Enjoy this solo episode from Blair Kaplan Venables. She brings you an update on Alana’s rise to Survivor fan fame and her recovery from surgery, Blair’s experience with no medication in the forest, and a major announcement about The Global Resilience Project’s book series.

 

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About the Hosts: 

Blair Kaplan Venables is a British Columbia-based grief and resilience expert and coach, motivational speaker and the Founder of The Global Resilience Project. Her expertise has been featured on media platforms like Forbes, TEDx, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global. She is named the Top Grief and Resilience Expert of the Year 2024 by IAOTP. USA Today listed Blair as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch and she empowers others to be resilient from stages around the world. 'MyStory,’ which is a television show available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Google Play, showcases Blair's life story. She is the host of the Radical Resilience podcast and specializes in helping people strengthen their resilience muscle using scientifically proven methods and guides grieving high performers with her Navigating Grief Framework. The Global Resilience Project’s award-winning book series are international bestsellers, and her fourth book, RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience Vol 2, will be published in January 2025. In her free time, you can find Blair writing, in nature, travelling the world and helping people to strengthen their resilience muscles. 

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blair@blairkaplan.ca 

Alana Kaplan is a compassionate mental health professional based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She works in the mental health field, and is a co-host of the Resilient A.F.  podcast. Fueled by advocacy, Alana is known for standing up and speaking out for others. Passionate about de-stigmatizing and normalizing mental health, Alana brings her experience to The Global Resilience Project’s team, navigating the role one’s mental health plays in telling their story.

Engaging in self-care and growth keeps her going, and her love for reading, travel, and personal relationships helps foster that. When she’s not working, Alana can often be found on walks, working on a crossword puzzle, or playing with any animal she sees.

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Because this gratitude practice that I've been doing, I've been doing since 2016. I

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preach what I practice, and it, to me, is such an important tool because if

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you practice gratitude every single day at the exact same time, and you do

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this for at least 21 days and you list three things you're grateful

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for at the exact same at the same time every day and in more detail

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as possible, your brain starts to rewire, to see the world a more positive way.

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So why not biohack your brain? Why not do something that you can

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easily do? When I heard this, I set an alarm in my phone. I was

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like, 9pm Sounds like the perfect time to do this. Because it's the end of

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my day, I can reflect on what I'm grateful for. And I've been doing it

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almost every single day since my mom did it on her deathbed. We did it

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the day my dad died. I did it, you know, when Shane was in the

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hospital. We did it every night in the hospital. Me, his parents, Shane and his

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roommate Gord, for three weeks. Like, there really is no excuse because

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there's always something to be grateful for. And sometimes it's okay if your day is

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really bad and. And you just reflect on, like, you're grateful that the day is

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over. Hello. Welcome back to another episode of Resilient

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AF with Blair and Alana. But no Alana today. Just me.

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Solo. Here I am. What the heck is going

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on? First of all, Alana is recovering from surgery. We

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are sending her healing vibes. Let's see. I

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asked her, like, exactly what. What I want to update you

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on. So let me open up my phone

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and give you an update from Alana before we dive in

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to all the things that I want to share with you. It's all very

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exciting. So she had. She's recovering from surgery. She's off

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work for a few weeks. She had a hyster hysteroscopy,

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tubal dye, and exploratory

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lap. She's okay. Each day a bit better, mostly

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uncomfortable. And it's the hardest part is showering without getting her incisions

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wet. And she's also really sad to not be at Pilates. I think

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that's one of the most things she was most sad about. And also

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having to miss a friend's wedding. She says being off is weird.

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I've just never had nothing to do. First few days I couldn't focus on anything,

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but now I can focus on tv. So that's nice to binge and turn my

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brain off and have visitors. She's more social now than usual. In

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fact, I even said to her, you know, you've had more visitors in one

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day than you do usually all month. So it's nice to see her

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Winnipeg community rallying around her family and friends.

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She also, like, blew up as a Survivor influencer right before

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her surgery. So I'm looking forward to those coming back, those tiktoks.

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But she had some stuff that went viral. She's been watching Survivor since the beginning.

