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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Bounce Forward with me, Tip Paul.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land

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Speaker 1: of which I'm recording this podcast. There were wondering people

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Speaker 1: of the Cooler Nation. I pay my respects to elders

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Speaker 1: past and present. Welcome back to part two of my

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Speaker 1: chat with Genevieve Day. I want to know what were

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Speaker 1: your career goals before having Henry, Like, what were your

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Speaker 1: big goals?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think I've always had big ambitions

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Speaker 2: for the agency, and I, you know, want to work

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Speaker 2: with the biggest and the best talent, but also grow

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Speaker 2: the careers of the incredible talent we represent as well.

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Speaker 2: And we've been really conscious about scaling that, like not

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Speaker 2: just signing people for the sake of it, making sure

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Speaker 2: people that we really align with. So we're definitely like

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Speaker 2: on track to hitting those goals, and you know, we're

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Speaker 2: achieving all these massive milestones of working with the brands

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Speaker 2: I've always dreamed of and getting campaigns that were on

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Speaker 2: TV and billboards and book deals and everything. So those

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Speaker 2: are kind of the career goals, but I felt that

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Speaker 2: I was fulfilling as well and getting to kind of

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Speaker 2: step into that, which is really exciting.

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Speaker 3: And the fear was almost not that I wasn't going

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Speaker 3: to make them happen.

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Speaker 2: It was like it's all going to be taken away

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Speaker 2: if I'm not there with my foot on the pedal.

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Speaker 2: And I think that was kind of where the pregnancy

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Speaker 2: felt like it was almost getting in the way of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, that's so interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess the irony is almost that if

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Speaker 2: I could tell myself before and you know, time travel

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Speaker 2: back to gen pre kids, I think we've actually had.

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Speaker 3: Bigger months in the business.

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Speaker 2: We've signed bigger names and done more amazing things after

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Speaker 2: I've had kids.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And that was the same with me because I

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Speaker 1: thought I put on a lot of weight in my pregnancy,

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Speaker 1: like thirty forty kilos, and I thought, oh, I've put

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Speaker 4: I don't look like a trainer.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ruin my business because the bodies are

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Speaker 1: meant to be a billboard for my health and fitness business. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but what it did is I had I became more relatable,

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Speaker 1: and then all the.

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Speaker 4: Moms joined my program and they went on.

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Speaker 1: The journey with me to get fit again, and it

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Speaker 1: made my business boom after I had kids, whereas I

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Speaker 1: held on so long to not having children and had

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Speaker 1: them later than what I wanted. I've been with my

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Speaker 1: husband for ten years, Like, you know, its just I

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Speaker 1: held off thinking it would ruin everything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't that crazy?

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Speaker 3: And we never say that out loud either, do We

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Speaker 3: never because it seems like a dirty.

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Speaker 2: Word, being like, I have all these ambitions and I

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Speaker 2: still want to be a mother and it's just as

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Speaker 2: important to me, if not more so, to have children.

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Speaker 3: Of course, who want to do that. But it's like,

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Speaker 3: I don't have an issue.

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Speaker 2: Saying that out loud now that I was worried it

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Speaker 2: was going to get in the way, but actually it

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Speaker 2: became a superpower.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's gorgeous. I love that. So how have

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Speaker 4: your goals now changed since you've been a mum?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they've changed a lot, and I do

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Speaker 2: feel like becoming a mom, it's almost like my edges

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Speaker 2: have softened, and even I think you'd be quite similar.

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Speaker 2: Like we've been taught to work like men, right, and

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Speaker 2: you know we girl boss too hard. When millennials it

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Speaker 2: was like you just keep pushing, you go for it,

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Speaker 2: And I think that I've learned the beauty in softness

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Speaker 2: and vulnerability, and I've become a more empathetic leader to

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Speaker 2: my team, and then my goals have often I guess

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Speaker 2: softened a little bit as well. It's less like all

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Speaker 2: or nothing, and you kind of get to see the

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Speaker 2: shades of gray a little bit more in that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're all guilty of the all or nothing

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Speaker 4: That's really beautiful.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, if you were to do it

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Speaker 1: have more children or you know there might come a time,

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Speaker 1: what would you change?

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, that baby bubble. I'd be a lot

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Speaker 2: stricter on that, because even though we had this intention

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Speaker 2: of it being this like beautiful sacred space, I broke

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Speaker 2: my own rules a thousand times, and I'd be calling

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Speaker 2: the team and I'd be telling my husband what happened

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Speaker 2: I definitely needed to be stricter on that for myself

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Speaker 2: And I think as well, like trusting my team, who

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Speaker 2: absolutely proved themselves. They did an incredible job when I

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Speaker 2: wasn't there in the office every single day. So I

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Speaker 2: think having the confidence to step away would definitely be

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Speaker 2: something I do differently, and then just being kind to

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Speaker 2: myself in that new mum bubble, like I had no

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Speaker 2: idea what I was doing, and the second that Henry

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Speaker 2: would like open his eyes, I would get a developmental

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Speaker 2: book and be like black and white learning.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and he's like four days old. Yeah, and so

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Speaker 3: it's kind of like that pressure. I was like, I'm

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Speaker 3: responsible for building his brain.

