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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Hi guys.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jackie Goldschneider, I'm Jensler, and we're two Jersey Jays. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we have a really really great episode today. You know

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Speaker 2: what I was thinking. You know, first of all, when

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Speaker 2: I said that, Evan always jokes whenever a show starts

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Speaker 2: and they're like, we have a really great episode today,

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Speaker 2: He's like, what are they going to say?

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Speaker 1: I suppose we'll be fun you guys, tune out, turn

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Speaker 1: turn your radio.

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Speaker 2: No, But it actually is a great one today because

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Speaker 2: I was thinking, like you know, when you have like

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Speaker 2: you you wake up and you have this idea and

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Speaker 2: you're like, oh, I really want to do this, and

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Speaker 2: then like an hour later you're like, nah, too much effort. Yes,

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Speaker 2: our guest today wakes up and oh my god, every

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Speaker 2: single thing you can imagine doing she has done. I

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Speaker 2: absolutely agree, and I'm I definitely forget the Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: I should do this, And three minutes in on my

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Speaker 2: a You're like, no, because that'll take a lot of

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Speaker 2: aff Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, she is especially acquire shower exactly. But this woman,

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Speaker 1: as you guys probably know, is a go getter for sure. Right,

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Speaker 1: So today we have yes on the pad. Then again, Jack,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we gave it enough of a bang.

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Speaker 2: Right, Today we have Maria Manuno's yeah, baby, yeah she

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Speaker 2: is well, first of all, she's like the most stunning

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Speaker 2: woman in the world. I always thought of her as

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Speaker 2: just like a celebrity correspondent, right right, Yeah, So when

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Speaker 2: I sat down to just like look at her bio,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, Like there is nothing that she hasn't done,

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Speaker 2: literally because she got.

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Speaker 1: When you hear the name, it's like you can't even

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Speaker 1: like pinpoint though. One thing, she's just been a present.

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Speaker 1: When she's younger, well she's your age, right, she's a

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Speaker 1: little younger than me. But like I always picture her

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Speaker 1: from and I maybe I mean, you know, I know

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Speaker 1: she didn't do all those not tamous Knight and whatever.

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Speaker 1: I just always picture her.

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Speaker 2: I picture her also as the panteine girl, yes, like

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Speaker 2: I know that with that unbelievable hair.

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Speaker 1: Yes, But she has been everything.

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Speaker 2: So she's been obviously a TV host, she was on

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Speaker 2: Access Hollywood, E Extra, she was an actress, she was

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Speaker 2: an actress, still an actress. She uh was a wrestler.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know, like we have to ask her

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Speaker 1: a little bit about that, but like kind of a

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Speaker 1: I can't even if you picture her in a ring, No.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know exactly in what capacity she

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Speaker 2: has to start as a WWE, but I know.

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Speaker 1: That she actually I know that she actually like fought

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Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I hope I'm not off there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that, but I'm pretty right. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: am pretty sure she produced a movie.

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Speaker 2: I know that. Yeah, I know that she has won

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Speaker 2: beauty pageant, right, She's had a radio show, a podcast,

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Speaker 2: a reality show chasing Mariam Minuno right right there, like

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Speaker 2: literally there's been and she started early, like she started

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Speaker 2: in childhood. So I'm really excited to talk to her

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Speaker 2: because I only know this like little bit of fame

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Speaker 2: as an adult, fully formed result, so I could make

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine starting so young. Yeah, and she's been

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Speaker 1: through it, you guys. I mean, I don't know listeners

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Speaker 1: what you know, but she is. She's battled, she had

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Speaker 1: she's had several battles with her family having cancer, her

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Speaker 1: mom had a brain tumor, her actually her dad had

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Speaker 1: had Type one diabetes, which is what.

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Speaker 2: My daughter has.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to kind of talk to her about that.

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Speaker 1: And now she's in her own battle with pancreatic cancer,

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Speaker 1: so you know she's been through it, and she has

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Speaker 1: a baby. She has a baby, and she has a

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Speaker 1: new movie. Yes on it's on Lifetime. M Yeah, yes

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Speaker 1: it is hill manor yeah, I can't imagine. No, I

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Speaker 2: She's very open about her health battle. Yeah, so we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about everything. Really excited to have her on. So

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Speaker 2: let's welcome Maria Minutos. Hi. Guys, Hi, Maria. You're just

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Speaker 2: as beautiful as I was to say.

