Welcome to Networking Unleashed, Building Profitable
Connections, where real conversations create
real opportunities. I'm your host, Michael Foreman,
and this show is about more than meeting people.
It's about rebuilding, strengthening, and protecting
the relationships that actually support your
success. Today's conversation hits a reality
many professionals face. Your world changes.
Your circle shifts. The old way of networking
no longer works. My guest is a disciplined international.
I'm sorry. My guest is a disciplined, intentional
approach to rebuilding a network from the ground
up with structure, follow -up, and self -leadership
at the center of it all. I'm just confusing all
my words together. We're talking about how to
choose the right connections, how to lead yourself
before you're reaching out to others, and how
to turn follow -up into repeatable habits instead
of forgotten tasks. If you're ready to stop leaving
relationships to chance and start building connections
that last, you're exactly where you need to be.
So buckle up, buttercup, get ready, because we're
going to begin this podcast. Anka, I just want
to welcome you to the podcast. I'm so glad that
you're here. And why don't you give us a little
backstory of how you got here today? Well, Michael,
thank you so much for having me. Super excited
to be part of this conversation. Short synopsis,
I would say that I first started my professional
career in radio. This was back in Romania while
I was still high school and college. I graduated
in computer science. Didn't want to do much in
it. Funny how life plays you when, you know,
many years later, all you do is coding and computer
and AI. So that's just that. Like the irony of
things. But really what I wanted to do with my
life was invest myself in AV production, which
is like unheard of if you're a young girl in
Romania, in a country that's traditionally and
culturally quite traditional in that sense. Like
the expectation was that I was going to finish
college, get married, have kids and forget about
my professional career. That did not work out
for me too well. That was not the dreams that
I had for myself. So because it didn't pan out
to be the direction that I wanted, I decided
to work just enough to get myself a one -way
ticket to US, the land of all opportunities.
That's what I had in my mind that this would
be. And I started my career in AV production,
actually, in LA from the ground up. Actually,
my card to getting in that field was knocking
at doors and telling people, hey, I can fix your
computers if you teach me how to do production.
And that worked once, and that's all I needed.
And I started working for this production company
down in LA, and we did a lot of amazing shows,
a lot of A -list celebrities, runaway shows,
and a lot of good stuff that really got me. to
be hands -on and learn everything that there
was to learn about audio production, video production,
lighting, everything and anything under the sun
in that space. And after doing that for a while,
I burned out because I happened to be someone
that truly invest themselves in all the way.
And then I moved to Portland, Oregon to start
working in corporate events because I figured
that's an easier lifestyle than live events,
than setting up stages. in the middle of nowhere
or putting on, you know, those concerts, which
is a lot of hard manual physical work. So that's
when I started my family as well. Eventually
that led to starting my own production agency.
And a lot of the clients that I have made relationship
with and network with carried over to my agency.
And then... We moved to Boise, where I now live.
Boise was an opportunity for my husband. It didn't
really quite matter for me where I was because
I was doing a lot of remote work anyway. And
one thing led to another. I got into other things.
I started my own podcast because at one point
I had those thoughts about, hey, I used to love
doing radio. I used to really enjoy that. How
come I don't have a podcast? And so I did, which
now is one of the top podcast, event podcast
in event technology and AI. And it's 11th season.
So it's been a minute. Also, I started doing
a lot of speaking on stages about AV production
at first, advocating for more women behind the
scenes. That's been something that I pioneered
over the years because for many years, I happened
to be the only woman behind the scene. team I
was either hands -on mixing or doing something
of a technical capacity and I was always surrounded
by guys always so it was like you look around
there like how come I'm the only one where are
the other women so you realize that there's a
lot of things that come in the way of that and
a lot of that has to do yes with the physical
aspect of hard work even now if you go to an
event and you look behind the scenes for the
most part, you're going to see the tech team
being predominantly male, right? Because not
only do you get there to be looking pretty and
mixing and pretending like you know what all
these buttons do, but you have to be there at
4 a .m. when you load in and you have to be there
at 3 a .m. when you load out. So it's a very
long span day that is very physical. So a concerned
i never shied away from hard work physical or
not i grew up hard work environment, like working
the fields. When I was a child, my parents had
a farm and you did what you had to do, which
also later in life pushed me into bodybuilding.
