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Warning! You have just wandered into the unpopular playground arena, a unique

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space specifically designed for young adults and those soon becoming where

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curiosity meets unconventional learning and dialogue with brutal honesty. If

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you're a bold and daring rebel who wants more options on your life journey

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than you have now, keep listening. Welcome Jen Lin.

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Hello, welcome back to the Unpopular Playground. This is Jen Lin. Welcome to

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Season 3. Congratulations for finding Season 3. This is going to be a three-part

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series introduction going over some of our past, what's going on now, and what's

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to come. And happy New Year everybody by the way. It is New Year's Day. So without

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further ado, I will continue. In this episode, like I said, specifically we're

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going to go over some of our past. This episode specifically is going to focus on

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the past and where we have been, how we got started. So that way all of this will

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make sense with the new direction that we're heading. Initially we wanted to

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start in September to be in conjunction with the school year and that too will be

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explained, but not right now. In this episode specifically, we're going to go

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over the podcast history, just a brief overview of a little bit of everything,

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but mostly focusing on our podcast history. So the general overview is the

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history, current focus, the obstacles we've had with the podcast, what's up,

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the problems that we've come across, the vision, our intentions, the episode

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content, the dysfunction of so many things that are around us that basically

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inspired the podcast to begin with, community and connections and the

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solutions. I mean, use some solutions. That's what it's all about. And then who

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this podcast is for and who it's not for. So that way we're not wasting your time

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and we're not wasting our time by having people listen that if you're not our

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people, just doesn't make sense, right? So it's got to be a good fit for

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everybody and our history. So we're coming off of a hiatus from our season two,

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which we ended in 2022. That was our last episode and we concluded that season

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with 36 episodes. In our first season, we started in 2020 and that ended in

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2021 ish and that concluded with 15 episodes. And in conjunction with our

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first episode here, I was doing working on the Q3 show with two other friends.

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It was during the pandemic and had a great time and we thought it would be a

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great thing. We came up with Q3 because we were three people who were

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quarantined and that was an interesting experience because it was every week and

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we went live and that was an experience. So I'm very happy that we're not doing it

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live right now because it's just number one equipment and time and a lot of

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obstacles right now. It's just as miraculous to be able to get to where

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we've got to be able to put out this episode right now and get going and

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continue on from here. But I'm very happy we got here. Better late than never.

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And so yeah, the Q3 show and it was mostly focused on entrepreneurship,

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ideas and alternatives to work. So that basically you love your life. There's so

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many situations, life situations, where we just feel like we're going

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through the motions and not really enjoying your life. It just does seem

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like a lot is going against you and you're existing and not living. And

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there's a way to make that happen wherever you're at. It just depends on

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what you want and if your motivation is strong enough to be able to raise up to

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the next level. It's not easy but if you don't like where you're at, you can

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certainly change your position and how do we do that? We change your

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focus, change your mindset and that's what this whole podcast is for. But this

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moves us into our, it's a good segue into our current focus. Pivoting from

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doing only academics. We were kind of helping parents, teachers and then went

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to focusing on just didn't really have any focus to begin with and it's kind of

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almost like cooking, throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks and

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the hardest part of that for me was being able, not limiting myself into a

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particular niche. I'm a very creative person. I've done a lot. I was a teacher.

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I was in the military. I'm a mother. I'm a lifelong learner. I love art. I just

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love so many things and it was really hard to focus in on one particular thing

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but also without limiting myself and where I feel like it can do all of my

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creative expression within this podcast and feel like I have a lot of where I

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can deliver a lot of my experience to you all. And who are you? Who is for this

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podcast? Well we've gone from our pivot going from high school, from parents and

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teachers and just kind of a plethora of many different things. We are focusing on

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high school pre-adult which is high school through young adult and that would

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be approximately 29. We want to help high schoolers all the way up to 30. We want

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to be able to help you rock your life. And there's a little bit too... I think

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that's a good age range and I'm just gonna keep going with this podcast. I

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can't tell you how many times I've started and began again. We're just gonna

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have to roll with it just like I did when I was going live. So pardon any

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fill-paws that I may be making but doing the best I can to be able to get this

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out to you. I just have my little notes that I'm going off of because I don't...

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I want to speak from the heart. I'm not reading off of the script. I've tried it

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so many different ways and it seems like note cards are the best way to do it.

