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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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And welcome back to the unpopular playground. This is Jen Lin and welcome

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to season three where we are going to be discussing in this episode what's to

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come and also what our demographics and different possible avatars about what

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our demographic will look like you know to see if you can identify with these

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situations and these people that I'm imagining it and the reason why I went

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into such detail is because I have been all of these people in one way or another

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at different stages of my life myself and my friends and so these are the

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specifics that I'm referring to and also I'm going to go over again in a little

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bit more detail on who this is not for if the warning I I thought it was a

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proposal to have in our introduction the little warning because you know when

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you speak the truth about certain things about the way that things are as is not

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a lot of people like to look at that not a lot of people like to look at

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themselves in the mirror and see themselves the way that other people see them a

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lot of the times we are biased out what we see and of course we want to see the

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best in everything and we're really good at doing that for ourselves and not

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excusing other people as much as we do ourselves for our faults and our and what

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we try to accomplish if we were to look at other people and try to understand

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this situation a little bit more maybe investigate a little bit more as to the

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why maybe some other things not that you excuse their behavior but that you could

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understand it them a little bit more and see what we can do to try to help

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instead of always throwing in that bias because we were really good at doing it

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for ourselves but not so much for others but if we can see ourselves the way that

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other people see us I'm not sure if you're familiar with that story the

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emperors knew close when the king thought he was a great somebody and he was

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fooled into believing that the he had a magical outfit with this thread and he

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didn't want to believe he kind of thought it was a scam but you know they

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hadn't believed that well only rich and regal people can see it and and because

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the king believed it gaslighted them into believing that he had this outfit on

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and it was really invisible it was nothing and he was out of it but the

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people didn't want to hurt the king's feeling and he's parading off you know

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practically have naked in this parade until some kids saw him the way as is and

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you know it's called out he's naked and then all of a sudden you know he felt

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stupid all of the other people felt stupid that wow this is really me this

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is who I am this is at some point we need to take responsibility for ourselves

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and see ourselves as we are and as other people see themselves you know I'm sorry

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as other people see you as is and we a lot of times don't want to look and see

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that deep and if you're not ready for that this is probably not going to be

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your podcast but if but the only way that you can overcome yourself and to be

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able to overcome your obstacles and your problems you need to face things as is

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and so some of the things will be the warning of specifics on that that if

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you're not ready to deal with yourself and some realities of the way that things

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are in the world it's not the pretty picture that everybody paints and well

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we know that because we have the mass media to tell us that the world is

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going to hell in a handbasket we had a lot of that in over the pandemic in 2020

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that basically everything is hopeless and why bother well we know that it's not

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to that extreme either but we do need to look deep inside and take some

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accountability for our decisions that we've made that were responsible for and

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we can't change anybody else but we can change our behavior and based off of

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that we can start climbing out of our situation the situation you don't want

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to be in to be able to get to where you want be can't do that until you're

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ready to face facts and it's brutal it's not pretty and just look at the

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conversations on social media you can't even have a conversation with a lot of

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people because they get triggered when you point out things as is they can't

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have a adult conversation and look at different points of view you can't make

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a judgment on anything until you look at all sides of the coin and sadly not

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everybody presents that and it's up to you to be able to find investigate and

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find all sides of the story so that you can make a decision then and that's

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that's what real journalists do that's what how real decision makers people who

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make good decisions they can do that so that you can have all of the cards all

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of the facts laid out before you so that you can look at them and then see is

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this good for me it might not be good but it might be good for somebody else

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because it's depending on their perspective and where they're at in life

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it can be a very good decision for somebody else but what you know you've

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got the scammers and what they do is they only present certain sides of the

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story when you look on social media and you see all of these great profiles and

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pictures and ways of life well it's not always as you would imagine look at all

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of the suicides and and everything caused from either comparing themselves or

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maybe even the creators themselves presenting such a facade that they can't

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they can't live up to what they're presenting themselves to be and the

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close the sooner that you can get to the truth of who you are what you have to offer

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the sooner you can get out of your bad situation if you're in that and if you're

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in a good situation or a mediocre you can always become better or do what you

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can to be able to stay in that life is a cycle you're not gonna be in that good

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position forever and you'll want to know how to brace up so if you get in

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when those times come you're prepared and you can buffer it and deal with it a

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little bit easier than you could if you're not prepared and we've all seen

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that you got people having breakdowns I mean I don't know everybody's different

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but I I just could never see myself holding a camera to my face and and

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just crying in front of the screen just to get reactions from somebody I think

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there's better way to go about it and are they presenting solutions to their

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problems that are they coming up in brainstorming ideas that's what you

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want to be you get a lot farther faster being a problem-solver than a

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complainer I mean things shit happens but you can there's ways to be able to

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pull out of that and so that is what we're gonna be going over in this

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episode the many different faces of our league little warning relations in real