I realized my body is really strong. I can carry
not just I can carry a lot of weight, I can lift
a lot of weight, but I'm really built this way.
So that's pushed me into bodybuilding, into competing,
into doing really well. And all of that. coming
around the circle of life is that Now I embed
a lot of those lessons learned under the barbell
into the Fit for Events framework, which is leading
the conversations in the event space about burnout,
about performance, about capacity. Mental, physical,
emotional, and spiritual health are the pillars
that I really care about under that framework.
AI is a big part of the conversation, right?
It has really changed how we do things, how we...
automate a lot of the manual tasks that we used
to spend quite a bit of time on just in the last
few years alone. And as someone that I really
stayed on top of the latest and the greatest,
not just in AV production, but also in technology,
event technology, and anything and everything,
I think I just had a bit of a skill set to really
learn things easily and apply them practically
and then be able to tell others how things work.
I took it upon myself. right when Chagi PT came
out in 2020, 2022, something like that. It was
like around right after COVID to learn what this
thing is. What does it do? How does it work?
How can I make my life easier? Basically, that
was like the whole point of it. So that's my
trajectory through life. And when coming back
to our conversation, to the topic that I know
you're so fond of. All of that would not be possible
without relationships, without connections, without
people, right? Like you can look at your life
and say, I have accomplished so many things,
but that would be such vanity. And so much ego
embedded into that. Whereas everything that I
have accomplished is because there's someone
along the way that supported my growth trajectory.
Like when I got to LA and I met and I ended up
working in this production house, I met the chairman
that was the CEO of the company in. And to this
day, he's one of my best friends. We're talking
about 20 something years of a friendship that
a very professional friendship, but. It's those
people that you meet along the way, they mentor
you. And then in return, I hope that you give
back, right? So for me, the way I give back is
to the community of women in events. I started
an entire community of women in the events behind
the scenes. The girls that want to get in elite
tech positions, but they don't always know where
to start or they don't know what to do or they
don't know what they need to know or who they
need to talk to. get the opportunities that a
lot of guys get automatically just because of
the bias that still exists. If you're a guy,
you must know how to do this. Whereas someone
that comes in as a young girl, she's going to
be questioned. She's going to be tested. And
then she's going to have to prove herself again
and again. It's quite extensive, I want to tell
you. I have a series of questions for you. You've
answered. The majority of them just by speaking
first, but I'm going to go through the numbers.
Hey, I love conversations, Michael. I don't love
Q &A. We can choose what makes more sense for
us to delve more into. This is more conversational.
When someone's professional world shifts overnight,
what's the first mindset change they must make
before rebuilding their network? So I think we
all went through this, right, in 2020, when what
happened, at least to my side of the industry,
a lot of us, we have put our identity in what
we do, right? And when events went away and we
were faced with the question, who am I if I am?
not able to do the things that I used to do this
entire time, that kind of shakes your worldview.
That kind of shakes you internally, right? Because
you have to now face the demons, to face the
insecurities, to face yourself in a way that...
You are not willing to or able to because you
are constantly busy. You're constantly running
from one thing to the next. So I think what has
helped me the most in that aspect is to be able
to have a close network of people that could
answer that for me when I couldn't, when I couldn't
see. I couldn't see the trees because of the
forest. I couldn't see beyond My reality, which
was my whole professional foundation is gone.
Now, what do I do? For me personally, that just
meant reinventing, reinventing what I have done
in one space, which was the live events and in
-person events and transitioning that automatically
and automatically in three days. I had one event
that I had to take was 650 in person. We had
to transition it to a virtual format. And we
had to figure it out. And that's been my way
of reinventing. Okay, I have the skills. I know
how that applies in this area. I'm going to make
it happen in a completely different space. We
just need to figure out the framework, the model
that would work, right? But that wasn't just
me alone. It was a group of us putting our heads
together. So that's where I think networking
and relationship really matter because even though
on the outside, you could look at it and be like,
we were competitors. We were all like trying
to get those contracts, those events. that would
help us survive during a hard time. But what
came out of that instead was a lot of collaboration.
