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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I never told your production I heard you, and.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of Happy Hour where I sound

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Speaker 2: like a frog.

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Speaker 1: The color into that sound.

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Speaker 2: Apparently, but I sound so creepy. It's the allergy season.

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Speaker 2: But in this because of this voice problem, because I

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Speaker 2: have been hit with allergies, we have skipped another Sex

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Speaker 2: of the City watch just for this one week. I'm

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Speaker 2: hoping that my voice comes back and the allergies will like,

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Speaker 2: calm down. But all the pollen is out. All the

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Speaker 2: pollen is out. Annie, did you see it?

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, and now I'm nervous.

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Speaker 2: It's all over my car. It's bad. Anyway, we are back.

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Speaker 2: If you're doing Happy hourish things, please do so responsibly.

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Speaker 2: None of the things we talk about are necessarily sponsors,

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Speaker 2: even though I am talking about some trademarks because I

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Speaker 2: am a part of those now. But before we start, Annie,

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Speaker 2: are you doing Happy hoursh things? Whatch you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm just drinking warm water with lemon and ginger, prioritizing

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Speaker 1: health kind of Well, sure, let's put it that way.

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Speaker 1: That's a very nice way to put it. I was

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Speaker 1: up very late and then I actually slept. My sleep

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Speaker 1: schedules all over the place right now in a way

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Speaker 1: that I cannot predict. But I actually slept till eight

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Speaker 1: thirty today, which was not good. I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: good that I got more sleep. But we recorded with

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Speaker 1: Eaves today and she's in early ye. She likes to

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Speaker 1: record early in the morning, so I kind of just

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Speaker 1: messed with my schedule and I forgot we were doing

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Speaker 1: a happy hour after this, so it was sort of

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Speaker 1: a accidental thing.

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Speaker 2: I didn't call it a non alcoholic yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, normally when I make a hot toddy, it's

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Speaker 1: this and just a tiny tiny bit of whiskey.

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Speaker 2: Sure, I promise, because.

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Speaker 1: It actually makes me a little nauseous, and this is

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Speaker 1: supposed to be you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh dear, well, I'm keeping up with the bubble

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Speaker 2: water God because my voice is just amazing, as you

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Speaker 2: can tell. Yeah, he's also is on a different time

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Speaker 2: zone because she's insult.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but even when she wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It's true she liked to do it early, yeah, which

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Speaker 2: you know what, It is kind of nice because typically

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Speaker 2: we record later. Because I am a procrastinator, I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 2: let's do it at one, So we're gonna get this

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Speaker 2: done today. A little early peek behind the curtains, and

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Speaker 2: I say, today, you don't know, you don't know what

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Speaker 2: today is. I'm gonna leave it at that. It's six no.

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Speaker 2: But with this happy hour, I was gonna give you all

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Speaker 2: an update. I kind of already hinted at it before

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Speaker 2: about the fact that yes, I am now a licensed

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Speaker 2: a Zoomba instructor and I am currently teaching with LA

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Speaker 2: Fitness in the Atlanta metro area Decatur area, yay, and

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Speaker 2: I teach four times a week, and it's been a

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Speaker 2: whole new theme because I stupidly have also started HRT,

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Speaker 2: And I will say, like the anxiety I was kind

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Speaker 2: the second week I was like, oh no, what if

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Speaker 2: People are telling me, like hyping me up the people

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Speaker 2: And like people are getting to know me and coming

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Speaker 2: I'm getting more confident. I'm losing my voice, however, because

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Speaker 2: hates that I make faces. He's like, well, I won't

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Speaker 2: really silly right now. If you look at some of

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Speaker 1: Back when we used to do birthday posts, it was

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Speaker 2: The pressure is too much. Is too much because I'm

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Speaker 2: That's what I portray on photos as well. I'm trying

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Speaker 2: am into this adventure now. I have started doing things.

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Speaker 2: that's my favorite part of this entire thing, and then

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Speaker 2: to do anything about any of those things like networking anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because I feel like that I kills it. It feels

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I could be wrong. I think you're like me,

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Speaker 1: although I think you're more tuned into it than I am.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of times I don't realize necessarily that

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Speaker 1: I'm in some drama or a popularity contest until someone

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Speaker 1: I don't want any of this.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, Like this is the thing when

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Speaker 2: I wasn't a part of that community like that, when

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Speaker 2: I was just a participant.

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Speaker 2: I saw, I did see it, and I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little bit of a petty monster. Like I

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Speaker 2: love seeing it from Afar because it wasn't like detrimental,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But it was like silly

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Speaker 2: Like everybody needs to like really take a breath because

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Speaker 2: like there's this level of like competitiveness that I don't

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Speaker 2: understand because in my mind, I'm like, people go to

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Speaker 2: what they want, so what if is this on the

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Speaker 2: same timeframe? We have very different styles and that's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I love that there's so many options out there that

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Speaker 2: is beautiful and people can go to different things. Does

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Speaker 2: it feel like a rejection sometimes, yes, because I have

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