Oct. 6, 2025

Thrive not just Survive

Thrive not just Survive
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Season 1

Training your brain to Thrive rather than just Survive is a transformational process of reimagined life without the pain of the past. It’s not pretending that nothing happened, or you’re not burned out, but it’s transformation of your thoughts and life patterns. Your focus is more on joy instead of being stuck in an old system of so-called norms and criticism. If we processed life through our power and potential and not our pain and past traumas, we could find inner peace and achieve our dreams.

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Hello, and thank you for tuning in to A Sharp

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Outlook on pay for HD radio and talk or TV.

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I am Angela Sharp, your host our arm chair discussions

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with industry experts will give you the steps, tools and

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information to be successful in business and to prepare you

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to be your best self.

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Hello, I'm Angela Sharp, and thank you for joining us

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here at ah Sharp Outlook. I'm going to ask you

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a question. Are you thriving or are you just surviving?

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Just doing whate'er you're going just to survive the day.

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Training your brain to thrive rather than just survive is

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transformational process of reimagined life without the pain of the past.

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It's not pretending that nothing happened or you're not burned out,

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but it's a transformational thought of transformation of your thoughts

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and life patterns, that your focus is more on joy

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instead of being stuck in an old system of so

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called norms and criticism. If we process life through our

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power and potential and not our pain and past traumas,

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we could find inner peace. Imagine that that's a goal

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and achieve our dreams. Imagine feeling heard and understood. Learning

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to process negatives and appreciate the positives in our lives.

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We pro that we focus on the wrong stimulus and

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beat ourselves up for not being the perfect dream or

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someone else. Don't ever try to be someone else. Be you,

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be authentic. We need to learn how to start thriving

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and finding joy of living. Today is a good day

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to make a start. How about that Today I have

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my guests Rashida and Dustin Dean and they are here

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as my guest to tell us how that we can

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start thriving instead of just getting by, instead of just surviving.

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Dean is a nationally certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner,

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transformational coach, and founder of mind Maxed Institute, a mental health,

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wellness and brain fitness platform built for high achieving professionals, educators,

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and individuals seeking real, lasting change. With over twenty years

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of experience as a prescriber, psychotherapist, and professor, Dustin is

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known for delivering coaching experience that's as clinical as it

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is compassionate. He helps his clients do more than just cope,

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but helps them thrive rather than just survive. Brain Fitness

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is a science back system that trains the mind to

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process life through power and potential rather than pain and

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past remembrance. He offers one on one coaching sessions or

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cohort based group experiences. Through the Mind Max Institute, Dustin

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is redefining what mental wellness looks like, less about diagnosis

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and more about momentum. This program is built for developing

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communities of leaders working towards joy optimization and max and

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maxed mental wellness outcomes for themselves and the individuals they

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are committed to serving in their chosen professions. And we

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also have Rashida Dean, a family life coach and women's

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empowerment strategists over fifteen years of experience, currently serving full

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time with nationally recognized Jeremiah Program. While she specializes in

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supporting women, particularly minority mothers and those navigating complex life transitions,

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she is equipped to coach individuals of all backgrounds who

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are seeking greater purpose, stability, and growth. Rashida is a

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skilled Somali English interpreter, cultural liaison and training psychology to

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graduate from Carlton University. Her ability to connect across cultures

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is uplifting and empowering for the clients she supports. Rashida

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is passionate about helping women see their potential and helping

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them become victors rather than victims. She approaches this the

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same for the moms she cares for at the Jeremiah Program,

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as well as the executives and entrepreneur entrepreneurs she coaches

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at Max at mind Max Institute, Bringing Hope to the

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Hopeless is where Rashida thrives as a survivor of the

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Somali Civil War. She believes that reality is formed through

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brain fitness and focusing on the outcome you desire, not

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the despair you have survived. I want to dig deeper

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into this conversation, so I'm going to invite Rashida and

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Dustin to join me now so we can get into

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this conversation. So keep up and learn how to start

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thriving and having joyful life and having joyful days and

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just smiling and laughing more instead of or just crying

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every other second. Let's start thriving. That's what we want

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to know about, all right, So why do you say

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burnout isn't about being busy or doing too much, but

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it's about losing yourself in the process.

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Well, first of all, I got to say, what a

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what an honorable introduction, and you set the standard high.

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You know, hopefully I know Rashida can live up to it.

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Hopefully I'll be able to too. But thank you and Angela.

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It's such a pleasure. You know, you had me on

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before and I just really appreciate this and to be

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here with my mind Max co founder Rashida now and

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we're just excited about this. So to answer your question,

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you know, it comes back to the brain fitness kind

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of that you mentioned earlier, and that mind Max is

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built around. And that's the idea that the base state

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of the brain is fight or flight. The brain is

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trying to keep us alive. The brain is naturally looking

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for the things that are gonna hurt us. That's not efficient.

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That is not an efficient way to run. It's just

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like your body, you know it the body will you know, uh,

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store energy it stores energy in fat, but it's not optimized.

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the same that you do with the body. You know,

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you have to work it out. It has to be optimized.

