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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to your favorite podcast, Cheeky's and Chill.

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Speaker 1: I hear a lot of great feedback from you guys,

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Speaker 1: so you are enjoying the podcast and that makes me

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Speaker 1: so happy. So thank you so much for letting me

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Speaker 1: in your life. And if you are going through something,

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Speaker 1: it could be anything, because I feel like we all

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Speaker 1: go through something. I definitely was last week. Don't worry,

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Speaker 1: hang in there, it will pass. Take deep breaths. You

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Speaker 1: got this, okay, we got this hashtag no to self Okay, guys.

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Speaker 1: So today I wanted to talk to you guys about

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Speaker 1: comparison and not so much maybe a little bit comparing

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Speaker 1: yourself to other people, but more than anything, comparing yourself

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Speaker 1: to your younger self or to an old version of

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Speaker 1: yourself and the importance of not doing that and why.

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Speaker 1: So let's start off with age. Okay, and I get it.

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Speaker 1: We get older, our bodies change, our skin changes. Especially

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Speaker 1: for women, I feel like we feel it a lot,

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Speaker 1: even men. I think just men don't talk about it

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Speaker 1: as much, but for women it is something. It was

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Speaker 1: something that affected me a little more saying, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: like you know, I don't know, my booty is not

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Speaker 1: as perky as it used to be. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: like things like that let us women go through. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's important to really embrace where you're at now,

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Speaker 1: you know, instead of thinking, oh, my body was this

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Speaker 1: or my face looked like that when I was twenty Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I really really feel that the thirties

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Speaker 1: are the new twenties. And I know it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's so cliche, but it's seriously like, I feel better

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Speaker 1: than ever, although I do miss things for my twenties, like,

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Speaker 1: for instance, a lot I had thicker hair when I

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Speaker 1: was twenty five. In my twenties, I hadn't gotten so

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Speaker 1: many surgeries. Being under affects your hair growth so much,

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Speaker 1: you guys, and then just age and stress and hormones

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So my hair is not as

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Speaker 1: thick as these are extensions by the way, okay, but

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Speaker 1: my hair is not as thick as it used to be.

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Speaker 1: And I'll look at pictures and I'm like, oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: my hair was so long and it was my real hair,

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Speaker 1: and it makes me sad that I'm like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: who cares. I'm wiser now, you know, And I think

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Speaker 1: it's important for us to really just learn to embrace

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Speaker 1: where we're at now and stop thinking about the things

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Speaker 1: that we don't have or that we had before and

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Speaker 1: we no longer have. Like that steals so much joy,

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Speaker 1: you guys. And that's what this podcast, or should I

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Speaker 1: say this episode is all about, is like not allowing

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Speaker 1: our thoughts to steal our joy, our present joy because

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Speaker 1: we're so stuck in either the past or even sometimes

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Speaker 1: the future, because that happens a lot, at least to

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Speaker 1: me sometimes where I'm thinking of something that hasn't even

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Speaker 1: happened yet, and I'm like, why am I thinking about

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Speaker 1: next year? Like just focus on right now what's in

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Speaker 1: front of me. And honestly, guys, the truth is another

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Speaker 1: way to look at it is a lot of people

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Speaker 1: don't make it to their thirties or their forties, or

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Speaker 1: the fifties to their sixties. Like a lot of people

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Speaker 1: like unfortunately, for whatever it may be, like either illness

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Speaker 1: or or a tragic accident, don't don't make it to

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Speaker 1: like the next decade of their life. And it's like,

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Speaker 1: that's why we have to learn to be grateful and

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Speaker 1: to enjoy what we're living in the moment, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just to kind of a little bit more on

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Speaker 1: you know, the age thing. I think that we need

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Speaker 1: to focus on our self worth, you know, on our

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Speaker 1: self worth, who we are inside, what we bring to

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Speaker 1: other people's lives. Look at estabia and not just in

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Speaker 1: the world, but in people that are in our lives.

