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Speaker 1: On this week's episode of Cultivating her Space, the.

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Speaker 2: Only thing I own from birth to death is this body.

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Speaker 2: So I need to find a way to make peace

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Speaker 2: with it, to celebrate it, to make sure it's healthy,

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Speaker 2: each of us to do that because there is something

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Speaker 1: Today's episode is sure to provide you with motivation, inspiration,

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Cultivating her Space, a podcast dedicated to uplifting

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Speaker 2: We're your hosts.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Dominique Broussard, a college professor and psychologist.

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Speaker 4: And Terry Lomax, a techie and motivational speaker in a

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Speaker 4: world where black women are often misrepresented and misunderstood. Please

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Speaker 4: You, lady. Today, we have a special guest. Okay. She

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Speaker 4: is a legend. Her bio is stunning and spends several decades,

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Speaker 4: and we'll get into that in just a bit. But

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Speaker 4: we have an exclusive today. Okay. Our guest has apparently

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Speaker 4: found the fountain of youth, y'all. Okay. He is out

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Speaker 4: here showing us that black women are aging backwards. Okay.

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Speaker 4: And I say this respectfully because she said it in

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Speaker 4: previous interviews. She's a woman of our particular age, and

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Speaker 4: she on her fly as hell Okay, see, y'all, you

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Speaker 4: all right. Yvette Nicole Brown is an Emmy nominated actress, writer, producer,

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Speaker 4: and host, best known for her series regular and special

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Speaker 4: guest star roles on television shows Community, The Mayor, Drake

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Speaker 4: varied as Dream Girls, Tropic Thunder, Avengers, Endgame of the

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Speaker 4: co hosted The View, The Talk, The Real Access Hollywood,

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Speaker 4: not done yet, y'all, because Guess Ahead. Yvette has produced

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Speaker 4: nominated writer for Always a Bridesmaid, the romantic comedy she

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Speaker 4: and she proudly sits on the National Boards of Donor

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Speaker 4: Shoes where she is the vice chair, Emily's List, MPTF,

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Speaker 4: next Gen and sag Aftra. Wow event, welcome to cultivating

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Speaker 2: That was probably the best and I thought my mother

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Speaker 4: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: Here, that's all you, lady.

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Speaker 4: Welcome. We're so happy you're here.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Well, we are going to dive right into this conversation

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Speaker 3: because these are your words because we were doing our research. Okay,

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Speaker 3: The truth is navigating obesity and our health can come

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Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, mm hmmm. I believe it.

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Speaker 2: I believe it. Yeah, it's it's listen, it's it's being

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Speaker 2: It's literally a disease, and the same way I have diabetes,

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Speaker 4: That is so powerful, especially today because I think everything

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Speaker 4: all behind this, right, that's right. So even you've had

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Speaker 2: Yes, I actually was signed to Motown Records when I

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Speaker 2: Because this is the reason I'm a very modest person.

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Speaker 2: Everybody was making and I was like, well, I need

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Speaker 4: Is this is huge.

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Speaker 5: Wow, that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: I love hearing people's origin stories and how they got

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Speaker 2: You know, I think the main misconception is that people

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Speaker 2: But for some reason, with obesity, because most of us

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Speaker 2: just remember it's bigger than me dot com. Check it out,

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Speaker 2: get a part, become a part of the movement, like

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Speaker 2: the whole thing is we have. The initiative started with

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Speaker 2: for themselves. Like it's a whole thing we're starting, And

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Speaker 2: it's all also timed with World Obesity Day, which is

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Speaker 4: Amazing. This is such important work, Eva, And one of

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Speaker 4: the things we'd love to know is can you talk

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Speaker 2: Yeah. What started the movement is basically the understanding that

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Speaker 2: Obesity Action Coalition, and NFL Alumni Association. They're all working

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Speaker 2: together to make sure that people learn first and foremost

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Speaker 2: that obesity is a disease. If at the end of

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Speaker 2: we already are are way beyond where we started. Two

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Speaker 4: It's a disease.

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Speaker 2: I have diabetes. I don't kick myself because I have diabetes.

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Speaker 4: then give us more context about it. Look at this,

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Speaker 4: look at this.

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Speaker 2: Bad Come on, let's say she better serves what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: That is on the set of The Walking Dead Last mile.