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Speaker 3: It's like, thank you. I was hoping my my crazy

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you look ethereal it's actually.

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Speaker 2: Like an angel.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So it's not only what you look like, but

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Speaker 2: It's bordering on annoying. But I am.

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Speaker 1: Welcoming you with open arms and a warm heart.

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Speaker 2: We both are. I am pretty amazed, are you Right now?

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Speaker 3: We're in Jersey, I'm in Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: Actually you're in Connecticut. Okay, so yeah, so we're neighbors.

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Speaker 2: I met. We are in New Jersey. You know that

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Speaker 2: came out like where and you grew up in Boston.

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Speaker 3: No, I grew up in Boston. Yeah, just outside of Boston, Hedford.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I went to Boston Universe we went to

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Speaker 1: after a couple of years. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, that's for another episode. So Maria, welcome. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being with us. We really do

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, and thanks for having no we want to

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Speaker 1: just start out, you know, when we have started out

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Speaker 1: already kind of listing your accomplishments. Your career has been huge.

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Speaker 1: I honestly, Jackie just said, like, you know when you like,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, five minutes in, you're like, eh,

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Speaker 1: you know, and again we started talking about all the

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Speaker 1: things that you've done, but maybe I'm sure that we're

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Speaker 1: missing a lot. I was actually saying you started out

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Speaker 1: as like miss teen, Were you like miss teen Massachusetts?

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Speaker 1: I was, yeah, I can't seriously, Wow, how did you

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Speaker 1: get into pageanting?

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Speaker 3: Well, I remember I was like thirteen and I got

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Speaker 3: And at that time I was like starting, like I

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Speaker 3: my dad was like no. And then the next year

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Speaker 3: I came again. The next year, I enlisted the help

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine.

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Speaker 3: It was the first time we won. And then we

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Speaker 3: I think I came in like third or something there.

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Speaker 3: And then eventually I did Miss mass Teen USA and

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Speaker 2: And then in college, that's when your career started really

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Speaker 3: Right, so I feel like everything is like baby steps, right,

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Speaker 3: Like how does a Greek girl from you know, parents

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Speaker 3: who are immigrants make it? I don't know. You just

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Speaker 3: make one move after another. So the pageants were, you know,

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Speaker 3: a great entry point. Started doing some commercial work and

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Speaker 3: studying journalism and film and worked on a movie with

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Speaker 3: like you know, when my classmates didn't want to work

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Speaker 3: LA at Channel one News.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So I didn't finish my last year of college because

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Speaker 3: I ended up getting that job.

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Speaker 1: And you and Kevin your husband, now I believe I

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Speaker 1: him correct, You started dating in college and your father

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Speaker 1: was not pleased. And you already said that your Greek.

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Speaker 1: You have a very strong Greek heritage background, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my dad was.

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Speaker 3: I think it was more like he was like freaked

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Speaker 3: out that it could be having sex. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: like it was just very bad. It was a very

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Speaker 3: And yes, my dad was, you know, had his dream

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Speaker 3: of you know, me marrying a Greek person and that

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Speaker 1: But you love that moving, But do you love my

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Speaker 1: big fat Greek wedding? Doesn't love that doesn't but doesn't

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Speaker 3: Is that, of course? With the whole world?

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Speaker 1: Ye, that's true.

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Speaker 2: That's true every Jewish, Yes, for sure. With all of

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Speaker 2: these jobs and all of these amazing things that you've done,

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Speaker 2: is there any one that's been your favorite? You've done,

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Speaker 2: commercial work, reality shows, radio work, all of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, listen, I love everything, which is why

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Speaker 3: I've done so many different things. I've wrestled, and so

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Speaker 3: I love to talking about that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we talk about that. We have to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because jams can kind of understand what you're

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Speaker 2: Were you part of the WWE?

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Speaker 3: I am fourno on the WWE? I wrestled at WrestleMania Guys.

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Speaker 3: Mark Wahlberg was sitting front row and I watched his

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Speaker 3: mouth go, what are we? I'm like, God, why'd you even?

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Speaker 2: Who said? Marie? We have an idea? It was you?

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Speaker 2: I want to be a wrestling What what are you

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Speaker 3: Inside scoop, I watched wrestling my whole life with my dad,

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Speaker 3: and so I was a diehard wrestling fan. I met Kevin,

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Speaker 3: Kevin as a chubby nineteen year old at one point

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Speaker 3: when he you know, we were working on his movie.