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people and our intention to build an organic library of meaningful content

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with different categories that we can show you some options for solutions and

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to give you opportunity to practice them to build a community and based off of

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your contact with us your engagement and interaction we can make this the library

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that we're gonna build up a lot more meaningful than you know the research a

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lot of it I'm basing it off of my experience and what I wish I would have

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had because it's still not out there it's still not been created and that is

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probably one of my main one of the main things that's driving me to do this

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podcast and to share these things with you so coming to our warning when you

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hear that warning in the beginning of every episode this is it it's if any of

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these points trigger you it's probably not a good time to listen to this podcast

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because I'm not gonna change it's a free country and I'm gonna say what I need to

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say and if it bothers you and you're offended by this it's probably because

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you might be part of the problem even if you're not doing any of these things

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actively if you're gonna get so mad and upset that you're gonna pull somebody

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else down and trash them and and just want to be contrary just to be contrary

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because you're so unhappy this isn't the place for you until you are ready to

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come down your attitude and want to do something about it then then you'll be

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welcome with anybody that wants to come in and troll is not welcome and you will

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be immediately dismissed because you don't have to be here you don't have to

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be in this community to tear other people down it's not a thing of I mean and

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that's the thing isn't it you have a free community to or you know they say

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it's a free country you can say what you need to say but also it's a free

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country and that if somebody else is just like fruit if you have poisoned

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fruit or something that's molding and it gets next to healthy things it's gonna

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make it's mold and and disgusting it's all of that's gonna spread like a fire

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it can be if you light a flame and catch something on fire it's gonna spread

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very quickly and it can be for good or for bad and if your intention is to

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start a fire of destruction to spread your toxicity if you're so unhappy that

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yeah I'm gonna do all I can to protect this community from trolling from toxic

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toxicity and just people want all the downers who want to just crap on

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everything if you're that unhappy this is not the place for you if you're easily

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offended if you can't handle brutal facts if you feel easily overwhelmed or

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demoralized if you don't want to explore solutions if all you want to do is

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complain I talked about in the last episode if you have a problem or

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concern try and have a solution with it an idea for a solution something have

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something else in your hand to try to overcome it it might not work for you

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but you know what it might work for somebody else and we can put that in the

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pool for somebody else to grab because it might work for somebody else if you

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want to stay the same or the status quo you want to be safe this is not the

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arena because we're some risky people and we are radical and want to try to find

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solutions and motivated if you're closed-minded and you can't open up your

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mind to at least listen to other people for solutions if you think that your way

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is the only way this is not the place for you and if you can't have

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conversations about things that you disagree with this is not your community

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we want to have active live discussions that excite and motivate other people

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not to drag people down and criticize and it's not that we don't want constructive

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criticism criticism can be very helpful because it's to try to help somebody to

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get better if something is wrong I will correct you on it and I will say yeah

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that's wrong because there is objective right and wrong but you know what I'm

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gonna give you some ideas on how to overcome it and I'm gonna help you

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research ideas on how to overcome whatever it is that you're going through

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and that's just the way that it is so I hope I've made that clear and I'm okay

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with that if this if you're struggling with these things I think it's best for

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you to maybe go get some professional help if that's what's needed or to work

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on yourself and do a point to where you're able to open up a little bit more

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to where you can take handle some responsibility and take accountability

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for where how you got to where you've gotten and then move on from there and

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that brings me to another situation that faces of our league so we're in a little

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league I mentioned and these are some situations that might help you so if you

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are feeling clueless maybe just starting high school don't know where to begin

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this podcast could be for you so this podcast could be for you if you're in

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any one of these situations and you identify with the these situations then

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you'll definitely want to keep listening if you have graduation pressures and

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you don't know where to begin maybe you're just coming in you know whatever

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stage you're coming into the party into the community these are some things real

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concerns that you might have maybe you're a postgraduate now you're thinking

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now what I have to go find a home maybe you might be forced to move out forced

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job feeling behind now what what do you do and this can be this way for high

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school and college maybe you're in just finished high school graduating high

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if you're enjoying the unpopular playground don't forget to subscribe so

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let's create a community where every young voice is heard you know do you go

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to college do not are there other options and here's the tough one is your

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life being planned by others maybe you have family members that are pressuring

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you to go into a certain line of work and you're not interested in that you

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know there are advantages of doing that man I think they just want the best for

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you they want you to be successful but at the same time if you're unhappy but

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maybe you know you might have to go somewhere halfway down the road and do

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that and meanwhile work on what you want to be doing and eventually you would be

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able to switch over so I mean the nuances of all of these things are very

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very touchy and very tricky so you it's hard and you want to have all the

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information and options at your hand before you make these life-changing

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decisions you might be a kid you know babies having babies may you might be a

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very young mother or father and feel like is my life over a single parent