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Speaker 2: My friend Tera, who did my hair today, did that

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Speaker 2: kamaras on makeup on that picture and and they told

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Speaker 2: me to serve and that's exactly what I did. We

445
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Speaker 2: shot that probably either two minutes before I had to

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Speaker 2: go live or right after I'd finished the live. So

447
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Speaker 2: that look is a it's sexy, but it's also exhausted,

448
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Speaker 2: very tired.

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Speaker 4: But I aspired to look like this and I'm tired. You.

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Speaker 4: This is an amazing photo.

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Speaker 3: We love it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for participating in the oh u

453
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Speaker 4: blatchet segment with us and some of the other questions.

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Speaker 4: Of course, of course, so I went to the site too.

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Speaker 4: It's bigger than dot com, So ladies you're listening, be

456
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Speaker 4: sure to visit the website as well. What would you

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Speaker 4: say some of your dreams are for It's Bigger than

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Speaker 4: Me series?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh. I hope that people that are living with

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Speaker 2: obesity learn to love and accept themselves more and with

461
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Speaker 2: the realization that it's it's it's a disease and they

462
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Speaker 2: deserve the same amount of respect and care that they

463
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Speaker 2: would give anyone else that's face in a disease. I

464
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Speaker 2: hope that conversations start where people get to mix it

465
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Speaker 2: up with each other and ask questions and answer questions

466
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Speaker 2: about what obesity has been like in their life and

467
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Speaker 2: the changes that they want to make and what they

468
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Speaker 2: want to talk to their doctor about I hope that

469
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Speaker 2: we are creating with this series a safe space more

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Speaker 2: than anything, because there's so much in when you're living

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Speaker 2: with obesity, there's so much in life that doesn't feel safe,

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Speaker 2: and I hope that our video series provides that, and

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Speaker 2: the website already does. So you need to get to

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Speaker 2: the website immediately it's being aband dot com and just

475
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Speaker 2: realize what a loving, wonderful spot we've curated. And again

476
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Speaker 2: with the wonderful Queen of TIF that the helmet's been wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being a part of this.

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Speaker 3: And so as you think about, like, as you said,

479
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Speaker 3: creating that safe faith, right, and part of the work

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Speaker 3: is making the world feel more equitable for all bodies. Tie, yes,

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Speaker 3: So as we're doing that, there's still the individual work,

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Speaker 3: right And so what are some of your pro tips

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Speaker 3: for like self care practices that someone's struggling to love

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Speaker 3: their body implement?

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Speaker 2: You know, the beautiful thing about the bodies we're given

486
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Speaker 2: is that we each get one right and it is

487
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Speaker 2: going to be with us until we go on to glory.

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Speaker 2: And imagine being taking a ride in something via a car,

489
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Speaker 2: living in a house or whatever, and you spend your

490
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Speaker 2: time hate on it. You know, whatever circumstance you find

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Speaker 2: yourself in, whatever body you find yourself in, it is yours.

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Speaker 2: So find a way to find something that you love

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Speaker 2: about it. Find a way to speak kindly of it.

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Speaker 2: There are things that I've said to myself that I

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Speaker 2: would never say to someone else, right, I love other

496
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Speaker 2: people enough not to say certain things to them. But

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Speaker 2: there are seasons in my life where I would look

498
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Speaker 2: in the mirror and I would say something, my arms

499
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Speaker 2: are my thing. Right, everybody has a thing, And I

500
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Speaker 2: would say, you know, I hate my arms, and it's like,

501
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Speaker 2: would you rather not have arms? Would you like to

502
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Speaker 2: go through life without arms? And when it hit me

503
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Speaker 2: that you know, these arms are my gift. These are

504
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Speaker 2: my arms. They belong to me. It's the only thing

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Speaker 2: I own from birth to death is this body. So

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Speaker 2: I need to find a way to make peace with it,

507
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Speaker 2: to celebrate it, to make sure it's healthy, and to

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Speaker 2: love it. So I think it's important for each of

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Speaker 2: us to do that, because there is something to celebrate

510
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Speaker 2: and embrace about every single body on this planet. And

511
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Speaker 2: when we get out of the mindset that we have

512
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Speaker 2: to look a certain way or be a certain size.

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Speaker 2: That's when the change starts.

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Speaker 4: That is so beautiful and so tinily and so true.

