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Ep. 22 How to be resilient AF [interview w/ Louis Brantmeyer]
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How can we manage to become more resilient?

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Hello, hello and welcome to the Borealis

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experience. I'm very excited to have Louis Brantmeyer with me

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for the third time. He's made it three times, I'll do a podcast

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here. I wonder why? Well, just badass energy. The first time

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around, we talked about his journey, out of depression into

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success, out of a mess into fulfillment and living a happy

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life. The second time around, we talked about pornography, how

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Luis was able to conquer pornography addiction, and it

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was very, very touching and insightful for many people out

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there. And today, I wanted him back on my show. And we will be

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talking about resilience, how to be resilient as fuck, and a

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messy world like we live in today and how to not lose your

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sanity. With everything that's going on right now. Louis,

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invite us and share with us how you navigate through this crazy

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world crazy, beautiful world. And yeah, maybe share some some

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tools that you're using that you would love us to use as well. In

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order to become more resilient, the more resilient we become as

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individuals, the stronger our relationships are, the stronger

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our society can be.

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I can't tell you how excited

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I will be back.

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I didn't even know how exciting that would be until like just

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now way back in the days to do this year, is to jump on reality

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straight. So um, yeah, I'll set some context. And then I'll

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throw out some tools and we'll have some fun.

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Yes.

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I have been in the startup world, which is a certain branch

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of athletics, mind you. If you're doing it, right. It's

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like it requires physical, mental, emotional, energetic

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conditioning. For let's see, almost 10 years now. And now

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what I do is I help heart centered women coaches scale to

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six figures in their businesses. And all of that has required me

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to take excellent care of myself. Now this, this is part

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of the answer to the question of resilience, because why would we

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want to be resilient? Most people are content to, quite

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frankly, most people are considered to die with their

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music inside of them, to live comfortable lives, and to live

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lives of quiet desperation. And those are not the people that

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I'm necessarily speaking. I'm speaking to people who want to

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live life to the fullest, who want to conquer and master and

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accomplish things and enjoy things and have not just a good

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relationship, but the best relationship have not just the

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modicum of wealth that they get from their social security or

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their 401k. I'm talking like, well, of making more to give

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more, doing well in order to do good in the world. So the first

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question somebody has to answer about resilience is why would

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they want it? For me, it became a necessity, because I'm the

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only one or in the past until I've gathered a team around me

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of support, like a village, I was the only one to keep the

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ball rolling down the field, or to keep the needle moving. So

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for me, I'm very early on in my entrepreneurial career, what I

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noticed was, if I'm feeling good, if I'm taking care of

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myself, it's kind of like, when you take care of a fine violin,

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that violin, it plays better, it makes a better sound. Its music

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is more appreciated and beautiful. And consider that

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each one of us is like that fine violin. We are meant to

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contribute something really beautiful to the symphony of the

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world. And when we take exquisite like luxurious, like

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I'm talking royal care of ourselves, resilience and the

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ability to meet anything head on, shows up from that. So I see

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this landing I'm so excited because it's a podcast, but I

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get to watch Aurora the whole time. So there are a lot of

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different things and I'll just walk you through some of the

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most important tools that I use regularly. Right so I do breath

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work. There is a little something called the nine

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breath. Based on the work of Jeff prime Mac. I think you can

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find it on And it literally relaxes and clears all the

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muscles in the body, it can induce sort of psychedelic type

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states of like clarity and focus, I use a breath called the

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MBA or the mind body alignment taught by Kai von Bodhi, I do

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the classic. If you're in yoga, you already know this. But the

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Yes, the alternate nostril Nadi shodhana. I do the Breath of

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Fire to help wake me up and help me digest things.

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And to build an energy field. So part of it is noticing where

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your energy is at and cultivating a high frequency.

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And here's the thing, I'm not going to get through all of the

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tools in the time that we've got, but I've got a PDF called

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tools for owning your state that I'd love to gift, everybody

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within the sound of the voice of this podcast, because I've been

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working on like, how do we optimize how we're feeling? How

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do we feel good in our bodies? How do we relax and recover from

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states of high flow? Or states of high productivity or

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activity? How do we, you know, feel good in the midst of our

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lives? And there's so many answers. I mean, if you're in

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communication, if you're in action, generally, you'll feel

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better than if you aren't. But then there's also like

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saturation points. So resilience is built through being aware of

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yourself, and what your flow is moment to moment, into your path

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of least resistance that lights you up that gets you excited to

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be in action throughout the day. And also noticing when you're

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done on my retreat recently, it was awesome, because I had such

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a, and I still do on some level, I'm just, you know, more or less

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present to it moment by moment, such a connection to my

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intuition that I was teaching, and I was teaching for like an

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hour and a half. And then there was just this moment, where it

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became very clear, it was like, they're full, and they're

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hungry, or, or it's time to finish. All I got the message

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that I got was it's time to stop. So I literally for the

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first time that I can remember in my teaching, I stopped

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immediately and I checked in I was like, are you guys hungry?

