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Hello, my lovelies.

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How are you?

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Welcome to a new episode

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of unleashing brilliance.

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And today, what I thought

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I'd share with you is a

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little bit of my backstory.

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I'm often asked, I've received

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so many emails over the years

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from people saying, where

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did it all start Janine?

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How on earth did you

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get to be doing what it

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is that you're doing?

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My  response to that is I am

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totally an accidental   and if

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you actually look at my life,

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I reckon every 10 years, I've

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pretty much reinvented myself.

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In fact, my speaker agent,

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often refer to me as the

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queen of reinvention, which

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I remember at the time

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hearing it, having a little

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giggle and going, really?

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And it was only on

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reflection of my story that

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I went, actually, yeah.

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I have changed things up

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every decade pretty much.

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So, in response to all

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of those that have asked,

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this is what today's

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episode is all about.

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And I hope that by sharing

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my journey to here, it will

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give you permission to know

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that you have everything

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inside of you to become more

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brilliant tomorrow than you

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are today and to give you

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the courage and the bravery

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to unleash your brilliance

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even more to the world.

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So where did it

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all start for me?

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Well, I was actually born

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into a farming community

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in the north of England.

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My dad was a farmer

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and my mom pretty much

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was a stay at home mom.

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And I grew up with, lots of

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words of wisdom from my dad.

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He used to say where there's

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muck, there's brass love,

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which essentially meant,

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if I work really hard then

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the results would come.

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And on those days where

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I'd come home from school,

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it'd be like, Oh my God,

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this is the worst day ever.

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He'd go, it'll be reet.

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It'll be reet.

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Which pretty much went,

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you know, you know, put

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on your big girl pants

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and you'll be fine.

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school was, pretty

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average for me.

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I was a real bookworm.

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And I was teased quite a

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lot at school for, know,

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being probably a little bit

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quiet, had mousy brown hair,

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lots and lots of freckles.

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I was a bit of a slow

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developer on the puberty side

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of things and you know, found

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me with my nose in a book.

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So I was teased quite a lot

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until, around the age of 17 or

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18 when I discovered Madonna's

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fashion style, Princess

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Diana's or Lady Diana's

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electric blue eye shadow and

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mascara as it was at the time.

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and of course, hair

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dye, you know, hair

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dye changed my world.

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And through school, I was

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getting really great results.

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And I remember a teacher

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saying to my parents at

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a parent teacher evening

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one night, you know,

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your, your daughter

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should consider applying

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to Oxford or Cambridge.

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Now, as a North of

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England girl, it didn't

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even enter into my mind,

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into my psyche at all.

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And in fact, what I did

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is I instantly went into

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that box of, why would

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I want to go there?

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And why on earth would

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anyone accept me?

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So from an early age,

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this lack of self belief,

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really started to...

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take root in terms of

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the decisions that I was

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actually making for myself.

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But what it did do is it

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triggered off a curiosity.

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And, because nobody

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in my family had ever

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been to university.

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And so we'd never really

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had those conversations

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around the dinner table.

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But this conversation

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with the teacher triggered

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off a curiosity for me.

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And I, so.

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I started applying and I

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actually got into, Aston

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University in Birmingham

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to do a Bachelor of Science

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degree and, super excited.

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I had to achieve certain

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results at A level, but

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we faced another challenge

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then because as a family

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we couldn't afford to

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send me to university.

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So thankfully at that time

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the UK government, offered out

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a grant system and I applied

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and I was fortunate enough

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to be given a full grant, to

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be able to attend university.

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There's no way I would

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have been able to go if it

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hadn't have been for that

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grant system at that time.

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And I'm forever grateful for

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that because, that pretty

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much changed the trajectory

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of my world prior to that, my

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dreams had been on a certain

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level, subsequently to being

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given the opportunity to go

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to uni, everything changed.

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And so at the age of 18,

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I packed my backpack, and

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off I went in England.

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Those of you that are

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listening that are from the

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UK know that in England,

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we tend to leave home and

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we go and live on campus.

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And at the age of 18, I left

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home, and never returned.

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Uni was brilliant.

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I graduated, you know,

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after four years with a

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bachelor of science degree,

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a whole heap of memories.