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Speaker 4: It's all about perspective. Like when you when you look

516
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Speaker 4: at the grand scheme of things, often go way to

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Speaker 4: the other end of the spectrum and think about death.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, my dying bed, Like am I going

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Speaker 4: to my death?

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Speaker 3: That?

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Speaker 4: Am I going to be complaining about that?

522
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Speaker 2: In security that I have?

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Speaker 3: Or no?

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Speaker 4: Like right now? You know one of the things I

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Speaker 4: want to ask about. You mentioned you said something in

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Speaker 4: an interview that was so interesting to me, and it

527
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Speaker 4: was you said something and I may Butcher, it's so

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Speaker 4: feel free to help me out. You said something like

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Speaker 4: go after the dreams that want you back, and I

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Speaker 4: just want to Can we talk about that event and

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Speaker 4: like where that came from?

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Speaker 2: And yeah, absolutely. It kind of came to my mind

533
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Speaker 2: when I was transitioning from singing to acting, because I

534
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Speaker 2: always joke and say singing liked me. Singing thought I

535
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Speaker 2: was cute, but he didn't love me. And I feel

536
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Speaker 2: like acting and hosting loves me. And so I think

537
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Speaker 2: in life you have to chase or move towards the

538
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Speaker 2: things that are also reached towards the things that are

539
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Speaker 2: also reaching towards you. Right, But we would say that

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Speaker 2: to anyone who if you like it, like somebody and

541
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Speaker 2: they don't like you, baby, you tell your friend why

542
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Speaker 2: call it.

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Speaker 4: Them so much?

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Speaker 2: Don't even call you back. It's the same thing in

545
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Speaker 2: life about anything that you want to do, anything that

546
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 2: you want to pursue, you should reach for the things

547
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Speaker 2: that are reaching back, you know, And something's always reaching back.

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Speaker 2: You may not be paying attention to it, but there's something, somebody,

549
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 2: something is always like this. You just have to shift

550
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Speaker 2: your focus to see it and you go in that direction.

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Speaker 5: Right, Yes, that is so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 5: In this interview, you have been dropping so many.

555
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Speaker 3: Films, so many and I just I have so many

556
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Speaker 3: questions that I want to keep asking, and but I

557
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Speaker 3: know your time is valuable, and so speaking on your time,

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Speaker 3: how do you find balance? I know you mentioned that

559
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Speaker 3: sleep of the priority, and I'm right there with you,

560
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Speaker 3: the sleep of the priority. How do you find time

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Speaker 3: in your busy schedule to do all the thing that

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Speaker 3: fulfillmed you.

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Speaker 2: I've lived my life as a outward facing person, right,

564
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: I see that every I think of everything that I do,

565
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Speaker 2: not as taking, but as an offering right. And so

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Speaker 2: if I'm here for just a certain amount of time,

567
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Speaker 2: as we all are, I'm a person of faith, and

568
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Speaker 2: I believe that I am God's hands and feet, so

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Speaker 2: that means I need to be used to do the

570
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Speaker 2: things that He can't do in this space. So when

571
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 2: an opportunity comes, my thought is does it help people?

572
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: Does it make other people's lives better? It can't be

573
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 2: just about does it make my life better? It has

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Speaker 2: to be does it also make other people's lives better?

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Speaker 2: And when you move through life as a giver instead

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Speaker 2: of a taker, somehow you get the energy.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I was up at three o'clock today to be here

579
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Speaker 2: in time to do here and make up. I told

580
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Speaker 2: you it takes a village to get me to look

581
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Speaker 2: like this, So I had to get here in time

582
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Speaker 2: for everybody to get all the spackle and the plaster

583
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Speaker 2: and the drawwall to get this together. But it wasn't

584
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 2: hard to wake up because I'm coming to talk about

585
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Speaker 2: it's bigger than me, So that means I'm talking about

586
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 2: something that will help people. So then your own personal

587
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: tiredness or whatever kind of falls away because you're on purpose. Right,

588
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 2: you're working, you're in your call, and that gives you

589
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: the energy. You know, I'm excited to talk to you guys.

