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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to host a virtual toast. Often people

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Speaker 1: would like to celebrate with you, but they probably won't

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Speaker 1: be able to travel far, commit multiple hours, or get

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Speaker 1: a babysitter. A virtual toast can solve these problems and

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Speaker 1: still make the person of honor feel celebrated. My most

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Speaker 1: recent book, Tranquility by Tuesday, when on sale a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. I don't live in the same place as

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Speaker 1: my editors or publicists, or, for that matter, many of

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Speaker 1: the people who work with me. I am a member

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Speaker 1: of a few professional strategy groups where the people live

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Speaker 1: all over the place. I have some loyal readers and

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Speaker 1: supporters who are also far flung. In my ideal world,

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Speaker 1: we would all gather in a venue somewhere for a party.

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Speaker 1: But I know that people have busy lives and they

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Speaker 1: can't all travel to the Philadelphia area for the day.

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Speaker 1: So I decided to hold a small virtual toast on

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Speaker 1: Zoom right before the launch. People gathered for a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the book. I thanked folks, We raised

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Speaker 1: a glass. It was great It left me feeling glowing

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Speaker 1: and like I was really part of something big. We

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Speaker 1: all need that in our lives. Let's say you just

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Speaker 1: got a promotion at work. Your best friends are the

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Speaker 1: five people you lived within college, and they live all

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Speaker 1: over the country or possibly all over the world. They

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Speaker 1: would come for your funeral, but in the meantime they

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Speaker 1: can get on Zoom for a few minutes to talk

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Speaker 1: about how great you are and to say that you

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Speaker 1: deserve the promotion and that they knew this would happen

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Speaker 1: all along. You can also do short virtual celebrations in

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Speaker 1: advance of bigger ones. If you just got engaged, why

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Speaker 1: not invite far flowing friends and relations to gather online

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Speaker 1: to raise a glass. Sure many will come for the

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Speaker 1: wedding itself, but that might be a year from now.

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Speaker 1: It can be fun to celebrate in the meantime. There

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Speaker 1: is no particular cost to a virtual event, and it

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Speaker 1: can be quick. You get a lot of the good

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Speaker 1: feelings without the catering bill. That sounds like a win

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Speaker 1: to me. We gathered by Zoom and other video programs

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Speaker 1: by necessity during COVID. Now that many people are doing

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Speaker 1: things in person again, I suspect that folks may shy

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Speaker 1: away from virtual celebrations. After all, we want to see

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Speaker 1: our friends and family in person, and we should. People

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Speaker 1: may also be a tiny bit tired of zoom, but

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Speaker 1: this doesn't have to be an either or thing. Virtual

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Speaker 1: toasts can augment in person celebrations and can make celebrations

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Speaker 1: possible in situations where the alternative might be to not celebrate,

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Speaker 1: or to have a celebration with far fewer people, have

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Speaker 1: a virtual toast for distant folks and host a local party.

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Speaker 1: This doesn't have to be a choice. So the next

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Speaker 1: time you are considering celebrating something but thinking it might

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Speaker 1: be a bother to bring people together, or that the

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Speaker 1: people who should come aren't nearby or might be busy,

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Speaker 1: consider hosting a virtual toast. You will see each other's

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Speaker 1: faces and enjoy a happy moment. It. It might not

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Speaker 1: be quite as good as being in person, but if

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Speaker 1: the alternative is not gathering at all, you know which

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Speaker 1: is the better choice. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the moves of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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