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And when we say that it's not running efficiently and

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being busy doesn't mean that you're actually.

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Busy.

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Isn't the problem. You can be busy and accomplish a

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lot of things if you're fine tuned and you're and

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you're running at a level you should. And that's what

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we really want to focus on with the mind, is

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bringing it into that thrive mode rather than just the

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survive mode, because when you are fighting yourself, which is

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what happens when you're operating in the Bay State, you're

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only seeing fear instead of fulfillment.

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Yeah, you know, I kind of experience that what is it,

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fight or flight and the mind and the brain kind

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of like shuts down. I I can't even tell you

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what was going on, but I do know that they

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just said I, I, you know, had a breakdown.

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They said that the brain does that to protect itself

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and to protect the body, and I just like, you know,

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WHOA I couldn't believe it it's I always kind of

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tell this story, but not that often because it is private.

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But you know, when that happened, I had needed to

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go to the hospital. And when I went to the hospital,

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they took me to this special floor and they asked

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me questions that you know, I pretty much answered everything,

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and I couldn't remember the name of the president, so

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that within itself, they were talking about giving me medication.

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started looking around because I wasn't sure where I was.

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And I looked, I'm like, oh my goodness, there's something

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wrong here. I don't belong here. I really don't belong here.

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I saw some really very strange behavior. I'm like, so

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I tried to get that down, go down. The elevator

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is locked. It's like, but I experienced.

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That, and.

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I, you know, it's kind of like, I'm not even

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sure what happened. I mean, I had a lot of

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things going on, but it just shut down. And I

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was like, oh my goodness. And so, you know, I

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went through medication and things like that, and I had

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to even like say, okay, I'm not doing this any longer.

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I'm okay, I'm good I'm fine. And I had a

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friend that we used to sing together when we went

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to prisons, and he would call and sing to me

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every day. That really started bringing me back. But you know,

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at this point in time, you would never think that

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ever happened. I can't even think about how did that happen.

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I'm sitting there, what was I doing? But you know,

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it's one of those things I don't live with that.

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It's just an experience that I can tell someone none

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to tell someone else. You really need to protect your

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yourself and you're what you're doing and stop overdoing and

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and calm down, don't allow the stress. But okay, how

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is the subconscious beliefs shape our daily reality?

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Well I'll take.

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This yeah, yeah, no, no, no, yeah yes.

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So so three things happen at the same time. One

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is that you know primitive mind as it doesn't said,

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which is your brain is trying to save you from

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those alligators, not alligators, but dinosaurs and and and you know,

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life threatening species when we were in the in those old,

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old old stone ages. So you have that because I

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guess we care to the cells, right, So you know

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it's it's like okay, run, this is it's danger. Right,

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So that's that. And then when you're young, what is

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the one thing that children here the most? What's the

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one word that children here the most? No? No, right,

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be careful, don't do that? What does that bring? That

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brings fear? And like why can't I do it? And

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also self doubt, right, like okay, she's this authority figure

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that I'm seeing, this big person saying no, what something's wrong? Right?

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So we never really when we're young, and I mean

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I did my share of nose when I was raising

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my son. That that happens. But I think we have

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to kind of keep in mind that we are shaping

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this brain and it's no, it's gonna resonate with it forever.

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Because right now, whenever I'm doing something new, I hear

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that no, what if? What if this happens? But you know,

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we all we have that, all of us, right. And

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then there's there are those, you know, culture situations where

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some cultures are more don't do it, you know you

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shouldn't be doing it, Like for example, my culture, you're

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a girl, right, don't don't even go there. You're a girl,

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you this is your this is what you need to

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be doing. Or you're a guy, you have to be

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strong and don't cry. Right. So when you grow up

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in a situation like that, which all of us eighty

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percent of us are like no, or like those celves

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that are saying hey, be careful right, that shapes you.

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That shapes you because normally we don't realize it unless

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it's too late, and then we don't combat that with no,

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you can do it right. We just learned that later

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on when when when when we are like in our

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thirties maybe the airlanes or like forties, and say why

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am I afraid? Okay, I am afraid? What's going on here? Right?

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reflective scenarios and try and do something about it. But

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by that time we're set and then the work is harder.

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Unfortunately, that's also a time when everything kind of crashes.

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I don't know what exactly age it happened to you,

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but like it does. That's that culmination will sometimes of

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the nose and the fears and then the countering. You know,

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you're tired of fighting it without realizing what's going on,

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without the profit training, you're just continually trying to pick

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pick yourself up. By the bootstraps instead of you know,

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realizing that No, this comes from the way I was conditioned,

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just like she said.

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Or sometimes you don't even know what you're battling. You

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just know something it's not right. When when I'm gonna

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share a little story, when I was uh in my twenties,

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I married somebody who was not We were not compatible,

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and I, just as you said I was, I knew

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something was wrong and I, you know, wascating. I was

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not happy. Something was off, but I didn't realize it

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was the marriage until one day I feigned and they

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took me to the emergency.

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Right.

