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Speaker 1: Are you a diver?

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Speaker 3: I was once?

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Speaker 4: But did you not go dive here?

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Erica. How do you say your last name?

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Speaker 3: A pool?

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Speaker 1: Weed?

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Speaker 3: A pool?

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Speaker 5: Okay, Erica wheat apool? And you are from We're going

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Speaker 5: to describe, but who you are?

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Speaker 1: Where you're from?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 4: I work at PATTY, which is the Professional Association of

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Speaker 1: Wait, now you can get back to roasting my.

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Speaker 6: Hat. So I got my diving certification in like two

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Speaker 6: thousand and eight, and I never had an opportunity really

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Speaker 3: Anything like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, fair enough.

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Speaker 4: But there's a refresher that you can do reactivate, which

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Speaker 1: So don't try and get away, because if you know.

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Speaker 4: If you're on this property with that water and you

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Speaker 1: Have a problem. My fault okay, yeah today, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 5: I to thank you for sitting down with us. It's

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Speaker 5: cool to meet you. And I've never been diving before.

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Speaker 5: I have anything that you haven't either.

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Speaker 8: No, I'm terrified though, that's why, so I love hearing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I mean the pool's good, right.

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Speaker 8: The pool and I can actually go in the water,

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Speaker 8: Once we start getting to the part where you can't

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Speaker 4: But in Kursol, you can always see the bottom because

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Speaker 4: Where you're gonna go is gonna be shallow and clear

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Speaker 4: of people, that's ultimately kind of what you're saying. It's

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Speaker 4: what I'm hearing, is you want to be in control

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet it is super peaceful under the water

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Speaker 4: In general, Sandals has a really good reputation for safety.

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Speaker 1: What's the most beautiful fish You've ever seen?

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Speaker 4: to say seahorses. I love seahorses, and you can see

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Speaker 2: Them for that. Yeah, they have the babies.

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Speaker 1: The worst possle.

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Speaker 2: It is nice to be touring you this morning. Your

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Speaker 5: I got the flick part, Okay, I was like I thought,

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Speaker 5: Recording, Oh great, we're gonna be hearing that on honey.

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Speaker 2: I had to just give them both the attention, right,

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Speaker 5: I can barely speak English, so I can only barely

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Speaker 2: Of the history it is it is that we do

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Speaker 5: they're eating tide pods thank you for your time.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: It was hoop for you to sit down with us,

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for you today.

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Speaker 2: It was a pleasure and honor ladies. Thank you for

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Speaker 8: Love back right back at you girl.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: The CEO of Sandals Resorts, you know, they prep us

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Speaker 7: Back to Jamaica today and tomorrow Saint Lucia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you're private about where you live,

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Speaker 7: I leave sort of half the time in Jamaica, half

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Speaker 5: So my first question for you is are you looking

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 5: The thing that I find really cool about Sandals is

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Speaker 1: For the community when you're in here in these places.

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Speaker 7: It's very important to understand that that the foundation is

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Speaker 3: It's very important.

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Speaker 7: Ninety five percent of our team members are from the

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Speaker 5: This morning was probably one of the best mornings of

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Speaker 5: I was like, I want to go to a school,

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Speaker 5: I think the thing that you're doing in Jamaica is

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Speaker 7: Like yeah, So in Jamaica, we we created together with

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Speaker 3: The Linkages provides that fordum plus.

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Speaker 7: It teaches them what quality and quantity is required to

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Speaker 7: So one example is five or six years ago, I

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Speaker 7: So these are the kind of examples where in every

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Speaker 6: What's as a leader, what's one of your biggest challenges

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Speaker 7: I think the biggest challenges really are for us, it's

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Speaker 3: You truly are locked off to everything.

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Speaker 7: There's no EO out, there is no supplies that come in,

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Speaker 3: Not every island is as fortunate. That'sham makeup.

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Speaker 7: For example, is which is pretty self sustaining. Kuusau doesn't

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Speaker 3: Very challenging. The ongoing challenges.

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Speaker 7: And labor labor shortages. It's not only for us, I

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Speaker 5: Our listeners are exactly the people that our age group is,

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Speaker 3: Most people don't think of the kind of careers you

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Speaker 7: I might be the CEO of a wonderful company today,

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Speaker 5: I would like to present you with somebody who I

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Speaker 5: think you should really think that you should hire this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so Victoria's gonna.

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Speaker 5: Play, Okay, play play this and I think you love it.

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Speaker 1: Those amazing pipes that you're hearing.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it is just fantastic.

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Speaker 3: How many drinks did you take to get to.

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Speaker 6: Or express some martiniz. I'll let you know that the

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Speaker 3: And then a couple of years