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I'm here with Melissa Dealy, integrative mind, body,

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health practitioner, founder of Girls Matter.

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And I'm dying to know, you know,

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oh, I've got the wrong question on there too.

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That's okay.

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We're gonna shift gears anyways.

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We all make mistakes.

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Tell me about your vision, Melissa.

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What are you up to?

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I'm up to big things in the world.

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So a couple of things.

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With Girls Matter,

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it's all about breaking the poverty cycle.

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One girl, one family, one village at a time.

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It's about stopping teenage marriages

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by keeping girls in school.

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Because unlike in North America,

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where we have the option of public school education

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that is largely free to parents,

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in many countries around the world,

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education comes at a cost.

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And when you have a lot of children

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and when your wages are not very high,

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and when it comes down to putting food on the table

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for most of your children or sending a daughter to school,

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sometimes that hard decision is made

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that I can't afford to send her to school.

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And sometimes I can't afford to feed her either.

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So I'm going to marry her off

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because that becomes someone else's problem.

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Keep going.

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Keep going on there.

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That's huge.

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And I'm looking for a book reference.

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And about, back in 2013,

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I took my girl guides in the US,

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you call them Girl Scouts.

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I'm a Girl Guide leader

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to watch the documentary called Girls Rising,

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which was this documentary about girls

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fighting for the right to an education.

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And in North America, people ask me, girls matter.

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Of course girls matter.

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Why did you call it girls matter?

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And it's because yes, in North America, girls matter.

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But in other places around the world,

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they don't matter enough.

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So boys have the automatic right to an education

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and girls don't.

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And these girls were fighting for the right to an education.

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It was the stories of girls being married off

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at five years old to 50 year old men

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and becoming their slaves.

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And I watched this with tears running down my face.

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I've had the privilege of growing up in Japan,

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living the expat lifestyle, an incredible life of travel

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and having been to third world countries and seeing this.

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And yet hearing these stories of,

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it was 10 or 15 girls in one documentary

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just got to the core of me.

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And I'm sitting in a room of kid,

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20 girls that are like 10 to 14 years old,

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my two daughters included,

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knowing that every single one of them

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had taken their education for granted at some point,

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myself included.

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We've all faked sickness

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to get out of writing a test at school,

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complained about having to go to school

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at some point in our lives.

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And yet somewhere else around the world,

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girls are begging for the chance to go to school.

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And so I knew then that I needed to do something about it.

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I just had no idea how or what.

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It seemed so big.

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And so that was in the back of my head

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for a couple of years.

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And during that time,

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I was let go from my corporate job

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and moved into health and wellness.

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And I was attending a conference

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where the speaker said,

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we are all put on this planet to never stop learning,

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find our purpose and be of service.

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And you don't have to know the how,

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you just have to know the why.

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And that resonated

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because that took me to a place of I know my why.

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And if I just start speaking it and sharing it with others,

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the how will fall into place.

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And you're scrolling through my,

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Your Guided Health Journey Wellness website right now.

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We also have the girlsmatter.ca website too.

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And what I did after attending that conference

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was I contacted the only two people

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that I knew that had started a nonprofit

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in British Columbia, Canada.

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And I asked them, how did they do it?

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Could they show me how to get started?

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And they asked me, what do you wanna do?

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And I told them, and they said, we'll do it with you.

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And they already had preschools in Uganda and in Nepal.

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And what we did is we piggybacked Girls Matter

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on their nonprofits so we could be using the same staff

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on the ground over there.

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Because we don't decide what we're going to do for them.

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We ask them what they need.

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And we support them that way.

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And so we launched in January of 2017.

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Sorry, you're speaking, but are you muted?

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Cause I didn't hear you.

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That's girlsmatter.ca, correct?

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That is correct, yes.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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And that's my passion project.

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Yeah.

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At the same time,

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I have,

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at the same time,

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I've had to reinvent myself having been let go

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from the corporate world almost 10 years ago.

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And finding myself in health and wellness,

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which I was guided into.

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And my mission in the health and wellness world

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is to put an end to chronic illness.

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Chronic illness does not have to be a life sentence.

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The body has this amazing innate power to heal

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when we create the environment for it to heal.

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And people can heal from chronic illness.

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And even better, let's not get the chronic illness

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in the first place.

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And it's triggered by three things.

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It's triggered by a high toxic load.

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And we'll cover that.

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Low nutrient.

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We're gonna go into that.

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And then Joe.

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Yeah.

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Perfect.

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I'm excited to dive into both.

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We'll do everything that we can.

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We might bring you back for multiple vision stories,

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in fact.

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Let me pause it up because we are still,

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let's see here.

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So you talked about where this vision came from,

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which I love that you talked about how you came to realize

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that we take our education for granted.

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I, for lack of better word, was slapped by an angel.

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And you were quiet when I was down there

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and told the same exact thing.

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Why don't you go home, take advantage of your education

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for once, and help as many towns like this one as possible,

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rather than my dumb earthly plan that I had,

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right, to make that happen.

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And my international politics teacher had told me

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before I went on that mission, he said,

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if you wanna change a nation, educate a mom.

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And then I read this book called Three Cups of Tea

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by Grave Mortenson.

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Is that what you were looking for?

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What's that?

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Yeah, I was one of the people looking for it.

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Three Cups of Tea.

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Starting schools for girls, et cetera.

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I'm a big fan.

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I'm a big fan of the concept and what he did

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and how hard he worked to get it out there.

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And it's all these things that you're doing.

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I can see the interlacing, overlapping, the majesty of,

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you've been maximizing your purpose.

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You're maximizing your vision.

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That's the neat thing about vision too, right?

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You get on top of a mountain,

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and yes, you can see and describe one direction,

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but if you turn around,

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you can see an entire new direction, right?

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And-

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Or you just see it all because you get,

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nothing's in your way when you're standing

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on top of the mountain.

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That's right.

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And if you create systems and stuff,

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I'm a huge fan of the self-proclaimed quote,

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you can have your cake, you can eat it too,

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and you can have a conveyor belt of cakes

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as inspired by Richard Branson.

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Thank you, Richard Branson, right,

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for leading the way in that regard.

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So I know this is beautiful.

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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.