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Unlocking your inner Genius
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Apr 7, 2022
I welcome creator and author of Genius & Friends Wendy Marquenie to The Author's Spotlight. She believes each child is unique and a gift and each one is meant to be here. Her Genius book series empowers children to understand thoughts and experience joy and enthusiasm to create a happy life. Watch the show to unlock your inner genius! 📌 Subscribe to the Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc #genius #childrensauthor #bestsellingchildrensbooks Pick up a copy of the book here: https://www.innergeniusglobal.com/shop/ 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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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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welcome to the author spotlight
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interviews with best-selling authors
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from around the world today's show is
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sponsored by online author's office a
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platform for aspiring writers who seek
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that quantum leap to marketing their
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books make sure to say hi in the
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comments and tell us where you are
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tuning in from i am so excited about our
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guest today we are welcoming the creator
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and author of genius and his friends
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wendy ann marchini to the show
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in 2016
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wendy read a book that would change the
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direction of her life it was called you
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were born rich written by bob proctor
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she started to ask herself what is life
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really and who am i i know we've all had
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those thoughts her genius book series
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empowers children to understand thoughts
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and experience joy and enthusiasm to
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create a happy life welcome to the show
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wendy
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thank you karen it's great to be here i
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am thrilled that you're here we were
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just talking about time frames and
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distances it's very early in the morning
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for you right now so i am very
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appreciative that you woke up very early
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so you could be on the show
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so today we're calling this show
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unlocking your inner genius because
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after all don't we all kind of want to
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do that
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i would like to start by asking you
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tell us a little bit about yourself and
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how you got here
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well i started off life as a ballroom
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dance teacher and an adjudicator i've
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had various careers i've owned cafes of
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course i'm a mum and now i'm an
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entrepreneur
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and
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i had medical issues and i couldn't go
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back to the job that i loved doing
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so in the recuperation period i was
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thinking oh well you know who am i what
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am i doing here what am i meant to do
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and at that time someone sent me a free
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copy of bob proctor's book you asked
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his his book uh you were born rich so i
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wasn't an avid reader at that time but
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something told me uh read the book so i
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i did and i just got hooked on this
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information
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and over the years i've been involved in
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a few multi-level marketing companies
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and my coaches at that time would tell
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me snippets of information but it wasn't
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until i read the book that i was able to
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join all those pieces together
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and fully understand what it is about
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personal development learning about the
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mind and your thoughts and how to create
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success in your life
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so from that i signed up to do one of um
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bob proctor institute
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courses
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and it was during those courses that i
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went over to toronto to an event it was
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a six day event
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and
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from that a lady stood up on stage her
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name's peggy mccall and she said
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everyone has a book in them and i
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thought oh i've always wanted to write a
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book but
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you know grammar what english and
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grammar wasn't my best subject at school
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but no that that will never be
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but i
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over the course of one of the nights
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attending attending the event i wrote a
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couple of pages and i gave it to you and
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i said well what do you think do you
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think that i have have it in me to write
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a book but she said i love it so i wrote
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the first book about the event it was
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like a diary entry of over the six days
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and then after that a few friends of
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mine attended some conferences down in
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in sydney and when they came back i said
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well how's it going how's the exercises
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going oh no we're not doing it and i
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thought hmm
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so so often we attend these courses and
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then we come back home and we don't
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follow through when because we don't we
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get all excited in these conferences
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right yes yes i'm going to do this this
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and this and then you get home and you
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think oh i can't be bothered there's no
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accountability to keep right
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so then that's when i i wrote my second
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book uh big girls pants which is all
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about what do you do when you get home
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how do you keep yourself motivated to
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achieve the success in life
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oh i love that
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yes so the first the first book was how
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to change your life in six days and then
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followed up with big girls pants oh i
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love that so you could technically say
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that's when you started to write right
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exactly right and that happened back in
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2016 i released my first book in 2018
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and followed it up at the same year with
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the second book so we can thank peggy
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mccall for all of that right
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but more to the point she got you going
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but it's a very good point what you say
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so many of us go to these events we get
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so excited and so rah-rah and ready to
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go and do it and then we get home and
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it's like either
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we're not rah-rah anymore or we forgot
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completely what it was that we're
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supposed to do so kudos to peggy mccall
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to get you going we give her a shout out
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right now
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um so let's talk about the journey so
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now you have two you have these two
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books these two things that you've
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written why did you start
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the whole genius series why was it
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important for you to do this book and
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books because there's nine of them
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on genius
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well i
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i thought that at that point in time
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there was a i was hearing on the news
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and friends were talking to me about
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children not coping and children
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committing suicide
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and that sort of struck something in me
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i don't know what it was but i thought
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oh that's just losing a child that's one
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child too many yeah so that's when i
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came up with the idea of taking this
