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Speaker 1: Well, Hello, they're Healthy sh listeners. I hope you're having

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Speaker 1: a great day. This, of course, is the daily podcast

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Speaker 1: from Body and Soul. I am your host, Felicity Harley.

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Speaker 1: TikTok sensation hit podcaster and life coach Margarita Nazarenko joins

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Speaker 1: me today now. She has amassed a massive no a

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Speaker 1: mega following on social media from sharing her thoughts on

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Speaker 1: dating now. Some might say they're controversial, others think they're empowering.

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Speaker 1: She's discussing her new book today called The New Rules,

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Speaker 1: and particularly why it's okay to want and need a man.

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Speaker 1: If you do like what you hear from Margarita listening

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Speaker 1: to Extra Healthy Issue, where she talks more about how

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Speaker 1: to harness your female energy. You can catch that where

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Speaker 1: we get your podcasts. Margarita, thank you for joining us

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Speaker 1: today on Healthy She Congratulations on your new book.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. You're so lovely to have me.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me why do we need some new rules

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Speaker 1: when it comes to dating?

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Speaker 3: You know, I wasn't even aware that we needed these

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Speaker 3: new rules until I saw the kerfuffle in which women

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Speaker 3: are in when I started my TikTok. They are flustered

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Speaker 3: and I understand why. I think there is something to

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Speaker 3: be said about having rules around anything in life, whether

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Speaker 3: it be working out, whether it be dating, whether it

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Speaker 3: be friendship, because if you don't have any paradigm to

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Speaker 3: work inside, you.

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Speaker 2: Don't know what's right and wrong.

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Speaker 3: I had messages from women where men treated them just appallingly,

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Speaker 3: and they're asking me, oh, do you think he's the one?

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Speaker 3: Do you think I should be with him? And reading it,

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Speaker 3: it's shocking because there are no rules around dating. Everyone

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Speaker 3: just does what they want, do what you like, be

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Speaker 3: with who you want to be with. Great, but he's

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Speaker 3: treating you like crap, so maybe he's not the one.

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Speaker 3: So we do need some rules for women to not

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Speaker 3: get themselves in these situations.

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Speaker 1: I think that's interesting because you know, you started your

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Speaker 1: TikTok and it just explodeded, didn't it, with all people

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Speaker 1: coming out agreeing with you, disagreeing with you, asking you questions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the whole basis of your book

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Speaker 1: to provide answers to all these questions.

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Speaker 3: It was this explosion of women having these questions, and

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Speaker 3: I think it's because we've been given so many freedoms

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Speaker 3: just as human beings, as we should say what you want,

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Speaker 3: say how you feel, do what you want. But we

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Speaker 3: don't have enough wisdom, perhaps maybe from our grandmothers or

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Speaker 3: our mothers or I don't know where the wisdom is gone,

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Speaker 3: but there are no sets of rules and guidelines, and

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Speaker 3: I think women are desperate for it, as are men.

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Speaker 3: That's why they sometimes lean on toxic role models, maybe

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Speaker 3: like the you know, the Andrew Tates not commenting on

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Speaker 3: whether he is or isn't, that's up to them, but

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Speaker 3: we wonder, oh, why are men leaning on him? Well,

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Speaker 3: maybe because we don't have any other role models right,

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Speaker 3: And all I'm.

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Speaker 2: Saying is, well, maybe they shouldn't treat you this way.

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Speaker 2: Maybe this is what you should do, or maybe this

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Speaker 3: And women jumped on it way more than I ever anticipated.

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Speaker 2: Because these are just my private thoughts and ideas. I thought,

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Speaker 3: And put my thoughts on TikTok because nobody knows me

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Speaker 3: on low and behold, it's almost at a million followers

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Speaker 2: And I was like, wow, it resonates, so that was amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's actually extraordinary when you flick through you on TikTok

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Speaker 3: The fascinating thing was is just they want it in

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Speaker 3: these areas where women aren't feeling like men are putting

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Speaker 3: It's almost like women are the complete drivers of the relationships.

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Speaker 3: And as much as that is what we wanted, we

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Speaker 2: Basically because you're making all the decisions new rules of dating.

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Speaker 1: Are they more for everyone, are they for a person

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Speaker 3: The first part of the book, the beginning of the rules.

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Speaker 3: The first five is rules about being yourself. That's detachment,

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Speaker 3: And the next part is being her with him, and

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Speaker 3: that is some rules like it's okay to want a man,

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Speaker 3: tale is about that, right, So it gets to your humanity,

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Speaker 2: So actually that's not what we wanted.

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Speaker 3: So it's about going back on that and also about

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, it's not disgusting to

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought that, actually that that was your

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Speaker 1: You you know that you're right, like, deep down, a

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Speaker 3: and I love love. I love to be around my mum,

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Speaker 3: The fact that we're pretending that we don't want that

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Speaker 2: So why don't we say, actually, I do.

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Speaker 2: I want someone to do it with. So sue me.

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Speaker 3: You know it's pretty. And you know what's fascinating about

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Speaker 3: I think they're angry because essentially what I see in

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Speaker 1: Like that, I mean, I agree with you. I think

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Speaker 3: I was just trying to be polite for me as

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Speaker 3: Modern dating has led me to understand because you know,

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Speaker 2: Just biologically we are.

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Speaker 3: So when a man is like, why isn't she paying

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Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, you pursue her

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Speaker 3: Well, because you brought into this idea that they've sold

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Speaker 3: And if you don't, men will use you and then

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so true, Margarita, because Jennifer knew she is the prize. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on health Fish.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed this chat with Margarita if you did,

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Speaker 2: Of course, her new book.

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Speaker 1: Is out now. It is called The New Rules. Or

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