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Episode 85 • 4th March 2025 • A Call For LOVE • Linda Orsini
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In this episode, learn the transformative power of authenticity, the significance of surrendering to a higher source, and the true essence of beauty beyond filters.

Today, Linda welcomes iconic portrait artist Maggie Habieda and wellness expert Sandra Tadros Guirguis to discuss how living with intentionality and love can elevate your life and positively impact those around you.

This is a must-listen for anyone looking to elevate their vibration, connect deeply with their inner self, and create a ripple effect of love and kindness in the world.

After listening, you will be more inspired to:

  • Embrace Authenticity in a Filtered World
  • Surrender to Your Higher Self
  • Invite Involution and Love into Your Daily Life
  • Let the True ‘You’ Connect and Create Magical Bonds

Whether you’re questioning your path or ready to step into your power, this episode will change how you see yourself and how you show up in the world.

If you enjoyed this episode, you'll like listening to: Creating A Peaceful World Begins With You Episode 45

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About Our Guests

Maggie Habieda is an award-winning portrait artist and founder of Fotografia Boutique, known for creating iconic, timeless portraits that celebrate beauty, confidence, and legacy. A Master of Photographic Arts, she blends artistry with expert lighting and posing to bring out the essence of her subjects. Maggie’s Oakville-based studio is internationally recognized for its professionalism, innovation, and gallery-worthy portraits. With a gift for making people feel at ease, she helps them see their true beauty, inside and out.

Maggie's Links

Timeless Portraits @fotografiaboutique.ca

Instagram @MaggieHabieda

Sandra Tadros Guirguis is a clinical pharmacist, fitness expert, author, and certified public speaker specializing in holistic wellness. Featured on CP24, CTV News, and Life FM Radio, she shares practical strategies for mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Sandra’s engaging workshops focus on reducing burnout, boosting productivity, and promoting balanced living through self-care, meditation, and gratitude. Rooted in faith, she inspires others to heal and thrive with evidence-based wellness practices.

Sandra's Links

www.stgwellness.ca

Instagram @stg_wellness

About Linda:

Have you ever battled overwhelming anxiety, fear, self-limiting beliefs, soul fatigue or stress? It can leave you feeling so lonely and helpless. We’ve all been taught how to be courageous when we face physical threats but when it comes to matters of the heart and soul we are often left to learn, "the hard way."

As a school teacher for over 30+ years, struggling with these very issues, my doctor suggested anti-anxiety medication but that didn't resonate with me so I sought the healing arts. I expanding my teaching skills and became a yoga, meditation, mindfulness, reiki and sound healer to step into my power and own my impact. 

A Call for Love will teach you how to find the courage to hold space for your fears and tears. To learn how to love and respect yourself and others more deeply.  

My mission is to guide you on your journey. I believe we can help transform the world around us by choosing love. If you don’t love yourself, how can you love anyone else? Join a call for love. 

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Welcome, everybody. Welcome to A Call for Love. I am so

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glad you're here. And if you're new to A Call for Love, then welcome

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because I have two special guests. And the only

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time else we've had two other guests is when we did the or

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one year episode, first year of podcasting episode,

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which these two lovely ladies were actually at. So it's

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perfect timing. Now I'm going to introduce the first

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lady, which is Maggie Habida, and she was

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actually on the episode that I shared about the

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story of your brutal inner critic, you know, that

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self compassion piece. And people Maggie, the

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story about me dressed up as the pink bunny, people still come

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up to me and know that whole story. I will share the link

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in the episode, but it was, I believe, episode three or four. So I will

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share that again. But, Maggie, why don't you just share a little bit

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about yourself, and then we'll go on to our next guest. Oh, thank

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you so much for this welcoming, Linda. I am Maggie Abieda.

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I'm an iconic portrait artist. I specialize

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in capturing people's beauty, love, and dreams.

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And you are one of the we've known each other for a very

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long time, and I photographed you, many

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times and and and and so did I our guest,

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Sandra. So we're very connected. I know you from every

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angle. But beyond that, I know you from how beautiful

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you both are inside. And I could say so much, but I know my

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introduction is very little. So we can come back to you because I do

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want to talk about our connection, how we why we're here today.

