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Speaker 1: What's up? You guys are listening to a Valvet's Edge minisod.

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Speaker 1: It's actually a solo so maybe I'll start saying those

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Speaker 1: when I do them by myself. UM. But I'm in

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Speaker 1: my place just now packing for a trip that I

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Speaker 1: go on tomorrow with their Spendley. We are doing the

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Speaker 1: finale of the Voice. If you don't know what I

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Speaker 1: do for Dirk's um one, you should listen to the

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Speaker 1: podcast where Radio Amy talks to me about all of

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Speaker 1: my jobs because it's kind of confusing. But I am

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Speaker 1: Dirk's groomer, so I do his hair and if he

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Speaker 1: wears makeup, I'm not saying he does, but you know

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Speaker 1: if he does or would on TV, I do that

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Speaker 1: as well. UM. So we have the Voice tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: I was packing, thinking, Okay, I pack all the time

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Speaker 1: because I travel all the time for work. I should

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Speaker 1: give the people my tips that are just things that

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Speaker 1: I do all the time that I have made my

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Speaker 1: life so much easier with all of the travel that

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Speaker 1: I do, um and just things that I've learned over

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Speaker 1: the years. So just to start, you should try to

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Speaker 1: eliminate last minute packing. Obviously, I think we all know

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Speaker 1: that that's kind of a given. And here I said

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Speaker 1: the night before I leave obviously still not packed. But um,

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Speaker 1: eliminating last minute packing by either deciding exactly what you're

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Speaker 1: gonna wear to certain events or buy your packing technique

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Speaker 1: actually will make everything so much easier when to when

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Speaker 1: you get to your destination city, and it's just a

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Speaker 1: little less stressful. I'm always kind of running around crazy,

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Speaker 1: so I do a lot of last minute packing. But

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Speaker 1: something that I do every trip that I take, um

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Speaker 1: is or already I'm sorry, I already have all of

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Speaker 1: my ship, Mike, Can you just fix that a little

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Speaker 1: thing one second? Okay? So, because I'm running around like

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Speaker 1: crazy all of the time, and um, kind of last

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Speaker 1: minute packing is my thing, I do try to take

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Speaker 1: a minute it sometimes and I'll think through, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: could wear this outfit to certain things when I have

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Speaker 1: a free minute, and I just jot it down on

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Speaker 1: my cellphone. Another thing that really really helps me is

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Speaker 1: I have a job kit that is just completely packed

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Speaker 1: all the time with all of my travel, hair and

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Speaker 1: makeup stuff. So I have all of my travel stuff

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Speaker 1: and then I have my stuff that I use at home.

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Speaker 1: But because it that's like to me, the hardest part

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Speaker 1: of packing is to go back in and then that

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Speaker 1: morning of or the night before, you're trying to remember

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Speaker 1: every single piece of thing you need for your face

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Speaker 1: or you know, all the creams that we use all

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Speaker 1: our toothbrush. It's just it's such a disaster and it's

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Speaker 1: always asking to forget something. So I just leave my

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Speaker 1: little job kit packed all of the time. I have

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Speaker 1: one from container Store. It has three major pockets and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna link all this stuff on velvet sedge dot com.

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Speaker 1: But it's really great for organization and it fits everything

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Speaker 1: that I need. So keep a packed adopt kit um

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Speaker 1: something else that I'm getting really into our packing cubes again.

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Speaker 1: You can by these at container Store. When I do pack,

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Speaker 1: I try to do carry on as often as possible. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: when I'm traveling with my hair and makeup stuff, I

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Speaker 1: always have to check a bag because it's way too

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Speaker 1: many liquids. But this makes it a lot easier to

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Speaker 1: keep things organized in your bag, and then when you

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Speaker 1: get to your hotel you can just unload everything into

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Speaker 1: drawers and it's already divided up into the different packing

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Speaker 1: cubes that you use it. Whether it's a cube for

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Speaker 1: nighttime outfits or pajamas or whatever it may be. It

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Speaker 1: just makes it so much easier. Another thing that I've

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Speaker 1: really noticed I've been doing lately with traveling is making

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Speaker 1: sure that I have certain foods that I need for

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Speaker 1: the actual travel part of it, So for the plane

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Speaker 1: ride or uber rides or wherever it is until you

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Speaker 1: get to your final destination. I hate getting hungry on

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Speaker 1: the way. And then I also have like some kind

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Speaker 1: of specific things that I do. Um, just just kind

