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Tell me about your vision.

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My vision is, it's a round voice and speaking.

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And I have a metaphor for the human race,

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which is that if every person in the human race

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learned how to truly align with their true self

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and speak from their soul, the vibration would change.

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And with this metaphor of the human race

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being like one big orchestra,

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what we've had throughout my lifetime is,

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it's as if part of the orchestra isn't playing,

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like the entire string section is staying silent.

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So the drums are beating louder and harder

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and trying to make up for the fact

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that the strings are silent,

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but the drums have to be drums

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and the strings have to be strings.

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And when we get to a point

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where people are truly being themselves in alignment

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with their higher self and throwing their ideas out there

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and joining the conversations that are happening,

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that's when harmony will be reached.

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And you can't reach harmony

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if the drums are the only things playing.

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Wow.

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There's a lot of big words in that vision.

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What do you mean by higher self?

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It's not our inner critic.

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It's not our fears.

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It's the part of us, I call it,

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when I'm connected to my soul,

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when I'm my best self,

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when I feel like I'm doing things that are in alignment

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with what I know is right,

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in the way that feels right for me.

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So according to my understanding,

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this true self and higher self are the same or different?

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To me, they are the same.

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It's different words.

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Like it's one of those soul, spirit, higher self,

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true self, capital S self.

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I find it's best when people use the one or ones

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of those words that work for them

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in the ways that they work for them,

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rather than me trying to impose that on others.

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All of them come when we're in alignment

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with what we know is right for us.

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Thank you for sharing that,

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but let me go on a step further with that.

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How do I know that what I know is right?

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That's a great question.

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You know whether or not it's right for you.

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We get into trouble when we think we can decide

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what is best for anyone other than ourselves.

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That's amazing.

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I am so glad.

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Wow.

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Let me go to the next question then, Lori.

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Where did this vision come from?

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Pulse of knowing inside of me.

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It's what I feel like I am here on the planet

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in this lifetime to do.

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And one of the answers is it came, I'm a coach

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and I've had lots of coaches.

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And in the early days of starting my business

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and embarking on what feels like it's now my mission

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to make this vision a reality.

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I remember one coaching call in particular

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where somebody kind of kept helping me zero in

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on what was important about this work that I wanted to do.

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And I don't remember all of her questions

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because it's probably been 13 years, 12, 13 years,

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something like that.

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And I do remember the moment where she kind of asked me

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what a metaphor would be for why I was doing this.

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What was my vision, even if I wasn't gonna see it

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in my lifetime.

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And that's where I understood the biggest vision,

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the biggest reason why that I do the work

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that I do in the world is because of this.

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There's lots of other sort of smaller, more tangible,

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more offshoots, leaves on the tree,

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something like that that are related to it.

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And at its essence, that's what it's about.

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I see there's a story coming.

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Do you have a story behind your life?

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I have a story of what led me here

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that feels like it's the illustration

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of my life's journey to this why.

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I have been an actor since I was seven years old.

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And theater and speaking are incredibly similar.

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My acting journey and this journey to what I now do began

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when my mom found me in the backyard talking to myself.

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I had been playing with friends, making up a story.

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We were making up our very own episode of the Brady Bunch.

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And kids being kids, they got bored

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and went off to go to the pool.

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And I said, okay, I'll meet you there later.

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I'm gonna finish the story.

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My mom walks into our garage in the backyard.

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And instead of saying, what are you doing?

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Stop that.

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She said, what are you doing?

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And I said, I'm finishing the Brady Bunch episode.

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And she immediately took me to an acting class.

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And theater, like speaking, like many things in the world

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has a light side to it and a dark side to it.

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The darker side often feels like the movie Mean Girls.

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There are older movies out there.

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I think one of them is called The Understudy

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where it's a very backstabbing, competitive,

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scarcity driven environment.

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And that is true.

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There's a light side also.

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There's a dark side and there's a light side.

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In the lighter side, which I've surrounded myself with

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and created myself now as an adult,

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it's a community of people that are holding a mirror

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up to humanity, that are incredibly creative

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and that are able to be present with each other

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and connected deeply in a way that most of the world isn't

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and definitely was not as I was younger and growing up.

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And fast forward 20 years, I was acting at night.

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I was doing theater during the day

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and working way too much overall.

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I was an executive assistant in the Silicon Valley

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here in California.

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And I started feeling this call to go live

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a more aligned life, but I was resisting it.

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And there were real voices in the world saying,

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theater, how are you gonna make money doing that?

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I am making money using my theater degree.

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Just in case there's anybody out there

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who has people in your family.

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I had no idea where it would lead at that point.

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And I had a very powerful experience

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in my favorite acting class ever,

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where everyone was focused on me,

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whereas normally you would do your acting work

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with one to three other people.

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Everyone was focused on me

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and I kept kind of pulling myself together

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and kind of putting an energetic armor in front of my heart

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and that I'm fine emotional mask on

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between these little sections.

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And my acting instructor, Richard, stopped the exercise

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and said, whatever that is that you're doing

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in between the vignettes, stop doing that.

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And I said, I'm not that comfortable

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having everyone's eyes on me.

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And he said, then you've picked a strange set

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of careers for yourself.

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You're an actor, a leader, a speaker.

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Part of you knows you're meant to be here.

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And it was like, it cut through all that static,

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my inner critic, my inner protectors

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to the soul part of me that knew he was right,

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that I'd known since I was like five years old

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that I was here to do something,

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to bring a vision to reality.

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And I trusted him and this intimate lab studio space

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that he created.

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So I jumped back in and I was actively releasing

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the jaw tension, the emotional I'm fine mask.

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And it felt like I was on fire

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and I was ice somehow at the same time.

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And I believe layers and decades of protection

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was melting away.

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And by the time the exercise was over,

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I was in tune with everyone in the room

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after the acting had stopped.

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I could see and feel what kind of emotional state

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they were all in, what kind of day they were having.

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And I now say it was my first moment of oneness

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that lasted beyond the acting

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and that didn't happen in the playing of a sport.

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When I was in high school, I played basketball,

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volleyball, softball, soccer.

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You can have moments of oneness

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when you're really connected to the team

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and you're focused on the goal together.

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This was a moment of oneness.

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And I realized that in order to see others,

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we have to actually allow ourselves to be seen.

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We have to choose to be seen.

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And some people think that charisma, AKA presence

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is something that you can't put your finger on.

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It starts there.

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It starts by actually letting down anything

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that we're consciously or unconsciously hiding behind

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or protecting ourselves with.

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And then from there, we can allow our energy to expand

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and for people to see us and understand us and feel us.

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And that's the kernel of what I want for the people

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that I work with and it's a kernel underneath

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all of the work that I do to this day.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is gonna get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.