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Right? Absolutely. We're very connected. It's it's

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very connected because, of course, there's Maggie. If

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you go on to my website or you even go on

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to any of my social media, you're gonna see these photos,

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and Maggie captures the soul and heart of people.

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And so we will definitely hear more from Maggie. I'm so happy

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that you're here on A Call for Love. And our next guest

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had such a popular episode because she was on the

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episode number 40, from grief to growth, sharing her

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book, Embracing Abundance, and her name is Sandra

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Tadros. And, Sandra, first of all, I wanna say thank you

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because it was my birthday just in October. And

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I went to your workout class first thing in the morning, and Maggie was

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there. And we had a what a beautiful way to

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celebrate my birthday. It's just so beautiful.

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And so I welcome you back to A Call for

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Love. Thank you so much. It was amazing to have you

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there. You crushed it. We had such a good time.

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High energy music, moving our bodies, Motion is

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lotion. We we had a great time. And as you mentioned about the photos, Maggie

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has also done all of my social media, my family,

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my blended family pictures. So I you're both so special to

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me, and I'm really honored to be here to have another great conversation

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with you. My name is Sandra Tadros Kyrgos as you mentioned,

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and I am so passionate about wellness,

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partially from the fact that I had to use every bit

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of, you know, professional training and personal experience in my own

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loss, but I see it every day. I work in primary care health and

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I teach group fitness as these beautiful ladies have mentioned. And

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I'm really passionate about public speaking. So I will go anywhere

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and talk to anyone about practical tips of how they can

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improve their mental health, their physical health, and their overall

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well-being. Yeah. So beautiful. I have to say, you

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know, the message of a call for love is noticing how you're

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living. Are you living in the lower vibration of stress, fear,

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and anxiety? And if not, it's a call for love, a

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call to shift higher. And these two

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beautiful women live from a high vibration.

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They have huge, huge hearts. It could make me cry.

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And so because there is

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a lot of love from you too, it requires

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intentional living. And I know you

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both live very intentionally. I wanna talk

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today about what word

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vibration or energy you use to

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really amplify your life to spread that to others.

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So whoever wants to go first. So, you

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know, you're you couldn't have said it better, Linda. How we

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spend our time is really how we spend our lives. Right? What is

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that expression of it takes ten thousand hours to master

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something? So, wow, that could be self care, meditation,

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a new language, or it could be level full of call of duty. Right?

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So you can choose how you spend your time, but just knowing

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where you spend a lot of time is really ultimately how you're living like you

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said. And do we need that call? So you asked us kind of about

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our theme or word and how I have been

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really intentionally trying to live has been around the

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word surrender. And I came across this

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often, you know, in faith and in different walks. And I came

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across a Hebrew translation that I loved so much because it

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said, contrary to what we may think, surrender doesn't

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mean doing nothing. It just means relinquishing

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control. And so as someone who's very type a, I'm

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constantly just, like, running forward. Right? But my Christian

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faith is very important to me, and so I've kind of resolved

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to say, okay. What if I try to practice humility

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and stillness? One of my good friends in my prayer group actually

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has the Bible verse be still, like, tattooed, like, right

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here. She's the same kind of temperament as me. And she says, you know,

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multiple times a day, I see it on my hand. And I'm like, okay. Be

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still and know. Right? So I think practicing stillness and

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humility is a constant, goal for me

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and trying to really and I've noticed it this year, trying not to

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force any, things. Still going for everything in

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every direction, but trying to to see where I'm led, if that

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makes sense, and to not be trying to dictate how

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everything will go. Yeah. So what I hear you saying that

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you surrender to not only your higher self, but a higher

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source Yes. To guide you. Exactly. Yeah. Which

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is really intentional. Like, and it's such a

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beautiful intention because when we work from our egoic

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mind, you know, there's layers and layers of

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past conditioning and worry and fear and socialization.

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But when we really hold space for

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that inner divine wisdom,

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we can live so much better. So that was beautiful, Sandra. Thank

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you. And, Maggie, what do you think, Maggie? My friend.

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Linda, Sandra, and and,

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anybody who is listening, my biggest word still

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is you have it in your name, is

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love. Love call for love.