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surprise are you have you been labeled an at-home loafer and you're scared maybe

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just to go maybe you don't know how you want to be independent but with as high

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as rent is on many things it's very very hard to to go out on what people what

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employers are paying versus the expenses of just living is you know and then you

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have all the I call them creditor predators and scams seeking to take

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what little that you have off of you and just basically having you to be a

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financial slave nobody wants to be reduced to that and then you've come to

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30 and you wonder how did I get here and I have nothing to show for it well try

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being older feeling that way because I certainly never had anything like this

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they didn't have podcasts and anything to get where I did get I had to research

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and do it myself and how cool is it to be able to have podcasts and other

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resources at hand that you can look up you have Google you have libraries of

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content and information that you can go search to get the information that you

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want videos we didn't even have that I had encyclopedia Britannica okay and

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then I had my grandma for Google because I think she knew just about everything so

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that these are examples of people and situations on why I'm so driven to do

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what I'm doing and to help build solutions and options for you and

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relations and real people a lot of you maybe may feel clumsy that you're

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coming late to the party maybe you know that's how I feel anyway I feel like

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I'm clumsy and coming late to the party I wanted to start this in September but

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I feel mandated internally to continue on for you so yes I'm starting a little

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bit later but I am invested in this a million percent and I want to create

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what I didn't have I want to I'm imagining the little Jen in her high

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school years the Jen and me that was just sprouting out from high school life

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and in my early 20s as a young mother and just try and trying to figure it out

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what do I even want to be doing because once you graduate high school you're

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forced to work and that and if you're not doing what you want to do then you're

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having to work and then figure it out along the way and on top of that I was

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raising a child and then dealing with all of those things of just living and

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then you got you know so this is a real person for real people wants to give you

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options ideas and a trial space to be able to practice I'm intending to the

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things that I see that I think might be helpful I want to curate that information

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of things that that I don't know or things that have been helpful to me if

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it's helpful to me I know that it can be helpful to somebody else the

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information that I use and apply and the knowledge that the knowledge stacking

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that I do because I'm an avid reader I I'm a I'm addicted to information

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information that's gonna help me with my life it to make it easier so that I have

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more time to do the things that I want to do there's no algorithms no bots there's

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no diversity requirements where I need to have so many of a certain group of

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people now this is for people it's intended for high school as people which

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is an age range of about 14 to 29 who want to learn and have a space to be a

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part of a real community that you can learn and practice to learn those lessons

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some people call it failing I call it learning lessons learning trial by error

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figuring out the things that you don't want you have certain situations and

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people that you come across and you're thinking hmm I'm never gonna let that

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happen again or ooh I tried that and I don't like it and maybe you had an easy

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way in but you know what the thing that you hate somebody else is probably gonna

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love and if you're involved in that industry that you hate you can help

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somebody else get into that you can introduce them to people who can get

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them into that industry and vice versa can you imagine the I don't know I think

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of I when you study the brain you think of all those networks and synapses and

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those aha I get it moments a little they have something called a you know

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you think of that brainstorm so you're making connections and getting those

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aha moments brain sort they I forget what that what that what those meetings

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are called I can't even think of the term now but mind meetings oh my gosh I

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can't think of the term you know what I'm talking about put it in the comments

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but masterminds that's it okay yeah the masterminds were people who want to

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raise their game they get together and they brainstorm and that's what I want

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this community to be one giant mastermind of young people who want to

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really rock their world and you know what when you're happy and you're rocking

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your life you are an inspiration for other people you attract goodness people

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want to be around you because you're confident you're able to think for

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yourself and do what you need to do and people want that that is contagious and

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instead of spreading negativity around let's see if we can spread some

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inspiration and responsibility the like you know I think we should make

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accountability and responsibility that desire for intrinsic motivation because

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it makes you feel good and it's addicting instead of having our being

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depend on people outside of us to tell us that oh yeah you're cool you're a good

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person that's toxic and that's what social media has become but if you want

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something different you'll definitely want to be a part of this and that brings

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us to the organic library of content we want to build content courses in the

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future and things that are meaningful to you so that like I said you can rock

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your life to be on you know health communications logical thinking analyzing

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decision-making but also being able to bring out your creativity what you need

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for domestic life just to be able to function to be able to run a household

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even if you don't have a family you might not have a family now you might be

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single but you still have to be able to know how to do laundry know how to cook

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food safely to know to be able to have a clean environment so that you're not

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living in a pig's eye you can find your things and paying your bills on time all

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of that kind of stuff not over extending your your time and resources and your

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cash not being taken by scammers being able to get along with people increasing

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your self-knowledge making sure to take time for self-care and your overall and

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all of this will come through in your presentation when people see you they're

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gonna look at you are you are you hygienically presentable and do you care

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about yourself and when you look this shovel a lot of it's weird it seems like

