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Speaker 1: today's episode and listen out for the code word. Well, well, well,

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Speaker 1: I am very excited to be coming to you with

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Speaker 1: my first episode in our Twelve Days of Big Business.

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Speaker 1: Xander has got me working around the clock with these

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Speaker 1: twelve episodes, but I'm so excited and to kick things

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Speaker 1: off for this first episode, I'm going to answer a

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Speaker 1: juicy question that has come through in our Big Business

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Speaker 1: podcast DMS, and I'll tell you what all I can

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Speaker 1: say is slay, and that might be spelled in the

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Speaker 1: same way that Santa would spell it slay. But let's

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Speaker 1: get into reading this first. DM. This one says, Hey, Britt,

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Speaker 1: just listening to your podcast about the Christmas shows aka

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Speaker 1: the Christmas parties, and I'm interested in your thoughts. I

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Speaker 1: have a small team under ten staff, and over the years,

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Speaker 1: the Christmas parties have always been a pain point for me.

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Speaker 1: We try and work on something that everyone's wanted to do,

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Speaker 1: so we get people there or coordinate dates, but it's

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Speaker 1: never that simple and someone always gets upset or misses out. Now,

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Speaker 1: this year, I said, fuck it, we are understaffed and

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Speaker 1: between assistants to help me organize. So I picked a venue,

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Speaker 1: picked a date, and gave everyone nice invite and said

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Speaker 1: nice invites and said let's go. Half of the team

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Speaker 1: screwed their nose up at it, as they weren't consulted

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Speaker 1: and consequently aren't coming. Now what do you do and

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Speaker 1: what should I do? Or This is a tricky one

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Speaker 1: because if I'm being completely honest, I've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of things that i want to say to this, but

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Speaker 1: I want to start with. If I'm being honest, I

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Speaker 1: think just I'm only basing this off your you know,

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Speaker 1: your one message, but if you're having this many troubles

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Speaker 1: with a Christmas party, and I can understand that organizing

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Speaker 1: something like this is always going to be a shit

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Speaker 1: show and like people can't come and this person doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to do this, which I'll get to that, but

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Speaker 1: just based off this, it makes me wonder if there

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Speaker 1: are any bigger, underlying culture issues within your company. Just

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Speaker 1: because you know, saying half of your team have screwed

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Speaker 1: their nose up and now they're deciding not to come,

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Speaker 1: it makes me wonder if there's I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say more to the story, but I wonder if there

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Speaker 1: is some culture kind of not conflicts, but tensions happening

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Speaker 1: within your team, and maybe this is a bigger picture

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Speaker 1: that you may want to look at and address, because

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Speaker 1: that's just like the first thing that kind of came

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Speaker 1: to mind as soon as I read this. And I

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Speaker 1: don't mean anything bad by that, but I think if

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Speaker 1: you've got half the workplace kind of cracking the shits

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Speaker 1: and not wanting to come for any reason, like, are

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Speaker 1: there other things going on within the workplace? There other tensions?

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Speaker 1: Are there groups forming, you know, are there things that

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Speaker 1: are being left unsaid? Because whilst I can understand it's

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Speaker 1: always being difficult to arrange a social gathering, I think

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Speaker 1: if you've got half of the team like cracking the

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Speaker 1: shits about it, there may be something else that you

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Speaker 1: need to look at or address or try to understand

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Speaker 1: or communicate with your team about. Because that just seems

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Speaker 1: like a large portion of your team kind of cracking

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Speaker 1: the shits about something and I don't know, is there

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Speaker 1: something else that's going on that's bothering them? And then

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Speaker 1: the stress of you know, the Christmas party, is that

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Speaker 1: just kind of adding to maybe something else that's going on.

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Speaker 1: I could be completely wrong, but that's kind of where

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Speaker 1: my mind is first going, and I just I felt

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Speaker 1: compelled to say that. By all means, I could be

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Speaker 1: completely wrong, but it might be worth you looking at

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Speaker 1: if people are cracking the shits, are there other things

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Speaker 1: going on that maybe you're not aware about? Are people

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Speaker 1: about some one said something to someone. Is their friendships

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Speaker 1: I know. There's so many factors that could come into play,

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Speaker 1: but I wanted to say that first, but just getting

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Speaker 1: you mean, and I definitely kind of had these same

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Speaker 1: sort of struggles, which is just something that you'd never

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Speaker 1: think that business owners would struggle with, is organizing a

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Speaker 1: social do. But definitely, in my earlier years of fate,

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Speaker 1: I always remember trying to do social gatherings and it's

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Speaker 1: always really difficult when you're dealing with a lot of

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Speaker 1: people who have all different schedules and different lives, and

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Speaker 1: maybe they all live in different places. It's actually really

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Speaker 1: hard to lock in something that number one, everyone's going

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Speaker 1: to be happy with doing because we're also different and

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Speaker 1: we have different things. You know, you might be organizing

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Speaker 1: a pay can sip class, but maybe a couple of

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Speaker 1: people don't like paint and sip classes, or you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever activity it may be. So that's always something that

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Speaker 1: social gathering. And the other one is people just not

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Speaker 1: being able to make it. You know, maybe someone lives

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Speaker 1: maybe they've got a wedding that day, or a birthday

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Speaker 1: or whatever. So I completely understand from that aspect as well.