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She's like a Survivor super fan. Had a Survivor theme, bat mitzvah, has

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had a couple cameos from Survivor contestants. Like, has a lot

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of really, really weird memorabilia. So I love

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this for her, that she's a Survivor influence.

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She wants to be invited to the season 50 live finale. So if you're listening

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and you have connections, keep that in mind. Alana tried for 40, but then Covid

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happened. Update on her cats. Lenny's being Lenny and Molly's being Molly.

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They're taking great care of her. And if anyone has any TV show recommendations,

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please reach out to her. You can message us on Instagram or

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you can comment under this, but. And her contact

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information is in the show notes. So she has two more weeks off,

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then she's coming to see me. And it's gonna be really exciting, I guess a

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little update on what's going on in my life. Okay, a couple things. One,

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I recently was in Utah speaking at an event called Mission

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Driven. And this is Teddy, wants to say hi.

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Could you say hi in the microphone for those who can't see us? Well,

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my four month old kitten, Teddy. Okay, let's go back. Let's go back.

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Richard Branson was speaking at this event in Utah called Mission

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Driven. And I was invited to speak and I was keynote.

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And it was amazing. It was absolutely amazing. I met some really cool people

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from all around the world. And

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to be able to speak to humans and thought leaders of that

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caliber was absolutely a privilege. And I learned a lot. And

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it was really cool meeting Richard Branson. I had 30

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seconds with him, so I gave him one of our books. Can you imagine if

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Richard Branson was reading your story of resilience? That's the type of, like, work

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that we do, is we try to get our books into the hands of people

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who are connected and influential. And, you know, I, I

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got some takeaways from Richard's Q and A about

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showing up, being philanthropic, being kind, creating a

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really great work culture. I don't feel like anything was like super big

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and like full of epiphanies. But it was really cool to know that

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we are on the right track with the Global Resilience Project and with everything

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that we're doing. And I think that, like,

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one of the other big takeaways is that we're all just people. And

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yes, he's a billionaire and he's, like, had a lot of

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privilege because of his success, but essentially, like,

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you don't need to be a billionaire to be a good human. Like,

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you don't need to be a billionaire to be a good human. Like, you can

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do good. You can. You don't even need money to be a good human. Like,

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you can be kind, you can give back your time, you

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can volunteer, you can donate, you can, you know, show up. You can

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support the people in your life. Like, there's lots you can do to be a

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good human. So that was really awesome. It

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was really cool to be in Salt Lake. I. They have this thing in

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Salt Lake, not Salt Lake. Where was it called? Park City

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on Sundays. A market called Park Silly. And I went down there and I met

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this really, really cool mother son

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duo. And they have an Oracle deck called

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the Sacred Web. And they gifted me this. And

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it was just. It's a really beautiful deck. It's gender neutral. I've been working with

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it. They're tarot cards. So really grateful for that.

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And then, yeah, there's a couple other things that came out of that, but I'm

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going to save that for later because I'm still doing some testing on a product.

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But I think I found, like, a solution or

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like a really helpful tool to, like, my ongoing planters

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fasciitis. And like, I live in chronic pain and

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this has helped me. So I'm going to wait till I do another update with

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Alana and we'll. We'll talk about that.

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The other thing is, for me, I'm doing something kind of

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out of my comfort zone, but it's in my comfort zone, so it's kind of

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weird. But I love speaking. I'm a motivational speaker. I've been

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speaking since I started my business 17 years ago. Right. I used to do

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workshops on social media and thought leadership. Since starting the Global

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Resilience Project, I've been speaking about grief and resilience and how to strengthen

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your resilience muscle using neuroscience. And I love it. I

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love being on my podcast. I love being a guest on other people's podcasts, online

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summits, real life summits on stages. And I will

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travel around the world to speak. I will stop and speak to you at a

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coffee shop. Like, I want to help people. And I was just at

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this really great event. My friend Renee put it on, and it was in Kelowna

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called the Pink Skirt Project, and she had a bunch of speakers and it was

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targeted to women entrepreneurs. And the last two

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speakers both talked about. And side note, they're both

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speakers. Like, they both have podcasts and they both are speakers on

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stages. They're very well known. They both spoke about how they went live every

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single day on social media. It's like a tool that I have. It's a

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stage in my pocket. And I was like, I'm gonna do that.