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the homeless look is really and and those are the people that don't get

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opportunities people who look good and you know you might not have won the

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genetic lottery but if you're clean and you your clothes are clean and you can

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think for yourself and you can give value that's gonna come across and and a

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lot more than somebody you get a Chad that's got the homeless look and and

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looks like he doesn't care the people that look like they care perception is

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everything you look like you care about what you do and what you're where you're

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going and you have some integrity internal integrity that's gonna shine

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through it's gonna glow it's gonna be blinding and with that opportunities will

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come to you and you want to have those skills and knowledge in hand so that when

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they are presented you'll be in a position to take them and I just reach

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my 30 minutes and actually that is the end so I reached my goal again so yep we

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talked about those few things this is the final segment these are some things

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to come I mentioned in the last podcast that I wanted to I want to my first goal

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is to build a community of 5,000 people and I will do a separate episode on this

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on the significance of that but right now it's going to be I'm currently working

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on building a community through with a combination through buy me a coffee and

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with that will be an invitation to our discord community group and it's the whole

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idea right now is to build the podcast community and so there'll be a lot tons

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and tons of value and engagement initial engagement and when I reach when we

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reach that magic number then I'm going to take anybody else that comes after

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that 5,000 will be transferred over to another platform that will be I would

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imagine by that time it will be at a point to where I can actually start

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building courses and things like that but the first in this discord community

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the first 5,000 people who join it's going to be as such a very intimate

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community where hopefully I can get to know each and every one and I'm gonna

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write I'm gonna have a little book of all the people who join that community so

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that I can really get to know our team can really get to know who you are it

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seems like a lot but it's it's actually a pretty small number but like I

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mentioned that twig you know individually or that twig that can snap and

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break but more community we can be strong and powerful and create a movement

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and spread it and to be able to build it on and that's what we're gonna build

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our content library for but all of the people that are gonna be in the discord

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community is you'll be it'll be like a learning lab just imagine like a Costco

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where you have those free samples that's what it's gonna be about where we can

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test I can test my I can test courses and we can do little groups and things

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like that and then the things and tweak we can tweak them and once they're

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perfected then I can put it in put it out to the rest of the world who might

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not know and we can market those and make them available to everybody but

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could you imagine being part of the creation and all of the things that we

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produce you can say yeah that was my idea I came up with that question yeah and

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so in a very you might think it's small but you're gonna make just even by

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helping voice your concerns on the things that matter to you that's gonna

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help me and my team to create content that matters to the world and you can

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say yeah I was a part of that and until you figure out what you want to do and

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how you want to impact the world you can do it just by being a part of the

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community and that first big group the first big haul it's gonna it's gonna be

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epic and I'm very excited and the biggest thing that will be coming up will

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be our field trip summer field trip festival that we're going to do in

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2026 that will be at a location it's think of it like the Olympics but every

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year and it will be a hands hands-on workshops and conversations and topics

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where we can all get together and meet one another and have fun and learn

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things and network and build together how fun is that and also be in a

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location where you can have fun at the same time and we can have fun together

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because one of the things that I loved about teaching was going on field trips

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going to different places and not just in the classroom learning all the time

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but also having fun and pulling the lessons from play because that's where

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you get a lot of your greatest ideas to be able to apply it to what you're doing

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and I'll just conclude on that note so thank you for listening and I think I

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am going to describe some a little bit more in the next episode about the

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5000 the significance of that and what that's going to look like I'm almost done

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building that community up and the discord I do have those set up I'm still

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working on that but my goal is to have that done by the end of the month that

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people can join in you can support either in support us individually or become a

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part of that community which is probably the most affordable community that you

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could possibly imagine for all of the value that you're gonna get and and it's

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just a one-time fee or you can do it incrementally but it's designed to be

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you know I like that idea of buy me a coffee that it's not gonna be worth

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more than two coffees so if you can afford two coffees a month that's what

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it's gonna be and then if you pay a one-time it's gonna be even cheaper than

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that so we're excited about that because you do have to invest a little bit

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otherwise you're not gonna take seriously take it seriously people it's a

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scientific fact that if you anything that's for free don't take it you don't

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value it but when you invest and it's more of an investment of time in your

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thoughts and the time that you put in outside to be able to apply the things

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that we're talking about it's ultimately an investment in yourself but it's real

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investment it's more of a personal investment in yourself than anything else

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so if you're prepared to do this and to move through to take accountability

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responsibility invest in yourself personally with your time and your

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thoughts and your reflections so that you can figure out take the skills and

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the knowledge to figure out what you want and what you don't want you will

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rock your life by the time we're 30 and you can help other people along the way

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your cohorts so thank you for listening and stay curious I'll see you in the

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

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playground thanks for tuning in if you enjoyed today's episode please make sure

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episode if you dare and as always stay curious there's so much more to explore