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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: On this week's episode of Cultivating her Space.

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Speaker 1: I learned that you can put a lot of makeup

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Speaker 1: on your face, but it doesn't give you that confidence.

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Speaker 1: What strength? It gives you? The strength that gives me

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Speaker 1: that confidence, I can't explain it. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Today's episode is sure to provide you with motivation, inspiration,

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Cultivating her Space, a podcast dedicated to uplifting

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Speaker 3: women like you. We're your hosts, doctor Dominique Bussard, a

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Speaker 3: college professor and psychologist.

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Speaker 4: And Terry Lomax, a techie and motivational speaker. In a

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Speaker 4: world where black women are often misrepresented and misunderstood, please

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Speaker 4: join us as we initiate authentic conversations on everything from

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Speaker 4: where black women can just be.

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Speaker 2: Hey, lady, it's Terry here from the Cultivating her Space podcast.

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Speaker 4: All right, lady, we have a very special guest today

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Speaker 4: we are so excited about. I just want to also

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Speaker 4: note that I'm wearing workout gear today in honor of

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Speaker 4: our special guest. So I'm going to stop teasing you.

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Speaker 4: We're just going to dive in and I'll tell you

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Speaker 4: a little bit about who we have on the show today.

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Speaker 4: Samon Miniir is a Toronto based certified trainer, mother of three,

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Speaker 4: Evolve Apps all female global training team. Someone designed her

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Speaker 4: Someone proudly joins the Evolved You team as its first

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Speaker 4: Welcome to cultivating her Space.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for having me.

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Speaker 2: You are so welcome.

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Speaker 5: We are so excited for this conversation, and so we

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Speaker 5: are going to get started with our quote of the day. Now.

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Speaker 5: This quote will sound familiar to you because your instagram

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Speaker 5: is full of not only amazing fitness videos, inspirational quotes

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Speaker 5: not the destination. Someone, when you came up with that

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Speaker 1: Before my fitness journey, I was a makeup influencer and

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Speaker 5: How did you become the someone Monir that we see

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Speaker 4: I mean, inside it out beautiful person. How do you

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Speaker 1: So there's all types of workouts that you can do

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Speaker 1: and just start moving. You know. It's what I love

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Speaker 1: about Evolving You. It's not about losing it. It's all

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Speaker 1: about building healthy habits, how to feel strong, how to

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Speaker 1: feel confident.

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Speaker 2: It's a really good point.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for making that, just that point someon because

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Speaker 4: I think about how, you know, how they say every

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Speaker 4: journey begins with a single step. And so even when

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Speaker 4: you think about your fitness journey, it's like you don't

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Speaker 4: have to be this this perfect with perfect form, you know,

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Speaker 4: on the first day, it's like do something like you

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Speaker 4: can literally start with five minutes and then continue to progress.

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Speaker 4: So that's just such a good point. What would you

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Speaker 4: say is the thing that really inspired you to begin

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Speaker 4: this finish journey?

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Speaker 1: Souse?

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Speaker 4: I know you talked a little bit about this in

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Speaker 4: a previous interview about your mom and witnessing the struggles

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Speaker 4: that she had growing up. So can you talk a

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Speaker 4: bit more about the inspiration behind the journey outside of

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Speaker 4: you having your own children, but some of that story.

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Speaker 1: Oh right, I feel like everybody for me, it's just

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Speaker 1: for me. It's like an outlet. Gym isn't like my outlet.

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Speaker 1: Like whenever I'm stressed, whenever I'm feeling down, whenever I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you know, stuck in my head, I just head to

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Speaker 1: the gym and I work out. My husband knows when

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Speaker 1: I'm cranky. It's like someone just just go to the

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Speaker 1: gym for me. Now it's not even about being strong anymore,

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Speaker 1: just to get that piece of wind, like how I feel.

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Speaker 1: I know how amazing I feel after I work out.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like I could explain it to the world,

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Speaker 1: how amazing you guys are going to feel just after

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Speaker 1: your work out. So, like I said, for me, it's

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Speaker 1: not about losing weight anymore, not even being strong. It's

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Speaker 1: just that peace of mind that I get. It's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like you just feel so relaxed, you

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Speaker 1: feel so content, and it's just amazing that.

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Speaker 5: And so, you know, one of the things in mental

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Speaker 5: health we talk to folks about is exercise can be

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Speaker 5: a healthy coping skill because of the stress that gets

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Speaker 5: relieved when you work out right right. And so when

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Speaker 5: you think about your overall fitness journey, what has been

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Speaker 5: the biggest benefit for you overall?

