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This is beyond confidence and now here's your

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host, Diva Park. Good morning
listeners, it is Tuesday, and I'm

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thrilled to be here with you.
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she would smile, ask after them, and back the groceries as fast as

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you could. So what an example. And then what was amazing was that

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So let's bring on our guests.
Welcome Nicole. Hi, how are you,

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good morning? Thank you for having
me. Good morning, Nicole.

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So tell us if you recall a
moment from your childhood that stands out for

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you even today a moment. I'm
sorry, could you repeat the question?

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Sure? Do you recall a moment
from your childhood that stands out for you

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even today? I guess a moment
from my childhood that stands out for me

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today, I remember so much of
playfulness from my childhood. I think the

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vision that came to me as you
asked me that question. I just remember

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playing in the sand as a child
and how innocent and playful I was as

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a child, And it's just it
made me think for a minute how important

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it is, even as an adult
to bring that same playfulness into my everyday

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life. So yeah, yeah,
h and it's amazing. And when you

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talk about playfulness, and that's what
we want for our children, having that

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playfulness and just playing and bringing carrying
it through their adulthood. So and I

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think I just wanted to add to
that. I think some of the work

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that I talk about and the work
that I do, I always encourage people

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to remember that that part of you, that that inner child, if you

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will, she's still there, she
still is with you, she's still she

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still wants to play. And so
it's important too, I think, as

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adults, to still tap into that
part of us that is there. M

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hm, very true, very true, because without play, creativity doesn't happen.

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So it's important for and play can
be different, doesn't have to be

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that you don't have to just kind
of go and plane the sand can be

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differently. Whatever brings you joy and
helps you with that creativity and curiosity.

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So as you grew up very vote
your interest as a teenager and in high

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school. Well it's funny that you
bring that up, because I was just

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talking to my parents yesterday and I
completely forgot this. But in seventh grade,

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I ran for student council and my
dad said he didn't He said,

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I didn't tell my parents that I
was doing it. And the way that

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he found out was he showed up
at our junior high and there were signs

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everywhere that said vote for Nicole.
And that's how he found out that I

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was running because I never told them. I guess I'm I don't know if

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it was intentional or not, but
at a very young age, I wanted

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to lead and I won as the
seventh grade president of our class, so

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I always had an interest in leadership. I was also an athlete, so

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I played volleyball, I ran track. I was a very active I was

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a very active kid who also sometimes
got involved with the wrong crowd, if

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you will, So I was kind
of always playing, kind of riding the

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line a little bit. Was part
of me that was wanted to be.

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You know, I did really well
in school. I did the sports,

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but then there was also kind of
the rebellion part of me. But from

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a very young age, thinking about
seventh grade, I wanted to help and

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I wanted to lead. Yeah that's
beautiful. Yeah, what would you say

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were your lessons? Like you mentioned
that you played sports and rent track from

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that commitment commitment. There were many
times when I would sign up for a

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camp where I didn't know anybody,
a volleyball camp and in high school,

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and I remember one time it was
a week camp and I was staying overnight

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and it was a hard camp.
I called my parents crying on the first

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day and I just wanted to come
home. And I remember I was so

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mad at them because they were like, no, you're going to stick it

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out. You're going to stay.
And I stayed at that camp, and

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I am so grateful that I did, because I will never forget the last

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day of that camp. I just
I had improved so much. I had

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the confidence that I didn't have on
the first day. I had made some

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friends. So I think, just
thinking back to sports, one of the

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biggest things that my parents really instilled
in me was the importance of commitment and

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consistency. I continued to show up
and it was worth it, absolutely,

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And you hit the nail on the
head, Nicole, consistency and commitment.

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And that's how if you show up
in life too, being committed to yourself,

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being committed to others, and showing
up for yourself, showing up for

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others, because when you do that, that's when the magic happens. So

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as you continued out of your high
school, where did your life take you?

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Many different directions. I went to
college. I went to Arizona State

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and really fun school. I ended
up. I graduated with a finance degree.

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And after college, I I had
a really rough, you know,

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three four years. By mid twenties. I think, you go to school,

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you go to college. I mean
that's not everybody's track, but that

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was kind of my track. And
then after that you graduate college and it's

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like there you are, so there
is no more plans. It's really up

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to you. And I think I
really felt a sense I lost control in

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a sense, like I didn't know
what was next, and so I did

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get I was diagnosed with an eating
disorder in my early twenties, and so

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I went to treatment for anorexia,
and part of the eating disorder, I

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think was it was a way for
me to control what was going on in

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my life. I did have control
issues and I was, I would say

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I still probably am a little Type
A. And when I hit that mid

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twenties mark, I felt out of
control. I wasn't sure what I wanted

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to do next. I felt lost
my degree in finance. I just wasn't

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I did the corporate thing, I
got a job with the degree that I

