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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Emily Abadi here, you are listening to five

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Speaker 1: Minute Friday from Herdle. Before I get into the meat

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Speaker 1: and potatoes of today's episode, I want to talk up

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Speaker 1: some stuff that's going to be going down in Boston

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Speaker 1: next week. Whether you're running, whether you're hanging, whether you're

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Speaker 1: then got to give some love to the team at Nike.

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Speaker 1: I'll be joining them at next weekend for a slew

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Speaker 1: of fun things, including their Women's Community Night at Nike Boston.

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Speaker 1: At Saturday, April thirteenth. It starts at eight pm. We'll

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Speaker 1: be celebrating the starting line, Women's running and the Nike

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Speaker 1: Running Community, a panel featuring Nike athletes, bites, drinks, they

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Speaker 1: have an orange carpet, so much more so I hope

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Speaker 1: to see you there. I'll also be tagging along for

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Speaker 1: a few other fun things that Nike has on deck

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Speaker 1: next week, So I'm gonna link all of this in

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Speaker 1: the show notes. This is your opportunity to come together,

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Speaker 1: and I'd love to come together with you. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the week. This has been a week for me.

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Speaker 1: It's been a week for me because of a few things.

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Speaker 1: It's been really nice to be home and really nice

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Speaker 1: to be in a routine. I joined a gym not

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Speaker 1: all that long ago, and I've really really enjoyed getting

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Speaker 1: back out to the gym for context. I do have

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Speaker 1: a gym in my building and I've used it ever

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Speaker 1: loved it. However, it doesn't have all of the bells

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Speaker 1: and whistles or all of the equipment that I want

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Speaker 1: to be using, primarily different weights and barbells, and so

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Speaker 1: I decided why not, let's try it. So here I

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Speaker 1: am in my little routine, going to the gym four

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Speaker 1: times a week and really enjoying it.

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Speaker 2: I'm finding my fast.

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Speaker 1: I'm calling this spring the Spring of Speed as I

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Speaker 1: gear up for a ten k in June, and all

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Speaker 1: of that has been really great. But candidly, work has

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Speaker 1: been a little bit frustrating for me lately, and it's

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Speaker 1: to be expected. This happens for me when I come

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Speaker 1: off of things that really excite me, bigger projects, and

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Speaker 1: the group of hurdlers that ran the La Marathon, that

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Speaker 1: project was a really exciting project for me. And so

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Speaker 1: now as I have this little bit of lull, I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling a little confused, and I find myself falling into

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Speaker 1: the comparison trap situation, the comparison trap period, I look

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Speaker 1: at my socials and open Instagram and feel as though

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing enough. I see people that are doing

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Speaker 1: things that I want to be doing, and it's not

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Speaker 1: at all that I'm not excited for them. I do

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Speaker 1: believe that there's room for all of us at the table,

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Speaker 1: and the best people that I know, the people that

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Speaker 1: are my closest people, They're the kind of people that

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Speaker 1: lift others up as they rise to knowing there is

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Speaker 1: room in the harbor for all of the ships, all

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Speaker 1: of the metaphors. You get what I'm saying. But it's

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Speaker 1: just been really frustrating because I have some goals and

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Speaker 1: things that my sites are set on, and I sit

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Speaker 1: here and I think about how I felt this week,

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Speaker 1: and I worry that this feeling will only be amplified

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Speaker 1: if I don't get to the place that I envision

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Speaker 1: that I will be the place that I am manifesting

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Speaker 1: the things that I am after. And I'm living in

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Speaker 1: this place of duality, this place of both, this place

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Speaker 1: of knowing and appreciating and remembering that there is so

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Speaker 1: much that I have in my life that I wanted now,

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Speaker 1: and also there is nothing wrong with wanting more. I

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Speaker 1: am so grateful for everything that I have now, so

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Speaker 1: much of it that I didn't even dream of, I

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Speaker 1: didn't even fathom. But then there's also this person here

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Speaker 1: that wants to keep leveling up, that wants to keep

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Speaker 1: striving for more, and so one big exhale, I will

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Speaker 1: say this in the Weekly Hurdle this week. It's the

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Speaker 1: newsletter that comes out every Friday that I write shared

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Speaker 1: the strategies that I used on Tuesday when I feel

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Speaker 1: like I was in the prime of this little frustration

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Speaker 1: session situation I've been in that I used to get

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Speaker 1: through this, that I used to really pull myself out

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Speaker 1: of the comparison trap, come back to gratitude. And so

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Speaker 1: for those head on over to the Weekly Heard. All

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Speaker 1: of the link is in the show notes. My listener

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Speaker 1: prompt for you this week, and thanks always for letting

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Speaker 2: My listener prompt for you this week.