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Speaker 1: I would say my mental health is the biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've gone through a lot with my mom

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Speaker 1: being single, my father not being there, my brother, you know,

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Speaker 1: having a mental illness, like so many things has just

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Speaker 1: helped me to you know, get through it just by

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Speaker 1: you know, going to the gym, working out and just

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Speaker 1: letting everything out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So, lady, this might be a reminder or the encouragement

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Speaker 4: you need to go get in the gym, or you

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Speaker 4: can do the work, the homeworkouts, which I love absolutely

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Speaker 4: because I was able to make a lot of progress postpart.

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Speaker 4: I'm just working out at home. So you can do it, lady,

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Speaker 4: if you're listening, we appreciate you. You can definitely do it.

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Speaker 4: The other thing I wanted to ask you about someone

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Speaker 4: at this point in your life?

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Speaker 1: Oh, my god, Padre, of all so many achievements, like

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Speaker 1: you know, being involved your trainer, being athlete for under Armor,

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Speaker 1: working for a woman's best and you know, working with

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Speaker 1: so many athletes around the world. Just being healthy. Just

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Speaker 1: being healthy, and you know that I have that motivation

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Speaker 1: like I always thank God, you know, thanks for giving

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Speaker 1: me that will power to go to the gym, you know,

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Speaker 1: to to work out. And I praise Scott all the

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Speaker 1: time for health, be kids, for a good family, for

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Speaker 1: an amazing husband who always supports me, you know, because

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Speaker 1: that's a huge thing. I wouldn't be here if I

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Speaker 1: didn't have his support. So I love that.

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Speaker 5: I love that. But just being healthy, that is that

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Speaker 5: is a great mindset to have. And it takes me

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Speaker 5: to back to our cold of the day where it's

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Speaker 5: about the journey and not the destination, right, And so

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Speaker 5: for the folks who are I'm in, you know, they're like,

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Speaker 5: I'm enjoying the journey, and now I've reached the destination.

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Speaker 1: What's next?

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Speaker 5: Once folks get to that destination and they've enjoyed the journey,

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Speaker 5: how do they determine what's the next thing?

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Speaker 1: Then you just set up another goal and then you

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Speaker 1: just do that. For me, I had the same issue,

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Speaker 1: Like when I wanted to get my muscle up last year.

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Speaker 1: It was such a difficult journey. Like I started in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. I was on and off. I was not consistent,

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Speaker 1: and I couldn't understand why I couldn't get it. And

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Speaker 1: the only reason was because I didn't. I was not consistent.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I had to understand that

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Speaker 1: I need someone's help. I can't do it by myself.

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Speaker 1: So I hired a coach. I hired a coach. It's

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Speaker 1: okay for a trainer to hire a coach and get help.

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Speaker 1: So I got that help. And as soon as I

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Speaker 1: got his help, I went like, within months, I got

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Speaker 1: my first muscle up. Yeah, so within months I got

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Speaker 1: my first muscle and that was my biggest goal. Like

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Speaker 1: you know to get that. Now that I got that,

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Speaker 1: now I'm working on something else like could be a handstand,

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Speaker 1: could be a lever. So I'm trying to get into

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Speaker 1: Kalistina's all body weight. I just I love that you

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Speaker 1: can do so much with your body.

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Speaker 2: That's so inspiring.

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Speaker 4: And I'm so glad you mentioned that because one of

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Speaker 4: the things that Dom and I have talked about this before.

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Speaker 4: I remember being with my therapist and my therapist had

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Speaker 4: mentioned she casually said, yeah, you know, I was talking

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Speaker 4: to my therapist about this, and it just made me

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Speaker 4: so happy to know that my therapist has a therapist,

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Speaker 4: so like your trainer should have a trainer, or at

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Speaker 4: some point in their life, I'm sure they had a

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Speaker 4: coach and that's okay. So thank you for also reminding

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Speaker 4: folks that it's okay to get help if you are,

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Speaker 4: you know, at the top of your field right, because

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Speaker 4: you always should be progressing and developing. Now I know

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Speaker 4: that we all know that representation is important. I can

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Speaker 4: only imagine someone that just your look right, someone seeing

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Speaker 4: you in your hajab and the gin working out another

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Speaker 4: Muslim woman especially, I can imagine that is so inspired

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Speaker 4: to see someone that looks like you in that space.

