Why Saying No Is a Coaching Superpower with Samantha SAvvy
Episode 1919th September 2026 • I Love Coaching Podcast • I Love Coaching Co.
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You know your value. So why is it still so hard to say no?

In this conversation, Adam sits down with women's empowerment coach and international DJ Samantha SAvvy to talk about the real skill behind confidence: boundaries. Samantha built her coaching brand around the roadmap she wished she'd had in her twenties, one that teaches high-achieving women how to stop giving their power away in relationships, jobs, and friendships.

What makes this episode useful for coaches is how practical Samantha gets. She doesn't talk about boundaries as a mindset shift you either have or don't. She breaks it into a repeatable process: recognize your patterns, pause before you react, and build courage the same way you build any skill, through small reps done consistently. Adam connects her framework to his own relationship coaching experience, including a simple question that changes how any hard conversation goes: do you want me to feel it or fix it?

Samantha also draws a direct line between her coaching work and her life as a touring DJ. Stepping on stage in front of a crowd in Europe never feels automatically confident to her either. She steps into it every time. That's the same muscle she's teaching her clients to build.

What you'll learn:

- How to identify the specific patterns that keep you from speaking up in relationships, at work, and with friends

- Why pausing and truly listening in the moment matters more than knowing what you should have said afterward

- A simple reframe for hard conversations: you and the other person against the problem, not against each other

- How to build courage in small, low-stakes reps before tackling bigger confrontations

- Why trusting your gut instincts is a skill worth developing on purpose, not an afterthought

- How unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence applies just as much to boundary-setting as it does to any other skill

The big idea:

Confidence and courage aren't traits some people have and others don't. They're built the same way any skill is built, through recognizing your patterns, then practicing the uncomfortable thing in small doses until it becomes automatic.

Notable quote:

"It's really about learning to take back your agency and learning to say, no, actually, you don't get to do that to me." — Samantha SAvvy

Guest bio:

Samantha SAvvy is a women's empowerment coach who helps high-achieving women set boundaries and break free of people-pleasing patterns. She's also an internationally touring DJ specializing in Kizomba and Urban Kiz, and a professionally trained Latin dancer.

Resources mentioned:

- Samantha's coaching and masterclass info: https://www.samanthasavvy.com/savvy-shift-mastermind/

- ILC community: ilovecoachingco.com

- Instagram: @ilovecoachingco / @adamrroach / @thejesswebber

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Ready to build a coaching business you're proud of? The ILC community is where coaches go to stop guessing and start growing. ilovecoachingco.com

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Samantha, it's so good to see you again.

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I'm excited

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Yeah.

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you're gonna be here on the I Love Coaching Podcast.

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It was so great to be on your podcast not too long ago.

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So what's new in your world? Let's get caught up first.

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Yeah, well, for me, I am heading out on tour next week,

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actually. And so that's my big thing,

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but I haven't started packing yet.

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And so that I'm a little

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bit nervous about that. and I have ~ some family obligations tomorrow,

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so it's like it

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Mm-hmm.

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has to get done today. I'm also I ~ am doing a contributing chapter in

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a book called Voices of the Twenty First Century,

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and so that has to be done by the end of.

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~ June and I haven't really started that yet either.

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So that's something else that's on my list and hopefully before I before

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I leave on tour next week. So

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Love it. Well, I I have no doubt that our listeners are going to love this show.

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And

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they're probably like, what kind of tour is she going on?

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What kind of book is she writing?

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So before

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Yeah.

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we dive in, why don't you just share with the listeners who you are,

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where you're from, what tours you're going on,

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what books you're writing, what coaching world

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Mm-hmm.

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you're in. Share with us you were born and then what happened.

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I was born and then magic happened.

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Ha ha ha.

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No, I wish. yeah, so ~ my name is Samantha Savvy.

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I am born and raised in Winnipeg,

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Canada. and I am so my story is a little bit of a winding road,

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but basically I found myself

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I I'm an international DJ, so if people are wondering about that,

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so the tour that I'm going on is ~ a DJ tour.

