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Speaker 3: So the idea is that you know in Irvida, the

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Speaker 3: way we live is we on a daily basis course

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Speaker 3: correct to bring ourselves closer back to balance. Again. You'll

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Speaker 3: never achieve it completely, but when you're closer back to balance,

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Speaker 2: Vante is an internationally recognized speaker and thought leader in Iareta.

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Speaker 2: Her expertise has been sought out by everyone from celebrities

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Speaker 2: welcome to Cultivating her Space. Thank you so much, You're

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Speaker 2: so welcome. We're so excited you here.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be here with you. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Course, and so we are going to dive into our

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Speaker 1: quote of the day, and as you hear, Doctor Ravanti,

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Speaker 3: No, you said it exactly right. So I your veda

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Speaker 3: so in Arvia, it's all about imbalanced balance.

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Speaker 2: That was perfect and so helpful to kind of visualize

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Speaker 2: I love that you also emphasized that outside of being

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Speaker 2: I think sometimes there's this unrealistic expectation that we're going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so really it comes down to that basic principle,

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Speaker 3: system and the parasympathetic and sympathetic is the acute stress response,

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Speaker 3: and then the PAIRA sympathetic is the relaxation response. We unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: in this modern world that we live in, are in

436
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Speaker 3: the sympathetic response pretty much twenty four to seven, and

437
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,959
Speaker 3: that is causing a lot of problems for us health wise.

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Speaker 3: And so really it comes down to how do I

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Speaker 3: shift myself into the parasympathetic really or shift into para

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Speaker 3: as we kind of say sometimes. And that's really the focus.

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Speaker 3: And the reason that's important is because your nervous system

442
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Speaker 3: is connected to your immune system. It's connected to your

443
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Speaker 3: hormones which control your immune system, so everything is connected.

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Speaker 3: This is the simplest, easiest way. It's free, it's cheap,

445
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 3: it's accessible for anybody. And that's why I always like

446
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Speaker 3: to focus on this first. I mean, people will talk about,

447
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 3: you know, you have to, you know, work on your hormones,

448
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Speaker 3: you work on this, you work on that. That's all true,

449
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Speaker 3: but this is a good place to start for everybody.

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Speaker 3: I don't care how old you are, how young you are,

451
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Speaker 3: you can teach this to your children, to the elderly

452
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Speaker 3: in your in your you know, the elders in your family,

453
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Speaker 3: teach them to move into parasympathetic and so some simple

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Speaker 3: ways to do that. The first thing I would say

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Speaker 3: is you need to get into a routine, a daily

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Speaker 3: routine of some kind. The pandemic has put us in

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Speaker 3: a place where nobody has any routines, or we're having

458
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 3: a hard time that lines between home and work are

459
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Speaker 3: so blurred. So that would be the first suggestion, and

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Speaker 3: really within that, I'll just I'm going to take up

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Speaker 3: two more of my tips is create a routine, but

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Speaker 3: focus in on your first of all, your sleep and

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Speaker 3: wake time, and then focus in on your meal times.

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Speaker 3: Get those regular whatever you can, doesn't have to be

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Speaker 3: all of them, doesn't have to be one better than

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Speaker 3: the other. If you can just pick lunch and make

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Speaker 3: sure that you always have lunch at the same time

468
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Speaker 3: of the day, start there. If that's easy for you, right,

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Speaker 3: So that would be sort of the first three I

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Speaker 3: would say is, first of all, create some kind of

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Speaker 3: a routine, it doesn't matter what. Second, look at your

472
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Speaker 3: wake and sleep times, look at your meal times. This

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Speaker 3: is the third, fourth and fifth would be get some

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Speaker 3: natural sunlight every day before ten am. The reason is

475
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Speaker 3: because it will reset your circadian rhythm on a daily basis,

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Speaker 3: and it puts you in harmony with nature and that

477
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 3: controls all of your hormones in your body. And so

478
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 3: it is so important to get some natural sunlight every morning.