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information and putting in in a language
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that children will understand
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so i decided to develop some programs uh
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which i started and that was for the
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older children children up to 11 years
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and then from 11 right up to 18 years
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but then uh that was over a period of a
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couple of years but then i wanted the
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information to start off with because i
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had these i had these create these
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characters for the program but i wanted
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the younger children to start their
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parents to start reading and having this
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material because as you know the younger
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uh we are the more we're just like a
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sponge we soak up all this information
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right so that's when um i was over in
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the uk visiting my relatives and i was
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asking them about children's book what
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did their grandchildren like to read and
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what type type of books so then that's
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how
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the books in a rhyming sequence the idea
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came to me so over the course of the
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eight weeks i was visiting these books
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just just came to me i was writing them
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uh so the nine came out during those
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eight weeks it was wait a second
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you did nine books in eight weeks
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yes i did nine rhyming books so
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wait well you heard it here um
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okay wow wow wow what was that like
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spitting out nine books though i mean
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that's that's a lot of
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a lot of content but you were on a roll
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right you were on a roll i was yes i was
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on a roll so uh
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most nights during the holidays it might
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sound a bit silly but i was on holiday
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so
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you know i didn't have to get up at a
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certain time but most of the time it was
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about one in the morning i'd get an idea
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okay and i just sit there and write the
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hardest part was to to get the rhyming
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sequence right so i i'd do a sentence
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and i'd find a word and i'm thinking oh
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okay uh i need a word that rhymes with
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that how can i put that there so but it
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was just it was just awesome it was
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wonderful i just because i had these
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characters i had the characters to work
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for work with to try and and help me to
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to write the books so yeah so you had
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fun is what you're saying i threw up a
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copy of the first book right on the
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screen um genius asked who am i do you
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have an illustrator for the book or did
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you do it yourself
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i originally did the drawings myself i
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love to draw i've i've not been trained
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at all but then i sent them off to
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someone just to make them a little bit
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better because i'm i'm just an amateur
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so yes well you did great you did
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absolutely great um if we're if you're
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just tuning in right now we are talking
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with wendy marchini the author of the
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genius book
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series so you have these nine books
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let's talk about the different topics
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that each nine books handle
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book number one book number one now
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genius here's our fun fun character and
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he represents the mind
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so in in this book where we're saying we
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know we're saying to the children that
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you have something special you you have
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these senses that's good but you also
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have something special that all other
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creatures on this planet don't have and
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that is you have a mind and you use your
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mind to think
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and that's how the
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the the first couple of lines came out
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because i can think the way i think is
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not the same as what my friend thinks or
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my family members members think so
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that's how it came about i am unique as
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you can see there is no one else in the
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world like me
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i love that okay so book number two
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book number two our lovely dream builder
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now dream builder is here to help the
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children understand imagination so why
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do we need to use our imagination well
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if if you see around you everything in
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this world is first built in the
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imagination and then it is created so
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the imagination is very important tool
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uh to have because as you know with
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when you have a young child you can sit
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them on the floor with some pots and
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pans
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and they will just make up lots of
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things that's using their imagination
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but somehow as we get older we seem to
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lose that ability so that's how i wanted
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to get the children to imagine so dream
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builder helps them imagine their dreams
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and he helps them to build their dreams
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and where do you go with book number
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three
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intuition interceptor now intuition is
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all about your feelings and your
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vibrations and your emotions so it is
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important to understand that yes
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sometimes we're happy sometimes we're
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not so happy but that's okay because
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your intuition interceptor can help you
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change those thoughts around
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so you can be happy
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so we're on book number four now right
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we're a book number four yes
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photographer
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he is a determined little fellow so what
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he does he helps you to achieve that
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goal so you've got you've imagined your
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goal you imagine something that you want
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to do so what uh persistent photographer
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does he holds up that picture and like a
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laser beam he focuses on that picture
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and helps you to be determined and keep
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trying and trying until you've achieved
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that thing that that's something that
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you want to achieve
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so book number five and i want to point
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out i actually want to ask a question do
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people need to read the stories in order
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or they can be done in any particular
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order do they build on each other
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you can uh ideally to start off with
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genius uh because uh there are companion
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videos in the book series so you
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download the app and that's genius in
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his friends app and you hover over the
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page and then this video comes out so
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ideally start it doesn't matter but
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ideally learn about genius first and
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then it doesn't matter what order for
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the rest of the books
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all right so we're now going to move on
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to book number
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five
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book number five oh i love i love memory
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minder she's a bit like your librarian
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she's absolutely lovely and she's in