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And next to it is authentic. I

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have gone I think all of us were going through I don't

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know, but many I've been talking to everybody's

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looking inwards, involution.

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And what I'm what I have, learned over the past

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few years is that, we got

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to be authentic to ourselves, speak our truth.

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And speaking truth doesn't mean, you know, other times you're lying.

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Far away from that. It means that I used to be, like,

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shy and afraid to say what I really wanted to say, and

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I I'm very big on that. You got to speak speak. You

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got to stand up for yourself. You got to, you know,

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just be very authentic. And more

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than ever before, that word resonates with me

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because I express that, through

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my art, through capturing people. And you

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know how I'll say this because this is when a world of

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filters, and filters equals mask.

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And and and it's like, you know, especially in business. Like, in

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art, like, when I create fine art pieces, you

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know, it could be very it could be fantasy. You can be whoever you

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wanna it's it's an art. Right? It's an expression of some kind. But in

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business portraits, it's it should be authentic. It should be real

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because, you know, I think it's like the new luxury

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today. It's it's it's being real,

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expressing yourself because it connects us on a different level.

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And that kind of energy and combined with love

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is, is huge for me. It's like it's a it's

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it's it's just like, you know, it's a beautiful energy

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that just brings us to a different,

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you what do you call this? Just like a different level, different

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frequency altogether. So that's me at this Yes. At

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this point in my life. Yeah.

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And I love how you say at this point in my life because we're always

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evolving. We're always evolving. And, well, I

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just going to your portraits. It's isn't it

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timeless you have in Yes. Because timeless

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is well, don't they say that the

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only thing that's really true and lasts is is what

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never dies? And so that's

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what your art, I think, Maggie, does because

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it captures the spirit, the soul, the heart

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of a person and a situation. I love

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that. And I really like that you said, you know, in an era of

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digital and filters, but a filter is really a

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mask. And I saw that my kids had downloaded a certain app where you

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can put all these filters on your face. And I remember they were playing on

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my fame phone and they were showing it to me, and there was this one,

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like, glam or makeup, and, oh, boy. Right? All of a

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sudden, there was no fine lines, and I had makeup. And at

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first glance, it was like, wow. Vavoom. Right? Is

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that me? But then I was like, it doesn't even look

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like me, though. You know? And it's, I think, exactly what you said, Maggie.

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Like, even these filters on the surface, you know, they put this, you know, this

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beauty or whatever. But then if you lose who you are and, you know, these

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lines that are me, then it's not authentic.

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May I add something to this? Of course.

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Somebody brought this to my attention, said it. Like, a

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friend that's very real, like, you know, she always speaks her truth.

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And I just admire that. I love it. She said,

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is how she said it literally. You know, when you see these dolls or

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these super looking women doing business and then they they

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show up and, like, you meet with them in real life. And I was saying,

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what? Thirty years older. Ugly. Scary.

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So how are you really portraying yourself? You're scary.

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You're not being you're you're you're being completely

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someone else. So who is it really to impress

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online when you're looking like, you know, it's like literally those

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masks, those filters that will change the shape

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of your face. They will make you so plastic, and and, you know,

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will make the eyes bigger. The makeup, It's it's when

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you when you videotaping yourself with us through that filter

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and you're putting that on social media, doesn't that

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feel like you're actually lying? And why?

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For whom? Who are you impressing? Yourself? The people that are gonna run

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away when they're gonna see you afterwards in a

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real situation. So who's what just is

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to whom? I'm I'm I'm I'm speaking my

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truth, you know, or, like, my experience. And this is why I'm I I

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am so big now to say, okay. You can use,

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the tools. They they're they're for us. It's like when I

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paint a painting, you know, I I will create whatever I need to

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do. When I'm editing, I will use it to perfect

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wrinkles in the suit. Maybe maybe perhaps, you know,

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your hair didn't work that day. Hair is something a stylist can do.

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Did we women, you know, make the hair nice, curly, straight, whatever you want?

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So we could create more volume or whatever. You know? These things,

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they're just, like, things that you can do yourself really in real life, but they

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were let's say you were in a hurry. We couldn't do it and whatever. So

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I'm here to do that. Okay? I'm speaking business portraits.