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Speaker 3: Go outside for a walk, go sit outside and have

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Speaker 3: your coffee, whatever you need to do. Just get ten

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Speaker 3: minutes if you can, at least if you can get thirty,

482
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Speaker 3: that's great, you know, just of being outside and getting

483
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Speaker 3: some natural sunlight. But ten to fifteen is perfect. So

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00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 3: that would be tip number four. And then tip number

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Speaker 3: five kind of goes along with that, which is get

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Speaker 3: outside of nature every day if you can. There is

487
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Speaker 3: so much healing in nature. There's there's a lot of

488
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Speaker 3: studies that have been done, but from an Iurvesic and

489
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Speaker 3: Yogic perspective, trees and plants have so much fresh prana

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Speaker 3: or life force energy that when we are outside in nature,

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Speaker 3: we have access to all of that fresh prana to

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Speaker 3: keep it moving through our body, which helps to revitalize

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Speaker 3: us and to strengthen our immune systems and our body

494
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Speaker 3: mind spirit. So the power of being in nature is

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Speaker 3: so incredible, and we know that there have been studies

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Speaker 3: that have been done, especially in Japan where they have

497
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Speaker 3: a practice called force bathing. It's just another way of saying,

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Speaker 3: get outside, but they've actually done studies where they are

499
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Speaker 3: actually chemicals that are released by plants that are very,

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Speaker 3: very beneficial to the human system. So I think being

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Speaker 3: out in nature would be the fifth one.

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Speaker 1: I just love those tips really because I think I

503
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Speaker 1: feel validated because the first three tips, well, mainly the

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Speaker 1: two I have to work on, the lunch one, the

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Speaker 1: meal time one, That's what I'm going to work on.

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Speaker 1: But the first two I have been stressing for everyone

507
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Speaker 1: throughout the pandemic. When I talk to folks, I tell

508
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Speaker 1: people all the time, you know, particularly like clients, to

509
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: reduce your stress, like you need to have a regular routine,

510
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: and your sleep is so so important. I tell you know,

511
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Speaker 1: like most folks know now that like I'm in bed

512
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Speaker 1: like around ten o'clock, and that I emphasize getting my

513
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Speaker 1: eight hours of sleep. But now I'm gonna really, you know,

514
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Speaker 1: I'm going to start listening to my friends who have

515
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Speaker 1: told me about getting outside, so thank you, thank you

516
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Speaker 1: for that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be honest here. Well, probably because

518
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 2: of the season I am in life right now, but

519
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 2: I feel a bit convicted because I'm like, I barely

520
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Speaker 2: do any of these things. I don't have to sleep

521
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 2: schedule really because the baby, the food, and I typically

522
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Speaker 2: stay in the house a lot because I'm kind of

523
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Speaker 2: a homebody. But that's so helpful to know that I

524
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Speaker 2: can just go out on the patio or go out

525
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Speaker 2: for a quick walk. So I'm going to be more

526
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Speaker 2: intentional about doing that for me and the baby. So

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Speaker 2: thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think a really good point that you

529
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Speaker 3: made is that you have to consider what season of

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Speaker 3: life you're in. Also, you know it's always going to

531
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Speaker 3: be different, and don't beat yourself up for that, because

532
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people will say that to me,

533
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: like oh I have this, that and the other. I'm like, Okay, well,

534
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 3: let's take a look at what's going on in your life.

535
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 3: What season of life are you in, what life stage

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Speaker 3: are you in? That's really important to consider. So I

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Speaker 3: really love that you said that and that you're sort

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Speaker 3: of like, Okay, well, what can I do from this?

539
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Speaker 3: How can I take what she's saying and adjust it

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Speaker 3: and apply it? To myself and not worry about being perfect.

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, because we're always in and out of balance.

542
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Speaker 2: So there we go. We'll startle moment fully exactly, doctor,

543
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: what are the steps for processing and digesting emotional and

544
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Speaker 2: physical toxins?

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Speaker 3: So you know, and I are Veda. There's this idea

546
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 3: that talk basically can come from anywhere in our life.

547
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 3: But let me back up. The digestion in aravea is

548
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 3: the most important. And now we're finding out in modern

549
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 3: science what we knew five thousand years ago, which is

550
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 3: the digestion controls everything. So and you know, we know

551
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 3: about the gut brain and how influential it is on

552
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 3: every process in the body. But from a metaphorical standpoint,

553
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 3: which is also what we talk about in the digestion,

554
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 3: I mean, we talk about the physical digestion in araveda

555
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 3: and really regulating that and making sure it's strong. But

556
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Speaker 3: then from a metaphor perspective, if you think about it,

557
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: if your digestion is not strong, you are going to

558
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 3: have a buildup of toxins because everything that's coming into

559
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 3: your body, all into your system all day long is

560
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 3: just kind of sitting there. It's not getting processed.