And there's this one term that I really liked
during that time was called Basically, yes, there's
still competition happening, but there's also
a lot of collaboration that is happening at the
same time, right? At the same time, how I know
that you can do, say, virtual events really good,
I know I can also do virtual events really good
because we are two different people. We have
a two different set of skills, but also we have
a different take on how that works, right? That's
kind of what came out of that hardship of figuring
out how to turn this one lemon into lemonade,
but not alone, but with others. Does that answer
your question, Michael? Yeah. I put a line in
the sand when it comes to the pandemic, right?
Before the pandemic. networking, as you say,
was all transactional. Everybody was super busy
and networking and everything else. Once the
pandemic happened, people had to stay inside.
They had to do everything virtually. Like you
said, in three days, you had to transform from
this outspoken person to some sort of a person
behind the camera. But one thing that we had
to learn or relearn was as we started to come
out of the pandemic, People weren't following
it. They weren't getting back into the relationship
side of the transaction. Things were all transactional
beforehand. It's relationship oriented afterwards.
And people forgot how to network. They forgot
how to communicate. My goal after I'm doing all
the workshops and keynotes and everything else
is just telling people that. Telling people,
look. I always say 20 -somethings in the audience,
30 -somethings, they always raise their hands.
Oh, yeah. I'm like, what I'm telling you is going
to be completely Greek because nobody showed
you. If I think about just the... The function
of networking, if I were to dissect what is networking,
I think for a lot of people, networking means
collecting a bunch of contacts. But to me, it's
building alignment. Because people do not stay
connected to you just because you have this job
title, just because you are impressive in one
way or another. I think they stay because they
feel part of what you're building if you're able
to draw them in. way to lose someone is to just
walking and trying to impress. At least for me,
that does not work. That's actually such a turnoff.
But then the fastest way on the flip side to
build a network is to invite people into a shared
direction. So I think what you're saying is that
what the pandemic did, it brought us into this
one shared direction for all of us to get out
of it. And that was our shared vision. Eventually
we did. And then the question that I have to
you is, do you feel like our networking has gone?
back to our old habits? Or do you feel like we're
doing better because we had to go through it?
Because sometimes I feel like we've forgotten
a lot of the lessons we have learned during the
pandemic. It's changed. It's changed. When I
said it's more relational, I used to be in the
mortgage industry. And when I went to a networking
event, I came home with a shoebox filled with
business cards. And I'd say, look how good I
did when I did. horribly. Now, the way I teach
people is that if you go to a three or four hour
networking event, you come back with 15, maybe
20 business cards, because those are the people
that you spoke with, you had a relationship with,
that you talked about something that you were
familiar with. So if you spent 15, 20, 25 minutes
with this person, you created that whole feeling.
And I tell everybody, On the back of the person's
business card, there's a whole series of events
that has to go in before you get there. But once
you get that card, you write down the date, the
name of the event, and something you spoke about.
So when you follow up with them, you can remember
what you spoke about. But that's where it is.
It's 15 to 20 business cards instead of 200.
Absolutely. And then maybe out of those 15 business
cards, you actually know something about those
people. You make it personal. I think that's
the biggest thing that people forget that for
it to really grow beyond, hey, here's my business
cards and thanks for your business card, which
now it goes into shoebox that I'm not sure if
I'm going to ever get back to ever again, is
being able to come back to it and say, hey, Michael,
I really liked when you told me X, Y, Z about
Georgia and how you used to live in New York
and how winter was back then. And now why is
everybody talking? talking about a snow megadon
when we've done survive war style exactly and
that's that's half the value of putting the information
on the back of the business card for when you
follow up you start your follow -up because it
remember now it takes between 8 and 15 touches
before they even respond to you yeah so it's
all in the follow -up so let me go on How do
you decide who belongs in your next chapter when
your old circle no longer fits where you're going?
That's a hard one. So I have a story to tell.
When I embraced this bodybuilding journey, because
I really needed to personally, when you come
to hit the wall really hard and realize, if I
don't make some changes right now, something
will break. So for me, that was going through
another burnout cycle. And then, because again,
I'm a workaholic. I sometimes try to say that
I'm recovering, but I'm not. There's not much
recovery from there. So I would work myself through
this burnout cycle. Pandemic was one of those,
like after the pandemic, as we were like building
this plane with virtual events, I got really
busy and I was doing like three virtual events
a day after day. It was like nonstop. So the
work was great because we're making money, we're
surviving, but it was taxing. Like when your
office becomes your workplace and there you have
no boundaries between going to work and coming
from work, that can be very dangerous. So bodybuilding
came out of that. needing to remove myself from
a space that now was like all involving in all
areas of my life, personal and professional,
and needing a space where I can go and not only
work on my physical conditioning, but also on
my mental capacity. I needed a place to break
away from family, from work, from kids, so I
can be by myself while also getting my system.
moving and working because you're sitting on
a chair for hours in the end. And when I did
that and I started becoming successful at it
in the sense that I started changing my body
composition. I started looking completely different.