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And they're like, Yes, all of them nodded their heads. And I

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was like, Okay, so we're stopping here. So it's it's

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something that if you don't know when to stop, or you don't know

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that relaxation and recovery is as important as being super

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productive, then you can end up with problems like adrenal

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fatigue, which I did, where I had insomnia, difficulty

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sleeping for years. Because I kept pushing, I just kept

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working, just kept fighting. And while it is the case that if

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you're building a business or creating something in the world,

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you're 100% responsible for making that happen. And you may

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have to discover power and will and strength and focus in

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yourself that you didn't know was there before or build it. At

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the same time. Be careful where you point that thing. Like if

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you point your willpower in such a way that you're abusing or

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disrespecting your body, or not listening to your body,

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ultimately, then you can end up as lots of six and seven figure

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entrepreneurs end up which is burnt out, which is unfulfilled

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by their life. And I've flirted with this several times in the

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past six months or has not been fun, where I'll go through a

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period of a week where I don't take a day off, or two weeks

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when I'm hitting I'm hustling, hustling, grind, grit and

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determination, which there's an ebb and flow to that in

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business. Sometimes it's more allowing and receiving and being

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in Ruston, Louisiana house sitting with my beloved doing

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exactly only two hours of work per day and making five grand in

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a week like Okay, great. Um, sometimes it's like, Alright,

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I'm going to do four or five hours of work today. I'm going

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to push myself I'm going to stay super focused. It's going to be

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from like, 10am to like 8pm, somewhere in there with breaks.

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Oh, take breaks and put whitespace on your calendar.

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That's super big. Yes, still practice. Huh? So anyway, um,

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what's landing so far? Go ahead. Yes,

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yes. Like I totally agree with everything that you say like the

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most important thing is that you take good care of yourself. And

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then you can start thinking about giving to others

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contributing to the world. I would like to hear your thoughts

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on consuming content. What I've learned on my journey is that

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it's extremely important. What kind of news I consume if at

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all, I got rid of my TV and I'm so I feel so good about it. When

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it comes to social media, who people like follow and what

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content they are consuming. Can we talk about how What we

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consume without eyes, our ears is also affecting our levels of

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stress.

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Yes, this is so good. I'm so glad you you introduce this

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thread. Because everything, everything is programming

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everything. And it's a question of who and what you're choosing

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to program yourself with. So like, whatever you put your

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attention on grows and expands, your attention comes through

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sight, sound, hearing, taste, and touch. So like this morning,

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I listen to my intuition. And my fiance was she's been sleeping

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on this couch while she's, you know, finding her footing in the

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Boston area. And my intuition was like, just go Hold her, just

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go cuddle because usually we're very strict about like going and

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doing your morning routines before we engage, which is

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another lesson, I'll just point to, like, take time for yourself

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with yourself without any content without anyone else

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generally, to make that the first priority, because if you

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don't, no one else will. But what my touch sense was craving,

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in terms of nurturing was to touch her and to be touched by

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her. And there's an oxytocin release, after 30 seconds of

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cuddling or a hug that is really nourishing. And so anyway, um, I

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spent the next hour hour and a half consuming no content from

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anyone else, except for a yoga video. And I know how to manage

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that yoga video so that I'm not sold to, because anybody who's

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who's effective and powerful in giving a free yoga class on

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YouTube, you bet your butt there, they're marketing really

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well at the beginning and the end. And so like, I know exactly

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where to start the videos so that my time my energy, and my

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attention isn't consumed by someone else's influence or

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programming. So we want we want an amount of time where there's

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nobody that we're impacted by next, we want to hang out with

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those who we want to be like. So those who you follow those who

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you put your attention on, you want them to be the ones who are

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successful in the areas that you're becoming successful in,

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or have them be creative collaborators and potential

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colleagues who you can contribute to, and add value

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into the network of and are inspired and uplifted by I'd say

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anyone and I do this regularly, I do a purge, regulate of my

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entire friends list on Facebook every three months or so. And my

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criteria is because I'm a creator I'm not Pratt primarily

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on social media to be consumer, I'm here to power plant doesn't

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need energy and power plant generates energy. So I'm I'm

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here to be one of those lights and that lighthouse that draws

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people into their highest expression. So if someone and

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there's an app is called friend filter, you can find out if

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you're standing in that power of being a creator, you can find

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out who's acting, interacting with your content and who's not.