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Every day is too much for me. I've tried. I've tried to do the

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mornings, but my mornings kind of shift, and my mornings are really sacred to

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me. And so I thought, why not? Habit stack. And

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so we know that I practice gratitude every day at 9pm

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and so I've decided to go live to do my gratitude.

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Now, the question was, where do I go live? Where do I go live and

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do this and for how long? And so I. Last week I did some

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testing and I couldn't figure out how to go live on Instagram and TikTok at

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the same time. And they're very different audiences. Like, I have a lot of followers

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on Instagram, but not everyone comes online.

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But TikTok, most people that come, I don't know, because they push you out to

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the world of TikTok at very different companies, very different algorithms.

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And so I went live on both last week, and that's just not sustainable.

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So every week I'll just put out a schedule of what day I'm gonna go

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live and where, and I'm gonna do my best to adhere to it. You know,

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life happens. So last night I was live on

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Instagram, and then tonight I'll be live on TikTok. And so I share all my

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story, where I'm gonna go. But I'm Blair from Blairland on Tick Tock and

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Instagram. I go live around 8:45pm Pacific, if I'm in the Pacific

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time zone. But I think it's going to change depending on my activities. Like, next

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week I have a couple concerts, probably won't go live.

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So it was cool. Like, so last night I

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forgot that I committed to going live and, like, got ready to go into bed,

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and then I was like, oh, wait, I gotta go live. So I sat up

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in the kitchen and it was a thunderstorm, and

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I chatted about my weekend, which I'm gonna give you a recap on in a

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second. And I went live. And it's actually really fun. Like, are starting to

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come. My sister has been the most consistent on both platforms.

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I have some people who keep coming back as repeat visitors, repeat watchers.

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I then will post either snippets or the full event,

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the full live on my feed, sharing what I'm grateful for from the

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past 24 hours. Because this gratitude practice that I've been doing, I've been doing since

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2016. I preach. I preach what I practice.

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And it, to me is such an important tool because if you practice gratitude

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every single day at the exact same time and you do this for at least

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21 days and you list three things you're grateful for at the

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exact same at the same time every day and in more detail as possible,

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your brain starts to rewire, to see the world a more positive way. So why

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not biohack your brain? Why not do something that you can, you know,

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easily do? When I heard this, I set an alarm in my phone. I

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was like, 9pm Sounds like the perfect time to do this because it's the end

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of my day. I can reflect on what I'm grateful for. And I've been doing

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it almost every single day since my mom did it on her deathbed. We did

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it the day my dad died. I did it, you know, when Shane was in

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the hospital. We did it every night in the hospital. Me, his parents, Shane and

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his roommate Gord, for three weeks. Like, there really is no excuse because

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there's always something to be grateful for. And sometimes it's okay if your day

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is really bad and you just reflect on, like, you're grateful that the day is

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over. You're grateful for hot coffee. You know, you're grateful for your bed, right?

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So cheers. I'm drinking coffee for those of you who can't see.

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So that's been really, like, humbling. I don't

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like, as you can see, if you're watching this, like, I don't necessarily, like, have

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to put on a full set of makeup. Like, last night my hair was wet

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and I was in a robe. I show up as I am. I don't want

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to pretend I'm someone I'm not. And on that

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note, this weekend, I was someone I am very much so.

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So we have a spot at a lake. We have a trailer parked out there.

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And Shane went away this weekend for, like, one of his first vacations in a

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very long time with a best friend. And it was my first time going to

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the lake on my own. I went with Teddy, but she's useless

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in the department of setting up and taking down. So there's lots to know because

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this trailer is off the grid. There's no cell service, no

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electricity, no WI fi. You know, there

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are, you know, there is water, there's sewer. So I, you know,

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there's tanks, there's buttons, there's things, knobs to turn on, propane,

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generator this, generator that, generator, batteries, switches.

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And I actually did, like, mostly really good setting it up and taking it down.

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And like, I checked in with Shane because we do have WI fi. And like,

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I've been doing this enough with him. I took notes last time I made videos

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and the things I wasn't sure of. There was one thing I wasn't sure of.