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And so that starts on Tuesday next week.

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I have a few gigs in the Netherlands,

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Belgium, Paris, and potentially going back to the Netherlands at some point again.

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~ so I'm really excited about that.

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I DJ for a very specific genre of music called

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Kizomba because I'm also a professionally trained ~ Latin dancer

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and quizomba dancer. so that's like one side of my life.

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But then the other side of my life,

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I am a women's empowerment coach.

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And so I specifically work with ~ high functioning,

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high achieving women who are ~ trying to figure out,

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you know, like women who have who want to do more and be more,

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and so they're tired of.

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~ living small and living in worlds where people are telling them to do less,

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be less, demand less. And so my area of expertise is helping women

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to overcome the programming that we have been ~ we've been programmed from

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a very young age.

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to act in certain ways and so I ri specialize in boundary setting

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and learning how to say no and getting comfortable with the fallout

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of all the things that happened when you start standing up for yourself as a woman.

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So

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Yeah, love that. Love, love, love.

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yeah.

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So let's

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so here's the neat part as I'm listening to this.

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You actually practice what you preach.

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Because here's the I mean, you're going on I

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want to go back to the first part of what you were just describing there.

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You're going on basically a world tour to be a DJ.

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Yes. Mm-hmm.

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And I

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I now I've I don't really you got to teach me like I'm a third grader here.

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Does that mean it's like a

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big concert and you're like at the front of the stage and you're being

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the DJ or what what does that look like?

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Walk us through, give us the context there of what what we would be missing

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if we didn't come to your show.

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So basically like there's two ki types of events.

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So you have like your smaller weekday socials.

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And so again, this is the built for dancers specifically.

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So these are dancers who have been training.

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~ they go to weekly classes or they hire private instructors.

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It's usually couples dancing, right?

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So like salsa bachata are the air the dances that I started with.

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and all the various genres underneath them.

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And then I transferred over to Kizomba and Urban Kids,

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and that's the area that I specialize in now and DJ in.

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But you know, ballroom dancing would be another example of couples dancing,

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right? So the festivals tend to be a little bit smaller because there is

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so it's not like a big rave with like 10,000 people or something like that.

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Yeah.

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They tend they

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tend to be a little bit smaller because it is

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quite niche and there also is kind of a barrier to entry because

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you actually have to learn how to dance the dance before you can enjoy it,

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Mm. Sure.

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right?

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And so when I go to the festivals or when I go on tour,

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there's kind of two types of ~ of events that you can DJ at.

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There's like the regular weekly socials.

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And so that's like usually like local community organizers or local teachers

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who host re weekly events.

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And I can go and I play like sometimes it's 10 couples,

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but sometimes it's bigger, it's like a hundred couples,

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you know. So those vary in size depending on where you are and also like what

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day of the week it is, right? and then there are the actual festivals.

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So I'm hired for a couple of actual festivals.

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that are out there and ~ so they are usually a full weekend sometimes they

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can be a little bit longer so there are some festivals that run from like Sunday

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to the following Tuesday or sorry Wednesday to the following Tuesday

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so it's almost like a whole

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Mm-hmm.

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week and then then you're having socials during the day

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along with workshops. So usually Friday,

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Saturday, Sunday is workshops and then socials during the day.

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And then you have the parties at night.

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So for me DJing, my my typical schedule is that I start DJing.

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Let's say the the Thursday social starts at three o'clock or something like that.

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So you start DJing at three, you go till eight,

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you'll have like a dinner break and then you start DJing the party from like like

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10

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until two or something. And then the Friday is when it gets a little bit more crazy.

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The evening party will go from like 11 o'clock at night until 6 to 8 a.m.

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the next day. And then the entire,

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like on the Saturday, the social starts from like 3 until 8 again.

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And then 11 to 8 a.m. the next day,

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and so on and so forth. So your schedule kind of gets a little bit.

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Flipped, ~ and then also adding in jet lag there.

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So your body doesn't really know what it's doing.