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I thought I had a hat attack, but it was

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an anxiety attack. My body was telling me something is off,

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but my brain was telling me what nothing's wrong. Just

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you know, you get stronger, get tougher, nothing strong, just

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you know, little things here and there. So what if

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he calls you this name or that name, you got

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to be right. But whenever our body doesn't lie, our

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brain sometimes lies to us to protect us, but our

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the way we feel does not lie. And whenever you

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feel something like something is going wrong in your life,

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you have to sit down and kind of assess the

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situation because normally it is the body is right.

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is that when you should begin to try to reprogram

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your beliefs so that you can.

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Combat that well, preferably if you can do it earlier

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on and you don't reach hospitalization, you know that that

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is the ideal situation. But obviously, yeah, when if you

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reach there, you have to sit down and say, Okay,

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something is off, something's not aligning with my values and

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with my well bare I'm going against something. What is that?

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So that because if you don't know where you're going against,

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you cannot like really choose your suitable weapon, right, So

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you have to know where you're going against and say, okay,

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what's off here? What do I need to work on?

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Yeah? Yeah, And especially when we have so much going

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on in your life, you generally don't we you know,

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sometimes we just really don't take the time to even

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take care of ourselves, no at all. We take over

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our jobs, we take care of our staff, we take

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care of you know, our church member, we take we

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never ask ourselves are we well?

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Especially this, especially our mind, especially our brain, especially stepping

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away from all the junk, and especially loving us I mean,

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that's the key to having a brain function well is

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seeing the amazingness in us and look at you know,

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I'm beautiful, I'm smart, I'm successful, look at all that

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I've accomplished, rather than you know what they think about you,

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you know what they said about you. You know, look

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at how you look, look at how like all those

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those those fears, those no's, Like Rashida talks about that,

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we were conditioned. And the hard part about it is,

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this is why it's it's fitness. Just like working out.

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When you work out, those muscles hurt to grow, it

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hurts to change that thinking, and no one else is

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doing it. That's the other thing is most you know,

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ninety percent of news is negative because news knows that

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that's what people are drawn to. They know the psychology

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behind it. People's brain are unfit. They're not training their

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brains to love the good they're training their brain, or

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they're not training their brains. They're in that natural state

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of fear of what's going to hurt me, of no,

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instead of go.

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Yeah yeah, and I'll say yeah, that is a terrible

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place to be. Yes, believe me, I'm aware it's a

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terrible place to be. To always be afraid to do

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something because of what somebody else has said or what

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somebody else has done, and we allow others to influence

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us far more than what we should. It's okay to

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have a friend, and it's okay to have a good friend.

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When I say a friend, somebody is going to tell

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you the truth. I even tell people when they say, oh,

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I want to be your friend, I'm not sure. Let

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me tell you what I like, because I'm not a

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friend that's going to lie to you or pump you

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up when you're doing something that I know and you

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both know we both know it's wrong, or you're going

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to blame somebody when you're a participant. Also, so I

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may not be your best friend because you want somebody

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to coddle you and tell you that you're doing everything right,

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and if you're not, I'm not going to tell that

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to you. I'm going to tell you the truth so

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that you can make changes so that you can really

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be who you're trying to be instead of pretending. Stop

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pretending to be this, just be this, be this so

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much easier you just get up in the morning, you

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be instead of like, oh wow, let me see what

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so and so would have been doing.

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Yeah, but life, once you love yourself and you've trained

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your brain, like your brain is running efficiently and it's

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seeing the good in you, you can surround yourself with

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those friends who want to help you want that growth,

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you want that I that says, here's the opportunity for

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you to get better because you love you. But if

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you haven't learned to love you and your friend tells

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you the truth, then once again you you connect that

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with that no, that no and that fear.

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You know.

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So it's so crucial to take care of you. And

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that's one thing, you know, I think so many times

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it's important, you know. I tell people in my coaching.

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I used to when I was doing there therapy. I

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used to tell them, you know, when someone tells you

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who they are, believe them. So many people do not

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believe people when they tell them who they are. And

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there's people that that that are good for you, and

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there's people that not are not And when they show

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you they're not, get away anyway. Wasn't an exception, it's

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the rule.

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Yeah, And I think we we take on the fact

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that because you can't get along with that person, something's

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wrong with you. No I learned, you know, after going

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through a whole lot of processing. Believe me, I've been

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around for a while. I've learned that if people don't

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enhance who I am and where I'm going, I really

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can't let them in my circle because it's just way

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too time consuming, too much, drawn, too much, you know,

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joy sapped out. No, I can't do that for you,

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but I'll tell you what. I'll give you a phone

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number that you can go. And that's what they do.

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But I'm not the one that's.

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The one for that.

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And some people sometimes when some people are negative. For example,

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one of the most important people in my life from

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you know, my family, is a little bit towards that negativity.

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But first of all, it is her point of view,

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and first of all, second of all, she is operating

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from that her own fears and her own what if

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this doesn't work? You know, what is that din What

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if that dinosaur eats me? Right? So then she loves me.