561
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Speaker 2: Properly.

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00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 3: If you have a strong digestify er, a strong digestion,

563
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 3: you're able to take what you need and get rid

564
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 3: of the rest, right, and we have to help that

565
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 3: process so long as human beings, and so it's sort

566
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 3: of this idea that you know, everything in our lives

567
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 3: is affecting us, it's coming into us, and if we

568
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 3: don't process that stuff, it will build up as toxic substance.

569
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 3: They'll build up as toxins, and it'll show itself, right,

570
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 3: it'll show itself as symptoms, either subtle or obvious that

571
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 3: will start to happen as we get out of balance

572
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: because we have all these toxins and they're not being

573
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Speaker 3: eliminated from the body. So some of the the first

574
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 3: step is awareness, is always becoming aware of the fact

575
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Speaker 3: that this is true. And then we really think about

576
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 3: five main areas that toxins come from in ara Veda,

577
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 3: and the first is your environment or your space. The

578
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 3: next is your relationships, your lifestyle and routines. Then your work,

579
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 3: your career, your passions, your roles, responsibilities, whatever you want

580
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Speaker 3: to call that, and then the diet. We're very fixated

581
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 3: on the diet in this culture, which is fine. That's

582
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 3: very important, but it's not the whole story, right, So

583
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 3: it's important to consider what's going on in my relationships,

584
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 3: you know, is that the source of the toxins that

585
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 3: are building up in me and then showing up as symptoms.

586
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 3: And they could be physical symptoms, it can be emotional symptoms. Right,

587
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 3: Where are the toxins coming from? Because a common thing

588
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Speaker 3: that will happen is I'll have people who will come

589
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Speaker 3: to me and say to doctor Vonsie, I have cleaned

590
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Speaker 3: up my diet. You know, I don't eat this, I've

591
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 3: eliminated X, Y and Z, and I still don't feel well,

592
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 3: right because you haven't looked at these other areas of

593
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Speaker 3: your life. Right, Because you can have the most clean diet,

594
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: quote clean diet whatever that is for you personally, but

595
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 3: if you haven't dealt with the toxic relationships in your

596
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Speaker 3: life or the toxin coming from your work, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: I see you cheering over there.

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Speaker 1: We're for you.

599
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: That is a word. That is a word, right there,

600
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 2: A holistic approach like not just the diet, but other

601
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Speaker 2: aspects of life. Because you're right, you can be in

602
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Speaker 2: a toxic environment. I think about us being in big cities,

603
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, oh, I have a dream of

604
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 2: like living far away on like in a nice green area,

605
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Speaker 2: because I know the city toxins are something else. But

606
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Speaker 2: we're going to get your books so that we can

607
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: get our lives a bit more, you know, in harmony

608
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Speaker 2: with nature. But Doctor Avantie, this has been such a

609
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Speaker 2: great conversation, and at this time we want to shift

610
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Speaker 2: up the energy of this interview. And because we recognize, appreciate,

611
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 2: and celebrate the multifaceted woman, and we believe that it's

612
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 2: okay to be classy and ratchet, it's okay to be

613
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 2: elegant and dance to strip club music, we want to

614
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 2: invite you to the oh you clatchet segment? So doctor Avantie,

615
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Speaker 2: do you take on the challenge?

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Speaker 3: I do, Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're so happy to hear it. You may not

618
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Speaker 2: I've ever experienced this in any of your interviews. So

619
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Speaker 2: just get ready for the ride.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

621
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Speaker 2: And now that you've agreed, we want to let you

622
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Speaker 2: know what to expect.

623
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Speaker 3: Oh boy, I agreed before I got that.