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So it's quite intense. And then if you're

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Yeah.

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doing like usually when I go over to Europe,

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just because there are many more festivals there,

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so I try to create a tour out of it and I try to arrange a few ~ festivals back

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to back just to make it worthwhile to go over there.

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And so then if you're doing this for like two or three weeks in a row,

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~ I think the

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The most I've done it is I had like four festivals in a row.

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And by the time I finished that I came home and I crashed for like a month.

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Yeah.

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I bet. Wow. Well, just

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listening to the schedule. I mean,

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that sounds I can't imagine being a dancer at one of those.

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Well, first of all, you would never see me as a dancer there because I have

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two left feet. And and secondly,

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wow, I mean, you are the one that orchestrates their flow,

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right? I mean, you are the one

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Mm-hmm.

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that they may be able to dance,

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but they're gonna need the music.

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They're gonna need the rhythm.

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They're gonna need the beats to be able to do what they do on that dance floor.

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Mm.

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And that's all

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on your shoulders, right?

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Yeah, you know, so it's an incredible privilege,

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but it's also a really big responsibility as well,

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you know, because

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there's a lot of expectations that are put on this,

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Yeah.

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you know,

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people are spending their hard-earned money to come out to the festival

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and they obviously want to have a good time.

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And so I it's it's a huge privilege,

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but also a responsibility to make sure that you're giving people

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the experience ~ that's gonna be bring them the most benefits from the weekend.

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Yeah.

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So so

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so neat. I I'm excited to hopefully watch you on the social media world

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and watch your tour there and watch your engagement.

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Yeah, yeah, I'll be posting

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shorts. I'm not so good at it,

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but I'm trying to get better of like posting shorts and reels and stuff of the Yeah.

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Well, I have no doubt our listeners would want to watch what you do.

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So that's really, really good.

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So now let's transition because

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that's just one facet of who Samantha Sapphi is,

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Mm. Yeah.

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right? We have

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the podcast host, which you are an amazing host,

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by the way. Your energy is so infectious.

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thank you.

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Your questions were so intriguing.

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And and I just loved, loved, loved having ~ being a guest on your show.

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Mm.

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That was so much

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fun. So but your podcast host,

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and we have coach, and we have

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Community organizer. So walk us through

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Mm.

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the the other two-thirds of your world where you get to empower women,

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where you get to step into the space and say,

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let's break the mold of that. But before we dive in,

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Mm-hmm.

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tell us about the origin of getting into that.

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What put you in that space to say,

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I'm ready to serve these women?

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So the brand was really built or yeah,

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it was really built as the roadmap that I wish that I had when I

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was navigating my life. And you know,

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in hindsight, like hindsight is 2020,

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you know? And

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Sure.

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it's like, you know, if I had known when I was twenty all the things that

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I know now when I'm

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you know, 30 something. Lady doesn't tell her age,

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but anyway. Yeah. If I had known when I was 20 the things that I know now,

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there are so many little pieces of it,

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not even little.

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big pieces of advice that I wish that I would have received in terms

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of learning what to look for in relationships,

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learning to what to look for in employers,

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you know, learning how to set boundaries in friendships and things like

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so it's all these little things that in hindsight I see.

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You know what? I was never actually fully in my power.

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I had a tendency to always give my power away to other people.

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I had a tendency

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To accept less than what I deserved.

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I had a tendency to, I was a huge people pleaser,

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always so always saying yes to things,

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even when I didn't want to. you know,

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and some of the things are like small inconveniences,

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but other things are like really big things.

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That's like I said yes to things in relationships that I was actually not okay with.

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And so it's, you know, there are little things and there are much more serious

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things. And I just feel like as women,

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We are often expected to just say yes.

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And we're often expected to just people please and go with the flow

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and don't rock the boat and don't make noise.

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And like, why can't you just be a good girl and you know be happy and nice

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and smile more? You know, like all of these things.

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And so when I kind of recognize,

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like, actually, this is damaging and harmful to me,

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and I am allowing these people to do it,

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right?