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I know she loves me and she cares for me,

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but it's her way of protection, protecting me. But that's

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also her fear kind of coming through, and and that

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even though she doesn't mean it, and she's a wonderful person,

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but she's not elevating me. So I have to real

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whenever I'm talking to her not to ask certain things

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and say, hey, should I do this or do that?

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Because if it's her white like, she say, don't do anything.

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Just stay in your room. The world is really horrible, right,

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So you know, I know not to ask you know,

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certain things. And as you said, you have to kind

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of surround yourself with people who are in alignment with

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where you're going on your value and what you believe in.

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Why did you too start working in this area of therapy,

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Not that it's not needed, oh my god, is it needed,

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But why did you decide to work in this particular area?

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Yeah, you want to go ahead, Well.

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I mean with me, the universe just put me there.

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To be honest, I tried to run. My dad was schizophrenic,

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my mom was borderline. They had substance abuse issues growing up,

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and they were I grew up in Washington State and

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back then, this was the eighties and the nineties, the

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facilities were scary, and you know, sometimes when when my

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dad would have to go to the hospital, it was

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it was kind of a traumatic experience as a kid,

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and I ended up, you know, working at a large

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hospital in the Midwest, and the only job that opened

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up once I finished nursing school was child adolessents psychiatry.

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And I'm like, no, I get do this, you know,

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but hey, you know, the the universe has a plan

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and it did and I got there and it was

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just like, wow, you know, this is what I'm called for.

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And and just that you know, understanding kind of both sides.

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But then also, you know, I think sometimes when professionals

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haven't had personal experience with it, it blinds them a

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little bit. And and once again I think, and then

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when Rashida and I got together and she'd been a

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coach and you know her her most of her life

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a social worker and providing that support for people. We

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really when we formed mind Max, what really happened is

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we wanted solutions rather than just we've seen so many

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people just kind of spin their wheels and they're staying alive,

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but they're not thriving, you know. And that's really what

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we love about mind Max and being able to coach.

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And it's why I stepped away from therapy because therapy

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is so important and you have to you have to

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work through those hard parts. But what about the next step,

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what about the solutions? What about the journey? You know,

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and we just we have a passion for It's happened

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in our lives. We've gone through stuff and we know

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that this brain fitness works. We know that you can

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move from fear to fulfillment and fun. And once you

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know that, you have to you have to want to

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share that.

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Yeah. And for me, I from East Africa, Somalia, and

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I went through that civil war which was horrendous, which

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kind of put me in a position where I needed

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to kind of always protect me. And also my parents,

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as wonderful, as amazing and loving they are, they're very

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protective also. So I heard a lot of that those

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nose and don't know it and like sit back right,

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or why did you do this? And so I learned

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a long time ago to kind of question myself or

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to be afraid or to say like hide right. So

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I went. I came to North America when I was

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about seventeen and all alone. And that does not get

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you anywhere but attract people who are going to use

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you and abuse you and take advantage of you. And

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I went. I went through my share of that, but

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then I always knew something was off right. I always

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knew something was not aligning with my values and something

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was not healthy. Sometimes I would be crossing the road

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and the light's green, and I would question myself and say,

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is it green? Really? Can you cross? And then I

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would run when I was about eighteen or nineteen, because

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I was afraid that maybe my brain was playing tricks

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on me and I am wrong and the light is red.

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So I went through a lot of a lot of

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self reflection and like kind of thinking about why am

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I this way. That's when I became like thirty or

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actually I was thirty five. And then I also developed

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obsessive compulsive disorder clinically diagnosed, and that's that Sometimes they

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say it's it's the dowbting disease because you always doubt yourself.

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Did I wash my hands? Oh no, you didn't go

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wash again? Right? So that's when I sat down with myself,

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obviously after the hospitalization and I became a single mother,

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and I noticed that I was struggling and the struggle

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that I was going through was in here because I

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was physically well, So what's going on here? Right? And

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why am I stuck? And why am I afraid because

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a lot of people are not afraid and they're doing well.

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And also when I watch celebrities Chris Brown for example,

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like if you watch him, he was dancing since the

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day he was twelve, and he had no fear, even

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though he went through some stuff, but that fear was

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not even present. And I noticed that people who are

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not fearful are successful. Or even the ones that say, Okay,

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I am afraid, but I'll do it anyways, like I'm

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gonna try anyways and push themselves, they succeed. And I

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wanted to live life. I wanted not to die without

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living and there were a lot of things that I

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wanted to do, meet people, you know, thrive, you know,

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maybe dance, maybe seeing, and that my joys were being

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stopped by that fear of like are you crazy? What's

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wrong with you? Sit down?

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Yeah, And you know even gets to the point where

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we probably need to have parenting classes. That's one of

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the things. I mean, there's so many things we learned,

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but are they really important. I mean, we should be

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learning as financial literacy, we should be learning parenting, you know,

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we should be you know, learning investing. You know, those

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are things you from the time you get past eighteen,

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you're thrown into that arena and you're not prepared because

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they were so busy trying to get you to write

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a poem. I'm not a poet, That's so true. It's

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just you know, okay, I know that's your background, but

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that's not me.