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Later on I might go to video when I have proper equipment but for now

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everything is just going to be audio and many other things to come. So yeah and

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then even of that we're gonna separate the two cohorts of groups of high

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schoolers like let's say 14 all the way up to 20 because you're so rather young.

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Really yeah 14 to 20 and then going from 21 to 29 because there's

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different concerns, different worries, different things that you're dealing with

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and a lot of them do cross over but the things that people in their people 25

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26 are not gonna have the same problems as 14 and 15 year olds. So we're going to

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make that divide with pre-adult and young adult and for the purposes of

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content and just to be able to help it you know divide it up a little bit

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better so that when you're going through the library of content that we're going

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to build up you will be able to easily find it. Now does that mean that you

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can't make use of anything that's out of your range? That you know if you're if

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you're closer to 30 does that mean that you can't go and get information from the

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other group? Of course not. It's open to everybody even if you're not 14 to 29

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even if you're a little bit older or maybe a little bit younger looking to

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explore and learn a little bit more. That is fine but this is just who we are

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this is our target group so it's not exclusive but kind of in a way it is but

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and you might not be interested unless you might be looking to fill gaps that

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you've learning gaps that you don't have and skills. And the obstacles our past

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obstacles that is another section that has been a challenge for us to be able

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to I mentioned that we did not start in September like we wanted to. We had

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personal challenges with our team this year had some change ups a lot of a lot

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of things have gone on and then we've also had some platform changes. When we

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first started the podcast it was with the anchor platform Spotify bought it out

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and they took away all of the editing and recording features on it so now we

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can just the only thing we can do is upload it. They partnered with another

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company which we were going to try and then they even changed their platform

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in the middle of trying to establish all of this right around September too so

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lucky us and trying to be able to find another platform that's somewhat

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reasonable and easy to use more importantly the combination of all of

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these things just weren't meshing together and it made it very difficult to

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stay on our timeline that we had planned unfortunately and why why did we start

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this well originally as I said before we wanted to help parents and teachers to

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be able to help their kids with what was missing and also experiences that I've

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had that my team have had troubles with society issues basically starting at we

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realized that they start at home strong families strong society and the problems

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that start at home and school often ripple into adulthood and there's a lot

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of dysfunction and gaps in skill and knowledge and doesn't seem to be a lot

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of accountability and the systems the education system and the medical

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complex the pharmaceutical complex big food corporations all of these systems

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that are working together just seem to be one giant toxic web of confusion and

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it's just too big to fix and there's no way to be able to for any one person to

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fix all of it the only way to to really fix it would be to destroy it all and

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build it up all over again all of the problems in society starting with the

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education system and there's so much why because there's so much misinformation

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and misinformation and archaic information that just doesn't work anymore and the

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chaos in society and the increase of death the cluster of death and

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imprisonment all of the chaos that you see out there in the world is proof that

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it's not working my life is proof that it did not work and even when I was

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growing up I thought it was screwed up it's even worse now because I felt like

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as I when I was younger I had to figure it all out myself there was no internet

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there was no Google there was nothing no AI nothing to do that I had to do all

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the research myself if I wanted to get into something nothing was handed to me

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and I wish when I was in high school when I was a young adult especially a

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young mother I wish I would have had somebody to reach out their hand and

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say and just kind of curate all of the information for me to be able to help me

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to be able to navigate my life and to be able to say hey all of that over there

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is BS yeah this is the way you want to go that is my purpose for this podcast to

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be able to help you young people to find solutions and build real community not

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the fake community of the social media where all you're doing is comparing as

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if it's one big clicky competition now it's to be able to network to be able to

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help build each other up and be excited about it so that is part of my why my

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vision is to build an empire of confident independent thinkers who know

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what they want and know how to pursue and achieve your goals and that you can

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with this critical thinking skills and being independent free thinkers that

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you can take information from both sides and decide make a decision based off of

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real facts and knowing how to get facts how to fact check logically how to be

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able to detect logical fallacies which would be the BS right and to be able to

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refuse the things and the people that are not towards developing what you want

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in your life and the things and the people that are not giving you an ROI a

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return on investment I don't basically in a nutshell I don't want you to get to a

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stage in your life and realize that wow all of that stuff that I was told in

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school and even by well-meaning parents and teachers it didn't get me anywhere