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Speaker 2: I have to do the best job at this whether

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Speaker 2: Like really, I could have relaxed a lot more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I found that I was super freaked out

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Speaker 1: with Arnold, and then with Vader, I relaxed a whole

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Speaker 4: I was like, Ah, she'll eat when she's hungry, like you.

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Speaker 1: Know when they don't eat and they're throwing their food

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Speaker 1: on the floor. And I used to get proper anxiety

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Speaker 1: over her not eating, and now I'm just like, she'll

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Speaker 1: eat when she's hungry. Like feeding toddlers is a full

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Speaker 1: time job. It is just so difficult. Yeah, podcasts, So

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Speaker 1: what does a day look like in your life? Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, juggling, Henry juggling work, like, and I'd love

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Speaker 1: to know what you do for your own mental health

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Speaker 1: and your own physical health, Like what do you do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean our day's start probably like six or

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Speaker 3: He's a little human alarm clock.

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Speaker 2: And if it's too early, we try and bring him

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Speaker 2: in the bed with us, being like, please a little

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Speaker 2: bit more time, but he's at a demanding stage. He's like, no,

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Speaker 2: we have to get up. We have to listen to

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Speaker 2: the Wiggles straight away.

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Speaker 4: Oh I love the Wiggles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, on repeat, on loop constantly.

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Speaker 2: So we start a day with him, and we try

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Speaker 2: doing like breakfast together and being all together. A couple

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Speaker 2: of times a week, I'll like go for a morning

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Speaker 3: I've been very sluck.

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Speaker 2: Recently, but I find mornings is the best time for

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Speaker 2: movement because it's kind of like nothing else can get

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Speaker 2: them the way in whether as soon as your day

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Speaker 2: starts and the phone starts ringing, everything's out the window.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sets that healthy intention for the day. It's good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I used to get into the office so

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Speaker 2: early and like smash things out, but now our childcare,

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Speaker 2: I of it is like our parents arriving. They don't

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Speaker 2: come until like nine o'clock, so we kind of get

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Speaker 2: for meetings they start like from ten onwards, which again

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Speaker 2: is such a luxury to have that flexibility. We go

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Speaker 2: I personally love having that like separation from home as

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Speaker 2: then occasionally I'll have like a work event or has

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty fortunate that most evenings get to spend as

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Speaker 2: a family, and yeah, try and have that feeding a toddel,

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Speaker 3: And then he's down at seven.

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Speaker 2: So then after that I can jump back online if

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Speaker 2: I have to do any more work, yeah, move my body.

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Speaker 3: Then if I can do like an online class, and

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Speaker 2: It's definitely took a bit of acceptance becoming a first

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Speaker 2: time mum that my life isn't like as exciting as

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Speaker 2: it used to be. And that sounds so silly because

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Speaker 2: it's like, what a beautiful, balanced life that is. But

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Speaker 2: you know, it used to be filled with like sparkly,

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Speaker 2: But I think, to me, this is kind of like

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Speaker 1: So what advice would you give to women who are

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Speaker 4: But I just really worried about their careers?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think obviously by the book, which is the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I joke, but I tell us and tell us

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Speaker 1: about the book as well, like, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that question is the perfect framing for it,

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Speaker 2: because that's kind of where I was sitting when I

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Speaker 3: You doing this?

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Speaker 2: And again to if you sit in this camp too,

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Speaker 2: and everyone's like, how are you doing this? And so

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Speaker 2: I was just very fortunate that the people I was

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Speaker 3: From the Memo.

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Speaker 2: And so these women, firstly, all of them makes it

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Speaker 2: said to me, oh my gosh, Jen, I cry all

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Speaker 2: nailing it, And I think I needed to hear that

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Speaker 2: to take the pressure off myself as well. And then

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Speaker 2: they were all kind of sharing their regrets and what

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Speaker 2: they would do differently, and the fact that they are

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Speaker 2: less stressed the other side of it now that they've

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Speaker 2: been for that experience. And that's kind of when I

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Speaker 2: saw this recurring theme in this universal thread that.

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Speaker 3: Had to be shared with people.

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Speaker 2: So I kind of like, if these women who have,

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Speaker 2: you know, one hundred million dollar businesses had the same

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Speaker 2: thoughts and concerns and fears as I do, like that

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Speaker 2: just makes me feel so much less alone. So I

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Speaker 2: think all of them kind of felt the fear into

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Speaker 2: just crazy to really I sat in the mother's group

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Speaker 2: and I went through that as well, and I didn't

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Speaker 2: really feel represented in that scenario.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, Yeah, I didn't even do mother's group. I was like,

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Speaker 1: with Arnold, I was so busy with the business, I

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Speaker 1: just ditched it completely.

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Speaker 4: And I regret that.

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Speaker 4: So thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I think it's so beautiful having this community of mother

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