624
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Speaker 2: So we're going to ask you three questions we were

625
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Speaker 2: hoping you would we were hoping we would get you

626
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Speaker 2: in and then we're like, let's tell you what to

627
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Speaker 2: expect now. So we have three questions that we're going

628
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Speaker 2: to ask. We want to share three sentence completions, and

629
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Speaker 2: then we're going to pull up one photo on social media.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have you choose one of three photos,

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Speaker 2: one of your photos, and we left you to provide

632
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Speaker 2: a bit more context about the photo that many folks

633
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 2: won't know by looking at this particular photo. So we're

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Speaker 2: going to jump on in with the first question, which

635
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Speaker 2: is what's the best piece of advice you've ever received.

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Speaker 3: Listen to your intuition, trust yourself, and as a physician,

637
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Speaker 3: I was taught wave when I first started in medical

638
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 3: school by an attending I still remember his face. I

639
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 3: can't remember his name, but he said to me, Avantie,

640
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 3: always listen to what the patient is saying, but also

641
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 3: look at their face, look at what their what their

642
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 3: expressions are, and you will get a lot of information.

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Speaker 3: And I've never left I've never lost that piece of advice.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome, Yeah, so powerful. All right. Next question's

645
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Speaker 1: work or two step?

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Speaker 3: Probably two step because I have college aged kids and

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Speaker 3: if I said twork, they'd be like mom, what are

648
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Speaker 3: you talking about?

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Speaker 1: That's okay, that's okay. If you want to work, they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll just have to learn to be okay with it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that I would know how to twork.

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Speaker 3: That's probably also why I picked two step, because actually

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Speaker 3: I don't even know how to step. I just fake that,

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Speaker 3: But the tworking, I'd be like, I'm not I don't

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Speaker 3: how to do this. So it's okay.

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Speaker 2: So funny. I feel like kids always have a way

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Speaker 2: of humbling this right. Wait, what so doctor, see what's

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Speaker 2: the sexiest item that you own?

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Speaker 3: I guess lingerie. I don't know. I've been married twenty

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Speaker 3: five years. You guys, that's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations. Okay, so you have some sexy items the end,

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Speaker 2: I do?

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Well, now we're going to shift to the three sentence completions.

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Speaker 1: One question or topic I wish people asked me more

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Speaker 1: about more often.

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Speaker 3: How to be creative? All right, because I think most

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Speaker 3: people assume that because I'm a doctor, I'm not creative.

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Well, doctor Vonci, how do you encourage creativity in people?

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Speaker 1: And how do you express creativity?

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Speaker 3: I express creativity through Actually, it's the oddest thing. I

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Speaker 3: love making cards. I have ever since I was a child,

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Speaker 3: just like gluing and painting and all those kinds of things.

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Speaker 3: I think that's also why when I was in medical school,

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Speaker 3: I decided to go into emergency medicine because I wanted

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Speaker 3: to do procedures because I love doing things with my hands.

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Speaker 3: So and my mom's an artist, and my kids are

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Speaker 3: very artistic. So I would say like making cards, actually

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Speaker 3: making jewelry, like just I never whatever, it's just like

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Speaker 3: beating and things like that, just for fun. That's I

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Speaker 3: like to do that. And I think as far as

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Speaker 3: encouraging creativity, I think it's again it comes down to

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Speaker 3: this idea of perfection. There is no such thing, so

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Speaker 3: like left leave that behind, and you don't have to

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Speaker 3: be Picasso. You don't have to be you know, money,

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Speaker 3: You don't have to be like this amazing artist or

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Speaker 3: to be able.

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Speaker 2: To do art or to be creative. That is so beautiful.

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Speaker 2: I love that, and it reminds me of something I

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Speaker 2: saw on social media recently. Someone said, your self care

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Speaker 2: practice doesn't have to be pretty and appealing for social media.

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Speaker 2: You know, folks are like taking I mean some of

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Speaker 2: it maybe, but some folks will take a nice virtual

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Speaker 2: bath and they have everything just so perfect and they

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Speaker 2: take a picture and it kind of discourages some folks

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Speaker 2: because you're like, oh, my mind doesn't look this way.

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Speaker 2: But I love that you are emphasizing that things do

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Speaker 2: not have to be perfect and are not in balance

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the time. So thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: Our last sentence completion here is what I love most

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Speaker 2: about myself.

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Speaker 3: Is that I'm willing to take a risk, no matter

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Speaker 3: how uncomfortable it is, because pretty much I've never taken

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Speaker 3: the straight path that people would expect from me and

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Speaker 3: or expect that I would. And so I think that

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Speaker 3: the fact that I've been afraid and been sort of,

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Speaker 3: you know, worried about what other people think I've done

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Speaker 3: it anyway.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love that.