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Speaker 1: And I remember in my earlier years of Fate always

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Speaker 1: trying to organize our little get togethers, not even Christmas parties,

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Speaker 1: team lunch, and it not always working out perfectly. And

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Speaker 1: I think, much like you, how you've kind of just

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Speaker 1: said this is the date and this is when we're

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Speaker 1: doing it. I think that's well and fair enough to do,

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Speaker 1: but I would hope that you have, I guess, delivered

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Speaker 1: it to them all in a really nice way. Again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know your workplace, but just picking up on

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Speaker 1: the fact that you said that people are pierced and

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Speaker 1: you've just given them the date and said this is

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Speaker 1: it kind of you know. I'm sure you gave it

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Speaker 1: to them, like their invitations, in a lovely kind of way.

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Speaker 1: But it just takes me back to, like, I wonder,

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Speaker 1: is there something else going on in the workplace if

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Speaker 1: everyone's so pissed off? But I think, just to answer

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Speaker 1: your question plain and simply, there's nothing wrong with it

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Speaker 1: being so difficult to organize a day and an activity

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Speaker 1: that's perfect for everyone, and you definitely do get to

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Speaker 1: that point in your business where you know you kind

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Speaker 1: of just have to go, look, guys, this is the

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Speaker 1: date that our Christmas party is on. It's totally fair

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Speaker 1: enough if anyone doesn't want to come, or if you

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Speaker 1: can't make it, or if you've got prior commitments, because

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Speaker 1: I myself understand what it's like to kind of try

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Speaker 1: to cater to everyone's schedules and it can be really difficult.

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Speaker 1: But I think you've done all that you can do

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Speaker 1: as long as it it was delivered in a nice way,

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Speaker 1: and maybe not like here's the invite and you can

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Speaker 1: make it or you cannot, which I'm sure you didn't do,

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Speaker 1: but I guess it kind of just does raise a

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Speaker 1: few little flags in my mind. If half of the

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Speaker 1: team are upset and are deciding not to go, is

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Speaker 1: there something more that's going on here? When you're organizing

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Speaker 1: and hosting any event for your team, it's just a

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Speaker 1: given that not everyone's going to be happy with it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they just won't want to come, And you know what,

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Speaker 1: fair enough if people don't want to come, I think

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Speaker 1: that's totally fine. If someone's like, no, I'd rather sit

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Speaker 1: this one out, and it's just a given that some

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Speaker 1: have other commitments on that day. And I think just

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Speaker 1: picking a day and going this is the day, rather

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Speaker 1: than going around to every single person being like, can

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Speaker 1: you do this day? Can you do that day? Because

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Speaker 1: we certainly can't do that at FADE anymore because our

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Speaker 1: teams are just so big to be able to cater

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Speaker 1: to everyone, whereas when I had a really small team

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Speaker 1: it was a lot easier to manage. But I think

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Speaker 1: from a business owner's perspective, it's more than fine to

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Speaker 1: just lock in a day and say that's it. And

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Speaker 1: I know it can be stressful and it's a stressful

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Speaker 1: and busy time of year, but what you've done is

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Speaker 1: completely fine. But I will circle back to the fact

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Speaker 1: that I just I don't know, just based off your message,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if there's something more that's happening within your team,

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Speaker 1: within the dynamics that's making everyone super pissed off. And

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Speaker 1: I can only encourage, you know, open conversation between management

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Speaker 1: that you're never running into, you know, any sort of

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Speaker 1: conflicts because at the end of the day, everyone just

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Speaker 1: wants to have a good time. Everyone wants to enjoy

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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that businesses do put on Christy

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Speaker 1: parties for their teams, and I know sometimes it can

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Speaker 1: feel like there's no appreciation or like I know exactly

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Speaker 1: what you mean, But there's nothing wrong with what you've done,

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Speaker 1: just picking a day and locking it in. And I

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just feel, just inmy waters Kinney,

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Speaker 1: there might be something more going on within your team,

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Speaker 1: and this is only me basing it off your DM.

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Speaker 1: I could be completely wrong, and there's nothing wrong with

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Speaker 1: you picking and setting a date for your party and

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Speaker 1: saying this is the date. But it is kind of

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Speaker 1: concerning that half of your team have decided they're not coming,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you need to have a bit of a

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Speaker 1: hard conversation or some hard conversations to have an easy life,

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Speaker 1: because that's what I always say. But that's been it

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Speaker 1: for my first episode of the Twelve Days of Big Business,

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Speaker 1: and all I can say to that is slay. I'll

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Speaker 1: be back literally tomorrow for the next episode, and I

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Speaker 1: hope you're enjoying our twelve days of big business