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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello everyone, Happy Monday. Today is May twentieth, which

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Speaker 1: means we're almost halfway through the year. There's about six

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Speaker 1: months left in twenty twenty four. That is crazy. So

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys use that time wisely and work

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Speaker 1: towards accomplishing your goals. And that actually brings me to

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Speaker 1: the topic for this week's episode. It's something I've been

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Speaker 1: wanting to talk about for a while, and I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about the importance of rest.

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Speaker 2: So let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: This is Cheeky's and chill okay, guys, So I know

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Speaker 1: it's important to work hard and to be disciplined and

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Speaker 1: focused in order to reach your goals.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we know that.

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Speaker 1: We see it everywhere, you know, especially like on social media.

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Speaker 1: That hustling or hustler mentality, should I say, and I

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Speaker 1: completely agree with that. Yes, I'm all for it. But

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Speaker 1: there's another side to that, and that is rest. The

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Speaker 1: importance of rest, you guys. I cannot stress enough how

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Speaker 1: important it is, telling you guys from experience, and I

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Speaker 1: think that that's the best place to speak from is

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Speaker 1: from experience, and I think I'm going to start there

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Speaker 1: before we get into everything and why I feel it's

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Speaker 1: super important. I'm going to try to make this short

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Speaker 1: and sweeten to the point. In twenty eighteen, I had

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Speaker 1: a meltdown. I had to take a break. I think

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Speaker 1: I've mentioned this a few times on the pod. For

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Speaker 1: about three months from social media, I was working a lot,

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Speaker 1: and I'm grateful.

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Speaker 2: No, my was stuck a hatam.

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Speaker 1: I don't like to complain about the amount of work

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Speaker 1: that I have because I love to work.

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Speaker 2: I love to be busy.

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Speaker 1: I myself put a lot of things on my plate

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Speaker 1: because now I know how to handle it, you know.

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Speaker 1: But before I was starting my music career, things were

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Speaker 1: going really well. I was going through a lot personally

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Speaker 1: in my personal life, and my career was doing good.

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Speaker 1: I had about seventy six I remember it was about

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Speaker 1: seventy six close to eighty shows nightclubs, okay, And I

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Speaker 1: was working a lot, and I think I was just

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Speaker 1: trying to spec Towards the end of that tour, which

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Speaker 1: was the apochim A tour, I wasn't getting enough rest,

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Speaker 1: I mean, especially doing nightclubs, which I'm so grateful for

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Speaker 1: those moments and those shows because they helped me prepare

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Speaker 1: for what I'm doing now. So I felt like that

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Speaker 1: was my footwork. I really had to do that in

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Speaker 1: order to grow. It gave me the opportunity to grow

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Speaker 1: and get to know myself as an artist. But I

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Speaker 1: didn't know the importance of rest. I was just working, working, working,

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Speaker 1: And then it got to the point where I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to numb everything. I'm just trying to

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Speaker 1: get through this, and I'm just going to drink. And

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Speaker 1: I was drinking a lot, and I was drinking excessively

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Speaker 1: to get through the shows, and I was suppressing feelings.

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Speaker 1: I was obviously missing my mom. I had to stop going

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Speaker 1: to therapy, I had to stop going to church because

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Speaker 1: my shows were on the weekend. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: felt it in my skin in my body. I was

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Speaker 1: gaining a lot of weight. This is all before I

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Speaker 1: figured out my whole thyroid issue, my hormones, everything, everything

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Speaker 2: So I met.

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Speaker 1: A couple who are pastors, Javier and Cynthia Buelna. I

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Speaker 1: met them through my sister Jackie and she told me

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Speaker 1: was feeling. And that's who told me that rest was

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Speaker 1: a part of my job, that it was just as

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Speaker 1: important as all my shows. That I needed to speak

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Speaker 1: I was the leader, and that yes I had a

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Speaker 1: team and they're important, but that I had to speak up.

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Speaker 1: And I was very afraid to speak up. Then I

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Speaker 1: got to work. This is what I have to do.

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Speaker 1: I have to work really hard in order to make it.

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Speaker 1: And like I just felt this immense fucking pressure, so

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Speaker 1: I saw the light. I was like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: and I started thinking about, yes, my family are very

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Speaker 1: hard working, all of them, my grandpa, my grandma, all

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Speaker 1: my uncles, my mother, my mom didn't even know how

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Speaker 1: to take vacations, you guys, Like my mom was all

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Speaker 1: And that's what I felt that life had to be.

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Speaker 1: Until I had a meltdown and I was like, enough

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Speaker 1: is enough. I can't do this. I remember telling my assistant.

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Speaker 1: Then I was like, take me to the hospital. I

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Speaker 1: I needed to rest. The only way I was going

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Speaker 1: I literally told her that. I stopped her on the

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Speaker 1: freeway and I was having an anxiety check. I said, I

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Speaker 1: can't do this, like I feel like I'm gonna die.