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Speaker 1: You know, our self worth, our value. It's not just

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Speaker 1: about a number. And it took me a while to

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Speaker 1: really understand that before. And I think it's because the

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Speaker 1: industry that I'm in, to be honest, like it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, don't don't talk at your age, just always

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Speaker 1: say early thirties.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, wait a second. I started.

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Speaker 1: I had to stop and say, what's wrong with saying

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Speaker 1: management was like, no, no, to say it because it

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Speaker 2: That doesn't shouldn't age me.

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Speaker 1: If anything, it's like, damn, I look back and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: we have to look at it that way and not

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Speaker 1: And it took me a while because I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I used to think like, oh, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Getting too old for this or whatever.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I want to be myself and that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Like my age is just my wisdom, you know, getting

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Speaker 1: an age wiser is would I say, you know, okay,

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Speaker 1: so okay, before I lost weight, I would even think about,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's this picture my very i think very

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Speaker 1: and I'd be like, damn, Like I just fixate on that,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, maybe I'm not as lean, or

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Speaker 1: I miss my cute, little perky tits, you know, And

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Speaker 1: I'm like so hard on myself. Maybe yes, we're not

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Speaker 2: Who freaking cares?

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Speaker 1: What about again, the wisdom, what we've learned, the maturity,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm so proud of the woman I am today.

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Speaker 2: There's no way.

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Speaker 1: That the way I've been able to handle certain things

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Speaker 1: and certain people in my life, I'd be able to

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Speaker 1: do that in my twenties. And that comes with age,

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Speaker 1: to focus on that more than the physical aspect of aging.

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Speaker 1: You know, we can age gracefully. I mean, I tell you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I give botox, I do feelers here and there, like

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Speaker 2: I want to. Good skincare is important, you know.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it always and

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Speaker 1: I know I tell you guys this all the time,

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Speaker 1: but it really is.

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Speaker 2: And I know it sounds so cliche, but like it is.

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Speaker 1: The beauty is in your heart, in your mind and

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Speaker 1: what you speak about and what you share on social

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Speaker 1: a part of you, your essence, your intentions in life.

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Speaker 1: You know, that is what I feel makes a person beautiful.

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Speaker 1: And again in my younger years, like, oh, I want

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Speaker 1: other people, all those things are so much more important

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Speaker 1: My therapist once told me, focus on the motor, not

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Speaker 1: the outside, the exterior of the car. The dude. You know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's muscular, but his motor, that is what's going

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Speaker 1: And I was like, damn, always stuck with me. So hopefully,

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Speaker 1: So while we're here, I also want to talk about

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Speaker 1: comparing ourselves to our past selves. Okay, whether it be

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Speaker 1: I was like the only girl on billboard, like charting

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Speaker 1: I'm not charting the way I used to. But because

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Speaker 1: it can mess with you a little, and that's normal,

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Speaker 1: you know, But I think it is important to just

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Speaker 1: You know, We're gonna talk about all kinds of things here,

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Speaker 1: but you know, that's one of my affirmations. I am

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Speaker 1: I'm going to step into my power, my power of now,

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Speaker 1: the power of Now. If you haven't read that book,

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Speaker 1: read it. Amazing. Emilio has a tattooed on his right

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Speaker 1: here in his arm, the Power of Now. It's an

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Speaker 1: amazing book, and there is so much power in the now,

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Speaker 1: in the present. It is a present, it is it's

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Speaker 1: just focus on that, because if not, we're not able

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Speaker 1: us instead of always trying to chase what we want

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Speaker 1: or what we had. And it's like, dude, right now

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Speaker 1: is the only thing that is real. Like, right now,

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Speaker 1: this moment here, me speaking to you guys, is the

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Speaker 1: only thing that is real. I don't know what's going

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Speaker 1: think about what I could have done, I should have

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Speaker 2: What good does that give?

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Speaker 1: Like? What good does that do? None at all at all.

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Speaker 1: And it takes a while to really train your mind

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Speaker 1: to be in the present, to be mindful. Mindfulness means

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Speaker 1: being present, being here, being with the person in front

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Speaker 1: so much power in that. And I think that we

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that we're almost like there's only a

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Speaker 1: That is my goal, that is my mission in life

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