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Speaker 1: of start to stay healthy. Like you know, like traveling

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to mean you just completely let your diet

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Speaker 1: go out the door. I personally like to eat really

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Speaker 1: clean when I can, so something that I try to

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Speaker 1: do is get a lot of greens obviously. UM. One

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Speaker 1: thing that my friend Amy that I've mentioned before, has

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Speaker 1: turned me onto is the stuff called green Vibrants, And

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Speaker 1: it's just this little pack and it's full of all

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Speaker 1: kinds of greens. It's got a probiotic. It really helps

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Speaker 1: me with digestion when I travel. It really helps me

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Speaker 1: to have energy when I travel, and just to kind

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Speaker 1: of stay on my clean eating habits. Another thing I

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Speaker 1: swear by is bulletproof. My bulletproof coffee. Um. You can

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Speaker 1: read about that on velvet side dot com as well.

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Speaker 1: But it has changed the game for me with energy

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Speaker 1: levels with morning routines. I used to not be a

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Speaker 1: me up. So what do I do when I travel?

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Speaker 1: Because that coffee has gee butter in it, it has

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Speaker 1: this brain octane oil in it, and you blend it,

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Speaker 1: which I mean, I'm not traveling with all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I did think about it, but I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: do that because they have travel packs. So Bulletproof makes

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Speaker 1: these instant mixed packs and all you need to do

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Speaker 1: is travel with the amount I just packed the number

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Speaker 1: of packs I need for each day, and I just

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Speaker 1: up and you're good to go. So that has made

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Speaker 1: my life so much easier because I can have my

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Speaker 1: Bulletproof coffee on the road and still stay energized. And

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Speaker 1: speaking of innergest um, sleep is a big issue for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually a terrible sleeper. I wish that I was

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Speaker 1: better at it. I've been bad at it since I

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Speaker 1: was a kid, so I've had to really really try

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Speaker 1: to figure out some different sleep routines, especially when I travel.

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Speaker 1: For me, that is the hardest time to sleep. You're

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Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone. You know, there's loud noises

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Speaker 1: in a hotel. It's just not your typical, typical beds.

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Speaker 1: So UM, something that I do is I always travel

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Speaker 1: with a sleep mask. Um. Hotels have gotten better in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I've noticed there's a lot

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Speaker 1: more blackout curtains or the situation there is good, but

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Speaker 1: you just never know. And if you are, by chance

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Speaker 1: one of those lucky people who can sleep on planes,

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Speaker 1: a sleep mask is the way to go. I have

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Speaker 1: a weighted one, which for some reason really really relaxes

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Speaker 1: me to have the extra weight on my eyes and

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Speaker 1: it just helps me sleep so much better. Um. There's

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Speaker 1: also the ones by Silk, the company who makes the

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Speaker 1: Silk pillow cases as well, and they are really good

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Speaker 1: for your skin. They're very soft, they're really comfortable, and

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Speaker 1: they're easy to pack obviously when you're traveling, so a

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Speaker 1: of a germophobe, or you just like the comfort of

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Speaker 1: your own pillow case. UM. You could also pack along

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Speaker 1: a silk pillow case. I love the ones by Silk,

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Speaker 1: the company's silk. I've said silk like five times. Everybody

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Speaker 1: take a drink um, but the ones by Silk are

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Speaker 1: so good and they're really supposed to help with anti aging. Also,

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Speaker 1: I never leave home without melatonin. I also take some

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Speaker 1: other sleep supplement it's like magnesium lactate um just to

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Speaker 1: help calm me and really get me into some good

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Speaker 1: rim sleep. And then lastly, I have a sound machine

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Speaker 1: app that I don't know what I would do without.

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Speaker 1: I cannot live without a sound machine, and especially in hotels,

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Speaker 1: it's so noisy, especially if you're by the elevator, if

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Speaker 1: your room is by the elevator, and you just never

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Speaker 1: know what your neighbors are up to. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't really need to hear that. So I have um

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Speaker 1: the Simply Noise app. It's a sound machine. I use

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Speaker 1: the White Noise just like a little like background music

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Speaker 1: too when I sleep, But it really really does help

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Speaker 1: me get into a deeper sleep and fall asleep and

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Speaker 1: stay asleep. So these are my quick tips for traveling. Again,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I will put all of these links

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Speaker 1: on Velvet Sede dot com so you guys can shop

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Speaker 1: away and hopefully have easier travel yourself by