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And you can start deleting those who are automatically and with a

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clear line in the sand drawn saying, hey, it's nothing

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personal, nothing, I don't love you. It's not that I don't want

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to be connected to you if that this platform is for my mission

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and purpose, and so on is that you keep are those who impact

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your mission and purpose in a positive way. Whether by

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consuming your content receiving your gifts, or harmonizing

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synergizing with your gifts. And there are other interesting

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habits. I have like on Instagram, everyone follows me,

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but I follow almost no one same on clubhouse, like I there. I

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know it's polite. Probably. This is the assumption, the covert

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agreement that everyone thinks they're making on Instagram is

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that if you follow me, I have to follow you know, maybe, maybe,

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but I also reserve my rights shoes. Yeah, so like, I don't

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have to follow. And I judge based on their vibration based

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on their energy based on their level of accomplishment were the

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average of the five people we spend the most time around. And

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if we're spending an hour or more on social media, we're

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spending time around either people who are not living the

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life of their dreams, not expressing resilience, or

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strength of character or consistency of focus, or we're

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choosing people who have all of those things.

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So I'm very strict on what I lead in. With the notable

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exception of Star Trek and other science fiction. That is a

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simulation to my mind. I I've read that certain sci fi has a

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really high vibration. And I've had this experience of having my

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heart open. So I'm also careful in that way. There used to be a

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time when I couldn't watch like violent movies or whatnot. I

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think there's a balance point that people reach Where they're

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not over consuming material that is negatively charged, but

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they're consuming it with an ability to buffer it and not not

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be impacted by it negatively. So yeah, I don't watch the news, by

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the way, I do occasionally gets specific news fed. To me, that's

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interesting by Facebook, they've managed to worm their way into

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my consciousness for about like, five to 10 minutes a week,

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because because it's news that I actually care about interesting

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stuff. Just because the news is there, just because there's five

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different variants of COVID or whatever, doesn't mean it's

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something that we need to care about. I mean, it's, it's

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useful, it was useful for me to know like how long the blizzard

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was going to last our first Blizzard in a decade here in

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Austin. So I use the news, but I don't let the news use me. Yes,

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thank you. I'm not Thank you, thank you. Because so many

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people I experienced right now run around like chickens with

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their head chopped off. Because they react to everything.

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There's so much out there, that triggers you emotionally. And

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people react to everything and need an opinion to everything, a

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reaction to everything. And I just think, Wow, that looks so

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exhausting, that looks really exhausting. And we have to at

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least give tools out to people to try it out to see hey, what

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happens to your stress levels to your sleep. When you don't watch

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TV and follow the news on a secondary basis. And you're a

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busy man, we're running out of time, what would be the three

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things can be repeat, that we advise people to do if they are

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close to a burnout, if they are feeling very low and have ideas

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and are very inspired to go do something but they just can't

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seem to find energy for it?

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I'm glad you asked. So there are three things that have been most

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impactful for me. One, meditation, whether it's 15

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minutes, or 30 minutes, or an hour a day, that will calm and

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relax your nervous system because we're built in his

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culture to go go go hustle and grind, push and fight and

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struggle and stress and strain and eventually suffer. We're not

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told, hey, it's as important to relax and calm down and gather

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your thoughts and clear your head. So there are so many

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benefits to meditation, mystical, energetic, emotional,

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spiritual, physiological, that are measured and documented,

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and, you know, too many for me to go into here. But I've had a

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practice of between 15 minutes and an hour a day for about nine

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years. Yeah, nine years. And what I'd say is, so long as

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you're consistent with it, it will improve every aspect of

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your life. Every aspect, like there's so much available. So

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that's number one. Number two, and I'll just be super rigorous

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and super clear. What I found, and this is coming from somebody

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who is on pharmaceuticals for ADHD, this is someone who was on

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supplements just to focus after I went off even when I was still

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meditating. What I have found that has facilitated me being

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the highest energy possible. And you've seen it, you know, when

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I'm here, for our podcasts is a high fruit, high alkaline plant

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based diet, like super simple. I have a strong belief and there's

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a good amount of evidence that there's a lot of conversation to

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have around it, that we're meant to eat fruits and vegetables.