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I called him and it was fine. So it was a really interesting

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weekend because I did something I've never done before. I

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forgot my meds in Kamloops. Holy.

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I've never forgot all my meds and. And

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my vitamins. So I take. In the morning, I take an ADHD pill.

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And that really helps my depression because I have depression. I also take

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SSRIs. I take Zoloft, I take progesterone pills, which helps

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me with my hormones because I have endometriosis.

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And then I also have another medication,

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actually, I'm on Ozempic, and I forgot that I was supposed to take that

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shot on Friday. And then I also take a bunch of different

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vitamins. I take a multivitamin. I have oil oregano

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with me. I. I have high histamine. So I often

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always have allergy pills. Luckily, I keep some at the lake

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because I break out. I break out in hives. Like, I sometimes wake up just

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head to toe covered in hives and I can't get that under control.

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And I take magnesium at night, Ashwagandha.

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So I have like, a regime. And I've never, like, raw

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dogged life like this. Once

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actually, once I had all my meds except for my ADHD pills. I had to

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have three pills last for like two and a half weeks with my sister on

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grief week and business trip. And that was terrible. And I was like, that's never

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happening again. But really having none of my meds and coming off,

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like, feeling extremely exhausted from travel and work and a really

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busy winter and spring, I felt

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very low and very depleted. So my goal this

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weekend was to finish my book proposal. I'm working on a prescriptive memoir

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on resilience. Very exciting stuff based on some of the research I

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found and tools and whatnot. And so the

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ADHD pills help me be productive and, like, give me, like,

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the incentive to work. So I can say that I

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definitely didn't get as much done as I wanted to get done

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with the book. I got a lot done, but not as

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much. But I, I did be

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very productive in the sense that, like, I watched all of season two

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of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders show. Very

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like. So I feel very accomplished there. And did you watch it? And

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then I started. You, me, her, you, me and her, I think it's called. And

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there's a whole bunch of other things I wanted to watch. And so some of

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the work I was doing on the. It was just like I had to pull,

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pull data and stuff like that. I did. While watching some of it, I got

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really, like, in like, a good groove on it. Shut the, you know, shut

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Netflix off and did it. It was a rainier weekend, not a lot of sun.

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I did get out, walked around on the beach and in the forest, and my

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neighbors were there and I spent some time with them by the fire, and Teddy

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was with me, and it was great. I did some word searches. I, you

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know, I like to just look at the window and watch nature and sit outside

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and watch nature. And I did that. It was really, really great. I slept

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all three nights, 10 to 12 hours. I had a nap every day for a

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few hours. I actually feel rejuvenated and rested, which is

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absolutely amazing. And I wouldn't have been able to nap

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so much if I didn't if I had my ADHD pills because I can't really

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nap on them. So it is what it is. I will never

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let that happen again. I can't believe I even let that happen. But that was

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probably a sign of, like, my sheer exhaustion.

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And so, yeah, I raw dogged my weekend. I was there Thursday to

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Sunday. Sunday morning I woke up and I packed up and came home. I was

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like, ready for my meds, ready to get back to

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medication. And so I'm back on my meds, people.

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Also, what else is going on? Okay, a couple cool things.

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We are featured in Psychology Today. My friend Stephanie wrote about

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how millennials are reshaping, like, grief and giving, you

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know, basically, like, we are okay to admit that we're griefy and, like,

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how we talk about it. And me being a vintage millennial who has experienced

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a lot of grief, different types of grief. I

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was honored that Stephanie wanted to share

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this. So I'll put the link to the article in the show notes, it's all

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over our social media. It's going to go on our website, my personal website,

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theglobalresilienceproject.com but, like, to be in Psychology Today,

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to me is like a business person being featured in Forbes. Like, for me,

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there's a few publications that I would love. My work, my

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research, our community to be featured in Psychology Today was the top

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one. And, like, just so honored that Stephanie saw the

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value in what we're doing and saw that what we're building. And to

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me, it just kind of gave me more fuel to keep going because I often

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reflect on what I'm doing. And it's a lot of work. It's a lot of

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work to pave the way. And sometimes it's thankless work. And

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I know I'm making a difference. And I also have this imposter syndrome that's.

