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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges

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Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Claire Murphy. This is Mumma

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Speaker 1: MIA's twice hourly news podcast, The Quickie. Have you heard

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Speaker 1: of lemonading? No, it's not about making a refreshing summer drink,

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Speaker 1: though after hearing this you might want want anyway. It's

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Speaker 1: actually a new method to add to your mental health

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Speaker 1: toolkit for when live throws you those unexpected curveballs. But

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Speaker 1: before we get into that, here's the news headlines for Monday,

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Speaker 1: June two. A day after announcing to the world that

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Speaker 1: she'd successfully brought back the masters of her first six albums,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift celebrated with Selena Gomez in New York. Swift

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Speaker 1: has been in a long battle with those who've owned

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Speaker 1: her music in the past. At one stage, when they

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Speaker 1: were sold to Scooter Braun's company, she described how she'd

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Speaker 1: try to get them back when they belonged to Big

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Speaker 1: Machine Records, only to be told she could earn them

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Speaker 1: back one at a time for every new album she makes. Instead,

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Speaker 1: decided to go her own way when her music was

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Speaker 1: sold to Braun's company. She said she found out at

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Speaker 1: the same time as everyone else, and at no stage

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Speaker 1: was she offered the opportunity to buy them herself, something

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Speaker 1: she says she was very disappointed with. Braun's company only

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Speaker 1: owned the catalog for just under two years before selling

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Speaker 1: them again to Shamrock Capital. Meanwhile, Swift was still trying

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Speaker 1: to gain the rights back while also re recording four

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Speaker 1: of the six albums, which were renamed Taylor's version. On Saturday,

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Speaker 1: she posted to social media, you Belong with Me with

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Speaker 1: a picture of her surrounded by her six albums. The

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Speaker 1: next night, she was spotted out with her bestie Selena

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Speaker 1: at the Monkey Bar deep in conversation. Australia could challenge

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Speaker 1: the US of the World Trade Organization after Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: announced his plan to double tariff's on steel from twenty

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Speaker 1: five to fifty percent. All Australian goods are also subject

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Speaker 1: to a ten percent baseline tariff. The moves branded an

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Speaker 1: active economic self harm by Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi, who's

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Speaker 1: expected to sit down with Trump on the sidelines of

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Speaker 1: the summit in Canada later this month. Australia's Minister for

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Speaker 1: Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen was asked if Australia

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Speaker 1: would challenge the tariffs at the World Trade Organization. Bowen

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Speaker 1: responded saying they will consider all options available to defend

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Speaker 1: the best interests of the Australian industry. Trade Minister Don

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Speaker 1: Farrell said the government would also continue to coolly and

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Speaker 1: calmly argue its case for the removal of the tariffs.

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Speaker 1: The families of Australian travelers Holly Bowls and Bianca Jones,

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Speaker 1: who died after drinking methanol lays drinks at a backpackers

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Speaker 1: in Lao, are outraged that the establishment's former manager is

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Speaker 1: opening a new resort. The man known locally as Pikachu,

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Speaker 1: but has since revealed that he's involved in the opening

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Speaker 1: of the new Sunrise Mountain View Resort, which is just

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Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty meters down the road from the

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Speaker 1: now closed Nana Backpackers where the girls died. The resort

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Speaker 1: has denied he has any involvement with their business, but

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Speaker 1: he's been posting images of the property under construction, saying

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Speaker 1: they would be welcoming guests After a month, the finishers.

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Speaker 1: The girl's parents told nine News they are angry at

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Speaker 1: the news. In the six months since the traveler's deaths,

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Speaker 1: there's been an investigation, but no charges have been laid.

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Speaker 1: Australian home values have set a record as falling interest

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Speaker 1: in dwelling in Australia was worth just over eight hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty one thousand in May, a zero point five

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Speaker 1: percent increase from April. Every capital city as well as

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Speaker 1: the combined regions also showed zero point four percent growth,

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Speaker 1: Buyers feeling more comfortable with their purchasing power as interest

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Speaker 1: one point six percent, good news for renters with rent

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Speaker 1: growth trending downwards, but Capital city vacancy still remained below

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Speaker 1: the long term average, boosting prices. Net Overseas migration has

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Speaker 1: moved back to normal level after the post COVID spike

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Speaker 1: keeping demands steady but not excessive. Star Wars legend Mark

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Speaker 1: Hamill aka Luke Skywalker, has said his days playing the

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Speaker 1: character are over, urging the franchise to focus on fresh characters.