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Speaker 3: He lost, his movie went bankrupt. The whole world caved

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Speaker 3: in on him. He was going to go potentially work

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Speaker 3: he met with Shane McMahon and he met with you

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Speaker 3: Evince at the time. And my job at Channel one

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Speaker 3: But then the dream to wrestle was still there, so

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Speaker 3: then let me finish. So then flash forward years later,

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Speaker 3: I was telling my publicist because they started having Monday

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Speaker 3: me in. I have to do this, And so he

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Speaker 3: calls me like a month after that meeting. Meanwhile, he

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Speaker 3: not going to believe this. I didn't even call them.

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Speaker 3: They called us. They want you to do it. I said, great,

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Speaker 3: the way, WW is such a machine, they don't have

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Speaker 3: I mean before I was just a human doing. That's

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's okay. I know you're very open about

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Speaker 3: It was crazy because my mom was diagnosed beginning of

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Speaker 3: Totally coincidental. I believe it was the IVF that did

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Speaker 1: They say that about right now, So I'm not I'm

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Speaker 1: a risk versus reward because you know, hormones can if

434
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Speaker 1: I don't know what, they can actually cause cancer, but

435
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 1: they can grow cancer from what I understand.

436
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 2: So and doctors don't tell you that I had five

437
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 2: rounds of IVF myself.

438
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 3: They don't tell you, and you wouldn't know that metals

439
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 3: stuff like, you wouldn't know. And then also the other

440
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 3: thing that's crazy is nobody knows that you can actually

441
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 3: do natural realms. So it's a much less expensive thing too,

442
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 3: which they don't want you to really know about. But

443
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 3: my IVF doctor, doctor Wennie Chang, who is amazing, told

444
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 3: me that it was possible. So if you have follicle naturally,

445
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 3: you can just do a trigger shot and go in

446
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 3: for your your removal. You just have to time everything carefully.

447
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 3: But there is a way to do natural cycles to

448
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 3: avoid all of those shots.

449
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: I hope that a lot of women are listening.

450
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope that you know. You know, I always

451
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 2: say that you have to advocate for yourself at these

452
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 2: doctors appointments, because they really some doctors do not do

453
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 2: a great job. But anyway, So, so you you're diagnosed

454
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 2: with this brain tumor, they find that it's benign, you

455
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 2: have surgery.

456
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 3: To reveals whether it's benign or not. So yeah, so

457
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 3: they removed it as much as they could because there's

458
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 3: a tumor that's there's still tumor in there that's wrapped

459
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 3: around my facial nerves. So if he tried to get

460
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,679
Speaker 3: rid of it, I would have been paralyzed. So he

461
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 3: left it alone, thank god.

462
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 2: So yeah, and so do you have any remaining Yeah,

463
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 2: there's stuff that I fee.

464
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 3: But I manage it. And I've been doing a lot

465
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 3: of things like lightning my mind talks and load has

466
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 3: been helpful. Meditation has been helpful. I'm experimenting every day

467
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 3: with stuff to to heal and get better.

468
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Speaker 1: I am. It occurs to me that I know I

469
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: have known some people with brain tumors and malignant or not.

470
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Speaker 1: Brain surgery is a very very serious kind of surgery.

471
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Speaker 1: I don't think you know, it's not just like Okay,

472
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 1: we're going to go in and take it out. When

473
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: it comes to the brain, it's and you can if

474
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: I'm not right, but I think it's very very tricky

475
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: and very very risky, and so I just that hits

476
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Speaker 1: me because you've just gone through a lot of stuff.

477
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was an eight hour surgery.

478
00:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 2: No, that one.

479
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 3: Was six and a half I think, And then the

480
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 3: pancreas surgery was like eight.

481
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 2: After your brain tumor comes out and you're recovering, then

482
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 2: you get thrown another health Yeah.

483
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 3: Well, I was feeling something. I was getting really bloated.

484
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 3: Things weren't right. I was like, something's off somehow predicted

485
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 3: on my own show. An audience member later was like,

486
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 3: you predicted this in April before you were diagnosed. I'm

487
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 3: like what, And I listened and looked. I was like,

488
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 3: oh my god. But that's not pertinent to the story.

489
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 3: But the truth is is I knew something was wrong.