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Thank God, social media wasn't

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around then and a hell of a

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lot of debt at the time, or

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a big overdraft at the time.

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And this time I packed my

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backpack and I headed off to

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London to start a graduate

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training scheme at a company

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called Coats Viyella.

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So I started my corporate

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career working in

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the fashion industry.

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And in fact, only the other

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day I received a note from

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two incredible women that I

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met on that very first day

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of that graduate training

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program saying, Oh my God,

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it's 30 years since we

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started day one, it's like.

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Goodness me.

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So yes, 30 years ago,

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I moved to London and

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I started a graduate

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traineeship at Coats Viyella.

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And over the course of

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the next seven or eight

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years, I worked my way up.

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I ended up in the position

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of group marketing manager.

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And it was at this time that

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I'd met my now husband, Jason.

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So we met on the shop

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floor, we met at work,

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we fell in love, he was

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an Aussie, he was from

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Perth or he is from Perth.

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And I.

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decided to move to Australia.

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So, in the year 2000, on the

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1st of December 2000, I packed

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my backpack again, and this

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time I arrived in Melbourne.

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I arrived in Melbourne with

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the trusted backpack, my

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permanent residency visa,

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a resume and my husband.

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And that was pretty much it.

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And suddenly I had to rebuild

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my career in a country where

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I had zero social proof.

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I had to rebuild my network

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in a country where I knew no

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one and apart from you know,

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my brother was here and I

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had to rebuild my life, which

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let's be honest, my vision

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of my life in Australia had

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been created from watching

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endless episodes of Home and

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Away and Neighbors at uni.

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So I had a certain view of

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what Australia was going to be

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like, but to say it was scary,

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is really an understatement.

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I reckon it's one of the

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scariest things I've ever

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done, to be honest, moving

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to a country where I

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thought it would be easy.

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you know, we speak English.

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My understanding was it was

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pretty similar to where I was

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from, but it was one of the

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hardest things I've had to

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do in terms of rebuilding my

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career, rebuilding my network,

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rebuilding my confidence here

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and learning to navigate,

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the different cultural

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norms that existed here.

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So, over the next 10 years,

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those of you that are really

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smart will be working at

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my age by now, but over the

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next 10 years, I rebuilt

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my corporate career and

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I ended up becoming the

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group marketing director

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at Oroton Group looking

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after two incredible brands,

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the Ralph Lauren brand.

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I was looking after that

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here in Asia, Asia pac and I

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helped, relaunched the Oroton

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brand, its website and worked

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with the creative director

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at the time to take the

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Oroton brand into Hong Kong.

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But at that time, I still felt

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there was more, you know, I

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had three awesome children.

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At the time they were, I

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think three, five and seven.

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I've still got them by

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the way, but they're a

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little bit bigger now.

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You know, had a home,

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had a career, but I felt

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like there was more.

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I was giving a lot to

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other people, giving

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a lot to my team.

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To, the EC, the executive

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committee, the executive

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board at Or to Mr.

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Lauren over in the U S to the

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media, to key stakeholders.

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I was coming home and then,

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you know, giving a lot of

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my time to the children, to

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my children, to my husband.

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And to be honest, in

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all of this, I felt like

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I was losing myself.

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I knew I was great

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at doing my job.

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I could do it

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standing on my head.

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I loved it.

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I, I loved playing around

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the edges and, creating

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and launching brands

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and rejuvenating brands.

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I loved everything about it.

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I was traveling the world

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going to Fashion Week in

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New York twice a year.

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It was fabulous, but

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something was missing.

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I felt like my brain, wasn't

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being challenged in the way

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I wanted to challenge it.

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And so I decided that there

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was more and that, I had to

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take ownership of that more.

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And it's a whole other

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story, which you'll hear in

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future episodes, :but I left

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my corporate career and,

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guaranteed set out on my own.

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And I started building

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my first business,

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LBD Group, a women's

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networking organization.

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It was totally bootstrapped,

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totally self funded.

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And about two years into

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that, the big hit came in

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that my husband, Jason,

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lost his corporate job.

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So the company that he

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was working for went

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into receivership.