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So I've learned the counties, learned the counties of the state,

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every county of the state you live in. I mean, like,

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come on, I.

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Mean it was just like what for.

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You know, and.

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I mean it just needs to be a total revamp

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of the educational system. But I don't mean, like what's

463
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:06.720
kind of happening now. I'm in a revamp of what

464
00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:10.599
are the really important things that carry you for the

465
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:13.119
next seventy years. If you're not going to be doing

466
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:16.000
this seventy years, well what am I learning it now for?

467
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:19.480
It's not it's just a useless thing. Yes, And so

468
00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:24.079
I mean just going in and and maybe there shouldn't

469
00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:27.680
be so many knows. Well, my mom was the disciplinarian

470
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.480
in our home, and she did a lot of nos

471
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:34.200
because she, you know, uh, was just trying to protect us. Yes,

472
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:37.279
But then my dad, he was the easy guy, and

473
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.519
he was always yeah, you're good, you're great. You could

474
00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:42.920
do anything you want, and he would, you know, go

475
00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:45.599
go to the schools when I did my projects and

476
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.799
stuff like that, staying there proudly and always encouraging me. So,

477
00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:52.599
you know, there needs to be a balance in the house.

478
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:55.240
You got to have somebody doesn't know, but you got

479
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:58.000
to have somebody that says yes, yes, yes, And it's

480
00:29:58.039 --> 00:30:01.920
just a matter of you know, you know, just focus

481
00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:03.799
in your mind because you hear a lot of those.

482
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:06.759
It does. It does bring a lot of doubt. Yes,

483
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.480
you feel like you can't, but then you can also

484
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:13.160
be like, okay, so why not at least I can

485
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:15.279
try it. If it doesn't work, I just love on

486
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:16.039
my mouth.

487
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:20.559
Yes, And it's not something that something that is stuck

488
00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.720
in your head and you never take a chance on right,

489
00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:26.960
So a chance And speaking of the balance and the

490
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.960
nose I have, we have a twenty one year old child.

491
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:35.279
Dustin came into his life when he was about twelve

492
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:39.680
or eleven. So I remember when I was young, especially

493
00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:44.119
from Somalia. Your partents will tell you go change that dress.

494
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:47.920
That's ugly. You look ugly in it, right, your hair

495
00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:50.359
does not look nice, Go go go take care of it.

496
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:54.400
That's ugly. That was just a norm to say, because

497
00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:56.480
that tough. Love. Okay, go change it so you don't

498
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:01.400
look so you look pretty, right. So that was my

499
00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:05.279
learned behavior to kind of support and advise the people

500
00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:08.000
that I loved. And sometimes when I think back how

501
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:10.359
I communicated with some of the people that I liked

502
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:14.359
so I could support them to kind of see their

503
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:19.160
shortcomings or like what they're good at. I said a

504
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.640
lot of that, and I regret and now with my son,

505
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:27.720
because I did not want him to repeat this. I mean,

506
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.000
he's gonna have his own mess, right, but I did

507
00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:33.119
not also want to add his mess to this, like,

508
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.960
oh no, you look ugly, go change this. Whenever I

509
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:38.799
see him when he was fourteen or fifteen, now he's

510
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:40.640
two and one and he takes care of business. But

511
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:43.680
like I see him, kind of his hair is messed up,

512
00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:46.400
and I would say, oh, wow, look at you, handsome.

513
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:49.279
I love your hair. Maybe add a little bit of

514
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.759
antiphrase to your hair, like that would make it even shine. Wow,

515
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.359
look at you instead of like, my god, what's wrong

516
00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:58.119
with you? You're like crazy.

517
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.720
About it. He did the brain fitness and it was

518
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:06.799
very strong and changing. One thing I wanted to circle

519
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.240
back though that I think is very important about the education,

520
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:12.440
you know, and this is something Rashida and I feel

521
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:16.200
passionate about and I've also been working with. We have

522
00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:19.440
a curriculum at mind Max that we've been trying to

523
00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:23.240
get for the teachers to kind of start to process

524
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:26.079
life through their power and potential rather than their pain,

525
00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:30.440
because teachers are really kind of out there by themselves.

526
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.480
Rashida also has her own site called Somali Navigators because

527
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:40.440
here in in Minnesota there's a lot of uh Smali community,

528
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:47.559
yeah community, and sometimes the navigation between the the native

529
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:52.039
or the people that are yeah from Minnesota, the people

530
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:57.160
that are from Minnesota you know recently, and the people

531
00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.160
that came from Somalia, there is.

532
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:02.559
Lack of understanding, yeah, definitely.

533
00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:05.559
So trying to kind of bridge that east and west

534
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.160
and really realizing that, you know, really everybody wants the

535
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:13.519
same thing. We want love, we want you know, a house,

536
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.519
we want to make money, we want to be able

537
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.640
to laugh. But there's some things in you know, different

538
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:23.200
cultures that that you know, can kind of put up

539
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:26.240
roadblocks that make it look like it's something it's not

540
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:30.799
so long story short, Getting that mental wellness and that

541
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.200
joy optimization stuff into schools is really something I think.