I'm putting on muscle. I'm looking like pretty
fit and shredded. My circle of friends started
teening out. They started becoming insecure in
themselves because I no longer looked like them.
And I had to, and also our priorities were no
longer the same. And this happened even like
with my own husband, like for a little bit, we
were going through this hard patch because he
was still overweight and he was still struggling
to figure out how he was, what health looked
like. And he started becoming jealous because
I look so much better. And like, now I have the
hot wife, but the hot wife is really hot and
I don't know what to do with it. And then eventually
he had his own moment or revelation like, oh,
but if I actually spend some time on my health,
I could actually catch up with her. Thank God
that he did that. He actually did not start bodybuilding
with me. He's not the person to come into a gym
and be indoors. He loves biking. He loves running.
He's a marathon runner. And he started doing
the things that he was passionate about, which
completely changed then our dynamic and our priorities.
So going back to friends and priorities, that's
when I had to make a choice. There's people that
I can no longer take with me in this future.
And this future for me is healthspan, lifespan,
fitness. spend, the things that I care about
now are no longer the same things that I used
to care in the past. I no longer care to go to
a party. I no longer care to have a wine at the
end of the day. I no longer care to do all these
happy hours, things that they don't serve me
anymore. So that was a hard call because now
I had to look at this group of friends that were
dear to me and say, not necessarily say to their
face, but create the distance to choose only
the ones that were just as mindful about their
health as I was. So we can move together in step
versus these other people. They're like. almost
shaming me into why do you spend so many hours
at the gym? Like, why do you have to look any
better than what you already look? Like all those
things that are toxic and that just don't serve
you. So that needed a decision and I needed to
make that. And even though I still see those
friends from time to time, I no longer spend
my time like I used to in that cycle. Because
what do they say about friendships? Don't they
say that, Whom you surround yourself with, that's
who you become. I already had a different vision
of who I wanted to become. And the people around
me did not serve that anymore. Absolutely. Absolutely.
I couldn't agree with you more. And when you
change your mindset, it's not that they had to
change theirs completely, but if they didn't
accept the way you changed, then really you're
going to leave them behind because there's no
place for them. And how good of a friend were
they really if they wouldn't adapt? So you weigh
all that together. That's very good. And sometimes
it's funny now because years later, as they kept
seeing me improving and keeping at it, because
it wasn't going to be just a season for me, they're
snapping now into it themselves. In this cycle
of life, I can see reconnecting eventually. at
the same level that we used to be if they're
just as focused as me on the things that matter
on health spend like i said and longevity and
putting in the time so there is redemption it's
just sometimes the timing can be off and for
me that was true Their mindset where they would
go to a bar, they go to after hours and they
go to whatever, their mind will shift and say,
you know what? Maybe I'll spend that extra time
in the gym and we'll spend time together doing
that. You could still have a great time, but
your mind shifted. And if they will shift even.
half the way with yours then you can be friends
again but if they're going to hold you back then
you wrote a they really weren't friends to begin
with and b you don't want them anymore yeah in
your experience how does personal discipline
show up in the quality of relationships people
attract Yeah, I had to learn this the hard way
again. I kind of tend to learn lessons the hard
way. This for me took the form of emotional relationships.
I had this one emotional relationship that I
struggled with the most because I really attach
as a friend to someone that was not ready to
have the same level of attachment. And I did
not have the discipline. to remove myself and
let go. And I think that was actually the start
of me needing to work on something else that
I felt like I had control over. If my emotional
life was like just out of control because I couldn't
figure out how to get a hold of it and make it
work for me instead of against me, I figured,
okay, I'm going to work on my physical health
because then At least I have control over that,
like what I can do with my body and what my body
can do. So to build the discipline for that to
be true. It can take different forms and it can
take a journey and a longer or a shorter journey,
depending of where you are, like depending where
you are in your life. For the longest time, I've
always, for me, the emotional aspect of myself
was something that I didn't want to deal with.