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That we benefit from fruits and vegetables. I'm not gonna argue

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with people who want to say like, Well what about meat or

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not, I'm just saying emphasize more fruit and vegetables, it's

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easy to start consuming more of those plants. And especially

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high alkaline, especially high fruit. Because when we do that,

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the body is not heavy, it's not sluggish. It's not working

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overtime to digest stuff. We're not forcing we're not losing

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energy to the process of digestion. Like it, we're still

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digesting things, but we're not forcing our body to digest

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things that are difficult for it to digest. That was dramatic for

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me that plus meditation. I mean, I was able to do a 10 hour days

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of work while preparing to different events on a grape

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juice fast sleeping five hours a night, for like weeks in 2017,

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just because I had meditation and I had excuse me this this

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high fruit mostly vegan diet, right and again, if you want to

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build a true resilience, eating and a high fruit high alkaline

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way will also trigger and unleash potentially trapped

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emotions. Because the frequency the energy of fruits and

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vegetables is so high compared to what most people eat in terms

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of processed foods or lots of coffee or refined sugar or

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alcohol like that, literally, your body will start removing

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crap, not just physical toxins, but you know, it'll start

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detoxifying emotionally. So the more you detoxify emotionally,

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the easier it is to just be about your life and face

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whatever happens, right without resisting, I get to come up with

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a third one, the third one because those two are super

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clear to me, that's clear those two are like what

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the third one is actually a practice for getting into your

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heart, or eye and or your body. So whether it be Qigong, Tai

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Chi, yoga, whoo, Sue Kung Fu, like the martial arts, or just

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shaking, moving and dancing. There's something about the

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intuitive intelligence and wisdom the body that tells you

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how to do just what is most necessary and needed and, and

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smartest from the highest perspective, rather than

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hustling and grinding. And that that's a whole world to explore.

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is a practice called the Yeshua method that can be done where

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you and what whether you're Christian or not, doesn't

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matter. It still works. Whether you believe disbelieve whatever

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it's it's the Aramaic name for Christ's Yeshua, close your

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eyes, repeat it for 20 minutes, silently in your head, and then

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ask after that 20 minutes, which is built sort of like mantra

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yoga, to clear away the clouds of chaos in the thinking, and

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then ask what is it that I meant to do do next in my business or

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in my life, and I had amazing results moments where I got

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super clear, intuitive insights into what I was supposed to do

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next, that was super impactful in my life and world. So do just

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as much as you're meant to do, but don't do more than you have

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to do it a, basically vegan diet, and tune into your

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intuition.

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This is so beautiful, Louis, thank you so much for sharing

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this with us. Because you again, you make it very, very clear and

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simple to understand. And today, I learned that through your

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body, you influence your mind, if you take care of your body,

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it influences your mind. It influences the way you see

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yourself and the world. And that can make you a more resilient,

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calm person.

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Yeah, yeah, I think it's helpful to end on this this note. Most

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people have their bodies and their minds as adversaries. And

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they're, they're literally fighting against the momentum of

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their bodies, through the programming of how they eat, how

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they take care of themselves, how they sleep, whether or not

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they relax, and life becomes so much easier. When we just take

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better care of our bodies, then our bodies become our ally. And

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and that's what I look forward to in this world is people who

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are super resilient through just being kind to themselves

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ultimately,

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yes, yes. And see your body as your best friend. And because

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sickness and obesity or problems with weight, is the body

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basically telling you Hey, you're not taking good care of

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me. And we have to change something. And it's not about

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resenting and feeling like a victim. It's about seeing Okay,

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what do I need? And then becoming, yeah, one with your

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body, your mind and your soul. Louis? This was so endlessly

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precious. It is not about spending hours and hours on

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time. It is about having the precise message that we want to

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send out there and I feel we totally nailed it. You are so

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precious. Your mission is so precious. And yeah, we stay

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connected, please. And you take really good care of yourself.

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Absolutely. You

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too. I love you. I love your audience. You're

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amazing. Let's do this again. Love you too. Bye bye bye.

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