542
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:38.119
I think we need to really focus on that because

543
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:42.640
there's general things. But when you talk about necessities in school,

544
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:45.400
you got finances that needs to be a necessity.

545
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:45.720
It's not.

546
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:49.359
Investing in my opinion, needs to be a necessity. It's not.

547
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.319
And mental wellness skills needs to be a necessity and

548
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:53.720
it's not.

549
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:57.519
Yeah, oh yeah, and they you know, And like I said,

550
00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.839
nobody is really thinking about the fact. And I'm not

551
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:03.839
even sure how they start. I guess they just people.

552
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:05.720
You know, I don't you know. I don't want to

553
00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:08.719
even try to explain it because I don't know. But

554
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:13.679
I know right now there are too many people graduating

555
00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:17.519
from high school or even going into college. I'm prepared

556
00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:21.960
because they have not been exposed to what reality is

557
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:25.079
once you graduate from high school. And so when they

558
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:29.599
go into you know, college or something like that, they

559
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:31.760
have to have a tutor because they didn't get the

560
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:36.119
right classes because they either weren't offered or they didn't know.

561
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:39.239
The counselors aren't there anymore because of funding, so there's

562
00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:42.199
no one. There's no guidance anymore. And a lot of

563
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.039
parents didn't go to college, so they don't know either.

564
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:49.480
So it's just really they're having a struggle and then

565
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.079
having to deal with all of the negative things that

566
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:58.079
they've heard through their parenting or other people, especially social media.

567
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:01.400
They're not able to say this is real and this

568
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:06.599
isn't real and taking care of their mental health. We've

569
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:09.880
got some really tragic things happening out here in the

570
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:13.119
streets right now. When you can just walk up and

571
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:16.039
take someone's life and it doesn't.

572
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:17.000
Like bother you.

573
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:22.159
There's something not working right in the brain, and there's

574
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:26.480
something you fed in your brain that wasn't healthy. It

575
00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:30.320
wasn't something that would give you a neutral way of thinking.

576
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.119
It was a hostility, it was anger, it was all

577
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.480
these other things that trigger someone else in the brain

578
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:43.000
instead of you know, you know what, I'm saying yes

579
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:48.599
and just being able to you know how you say,

580
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:52.199
reimagine that and you know what are some of the

581
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.960
better skills that people can learn to stay mentally healthy.

582
00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.559
I mean just things they can practice or things that

583
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:00.280
they can do.

584
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:08.239
Well. So what we teach is, as Deston said, that

585
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:15.800
mental fitness right because no pay, no game, right, no gain, Like,

586
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:18.280
if you are not going to the gym, as we

587
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:20.960
said before, your muscles are not going to be as

588
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:24.760
strong as theirs as you need them to be so

589
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:27.559
that you're protected and taken care of and like so

590
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:32.400
your muscles can carry your body. Right. So, first of all,

591
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:38.800
the person has to be wanting to change and to

592
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:43.519
imagine what could be once that's taken place. Then we

593
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:47.599
need discipline, obviously, like every morning, instead of like saying,

594
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:52.280
oh life is hard, say wow, I'm alive. Life is beautiful.

595
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.719
Look at the sunshine, right, Like, focus on the good

596
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:58.800
things that are working for you. Right. And sometimes what

597
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:01.440
I do some exercise said that I do myself is

598
00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:04.239
if I am questioning myself. Let's suppose oh my god,

599
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:09.559
it's you know Angela's uh uh, you know radio, I'm nervous.

600
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:12.679
What I do sometimes is just like a bird, you know,

601
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:18.000
kind of expanding its wings. Like I do that and

602
00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:22.360
then I'm big, right, I am strong, Right, That's what

603
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:27.320
I do. Yeah, powerful. So, But coming back to the

604
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:33.159
brain fitness, it's it's consistency, discipline and wanting to reach there.

605
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:36.119
Wanting you have to be wanting to you have to

606
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:38.880
know where exactly you're going and then how to reach

607
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.360
there is where Dustin and I can help, right, give

608
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:48.960
give pointers.

609
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.000
One just general thing to exactly what Rashida was saying.

610
00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.639
But you know, I call it the three to one rule.

611
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:55.960
For every one negative thought, you need to counter it

612
00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:00.800
with three amazing things about you, not about your dog,

613
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:06.960
not about your girlfriend, not about your child, because unfortunately

614
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:10.239
you could lose all those things. As horrible as that sounds,

615
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:14.840
it has to be based in I'm a good basketball player,

616
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:18.280
I'm good at computers, I'm good at art, I'm good

617
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:20.280
at you know, there has to be three to one.

618
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:23.559
I actually used to tell my clients to make a

619
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:26.880
list of fifty, which they hated me for that, but

620
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:32.199
to just go to that because the negative will come naturally.

621
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:35.159
It's the base state. It's going to come. Yeah, And

622
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:39.360
what Rashida and I also do with our coaching sessions.

