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All right, welcome in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm Jackson Calame, I'm your show host.

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We'll be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guests, guest leaders who are building

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fantastic visions out there.

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Ultimately, I just want to go through some of the things that might help you with your

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vision.

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If you have a vision that you're pursuing, drop a link in the comments and let us know

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what that is.

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If it's a business or a brand, if it's a nonprofit that you run, be happy to promote it, be happy

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to talk to you about it.

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And if you'd like to apply to be on Vision Pros and be interviewed about that vision,

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then by all means, feel free to reach out.

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Hello everyone.

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Welcome in, welcome in.

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My name is Jaime Jimenez and this is Vision Pros Live.

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Today we have a very, very special guest.

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We have an author, speaker, and personal and professional coach to entrepreneurs, small

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business owners as well.

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She is an amazing person.

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Her name is Carolyn Thompson-Tuado and she is the founder of Intentional By Design.

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So let's welcome her in.

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Hey Carolyn, how are you?

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Welcome.

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It's been good and I'm really excited to be here with you.

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That's awesome.

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I'm also very excited to be here with you.

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I've actually been a fan of what you do.

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Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to go through everything that you are doing right

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now.

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I am looking into getting your book because I definitely want to get through it.

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And from some of the things that we've been able to speak from before and also what I've

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seen you talk with the rest of the team, I find that I am also in search of that calm

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within me.

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So I want to thank you personally and before we kick off for that because you've given

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me that perspective of looking into my calm and seeing where I can find my inner peace

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and not because I tend to sometimes be a little bit hype.

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And that is not necessary in every single location.

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So I want to personally thank you for that and for getting me to that point.

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And I will definitely be getting your book so that I'm able to share a little bit more

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about what I am able to go through and how I'm able to develop in the future.

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So Carolyn, can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your background?

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Yes.

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And by the way, thank you for that.

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That was a lovely, lovely introduction and gift.

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So a little bit about my background.

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In terms of my business and what maybe is most pertinent to what we're talking about

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in terms of calm, I have for the past 10 plus years been in the entrepreneurial journey

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and the trenches, I guess you could say.

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And I often say I was wandering in the entrepreneurial wilderness trying to find my way.

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And I knew I was to be there.

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I knew I had a calming in my life to do something.

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And the common thread that kept coming up was that I had this calming effect on people.

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It's how people experienced me.

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And I didn't know what I was going to do with that.

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I just realized that somehow that was the way God made me.

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And He wanted to use it for something, for His purposes.

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And so it's interesting you say finding that calm on the inside.

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I exhibited this calm on the outside.

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And people would tell me from being in the grocery line together or being somewhere where

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a child would crawl in my lap and then sit there in a way that parents hadn't seen before,

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just very peaceful.

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And then I had other circumstances that have led me to believe this is really where I belong.

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But during those 10 years, I felt like I was in training.

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It's like, well, God wanted to use me for something, something much bigger than myself.

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But I needed to find that calm myself on the inside.

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So He had me in almost like a training camp where life was very difficult.

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And I had to learn to trust in Him and be calm in the midst of the storms.

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And it took me about 10 years to move along that trajectory.

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So I don't know if you call it a slow learner or just that He needed to do a lot of work

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in me.

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And I'm definitely a work in progress.

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But I feel like I've really grown in that area.

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And I told Him, I said, well, when you're ready for me to step out, I trust you'll tell

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me.

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And He did.

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And then it's like when I get through some of this training, I know that you're ready

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to use me.

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And that was not long ago.

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And in fact, it was not too long before I met you all.

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So it's been a journey.

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It's been a long journey, but it's been a beautiful one.

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Yeah, I mean, your story is wonderful.

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I mean, we're all looking for our calling and to see where we can best serve the ones

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that are around us.

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I am also in that journey.

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And I can relate maybe to a lot of people who are still out there trying to find that

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specific thing that moves them inside that they know once they get to that point that

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they've been designed or they've been brought to this world to do.

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And I mean, you already have that.

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And every time I talk to you, I always feel that calm inside.

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So I do relate to everything that you're saying.

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And as I said before, I do want to later on talk about maybe some of the insights that

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you may be able to provide for the book and the book itself.

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But let's leave that on the whole for now.

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I wanted to have you tell me a little bit more about what intentional buy design is

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and also how it got started.

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I know now it may be because of your calling, but in case you have anything to add to that,

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please feel free to do so.

