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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 felt 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 this like 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: need to take a break. I'm going to take a

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

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh my god, I'm not doing what I

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: You know, there's so much power in that and it

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Speaker 2: brings you back to you.

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Speaker 1: Some of you may be asking yourselves, Okay, well how

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Speaker 1: do I fit this my schedule? Like I'm busy, I'm

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

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Speaker 1: be fine, Like breathing intentionally, not just breathing like I'm

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Speaker 1: breathing in right now, but breathing intentionally, taking really deep

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Speaker 1: It helps you so much. That's taking a mental break.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes when I'm feeling a little irritable or I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, wait a second, like what's going on?

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Speaker 1: It could be even as easy as working out, taking

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Speaker 1: a little walk, like moving our body does so much. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we want to work out and look better, but more

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Speaker 1: than anything, you want to feel better. And working out

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Speaker 1: and just taking a little walk a little stroll gets

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Speaker 1: your mind off of so many things. It releases dopamine

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Speaker 1: and that makes you happier. So that's another indication. If

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Speaker 1: out your body to balance it out. If your body's

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Speaker 1: which means like you know, reading a book or doing

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Speaker 1: something that simulates your mind. So those are like indications

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Speaker 1: of like, Okay, something's going on. I'm at a balance

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Speaker 1: and it's okay because it happens to all of us.

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Speaker 1: It still happens to me. I just now know, oh shit, okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe I need a rest. And for a long time

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that, or I didn't know that. It's

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

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Speaker 1: It's a part of our responsibility, and it's part of

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Speaker 1: just lend to us. Our body is like we got

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Speaker 1: to do things to keep it functioning correctly, and rest

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Speaker 1: is huge. You guys, look it up. If you don't

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Speaker 1: believe me, go google it. Google it and it'll show

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Speaker 1: you not only is sleep important, but also taking a

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Speaker 1: mental break. And this is why I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: lot of us, a lot of people now more than ever,

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Speaker 1: we have more depression, more anxiety, more diseases because we

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Speaker 1: have this idea of the only way I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be successful is if I work twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: and there are no rest days, you know, no rest

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Speaker 1: days like this and that, Like you see all that

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Speaker 1: stuff on Instagram. I know you guys do I've seen it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just like, damn, yes, you're probably gonna get

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Speaker 1: really far. But then you're gonna get there and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be like fuugh, You're not gonna enjoy it. And

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Speaker 1: why not enjoy the journey the way to your destination,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, why enjoy it? Stop

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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: like you can't walk and enjoy. That's the easiest way

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

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Speaker 1: pace yourself. Don't just like ah, I want everything so quick.

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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: to anything that you're doing. If you are not aligned,

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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.

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Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 1: So with that being said, I will close our episode

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Speaker 1: and hopefully something resonated with you, because this podcast is

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Speaker 1: all about helping, in any way possible, inspiring and empowering

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Speaker 1: for you to become your best self, whether you are

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Speaker 1: a woman or a male. I am speaking to the

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Speaker 1: human within you. I am very grateful for each and

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Speaker 1: every one of you, guys, and I love that you

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Speaker 1: come and you listen to Cheeky's and chill and dear cheekys,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just so grateful. I can't say it enough.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for listening to this episode. I hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed it. Share it with someone that you feel

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Speaker 1: may need to listen to this, and even if they

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Speaker 1: don't share it, come on show us some love, all right, guys. Well,

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Speaker 1: I love you, and have a beautiful week. Kick ass

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Speaker 1: and take a mental break if you need it. Remember

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Speaker 1: that there's nothing wrong with taking care of yourself. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's all take a deep breath together.

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Speaker 2: And you let it out.

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

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Speaker 1: episode of Cheeky's and Chill. Do you need advice on

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Speaker 1: love of relationships health emails? I'm so excited to share

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Speaker 1: with you that my Cheeky's and Chill podcast will have

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Speaker 1: an extra episode drop each week. I'll be answering all

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Speaker 1: your questions. Just leave me a voice message Monday. All

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Speaker 1: you have to do is go to speak pipe dot com,

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