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Speaker 2: With Amy Brown, Happy Thursday. Four Things Amy Here, And

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Speaker 2: my guest today is Sarah Canoles. And Sarah sent me

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Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, this is brilliant. She's helping people

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Speaker 2: what that just seems really odd to need someone to

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Speaker 2: When I was going through my divorce, I feel like

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Speaker 2: and I were talking before we were recording, and I thought, shoot,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And what I really find is that a breakup

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Speaker 1: did my breakups, like every time I got dumped by

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Speaker 2: Donald Miller's a guest on the podcast that gave us

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Speaker 1: I think people get really hung up and I did this.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I love that the focusing on all aspects of

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Speaker 2: Well, and I think too, I was looking at it

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Speaker 1: the of course road and it feels better. Well. I

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Speaker 1: love that.

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Speaker 2: I think that is good advice because I would bet

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Speaker 2: if March is a popular time to break up. Somebody

438
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Speaker 2: is going to be listening to this in March that

439
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Speaker 2: needs this. Are there ways to prepare yourself emotionally if

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Speaker 2: you sense like a breakup is coming, Like maybe someone's

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Speaker 2: literally listening to this right now and they're like, I

442
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Speaker 2: am just picking up on vibes that a breakup is

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Speaker 2: on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: There are two things there. One it kind of ties

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Speaker 1: back to the uncomfortable conversation we were having about the

446
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Speaker 1: young man taking the girl out to dinner and having

447
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Speaker 1: the conversation face to face instead of a text message.

448
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Speaker 1: If you're sensing it and this is the person you love,

449
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Speaker 1: maybe have the uncomfortable conversation and call it out of

450
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Speaker 1: I'm feeling less connected to you or I'm feeling something

451
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Speaker 1: has shifted. Can we talk about what's happening and be

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Speaker 1: brave and have the conversation. But the other piece of that,

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Speaker 1: the part that you really can control, is how you're

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Speaker 1: going to respond. And I think the most important thing

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Speaker 1: to do to prepare is to practice having your own back,

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Speaker 1: practice knowing I'm going to be okay no matter what happens.

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Speaker 1: And this is something I really had to build a

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Speaker 1: lot of reps. I had to do a lot of

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Speaker 1: practice of this. For me, this was a really weak muscle,

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Speaker 1: and I think about what are the ways I can

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Speaker 1: let myself know I'm going to be okay no matter what,

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Speaker 1: if I fail, if the relationship ends, if he never

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Speaker 1: wants to see me again, I'm going to be okay.

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Speaker 1: And it's not dependent on him. It's not dependent on

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Speaker 1: the relationship. So how can I strengthen that for myself?

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Speaker 2: I love that reminder of knowing that you are truly

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Speaker 2: going to be okay, and it may not feel that

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Speaker 2: way when it first happens. But that's the great thing

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Speaker 2: about this is in preparation, you can get ahead of it.

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Speaker 2: If you're sensing that something might be coming, and if

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Speaker 2: you're blindsided by it, you're going to feel that way

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Speaker 2: as well. But I would just like to I could

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Speaker 2: be a story of hope, as there is light on

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Speaker 2: the other side. And to go back to the cocoon

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Speaker 2: butterfly example and the turning to mush is if you

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Speaker 2: truly believe that that person is for you, and there's

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Speaker 2: nothing else for you out there and you're never going

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Speaker 2: to find anybody, then that's where you're going to stay.

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Speaker 2: Stuck like you'll forever be stuck in your little cocoon,

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Speaker 2: and that's going to be very isolating and lonely and sad,

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Speaker 2: and I don't want that for you. It's like the

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Speaker 2: Henry Ford quote. Whether you think you can or you

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Speaker 2: think you can't, you're right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So if you think there is nobody else out there

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Speaker 2: for you, then yeah, stay in your little cocoon. That's

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Speaker 2: exactly what's going to.

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Speaker 1: Happen for you.

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Speaker 2: But if you believe that you can emerge from this

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Speaker 2: stronger and healthier and more beautiful than ever before, then

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Speaker 2: you're right, you can, but it's going to take the work.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise you're just going to be stuck in that little cocoon.