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And but but to completely put this mask on, the filters,

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like, I would just beg people don't do that, please. No. I said,

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let's just like, stop all of us. Like, technology gave this

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to us, and people just went overboard with it. These are my

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2¢. It's so interesting

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because, you know, I had a mindset when we came on this podcast

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together, and I just feel like the theme now

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has changed my mindset that filters

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is this theme for this podcast because the

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word authenticity, surrender, being present,

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love, those are such powerful

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and important essences that

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can't really be masked. You know, if you

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meet somebody I don't know about you, but I I'm

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very intuitive, and they are not true.

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They can look the part. They can act the

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part. But you know their heart is not

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radiating the part. And so

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are they really shining forth what is inside them?

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And, I don't go on dating apps,

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but I've heard from other people that this is the case

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in dating apps because you try to have an image and then

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when you show up you don't look like that image. And so,

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we are actually doing a disservice to ourselves.

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And of course this began with society's

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pressures, but now, we've not

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only distill instilled it in our own age group, but

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even the young people, you know, they're afraid to

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not look perfect. You know, I have to sometimes if I'm taking

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photos of people, I have to show them the photo to get

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approval to then share it.

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So this is a really big, actually, discussion.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's a big problem that we should resolve

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somehow and tell people that today is, like, the the

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trend now is be authentic. I'm gonna bring up one name

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if I may. It's a beautiful actress from the past that I thought she was

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so stunning hours. And today, she's the biggest advocate,

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like, for having no makeup on, the hair, whatever. It's a Pamela

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Anderson. I don't know if you've seen Rodenning. Like, why I'm

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loving? Because true natural beauty. But I I'm not against makeup

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and hair. I love it. I'm an artist, and and, you know, it's for

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they're for everybody. But you know what? That's

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that's not when all of a sudden you just like, through

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those filters, they just change you completely. You don't even look the

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same. And I don't know what the purpose of this plastic skin is.

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That mask, I cannot look. When I see another filter of that

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kind, I just can't look. I just can't. Me, my,

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arm like that. You know? Because you you you want to see the real

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person that's when it's inside them, and the beauty usually comes and shines

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from within that real beauty that you're referring to.

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And when combined together is powerful. So it's almost like we

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need to do a a rebirth, renaissance, you know, like

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the dark ages. We're coming out of some strange

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era of time that conditioned us to something that's

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fake, that's not real. We need to bring that back. And

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it's just beautiful, and it's to be celebrated and to

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be to, you know, combining the beauty from

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within the soul, the to be in alignment with the soul

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and in combination of all, but not to

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exaggerate or overdo in one area. You know what I'm saying? And especially

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disaster. I I'm sorry. Because that leads to mental illnesses, you

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know? And you're like, it's it's really

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bad. It's and you're hiding behind something. And then and then you

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know what? You're gonna hide from people and then from the whole world when really

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that's not the idea here. You both reminded me of something

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pretty profound I came across when my daughter was young,

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and I was so grateful. Someone forwarded it, you know, a note or it was

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like a mental health recommendation. And it said, if you have little

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girls, especially, and I'm sure this applies to everyone, when

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you see them, refrain from always commenting

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about their appearance first thing. So you think about it. You see a little girl,

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how cute are you? Look at that pretty dress. Oh my goodness. You're

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beautiful. And it said, make sure and not all the

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time. Of course, you're still gonna comment on the appearance, but they said focus

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more on the traits so that this little girl

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grows up knowing that her value and her worth is

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not just in the physical appearance. So, you know, it would be how clever

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you are or I love that bright smile or, you know,

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I love your energy as you walked into the room. And this is

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something actually we were taught, and I say this you guys, Meg, you've heard this

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before in my fitness classes. I always you know, before the holidays and stuff, I

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tell people, especially in the gym setting, refrain from

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commenting on anyone's shape. Even if you think you're doing

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something well, you think it's encouraging to see someone at the gym and say,

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wow. You've lost weight. You look great. Right? And,

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and when we were done training, our dietitians brought someone into clinic

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from SickKids, and they said, when you put worth again on

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you lost weight, you gained weight, it gets in that person's head

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that their value is on their weight gain. And they tell us all these devastating

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stories, people who are struggling with eating disorder, you know how that can

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put that pressure on them, or someone who now doesn't go to their,

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family gatherings or whatever because they've gained some weight. And wow,

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everyone celebrated the weight I lost last year. I'm so ashamed

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now to, you know, to go, and I look different. So the general

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room I try to raise my children to do is don't

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comment on anything, you know, on somebody that has

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to do, with their appearance as much as you can as a general thing.

