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Speaker 1: Welcome to a bonus episode of Big Business, and a.

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Speaker 2: Very special one at that.

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Speaker 1: I am going to be chatting about, which I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you have seen if you follow me on socials, my book,

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Speaker 1: which is out now for pre order. It's called Just

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Speaker 1: Getting Started. You can order it exclusively on book Topia.

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Speaker 1: Producer x will be leaving a link in the show

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Speaker 1: notes for you.

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Speaker 3: You've never called me that before. That was really hot.

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Speaker 2: Well that's what you've been calling yourself.

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Speaker 3: You've never heard you say it.

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Speaker 1: I was like Tingles, and I have actually three copies

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Speaker 1: of the book here with me in the studio today.

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Speaker 2: I've shown Xander. He felt. He goes, oh, it's so hard.

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Speaker 3: How is this podcast?

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Speaker 1: It's a hard cover, it feels nice. Oh that's what

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Speaker 1: you said. She's thick, she's the And I thought maybe

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Speaker 1: I could read a bit of the book.

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Speaker 4: I want to hear it because I flicked through it

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Speaker 4: because that's the only time I've had to have a

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Speaker 4: little squeeze.

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Speaker 3: But I haven't read anything yet.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I don't know if I'm allowed to

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Speaker 1: be reading out my book on the pod.

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Speaker 2: But we're just breaking the rules today.

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Speaker 3: Here in a big business. We don't play by the rules.

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Speaker 2: No, we break them. People have been asking, am I

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Speaker 2: going to do an audio book?

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Speaker 1: And we've had some conversations about that, and hopefully we're

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Speaker 1: going to make it happen. But as far as I'm aware,

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Speaker 1: recording an audiobook is a massive job. Yeah, it's reading

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Speaker 1: a whole book out loud perfectly.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to pay me to do it? I'll

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Speaker 3: do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can be you. You can do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, we are looking into doing that, but

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Speaker 1: for now we just have the hard cover copy.

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Speaker 2: Like, you can hear it. Listen, let's do asmr Oh.

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Speaker 3: That actually sounds so yummy, does it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you'll be able to hear the pages.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do it when you like, flick them all the way.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it sounds that sounds like a zipper.

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Speaker 3: We are getting hot and business today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well at the end of the book.

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Speaker 1: So I've been writing this book for two years, by

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Speaker 1: the way, that's how long it's taken, and probably the

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Speaker 1: first year was me getting it like complete, and then

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Speaker 1: the next year after that. So the last twelve months

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Speaker 1: I've been going back and adding things to the book.

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Speaker 2: I've also been.

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Speaker 1: Changing things because it's so funny if you start writing

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Speaker 1: something now, in two years, you'll feel different about the

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Speaker 1: things that you said. And so I'll read you a

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Speaker 1: little bit now from the back of the book. And

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Speaker 1: it's a letter to my younger self. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: just if you want to do something that feels really therapeutic,

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Speaker 1: write your younger self a letter. Because I found this

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Speaker 1: really like enjoyable to write thinking that my younger self

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Speaker 1: is going to read it.

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Speaker 2: So let's let's do it. I'm going to read it.

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Speaker 3: I am waiting on bettered breath. Is that how you

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Speaker 3: say that? Is that the right? See you?

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Speaker 1: I think so I'll google that while you read yeap,

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Speaker 1: Dear younger Brittany. Oh, I've got to get on my

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Speaker 1: book reader voice. Okay, not my like Bogan podcast voice.

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Speaker 1: Dear younger Brittany. Right now, you're probably sitting in your

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Speaker 1: tiny bedroom with your silver metal swirly love heart bed frame.

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Speaker 1: Oh fuck, see how hard this is if I'm actually

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Speaker 1: going to record, like imagine stuffing up and trying to

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Speaker 1: read the whole book anyway. Look, this is just the

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Speaker 1: uncut version and zebra print covers. Daydreaming about what the

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Speaker 1: future might hold, you're living out of home for the

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Speaker 1: your mum, which unfortunately isn't the first one, and to

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Speaker 1: You've got a casual job working in the restaurant of

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Speaker 1: You've not long started your YouTube channel and have discovered

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Speaker 1: that you love makeup. Your makeup collection consists of Bys

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Speaker 1: you've been making, but you've persisted and kept making them anyway,

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Speaker 1: which is actually going to be the thing that changes.

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Speaker 2: Your entire life. You just don't know it yet.

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Speaker 1: You've been through a lot emotionally by this point in

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Speaker 1: your life and have been neglected by both of your parents.