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Speaker 2: I love that image in my mind right now.

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Speaker 1: I will say that's why a coach is amazing, because

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Speaker 1: sometimes we only have a glimmer of that for ourselves.

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Speaker 1: But if you're working with the right person, they get

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Speaker 1: to hold the whole picture of I see the butterfly

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Speaker 1: of what's possible on the other side, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to hold the whole picture and I'm going to help

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Speaker 1: you through the process. I love that.

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Speaker 2: What is one mindset shift? I love a good mindset shift.

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Speaker 2: Is there one a particular that makes a huge difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I like to think about this like you're making

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Speaker 1: a cake and the very first cake you made probably

505
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: wasn't very good. You probably got the balance wrong, and

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Speaker 1: you've maybe like got the ingredients all or you didn't

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Speaker 1: quite get the science of it right. And then maybe

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Speaker 1: you had a cake that you made that was amazing,

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Speaker 1: and you've tried it again over and over and over again.

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Speaker 1: These are all of our relationships, are all these attempts

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Speaker 1: at baking a cake, And each time you do it,

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Speaker 1: you learn a little bit more and you start finding

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Speaker 1: the more you do it, you start finding what is

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Speaker 1: the right balance that I really like. And sometimes we

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Speaker 1: need the balance of that bitterness with the sweet. We need,

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Speaker 1: you know, that hit of that bitter coffee with the

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Speaker 1: chocolate to make the chocolate taste richer. So I like

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Speaker 1: to think about this stuff that you're going through is

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Speaker 1: that bitterness and it's going to make the sweet so

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Speaker 1: much better and it's going to add so much depth

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Speaker 1: to the life that you're baking right now.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love that so much. You know. Earlier, right

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Speaker 2: when we first started talking, you mentioned your love journey

524
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Speaker 2: and keeping little bits and pieces from each relationship, not

525
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Speaker 2: because you want something with that person down the line

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Speaker 2: in any way that relationship is over, but it's part

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Speaker 2: of your love journey. And that's the cake. It's all

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Speaker 2: parts of your love journey being mixed together to make

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Speaker 2: something really yummy and beautiful and tasty. And I think

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Speaker 2: of how much I learned from my marriage ending. I

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Speaker 2: don't know that I learned much from relationships before that,

532
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Speaker 2: because I got married in my young to mid twenties,

533
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Speaker 2: and my serious relationship before that was in college, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I learned that much, Like I

535
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 2: wasn't in a place of learning and growth. I think

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Speaker 2: I just went through the heartache and didn't really walk

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Speaker 2: with much. But from my marriage, fast forward seventeen years

538
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Speaker 2: of that relationship and then in my forties, if I'm

539
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Speaker 2: getting into another relationship wanting it to be as healthy

540
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Speaker 2: as possible, I knew that I was going to have

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Speaker 2: to do the work on myself. And as I am

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Speaker 2: in a new relationship now, I like that I have

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Speaker 2: that vision now of me in the kitchen with all

544
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Speaker 2: my different ingredients baking my cake and all parts of

545
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Speaker 2: what I am bringing to the table now are important

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Speaker 2: in building my cake. And I learned so much.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you learned so much. And I think as we

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Speaker 1: get older, we also start learning to embrace all the

549
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Speaker 1: parts of ourself. And I guess it doesn't translate so

550
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Speaker 1: much into baking. It's more like cooking, but you think

551
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: of like salty and sweet, balancing and new mommy and

552
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: depth of flavor. And as we embrace all those parts

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Speaker 1: of ourself, it makes you a full person.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And thankfully I put in the work to learn

555
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Speaker 2: from my failures in the relationship and then also my

556
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Speaker 2: partners parts of our relationship that were very unhealthy, and

557
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Speaker 2: it was very hard, Like I remember just wanting to

558
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Speaker 2: be so far away from all of it because I

559
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 2: was like, this is just all so hard, this hurts

560
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: so much. But now I think of who I am

561
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Speaker 2: and what I can bring to the table because of

562
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Speaker 2: that pain that I went through. And I also know