I'm someone that's very hardheaded. When I put
something in my mind, I go and get it done. And
there's very little outside influences to...
stop me from accomplishing what I put my mind
to do which was like I have this very strong
will to do to get things done and emotionally
if something didn't align with my drive I would
just throw it under the rug it's not important
I'm not gonna deal with it it's not necessarily
for me to deal with it which kind of like builds
right it builds and it builds until at one point
you're like this can't build anymore there's
no more room in this tank to build and it's gonna
come out. So I needed to figure out how to take
control over that, how to be more disciplined
with my emotions, the same way how I'm disciplined
with my body, how I'm disciplined with my routine,
with my calendar, with my relationships. So it
was a hard lesson and it took a few years for
me to go through that whole process. Obviously,
it took some help with the therapist, going back
into your whole history. I didn't realize I had
all this childhood drama that I needed to deal
with. But I think at the end of the day, day
it comes down to needing to work on the things
that you keep avoiding to work on thinking that
they don't matter until they really do because
at the end of the day discipline is just promising
is just keeping the promises you made to yourself
whatever that looks like in which area of your
life and it was important to me to be disciplined
in all aspects of my life but I couldn't handle
it in some areas because there's too much work
that needed to be done in the first place before
I got to the level where I was ready for discipline
to apply on top. It's like raising a kid that
you're trying to discipline, but there's so much
other things that get in the way of that because
they're growing, because they're emotional, because
they have resentment, because they think it's
unfair, because all of those things that are...
packaged and then when you're trying to discipline
it's just one thing that you're barely touching
the surface but you're not even getting to the
root of the problem yes very good very good you're
fit for events framework yes it's structure and
consistency to relationships yeah what shifts
when networking stops being casual and starts
being intentional I think the biggest for me
has been presence. Spending intentional time
with the people that I want to be closer with
and the people that I wanted to grow with versus
just spreading myself in small pieces here and
there, everywhere. And presence means putting
aside sometimes your own schedule, your own priorities,
just to have a conversation with someone, just
to learn more about them, just to see where they're
coming from. So you understand what their challenges
are, how you could help them in return. And then
still on the same token, I feel like... None
of this really works if there's so much, like
conferences are so prevalent where there's so
much cognitive load and so much context switching
that happens all the time. So your nervous system
is constantly attacked. It's just basically wrecked.
You go to an event and you come back and you
feel like you need rest. You need to rest from
the event, even though that was supposed to be
something that was a recreational, not just something
that you worked. So one of the realization that
I had was that, one, there is those challenges
that we all have that we need to be aware of.
Two, you can communicate well and clearly when
you're already tired, exhausted and fried. And
you can be present if all of those things are
true. The Fit for Events framework is more about
how do we look at our mental, our emotional,
our physical, and our spiritual capacity in a
way that supports our leadership functions, in
a way that supports our presence with other people.
Not just self -care for myself, but capacity
for others too. In so many ways, high performance
with regulation that can help you achieve your
goals in whatever area or space that you're in.
And the way we do that is by turning well -being
into a system instead of just a phase. Oh, I'm
just going to lose 20 pounds. No, that's not
what we do. That's not what we want to do, right?
It's not just something that you do now. It's
something that you maintain. And it's like this
lifestyle that you sign up for because you know
it's good for you. One of the ways in which it's
important for me to look at this, especially
when I have those conversations, is let's look
at what is your minimum standard on... a very
busy day, not your best day standard, right?
Your worst day standard, the day when you are
traveling for events, the day when you are working
nonstop, the day when you're overbooked, the
day when you're mentally wiped. decide in advance
what still counts as a win for you. That could
be 20 minutes of walking around the block or,
I don't know, hitting your protein goal or not
skipping lunch or breakfast or something, right?
Because our systems survive on minimums, not
just on motivation. And then... Pre -plan in
advance, relentlessly. I have gone through several
prep, bodybuilding prep phases while I was in
the busiest season for events. And without pre
-planning, that would have all failed. That would
have not worked. So well -being does not survive
improvisation. Oh, I'm going to figure it out.