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Well, it really is kind of a continuation of what we were just talking about.

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It is a calling.

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And I wasn't sure how to use the calm piece.

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And it became very clear that there was a growing burden within me as well, a passion

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to help people live and die with less regrets.

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And so it seemed that it was helping people to step away.

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And out of the noise and the busyness of our lives.

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And I often think of quieting the noise and calming the chaos.

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And I have to say there was an experience that was very, I guess you could say poignant

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on my journey.

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And it helped me kind of crystallize what my business would be.

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Would it be all right if I shared that just real quick?

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Yes, of course.

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The floor is all yours.

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So I was attending a retreat.

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And this was a number of years back.

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And the woman who led it, I greatly admired her.

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In fact, I felt like she was brilliant.

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And she agreed that she spoke of my calm.

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And she was very descriptive.

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She shared things I hadn't heard before.

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But it never left me.

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But the words that followed that description are what really stayed with me.

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And that's when she said how powerful and helpful it would be if I could help people

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to just step away, if I could provide the space for them, to help them to step away

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where they could get some quiet, to be able to get the answers that they need that help

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them figure out why they're filling their lives with noise and busy.

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And I just never forgot her words.

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And as it turned out, that's really what I'm providing.

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I'm providing space so that people can step away.

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And I know that we are very busy.

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I have a heart for entrepreneurs.

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And I know we're busy.

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We have all kinds of excuses and reasons why we can't step away.

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So I thought, OK, it needs to be one day, one very important day, one life changing

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day, and in fact, a pivotal day in their life.

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And I can help them to three things.

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I help them replenish and refresh, get refreshed, because we do tend to, like you say, we're

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just we don't have much peace and calm in our life.

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So help them to replenish and reflect and then reflect.

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And in that particular space of that day, I help them to honestly and thoughtfully consider

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their lives.

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And I take away the shame and the fear.

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I take away the need to pretend.

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And there's a lot of grace there.

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I've been provided a lot of grace in my own life.

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And I think it's really important.

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I also think it's important in kind of the theme of the it's a retreat workshop to maintain

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that retreat part throughout.

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So even when they're working on their life, I don't want to make it heavy.

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I don't want it to be difficult.

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And so I have developed some tools and ways to work with people during that day to help

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them make some major progress forward in their life without it feeling heavy or burdensome.

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And so that that theme carries through that that part of calm and peace and helping equip

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them to be able to carry that forward past that day.

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I do have plans to help support them going forward, but what they gain that day, my my

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goal, my vision, my passion is that it be completely transformational.

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Yeah, I mean, that that's so necessary in a world where we're so filled with noise,

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even we don't even realize it.

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To what point we are not filtering and we're not centering ourselves.

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A lot of people come to those points where they are just simply overwhelmed with everything

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that is out there.

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So something like the day of calm is a calling for people that simply need that space to

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center themselves, stop what they're doing, and then clarify everything that they're doing

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so that they're able to cleanse and come out a new a new person, basically.

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And it's that that's basically when I talk to you, I feel that I feel exactly that because

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that calm that you transmit while you speak and while I'm able to also calm myself and

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bring to a point which provides a lot of clarity, a lot of clarity to to everything that we

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have, were you at any point or when did you become aware of this of this ability or this

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this calling that you had?

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Was it something spontaneous or wasn't something that you worked on throughout your life or

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how did this come to be?

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I think it really has been the last say 10, 15 years, this journey that I was on.

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And I feel like pieces of the puzzle just kept being added confirmations and comments

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from people.

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And it didn't really make sense to me.

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But I and I was actually bewildered.

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I was puzzled.

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I didn't see myself as a calming person.

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But I kept hearing these words.

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And I thought, well, I might not see it, but others seem to see it.

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And I want to kind of piggyback on something you just mentioned, Jaime, you just talked

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about clarity.

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And that really is a big piece of what the day of calm is, too, because when we don't

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stop and be still and be quiet and consider our lives, we do fill our lives with noise

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and busy and we're not very clear.

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And we don't know what's most important to us.

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We we aren't very purposeful or intentional.

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And when we can realize there are really very few things that really matter in life, and

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when we can figure out what those few things are that do matter, and then we can create

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a path forward that is designed around that, then we don't need to be so scattered.

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And we can operate with clarity, with confidence, with conviction.

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And for me, one of the big pieces of everything is my faith.

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I'm a woman of faith.

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And I bring that component to all of my work.

