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Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's DJ Envy Jess, hilarious, charlamage

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Speaker 2: the guy.

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Speaker 1: We are to Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: You got a special guest in the building. We have

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Speaker 2: Elliott Connie.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back brother. How are you, sir. I'm doing great.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing very well. Thank you man. It's good to

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Speaker 1: see you.

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Speaker 3: You got a new book out now, a change your questions,

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Speaker 3: change the future of overcoming challenges and creating a new

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Speaker 3: vision for your life using the principles of solution focused

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Speaker 3: brief therapy facts.

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Speaker 1: What a title? Yes, Jess, what a title? So what

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Speaker 1: does all that mean? You know it means. I've been

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Speaker 1: a practicing psychotherapist for I don't know, nearly twenty years

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Speaker 1: and it's been an amazing ride to like watch people

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Speaker 1: heal and overcome, like some things that you wouldn't imagine

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Speaker 1: people get heal and overcoming. As I sat there on

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Speaker 1: that twenty year journey, sitting there front row and watching

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Speaker 1: people grow, how you started thinking, like what's the commonality?

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Speaker 1: Like how do people do this? How do people change?

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Speaker 1: And how do people overcome challenges? And people who are

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Speaker 1: successful and people who are able to achieve things in

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Speaker 1: spite of obstacles, have a tendency to ask themselves different

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Speaker 1: kinds of questions. So I decided to write a book

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Speaker 1: about it. Like I've written several books, but most of

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Speaker 1: them are for professionals. But I decided I wanted to

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Speaker 1: write a book about change and about how people talk

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Speaker 1: to themselves, and about how successful people have a tendency

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Speaker 1: to ask themselves different kinds of questions that lead to

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Speaker 1: their success. And when I say success, I don't mean

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Speaker 1: like millionaires, but I just mean people that achieve whatever

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Speaker 1: their aim is, if it's overcoming addiction or becoming successful

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Speaker 1: business person, whatever it is. Success is defined by people

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Speaker 1: who set a goal and achieve it. So what is

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Speaker 1: it that makes some people succeed and other people not?

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Speaker 1: And after all these years of practice, it's they talk

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Speaker 1: to themselves differently, and they ask themselves different kind of questions.

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Speaker 3: What's the most common question that successful people ask themselves?

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a good one. The most common question

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Speaker 1: that successful people ask themselves is what do I want?

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Speaker 1: Most people do not ask themselves what do I want?

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Speaker 1: Most people spend a lot of time thinking about what

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Speaker 1: they don't want and try to avoid it. People who

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Speaker 1: achieve aims and goals are the ones who are able

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Speaker 1: it that I want about this goal? And once you

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Speaker 1: do that, you become capable of achieving it.

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Speaker 3: I tell all the younger that you got to find

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Speaker 3: that one thing that you want to do, and we

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Speaker 3: find that one thing that you want to do.

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Speaker 1: When you focus on that, everything else follow them, understand.

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Speaker 1: I mean I tell people all the time, like, you

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Speaker 1: doesn't ask you where do you not want to be?

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Speaker 1: Like if the cab driver to ask you where you're

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Speaker 1: not want to be? That doesn't give that cab driver

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Speaker 1: any information. The cab driver asks you the single most

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Speaker 1: important question ever, where are you going? And then you

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Speaker 1: answer that question. You would never say I just want

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Speaker 1: to be not here, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Like, you.

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Speaker 1: Don't never say that cab driver says where you headed?

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Speaker 1: You don't say like not here? Like that's just not

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Speaker 1: what That doesn't help. But think about that, Like most

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Speaker 1: people say, like I just don't want to feel like

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Speaker 1: do you want? I don't know, just not this one.

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Speaker 1: But that's not good enough. You have to, like you

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Speaker 1: have to really identify what's that thing I want to

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Speaker 1: Who do I want to be in order to become

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Speaker 3: That's so real, and that's why we have these conversations

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Speaker 3: about manifestation. You can't just say I want to be successful. No,

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Speaker 3: what's the goal, what's the destination, what you're trying to do?

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's absolute right. You got to think of

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Speaker 1: like no, because future baseball players in college don't skip

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Speaker 1: And just most people don't they don't ask themselves. They say,

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Speaker 1: I want to be successful, I want to be famous,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a YouTube star, whatever they say.

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Speaker 1: But like talking about what or doing what or impacting who, like,

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Speaker 2: So I was going to ask when you do have

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Speaker 2: That means you have to do a lot of work

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Speaker 2: realize what they want. They want to be rich, or

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Speaker 2: that requires the work and I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: Like if you ever ask a high school student or

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Speaker 1: It's literally my job. Yeah, you're right. I ask these

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Speaker 1: to be an influencer. I want a podcast. I want

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Speaker 1: a podcast, but be a rapper. I'm just kid. I

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Speaker 1: don't hear that one as much, but you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I always I wanted to ask you as well.