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And so it's really about taking the first steps to recognize that actually

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I'm allowing these people to do it.

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And because as soon as you take that back,

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you take back your agency. And so it's really about learning to take back your

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agency and learning to say, no,

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actually, you don't get to do that to me.

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Actually, if you don't change these things,

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I am going to leave. I am going to,

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yeah, whatever the case may be.

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Like, so that's kind of

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The

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the whole thing is like the course and the approach and the coaching that

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I wish that I had ~ to help me recognize my own worth and

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my own value because I wasn't receiving that from out the other people.

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So good. And I would imagine that that is a large population.

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That's a that's a large,

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Mm-hmm.

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you know, we would call that avatar pool.

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That is a very large pool that I mean,

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very, very simple in language,

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women empowerment, right? It is it is

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Mm.

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this space where and my wife and I,

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we had when we were in our dating phase,

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we used to always say this about each other because we'd been both been married

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before, but we had found in each other.

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~ our equal, right?

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Mm.

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And and so, you know, she didn't look up at me and and if we're talking

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in like an agenda sexual type thing,

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it's you're the man

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Mm.

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of the house, you know, you have to ~ go make all the money.

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I'm gonna stay home and I'm gonna ~ and then nothing wrong with that by the way.

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If that's your situation, there's nothing wrong with that.

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Mm-hmm.

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I have to stay home, I have to do the laundry,

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I have to make food and and you have to tell me what to do all the time,

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right? And I was like, no no

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Mm. ~

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that's that's not gonna be our world because she's a equally

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in incredible entrepreneur.

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Mm.

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As as I think I am. And and the neat part is is is my gosh,

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I love watching her soar in her lane.

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And that's what I hear you say,

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Mm-hmm.

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that you allow women to feel that they should be doing that and stepping into that

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space, and you get to coach them into that,

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes,

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right? ~ so good.

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yeah. And I really

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love the way that you framed this.

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Be like you love watching her soar.

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Yeah, yeah.

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As I

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as I'm sure that she also loves watching you soar,

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right? And so that I think is the dynam the yeah.

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You better. Yeah. She does.

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That I think

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is the dynamic of a healthy relationship,

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I mean

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right?

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Is when you're watching each other soar versus

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you know, there seems to be, and maybe this is just what the algorithm feeds

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me because I'm in this world, but there seems to be kind of this rollback

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~ of kind of patriarchal, misogynistic society where,

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you know, men

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and ~ not speaking of all men obviously,

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but you know, like men are kind of thinking,

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you know, women should just sit down and shut up.

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And it's like, no, like I'm a human being,

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and I deserve to be treated as such.

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And so it a lot of it is just like women's empowerment and agency,

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as I said before.

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~

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So let's talk and let let's let's assume.

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I'm gonna go ahead and assume and I and I'm gonna assume that there

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are some listeners right now that are like,

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~ I need her, right? I I want

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Mm.

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to listen to more. Let's talk to that that woman right now who

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is in the space where she doesn't feel like she is truly in her own identity,

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right? She's not in her

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Mm-hmm.

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in her lane of greatness, we can call it her genius or whatever

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you wanna say,

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right?

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Mm-hmm.

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But she she wants to, right? But she just doesn't know if she has the courage

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or the permission. I don't mean permission as someone saying it,

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but just I can do this.

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Mm-hmm.

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What would you say to that person just to start,

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right? Just to start to say, Hey,

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it's okay right now, and this would be what I would tell you to just start to do.

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What would you suggest to them?

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Well, I think it really you have to take I mean,

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this is a journey that I've been on for years,

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you know? So just like my s my starting point was recognizing all

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the areas of my life where I felt belittled.

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And recognizing all the areas of my life where I was like,

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actually I wasn't okay with that.

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And I didn't say anything about it because I was too scared.

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so I have ~ so many situations in my life where I where that's like ultimately

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I I looked, you know.

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You know, when you are like reliving a conversation and you're like,

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you know, this is what I should have said,

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and that's what I should have said,

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right? And so it's like going back into those situations

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or those conversations where you felt like you didn't,

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like the result wasn't what you wanted,

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and trying to identify why.

