to and also for
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young adult and through ages as well
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because they could relate to the book
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and as well as illustration to feel what
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the person is about
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um is amazing when I have people who's
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in their 70s and 80s of this book they
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could relate to it so I was impressed
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that I did a really good job in her team
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for that that's a message actually is is
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growing up
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how you are embracing who your unique is
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and especially in this time of
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especially during this time yeah
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exactly do you get writer's Brock did
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you actually oh yeah I do get out of
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writing
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foreign so I always like to find out
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because I don't think there is an author
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out there that doesn't have writer's
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block at some point in their life so
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what was the trick that you used to get
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past that writer's block
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I think the trick was to share my story
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because everybody likes storytelling I
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think it was a lot easier doing
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storytelling so once you tell a story
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that is unique and then you write it
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does that make sense and share what it
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is
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um because everybody have stories of one
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of those so that was the key part of
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moving forward trust me it was a lot of
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writer Vlogs but when you share a story
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what happened uh from other people and
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they share with you and you just
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write it down and inundate it and stuff
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so yeah what has been the response so
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far
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um the people who doesn't know about
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Asian culture I did a fantastic job
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um the reason I said that is because
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they say oh my God I did not know that
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Asian culture not only Chinese food but
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Chinese Bakery I wanted to know the
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recipe so I must
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so I'm very impressed because you know
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we are most Chinese people they always
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think about Chinese food I said well
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let's talk about other cultures besides
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Chinese food and Chinese music uh so I
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was thinking about that it's also help
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of other like K-pop
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dramas we're happy right now and thanks
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to them being did a fantastic job
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especially if he the group they call
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ptks I'm very stem you know embrace them
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for doing their multi-stream culture and
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that's what I want to do too because
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here in America people think you're just
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American we are American but we also
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have a lot of ethnicity and we should
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embrace it
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um you know what I'm saying even though
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there's a lot of discrimination
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especially and absolutely people I don't
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know how to explain about it on that
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question in the beginning
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the Jour debut novel but I also have
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another novel that's out let's talk
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about that first and you're also writing
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a third one my goodness you're busy so
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let's talk about the second book what's
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that about
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um this one is um where pop is called
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love thyself so it's learning a it's a
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contribute to the first story but it's
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more like the word book is inner work of
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discovering how the story what she had
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to face each life and it does help me
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and help other people so if you learn to
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have big dreams and then you realize
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what you are you go through what phrases
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and how you interact with people I think
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the key part right now is people don't
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interact with other people or learning
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how to interact with people you know
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other people possibly yes yeah I don't
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want to say really rude it's just once
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you figure out who you are and stuff
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your uniqueness as a star whoever you
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are and then learning to embrace other
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people around you that's usually is
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amazing but it takes
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I like what you're saying I like what
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you're saying you're saying that first
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you have to be able to love yourself
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before you can actually love anyone else
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so right is such an important important
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message I really want to know why you do
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this though you know you're putting
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yourself out there you put your face out
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there you put these books out there why
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are you doing this
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um I take courage to do this I have a
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lot of naysayers like
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you know
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um no no no to me a lot and I said well
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that's fine it's just to prove me that I
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need to do this right take bravery to do
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this to go forward to do this and also
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I think it's a story to be tell instead
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of a different way in a political
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platform you know I'm saying to share
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your stories a lot of people relate to
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it you know Personal Touch one-on-one
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once you share a story in able to
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Encompass everything else
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and you say that you are doing this also
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it's also for the Lost and those who are
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scared to starting over and simply have
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no idea where to begin
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so how does this book help guide people
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get that stuff
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that's a really great question to start
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is learning where you're stuck when you
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realize what you need to go through even
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though you don't have a story
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and The Bravery is to know through each
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time
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people who accept you and understand it
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then you should use them as a Guiding
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Light right and just have them drawn to
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you and you draw to them and then you
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shared an idea it's just take one person
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to do that and then it's just no one to
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everything else so yeah it's an
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important story because I think right
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now people talk about politics and how
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to reform those are great ideas but it's
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always one person is to understand why
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you need to reform what's the idea
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behind it right to get
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to stuff what it is I think that's what
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it is
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sure what do you hope people are going
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to walk away with when they read your
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book I mean immediately they walk away
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what do you want them to share with
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other people after reading this book
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other than of course you need to go read
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this book too what is what do you hope
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they're going to actually share what is
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that message that they're going to share
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once they finish this book
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you're talking about
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it needs to be talked about
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um but what do you think people are
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going to actually say after they've read
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the book
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I want people to say ism is like aha
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moment for them
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right like
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it doesn't matter what age you are it's
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a starting you need to share right and
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work with others because this basically
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is working for others and then how to
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shine
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um you will see the story about the
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antidote no matter what you do you need
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to consist you know how people always
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say you have to be consistent well
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that's true you always have to be
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consistent but what is a joy I think
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that's the key part the joy of the
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journey you go up and down like a roller
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coaster but what's the joy of learning
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each one I think that's what my message
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is you know right everybody Facebook
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difficulties but the joy of finding
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the other side of it right why you have
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to go through this journey now this
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seems like a natural
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Naturals your coach I mean I know
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so do you do you feel and I'm I can kind
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of guess the answer this book is kind of
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an offshoot from your coaching and and
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the thing that that you are actually
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helping people with this probably came a
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little bit out of that
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um how is it right right you're right
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Karen it does came out a little bit out
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of that and I realized I've been doing
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with people anyway so but yeah so what
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so yeah when you coach who do you coach
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do you coach
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um women men
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Chinese
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chinese-american who do you coach
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so I bet you do all ethnicity again you
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have to accept everybody who they are
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and they wound us to a sub in the realm