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had, but I wasn't happy.
And so I think the eating disorder was

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a cry for help in a sense, and so I went to treatment and

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it was the best thing that's ever
happened to me. That was where I

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was introduced to yoga, and yoga
really saved my life. I mean,

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I know it sounds big, but
it's very true. And so yoga saved

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my life, and that is why
I got into the work that I'm doing

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now, which is teaching yoga and
owning a studio and really kind of giving

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back in a sense, if you
will. So that was kind of like

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my twenties. And once I hit
thirty, let's talk for a bit and

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explore. You know, there are
so many young girls and boys. They

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come out of school with all these
stars, right, like, yeah,

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I have graduation all pumped up,
And as you mentioned that, then there

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is that gap because since you're a
child either like you know, even if

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you're in sports, you're going okay, yeah, like you know, are

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we going in division one division two
school? And they have their map,

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their path mapped out. But there
are a lot of people, like as

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you mentioned, with finance degrees,
and if you're not a professional athlete,

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which are not that many, is
yep, you gotta go get a job.

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And then when they're in the job, it is not stepping up to

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their expectations. So is it that
their expectations are not aligning with the reality

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or what's happening? And if you
were to go back during that time,

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what would you tell them and tell
your younger self. That's such a good

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question. I think. I think
it's hard as kids when you are eighteen

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nineteen declaring your major. And my
parents really kind of guided me in that

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direction, and I didn't really know
what I wanted to do, and that's

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why I went in that That's why
I did the finance degree. And I

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wish if I could go back and
talk to my younger self. I would

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have told her to take a step
back and to really check in with what

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do I want to do, because
as a people pleaser, I was just

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wanting to please my parents, and
everybody around you is kind of telling you

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what they want you to do,
and that, at least that was my

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experience, is to just take a
step back. And it's okay to not

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know right, It's okay to not
know exactly what you want to do you're

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young, But I wish I would
have taken a moment to pause. And

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it's as simple as what do I
like? Like? What am I drawn

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to? And every person, no
matter what your age is, if you

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really take a moment to pause and
to take a step back, you know

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the things that you like. And
if I would have taken that step back,

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I probably would have gone into nursing, and at that time I was

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very interested in it, but I
kind of shut that down and really listen

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to what other people were telling me. You're so good in business, you're

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strong with members, you've always gotten
a's in math. That just go for

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it, and so that's what I
listened to, and it was like okay,

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okay, okay, So I really
would encourage people to take a moment

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to pause, to check in with
yourself. Is this really what you want?

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What do you want? As opposed
to what those external factors are communicating

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or talking. We're kind of influencing
you if they are out there. That's

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powerful. And I want to take
a moment to acknowledge you for being vulnerable.

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So it's not only taking a pause
but recognizing as you mentioned that it

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was cry for help and I'm sorry
that you had to go through it.

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Sounds like it made you a much
stronger and more in tune person with yourself.

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Now, that's said, if we
can help our young listeners know that

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it's okay, it's okay to be
vulnerable, it's okay to share your story,

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and it's okay to go ask for
that help. You don't have to

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be in control at all times.
So goodest to you for sharing that story

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and that can light the way for
other people. Thank you. I appreciate

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that, and I love that you
said that as a reminder it's okay to

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that. No, it's okay to
not be in control because that's life,

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right, So I thank you.
Yeah, absolutely so. Then you mentioned

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that yoga saved your life. Tell
me what was it about yoga that you

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connected with To be honest and to
be fair, in the beginning, I

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did not like yoga, and so
as somebody that was a pound the pavement

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over exerciser, you know, really
kind of at war with my body.

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HM. When I went to treatment
and yoga was a big part of our

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daily work, I was very resistant. I was very resistant in the beginning,

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and I'll never forget one day it
was a big turning point for me.

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We started with our class and we
were outside and it was a beautiful

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sunny day and the yoga that we
were doing was trauma informed. I didn't

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know it at the time, but
we were standing outside into dasana or mountain

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poles, and we were on the
grass and the sun was shining, and

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in that moment, it was like
the first time that I was able to

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really connect with myself and actually feel
like a sense of love towards myself that

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I hadn't felt in years, probably
since I was that little girl playing in

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the sand. And so in that
moment I just started to sob because I

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felt that connection and in that moment
I wasn't feeling I felt that sense of

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love. I wasn't at war or
I wasn't hating myself, and it was

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a short moment, but I got
a glimpse of it, and I wanted

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more of it. And so that
was really kind of like my experience with

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with yoga and why I just I
wanted to I wanted that feeling again.