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Speaker 4: What feedback have you gotten from other hijab wearing women

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Speaker 4: or men that are inspired or just people in general

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Speaker 4: that are inspired by your journey?

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Speaker 2: What feedback have you gotten?

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Speaker 1: I received a lot of positive There are a few negative,

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Speaker 1: which is totally fine. But I received a lot of

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Speaker 1: positive comments. And I've seen a lot of Muslim women

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Speaker 1: even also, you know, heading that way, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of actually makeup influencers who did the same thing. Now

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Speaker 1: they're kind of leaving the makeup out and they're going

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Speaker 1: towards fitnesses because they're so motivated and to see like,

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Speaker 1: you know, hey, she can do it at the age

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Speaker 1: of thirty seven with three kids. What's wrong with us?

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Speaker 1: Why can't we do it? What's our excuse? Right? So,

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Speaker 1: even from the men, like I was really impressed, Like

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys, you know, they will message me

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Speaker 1: or come to me at the gym and say, like,

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Speaker 1: we see working hard. You know, I'm so proud of

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Speaker 1: you and all that. So I get really really good

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Speaker 1: feedback I gain.

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Speaker 5: That's so amazing. I'm so happy to hear that you

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Speaker 5: are getting lots of positive feedback. And I can imagine

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Speaker 5: that there are so many people that you are inspiring,

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Speaker 5: that you and that you are reaching that you aren't

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Speaker 5: necessarily even fully aware of, like they're not actually saying

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Speaker 5: it out loud right because of your platform. And so

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Speaker 5: as you think about the next goals that you're setting,

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Speaker 5: right the next destination, what's what's next for you, simon,

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Speaker 5: Like what's something what's the next destination that you are

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Speaker 5: working towards, like a fitness goal, fitness goal or life goal,

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Speaker 5: because we can.

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Speaker 1: Also have both, right, Yes, fitness goals, I have a lot,

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Speaker 1: but I am trying to raise money for Pakistan. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Pakistan and because of the floods and all that happened,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to raise thirty thousand dollars for Pakistan for

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Speaker 1: all the people who needed their all. Their house has

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Speaker 1: been destroyed, so many people who died and everything. So

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Speaker 1: I just want to help that out. I always tell

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Speaker 1: people like, if I wasn't a fitness influencer, I would

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Speaker 1: be doing a lot of deployments because I wanted. I

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Speaker 1: like to go to different countries help people out, raise money.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I have a platform, so why not, you know,

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Speaker 1: make use of it. So these two things I love

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Speaker 1: to do is you know, helping people in need and

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Speaker 1: working out.

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Speaker 5: So for those of our listeners who are hearing this

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Speaker 5: and they they want to support you in your efforts,

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Speaker 5: how can they donate? How can how can they support you?

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Speaker 1: So the link is currently on my bio. If they

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Speaker 1: click on it, they can you know, whatever donation you

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Speaker 1: can do, two dollars, five dollar, whatever is easy for you,

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Speaker 1: even if you can't, no problem, just share the link.

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Speaker 1: Whoever can do it easily would be much appreciated.

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Speaker 4: Amazing, I am looking at the big screen. Just clicked

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Speaker 4: on that link. We'll make sure to add that in

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Speaker 4: the show notes as well, Somemon, so that folks can support.

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Speaker 4: So thank you so much for that, of course, and

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Speaker 4: some of this was so great. Thank you so much

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Speaker 4: for your time, Thank you for sharing your story, for

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Speaker 4: just being open with us. We would love to let

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Speaker 4: folks know where they can go to support you to

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Speaker 4: download the app, so feel free to drop all the

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Speaker 4: things now and we'll make sure to follow up with

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Speaker 4: those in the in the show notes as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, guy, So you guys can follow me on

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Speaker 1: Instagram SFM, Underscore Fitness on TikTok, same thing, SFM Underscore

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Speaker 1: Fitness and please download the app call Evolved you to

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Speaker 1: try more workouts or any other trainers that you see

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Speaker 1: on the involve your app try them out. They're amazing

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Speaker 1: And if you want to donate, the link is in

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Speaker 1: my bio. Just click on it and whatever you can

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Speaker 1: donate is much appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Right, Thanks again, lady.

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Speaker 4: Make sure you all go support Sam and all the

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Speaker 4: efforts that she is working on, and we'll see you

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Speaker 4: next week.

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Speaker 5: Hey, lady, is doctor dom here from the Cultivating her

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