623
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:42.400
And then now we have the Dean of Zen, which

624
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:46.320
the Dean of Zen the AI bought is trained in

625
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:50.880
years of our experience. It's been programmed and it will

626
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.039
only go within the coaching that we taught it, but

627
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:59.599
it is trained to help people get that brain fitness

628
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.320
kind of like we were talking about before the kids

629
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:07.320
and everything. Some people might not be as likely to

630
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.079
or have the time right at first to take the

631
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:13.199
time for their mental health. But this is an easy

632
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:19.159
access number app. They just touch it and boom, you

633
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:23.320
have a coach, uh, you know, a joy optimization mental

634
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:26.639
wellness coach right right at your you know that's going

635
00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:28.880
to help you through the brain fitness techniques.

636
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.159
So since I had a chance to go out there

637
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:38.400
and test that out, and I was like, whoa, this

638
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:45.960
is getting ready to be my best friend. You can

639
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:47.519
you demonstrate that?

640
00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:49.199
Yeah?

641
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:53.039
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we we We would love we would

642
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:53.760
love to try it.

643
00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:55.880
Okay, that'd be great.

644
00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:57.239
Here we go.

645
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.599
Am I going to do it? You want me to

646
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:00.880
do it?

647
00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:04.840
Yeah, let's get the going first.

648
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.039
Hey there, this is the deal of then your mindfulness

649
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:12.960
support AI. Feel free to ask me about anything on

650
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:13.360
your mind.

651
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:13.960
I'm listening.

652
00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:16.679
Use of this service is governed by our terms of

653
00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:20.159
service and no unauthorized us is allowed. I can also

654
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:22.519
make some suggestions if you get stuck, just ask me.

655
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:24.519
Hi.

656
00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:31.599
I sometimes feel that I don't fit in that I

657
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.960
am an impostor at work and some circles, and I

658
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:43.559
don't have that confidence to feel I fit in and

659
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.719
I belong. Can you help me with that? Please?

660
00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:53.960
Absolutely, and thank you for sharing that with me. Imposter

661
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:58.320
feelings are incredibly common, even among the most accomplished people.

662
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.920
The brain naturally for threats and can make us doubt

663
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:04.960
our place. But that doesn't mean those thoughts are true.

664
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:08.320
Before we dive into specific brain fitness techniques, can you

665
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:10.679
tell me one thing that's going well for you at

666
00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:12.079
work or in your life right now?

667
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:16.519
I have a good matter. I have a good husband.

668
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:22.960
That's wonderful to hear. Having a supportive relationship is a

669
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:27.400
real strength and a solid foundation for your confidence. Now,

670
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.559
when those imposter thoughts show up at work, your brain

671
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:33.199
is just trying to protect you from rejection or failure.

672
00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:35.800
It's not a sign you don't belong. Would you be

673
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:38.960
open to trying a quick exercise where we list three

674
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:43.199
achievements or moments at work that required skill or grit

675
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:43.679
from you.

676
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:45.960
Yes.

677
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:56.760
Great, Take a moment and think back. What are three

678
00:41:56.840 --> 00:42:00.800
things you've accomplished at work, big or small, that took effort, skill,

679
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:04.039
or perseverance. They don't have to be awards or promotions.

680
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:06.920
Maybe it was solving a tricky problem, helping a colleague

681
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.840
or learning something new. What comes to mind first.

682
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:15.639
That I am an amazing support to my clients.

683
00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:22.039
That's a powerful achievement. Being an amazing support to your

684
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:27.440
clients shows empathy, skill, and dedication, qualities that are truly

685
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.559
valuable in any workplace. Can you think of two more

686
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:34.840
moments or strengths you've demonstrated at work, even if they

687
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.480
seem small.

688
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:43.639
I supported my coworker with a task a couple of

689
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:46.159
days ago.

690
00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:53.400
That's another great example. Supporting a coworker not only shows teamwork,

691
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:57.440
but also your willingness to help others succeed, something every

692
00:42:57.480 --> 00:43:01.760
workplace needs. What's one more moment, skill, or strength you've

693
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:02.800
shown at work recently?

694
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:10.119
I had a great idea to solve a problem that

695
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:12.039
our organization was facing.

696
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:18.760
That's fantastic. Coming up with a great idea to solve

697
00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:23.159
a problem highlights your creativity and your value to the organization.

698
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:25.920
When your brain tries to tell you that you don't belong,

699
00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:28.719
these are the real life pieces of evidence you can

700
00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:31.320
use to counter that thought. How does it feel to

701
00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:33.280
reflect on these strengths and achievements?

702
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:40.000
It feels really good. This helped a lot, and I'm not.

703
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:53.440
I'm glad to hear that. It's amazing how quickly your

704
00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:55.840
brain can shift when you focus on your power and

705
00:43:55.880 --> 00:44:00.320
potential instead of your downs. Remember, every time and aster

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thought pops up, counter it with three positives about yourself

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or your future, just like we did. Now. Would you

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like another brain fitness technique to keep building that confidence?

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I'm good for.

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Else you'd like to thank you I'm good for now.