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Mm.

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Why

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is it that I feel that I did you know,

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I had this conversation with my spouse and the result wasn't ~ something that

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I wanted? Why is that? Did I not speak up enough?

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Did I not stand up?

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For myself enough in that conversation?

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What are those things? ~ and just identify.

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And then I would say, like, once you have had,

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like, let's say you had a conversation with your partner one day,

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and then you had a conversation with your employer another day,

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and then you had a conversation with a friend another day,

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can you identify the patterns?

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What are those patterns?

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that you have where you're like,

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actually I realized that I didn't speak my mind here.

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Actually I realized that I wasn't very clear with what I actually wanted here.

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Actually I realized that I didn't tell my friend that ~ you know like you've

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canceled on me three times and now I feel like you're not making me

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a priority or whatever it might be,

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right? Did you actually vocalize it?

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What is the pattern that you saw that you see in those interactions?

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And so just trying to connect the dots of those little things.

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What is what is your pattern? And then identify it so that you know how

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to break it the next time you come into a situation like that.

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So that for me is like step number one is identifying your patterns.

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Wow, that's that's so good is recognizing well here here's here's what

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I heard also you tell them to do.

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Slow down. Slow down first.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right. Slow

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Mm-hmm.

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down and give yourself a 50,000 foot view of your situational ~ day.

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Mm.

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Right. It's like, okay, here's here's here's life,

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here's work, here's business, here's relationships.

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And where

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Mm.

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are you recognizing that you need to identify the patterns of what

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you really wanted to do or really wanted to say,

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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and maybe

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even identifying what it is what caused you not to.

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Do what you want to do, say what you wanted to say.

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That's good. that's that's so good.

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Mm, mm.

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So slow down and recognize and identify your patterns.

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Okay. Once they've done that, what do they do next?

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I think, you know, once you recognize your patterns,

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the next step is like when you get into that situation the next time.

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Like, for example, let's say you're having a conversation with your partner

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or having a conversation with your boss the next time.

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Again, it's it's learning to identify when it's happening in the moment.

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And that's not always so easy,

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right? Again, it's it's really easy to recognize when things

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are happening in hindsight, like,

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crap, you know, like I like.

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I let that person do it to me again,

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or I I let my boss steamroll me again,

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or whatever, right? That's one thing.

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Recognizing it in the moment so that you can create change in the moment,

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that is the harder thing, right?

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So again, I would say one of the things you identified is pause.

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So a lot of the time when we are having conversations with people.

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Or when we're interacting with people,

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we're not actually listening to what they're saying.

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We're just thinking about the next thing that we're gonna say.

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And

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Sure.

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so I think actually like active listening and then understanding where

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you want the conversation to go is really important because

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if you're just responding, responding,

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responding, chances are you're not gonna get the outcome that you want.

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So it's learning to pause in the moment and

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try to redirect the conversation and say and like understand this

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is actually what I'm feeling. This is actually a successful outcome.

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I would also say, you know, in any conversation,

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you have to try to think of it as you and the person against the problem.

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This might be more applicable to relationships,

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but it could be also applicable to,

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you know, work environments, right?

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It's you and the person that you're talking with.

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against the problem rather than you guys against each other because that just

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creates controversy within the conversation,

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right? So mm-hmm.

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Yeah. Mm-hmm. That's good. That's really good.

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So we got recognize

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first, identify your patterns,

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pause, slow down. I really like that you

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and the person attacking,

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if you will. You didn't use that word,

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Mm.

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but just I I like that visual.

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I can use I'll continue to use situational conversations with my wife and I.

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Mm-hmm.

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When we're in that space, a couple things that we have had to create systems around

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Mm-hmm.

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because we're

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both fixers, we're both doers,

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we're both alphas.

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And and and even before we got married,

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we did sit down. I hired a I hired a relationship coach and then we

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Mm.

