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Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth. Hi, everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about

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Speaker 1: the choices we make and where they lead us. My

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Speaker 1: guest today is a Hollywood superstar. Her career started when

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Speaker 1: she was a tiny baby, and she has conquered just

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Speaker 1: so many obstacles in her life. She's known for Blue

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Speaker 1: Lagoon and Endless Love, her breakout performance as Joey's crazy

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Speaker 1: girlfriend on Friends, which led her to starring in her

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Speaker 1: own sitcom, one of my favorite sitcoms, Suddenly Susan, where

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Speaker 1: she killed it at comedy, and her most recent Netflix movie,

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Speaker 1: Mother of the Bride. She is the subject of the

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Speaker 1: documentary Pretty Baby Brookshields, which was a testament to how

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Speaker 1: strong and smart she is, how much she has endured

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Speaker 1: in her long career that has spanned multiple decades. She

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Speaker 1: is a mama, she's an entrepreneur. She's a badass. You guys,

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Speaker 1: please welcome Brookshields to the I Choose Me Podcast. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for being with.

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Speaker 2: Us, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I'll just jump right in. You've had some incredible highs

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Speaker 1: in this business, but I have to admit, even considering

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Speaker 1: all of that and loves. I love what you are

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Speaker 1: doing and saying right now. You are out front helping

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Speaker 1: to knock down these archic stereotypes that we should just

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Speaker 1: be put out to pasture after fifty and never seen

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Speaker 1: again after sixty. So you've partnered with GSK to help

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Speaker 1: people thrive at fifty plus. Let's talk about what people

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Speaker 1: fifty plus need to be aware of when it comes

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Speaker 1: to our health, specifically our immune system.

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Speaker 2: We have to become people have to really take their

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Speaker 2: health in their own control and ask their doctors, ask

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Speaker 2: their pharmacists about your risk for shingles, and about vaccination.

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Speaker 2: There is so much that we are not made aware of,

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Speaker 2: and we have to ask, and it's so important that

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Speaker 2: we understand the statistics that ninety nine percent of those

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Speaker 2: fifty years and older actually already have the virus that

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Speaker 2: causes shingles inside their body. Okay, no, not all of

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Speaker 2: them are going to get it, but by the same

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Speaker 2: token staggering. I didn't know that. I had no idea,

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Speaker 2: so when I heard it, I was like good, no good,

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Speaker 2: and so I partnered with j's k's Thrive at fifty

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Speaker 2: plus campaign because that was the messaging that they really

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Speaker 2: said to me. Was the most important for them, and

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Speaker 2: the idea of really being proactive in this era of

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Speaker 2: your life and being your own advocate. You know, a

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Speaker 2: million about a million estimated people develop shingles in the

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Speaker 2: US just per year, and it's painful and it's terrifying,

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Speaker 2: and it's disruptive and it is it. I have a

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Speaker 2: friend who had to stop work for two weeks, and

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Speaker 2: you know she's going to afford to do that. That

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Speaker 2: So to me, it's important in this era. When you

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Speaker 2: talked about changing stereotypes. Part of how we do that

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Speaker 2: we don't sit and just wait for a narrative to change.

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Speaker 2: We start speaking about ourselves differently. We stop using words

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Speaker 2: like aging or anti aging or dry or all these words.

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Speaker 2: I'm so synonymous with just being female over forty. Practically

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Speaker 2: I'm fifty nine, So you know this is I'm definitely

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Speaker 2: in the in the and according to you know, the stereotype,

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Speaker 2: I got one foot in the grave. And that messaging

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Speaker 2: was I don't want my daughters, and you have three daughters,

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Speaker 2: right I do. Baby girls are always going to be your

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Speaker 2: baby girls. Yes, I have a baby eighteen year old

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Speaker 2: them to know that this is not the big scary

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Speaker 2: era of age. But we are armed with many positive things,

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Speaker 2: many progressive ways that we can own our health, own

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Speaker 2: our lives, and take a power that we are. The

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Speaker 2: messages that we're not, we no longer have it, and

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Speaker 2: I don't even think about taking it back. I just

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Speaker 2: think about revealing it even more.

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Speaker 1: I heard you in an interview once say that you

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Speaker 1: didn't feel fully in your body until you were in

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Speaker 1: your forties. And I know that feeling firsthand. And I

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Speaker 1: also know all that it takes to get to that

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Speaker 1: kind of self discovery when you grow up in the

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Speaker 1: business that we have grown up in and when you

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Speaker 1: just want so much to be confident in just being you.

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Speaker 1: Why did it take us so long to grow up

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Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, we're in a ridiculously demigrating and

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Speaker 2: deridict being I can't even say the word industry. So

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Speaker 2: first of all, our whole industry is based on comparison

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Speaker 2: and it gets drilled into us from a very young age.

