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Speaker 2: I don't know how many of y'all are on these

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Speaker 2: witness protection programs.

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Speaker 1: I know. Just pick a perfect name. Honestly, here's my request,

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Speaker 1: because it's fun for us. Come up with some outlandish name.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't care. You could say my name

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Speaker 1: is Potato, just something fun like we're like, yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 2: I do like the last show when you switched it

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Speaker 2: to Annie. So if you're a nonymous, she going to

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Speaker 2: be Annie. Okay, yes, all right, Annie says in all caps,

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Speaker 2: please withhold my name? Fine? I do I think this

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Speaker 2: is a great question, though, Ooh, I can't wait to

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Speaker 2: get into this. Hey Mandy, she says, I'm the communications

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Speaker 2: manager at a small nonprofit with about four hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty ish employees. We had a team meeting with my

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Speaker 2: a local TV station. Impulsively, I suggested that we write

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Speaker 2: another one. How can I gracefully back out of this

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Speaker 2: Side note, I'm a new hire. In just ninety days

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Speaker 1: Fell into a trap the helpful Yeah please trap, Andy,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, child, that's the trap. I'll be limited, child,

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Speaker 1: I'll be I have super each delivered to my trap.

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Speaker 2: While, permanent address at the trap. That's the real, real

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna like it. I'm gonna honestly let maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm listening, like, wait, so what will we do? Mandy?

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Speaker 1: But I will say this is something. This is what

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Speaker 1: something like, I'm still honestly working on it because it's hard.

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Speaker 1: And she said, so if you say I don't like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is an opportunity for a boundary. I

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Speaker 2: liked it, and you're the I get it. You're ninety

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Speaker 2: Why when you are overseeing any project or any new

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Speaker 2: did it this time long, long term, we need to

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Speaker 2: by going to your manager and saying, you know, actually,

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Speaker 2: and here's how much it could cost. You could even

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Speaker 2: help them out by I don't know, suggesting two to

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Speaker 2: you know if this is part of your job description,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, look into some ad agencies and come

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Speaker 2: not you're not taking away the new initiative. Everyone's excited about.

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Speaker 2: You all recognize you need it, but you are getting clear.

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Speaker 2: You're getting clear with them that it can't just fall,

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Speaker 2: let this go, you're sending a message the same way

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Speaker 2: my mom told me. Make sure that you don't tell

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Speaker 2: when you're first dating, she's like, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's good. I'm like, okay, does.

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Speaker 2: That make you? Does it stress you out?

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Speaker 1: Said no, I'm like sap for boundary. Uh no, honestly no.

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Speaker 1: All that you said, you know, it's true and it's

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Speaker 1: So that's what I honestly been doing. You'll see me

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Speaker 1: to say I'm like, oh, don't want to disappoint Mandy

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Speaker 1: and everybody else, and listening, I'm like, no, no, no, no, Tiffany,

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Speaker 1: you have to say the thing now. Because Mandy is nice.

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Speaker 1: This this is an easy person to practice the hard

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I will. I'm going back to your question.

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Speaker 2: Remind you that the manager is in your title communications manager,

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Speaker 2: overseeing strategy for that particular department, it's on you to

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Speaker 2: tell them the solution for the problem. So you've told

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Speaker 2: them the solution we should do our own commercials. But

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Speaker 2: But how easily could you have gone out and found

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Speaker 2: your own ad writer copywriter to write that commercial? And

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Speaker 2: And I actually just did a whole session on this

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Speaker 2: and toxic work environment that you really create yourself. Because

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Speaker 2: for me, the epiphany was being a good leader is

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Speaker 2: necessarily doing it yourself. It's knowing what you need to

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Speaker 2: And it's also really important in your first ninety days

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Speaker 2: them with this proposal for Okay, we want to continue

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Speaker 2: But if they decide that they won't, then it's time

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Speaker 2: So what are we gonna do? Maybe there's no commercials

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Speaker 1: I love what you said, because it's true good leaders

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Speaker 2: So wow, thank you for the question, Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Stacey, give us something all my sailor moon fan fictions

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Speaker 2: under the alias Adrian, because that's who I want it

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 1: So who's your fifteen year old aliens? All right, until

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Speaker 1: next time, y'all.

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Speaker 2: Until next week, Bye, y'all, take care, Bye ba fan.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that such an awesome throwback? It was such a

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Speaker 1: fun trip down memory lane. Make sure to check out

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Speaker 1: Brian Ambition every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Yes, we're here

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Speaker 1: three days a week. I mean, doesn't get any better

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Speaker 1: than this.

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Speaker 2: I don't think sound