490
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 3: I kept investigating different diagnostic tests. They kept telling me

491
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 3: it was fine. I went to the doctor's buckled over

492
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 3: and excruciating pain, like unbelievable, unbearable pain. They told me

493
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 3: it was fine. And it was only until I got

494
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 3: this pernuvo scan that they found a tumor, a large

495
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 3: tumor on the tail of my pancreas. It's called the

496
00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 3: neuroendocrine tumor. That's what Steve Jobs had and it had

497
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 3: doubled in size within two months of that scan, where

498
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 3: I went to the doctors and I was like, I'm

499
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 3: in so much pain?

500
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,239
Speaker 1: And when when was this? This was last year and

501
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: it was you did the pernubo scan. Well you just

502
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: saw our listeners because I hear more and more about

503
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: people doing it. That's a full body.

504
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 3: It's a full body scan. Yeah, so they listen. It's

505
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 3: not it's not free, and it's not perfect, but they

506
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 3: saved my life when you know, traditional hospitals told me

507
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 3: I was fine and sent me home. This thing doubled

508
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 3: in size. Now where would I be by June if

509
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 3: from November to January it doubled And my baby was

510
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 3: due in June.

511
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 1: So wow, And now how old is Athena?

512
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: Now?

513
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 3: She's seventeen months next week?

514
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

515
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: Wow?

516
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 2: Do you call her your miracle baby?

517
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: Right? She is?

518
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 2: I think I read that as yeah, wow, So your

519
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 2: your health journey now, are you in the clear? Are

520
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 2: you still battling?

521
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 3: You know, I'm in the clear in a lot of ways,

522
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 3: but like there's still stuff right, Like I was in

523
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: the Dominican Republic earlier this year because they thought they

524
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: found liver cancer, and I was like, I don't think

525
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 3: it's liver cancer. I think my body's just having a

526
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 3: hard time processing all these scans. People think scans are nebulous,

527
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 3: they're not. When you're getting gatolinium and you're getting CT scans,

528
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 3: these are very powerful, high radiation, highly toxic things. And yeah,

529
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: if you're doing one, that's fine, But I've had to

530
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 3: do so many and no one's really counting, and no

531
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 3: one's really paying attention, and so I was like, I

532
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 3: think my body's just having a hard time detoxing all

533
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 3: this out while I went to the dr and I

534
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 3: created this little health proto call of just sun and

535
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 3: grounding and sweating and sleeping, and they all shrunk in

536
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 3: two and a half weeks.

537
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: How in the world did you know that it wasn't

538
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: your liver? How would you be that in tune?

539
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 3: I am super intuitive, but I also I've learned over

540
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 3: these last seven years of this brain tumor experience and

541
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: stuff to listen. And I just felt I felt like

542
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 3: it didn't make any sense, and I didn't feel like

543
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 3: it was true, because yeah, I just didn't. So I

544
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 3: was like, I'm just going to go experiment, and I

545
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 3: know the equator is really healing from everything I've studied

546
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 3: and my natural path that's been on my show a

547
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: lot that's helped me through a lot, and I was

548
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 3: really pleased, obviously with the results. And so when you

549
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 3: say are you healed, I mean I still have a

550
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 3: brain tumor. I still have lesions on my liver, like

551
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 3: two new ones popped up, we just found, and I'm like,

552
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 3: I'm looking at Kevin. I'm like, but I'm not scared.

553
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 3: I think I'm fine. He goes, I think you're fine too,

554
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 3: And so I just think, again, these scans that I

555
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 3: got before now have accumulated. So it's it's a thing,

556
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 3: and so I'm constantly working on it. I'm using my

557
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 3: red light and my sauna and my sun and my

558
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 3: grounding and my fashion release exercises. I'm like, as as

559
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 3: much as I can devote each day to my healing

560
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: and my health. It's important obviously because I need to

561
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 3: be around for my baby. But I know I'm vibrant

562
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 3: and healthy. I know a lot of this doesn't make sense.

563
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 3: The diabetes actually broke my heart and threw me on

564
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 3: the floor because I think I have so much trauma

565
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 3: with that. Like the brain tumor was easy in a sense,

566
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: Like I did have moments where like the mac truck

567
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 3: rolled over my chest and I'm like, oh my god,

568
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: someone's gonna saw my head open. But I watched my

569
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 3: mom go in with a smile and I was like, Okay,

570
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,239
Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm in great hands. There's nobody better than

571
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 3: doctor Black. And the diabetes killed me because I had

572
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 3: quit sugar two years before, and I it just didn't

573
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 3: make any sense all this shit.

574
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know.