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Wow. You look great. You look sharp. You know, you are beautiful versus,

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you know, wow. Look at those cheekbones and that tiny waist and that

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bubble butter. So you see how one was very overall

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celebrating your appearance as a human, but not making you feel like

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your value is in your assets, so to speak, or your

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attributes. Yeah. That's so powerful. I

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often say people are beautiful inside and

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out. You know? Because but it's inside first.

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And I had said, on the last episode, episode 84,

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that I had a family friend who was like a grandmother to me,

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and she always used to say, oh, Linda, you're so beautiful. You

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know, I was, like, 10, 12, 13, somewhere around that age, very

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self conscious. And I would think, no. Oh, I'm I'm not. I got this. I

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got that. And I realize only now through

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maturity and through, growing older and hopefully growing

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wiser that she was really talking about my heart.

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And, I really appreciate that now.

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But it's it's a temple. Our our body, our physical

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body is a temple. Some people call it a spacesuit. There's different names for

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it. I call mine a temple. You know, I honor my temple.

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I I take care of it, but it's not who I am. It's the heart

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and soul inside of it. Not your identity. It's where

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you reside kind of thing. But thank goodness we have Maggie to

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take care of or to photograph, but that

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that comes out of ourselves. You know, the the

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world the word beautiful, I I

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refer to this and you, Sandra, and you, Linda, you mean it

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always the same way because, you know, I know you're both, and we're sharing

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that beautiful energy. And, and and we know

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exactly what that means. That goes deeper inside here, and that's the whole

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picture because it shines. You know? And and, you know,

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now, Sandra, to what you said about, you know, complementing the

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dress or whatever, it's nice. It it could be secondary.

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But what if, like, we replace it? And I actually I

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don't know how it it it just happened. I I I'm

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paying attention more to many, many things. And and one of

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the big things is, like, you know, I I when I see somebody, I say,

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oh my god. I love your energy. Yeah. Isn't

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that beautiful compliment to us? Beautiful. Because that and

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and, Sandra, like, when we like, I come to your class and and I go,

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my god. I need a Sandra in my life. And

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same. It's just all love. Right? I love you. I'm so happy to

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see you. You are a beautiful human. You know? Beautiful human. That

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word, that's what it means. Yeah? Yeah. Doesn't mean a filter on my

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face or makeup or something. That I knew mascara?

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No. Exactly. Mascara. Yeah. I'm coming. Laughing.

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It's the general. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, like, it's all about that

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beautiful insight, the energy and everything. And and I think it's

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like soul. It's a soul,

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like, it's everything about to do with the soul for

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me. And you find that these people gravitate to each other.

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Linda, we said that when we met. Like, so for your listeners,

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Linda, that might not not know the whole backstory, so I know

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Maggie because she was coming to my classes at the gym. And I'll ask you

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guys to fill in how you know each other, but I came to know

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Linda when I was talking to Maggie about my story and the loss. And I

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was telling her the public speaking is filling my soul, you know, whether

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it's a a company or a church or wherever. And she

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said, you've got to talk to my friend Linda. Right? And

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she said, I think you guys would love each other. You were so similar, and

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she connected us. Linda, you left me a voice note, which I love, by the

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way, because an intro text, of course, is fine. But when

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you hear somebody's energy Linda just left such a lovely

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you know, I'm a friend of Maggie's. A friend of Maggie's is a friend of

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mine. I'd love to hear more. And, you know, the rest is history as they

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say. You know, I've, incorporated you both as my lifelong

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sisters and deep friends, you know, who I love so much, but it was

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incredible how our energy and then we shortly after you guys