590
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 2: I'm excited to talk to all the people I'll be

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Speaker 2: talking to today about obesity being a disease, and about

592
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Speaker 2: World Obesity Day, and about the launch of this video

593
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: series on March eighth. All of these things are important

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Speaker 2: to me. And so you just get the energy and

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Speaker 2: you do it. When you're doing stuff selfishly, you can't

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00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 2: do it that way because it's less altruistic, right, yes, And.

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Speaker 4: That goes back to that perspective that is so powerful.

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Speaker 4: Now we're going to ask a closing question in just

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Speaker 4: a bit, but we would also love to know, in

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Speaker 4: addition to going to It's Bigger than Me dot com

601
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 4: to check out the movement, what else can allies do

602
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Speaker 4: to support Maybe it's someone who is not necessarily struggling

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Speaker 4: with obesity, but they want to support the community. Is

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Speaker 4: there anything that folks can do in their daily life

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Speaker 4: to support the mission that you all have?

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Speaker 2: You know, speak up when you hear someone making fun

607
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Speaker 2: of someone because of their size, the same way you

608
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: know we're black people, and the same way we would

609
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: tell people about being anti racist, You need to be

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Speaker 2: anti against obesity. You have to find a way to

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Speaker 2: fight for the right for people to exist as they

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00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 2: search for health, health, opportunities to be help, opportunities to

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Speaker 2: be help. Let me say it that way, but walk

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Speaker 2: with them as they're on their journey and listen to

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00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: them when they talk about what the experience is like

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00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 2: and understand that it is a disease. In the same

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Speaker 2: way I always say about my diabetes, you would not

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Speaker 2: judge someone for having diabetes. We need to move to

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Speaker 2: the space where we're no longer judging people that are

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Speaker 2: living with obesity, and so whether you're living with it

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Speaker 2: or not, you create a safe space for those that are.

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Speaker 2: There are conversations that people that aren't living with a

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Speaker 2: disease can have with others that people living with it

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Speaker 2: can't have. And the same way if we were talking

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Speaker 2: about in the racial space, there's conversations that white people

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Speaker 2: can have with other white people that black people can have.

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Speaker 2: If you are not living with obesity, you can gather

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Speaker 2: your folks and have conversations that help those that are.

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Speaker 2: So we hope that those that go to It's Bigger

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Speaker 2: than dot Com will see all the different ways they

631
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: can make things better for themselves if you're living with

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Speaker 2: the disease and with others, if for others if they're not,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for that.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: So as you think about loving on yourself and teaching

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Speaker 3: people about loving the body that they're in, do you

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Speaker 3: have like a favorite affirmation? Like we love positive affirmations

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Speaker 3: on this podcast, and so, do you have a favorite

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Speaker 3: affirmation that you use when you're like looking in the

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Speaker 3: mirror and you are talking to Evet and you're just

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Speaker 3: loving on yourself.

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Speaker 5: Do you have a favorite one that you go to?

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Speaker 2: You know, an affirmation that I love is all will

644
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: be well? Right, So it's not even about what's happening

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Speaker 2: in this moment for today. It's not about what's happening

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Speaker 2: on the scale on any given day. It's not about

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Speaker 2: what anybody has said to you on any given day.

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Speaker 2: All will be well. And if you're living with obesity

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Speaker 2: and you talk to your doctor and you start creating

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Speaker 2: a holistic approach to you your health, literally all will

651
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: be well. So that's that's what it is. So you

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Speaker 2: just you keep going until that day comes for you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, beautiful, Evan, I just want to thank you so

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Speaker 4: much for your time. This is so amazing. The movement

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Speaker 4: is awesome. Do you have any closing words that you

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Speaker 4: like to share with our listeners will make sure to

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Speaker 4: add the links in the show notes, but anything else

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Speaker 4: that you want to share in closing you know, just.

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Speaker 2: A reminder that World OBC today is March fourth. There's

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Speaker 2: going to be a lot of different things that you

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Speaker 2: be living with obescit, and also that our video series

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Speaker 2: launches on March eighth, and we're so excited. We were

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Speaker 2: talking to doctors, we're talking to influencers. We're creating the

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Speaker 2: space that I wish I had when I was younger,

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Speaker 2: first dealing with obesity. So I think it's going to

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Speaker 2: be really great for everybody. So just join the movement. Yay,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: You so welcome. Have a wonderful rest of your day,

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Speaker 4: you too, Thank you, Sage.

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Speaker 1: I attract abundance and prosperity with ease