575
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: I just want everybody to understand. I don't understand it

576
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: all everything you're saying. I understand this part of it

577
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: that is type one diabetes. And I want you guys

578
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: to understand that that in itself is an every day

579
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: on your mind.

580
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 2: I know this.

581
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: I'll cry too, because it's like that in and of

582
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: itself is so hard, and then you have all of

583
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: this other stuff. You are my absolute new hero. You

584
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: have to be my friend, our friend.

585
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: You must. You are so I'm so proud of you.

586
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 3: Maria.

587
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 2: What's your energy level like has it affected like.

588
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,239
Speaker 3: It's been so hard at different time times like to

589
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 3: be honest, but right now it's been it's on the upswing,

590
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 3: and so that's been really exciting. I mean, doctor Allison

591
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 3: and I have done so much work that I feel

592
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 3: like I have more energy than I ever have. So

593
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 3: that's been really good.

594
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 2: You know.

595
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 3: I say, I kind of have to pitch a perfect

596
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 3: game with my health, like I can't. I don't have

597
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 3: a lot of wiggle room because I have to. I

598
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 3: have to really heal from all these things and they

599
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 3: are healable. Like even when they found the breast lesion.

600
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: I went back to doctor Funk and she goes, it's shrunk.

601
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 3: I was like, yes, because I focused in my meditations

602
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 3: on it shrinking. So I keep getting success even though

603
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 3: there's so much shit that pops up and it's felt

604
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 3: like whack a mole. I know how to heal, and

605
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 3: I believe in my healing and Saint Nctarios, our healing saint,

606
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 3: has been so good to me.

607
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: So I need to write that down.

608
00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 3: Star Saint Niktarios Nectar Nectarios. Okay, he is the healing

609
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 3: saint in the Greek Orthodox Church, but he will heal

610
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: anyone who believes in him, and I've had so many

611
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 3: miraculous moments of healing, whether it's me, my mom, my friends.

612
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 3: I wear my bracelet that I got at his church

613
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 3: in Aegina, Greece, which is an island just south of Athens,

614
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 3: and so ever since he's come into my life, like

615
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 3: so much good has happened, and I know that the

616
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: it looks like so much bad has happened too. And listen,

617
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 3: it's not been easy, but I do believe that it's

618
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 3: happened for me, not to me. And I do believe

619
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 3: that it's happened to me because I can figure it

620
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 3: out and I can heal and I can show other

621
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 3: people how to do it, and I do that through

622
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 3: my show every day.

623
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: So you know what a mindset. It's unbelievable. You know.

624
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 2: They say that like you could have a million problems

625
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: until something happens with your health and then you have

626
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 2: one problem. There is just no there's no way around it.

627
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: You are my hero.

628
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: I've had people in my life that have been you know,

629
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: they've been, they've gotten sick, they've had kids. I have

630
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: friends whose kids have gotten sick.

631
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: Nobody.

632
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: I always say this to my daughter, who has Type

633
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: one I'm like, you know, nobody gets away, and I

634
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: just I'm much talking about health issues. No one gets away.

635
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: Everyone has got their stuff, and hopefully we all deal

636
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: with the cards we are dealt with, you know, we

637
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: can actually turn them into something productive. You wanting to

638
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: inspire people, you know and say, what did you just say?

639
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 2: It happened?

640
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 3: Happened to me?

641
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: I absolutely absolutely love that. But you know, tell us

642
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: something good, tell us.

643
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: Let's tell us, let's pivot a hard pivot and talk

644
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: about this Christmas movie. Now, I'm a Jewish girl. I

645
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: love Christmas. Me friends all love it too, so I

646
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: just get this feeling. I remember sitting in the movie theater.

647
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 2: I was single. It was like two thousand and six.

648
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm never going to meet newbody, and

649
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 2: I was watching that movie Love Actually yeah, my husband

650
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 2: a few months later, but I was like, I just

651
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 2: nothing makes me feel better than a Christmas movie, Christmas

652
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 2: general issues. Please.

