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Speaker 3: I need that, Okay, I need that quiz. Okay, great, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I have been in a dating adventure era and

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Speaker 1: I decided that I wasn't going to get serious at

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Speaker 1: the earliest until.

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Speaker 3: Like the end of this year. Or the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the of the of the next year, right, and I haven't.

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Speaker 1: I've like flirted with I've posted some like pictures of

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Speaker 1: me holding someone's hand from behind and like the back

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Speaker 3: I have not people.

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Speaker 1: Despite what the media says, I'm not hard launched anything

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Speaker 1: demoralized or like insignificant, I have posted like breadcrumbs, but

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Speaker 1: but I've been I've dated for months and when I'm

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Speaker 1: been people that I've dated that no one's ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And then there have been some people that I happen

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Speaker 1: of sucks when you're public, because a picture is worth

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Speaker 3: Why Why does Leonardo.

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Speaker 1: DiCaprio, for example, get to run around and like just

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Speaker 1: No one says it's a hard launch. He's just like

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Speaker 1: it like women get crystallized and reduced to like if

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Speaker 1: Like we're not we're not. We don't get to be

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Speaker 1: Women have feel like they're begging to be married.

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Speaker 2: I agree with everything you said. It's a double standard,

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Speaker 2: and you're in a very unique position where you can

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Speaker 2: don't care what the world thinks, just the fact that

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Speaker 2: death and and again I look at what you do

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Speaker 2: These are levels of complication that most people will never

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Speaker 2: have to be faced with. It's like relationships. Finding someone

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Speaker 2: of your life is challenging enough. Now we layer what

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Speaker 2: a lot of people do in your position. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to remove you from it individually, but you know, public

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Speaker 2: This is Icarus stuff. I mean it is. There's zero

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Speaker 2: And now, but a complicating factors.

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Speaker 3: No, But I always bring it down to the cul

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Speaker 3: And I do think that most of these things can.

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Speaker 1: So it's not about someone who is on the cover

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Speaker 2: It, I feel like you're getting a lot of power

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Speaker 2: So I would go back to the ceo intern metaphor.

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Speaker 2: No one's telling you, as a woman what limits you

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Speaker 2: but like, there's a very conscious choice to put that

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Speaker 2: Men are the interns applying for a job with you.

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Speaker 2: You could cycle in turns out every three months, because

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Speaker 2: that's where you're at in your life and that's perfectly

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Speaker 1: So women's hiring how much you know, as a relationship

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Speaker 1: Like if a man's going to be loyal, they're not

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Speaker 3: But they may have a definition that's different.

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Speaker 1: They may you may be dating they give bad text

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Speaker 3: You might feel like your second fiddle or you're a stepmom.

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Speaker 1: And like whatever the so where is the where does

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Speaker 3: And how much of it?

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, we're really going there today? I love it. Okay,

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Speaker 2: there's no one size fits all answer. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: is it necessary? So I loved your New York City

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Speaker 2: the subway. Whatever the hell it is, there's always a tradeoff.

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Speaker 2: I think people tend to make the more trade off,

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Speaker 2: the wrong trade offs. Men venerate youth and beauty above everything,

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Speaker 2: and women venerate money and power over everything to their

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Speaker 2: to their detriment. So it's not that you should stop

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Speaker 2: being attracted to the things you're attracted to. It's if

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Speaker 2: I make five hundred thousand and he makes two hundred thousand,

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Speaker 2: two people work together? It's the system you've built companies, Right,

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Speaker 2: there's a flow. And it's fundamentally easy. If you find

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Speaker 3: How do you.

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Speaker 1: Advise women to operate and protect themselves. Around the holidays.

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Speaker 2: I think that I think holidays become a time of reflection.

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Speaker 2: And it could also be a motivating factor to say, hey,

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Speaker 2: do not have to be you know, you know, like

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Speaker 1: Or even if you're melancholy and said, which is normal

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Speaker 1: Well, like drink green juices, like make it a health thing,

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Speaker 2: But and that makes love no different than anything else

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Speaker 2: Okay, there's a lot of there's a lot of suffering.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of loss. You know people, I know

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Speaker 2: And so I think listening to two podcasts like yours,

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Speaker 2: You don't always have to do something. Holidays can be

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