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went to though a marriage counselor before the relationship coach and this

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is what she said. She said, Hey,

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you're both alphas and you're both gonna want to solve the problem.

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So you're gonna have to figure out who's going to lead when.

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Mm-hmm.

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And and then my relationship coach,

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Dr. Kelly Flanagan, what an amazing man.

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He ~ he had to he had to instill a system.

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And here is the system that I think could be good here with this pause,

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slow down, active listening.

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He said, when when you're in a situation like that,

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male or female, it doesn't matter,

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and you want to help or you want to whatever you want to do,

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you have to ask this question first.

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Do you want me to feel it or fix it?

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Mm.

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And and it's so neat to watch,

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and and and your framework is so good here.

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You plus the person against the problem,

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because sometimes she will say,

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just feel this. Which means.

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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I have to zip my lips, right?

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Or I'll be saying something to her and she'll jump into solution mode and I'll stop,

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time out. I need you to just feel this for a minute because I know how to fix it,

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but I need to vent, right? So

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Mm.

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I love what you said there is you and the person against the problem versus because

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we could be in a situation where she just wants me to feel it and I start

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to go into fixing it, and she doesn't care about me fixing it,

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which is gonna cause

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Mm.

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the problem to be even.

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greater on the other side, right?

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So now it's me and the problem against her.

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And so that was

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Uh-huh.

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really, really good. Good. I want to go back to courage.

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Let's go to courage for

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Okay.

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a second.

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If you have someone who has a a pattern,

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right? A pattern of of not having the courage,

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how do we get someone to become more courageous?

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What what would you suggest as someone who says,

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gosh, I really want to follow what Coach Samantha is saying,

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but I just don't have a constant full tank of courage.

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Mm.

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What would you say to them?

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I would say, you know, courage is something that you it courage

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is almost like confidence, I think.

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It's something that you build over time.

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and it's through repetition, you know.

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So I would say start small.

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So start small and with the little thing that would maybe make you uncomfortable,

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right? So for example, women are expected to be ~ you know,

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easy and compliant. And so if you get like for the waiter comes,

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brings you your food, it's the wrong order.

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Now you have two choices there.

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You can just eat it, or you can say,

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Hey, Mr. Waiter, this is the wrong order.

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Can you please bring me the order that I made?

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Now that

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situation might make somebody really uncomfortable because it's like,

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I don't want to be a pain in the butt.

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~ like I don't want to like be a a nuisance or whatever.

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And I think a lot of the time women do experience that feeling of like,

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~ I don't want to seem like I'm being too high maintenance or whatever it is,

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right? So we wouldn't necessarily do it.

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And so like that's a small thing.

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And it's like, you know what? I am going to send it back.

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I am going to stand up for myself because this is not what I ordered.

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So something small, right? So I would say start small and start building your reps.

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So like, hey, I can do this, I can send my food back,

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I can talk to my friend about how this makes me feel,

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right? Something small, right?

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Where the the there's not a lot to lose,

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right? And then once you start feeling more comfortable with those small things,

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that's when you start.

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going towards the bigger things,

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right? And so ~ it's building that that muscle

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of learning to what I saw I said confidence but that wasn't the word that you used.

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Courage, I just did courage. Yeah.

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What was courage? Yeah courage.

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Yeah, courage, yeah. Mm-hmm.

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I was like it's another C word but

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yeah so that would be like my recommendation is like start small and build

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it up and and really you know the

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Advice is maybe a little bit cliche,

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but get comfortable being uncomfortable,

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right? Because this is a journey about like standing up for yourself

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is not always comfortable. You know,

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it's people expect you to be a certain way,

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right? And so, like you're trained from a very young age to be a certain way,

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and so then you act in that certain way,

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and then when you stop complying to that.

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understanding of like they have an understanding of who you are and when

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you stop being that person that can be very jarring for somebody.

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And so also recognizing that you have to get comfortable being uncomfortable

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and you have to get comfortable also with pushback that you're gonna

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get from people about those things.

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That's good. That's that's really,

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Yeah.

