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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wokay F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, back from VAK and recording

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Speaker 1: in the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, I gotta tell you, and

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Speaker 1: I know this every single time that I go on

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Speaker 1: it's like trying to catch hot grease in your hand.

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Speaker 1: It is painful. It is almost impossible to catch up

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Speaker 1: with what you've missed during the week that you're out.

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Speaker 1: But I want to give you some initial highlights from

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Speaker 1: my trip about recharging and just revitalizing my spirits, and

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Speaker 1: then dive fully back into the headlines, which there are

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Speaker 1: many and I don't even know which ones to start

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Speaker 1: with thirst, But what I will say is that thank

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Speaker 1: you all so much for your well wishes and your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on how to recharge and being so wonderful with

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Speaker 1: regard to recognizing that even you know, those folks that

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Speaker 1: day basis also require rest. And I do my best

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Speaker 1: to offer to you all advice that I think will

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Speaker 1: help you, but then also turn around and wanting to

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Speaker 1: take my own advice, and what I will say is

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Speaker 1: this rest and restoration should not just happen one week

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Speaker 1: And I'm coming back to you feeling so recharged and

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Speaker 1: so relaxed because I make self care a part of

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Speaker 1: it's also important to just think of the ways in

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Speaker 1: which we continue to overwork ourselves, grind ourselves, and wait

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Speaker 1: until we are at our most depleted to say that

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Speaker 1: we need a break. I think I'm coming back so

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Speaker 1: coming back in a way where I'm like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I wish I had another day or a week of vacation,

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Speaker 1: because I genuinely don't. I think that happens when you

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Speaker 1: you know, literally given all that you can and now

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Speaker 1: you're completely depleted. I think that that's the wrong way

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Speaker 1: to take vacation. I believe in the practice of daily

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Speaker 1: What are you doing in between when you're in your

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Speaker 1: moments of deep frustration. I will tell you this, I

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Speaker 1: my friends that I was with were just like, no,

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Speaker 1: Needless to say, when we wake up on the next

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Speaker 1: fairies were canceled and we were left scrambling to figure

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Speaker 1: And during that time, I, you know, I was frustrated

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Speaker 1: because it doesn't change the present situation. Right, The only

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Speaker 1: thing that will change the present situation is to keep

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Speaker 1: And so that was my trip in a nutshell, all right.

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