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Speaker 1: Like it was the craziest feeling ever. So anyways, thank

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Speaker 1: goodness for who I now call Javier and Cynthia, who

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Speaker 1: I now call mom and dad. They really helped me

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Speaker 1: just see things in a different way. And going back

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Speaker 1: to what I was saying was I started thinking and

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Speaker 1: realizing that my family, as much as I admire their

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Speaker 1: vacations or how to relax. It's just like we would

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Speaker 1: wake up at five in the mornings, four in the morning,

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Speaker 1: and it was just it's great. I think waking up,

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Speaker 1: you know, the five am club, you guys, is great,

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, But I feel like there wasn't

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Speaker 1: enough balance. And I started realizing that I didn't want

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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you all of this because this is

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Speaker 2: Heard a lot of artists that go through it as well.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, if I can help people prevent and

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Speaker 1: not to feel guilty, I feel guilty. And I realized

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Speaker 1: I was feeling guilty. I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: had to say crazy ass pressure. And now I'm so

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Speaker 1: much happier, you guys. I spoke to my team and

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Speaker 1: I told them, guys, I can't do this, Like, I

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Speaker 1: I need to take freaking ten steps back and reevaluate

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, Sundays and Mondays, I want to be off.

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Speaker 1: I want to do whatever makes me happy. I want

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Speaker 1: I want to freaking read a book. I want to

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Speaker 1: ride a bike, anything and everything. And it's no one's

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Speaker 1: business what I do on those days. And there was

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Speaker 1: have shows Thursdays and Fridays or Fridays and Saturdays, and

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Speaker 1: have never been happier. You guys. Even if I don't

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Speaker 1: I have to measure up and I'm telling you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I know everyone's schedule is different. I knowpe some people

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Speaker 1: I commend you. I think it's a beautiful thing to

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Speaker 1: be hard working, to be a hustler. But there's a

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Speaker 1: that's taking a break, that's taking a breather, getting out

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Speaker 1: being on social media, like just sitting and eating and

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Speaker 1: being present. You know, there's so much power in that

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Speaker 1: and it brings you back to you. Some of you

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Speaker 1: may be asking yourselves, Okay, well how do I fit

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Speaker 2: Like I'm busy, I'm a mom.

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Speaker 1: You can and I don't want to hear I don't

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Speaker 1: That's taking a mental break. Sometimes when I'm feeling a

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Speaker 1: So that's another indication. If you're feeling a little like

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Speaker 1: So those are like indications of like, okay, something's going on.

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Speaker 1: I'm at a balance and it's okay because it happens

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Speaker 1: And for a long time I didn't know that, or

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Speaker 1: It's a part of our job. It's a part of

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Speaker 1: it functioning correctly, and rest is huge. You guys, look

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Speaker 1: it up. If you don't believe me, go google it.

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Speaker 1: Google it and it'll show you not only is sleep important,

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Speaker 1: people now more than ever, we have more depression, more anxiety,

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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven and there are no rest days,

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Speaker 1: I've seen it, and I'm just like, damn, yes, you're

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Speaker 1: enjoy it. And why not enjoy the journey the way

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, why enjoy it?

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Speaker 1: Stop and say wow, all right, this is nice and

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Speaker 1: keep on going and then take another little break and

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Speaker 1: then look the sky and then walk a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason to have the run all the time,

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Speaker 1: I could put it. You guys, walk, enjoy, take your time,

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Speaker 1: We live in that world. If it's just like quick, quick, quick,

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Speaker 1: everything quick. I want the magic pill. I want this,

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Speaker 1: I want that. Like, enjoy the damn journey, trust the process.

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Speaker 1: Take care of yourself while you're doing it. Love yourself

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Speaker 1: enough to say, dude, I'm gonna do me right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna love myself. I'm gonna have some self care,

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Speaker 1: some self love. There's nothing wrong with it, because you

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Speaker 1: can't give yourself to anyone, or to your job, or

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Speaker 1: if you are not happy with yourself. I say this

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Speaker 1: a lot on the podcast too, but it's true self

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Speaker 1: care self love hand in hand, guys. So with that

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Speaker 1: being said, I will close our episode and hopefully something

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Speaker 1: a male. I am speaking to the human within you.

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Speaker 1: I am very grateful for each and every one of you, guys,

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Speaker 1: Cheeky's and chill and dear Cheekys, and I'm just so grateful.

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Speaker 1: I can't say it enough. So thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. Share it

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Speaker 1: and have a beautiful week. Kick ass and take a

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Speaker 1: mental break if you need it. Remember that there's nothing

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Speaker 1: wrong with taking care of yourself. Okay, let's all take

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Speaker 1: Love you vesitos. I will see you on the next

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