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We had zero cash coming in.

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The company was still

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bootstrapping and we were

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racking up credit cards.

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Quite frankly, it was,

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you know, everything was

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going on the credit card.

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And it got to a point one

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day where, Jason told me

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we had 50 left in the bank.

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And.

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that evening, it just

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hit me and it hit me.

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right do I have to

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follow my dreams?

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What right do I have to

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pursue something different?

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I  can go and get a job.

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I can turn this around.

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What right do I have

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to put my family and

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my children at risk?

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And they were at risk

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because we'd had to move

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out of our house into the

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shittiest house in the street.

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We'd had conversations with

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the kids about Christmas

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and birthdays are on pause.

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Don't ask us for

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milkshakes at the weekends.

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We'd even spoken.

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a little bit in jest, but

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also a little bit seriously

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to some friends about we might

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need to camp in your backyard.

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Things are getting

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quite serious.

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And the reality of the

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50 left in the bank hit

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home and I just lost it.

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I just, burst into tears

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and Jason found me crying

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my eyes out at my desk.

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And I said to him, I'm

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going to go and find a job.

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I'm going to go

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and find a job.

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What right do I have

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to put you to put the

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children under pressure?

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What right?

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I can go get a job.

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I can do marketing

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standing on my head.

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And he turned around to me

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and he said, don't you dare.

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Don't you dare do that Janine.

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I believe in you.

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And those words, I believe in

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you was all that I needed to

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relight the fire in my belly

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because I went, you know what,

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if he believes in me, if my

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husband believes in me, then

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I've got to believe in myself

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and it relit this fire in me

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and over the next 10 years

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since then, 12 years almost

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now, I've built and I've

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sold  the LBD group, so I've

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built and sold a business,

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I've run a non for profit

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where over five years we,

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created a gift giving circle

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and supported an incredible

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community of women and

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kids, here in Sydney to help

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break the cycle of poverty

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and prostitution and drug

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dealing being the only jobs.

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I've written three

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bestselling books.

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I've traveled the world,

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speaking on stages

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with incredible people.

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and I now work with

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individuals to help

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them unleash their

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brilliance, to achieve

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the growth that they want.

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I also, a couple of years

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ago, I got invited back to

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my university to be given an

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honorary doctorate of science.

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And to give the speech at

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that graduating ceremony

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this year, that is a moment.

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Honestly, when I got

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that letter from the

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UK, another moment where

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I burst into tears.

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So that moment where Jason

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said to me, I believe in

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you changed everything.

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And the reason I'm sharing

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this is not about, Hey,

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look at what I've achieved.

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Hey, look at how I've,

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grown myself and grown

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this business out of being

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on the brink of disaster.

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How I turned, you know,

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a 50 left in the bank to

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a seven figure business.

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It's not about any of that.

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The reason I want to share

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this story is because of the

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personal learning that I had.

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You see, for so long, I

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was striving and proving

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that I was good enough.

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This relentless quest to

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prove that I was good enough

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left me often exhausted on

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the brink of burnout and

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constantly battling imposter

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syndrome because I had

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this crazy fear failing.

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And it was only when I

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stopped, it was only when

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Jason said to me, I believe in

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you, it was only that moment

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where I stopped and I realized

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that around me, everything

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is constantly changing.

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Everything is constantly on

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the move and we're seeing

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it right now, aren't we?

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We're seeing this constant

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change around us economically.

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Where we're being challenged,

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in terms of, our businesses

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and where the money's

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coming from,  we're being

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challenged financially in

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our businesses, but also

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financially at home, we're

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being challenged in terms

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of all of the uncertainty,

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00:14:05,411 --> 00:14:07,311
politically and globally,

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we're being challenged

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with what we're reading

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and seeing in the media.

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We're being challenged from

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a health perspective on

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the back of the pandemic.

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And now we're being challenged

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socially, in terms of how all

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of this is filtering down.

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So the reality is there's

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change is constant.

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It's happening at a macro

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level and it's happening for

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all of us at a micro level.

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And I realised at

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that moment that Jason

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said, I believe in you.

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That despite all of this

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change, I faced it before,

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despite all of the change at

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that time, I faced it before

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and what I realised is the

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only thing that is constant

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amongst the chaos is you.

