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Speaker 1: Okay, we have ultimately come up with the boy sober rules.

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Speaker 2: No dating apps, no dates, no xes, no situationships, no xoxoxo.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered what life might be like if

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Speaker 1: you stopped worrying about being wanted and focused on understanding

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Speaker 1: what you actually want? That was the question plaguing me

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Speaker 1: when I posted that TikTok video you just heard. I'm Hopewordard,

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Speaker 1: a comedian, a creator, and historically a seeker of male validation.

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Speaker 1: To most people, I'm the girl behind boy Sober, the

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Speaker 1: movement that exploded in twenty twenty four. You might hear

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Speaker 1: the term boy sober and think it's about celibacy, but

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Speaker 1: to me, boys sober is about understanding yourself outside of

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Speaker 1: sex and relationships. I went boy sober because I realized

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Speaker 1: my dependence on those things was more than a surface

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Speaker 1: level problem. It was generational, It was societal. It was

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Speaker 1: something I had to take drastic measures to break free from.

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Speaker 1: Boyob has since taken on a life of its own,

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Speaker 1: and I'm now more interested in continuing to expand its meaning,

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Speaker 1: to make it customizable for anyone who feels the need

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Speaker 1: to explore their relationship to relationships, even if you're not

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Speaker 1: a woman, and even if you don't like men, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk to a lot of people. Of course,

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Speaker 1: there will be conversations about sex and relationships.

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Speaker 3: It's a very very normal experience to have times where

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Speaker 3: a relationship is prioritizing other parts of that relationship that

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Speaker 3: aren't being naked.

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Speaker 1: Together will also be navigating different kinds of love, like

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Speaker 1: familial and platonic love.

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Speaker 2: I've spent a lifetime trying to get my mother to

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Speaker 2: love me, but the price is too high.

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Speaker 1: And of course you'll hear about how my own Voiceober

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Speaker 1: journey is going. How do I do single right?

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Speaker 2: I think you need to have a project that's not

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Speaker 2: about your dating life, right.

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Speaker 1: You just read me to film At the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, Voiceover is whatever you need right now to

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Speaker 1: heal yourself. So come with me on this journey of

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Speaker 1: learning and unlearning, finding out how we do things right,

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Speaker 1: how we do things wrong, how we can change, and

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Speaker 1: how we can take back the ways we love and

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Speaker 1: find love. Listen to Voiceover on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.