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Speaker 1: Hello, my beautiful boss bees, my honey bees. Happy Thanksgiving Week.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. As you know,

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Speaker 1: if you know me, you know that Thanksgiving is so today,

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Speaker 1: and so naturally I wanted to dedicate an entire episode

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Speaker 1: be doing this year, some of my family traditions, and

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Speaker 1: what I'm most grateful for. So let's hop into today's episode. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So why do I love Thanksgiving? Yes, yes, because the

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Speaker 1: food is great and I like to eat. Yes, But

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Speaker 1: I feel like every day should be Thanksgiving, and I

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Speaker 1: love the fact that we have at least one day

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Speaker 1: out of the year to really just highlight the importance

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Speaker 1: of having an attitude of gratitude. I share this a

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Speaker 1: my social media. The power and being grateful for what

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Speaker 1: you have because in the world that we live in,

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Speaker 1: in this society, it shows us on social media, on

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Speaker 1: our feed. You just think of something that you want,

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Speaker 1: you don't even have to verbalize it now, and it

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Speaker 1: comes on the feed. I don't know how that happens,

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Speaker 1: but it happens. And we're constantly chasing more everything.

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Speaker 2: More, and more.

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Speaker 1: I want this, I want that, I want what they have,

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Speaker 1: what people are portraying on their social media, because a

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Speaker 1: lot of it is a facade, guys, sorry to break

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Speaker 1: it to you, but a lot of it is just

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Speaker 1: for social media, and we just are it's starting our

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Speaker 1: face everywhere on ads on television, like what we want

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Speaker 1: by this, get that, and so we don't sit and

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Speaker 1: just embrace the beauty. That's a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: are free, you know, like being able to see the

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Speaker 1: sunrise and the sunset and breathing air and running water

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Speaker 1: and having a roof over our head. And that's one

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Speaker 1: thing I always say, God, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: the roof over my head, for the clothes on my back,

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Speaker 1: for the food and my tummy, and my refrigerator, for

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Speaker 1: the I have this whole thing that I say because

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Speaker 1: So that's why it's my favorite favorite favorite holiday. We

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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about buying gifts and it's just

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Speaker 1: we are eating, which we all enjoy and whatever it

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Speaker 1: is it you eat. Because a lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: eat turkey on Thanksgiving, I like to eat turkey.

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Speaker 2: I'm very traditional in that way. Some people eat.

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Speaker 1: Them alis and all, you know, whatever it is that

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Speaker 1: But the point is it's a moment to gather with

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Speaker 1: and in your grateful spirit. And that's why I absolutely

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Speaker 1: love Thanksgiving and I have a lot of great memories

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Speaker 1: reality show if you guys watched I Love Jen. It

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Speaker 1: was a huge holiday for us, and my mom knew

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Speaker 1: it was my absolute favorite Thanksgiving, and unfortunately, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: Missed Brianna Hauser, and they opened up the doors to

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Speaker 1: obviously was going to be her last Thanksgiving. I spent

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Speaker 1: My siblings and I are very on the same page

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that right now. But usually it's let's pray,

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Speaker 1: And I love that, like I love doing that. Usually

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Speaker 1: So this year we're going to spend it at Jenica's house.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we decided that. I think actually

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Speaker 1: won't sit down. Emilio's always like, baby, can you just

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Speaker 1: because it is my first Thanksgiving as a married woman.

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Speaker 1: You guys, Oh my gosh, for the first time in

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Speaker 1: very traditional. We make the turkey, we make the mashed

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Speaker 1: of it. I'm not making it this year because Jenica

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Speaker 1: But that is what we're going to be doing. And

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Speaker 1: we also like to do you know, the stuffing and

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Speaker 2: And of course the corn bread. Oh my gosh, I'm

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Speaker 1: And I'm assuming Jennica is going to make all of

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Speaker 1: I used to back in the days, guys, I used

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Speaker 1: my brands, we will definitely have great deals for you guys,

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Speaker 1: so look forward to that. I mean, I just had

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Speaker 1: But anyways, back to the food, because the food's important.

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Speaker 1: I always say Sundays no one gains weight. You can

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Speaker 1: eat whatever you want on Sundays because it's the Lord's

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Speaker 1: Day and calories do not count. Obviously, you know, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to limit yourself, but anything and access is

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Speaker 1: bad for you. Anything, don't be excessive. But on Thanksgiving, guys,

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Speaker 2: The same rule.

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Speaker 1: You can eat whatever you want, and you know, if

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Speaker 1: you pray for your food, especially if you ask God

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Speaker 1: for it not to affect you in a negative way

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Speaker 1: and make you gain weight, you won't. So I don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily limit myself per se. I'll eat everything in like

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Speaker 1: my everyday life, including Thanksgiving, but of course portion control

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Speaker 1: that's been important to me. So I'll have a little

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Speaker 1: want to regret it. So that's kind of how I

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Speaker 1: do it in my everyday life. You know, if I'm

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Speaker 1: some chocolate cake, I'll have a little bit for sure,

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Speaker 1: especially if I worked out, and I like to work

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Speaker 1: think Equinox is open on Thanksgiving? My love, are we going?

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