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and I feel like I was in a way lied to because all of that stuff almost all of

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it was BS and it did not work and I would like to share in this podcast the

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many things that I've learned from all of my knowledge stacking from reading

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books attending seminars and through general life experience this is what the

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whole purpose of this podcast is for and this is what I would like to these are

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the results that I would like to get out of it your success so if that's

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something that you're interested in I definitely hope that you continue

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listening this is definitely something that you this would be your podcast

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hello so how do I plan to achieve this well in this podcast I plan to extend as

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I said before a real community of engagement with one another and to

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assist you to be seen and taken seriously I'm sure when you're 15 14 15 16 and

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let me tell you even at my age sometimes you are not taken seriously I want to

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help give you those tools to be taken seriously and the things that I don't

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know I plan to help curate the things that I believe that would be helpful to

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you so that you don't have to go or risk go look yourself and then risk

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misinformation because there's so much information that's contradicting one

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another in case you haven't figured it out now everything on the internet isn't

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true okay and being being able to be taken seriously by society and getting

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that skills and knowledge that we will provide these will give you options in

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life and that's probably one of the best things that you could ever have in your

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toolbox are options because chances are if you're listening to me still 21

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minutes in chances are your options are few or you've really finally realized

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that so as I said before the intentions our episode intentions in every episode

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we I myself and my team members lead by example we want to share the thought

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process not just telling you what to do we want to share the how-to process of

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how to get from the first step to the tenth step and leading you there giving

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you a pathway of how you can get from one point to another instead of just

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saying this is what you should do this is what you should think about I think

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you've had enough of telling people telling you what to do how far has that

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gotten you right and also to let you know that it's okay to fail and I'm sure

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we've you've done that a lot but the difference is it's not really failing

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it's learning when it might look as a failure to other people but what you're

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doing is you're learning a lesson not to do that again or that that didn't work

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so you're gonna try something else and it's a lot easier to find that out

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sooner than later than to keep going and then have it fail at the end and then

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you've wasted a lot of time so embrace and welcome failure in the beginning so

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called failure but it's really not and in all of our episodes we want to help

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not help you navigate the how-to as said before curate and develop share

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solutions that you can try to be here for you to give you options so unlike

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many others we're not here just for a lot of people in society only seem to

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notice you for college prep military or promotion or just for graduations or how

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to avoid prison let's just be honest what other times has people focus on young

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people other than for those purposes anytime you see a commercial or an

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advertisement it's either for college prep military graduations or prison

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aversion right think about it you know I'm true and you know what I'm saying is

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true and and then we come to the end to dysfunction there's a lot of

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dysfunction in our society as I mentioned before with the education system

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the food big food corporations the whole medical complex with pharmacy the the

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big pharmacy companies and you got mainstream social media that dysfunction

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and family dysfunction and we our whole thing is to be able to break this cycle

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let's just break this cycle of dysfunction of all of these things

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because in one way or another all of these major systems are destroying

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society but with your knowledge stacking with your being able to get a grip on

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your health and proper nutrition and being able to stay on top of your health

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so you don't need medications at all any unnecessary ones because of the crappy

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diet and the fast foods and all of the things that they push on you and you

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know you're not gonna be at home forever so if you happen to be in a

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dysfunctional family sadly if you're in an abusive family know that there's help

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out there for you there is there are options and you are not gonna be there

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forever time passes it's a season and we want to give you those options to be

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able to not continue that pattern of dysfunction that you can break that

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cycle community connection failures we want to be able to help you build

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community have real community eventually we'd love to be able to have

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centers actual building centers that's a little far out there but wouldn't that

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be cool there's not a lot of hangouts high school jobs are almost a thing of

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the past and there's not a lot of social places for you to share so I mean they

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used to have malls and bookstores now coffee shops are almost a thing of the

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past Starbucks a lot of them are being rebuilt into those grabbing goes and yeah

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they still have theme parks but most a lot of them are seasonal and a lot of

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them are super pricey so unless your family's got money that's not really

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much of an option so those are that's pretty much our history the next thing

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we're going to be going over in our next episode is current events on some

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things that we got going on now things that we are implementing in the present

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so that will be our focus on the next episode we hope that you join us and

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stay curious and we will see you in the next episode this is Jen Lynn thank you

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for listening Jen Lynn has now left the arena you've been listening to the

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