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That sneaks in. So it was just really what I needed to see this

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weekend and read people's positive feedback about

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it. So really, really proud of our community. Really, really grateful

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to Stephanie. She's going to be in one of our upcoming books. Speaking

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of books, we have two books right now that are accepting

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authors. Stories of Resilience. One of them is Resilient AF

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Skin Deep Stories. This is featuring tattoos, your

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tattoos, and the stories of resilience that go behind

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them. We've only a few spots left in that book. That book is

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coming out in December, which means story submissions are due

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soon because we have a whole editing and design process.

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So if you are interested in that, please, please reach out. Blair,

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Blair Kaplan, Ca. Or send me a message

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on Instagram either to Global Resilience

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Community or Blair from Blairland, let's get on a call. See, this is right for

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you. And then the second book, which is Resilient AF

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Stories of Resilience, Volume 3. This is any story of resilience.

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Again, we're filling that one up pretty fast as well. That one's coming out at

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the beginning of 2026, and we've made the

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decision that these are going to be the last two books that we are doing

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in this format at this time because we have some other things we are

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working on and we're going to regroup, but the price may go

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up. The format is going to change. How

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we do these books in the future might completely shift.

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Might completely shift. So if you've been thinking about it,

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you want to share your story with our community in this format, we want

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to share your story. We want to put you up on a billboard in Times

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Square. We want to hand your books out to celebrities and the media

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at gifting lounges. You know, people like Richard Branson, you know,

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people that are actors in movies and TV shows and agents

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and people who write articles like Stephanie for

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Psychology Today. So this is your chance.

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And this is our official announcement that these are going to be the last two

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books in this format for a while. And we're going to regroup and

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come back. We're going to come back differently and we have

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other projects we're working on, and we're going to share all of that when

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it's time. So I'm

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just looking at my notes because I don't want to miss anything. So, yes, we

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want you to. We want you to be in these books. And so if you've

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been thinking about it, this is your chance in this format

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because, yeah, we need to take a break.

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Because putting out five books in, like, three years or five books in a few

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years. Well, actually, I. And then, plus, I wrote a book and I'm working on

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another book. Like, that's a lot. And just so, you know, like, with these books,

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like, we create this safe space for people to share their stories of resilience

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because there's a whole science behind it. There's a science behind it. Sharing your story

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helps you heal. It helps you process your emotions. But

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also, when someone else reads your story, their brain synchronizes with

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yours. And what happens is it is this phenomenon called neural coupling,

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and this is needed to build empathy, and empathy is needed for

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emotional resilience. It also helps other people get through their challenges.

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This is one of their biggest formats on how we help people to strengthen their

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resilience muscles. And so sharing your

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story is so important. And that's why we exist. That's why we do these books.

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And so is it time. Is it time for you to share your story in

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one of our books? Like, we would love for you to do that.

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So I think that's pretty good, you know, join me live.

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I think you've heard enough. I think that's a lot. With a huge laundry

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list of cool stuff that has happened.

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We have some other cool things that are happening. A documentary we're going to be

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featured in. We're filming in the winter. We're working on this other project

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that I don't. I don't want to jinx. But, like, it's visual

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and it's fun because it's. You know, Alan and I are having a lot of

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fun working on it. And we are going to

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be launching in September a

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Gratitude Challenge, a free Gratitude Challenge, which is super

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exciting. And so we're going to start talking more about

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that over the summer. And this Gratitude Challenge is

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something to help you build new habits and

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rewire your brain. And it's because it's a tool that we want to

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involve you with using and help you see the world in

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a more positive way and help you to strengthen your resilience muscle.

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So at the time of recording this, I started it at like 5:20am or whatever.

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It's now 5:43. I'm gonna go for a hike and I'm going

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to breathe in the forest,

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breathe in nature, listen to the birds, watch the sun come up.

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And just remember, it's okay to not be

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okay. You don't have to go through life alone. You don't have to

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go through challenges alone. You have us, the Global Resilience Project.

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You will be okay. Just keep going, my friend. Just keep

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ongoing. And you don't have to raw dog life. You can get medication,

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you can have mental health support. And you have us, the Global

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Resilience Project. And friends, just remember, you are

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resilient AF.