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Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Sammy J. And welcome to my podcast.

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Speaker 1: I hope your day is going great. For this episode,

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Speaker 1: we have Dixie Damelio as our guest. She is the

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Speaker 1: absolute sweetest, talk about music, cancel culture, how to or

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Speaker 1: at least try to have a healthy relationship with social

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Speaker 1: media through new podcast with Charlie, and so much more.

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Speaker 1: M Y J A y E. I cannot wait for

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Speaker 1: Hi Dixie, Well, thank you so much for coming on

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Speaker 1: my podcast. Of course, I was thinking about this and

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Speaker 1: I know you just graduated last year. I'm currently senior

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Speaker 1: in high school, and your life has changed completely from

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Speaker 1: what it was a year ago. Today you graduated high school,

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Speaker 1: you're out in l A, You're doing music, you just

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Speaker 1: came out with your first single, you're working on an album.

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Speaker 1: How has this transition been? I mean, this time last year,

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Speaker 1: I still have my snapchat memories come up. And this

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Speaker 1: time last year I was on the bus to field

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Speaker 1: hockey games. I didn't even do TikTok like at all.

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Speaker 1: I didn't post a video I was on in I

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Speaker 1: watched it. I was a fan, and it's insane, like

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Speaker 1: I already was getting already gone to college. I was

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Speaker 1: doing field hockey, doing school, and that was about it.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea. I mean, obviously I had no idea,

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Speaker 1: but how everything changed so quickly, it's just crazy. I

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Speaker 1: think it's so cool that you're living out in l A.

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Speaker 1: How do you like it? Oh? I like it. I

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Speaker 1: I hate how there's no rain here because I love

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Speaker 1: like raining days. But it's really I love the rain.

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Speaker 1: It gets I hate to say it, but it does

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Speaker 1: get boring being perfect every day like the sun. Totally

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Speaker 1: get that. I totally get that. I lived in New York,

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Speaker 1: so I I know how you feel, so you're enjoying

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Speaker 1: the perfect weather. Have you been recording music at your house?

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Speaker 1: So over quarantine? I was him in Connecticut and my

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Speaker 1: So when he was like, we need to come record,

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, like I've never done this before.

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Speaker 1: and that's how I started on music. And then now

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Speaker 1: it's we realized, like it's a lot safer than we thought.

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Speaker 1: So I've just been recording a lot in um studios

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Speaker 1: and how has it been. Did you Did you ever

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Speaker 1: I I didn't muse it growing up, and I loved

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Speaker 1: So now I'm very happy that. Um everyone convinced me.

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Speaker 1: So you're working in an album right now? Um? Yes,

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Speaker 1: new stuff coming very soon. Album. At some point I

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Speaker 1: My whole life is just going with the flow, which

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Speaker 1: And now I'm here, I'm like, okay, the Irons racle,

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Speaker 1: the Ironies sterical. Next. So when people are your friends

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Speaker 1: Even though everyone's already heard it, Like all my friends

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Speaker 1: doing YouTube. I just think it's so fun because people

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Speaker 1: in the public eye. We have to take a quick break,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll talk about your new

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Speaker 1: getting it, and people were posting in like this is

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Speaker 1: so funny and like no, I was actually so mad

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Speaker 1: because she wasn't understanding what I was saying. But like

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Speaker 1: like that's why I think, but that's that's sisters, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's what's great is like you guys, don't

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Speaker 1: hide it because I feel like a lot of people

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Speaker 1: act like they're great, but it's like they're sibling rivalry.

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Speaker 1: Always if you have a saying you have a sibling,

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Speaker 1: you know? Yes? So how long have you been doing

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Speaker 1: the podcast so far? Um? I think we've been doing

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Speaker 1: it two months? Maybe do you have a favorite conversation

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Speaker 1: you've had with her that's stuck out or that has

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Speaker 1: had a lot of interesting response? Not really, I mean

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Speaker 1: there's some, but like stuff that isn't out yet just

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Speaker 1: because we kind of we we did like a few

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Speaker 1: week because of just trying to figure out what we

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Speaker 1: would do, what we talk about, and now we kind

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Speaker 1: of have the hang of it, so they're gonna just

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Speaker 1: get better and better. Like the first one I listened

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Speaker 1: to it was like, oh my god, what are we saying?

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Speaker 1: But now I'm I'm excited now that we get to

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Speaker 1: talk about Now that we know we're going to talk about,

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Speaker 1: what are you going to talk about can we say anything,

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Speaker 1: UM just kind of like kind of responding to hate

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Speaker 1: on there, but all like using it as a way

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Speaker 1: to talk about things. If we're getting um a lot

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Speaker 1: of comments about it, we'll talk about it on there

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Speaker 1: and address it there so people couldn't hear our voices

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Speaker 1: and it's not just like a comment on a post.

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Speaker 1: And then also like interacting with our fans UM and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that, just try to make it more interactive,

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Speaker 1: which is exciting. Yeah. I think that's super exciting. Especially

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Speaker 1: it's the way where you can control your own narrative

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Speaker 1: of what you want to say and if there's any

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Speaker 1: miscommunication or any people's opinions. I think that's really cool

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Speaker 1: that you're doing that. Yeah, definitely. So Okay, I have

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Speaker 1: to ask. I know you've been doing, You've been doing

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Speaker 1: on YouTube videos, you have the podcast, now, you've been

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Speaker 1: doing music, which has been awesome. Is there anything else

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Speaker 1: that you're working on that you're super excited about for

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I feel like everything just comes

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Speaker 1: so fast I forget what I'm doing. I think that's

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Speaker 1: it for right now. Probably March or something. We'll get

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Speaker 1: in there somewhere before Christmas. What do you ever want

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Speaker 1: like your own clothing line. Yes, definitely, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what I wanted to do anyways, Like without social media,

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Speaker 1: I was my dad was in the clothing business, so

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Speaker 1: I love that. So hopefully at some point, once I

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Speaker 1: get more settled down and not like moving um around

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Speaker 1: all the time, I definitely want to work on that.