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charge she she helps you with all your
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memories and when you you have lots of
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memories you have
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past memories you have present memories
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and you have future memories and i let
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the children know that you have memories
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from the day you're born till the day
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that you pass pass away so that's a lot
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of memories that she's in charge of
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and also memories can help keep you safe
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for example if your mum says to you
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don't run across the grass without shoes
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you might get stung by a bee and guess
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what you ran across the grass and you
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got stung by a bee so the next time you
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go to run across that grass you will
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remember oh mum said this so yes
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memories are wonderful and we all have
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perfect memories we do we do but
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sometimes we just don't remember them
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so the next book in the series what is
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that topic
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that is reason bots now this is an
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important skill that we need to learn to
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make decisions very important to make
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decisions now uh when we get up in the
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morning some decisions we just do
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without even thinking about it we we go
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we clean our teeth we brush our hair we
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go and have breakfast you don't give
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that much thought but some decisions uh
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take a longer time to to think about and
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you might go yes or no yes or no
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and it that's okay if it takes a long
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time but when you make a decision he
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flings his arms about with
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excitement i love that i love that all
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right we're rolling into the next book
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perception pointer uh he's a he's a
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lovely character now perception what's
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perception about that's all about your
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beliefs and opinions and i and you know
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he tells the children that it's okay
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your your opinion you might have a
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different opinion from your friend or
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family member but that's okay because
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you're you think differently uh to
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anyone else because you are unique it's
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okay to have different opinions and
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different beliefs
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and how important is that in today's
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time
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yes it is yes indeed yes indeed and the
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next book
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the next book is about habits and
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it's all about developing good habits
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now you have you develop habits from the
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moment you're born and you
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but
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genius likes to help you to develop good
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habits say for example that
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you want to achieve something at school
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you want to do better in your next exam
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and he helps you then to what do i need
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to do in order to get a better result in
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that example you need to develop a habit
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of
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studying
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you know so that's that's he talks about
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these these good habits
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i probably should have asked this in the
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first place what age frame are these
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books for
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these are from you know when you birth
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right up to about seven seven years of
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age grade one or grade two and that is
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where uh
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these our children are evolving right
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and that's that's so important at that
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time i think that leads us to the last
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book am i not am i mistaken or do we
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have two more
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no the last book is all about genius has
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an attitude of gratitude so it's it's
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helping the children to be thankful for
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everything that they have uh and also to
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you can be thankful for something that's
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going to happen in the future like a
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goal that you want to achieve but it's
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all about being grateful being grateful
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thank you for the beautiful birds that
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are singing thank you for the lovely day
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thank you to your parents thank you to
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your best friends so yes all about being
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grateful so how would you
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say the genius books are empowering
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children to understand their thoughts
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and experience joy and enthusiasm to
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create a happy life
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well when when children
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learn to
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relate to genius and his friends and
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understand that genius and his friends
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help them uh to understand the way the
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mind works so we can for example
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uh it's all about critical thinking okay
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so if if for example we see a child er
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playing in a sandpit when we're younger
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we use our critical thinking but we
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don't understand that it's critical
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thinking so a child is in in a sandpit
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and it's playing around and now it
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thinks oh well what i want to sort of
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build a building how do i do that so
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he's thinking and using all these
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uh friends genius and his friends to
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work out how to build a building in this
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sandpit now he thinks about it oh yes i
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need to have water to make the sand a
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bit wet in order for it to stick
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together so it's all it's all teaching
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the children about the critical thinking
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now when you use all of genius's friends
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and he's built the sandpit and the the
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building he's feeling good about himself
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so it's teaching the children to
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understand okay so oh yeah i feel good i
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managed to do that so the confidence is
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in increased he has positive attitude
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and that's what um we want the children
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to develop to to have better
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self-development and self-belief that
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they can achieve
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anything that they want to achieve
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just use genius and his friends to help
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you oh i love that message i love that
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message i think it's so important for
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our children to be instilled with that
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that anything that we dream we can do we
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just we just have to take those steps to
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get there now before we came on the show
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today you were telling me about some
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very exciting things that have happened
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since the book has come out so why don't
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you share that with us right now
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oh yes we've had a very very exciting
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week i genius and myself had the
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pleasure of being featured in new york
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weekly magazine which is absolutely
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phenomenal and then
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genius and i were up on a billboard in
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times square above the disney store so
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it was just
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oh when i saw the video i thought i had
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tears i thought yeah oh this is
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wonderful trying to you know getting
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this message out there that children are