563
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Speaker 2: it was painful too, because it was a relationship that

564
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Speaker 2: meant a lot to me and I never thought I

565
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Speaker 2: would get divorced right when I got married. That just

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Speaker 2: was not an option at all. And so then, you know,

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Speaker 2: speaking of shame, you mentioned that earlier, I carried that

568
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Speaker 2: around with me of like, oh, now I'm divorced and

569
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Speaker 2: that was never supposed to be a part of my

570
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Speaker 2: story and I've got two kids, but now it's like, oh,

571
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Speaker 2: so much of that is a part of what makes

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Speaker 2: up my cake.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So if you just had one piece of advice, I

575
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Speaker 2: know you've got a lot of wisdom that you pass

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Speaker 2: along to clients and if you're doing interviews like this,

577
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Speaker 2: but if there was just one piece of advice to

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Speaker 2: someone that is struggling right now to let go of somebody,

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Speaker 2: what's that one piece of advice that you would give them.

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Speaker 1: My one piece of advice is that you are so

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Speaker 1: much more powerful than you know, and you are capable

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Speaker 1: of so much more than you know, and you have

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Speaker 1: wonderful gifts that you need to share with the world.

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Speaker 1: And the time that you are spending stuck, it's keeping

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00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: those gifts and your power from really radiating out and

586
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: from you shining your light. And we need your light

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00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: right now. And if it's hard to stop looking backwards,

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00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: start looking where your feet are right now and where

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Speaker 1: your heart is right now, and be there for yourself

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Speaker 1: right now. It might be hard to look at a future.

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Speaker 1: It might be hard to look forward, but take care

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Speaker 1: of you right now today, in this moment, start right here.

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Speaker 2: Dolly Pardon has a quote that's the way I see it.

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Speaker 2: If you want the rainbow, you got to put up

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Speaker 2: with the rain. I love that, and it's just such

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Speaker 2: a good one. It's a good one because we're all

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Speaker 2: going to go through storms and rainbows are such a

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Speaker 2: beautiful thing that we get to enjoy. But it is

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Speaker 2: after the rain. It is after a storm, and if

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Speaker 2: you stay stuck inside, you may miss the rainbow.

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Speaker 1: The butterfly comes after the goo.

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Speaker 2: That's right. That's Sarah's quote. So Dolly's quote is the

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Speaker 2: rainbow after the rain, and I think I can get

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Speaker 2: on board with the butterfly comes after the goop. That's

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Speaker 2: such a good one.

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Speaker 1: Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Where can people find you? If they want to learn

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Speaker 2: more about what you offer and what you.

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Speaker 1: Do, they can come follow me on Instagram. I'm at

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Speaker 1: Sarah Cronol's so just my name all one word or

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Speaker 1: I wanted to offer a little freak to your listeners

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Speaker 1: because I know this conversation has been so deep. I

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Speaker 1: have a free guide of ten journal prompts that they

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Speaker 1: can do and they can download that at top ten

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Speaker 1: journal prompts dot com.

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Speaker 2: I'll also link it in the show notes and Sarah

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Speaker 2: spells her last name see you are Innoles, so that'll

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Speaker 2: be linked there. We love a good journal prompt Sarah's

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Speaker 2: got ten of them, and journaling is one of the

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Speaker 2: ways that you can let go of an X. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure those prompts help people process that and surrender, let

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Speaker 2: it go.

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Speaker 1: They'll take what we started here and it'll go a

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Speaker 1: lot deeper.

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Speaker 2: And then apparently I love fire because then after your

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Speaker 2: journal I'm probably gonna be like, and then go ahead

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Speaker 2: and burn it, do it.

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Speaker 1: Release it, send that up to the ether.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. Well, Sarah, thank you for this conversation.

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Speaker 2: Break up Detox. I think that this is something that

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Speaker 2: will definitely come in handy and unfortunately maybe for more

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Speaker 2: people this month then others, but at least people can

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Speaker 2: now be as prepared as possible and have hope that

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Speaker 2: they're going to be okay. Absolutely, thank you, Sarah, bye bye.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me