653
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you. The Christmas movies came at the

654
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 3: perfect time because it was on my bucket list to

655
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 3: do one, and it was because of my mom that

656
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 3: I got in the first one. Because I had made

657
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 3: this like little video on YouTube of our journey caretaking

658
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 3: for her in her last months. And my friend Ryan McPartland,

659
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 3: who is a Christmas movie star amongst other amazing things

660
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 3: like chuck and stuff, but he was making one just

661
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 3: down the street in Connecticut, so he connected with me

662
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 3: to tell me how moved he was by this peace

663
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 3: I put together. And then I ended up as his

664
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 3: sister in this, and then the director of that called

665
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 3: me to start in the next one, which came out

666
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 3: two years ago, and then he called me for this

667
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 3: one that we shot in London. So funny you talk

668
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 3: about love, Actually we shot ours in London, so you're

669
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 3: not really used to seeing, you know, these holiday movies

670
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 3: on Lifetime, et cetera, where they're set in London. There's

671
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: I think only two Christmas movies set there. So you're

672
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 3: going to get the most amazing British feels, the accents,

673
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 3: the charm.

674
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: Are you British in it? Do you have to have

675
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: put on the absent?

676
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 3: No, thank god, because that would take a little bit

677
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 3: of work because my accent ain't great. But but I've

678
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 3: worked on it the whole time there. But I play

679
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 3: an architect, like a New York City architect who, unknownst

680
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 3: to her had this great aunt that left her a

681
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 3: manner and she has one week she has to spend

682
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 3: there before she can make the decision of keeping it

683
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 3: or getting rid of it. And she's like, you know,

684
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 3: the super type A, it's all about her career. She

685
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 3: shows up there, she sees a whole other lifestyle, you know,

686
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 3: a life where like community and events and you know, Christmas,

687
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 3: you know, Carol of the Bell, events and stuff are

688
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 3: the main focus. And she ends up falling in love

689
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 3: and sees a whole other path for life. And I

690
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,479
Speaker 3: feel like a lot of us need to to kind

691
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 3: of see it for a few reasons. One like, listen,

692
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 3: we love holiday movies, and this one I think will

693
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 3: make you have all the holiday feels. And I know

694
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 3: for me, with everything that we've gone through, these have

695
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 3: been great escapes. And there are hard times out there.

696
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 3: People are really suffering, and that's why we love watching these.

697
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 3: But the other thing is is like for all of

698
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 3: us kind of type A high function and independence, some kidding,

699
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 3: all of us Type A women who kind of sometimes

700
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 3: forget that there's other things that matter other than just

701
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 3: business and making it and succeeding and buying more things.

702
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 2: Like are you listening to us.

703
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: We need us in particular, need to be hearing this. Yes, yes,

704
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: I know, but it's just it's so true because it's

705
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: so easy, especially in we were in reality television and

706
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: you forget all of a sudden, you're so caught up

707
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: in that world and all you know you need to

708
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: be reminded. But please, I'm sorry, go on.

709
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, life is about more than that. And the

710
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 3: problem is is we've been born and bred into like achieved, succeed,

711
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 3: get good grades, get a huge job, make a lot

712
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: of money, and then maybe marriage and kids. Never health,

713
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 3: but everything's always an aside to money and success that's

714
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: always first. And so the great gift I think I've

715
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 3: gotten from all of the health crises is that there's

716
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 3: so much more to life. And I've been working actively

717
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 3: in the last seven years on redefining success from myself,

718
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 3: because we also define success by other people's standards, and

719
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 3: I caught myself doing that. I was chasing the people

720
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 3: who were working twenty four to seven and like all

721
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 3: this stuff, and I'm like, wait, this is so against

722
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 3: my nature. I don't care. Kevin's been trying to put

723
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 3: shows together with my name on it. This and that

724
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 3: I don't care. I just want to be happy. I

725
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 3: want to live. I want to cook something in my

726
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 3: kitchen with my family. I want to be present for

727
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 3: my baby. I want to work as little as possible,

728
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 3: but maintain as much as I can what I have now.

729
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 3: I don't need more. Like I remember meeting with a

730
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: friend who was, you know, really successful in business, Murray folio.

731
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 3: She's a business teacher, and we were talking about kind

732
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 3: of my next phase in life. This was two years ago,

733
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: and she's like, how much money do you want to

734
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 3: kind I'm like, I give her a number. It was

735
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 3: so low, and she goes, what I go, I don't care.

736
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 3: I just need to be healthy. That's all that matter.

737
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 3: But we don't ever realize it until shit hits the fans.

738
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 3: So I'm always I think that now more than ever,

739
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 3: and the millennials are doing this, the gen zers are

740
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 3: doing this. They're looking at our generation like we were

741
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 3: crazy people, workaholics, and they're going the other way. But

742
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 3: there's a happy medium, right.