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I feel like we are whole people and all the different parts of us, they're all interconnected.

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And we can't be struggling in one area and not have it affect the other.

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So I bring that component to my work as well.

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So that's part of I think one of the important pieces.

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I want people to come and know that they can be real.

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They can talk about real life, about anything and those bigger questions about life, things

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that don't make sense.

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And that honestly is a big part of my book, too.

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I answer, I know we're not to my book yet, but I feel like my book is an integral part

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of my business, too.

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So they're just one of me, but my book can be picked up and read by anyone at any time.

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And I need to make that process easier for them and develop.

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In fact, something I have a desire to do is to develop a resource that helps people know,

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okay, if you're struggling in this area, this is where you could go in my book to get some

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answers.

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Here's some scripture verses that can address this.

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Maybe there's some additional resources.

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So it's all very interconnected.

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And so sorry to interrupt you.

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I know I've let you speak a lot.

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I didn't want to actually interrupt you.

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But now that you're talking about resources, we spoke about the audio of peace.

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So can you tell us a little bit more regarding what that is and where our viewers can go

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to that link to get that first-hand calm resource that you're offering?

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Well, the audio has some peace scriptures.

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When I say peace, P-E-A-C-E, I keep thinking it sounds a little confusing.

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But scripture verses that are about the topic of peace, and it's only three minutes long.

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And this is another, actually another piece of the puzzle.

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I've been told I should do something audio.

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So that's the beginning of that aspect of my business.

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So if you go to intentionalbydesign.com, there.

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We'll go ahead and show it on the screen in just a moment so that people are able to be

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So you scroll down the page.

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On every page on my site, there is a place to request free audio.

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And that is the peace audio just right there.

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Yes, that's it.

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And that will allow you to request that three-minute audio.

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And I do have a desire to create more audios about different themes.

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But this is the first one, and it's a very important one.

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Would we be able in the future find these audios in any place?

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them for the future where we're able to provide further information on these?

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I am considering having a YouTube channel.

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So that will allow for the audio portion of it, but also so they can see the visual, the

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actual words that I'm reading in case someone wants to see those as well.

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All right, awesome.

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Now, moving on to your book, which I'm very, very, very excited to be able to read.

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It's called Living in Sync with Your God-Given Design.

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And can you tell us like a small description of what we can find inside of it?

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Yes.

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So here's my book, Living in Sync with Your God-Given Design.

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The first three chapters answer some deeper questions about life.

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we have moved away from it and how to get back in sync with that.

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So I like to speak in very easy to understand ways, make things simple.

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Sometimes the topics are profound and deep, but I want them to be as simple as they can

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So that's kind of the gist of my book.

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I wanted it to be practical.

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I feel like one of my purposes is to help people discover their masterful design and

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the designer behind it.

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And that will bring so much peace and calm and purpose to their life as well.

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So God is a big part of your life.

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I am also Catholic.

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I am not a person that is currently, you would say a dedicated follower, but I do believe

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in God.

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I do believe in everything that is taught in the Bible.

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For me, that's also a big part because my family is very religious.

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Today there seems to be a little bit of a rupture in that, but how do you consider that

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maybe with your way of thinking and how you are presenting the calm that can now affect

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the youth?

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The youth?

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it's not irrelevant, it's not outdated, it's not completely accurate and relevant even

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And more so all the time.

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I mean, it's astounding the answers and the insights and the wisdom one can get from that.

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I think just living that and being an example, it brings me so much joy in my own life and

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so much wisdom and understanding.

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And to be able to share that with others and let them see in this, well, it would be a

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PDF, I guess, but this resource, companion resource for my book, I will be able to highlight

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a little bit of what the Bible says about all these different areas of our life and

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how so many things have become inverted or upside down and we've overcomplicated them.

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And when we get them right side up, that all of a sudden things start making sense.

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I often think that life is so much more difficult, struggles are so much greater.

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Our lack of peace and our stress, those are all so much more intense the further we are

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away from our design, the way God made us.

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So the youth, I just, I feel for the youth.

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They're all of a sudden in probably one of the most contentious and fearful and stress

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invoking generations ever.

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And they're looking for the peace and the calm and the purpose and hope like everyone

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is.

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So in fact, I just have a heart for the youth and children.

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I work with children on the side, a little bit of bread and butter, I guess you could

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say, and that desire to help the youth is growing as well.

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And I have to apologize.

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I feel like I've been a little bit, what they say, tangential.