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Speaker 4: That's so that's courageous.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. All Right, doctor Vonte. We have three photos

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Speaker 2: that we're gonna have you choose from. So what you

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Speaker 2: need to do is choose a number one to three

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Speaker 2: and we'll just flash a photo on screen for you. Okay, two, two,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead into it. This is a

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Speaker 2: good one. Oh, so tell us about this photo that

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Speaker 2: were looking at.

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Speaker 3: So this is a picture from the day that I

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Speaker 3: graduated from medical school. And I took seven years through

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Speaker 3: medical school, and I had both my kids during medical school.

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Speaker 3: I got married and had both my children. That's Zane

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Speaker 3: in the far corner and then Esha in my arms.

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Speaker 3: And what people don't you wanted me to say? What

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Speaker 3: people wouldn't know. I mean, it was one of the

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Speaker 3: happiest days of my life because I finally finished medical

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Speaker 3: school and I did it even though everyone thought I

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Speaker 3: would never be able to finish because I chose to

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Speaker 3: have my kids during medical school. And so it was

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Speaker 3: the happiest day of my life. And it was also

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Speaker 3: one of the scariest days because I knew I was

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Speaker 3: going to go into training a few like a month later.

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Speaker 3: But I think what also doesn't probably show is that

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Speaker 3: at this time I was dealing with a lot of depression.

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Speaker 3: Actually I was really struggling with depression. I've spoken about

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Speaker 3: this actually before my podcast. And I was sort of

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Speaker 3: so overwhelmed by my life by all the roles and

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Speaker 3: responsibilities that I had. It was a wife, I was

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Speaker 3: a daughter, my husband's South Asian. I had, you know,

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Speaker 3: South Asian in law's lots of expectations on me two

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Speaker 3: children and a career in medicine, and I was overwhelmed,

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Speaker 3: and I think I was really down and lonely, and

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Speaker 3: so at the time I was struggling and I was like, God,

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Speaker 3: I made it, and now what? So yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 3: the story behind that nature whole.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing that. I think you know. The

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Speaker 1: beautiful part of why we added this segment to the

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Speaker 1: ou Classic segment is because we never know the real

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Speaker 1: story behind the photos that people post in the common

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Speaker 1: thread or theme that we notice is that there's always

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Speaker 1: something bigger behind those photos and it's a beautiful It's

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Speaker 1: often a beautiful story and a beautiful lesson for all

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Speaker 1: of us.

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Speaker 4: So thank you for sharing that.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're welcome, and so doctor VANSI, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for sharing your time, your energy, your expertise. And

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Speaker 1: where can people find you on social media?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can find me my full name. I'm

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Speaker 3: usually on Instagram. I don't have time for so many

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Speaker 3: different places to be so Instagram is really where I

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Speaker 3: kind of hang out, and my handle is Avanti Kumercing

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Speaker 3: my full name. And then other than that, yeah, and

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Speaker 3: then other than that, you can find you can access

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Speaker 3: me and everything that I'm doing through my website, which

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Speaker 3: is avantikumercing dot com.

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Speaker 2: So yay, thank you so much. This was so amazing.

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Speaker 2: And doctor Vonte, now that you've been on the podcast,

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Speaker 2: we've had a chance to learn more about you. We

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Speaker 2: think that you kind of get the vibe and the

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Speaker 2: energy of our podcast our mission. Although we are dedicated

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Speaker 2: to uplifting black women, we have listeners from all walks

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Speaker 2: of life and all backgrounds, and so we'd love to know,

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Speaker 2: in your opinion, based on your experience here, who you

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Speaker 2: think we should interview next and if you'd be open

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Speaker 2: to making an introduction.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, I'll have to think about that. There's lots

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Speaker 3: of people I think you should interview. Okay, can I

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Speaker 3: get back to you on that because I know, of course.

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Speaker 2: That's absolutely okay, Absolutely, we can definitely get back to us.

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Speaker 2: We'd appreciate you so much. And lady, we hope you

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Speaker 2: enjoyed the interview.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I loved it. Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: It was so it was so much fun, really really fun.

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