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came to the book launch for me, and we went to the,

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Linda's beautiful celebration of her anniversary of her

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podcast. And we went and got our pictures done by Maggie, and it's just

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been so full circle and so lovely. And that's

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a surrender. Yes. Like, surrendering to

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just, like, okay. Just like an openness. Like like, we

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don't know always what's best for ourselves, but when we surrender to

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that deeper wisdom, then there's no

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effort. It's just a beautiful orchestra,

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a symphony of coming together. Yes. A symphony of I

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wanna write that down. A symphony of coming together. I was trying to

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tell my husband the other day how how I've been feeling

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these few months, and I found there's certain avenues I'll pray about something, and it

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is just like shut down, shut down, shut down. Like and and I'm past

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trying to force that. I'm like, okay. And then you'll find a different path or

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opportunity that's just, you know, opening and opening

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and opening, maybe waiting for your, you know, your surrender or your openness or

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your welcoming of that. Right? Of I don't always know what's best for me. I

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don't always have all the answers and that can be It's

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called it's called alignment. Alignment.

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Yes. Exactly. Another word for it. But if we feel it, we know

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it. We know exactly what that is. Yes. And I think we've

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all been in a position, everyone listening, all of us here, where sometimes you

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want something so bad, but you just see, like, it is not

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coming together. Right? Like, that alignment is not there. And I think once you

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learn that experience, you can really recognize when something is aligned or

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when something is intentional because you know what that resistance

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feels like when it's not for you. Right? Absolutely.

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And I just wanna share that so beautiful, before

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we we end our our wonderful time together, which I think we could

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go on forever, that

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Maggie and I were introduced by Paul

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Lukewski, who has now passed, and I think of him

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often. So he introduced us, and I'm so

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really grateful that he did. And we have spent many times

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together, and so that's how I know Maggie. And then,

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of course, through Maggie is Sandra, and it's just a beautiful snowball.

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I love that. Yeah. It's really beautiful. Okay. So

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thank you. Thank you. I do want all the listeners

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to know how they can reach you and what you offer because,

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there's a lot of love and really, really beautiful

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high energy here. So how can people reach you? What

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do you offer? So for me, you

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can reach me. My website is

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www.stgwellness,um,

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C a. You can also find me on Instagram at s t g

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underscore wellness. Sandra Tadros Gurgis is my name. You'll

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find me anywhere. And, my sir my main service

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is public speaking. So you have a group of people,

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small or large. You would like to have someone come give a keynote, a

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workshop, anything about a variety of wellness

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topics, mental health and burnout, exercise and movement,

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improving your sleep. And these are all medically

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evidence based strategies as we call. So this is kind of best

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practice in the guidelines looking at the holistic person. So

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you've got the clinical pharmacist angle and the,

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fitness angle and the spiritual angle, and I try to

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bring it all together to give practical, helpful tips in

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a very engaging way. Oh, thank you,

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Sandra. Thank you. And Meggie.

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And myself. So, my business name is Fotografia

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Boutique, f f. Two f's, no p

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h's. And it's such an

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international photograph. It's Polish, Portuguese, and, you know,

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international. So it's photografiaboutique.ca is the website.

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But I go under Maggie Habieda, h a b I e d

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a, And, I capture timeless

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portraits. And I'm very big on branding now for

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businesses, helping people, capture the best for their

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business because social media is so big,

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that portrait speaks before you do. So it's very crucial,

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and you don't need zillions, of pictures that you

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cannot find on your phone. You just need one iconic photo.

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So so I do invite you to check my social media

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under Maggie Habieta mainly. And, and also

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my studio is in in Oakville on Cornwall. Yeah.

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Oakville, Ontario, Canada, which we are all in

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very close proximity to. So these beautiful women

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are and when I mean beautiful, I mean heart

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complete. Big heart. You will

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feel it instantly if you did not already feel it here

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listening to to them. And so I want to thank

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everyone for listening to A Call for Love.

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I really do believe in the power

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of love, loving kindness, if

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we can be more loving and caring

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and kind. That is a huge ripple out

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into the world that truly needs it. So from my

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heart to yours, namaste, everyone. Thank you. Love

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it.

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