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Speaker 2: The thing that's amazing to me is this is every

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Speaker 2: woman's flight. Really ours is played out on this ridiculous stage,

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Speaker 2: and that comes with its own challenges. But it took

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Speaker 2: me until I was pregnant. Actually, as being pregnant, my

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Speaker 2: body finally had a purpose aside from looking a certain

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Speaker 2: just it started when I was forty. I just started

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Speaker 2: to realize that I could do things on my own terms,

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Speaker 2: that everybody was going to like me. I went I

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Speaker 2: started shifting the way I asked myself questions. And to me,

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Speaker 2: that was the first step towards you know, again we

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Speaker 2: say love our bodies. Well, there's stuff that's hang in

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Speaker 2: a lot lower now that I wish wasn't. I wish

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it when it was higher, but I did

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Speaker 2: not enjoy it when it was all in its perky place.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I feel bad about that because I

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Speaker 2: wasted some time for myself.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, you wasted all that time loving yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And then you start to really see yourself as

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Speaker 2: a whole, not as your waste size, or as a

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Speaker 2: and ask questions. Ask their doctors, ask their pharmacist. You

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Speaker 2: can ask your pharmacist about everything from your risk for shingles,

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Speaker 2: about vaccination, about anything. This is the period of time

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Speaker 1: I love that, and that's so true. I've always had

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Speaker 1: a real level of respect for you, and I see you,

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Speaker 1: and I see how you are someone who has always

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Speaker 1: appeared I don't know if this is the case, but

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Speaker 1: you always appeared to have had a sense of yourself,

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Speaker 1: even during times in your early life when maybe you

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Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of agency over what was happening.

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Speaker 1: You didn't only survive, you excelled, and you had to

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Speaker 1: protect yourself. You had to protect your mother, then you

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Speaker 1: had to protect yourself some more than you had to

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Speaker 1: protect your girls. It takes someone who really understands who

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Speaker 1: that is something when I see you, and when I

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Speaker 2: Thank you on that is absolutely lovely and beautiful. I

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Speaker 2: don't know how, but maybe it was because I started

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Speaker 2: much of the industry, and I went to all regular

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Speaker 2: grade schools and schools and high schools and college and

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Speaker 2: all of that with just kids who were not in

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Speaker 2: the entertainment industry. I don't know. I think that did

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Speaker 2: have a positive effect on me. I think I somehow

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Speaker 2: learned at an early age that I didn't want them

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Speaker 2: so I sort of had to fake it till I

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Speaker 2: that I was so stubborn like that, even just as

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Speaker 2: Like you said, when you have to protect your mom,

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Speaker 2: it's almost as all bets are off, even in a

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Speaker 2: how you stay strong and really creative and how you

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Speaker 2: keep your feet planted. And I started ferreting out things

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Speaker 2: that I knew people couldn't take away from me. Education,

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Speaker 2: my really close friends from high school, those little things

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Speaker 2: self materialized. It didn't take It wasn't easy, you know,

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Speaker 2: it happened mentally through university or according to the way

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Speaker 2: I would process information. You know, we're not taught to

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Speaker 2: was like I couldn't believe my luck, you know, And

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Speaker 2: I think just over time, you have to fight for it.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, I think I never even wanted

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Speaker 2: but eventually, you know.

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Speaker 1: Becoming natural right. Your work ethic and your drive also

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Speaker 1: And I just kind of want to ask you what

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Speaker 1: But somehow, by the grace of whatever, I managed to

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Speaker 2: Rejection failure.

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Speaker 1: And not wanting them you said before, not wanting them

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, you get enough of that, which

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Speaker 2: I can pivot enough to stay creative, but keep moving through.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can argue whether it's forward or not.

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Speaker 2: well what can I do? And it became you know,

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Speaker 2: Does TV open up for me? Because I wasn't in

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Speaker 2: And also, you know, we worked hard when we were younger,

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Speaker 1: It takes so much bravery to share yourself on that level.

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Speaker 2: really do, and they were just sort of mindless, and

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Speaker 2: I felt like I had had a vacation or a

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Speaker 2: massage after about an hour and a half, and that

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Speaker 2: was I chose me for that hour and a half

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Speaker 2: rather than waking up and going directly into chores and

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Speaker 2: things that I had to do in Errand's so just

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Speaker 2: choosing me in a quiet way was it was really

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Speaker 2: was healing for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes it's just those moments that we need.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's staying before in the morning, binging some show.

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Speaker 2: I mean like, sometimes I feel like I'm getting away

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Speaker 2: with so much if I still to get up at

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Speaker 2: six or seven the next day, But it doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: because how quiet time is mine. And you know I

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Speaker 2: used to feel guilty for that, and I don't anymore.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I've loved our conversation and I love

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, and I just want to say thank.

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Speaker 2: You, thank you so much, good luck with your your latest,

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Speaker 2: your last baby, and thank you.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank Brooke for coming on. She is

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Speaker 1: such an inspiration to so many women that you can

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Speaker 1: be anything you want, You can change and evolve as

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Speaker 1: many times as you like in this lifetime. And I

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Speaker 1: love that as we continue to choose ourselves each week,

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Speaker 1: I want you to try a little self care. Okay,

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Speaker 1: when was the last time you had a bubble bath

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Speaker 1: or got a massage or sat on your porch. My

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Speaker 1: favorite form of self care is usually sitting outside like Brooke,

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Speaker 1: just enjoying nature and turning off my mind from all

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Speaker 1: that is going on up there. I also love bubble baths,

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Speaker 1: so maybe you'll find me in one later today. This week,

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Speaker 1: I want you to put yourself on your calendar and

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Speaker 1: have a little I Choose Me time with no guilt,

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Speaker 1: no shame, because it is vital that we put ourselves

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Speaker 1: first here and there. Thanks for listening to I Choose Me.

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Speaker 1: You can check out all our SOLF links in our

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Speaker 1: show notes, and you can rate us and review us,

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Speaker 1: and tell me things that I really want to hear,

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Speaker 1: and even tell me things that maybe I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear. Use the hashtag I Choose Me. I'll be

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Speaker 1: right here next week. I hope you will choose to

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Speaker 1: be here too,