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You asked some wonderful questions and then I feel like I kind of meander down the path

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and keep sharing.

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Oh, no worries, this is the space where we want to know about your vision and what you're

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creating because you have such a unique, unique way of providing your vision and at the same

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time, because of the way of who you are.

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And that provides a calm and also allows us to see what you're providing so clearly.

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And here we definitely want to push you forward to do whatever you want and feel free to share

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anything else you may want to share about your book.

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Is there any specific or is there anything specific in your book that you say that that's

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something that amazed you while you were writing your book?

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If you can share that with us, I truly love it.

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So the process that perhaps what about the writing of the book is that part of the book?

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If that's if that process you'd like to share how it was creating the book and laying everything

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down.

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Yeah, there's so much to share, but I'll try to be succinct here.

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I have never liked writing.

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I've never enjoyed it.

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In fact, I've been very resistant.

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I felt like God kept saying you need to write this book.

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And I had kind of visions of a good book and I could never find this particular version

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of that book anywhere.

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And it was like he was saying, well, I want you to write it.

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And I kept saying, no, no, not me.

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And then long story short, I've had a lot of health issues, especially with my mouth.

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And I've had a lot of surgeries.

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And I returned from one of my last big surgeries and I couldn't talk.

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I was in a lot of pain.

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And it was almost like God sat me in the corner and he said, okay, you can't talk now.

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You have got to write this book.

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And I'm okay.

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Okay, I will write this book.

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And it became a year and a half journey.

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And I had to just wait on him to guide me and direct me.

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And I'll give you an example.

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He said to me, and it's not like he said, but you know those inner promptings, that

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prodding, and I realized I needed to write a chapter about truth.

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And I thought, well, that's an awful big, that's an awful big topic.

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And I just had to sit with him and wait and think, okay, how do you want me to write this

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chapter?

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And it was that way for each chapter.

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And at the end, the first chapter was very short and very, I guess you could say not

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a lot of substance.

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And I felt like something's not quite right.

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And then I went back and it became three chapters, one, two, and three.

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the book.

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And yet I tried to make them easy to digest.

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And they are the foundation.

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They talk about where our design came from.

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And they talk about how our world began.

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And all of those bigger questions.

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And then I talk about what makes the Bible different than any other book and why we can

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trust it.

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And then the third chapter talks about the value of the human life, that we do have this

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extraordinary design.

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And then I go, the rest of the chapters are developing that.

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And at first it seemed like it maybe should be two books.

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But as I waited and I realized, okay, Lord, this will make more sense as time goes on.

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It became very clear, especially in this time in which we live, people need those bigger

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questions answered.

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They also need to see how relevant it is for our life now.

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And there's a verse I just love.

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It's in Jeremiah, and I have it on the front page of my website.

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And it says, stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths where the good way

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is.

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And walk in it and you will find rest for your souls.

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And so I help kind of highlight that ancient path and try to make it practical.

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You're extremely brave, Carolyn, because you are asking the most important questions that

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we as humans, as people, need to ask ourselves.

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And these are fundamental questions that not all of us are able to answer on our own.

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And to have someone there to guide us through that is just spectacular.

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So now coming here to a close, Carolyn, is there anything else that you want us to do

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to highlight in this podcast?

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Well, I just I want to I think I want to highlight first class business.

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You all are just a joy to work with.

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And I mentioned to Jackson at the beginning, I said, I feel like I'm home.

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And I can't say how much more I feel at home than with you all.

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It's just been amazing.

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And the support, the encouragement, the stretching that you're bringing my way to, it's not like

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I'm it's been a bit of a challenging path because I'm having to grow and stretch and

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learn myself and step out and into the world.

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And you're giving me this this gift of calm that I have not really known what to do with

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until now.

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And you're helping me to be able to do that.

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So I just want to thank you and the rest of the team and Jackson, of course, for the privilege,

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the honor and the gift it is to work with you.

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Thank you so much, Carolyn.

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Those words are are truly, truly beautiful, beautiful.

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And we also greatly appreciate to be able to work with you.

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We also have Emanuel here in one of our comments.

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You are, as I said, you are influencing our calm.

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And that's that's such a valuable thing.

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And I also want to thank you for that and for everything that you are doing.

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So keep the great work going.

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And we are here to serve you moving forward.

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And thank you so much for joining us today.

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This has been VizioPros Live and we'll see you in the next one.

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Bye bye.

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and attention and have an excellent time building out your vision.