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really

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good. And and I I love that. I I love your language that courage

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and confidence is built over time.

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Mm-hmm.

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This is something that we live in a world these days of instant gratification.

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Mm.

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It's

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like I can't wait to go listen to that podcast with Adam and Coach Samantha.

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And when I finish, I'm gonna have courage and confidence.

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I

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wish

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I wish so too. But here's what I here's

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what I also heard there, and I I really liked it.

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Is go small first to start to build to big,

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but then also understand that it's gotta be through repetition.

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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But you can't have repetition unless you identify the patterns,

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which you said to do first. So

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Mm.

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good. We we have a saying that there's four layers of learning,

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right? The first layer is, and this goes back to what you said recognize.

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This is what we call the unconscious incompetence.

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You don't know

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Mm.

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what you don't know, right? You don't.

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And until you hire a coach, until you hire Coach Samantha,

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you won't know what you won't,

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what you don't know. And then once you hire someone to see it,

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now you start to learn what you don't know.

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Right?

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Mm.

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And so we call that the conscious,

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conscious incompetence,

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Incompetence.

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right?

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Then the third layer is when you now have a coach in your corner that

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you can actually use their confidence,

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stand on their shoulders for a minute.

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Now we have this level of competence and confidence that

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go together to ultimately get to what you just said there,

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build the reps, to start to build the habits of getting to an unconscious state

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of competence. Right? That's the fourth layer.

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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It's like when

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my food comes to me and it's not the right temperature.

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I'm not gonna cower back and say,

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I guess I'll just eat it. The unconscious

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Mm.

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competence comes out and says,

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I don't even have to think about this.

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I don't like this. Away it goes.

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Right? Or

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Mm-hmm.

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conversation. Hmm. Don't like what he said to me.

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Don't like the situation I'm in.

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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I don't even have to think

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about it. I'm just going to go ahead and have the conversation right now.

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Mm-hmm. Or leave,

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It's so

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you know, like that's the other thing,

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right? Like it's it's like quick to fire,

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right? And so that could be in in any situation,

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right? But like if you're like for example,

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if you're a woman and you're on a date and the guy starts,

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you know, asking inappropriate questions or talking about like red flags,

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it's like just get up and leave,

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you know? Like that takes courage,

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That takes courage though, right?

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And that's and that's what

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you know, but that's

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you instill in them. And I love that.

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Mm-hmm.

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I love the simple framework here that you have to to empower these people

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to go ahead and simply say, Hey,

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you can get up and leave and it's okay.

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That's so good.

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Yeah, it's okay.

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And you know what I really love about your framing of the four levels

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is that's actually there's a guy in the US who teaches dance and he uses that four

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frameworks in his dancing. So as you begin your dance journey,

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~ and so I went through this with dance and I went through it with DJing too,

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right? And so that's why I like how the brand combines the two is because this

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is the journey that I went through,

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you know, in

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you know, a different arena, right?

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But it's still the same journey.

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So like when I started DJing, I had no idea what I was doing.

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Like I didn't know what I didn't know.

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I didn't know how to use the software.

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I didn't know how to use the hardware,

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right? And so like you learn as you grow.

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And you think I'm step onto stage in Europe and I just like have this unwavering

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confidence in myself? Like no,

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Mm. Right.

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I go,

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I step onto stage and every single time I'm like

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What am I doing? Is this

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Yeah.

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really happening? Right. So I it's something that I live and breathe every

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day because when I go up on stage and I'm getting on the decks,

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I have to have the confidence.

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And so I step into that confidence every single time.

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Yeah, that is so, so good. I had a coach a long,

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long time ago instill this thought process in me,

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and it was time on task. Right?

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Mm.

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So

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time on task will beat talent all day.

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Right?

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Mm.

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So it is, and it's it's right in alignment there with what you're talking about,

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is repetition.

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Is is the answer to everything because that is

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Mm.

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time on task. It can

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Mm.