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I wanted that, so I kept
doing the work and that connection piece,

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that love with self, which really
happens in the present moment. That's that's

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what I was yearning for. Yeah, yeah, that's beautiful that in that

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moment you got a glimpse that what
could happen if you love yourself. And

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so many times what happens is that
then people don't ask for help. They

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want to be strong, like yep, I'm strong, But then that can

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come out sometimes passive, aggressive,
or it can come out in any other

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forms. So what you're sharing is
that yes you may experience resistance, Yes

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you may not believe in it,
but it's a path that commitment and consistency.

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Going back to what you shared originally, that when you're seeking help,

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it'll be tough at times and it
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if you keep on showing up for
yourself. You'll get past it, exactly.

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And I think I would just encourage
your listeners as well too. If

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you are resisting, lean into that. You know, why are you resisting?

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And I think that's just like a
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awareness to really check in. And
my resistance was slowing down was scary.

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Tuning in felt scary when you've been
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But crying was scary because I was
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the strong one of rock. You
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scary. But I really encourage people
to lean in, lean into those feelings.

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Yeah, No, definitely, and
you share that not only it helped

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you connect with yourself, love yourself, but out of it was born a

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business. So tell us about that. Yeah, So it wasn't. It

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wasn't right away. Took me maybe
like five years. Eventually I kept doing

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yoga and then I decided to become
a teacher, and so I was Yeah,

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so I was home with my two
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they were two and three, and
I just was feeling unfulfilled home with

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them. I loved them to death, but I was looking for something more,

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and so that's when I decided to
go get my two hundred hour teacher

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Training certificate and that was like a
six month program. So I did that

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and I started teaching yoga. My
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and at yoga studios, and I
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I loved teaching, and I also, I think that leader part in me

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that's always been there started to kind
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looking at how everybody was running their
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I realized, I thought I could
do it better, and yeah, and

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why not. So I opened up
my first studio almost ten years ago today,

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and there was no yoga being offered
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in, and so I opened up
my first studio and that's where it all

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began. So I started the teaching. I love teaching, and then I

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wanted something more than just teaching.
I wanted to make this a career,

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and so I opened up my first
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and so I'm still in the business, not teaching as much more behind

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the scenes of running the studio and
also really in the space of educating students

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who are interested in becoming teachers,
So students become yoga teachers. Is that?

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So you mentioned that when you are
teaching at the facilities that you could

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do better than them. So the
venue opened up your yoga studio. What

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was different about yo Yoga studio.
The first word that just came to my

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mind was community. M hmm.
There is an energy that I've learned over

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the years that comes from the owner
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lot of industries, but I'm speaking
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industry that I'm in. To foster
a community within your studio space, and

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it started with me just being there. It started with me teaching a lot

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of the classes and educating people because
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there were some people that thought yoga
was we and so I really had to

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educate people on what yoga was about. And so I really think that our

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studio and our studios still today,
if you talk to any of our members,

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they would say like they love the
community of people that are there.

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There are so many any of our
members would do anything for some of the

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people that they come to class with
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And I think that it stems.
It starts with the owner and the energy

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that the owner brings into the space
that then fosters that close community not only

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within the students, but also within
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in our space. So, yeah, community, that's beautiful because in this

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disconnected world of social media where people
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foot forward, so to speak,
it's more of a comparison. And of

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course it's still a community and people
connect as add beautiful friendships. At the

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same token, it does create that
disconnect and when you're building that community,

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that's very powerful. So tell us, like, what else did you do

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with your business? Yeah, so
community was big. We started offering a

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lot of workshops and events because I
think that there's so much that goes beyond

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just yoga and the physical practice that
we see. So we started offering a

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lot of workshops that kind of would
expand the depth of yoga. So the

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people that were really interested in learning
more than just the physical practice would sign

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up for some of these workshops and
events like a sound bath, meditation,

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or breathwork, so things like that. So we started offering more workshops events,

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and then we started offering our two
hundred hour teacher Training program, which

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again it for people that want to
teach, they go through our two hundred

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hour teacher training program, So that
is something that we are very proud of.

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We continue to offer that as well. So teaching students how to become

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teachers and become very good quality teachers
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the other piece of the business where
I've really kind of personally expanded on is

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trauma informed yoga. So I've started
to do and offer more trauma informed yoga

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classes to and volunteer my time to
domestic abuse shelters and recovery centers, so

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some sober living houses in Minneapolis,
and that is something that I'm very passionate

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about teaching. And so trauma informed
yoga has been a really cool piece to

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my journey and offering that, Oh, that's beautiful, and giving back to

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the community is so important and that's
so close to my heart because think about

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it, then all of us would
be helping each other out, like we

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would be living in a very beautiful
community and a kind community and just finding

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some time. So that's great.
And if some are starting out their business

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or somebody is looking to grow their
business. As you have learned through your

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journey, what are a few tips
that you can share. The first word

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that comes to mind is, and
my husband tells me this a lot is

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hit the repeat button, so every
day, and that's that consistency piece,