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Speaker 1: What is one goal that you have that you're working

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Speaker 1: toward right now, and what is something that's within your

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Speaker 1: power to get closer to that goal within the next

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Speaker 1: seven days. What is one goal on your horizon right

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Speaker 1: now and what's something you can do over the next

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Speaker 1: seven days to get closer to it? And now a

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Speaker 1: very appropriate listener question.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, it's Salita. My question for today's I've noticed

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Speaker 3: your dedication to journaling and consistently achieving your goals, so

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Speaker 3: I wanted to know what is one goal that you're

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Speaker 3: most proud of accomplishing and what are you currently manifesting.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that I've said this on the show before,

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Speaker 1: but if you were to ask me this question five

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Speaker 1: years ago, I would tell you my most proudest accomplishment

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Speaker 1: was being featured in the New York Times.

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Speaker 2: And as awesome as that was.

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Speaker 1: The article is truly framed in the studio here, I

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Speaker 1: realized that there was both hard work and luck involved

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Speaker 1: in that, And so I reflect on the things that

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Speaker 1: I've done purely hard work and what that has resulted in,

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Speaker 1: and candidly, one of my biggest accomplishments is being a

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Speaker 1: woman in her mid thirties who can afford her own

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Speaker 1: two bedroom apartment rental, Like this is something that I

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Speaker 1: worked really hard to get to a place where I

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Speaker 1: not easy regularly work my butt off to have this

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Speaker 1: that truly is something I am so proud of myself

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Speaker 1: for Beyond that, man, I mean, I really want to

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Speaker 1: be in Paris this summer, and it feels sometimes like

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to just make these things happen and share

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Speaker 1: them with all of you and not show the behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. But right now I have nothing lined up.

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Speaker 1: I have nothing lined up, and it's not for lack

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Speaker 1: of trying. But none of my ideas thus far have clicked.

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Speaker 1: And I think that there's a lot more that I

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Speaker 1: people that I can talk to. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: right now, I'm trying to trust the process and believe

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Speaker 1: that if I am meant to be working in Paris

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Speaker 1: this summer during the Olympics, and it's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: And I really struggle with this manifestation hands off approach.

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Speaker 1: I'm a type a person. I go after the things

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Speaker 1: that I want. I make big asks. I'm so used

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Speaker 1: to the word no, and getting used to the word

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Speaker 1: no has been one of the best things I have

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Speaker 1: done for myself because it's enabled me to pitch some

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Speaker 1: But I would be remiss if I didn't sit here

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Speaker 1: in front of this microphone and be honest about the

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Speaker 1: fact that I feel so scared that I have shared

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Speaker 1: this big goal with so many damn people and what

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't happen, you know, like what if I

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Speaker 1: quote unquote fail, what if I come up short? I know,

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Speaker 1: like there will be other opportunities, but it's hard not

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Speaker 1: to wow. I didn't expect to get so emotional talking

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Speaker 1: about this. It's hard not to get down on myself

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Speaker 1: in moments like this and ask myself, like, what more

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Speaker 1: could you have done? But I trust it, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: really do. I trust that if it's not Paris, then

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Speaker 1: maybe it's La. And if it's not La twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: then there's something else waiting around the corner for me.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever told this story on

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Speaker 1: the show before, but I was up for a really

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Speaker 1: big opportunity a few years ago during the pandemic, in

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Speaker 1: which I would have been a global ambassador for a

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Speaker 1: brand that is a very big part of my life.

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Speaker 1: And when that opportunity fell through, I truly felt like

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Speaker 1: I had lost everything. I felt as though I was

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Speaker 1: never going to find the right thing. I felt that

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Speaker 1: this was the launching point and it slipped through my

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Speaker 1: fingers and I didn't really know how to move forward

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Speaker 1: from that. But the truth is that I did, and

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Speaker 1: when I did, I was met with so many opportunities

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Speaker 1: based on my hard work, and ultimately those opportunities in

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Speaker 1: retrospect were a lot more for me, a lot more

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Speaker 1: in line with where I want to go, who I

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Speaker 1: want to be than maybe that big global ambassador opportunity

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Speaker 1: ever would have been talk about a vulnerable five minute Friday.

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Speaker 1: I'm just here doing me in this studio in Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: that I really once dreamed of having and now that

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Speaker 1: I do. There are so many silver linings. There is

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Speaker 1: so much good if only you choose to see it.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're following along Over on social I'm at

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Speaker 1: Emily a Body and also over at Hurdle Podcast Another

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Speaker 1: Hurdle conquered.

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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time