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be to empower yourself, it can be to build your courage,

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it can be to simply know that you are who you're supposed to be in your identity,

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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right? ~ Samantha,

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this is so, so good. Is there anything else that you want to share

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in your coaching space here to any of the listeners to help them,

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right? To serve them.

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To serve the women that are listening to us right now,

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based on your framework. Cause this was so good.

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So good. We're we're freestyling right now,

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Mmm, I would say yeah, yeah.

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right? So it's you get to be DJ

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and I get to be the dancer that freestyles.

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Let's go freestyle, right? But but I would

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Nice, nice.

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trip all over myself. But yeah,

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freestyle here with me for a minute.

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What what else is there anything else that you want our listeners to know that wow,

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Samantha is the authority in that space?

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I would say, you know, one of the things that I also wish that I

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had learned sooner was to trust my gut and trust

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Wow.

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my instincts. Because ~ like the body speaks,

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right? And so when your body starts to give you those signals,

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listen to them and learn from them.

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Because what I can also definitively say were the times that my body gave

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me those signals and I

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Mm.

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ignored them.

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Uh-huh.

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were

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also the things that put me into this I mean I grew and I grew from it,

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learned from it, you know, but it was also the thing that I was like,

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that was pretty stupid. I shouldn't have done that.

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So I would say ~ learning to trust yourself.

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And I think that is also something that takes a lot of courage as well.

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And learning to trust when it's like,

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you know what?

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This doesn't feel good. I don't like this.

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And learning to understand and believe in yourself rather than what other people

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are trying to tell you. Like, so.

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Hmm. So good. So so good. Well,

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Mm-hmm.

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I have no doubt that our listeners today listened.

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I have no doubt. Because your your language,

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your information, your framework is so valuable.

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And I'm so excited that the listeners of the I Live Coaching podcast

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get to hear you. How can our listeners come find you?

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How can our listeners come engage in your coaching?

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Tell us more about that. What are the options out there?

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So

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right now, I'm not sure when this is gonna be posted,

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but right now I am running ~ a masterclass that starts at the beginning of August.

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And so that is for it's a women's only masterclass.

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It runs bi-weekly for twelve weeks.

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~ and so I it's it's limited capacity to eight to ten women and basically

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we go in there and we are working together to get through the blocks.

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And so every class or every session you come to me and we say,

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Okay, what are the things that are keeping you stuck?

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How do we, you know, assess this and how do like what's the game plan to

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get you to move to the next level?

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And so it's really about breaking through those barriers where people have felt

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stuck and they just don't know how to move.

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move forward. So that's the masterclass.

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To find me online, it's all it's on ~ Samanthasavvy.com.

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So if you go to Samanthasavvy.com,

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it'll be right at the top and direct you into the masterclass.

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And then I also offer ~ intensives as well.

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So if you want just a quick hit of ~ savvy to come and take a look

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at something and assess it in the moment.

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So that's the two to three hour workshop or intensive that I'll do with you.

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~ and then I also offer longer coaching packages for six to twelve months

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if you're looking for something more extended as well.

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Love it. Gosh, so

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Mm-hmm.

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so good. And listeners, you would be lacking in courage if you didn't

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go check her out. That's all I'm gonna say.

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Is I'm gonna call out the listeners,

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go check out Coach Samantha Sabby right there.

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Well

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Thank you for being here. Thank you for bringing us your amazing energy

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and your amazing knowledge. I have no doubt again our listeners took something from

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this. Male or female, by the way.

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Perfect. Mm-hmm.

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I mean,

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I think that I understand your lane of female.

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I think there

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Mm.

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could be an opportunity to help some males in there too.

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I you know and I'm not averse

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to I'm not averse to helping males either.

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~ so there are specific areas that are just like for women only,

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but I also serve men as well. So yeah.

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Because this bald-headed male just took a lot of notes here.

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So thank you so much. Well, have

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an amazing journey on your tour.

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And we will watch

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I will

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for you on the social media world.

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And can't

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Yes.

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wait to to watch you continue to soar.

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Yeah, okay. Thank you so much for having me.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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All right, we'll see you guys.

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I appreciate it. Okay.

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