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right. I do some coaching for
yoga studio owners and that's one of the

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biggest things that I talk with them
about. And no matter what you're in

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as far as business goes, show
up every day and even on the days

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that are hard, even on the
days where in my position, teaching to

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one person one you know, a
yoga class only teaching to one person,

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or showing up to teach a class
and nobody shows up, you know,

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on those hard days when you're feeling
discouraged and you're wondering why am I doing

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this? Just continue to show up
for yourself, continue to show up for

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your community. The repeat button is
really something that I've seen success with many

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different business owners. If you can
stay committed and consistent with how you're showing

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up for your business and your community, I know you'll succeed. So yeah,

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yeah, so hitting that repeat button, invest in yourself. There is

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I wish I would have. I've
waited. I waited about four years to

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hire a business coach to help me
with my business, and I have to

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say it was very lonely for those
four years. As a business owner,

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it can feel very lonely. And
so whether or not that's you don't necessarily

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need to hire a business coach if
that's not in the budget, but find

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a mentor somebody that is doing what
you want to be doing, or somebody

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that is very influential to you,
or somebody that you respect. Find a

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mentor or invest in a coach,
because I believe, and I've seen it

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happen in my business over and over
again. What has come back from that

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investment, not just financially, but
also just on a personal and professional level

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is tenfold. So definitely, I
think invest in yourself is another piece of

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advice I would give. Absolutely.
You have talked about breath work, so

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that a lot of people who may
who are experiencing, especially after pandemic anxiety,

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or they may be experiencing just a
disconnect. Do you have a couple

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of breathing exercises that people could do
A quick one. It's something like you

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know, breath on the go.
That would help them out for sure.

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So this is what I love to
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give you two very simple ones,
and you can do it in the car,

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like for those of you that have
kiddos and you're in the drop of

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d offline or drop you know,
pickup line, you can do it in

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the car. First one is just
very simple, breathing in and out through

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the nose, So you breathe in
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breathe in for one, two,
three, four, and then you exhale

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through the nose for four, three
two one. So very simple, just

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take it. Could be just doing
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doing that for a minute. Breathing
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the vegas nerve or the parasympathetic nervous
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it's safe to relax. It can
help with anxiety. And all it takes

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is sixty seconds and intentional breathing.
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for four counts and you breathe out
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I would really recommend that if you
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One other option that I would suggest
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So we're just going to add to
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into through the nose for four counts, You're going to hold at the top

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for four counts. You're going to
act heal through the nose for four counts,

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and then you're going to hold at
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it's almost like you're making this box. That's what it's called box breath.

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Is you breathe in for four,
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four, hold for four. So
those would be the two very simple techniques

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I would recommend. Yeah, they
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the box breathing and it helps.
And let's say, as listeners are thinking

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about yoga and then they want to
connect with you, do you offer anything

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online? How can they connected to? How can they know more about you?

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Sure? So? Yes. At
my studio in Minneapolis, all of

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our classes are offered live stream.
So if people want to learn more about

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the work, or want to more
learn more about the classes, or interested

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in taking a yoga class, just
visit the Honest yoga dot com, So

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just be honest yoga dot com and
that is where you can try us out.

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We have an intro rate, it's
all of our website. You can't

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miss it. It's fifteen dollars for
the first week of classes. And so

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all of the classes you'll see in
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those are the classes that you can
just tune in and try us out and

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see if it's a fit for you. And so we do have and if

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you decide it is, you can
sign up for a live stream membership option

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and tune into any of those classes
of fantast And as the wrap up our

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show, are there any parting thoughts
that you'd like to share with our audience.

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Yes. Another piece of advice that
has been very much resonating with me

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is if there's one person that you're
going to bet on, bet on yourself,

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count on yourself, bet on you. You know, I think when

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our fear based thoughts are getting in
the way right of us making decisions,

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kind of crushing her spirit or you
know, I think always remember and for

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whatever reason lately for me reminding myself, bet on yourself. Nicole, if

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you're going to bet on anybody but
on you. And so that's what I

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would love to remind you, listeners, is to to bet on yourself.

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A great way to part bet on
yourself because we are here, we bet

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on you and would love to see
you bet on yourself because we want to

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make sure that you live the life
that you deserve. So thank you Nicole

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for joining our show. Thank you
so much for having me. It's been

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an honor to be here. Oh
it's been a joy. Thank you and

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thank you listeners for being part of
our family. Because, as Nicole mentioned,

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community is important, and this is
what it is. It is our

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Beyond Confidence family. It's not just
about living your life confidently. It's about

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taking that one step beyond where you
can express yourself to the fullest and reach

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out to us, let us know. How can we help you to express

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yourself fully, be the best version
of yourself and live the life and deserve

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and want. And thank you one
for making the show possible. Thank you

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for being part of Beyond Confidence.
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