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Speaker 1: Is that where you're what you're going to go to

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Speaker 1: school for. I was going to school for business and management,

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Speaker 1: and that was kind of my hope at some point

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Speaker 1: to be in the clothing business. That is so different

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Speaker 1: from what you are doing now completely. Would you ever

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Speaker 1: go back to that? Um? If we want to try

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Speaker 1: college at some point, I say, like everyone's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: she didn't go to college, but it's always going to

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Speaker 1: be there though, Yeah, I mean this was It's like

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Speaker 1: college is a once in a lifetime experience. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: so is this I don't know, I just feeling exactly.

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Speaker 1: I feel like college is always there. It's always there,

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Speaker 1: but like the opportunities you're having, they can go away.

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Speaker 1: M and I would love to go to college, like

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Speaker 1: I was so ready to go. The only reason why

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Speaker 1: I didn't end up going is because it was going

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Speaker 1: to be a lot of traveling, which I didn't think

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Speaker 1: was a good idea for like my family or the

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Speaker 1: people I'd be around. So it was like, take a

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Speaker 1: gap year, see what happens. I'm considering taking a gap year.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any tips or advice on the college

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Speaker 1: process and your thoughts on gap years? Because I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of people listening our seniors right now. For me,

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Speaker 1: I'm more of a visual learner, so same doing and

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Speaker 1: experiencing things helped me so much more than anything else,

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Speaker 1: like being in class or reading books online. I was

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Speaker 1: or reading books. I was like, I just feel like

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Speaker 1: I could be doing something more that I'm more interested in.

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Speaker 1: I know I'm not going to be doing anything with this,

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Speaker 1: So I stayed back sophomore year because I switched schools,

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Speaker 1: so I had an extra year all of senior year

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Speaker 1: to take all elective classes, which was very nice because

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Speaker 1: I kind of got to found what I was interested

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Speaker 1: in and I really loved like engineering and um what

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Speaker 1: other classes I take? I took poetry, which I found

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Speaker 1: interesting and and having that experience was awesome. So if

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Speaker 1: you're going to take a gap year, maybe like go

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Speaker 1: to a community college and like take elective classes or something,

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Speaker 1: just so you can try to find what you're interested in.

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Speaker 1: That that's what I'm thinking about doing. I think it

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Speaker 1: just depends on what happens with the world. And I

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Speaker 1: kind of also want to see what happens because, like

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Speaker 1: I am about saying, like school and all of this,

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Speaker 1: it's during a pandemic, so I kind of want to

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Speaker 1: see what could happen if I just like work for

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Speaker 1: a year, you see, like what can happen. And also

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Speaker 1: about call, I feel like there's such a idea college

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Speaker 1: you need to go to the best school, like community

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Speaker 1: college is like you can't go to community college. There

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Speaker 1: was no problem if you like work and whatever you're doing,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how you get there. There's people who

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Speaker 1: one goes to community college, one goes to an IVY league,

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Speaker 1: and they both end up with the same job. It's

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Speaker 1: like it's how much work you put into it. And

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's just given such a bad rap,

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Speaker 1: like you have to go to this school to be

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Speaker 1: this person, and that's not true. You have to get

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Speaker 1: straight a's, And it's like I try to remember like grades,

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Speaker 1: like do your best, but that's all you can do

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Speaker 1: at the end. Of the day. It took me three

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Speaker 1: years to finally get like good grades and figure out

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Speaker 1: how I learned, and some people just it takes a

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Speaker 1: long time to figure out how they learn. So it's

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Speaker 1: just kind of you need to put the work in.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do with like not putting the

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Speaker 1: work in. But once you figure it out, it makes

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Speaker 1: life a lot easier. Yeah, I couldn't agree more and like,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing there's no better way to learn than just

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Speaker 1: by doing. That's what I like to think. So for

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Speaker 1: this season, what I wanted to do, Like many others,

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Speaker 1: I've been feeling very helpless UM with the state of

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Speaker 1: the world that we're in, and I want to focus

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Speaker 1: on highlights some charities that I think are really great.

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Speaker 1: Are there any charities that you've been working with or

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Speaker 1: that you're aware of that you just want to spread

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Speaker 1: the word about. Um. Actually, I'm working with a charity

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Speaker 1: UM with best Friends the Dog fostering an adoption. So

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Speaker 1: I'm fostering a dog for two days and just trying

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Speaker 1: to raise awareness for it. So, oh my goodness, that's

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Speaker 1: I want to foster a dog. I'm fostering it, but

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Speaker 1: I'm really considering keeping it honestly, it's it's like it's

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Speaker 1: like a trial kind of yeah, and my puppies bored

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Speaker 1: by herself. I think she needs a friend, so we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to convince my family of that for

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Speaker 1: such a long time, like our dog needs a friend.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Dixie for coming on my podcast. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. It is so fun. Thank you guys so

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Speaker 1: much for listening to this week's episode. As always, subscribe,

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Speaker 1: leave review or a comment. I always love to hear

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Speaker 1: your feedback. If you haven't already, follow me on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: to you guys, and don't forget to follow Dixie on

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Speaker 1: everything Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, It's aid Dixie Damelio. As always,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys so much, and I will see you

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Speaker 1: next Tuesday. By