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Who I was being, who I

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wanted to become, and

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the same is you, right?

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Since I owned that, since I

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went, you know what, who am I?

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Who am I being

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00:15:02,764 --> 00:15:03,744
every single day?

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And who do I want to

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become since I owned that?

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Since I stepped into

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owning me, into owning my

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brilliance, into owning my

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expertise, into owning the

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fact that I can experience

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heartache, tough situations,

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I can pull myself out of it,

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owning the fact that I have

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this experience of life.

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It was only when I started

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being intentional about owning

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that, about stepping into

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my brilliance, about knowing

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00:15:35,836 --> 00:15:37,056
the impact that that makes

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every single day, only by

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doing that did things change.

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And I want you to think

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about this because the

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same can happen for you.

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Everything around you is

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changing all the time.

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Businesses are changing,

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00:15:51,631 --> 00:15:53,001
your clients are evolving,

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the economy is evolving.

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Everything is changing.

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But the only thing that

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is constant is you.

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00:16:01,643 --> 00:16:03,023
Who are you?

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00:16:04,003 --> 00:16:07,253
Who are you being and who is

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00:16:07,253 --> 00:16:09,663
it that you want to become?

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00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,773
When I started owning that.

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00:16:13,318 --> 00:16:14,618
When I started stepping into

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00:16:14,618 --> 00:16:17,158
my brilliance, that is when

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00:16:17,718 --> 00:16:19,668
everything around me changed.

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00:16:20,378 --> 00:16:21,038
That is when I

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started becoming the

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00:16:22,878 --> 00:16:24,778
author, the speaker.

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When I started owning

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00:16:26,298 --> 00:16:27,148
the clients that I

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00:16:27,148 --> 00:16:28,248
wanted to work with.

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00:16:28,528 --> 00:16:30,038
When I started really

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committing to the business

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00:16:31,902 --> 00:16:33,702
that I wanted to build, but

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00:16:33,752 --> 00:16:36,582
also building it on my terms.

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Committing to the life that

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I want for myself, for Jason

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00:16:42,427 --> 00:16:44,077
and for my three children.

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I want you to imagine

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00:16:46,656 --> 00:16:48,216
what more you could

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00:16:48,216 --> 00:16:50,446
achieve if you could step

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00:16:50,736 --> 00:16:52,366
into your brilliance.

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00:16:53,126 --> 00:16:53,986
The questions I want to

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leave you with in this

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00:16:55,546 --> 00:16:58,456
episode are Who are you

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00:16:58,456 --> 00:17:01,036
not to be more brilliant?

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00:17:01,843 --> 00:17:02,693
Who says you can't

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00:17:02,703 --> 00:17:03,853
be more brilliant?

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00:17:04,583 --> 00:17:06,423
And the second question I want

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00:17:06,433 --> 00:17:09,403
you to consider is what will

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00:17:09,403 --> 00:17:12,353
change when you are brilliant?

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Because here's the thing.

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Undertaking any meaningful

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endeavor requires each

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and every single one of

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us to be exceptional.

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It requires you

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to be exceptional.

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And when we can accept

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our own imperfections and

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stop beating ourselves up

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for what we don't have.

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When we can start

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accepting our limitations

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and stop making excuses

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for our mistakes.

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When we can start owning

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who we are, who we are being

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and who it is that we want

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to become, accepting those

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imperfections, accepting

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those limitations, when we

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can do that for ourselves,

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we give permission to those

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around us to do the same.

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Stepping into this

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space is a choice.

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It is a practice and

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it is a discipline.

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And I want you to think about

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because who you are, who you

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are being, and who you want

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to become is all your choice.

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Thank you for listening

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to this episode,

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where I've been.

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I wanted to share

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with you my story.

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It hasn't all unicorns

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and rainbows and

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champagne popping moments.

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There has been a lot of

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challenge, a lot of picking

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myself off the floor and

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a lot of really digging

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deep of deciding and

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making the choice around

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who am I in this moment?

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Who am I working to become?

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And who am I being to

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everyone around me?

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Until next week, enjoy

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and have an awesome week.