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Speaker 2: You know, we had doctor Cheyenne Bryant here the other day.

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Speaker 2: I saw that and she was talking about change behavior

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Speaker 2: opposed to UH. We were talking about UH men doing

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Speaker 2: She was saying that she feels like men don't change,

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Speaker 2: they just shift and pivot. What's your thoughts on that?

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Speaker 1: You saw a clipper? I saw the clip. I very

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Speaker 1: much disagree with her when she says like people she said,

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Speaker 1: got enough of that. I feel I certainly don't want

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Speaker 1: that with the good sister doctor Bryant. I heard her

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Speaker 1: we have to go back to what's the definition of change? So, like,

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Speaker 1: here's an example. Recently, I've been taking my health more

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Speaker 1: When you do that, my body chemistry is different. If

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Speaker 1: six months ago, it looks different, Like wouldn't that be definable, noticeable,

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Speaker 1: observable change. And we often use phrases like you are

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Speaker 1: what you consistently do. So if I change what I

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Speaker 1: very disheartening thing to say people don't change, they shift. Like,

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Speaker 1: what if I've had a really hard life trauma, abuse, tragedy,

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Speaker 1: and I cope with that comma trauma, abuse, and tragedy

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Speaker 1: with drugs and alcohol. Are you saying I can just shift?

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Speaker 1: to these addictive behaviors Like that, that's wildly inaccurate, And

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Speaker 1: and you recently becoming a new mother, and again, you're

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Speaker 1: not the same person as you were before. This person, Like,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't we observe that? Is absolutely Like, that's that's just

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Speaker 3: She was saying that you have to make these shifts

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Speaker 1: I don't actually, I don't know that that's true. I

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Speaker 1: goes back to what we're saying before. It's identifying who

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Speaker 1: it really starts with how you how you identify, and

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Speaker 4: What about if you going back to what we were

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Speaker 4: talking about before, doctor Bryant, what about if you don't

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Speaker 4: what if that changes? What if you get into something

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Speaker 4: Because then you can land yourself in a funk, you

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, so I think there's two questions there, like

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Speaker 1: I know a really good book that people should read

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Speaker 1: that will help the my tentergy, change your questions, change

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Speaker 1: your future. No, no, but but I mean if you

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Speaker 1: want to do. I don't want to wake up and

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Speaker 1: up and help people overcome life's circumstances. So I became

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Speaker 1: a psychotherapist. And the second thing is, I don't know

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Speaker 1: have to have a realization that I can't discover who

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Speaker 1: having the boldness to say this doesn't fit, and then

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Speaker 1: having the boldness to fight for the things that do. Like,

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Speaker 1: once I decided I wanted to become a psychotherapist, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't like the path was easy. In fact, it's been very,

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Speaker 1: First of all, I had to get a master's degree,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for every opportunity, every chance people

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Speaker 1: so appreciative of every moment that I've had, because I

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Speaker 1: and the problems are all gifts. And how many of

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Speaker 1: y'all have gotten fired from a job or booed off

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Speaker 1: a stage or whatever. And at the time it happened,

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Speaker 1: it hurt and it was difficult, it was challenging, but

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Speaker 1: you look back and realize I needed that, like that process.

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Speaker 1: That was a good thing that it happened to me.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't fun, wasn't exciting, and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: to get to get here. So I think we have

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Speaker 1: to just shift, and I think people can. I do

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Speaker 1: think we kind of operate on a low level of

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Speaker 1: But I think that can be impacted by doing things

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Speaker 1: playing around on social media, like read a book. Like

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Speaker 1: you know, most successful people have libraries and unsuccessful people

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Speaker 1: have television. It's like that's a measurable piece of data

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Speaker 1: that rich wildly successful goal attaining people have more books,

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Speaker 1: and people who are not as successful watch television many

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Speaker 1: more hours. So in that comfort, they're just feeding their

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Speaker 1: brain better stuff. And what does that do that increases

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Speaker 1: your level of emotional intelligence? How do you follow you?

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Speaker 1: Elliott Connie? I don't know. Why do you want to

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Speaker 1: call you doctor? That everybody do? Everybody does? How do

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Speaker 1: they follow me? Go to Instagram at Elie it speaks

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Speaker 1: it spell my name of two l's and two t's.

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Speaker 1: You can follow me on Facebook. Just look at my name.

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Speaker 1: Elliot Connie is not too many people named Elliott Connie.

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Speaker 3: His new book is out now change your questions, change

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Speaker 3: your future, overcoming challenges, and create a new vision for

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Speaker 3: your life using the principles of solution focused brief therapy.

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Speaker 3: Make sure you go get that and check out Elliott's podcast,

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Speaker 3: Family Therapy on the blackfed iHeartRadio podcast network.

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Speaker 1: That's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: My brother's Elliott Connie.

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Speaker 1: Pick up the book. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club