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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: lot on the podcast. I share this a lot on

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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. I want this, I want that, I want.

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Speaker 1: What they have, what people are portraying on their social media,

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

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Speaker 1: to break it to you, but a lot of it

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Speaker 1: is just for social media. And we just are starting

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Speaker 1: our face everywhere on ads on television like what we

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: because there are things that we just overlook because we're

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Speaker 1: constantly like, oh, I'm not making enough money, or I

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Speaker 1: need this, or I need to pay that, and we

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Speaker 1: just need to sit the heck down on Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: be freaking grateful. So that's why it's my favorite favorite

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Speaker 1: favorite holiday. We don't have to worry about buying gifts

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Speaker 1: and it's just we are eating, which we all enjoy

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Speaker 1: and whatever it is that you eat. Because a lot

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Speaker 1: of people don't eat turkey on Thanksgiving, I like to

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Speaker 1: eat turkey. I'm very traditional in that way. Some people

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Speaker 1: eat them alis and all, you know, whatever it is

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Speaker 1: that you eat in your country or from where you're from.

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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: around Thanksgiving with my mom, with my siblings. On the

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Speaker 1: reality show if you guys watched I Love Jenny. 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: able to celebrate or to spend the last Thanksgiving that

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Speaker 1: had to. It was actually an honor and I'm so

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Speaker 1: grateful that I spent it with one of my very

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Speaker 1: good friends, Brianna, who has been on the podcast. Missed

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

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Speaker 1: because they didn't have to do that, and it was

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

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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: usually been at my house Thanksgiving. I love it because

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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: And she's a great cook.

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Speaker 1: She hasn't asked me to yet. But at first I

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Speaker 1: so I won't sit down. Emilio is always like, Babe,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know how, Like I just want

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Speaker 1: but Jenica, I know can handle it. Usually make the turkey.

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Speaker 1: My turkey is always delicious. I bake one and I

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Speaker 1: going to be able to spend it with my siblings,

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Speaker 2: 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: years that I don't have to wear my Signora hat

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Speaker 1: on that day, so I could just be a cute

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Speaker 1: Actually, they have Thanksgiving like at eleven AM or one

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Speaker 1: So I can go do that and then come hang

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Speaker 1: out with the family and eat. So yeah, and you know,

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

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Speaker 1: mashed potato from scratch. The macaroni and cheese. I make

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

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Speaker 1: Jenica absolutely surpassed my recipe. She just made it the

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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 1: a green. Jackie's usually the one in charge. My sister

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Speaker 1: And of course the corn bread. Oh my gosh, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to cornbread. And I'm assuming Jenica is going

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

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

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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a reason for that. But anyways,

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Speaker 1: back to the food, because the food's important. I always

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Speaker 1: say Sundays no one gains weight. You can eat whatever

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Speaker 1: calories do not count. Obviously, you know, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to limit yourself, but anything in access is bad for you.

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Speaker 1: Anything don't be excessive. But on Thanksgiving, guys, I feel

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Speaker 1: like this same that's the same rule. You can eat

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Speaker 1: whatever you want, and you know, if you pray for

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Speaker 1: your food, especially if you ask God for it not

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Speaker 1: to affect you in a negative way and make you

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Speaker 1: gain weight, you won't, So I don't necessarily limit myself

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Speaker 1: per se. I'll eat everything in like my everyday life,

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Speaker 1: including Thanksgiving, but of course portion control that's been important

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Speaker 1: to me. So I'll have a little bit of everything,

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Speaker 1: and I'll have seconds and of course dessert. But I

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Speaker 1: Why didn't I have that? And I don't want to

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

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Speaker 1: in my everyday life. You know, if I trying to

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Speaker 1: I'll have a little bit for sure, especially if I

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Speaker 1: worked out, and I like to work out on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: So we're working out on Thanksgiving pipe okay, and meaning

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Speaker 1: it's right here. He's sitting round in front of me.

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Speaker 1: He thinks I'm crazy he's working, but.

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Speaker 2: I think Equinox is open on Thanksgiving? My love? Are

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Speaker 2: we going sure? He's over me? Are you over me?

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Speaker 2: Or you love me? How much are you going to

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