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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Good Vibe Series.

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Speaker 2: We wanted to bring you this series so that you

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Speaker 2: can hear firsthand from the amazing women that join us

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Speaker 2: at the Good Vibe retreat. A lot of you have

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Speaker 2: been interested in coming, and what better way to get

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Speaker 2: all the vibes and really hear the magic that we

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Speaker 2: make on these retreats than firsthand from the attendees.

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Speaker 1: So let's get into it.

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Speaker 3: I'm Morgan, and I live in Brooklyn, and I started

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Speaker 3: listening to the podcast right before Thanksgiving. I had a

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Speaker 3: like five hour train ride between New York and Washington,

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Speaker 3: d C. Where I was going to be celebrating Thanksgiving

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Speaker 3: with my family, and so I was kind of on

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Speaker 3: the hunt for a couple podcasts to listen to on

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Speaker 3: my trip, and somehow I came across Good Mom's Bad Choices,

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Speaker 3: And clearly that was destined because I I loved what

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Speaker 3: I heard.

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Speaker 1: It was really interesting perspectives.

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Speaker 3: I shared it with all my mom friends because I

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Speaker 3: don't have children myself, but I thought that just hearing

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Speaker 3: the way that they spoke so irreverently about motherhood and

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Speaker 3: about womanhood and being black women, and that experience was

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Speaker 3: really resonant for me. Even though I wasn't a mom,

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Speaker 3: and so I knew that for my friends who are

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Speaker 3: moms that it would be really resonant for them too.

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Speaker 3: And I've been on a little bit of a personal

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Speaker 3: growth and personal expansion journey over the past couple of

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Speaker 3: years and really trying to figure out, like what do

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Speaker 3: I actually want to do or be or give to

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Speaker 3: the world versus what has the conveyor built that I've

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Speaker 3: been on my entire life since I'm a little kid.

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Speaker 1: I've go to this school, go.

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Speaker 3: To the best college, go to the best companies, and

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Speaker 3: like work in this really specific capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal

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Speaker 3: society kind of way, and like be on that race

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Speaker 3: pace and really asking myself, like, are those the things

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Speaker 3: that I actually want? Because I've been able to be

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Speaker 3: pretty successful in navigating those spaces, is that actually what

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Speaker 3: I want? Or am I just doing what I think

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Speaker 3: I'm supposed to be doing? And so as I was

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Speaker 3: having all of these thoughts, I was like, I really

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Speaker 3: want to be able to take some time to really

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Speaker 3: think about that and to like journal on.

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Speaker 1: It and ask myself some of those questions.

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Speaker 3: And when in listening to the podcast, I learned that

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Speaker 3: this retreat was happening, I thought what better place to

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Speaker 3: ask myself all those questions than with a bunch of

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Speaker 3: other women in Costa Rica, And so I'm so happy

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Speaker 3: that I bucked.

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Speaker 1: Since being here, it's been so fun.

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Speaker 3: Somebody called it like a grown woman's spring break, and

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Speaker 3: it has felt like that. We've laughed, we've cried, we've hugged,

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Speaker 3: we've talked, we've danced, and it's just been really special

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Speaker 3: to kind of be free in that way, particularly since,

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Speaker 3: at least for me in the state, as black women,

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Speaker 3: we're so there isn't a lot of space for us

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Speaker 3: to be soft or for us to cry, or for

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Speaker 3: us to be sad. We're often casked with being the

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Speaker 3: strong one and like keeping it moving, and I think

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Speaker 3: that this was a really nice pause and reset for

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Speaker 3: us to get away from that. I think that one

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Speaker 3: of the best experiences that I've had since being here

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Speaker 3: was they brought this fantastic photographer named Chachi to come

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Speaker 3: take photos, and all of us decided what better place

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Speaker 3: to take some beautiful photos in our beautiful naked bodies

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Speaker 3: in Costa Rica.

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Speaker 1: And so.

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Speaker 3: Not only did we get to take these beautiful pictures

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Speaker 3: that we'll be able to have of ourselves forever, when

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Speaker 3: we're going to be when we all look incredibly beautiful,

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Speaker 3: but also feeling so confident and having the support of

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Speaker 3: all these other women around us as we were taking

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Speaker 3: these kind of vulnerable photos was so powerful and cool.

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Speaker 3: And to just be able to be free and to

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Speaker 3: be embracing of our bodies and to feel confident has

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Speaker 3: been so special, and I think I'm going to take

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Speaker 3: that with me as I go. So I'm really grateful

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Speaker 3: for this experience and for all the women that I've met,

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Speaker 3: and for the women who planned it.

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Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you. How I love

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Speaker 1: our tribe.

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Speaker 2: Every time I listen to these I just miss the

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Speaker 2: jungle so much. If you want to join us in

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Speaker 2: the Jungle on our next international women's retreat, click the

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Speaker 2: link in this episode description to join The Good Vibes,

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Speaker 2: or you can follow us on Instagram at the Good

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Speaker 2: Vibe or Tree