743
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: They're getting a lot of slack for that too. They're

744
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: called a very lazy generation, a very like coddles. Well,

745
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 2: I think there is a happy medium.

746
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Like we don't need to be chasing a

747
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 3: life that we didn't even want. And I think that

748
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 3: a lot of us chase a life we don't even want.

749
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: We're not really happy, We're like snappy and short and miserable.

750
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: I know, I remember, and it's not worth it.

751
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 2: It's just I mean, can you just change that by

752
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: changing your mindset? Because I think I have a little

753
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 2: of that, Like I want things so that I mean,

754
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 2: I'm not super in tune to what I want. I

755
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: sometimes I know that I want things that I don't

756
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 2: really deep down want, but I want other people to

757
00:39:58,960 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: see me doing them.

758
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,439
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And I think that it really comes down

759
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 3: to you having like some time with yourself to be like,

760
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 3: what do I really want? What do I not want?

761
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 3: And how do I now get time with myself to

762
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 3: be more introspective? Like meditation has changed everything for me.

763
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 3: I'm not currently meditating the way I was. I'm about

764
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 3: to get back on track because we've been doing so

765
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 3: much here. But but I'll tell you like it, it

766
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 3: really is important to find the things that are going

767
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 3: to give you joy and happiness that don't cost anything.

768
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 3: Making that list and then realizing, well, like all these

769
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 3: things that I'm focusing my energy and attention on are

770
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 3: taking away from the things I really want. I really

771
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 3: want time with my family. I don't want to be

772
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 3: on my phone all the time. I want to be

773
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 3: able to go, you know, on fun adventures with my

774
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 3: with my kids, or with my friends. Or I don't

775
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,479
Speaker 3: really care about the stupid new.

776
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 2: Chanelle bag like Ammen's sister.

777
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 3: I don't want to be robbed, so I don't buy

778
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 3: this stuff. I'm like at this point, like you're just

779
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 3: a target anyway, Like, let's let's put that into just

780
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 3: not having to work more so, less less of that stuff,

781
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 3: more peace.

782
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 2: If you ever want a new job, you could be

783
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 2: my life coach. Do you write?

784
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: Are you writing a book? I mean, I know you've

785
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: done enough and I shouldn't be pressuring you.

786
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 2: But you've written a book? You have.

787
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 3: I've written a few books, but but that was in

788
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 3: my crazy stage. You know, it's been really hard. I

789
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 3: had a book deal just before COVID didn't feel right,

790
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 3: so I passed. I do have a few in me,

791
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 3: but I really just want to be with Athena, and

792
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 3: so it's going to take a while before I have

793
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 3: a documentary. I've been in the middle of I'm like,

794
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 3: everything's just going to take a backseat to my health

795
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 3: and my baby, So you don't need.

796
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: To actually give us what we want them, because I've

797
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: got a list of things from.

798
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 3: You, I will tell you. Funny enough, I was just

799
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 3: on a meeting with one of my team members and

800
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 3: I was like, listen, and I finally think I have

801
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 3: the energy to put some things forward that I've wanted

802
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 3: to do, and I almost did last year, but then

803
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 3: the pancreast tumor derailed me. But one of my dreams

804
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 3: is to put health retreats together and take people on

805
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 3: this journey so that if you want to be healthier,

806
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 3: you'll learn the foundational health things that you need to learn.

807
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 3: But if you need to heal from something, we can

808
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 3: also teach you how to do that. I've also already

809
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 3: guinea piged myself. I've proven that the stuff works, and

810
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 3: doctor Allison, my partner, is the genius of all geniuses.

811
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 3: And then I want to also put a course together

812
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 3: for women to be able to do exactly what you

813
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 3: were just asking, figure out what you really want. I

814
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 3: got this weird downloading COVID and it was like coming

815
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 3: through so fast and I'm writing everything down, writing everything down,

816
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 3: I'm like, I need this and then I go me

817
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 3: this shit. So I was just on the phone with that.

818
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 3: I was like, if we can make this easy and

819
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 3: I can film this and it's a course and people

820
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 3: can just grab it and use it and do it,

821
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 3: I'm in. So I'm working on.

822
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: Going to pat those together. Jen and I want to

823
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: be deposit now.

824
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 2: Just tell us what's your bed And I am so

825
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: excited to see your holiday movie.

826
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 3: You can go to my Instagram and you'll find it

827
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 3: Christmas at Plumb Hill Manner. And then my podcast is

828
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 3: He'll Squad, so you guys can always.