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You're welcome, and remember your power and potential are always

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greater than your doubts if you ever need a boost.

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So I'm gonna really admit something. This made me think

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the three things that I that I did good, I

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swear to God.

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Guard you had to fass out. Oh yeah, I was

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gonna say, that's what I love when I was listening

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to it. I love that because it's rare when you

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have that negative thought that you actually go back and

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counter it with something positive. And we do far more

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positive than we do negative. But that one little negative

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seems to just overwhelm, like the only thing that exists

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when oh my gosh, see that just made my.

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Day, the threat, that one threat. The brain grabs onto

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that one threat because it's worried about that instead of

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seeing the beauty, but it lessens the more you do it.

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And that's what you know. I this is much much

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less expensive than a therapy appointment or a coaching appointment

729
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or anything like that. So we're hoping that, you know,

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lots of people will will utilize it. The other thing

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I wanted to say.

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Is before you do change for that, give us the location,

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give us the website or how do how do they

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get in touch or be able to have this opportunity?

735
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So you can get it at two places. We just

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the most updated one is www dot Dean of Zen

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dot a I so www dot d e A N

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O f z E N dot a I. Or you

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can also go to our original website www dot mindmax

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dot com. Okay, the d G one is is more

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central to the to the to the app though. And

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I did want to say one thing though, is what

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people forget. You can question this thing if you if

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say it for Shida hadn't come up with it. It

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will help walk you through. It will keep pushing you

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to find those good things about you. It will narrow

747
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it down like if someone's like, oh there's nothing good

748
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about me, well could you tell me about like it

749
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will it will, but surely you're there, Bill, you can

750
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yell at it. You can you know us at it,

751
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well you can, and it will continue to try to

752
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like go towards you know, because some people might be

753
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they might be anxious in that situation. And obviously we

754
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don't have all day to show the different examples, but

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it uh the with what what we put in from

756
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our experience. We spent hours and hours like entering assignments

757
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and recordings of of how we would approach it. And

758
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then the the the software engineer that that that put

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it together for us is really a rock star.

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So oh great, yeah, yeah, I enjoyed it. And like

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I said, it's just something to motivate you to just

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keep going and and and to realize you you really

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are a gym. You are you know, wonderful, and you

764
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really are courageous and just you know, and I thought,

765
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oh wow, yeah, I need a friend like this.

766
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I all do.

767
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And I'm hoping because we have. I mean, like you said,

768
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the negative is there. We can always come up with

769
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things to put ourselves down or to make ourselves feel terrible,

770
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to make a part, yeah yeah, but to but to

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actually make our brains think about what we accomplished today,

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what we accomplished this week, what we accomplished through our

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through our years of living. Yeah, it just doesn't want

774
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to think about that. And uh yeah, one, we'll have

775
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to get get on my brain a little bit because

776
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we all know he's beating me up.

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We also use it to supplement our coaching. So since

778
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we do weekly sessions for the monthly subscriptions, they get

779
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access to the AI also so that if in between

780
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a session there's something going on and they just need

781
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to reiterate what we've worked on or any of those things,

782
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they have it.

783
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Yeah. It's the way I say it is that it's

784
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it's food for the mind. Like when you around one o'clock,

785
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we crashed and we want snacks or food, and then

786
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we have to nourish our souls, our body. So this

787
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is kind of nourishing your brain. That's how I that's

788
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how I see it. Yeah, because getting hungry is.

789
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Natural.

790
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We get there, you at really want. You don't need

791
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to work really hard to feel that feeling of like

792
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hey I need something to eat. Right, So the way

793
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I see this is whatever you feel, okay, something is

794
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off here, I need to or something's bothering me I

795
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I don't have the two hundred dollars to see a therapist.

796
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I don't know if I can talk to my mom

797
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about it. I need to get this soul food mind

798
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food that that I that could help me go.

799
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Yeah, good way to put it.

800
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Very good. Well, I'll tell you they've got the websites

801
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that they can contact.

802
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Yeah.

803
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I think this is a great thing for them to

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be able to feed their minds and get that information

805
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and start thinking more positive so they can start thriving

806
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instead of just barely getting by and hating every day.

807
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I just want to thank you too for being here

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to help our audience maybe reimagine a life that's happy,

809
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:33.079
filled with joy, fill with happiness, and they themselves are

810
00:50:33.079 --> 00:50:35.960
feeling positive that they can take on the world and

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accomplish just unbelievable things just by just reimagining what's going on.

812
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Thank you so much for being with us today. Thank

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you for joining us at a Sharp Outlook. We're here

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So I hope that you will join us next week,

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but call in this number because I know you're having

820
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:23.039
negative thoughts just like everyone else. But let's start thinking

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about some of the positive things and talk with this

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uh uh then of uh Den, of Dean of Zen, Yes, yes,

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thank you, and whatever you do, let's just stay informed.

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I want to thank you for joining us on a

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Sharp Outlook. We have been informed and energized to take

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the next steps. We have posted links to websites and

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videos to learn more on today's topic. Please join us

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