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fabulous and they're wonderful and
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they're special and they meant to be
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here
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i can only imagine what it would have
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felt like being you seeing this video
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and seeing yourself up in times square
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like that that is very very exciting for
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you it's an accomplishment obviously and
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um to know that your message is going to
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get out to so many so many children um
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that's a question for you why do you do
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what you do
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i do it because
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i just want i want the children to
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have confidence and self-belief
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and
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i don't want them falling into that that
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space where they feel that they've they
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got nowhere to turn and and they they
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you know want to lead this world because
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they don't see a future uh i want
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children to understand that they all
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have a magnificent future
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and the way to do that is to understand
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themselves and that they are unique and
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they are special and they are meant to
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be here
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i'm unevening myself because i have dogs
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that are barking in the background so i
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apologize for that um you shared a tip
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with me that i would like to share with
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our audience and then i want to ask you
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why this is so important you say that
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each child is unique
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and special and a gift and each one is
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meant to be here and genius starts and
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finishes each book with these two lines
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i am unique as you can see there is no
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one else in the world like me as you
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said earlier
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why is that so important what's the
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significance of that
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this is to
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it's to help the children understand
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that
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you know i don't
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i think
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so much in this world we are part of an
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education system
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that wants us to be in one mold
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well i want the children to understand
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that
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that they can think differently and that
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is that is normal that it they're
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completely normal to think differently
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because they are unique
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we have i don't know if you know that we
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have about 55 thoughts a minute running
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around
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i did not know that i did not yes and
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that adds up to a lot of thoughts during
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the day and we have it all starts in the
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mind and we have control over those
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thoughts so we can switch the thinking
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of the young children
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thinking that they are special they are
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unique they all have these unlocked
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these talents and abilities locked up
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inside them and what genius does and his
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friends do they help them to unlock and
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understand that they all have these
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abilities and to say to themselves yes i
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can achieve that i can and i will
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achieve that so it's all about
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starts off in the mind and the thoughts
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and and this is why we really are
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encouraging people to go check out the
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book now your book and i thrown up the
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picture earlier and i'm going to put it
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back up it can be found on amazon all
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the places the books are sold you can go
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in and and look for it if it's not in
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the store you can ask for it up at the
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desk and i encourage people especially
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parents who have children of this age or
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grandchildren of this age go out and get
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this this is so so so so important um
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there are different ways that people can
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follow you i know and they can follow
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you on facebook
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at
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w marchini they can follow you on
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linkedin at
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wendy marchini and look how it's spelled
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make sure you got that they can also
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follow you on instagram and it's at
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inner underscore genius underscore
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global you're also on pinterest you're
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everywhere wendy and w
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marchini and you're on youtube and when
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you go to youtube just put in genius and
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his friends and the channel will show up
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any last minute thoughts or or comments
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about
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the the book series uh about why this is
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so important for parents to really give
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their kids a step up
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definitely as you know we we learn by by
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repetition and the younger the children
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are the
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the the more they take it in they don't
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question they think oh yes yes and they
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start to believe in what they're reading
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and hearing over and over again so if
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you install in a young child i am unique
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i'm special i have talent and abilities
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they're going to start to yes i believe
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that and guess what their confidence and
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enthusiasm just
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grows
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yeah it does and i'd
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with with the books and the companion
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videos that is an assisted learning for
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them so i encourage everyone it's a free
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app genius in his friend's app
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you can download it on android and
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iphone and that is an added educational
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tool to the books
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i'm going to put that up on the screen
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so that people can see that
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give me a second to do that here we go
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so they can go down load genius and his
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friends in the app store is what you're
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saying
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yes that's correct and then and that's a
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companion to the books
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yes and that has a game in there
23:45
introducing the characters and the
23:46
children can actually sit there and do
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the game oh it's awesome how much i
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think i'm going to have to go do that i
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don't even have granted yet but i think
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i'm going to go go check that out as
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well
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wendy i want to thank you for your
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enthusiasm for these books they're so
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important not just
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today but for always um these are these
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are important for our kids i want to
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thank you for being on the show today we
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want to encourage all of our viewers
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that are watching you can follow me on
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social media just karen glasser across
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the board everywhere you can find me
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there and i want to thank you because
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you had a choice as to where you spent
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your time today you chose to spend it
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with wendy and i today and we are
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eternally grateful go out and give
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somebody an awesome day and we'll see
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you next time on the author spotlight
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