829
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 2: Listen to them as well be listening.

830
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: And I hope that I don't know, I feel so

831
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on this weird pedestal

832
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: and if people do that a lot, and I don't

833
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: know if you would like that or not, but I'm

834
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 1: just I know, Jackie, we both are just in. Yeah,

835
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's like we're all humans, we all struggle.

836
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 2: Nobody's I feel very much like my priorities get reset

837
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 2: when I meet someone like you and I listened to

838
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 2: you and you're very guyased. Yeah, and it's really been

839
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 2: an honor to speak to you.

840
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 3: Thank you guys, thank you so much. And if I

841
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 3: can be helpful with your daughter with Type one. I

842
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,879
Speaker 3: learned to look at the equator, my blood sugar, you're

843
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 3: going down. It was crazy, really, Oh my god. I

844
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 3: was like lighting bread without having to take insulin. People

845
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 3: heal from diabetes at the equator, people heal from MS Parkinson's.

846
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.

847
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know anything about this.

848
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 3: That's amazing.

849
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: If you wouldn't mind, then off camera we're gonna have

850
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: to have a little discussion because I would love to know.

851
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 3: Well. Also, if you go to heel squad dot com,

852
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 3: I took because Apple Podcasts doesn't organize the episodes that also,

853
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 3: you can't really find what you need easily when you've

854
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 3: done as many episodes as I have. But there's a

855
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 3: column called foundational Health. There's one for autoimmune, there's one

856
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 3: for cancer. Foundational Health. All those episodes will teach you

857
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 3: everything that I did to heal the liver lesions and

858
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 3: everything about the equator and how powerful it is. So

859
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 3: you can deep dive on the episodes that are connected

860
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 3: to specifically those themes on heel Squad dot com. They're

861
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 3: called healthy.

862
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 2: I think amazing. I was working. Yeah, thank you so much.

863
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 2: Wish know only good things and everything and happy holidays,

864
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 2: and I can't wait to watch Thanks Maria, Thank you Maria.

865
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: That was unbelievable. I feel like so freaked out and

866
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: not freaked out in the best way.

867
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I like to see this woman who is again, you're

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Speaker 1: probably the same age, right, I think she's a little

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00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: bit younger. She looks so young and well.

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Speaker 2: Her mindset is fucking amazing. I it makes me feel

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Speaker 2: nervous because I don't pay attention to my health nearly

873
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Speaker 2: as much.

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Speaker 1: When she said she did that scan, I forget. I

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Speaker 1: almost don't want to know. I'm very nervous. I know

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Speaker 1: everyone else, but anyway she is and inspiration doesn't seem

877
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Speaker 1: like I know.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. I want to have that guy on. To

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Speaker 2: know yourself so well that someone could tell you that

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Speaker 2: you might have. If someone ever said the words liver

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00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 2: cancer to me, I would black out, and then my

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00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 2: entire life, every focus of every second of every day

883
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Speaker 2: would be about whether or not I.

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Speaker 1: Have liver cancer.

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Speaker 2: For her to intuitively know that it just doesn't feel

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Speaker 2: like I have that is fucking mind blowing into me.

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00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 2: How do you know yourself so well? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, Jack, I'm a reaching hypochondriac, so I always

889
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: think I have everything, but I don't know. This woman

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Speaker 1: is amazing. I am definitely gonna watch her and Jackie Jacqueline.

891
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,479
Speaker 1: Who's on Jackie Jackie? I know you got the name

892
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Speaker 1: of the new doctor that we want on the pod,

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Speaker 1: doctor Joe Dispensa.

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Speaker 2: I would love that game. I need to learn how

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Speaker 2: to do the things in life that I really authentically

896
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 2: want to do, which a lot of them. Listen, some

897
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Speaker 2: of the stuff I'm doing I do want to do,

898
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: and I love every second with my family. Career wise,

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Speaker 2: I'm not so sure what I really authentically want.

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Speaker 1: It so easy, we both struggle, we both have mental

901
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: health struggles. Yeah, and so yeah, nothing is easy. Everything

902
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: is a journey. But yeah, I mean, I hope a

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Speaker 1: ton of people listen to this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, me too. All right, guys on that note,

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Speaker 2: all right, we will see you next time.

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Speaker 1: I love you, guys. You jack Let me go you guys. Bye.

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Speaker 3: By