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Speaker 1: The seventy three year old first played Skywalker in nineteen

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Speaker 1: who said he felt the heart was gone from Star

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Speaker 1: Carrie Fisher in twenty sixteen, joked that his exit from

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Speaker 1: the last movie his character appeared in twenty seventeen's The

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Speaker 1: Last Jedi, where he left his robes behind when he

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Speaker 1: He says he can't come back as a naked for

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the world today. Next, Taylor Strano

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Speaker 1: helps us understand lemonading.

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Speaker 2: We've all heard those frustrating responses when we're having a

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Speaker 2: tough time. Just look on the bright side, or you'll

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Speaker 2: be fine. It's what we call toxic positivity, and let's

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Speaker 2: be honest, it's not actually particularly helpful. While we might

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Speaker 2: try to maintain a sunny disposition, life simply doesn't work

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Speaker 2: that way. Some days, the train is late, the sky

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Speaker 2: opens up when you don't have an umbrella, and you

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Speaker 2: stub your toe while racing through the living room, and

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Speaker 2: that's just life. But there's a new approach making waves

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Speaker 2: on social media, and unlike many trending topics, this one

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Speaker 2: is actually backed by science. But obviously we have to

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Speaker 2: give it a fun name, because otherwise what's the point.

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Speaker 2: It's called lemonading. The term, coined by researchers at the

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Speaker 2: University of Oregon, takes inspiration from that old saying when

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Speaker 2: life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But rather than being

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Speaker 2: another form of toxic positivity, it's actually a powerful psychological

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Speaker 2: tool that's showing promising results. Doctor Sarah Quinn, president of

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Speaker 2: the Australian Psychological Society explains that while lemonating isn't an

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Speaker 2: established psychological condition, it describes how playful mindsets can help

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Speaker 2: boost our resilience. There's also a key difference between this

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Speaker 2: and toxic positivity. Lemonating doesn't try to minimize or eliminate

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Speaker 2: painful emotions. Instead, it encourages us to view difficult situations

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Speaker 2: through a creative and imaginative lens. A recent study from

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Speaker 2: the University of Oregon has found that people who playfully

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Speaker 2: reframe what's happening in their lives tend to develop a

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Speaker 2: more optimistic outlook for the future. For example, during the pandemic,

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Speaker 2: while people still felt the very real challenges of isolation

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Speaker 2: and vulnerability, those who practice lemonating showed higher coping levels

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Speaker 2: and engaged in more leader activities. What's particularly interesting is

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Speaker 2: how this practice might actually rewire our brains for resilience.

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Speaker 2: Each time we successfully reframe a difficult situation, we strengthen

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Speaker 2: the neural pathways associated with adaptability and problem solving. Doctor

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Speaker 2: Quinn explains that this process can trigger the release of

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Speaker 2: endorphins and reduce cortisol levels, creating a positive feedback loop

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Speaker 2: that makes us more likely to engage in healthy coping strategies.

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Speaker 2: Now you might be thinking, but I'm not actually naturally playful,

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Speaker 2: and the good news is, according to doctor Quinn, these

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Speaker 2: skills can be learned, So all my Type A friends

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Speaker 2: out there listen up. The key is to start small,

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Speaker 2: perhaps by looking for one unexpected positive aspect in a

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Speaker 2: minor inconvenience. As you become more comfortable with the process,

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Speaker 2: you can apply it to increasingly challenging situations. Think of

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Speaker 2: it like adding a new tool to your mental health toolkit.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Quinn suggests taking inspiration from the people around you

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Speaker 2: who naturally embody this approach. Think about those friends who

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Speaker 2: always make you laugh and feel good. Their attitude can

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Speaker 2: be an antidote to life's daily challenges. Remember, lemonating isn't

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Speaker 2: about pretending everything is fine when it isn't. It's about

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Speaker 2: expanding our mental flexibility to help us navigate uncertainty, adapt

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Speaker 2: to change, and find innovative solutions to problems that we

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Speaker 2: might otherwise seem insurmountable. So next time life hands you

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Speaker 2: those proverbial lemons, try approaching the situation with curiosity rather

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Speaker 2: than dread. You might just find opportunities for growth in

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Speaker 2: places you least expect them.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Taylor, and thanks for taking the time to

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Speaker 1: feed your mind with us today. The quickie is produced

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Speaker 1: by me Claire Murphy and Taylor Stano, with audio production

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Speaker 1: by Lou Hill. Mama MIAs Studios are starred with furniture

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