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Speaker 1: It's been a few years since your dad walked out

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Speaker 1: mainly upset by all of the milestones he missed. Teaching

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Speaker 1: there in the park at your year ten formal getting

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Speaker 1: And I know how angry you are now and how

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Speaker 1: angry you've been for years, but trust me, you'll get

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Speaker 2: Your relationship with your mum has been on.

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Speaker 1: And off for the last few years too, with lots

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Speaker 1: Because of the way your parents have been throughout your

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Speaker 1: do you know that the neglect you've dealt with is

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Speaker 1: going to one day end up being your superpower. You're

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Speaker 1: staring at the walls of your tiny world, wondering if

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Speaker 1: you'll ever feel like you're someone. I know you think

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Speaker 1: success is something reserved for other people, the people who

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Speaker 1: come from money, who go to UNI, who have supportive parents,

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Speaker 1: who are there to cheer you on, who seem like

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Speaker 1: they have it all together.

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Speaker 2: But let me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: That dream you have in your chest, the one you're

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Speaker 1: almost too scared to say out loud, it's not silly.

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Speaker 2: It's the start of everything.

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Speaker 1: I know right now that your goal is to score

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Speaker 1: yourself a job where you can earn one thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: How good would it be to earn fifty k a year.

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Speaker 1: You think about this often and it seems so out

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Speaker 2: But trust me, you will.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could sit across from you, take your

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Speaker 1: of you writing this letter, she has lived the life

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Speaker 1: you're too scared to even imagine right now. And let

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Speaker 1: me just say, Britt, You're going to surprise yourself. I

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Speaker 1: know you feel a little lost right now. You're seventeen,

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Speaker 1: maybe eighteen, You're just trying to get through each day,

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Speaker 1: job to job, paycheck to paycheck. You are going to

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Speaker 1: you're learning how to pay for your life expenses such

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Speaker 1: You've had so many different bosses already and you're not

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Speaker 1: even twenty. So many uniforms and annoyingly, so many different

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Speaker 1: super accounts, which, by the way, you still haven't sought

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Speaker 2: Age of thirty one. Fuck now I need to do that.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things.

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Speaker 3: I think all the money's depleted, babes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: You think that maybe this is just what life is,

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Speaker 1: But I promise you this isn't where your story ends.

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Speaker 1: There's something in you that doesn't sit still, that little

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Speaker 1: spark that each to do something more. You don't know

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Speaker 1: even when you feel silly, even when other people don't

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Speaker 1: understand you. Keep dreaming big. You're not meant for small things,

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Speaker 1: britt You're going to build something so beautiful, and it's

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Speaker 2: Do you want me to keep going like this is

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Speaker 2: longer than I thought.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're going to take a huge leap of faith

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Speaker 1: and it will pay off one day soon. You're going

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Speaker 1: to quit your full time job at twenty one. Yes, really,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have around eighty thousand YouTube subscribers and

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Speaker 1: without knowing it, you're slowly going to become one of

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Speaker 1: the first influencers in Australia right now, that word doesn't

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Speaker 1: even exist. As your YouTube channel grows, you're going to

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Speaker 1: be contacted by some brands because they have worked out

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Speaker 1: The day that you decide to throw in your full

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Speaker 1: no one in particular who encourage you to do this.

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Speaker 1: You've always been a bit spontaneous, and you're earning just

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Speaker 1: without a care in the world, which, looking back, you

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Speaker 1: After you quit your job, people will think you're crazy.

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Speaker 1: They'll raise their eyes eyebrows and ask what's your backup plan?

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Speaker 2: And here's the truth. You won't have.

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Speaker 1: One, but you'll decide that working on something you love,

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Speaker 1: making videos sharing your life is worth the risk. You'll

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Speaker 1: fil you'll feel scared out of your mind, but you'll

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Speaker 2: And do you want to know what happens?

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Speaker 1: It works, your little YouTube channel becomes something huge. A

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Speaker 1: million people will click subscribe to hear what you have

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Speaker 1: to say. Can you imagine that a million people? You'll

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Speaker 1: be living your dream, traveling, creating, connecting with people all

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Speaker 2: I wish you could see.

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Speaker 1: The version of you standing on that first stage at

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Speaker 1: a meet and greet, looking out at hundreds of faces

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Speaker 1: who showed up just to meet you. It's surreal and

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Speaker 1: it's just the beginning. But the road isn't always easy.

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Speaker 1: I need to be honest with you, Britt. There will

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Speaker 1: be hard days, days when you doubt everything. People on

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Speaker 1: the internet will say mean things about you, and you'll

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Speaker 1: pretend it doesn't hurt, but it will. You'll lose friends,

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Speaker 1: and your life will be heading in a different direction

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Speaker 1: compared to everyone you went to school with. You'll see

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