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of Who You Are
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so you always attracted him as I think
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it's Unique is because I always accept
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people who like the lowest point in
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their life
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shouldn't say that the longest point in
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terms of where they at I should never
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say in my life the longest point of
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where they at and then I find I give
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them courage
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um I know it's like you do give people
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courage to embrace this other side like
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what is if it says other side how does
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it look like once they figure that out
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it's like okay they accept it and then
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the Journey of his process you know
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right journey is to go the key part is
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the whole thing is courage you know
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we're talking about it's like me
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encouraged to be like people say oh sure
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you do the other in Industry are you
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okay with people knowing your name and
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what you do I say hey is this book about
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courage that I need to have my name out
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there and just breathe and you're
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stepping into your power I mean you are
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truly stepping into your particular
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power which is a Storyteller as a coach
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as somebody to motivate others and again
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it's all about having that courage now
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we mentioned briefly that you have a
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third book that you're working on so I
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I'm I'm chuckling a little bit because
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it took you five years to get the first
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book and now they're just kind of
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rolling out right
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I'm glad you said that I don't know when
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I matched with their uh oh a old team
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they're like sure always conditions once
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you get one book done and you got the
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two one you're gonna go with Breezy and
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I guess
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it's Unique because
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I thought it was just done but in
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reality once like you said once you're
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performing and you're out there and you
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just want to continue forward right
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and you could take a pause in it but
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yeah it's always good to talk about it
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that they're
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Journey so there's always stories it is
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also interesting because people mention
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it to me like hey what about a story
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about this character
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who is not you know
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how is it related so that gave me some
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ideas right how to write it because
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um the journey is always learning to
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embrace people right interactions with
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people and how they were so yeah because
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that's a good one so I'm I'm assuming
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that um in the order of how people
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should read it of course they should
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they should read your signature book
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right
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and then I'm understanding that your
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next book lovely self is actually more
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of a workbook that works alongside this
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book which is phenomenal I think that is
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awesome because a lot of people myself
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included when we read things
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um we tend to read through and not know
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what we're supposed to do with it
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afterwards right and it's always nice to
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be guided into that next step so in that
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book I mean are there exercises are
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there yeah yeah those exercises and that
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was when I talked to the AOA team you
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realize that's what I want to do right
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and so that was perfect because reading
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a book like you said is really great
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uh especially storybook is really great
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because it helps kids to understand and
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also help adult understandable when you
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have the workbook you could relate to
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what her journey was and that was my
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goal was to convey the message right
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about how it is especially when you talk
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to people who's in the 70s and 80s what
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they have to face
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right and then you see what the journey
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and how they become right and what it is
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to overcome each obstacle so that was
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the key part of what I did and how I did
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that well five years I mean it's crazy
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but I did but you know what I did too
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right and here's here's the thing and uh
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I I actually think that the fact that it
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took you as long as it did you continued
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on that Journey you did not say oh
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forget it I can't do this you continued
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and the message to our viewers is don't
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stop even if the going gets rough even
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if you don't know why you keep going
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forward
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find your motivation keep going forward
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because like Cheryl it might have taken
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five years but now she's on a roll she
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is
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why right
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you know your why right I don't know
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what it is yeah we want we want our
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viewers our listeners to go check out
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your website at Cheryl Dash boy.com what
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are they going to find over there in
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addition to your book
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see a story about Gallery
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um Howard purchased my book and stuff
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like that so when I talk about I'm
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trying to add more people in testimony
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which is really great because people for
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some reason I asked him to do testimony
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through Amazon they don't write it but
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they tell me in person which is fabulous
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right
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no why more right because it's all about
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social media you know how it is oh
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absolutely and all that but it's always
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blessing too that's why I said I need to
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have more about it but they could find
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my debate book and also my workbook
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so we're encouraging people to go on you
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know scan the code go over to Cheryl's
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website get the book and then your
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action
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s will call the action after you pick up
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the book after you read it and you see
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how fabulous it is and I can attest to
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it it is fabulous then go ahead and give
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a recommendation a testimony a
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testimonial either on the website or on
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the Amazon site or on Barnes Noble
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wherever your books are sold because
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it's really helpful for authors to have
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their books
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um have those testimonials Cheryl I
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can't believe we're getting towards the
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end here um what would you like to
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mention other things mentioned to our
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audience that you think
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is important on this journey
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oh that's a really good part even though
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you face obstacle like right now I'm
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facing another obstacle I'm still going
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for it you know however it is however
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they're learning the journey is I think
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it's great so my third book I can't tell
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people what it is because I have a lot
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of stuff on my mind but it's always good
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to figure out what it is what you want
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to do and it's important to go forward
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it's great to talk about this but what
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is the next step the next step is the
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third book of how to
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go to the next level Niche level is
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always you know great to go forward but
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it's wonderful talking to you I didn't
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know the time I am it's wonderful
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talking with you but I also want to
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mention the online office office online
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author's office again because basically
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you surrounded yourself with people that
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could help you move forward and I think
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that also is the message whether you
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check out oao check them out they're
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awesome they're all over social media as
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well as you know their website
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um if you have a book in you they're the
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people to go to but more importantly
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Cheryl you know you knew to take action
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and you knew to find that the people
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that could surround you I want to thank
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you because you are an inspiration you
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are an inspiration to
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all of us who are on this thank you so
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much it took a it took a while to find
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great people and share the message and
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to be honest right there's a lot of
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let's put it this way you have to find
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Integrity so once you figure out who you
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are Integrity wise then you need to
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surround who they are and then you
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should show up that's the key message
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for that and I want to thank you for
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that I want to thank you for being
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vulnerable with us I want to thank you
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for sharing thank you so much for making
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it easy for me oh I'm so glad I'm so
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glad I want to thank our audience
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