No, when you're hungry and you have to eat and
you have to stay within your macros and within
your goals, you don't make shit up like you need.
to know in advance what are your options so you
don't stray off you don't fall off the wagon
so for example when you're traveling you already
know that you're going to stay at this hotel
you already know where your meals are coming
from you already know what that gym looks like
plan in advance where are you going to wait like
I check out those restaurants around the area
where I'll be to see their menu doesn't fit my
goals. And I will go to the ones that do. So
all of the, or if I feel like it does not, then
I always pre -plan meals with me. I bring stuff
with me. So I have in the case where I might
be on this threshold floor for 10 hours and there's
nothing around this convention center where I
can just go and grab something. And instead of
just falling prey to the pizza that was delivered,
because for some that's acceptable form of nutrition,
I would rather have something with me. ready
to go, right? Because that not only removes the
decision fatigue, but also protects that minimum
standard that you set for yourself, no matter
where your environment is and how it changes.
And then thirdly is the mindset. that you spoke
of right in the beginning. That's a non -negotiable.
And I think a lot of people, they just keep negotiating
with themselves because they're like, oh, I'm
too tired. Oh, I don't feel like doing this today.
And then they break some promises that they've
made to themselves that if I go to this event,
I'm going to work out every single day, or I'm
going to have a walk around the hotel every single
day, or I'm going to do a yoga, whatever it is
that you want to do, right? For me, every kept
promise to myself reinforces my identity. And
it's not about just being extreme and strict
with myself. It's about being honest. Because
all the systems that I build to support me, they're
built on self -trust. And when that cracks, I
think everything else follows. If I can trust
myself to do what I said that I would, then I
don't trust myself to do a bunch of other things.
Yes. Yes and yes. I agree with every point that
you made. And I can really continue this podcast
on for another two hours. Yes. I have about 20
questions just for you. But let's bring this
podcast full circle. If someone wanted to rebuild
a profitable, reliable network in the next 90
days, what's one habit? You would create the,
that would create the biggest ripple effect.
I think one, you're probably the most experts
to answer this, but if I were to just weigh in
one thought that came to me as you were asking
the question is when you talk to someone, I never
pitch myself. My job is not to pitch. My job
is to have a conversation with them where there
is this one quiet question in the back of their
mind, in their nervous system, which is asking,
do I belong in this relationship? And my job
is to make sure that they do, because if that
is true, then everything else from there, it's
easier. So everything else could be working together
on a project. Everything else could be partnering
on some event. Everything else could be selling
business services and whatnot, right? Everything
else could be me being invited to speak at their
event next time we meet again, right? I am able
to provide a level of comfort where they know
that I welcome them and I make them feel like
they belong. I think everything else is so much
easier. I didn't understand this for a very long
time and it took me a while to grow to really
understand what that means. Because at the end
of the day, like you turn the mirror, right?
And you look in the mirror and say, why would
I want from this? Why would make me feel comfortable
to want to work with this person again? And that's,
if you can answer that, then I think it's easier
to then apply it to your network, to your relationship.
Because again, going back to one of those famous
cringy phrases, they are very true. Your network
is your net worth at the end of the day. And
for me, nothing has been more. more true than
growing my LinkedIn network, but not just growing
for the sake of growing a number, but really
having relationships with those people as in
I know who I can go to because I know what they
do, I know what they care about, and I know what
are their forte, right? So I don't care to accept
people in my network just because they're there.
I care to accept them because we have a conversation.
And I think that's probably where that belonging
comes into play the most. Again, you touched
on so many points. I happen to have eight digital
courses on my website. I knew you were the expert,
Michael. My main course is called Network to
Net Worth. That is the main course. And as soon
as you said it, I was like. Oh my God, there
it is. Have I studied your courses? But go on,
just take a look at what I have because they're
really good. I can have a whole section just
on each of the things that you've touched upon.
But anyway, but if somebody wanted to contact
you, wanted to hire you, or just discuss something
with you, where's the best place to find you?
As I mentioned, LinkedIn is the best place I
would ask people to connect with me because I
think it's a safe environment. But also I share
a lot of things that I'm passionate about, including
AI news, including the podcast, including bodybuilding.
I have several pillars that I distribute this
content in, and that's the best place. Obviously,
I have websites and emails and all that, but
I think that's one platform that we can all connect
on and feel like it. It's safe enough. That's
it. Perfect. That's what intentional networking
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