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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn Bunker.

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Speaker 1: You know, folks, Happy Monday to you, and I really

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Speaker 1: hope that each and every one of you had an enjoyable,

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Speaker 1: rechargeable weekend, because you know, I think that I want

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Speaker 1: to start off by saying that it is so important

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Speaker 1: to rest. I cannot express enough how fast time feels

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Speaker 1: like it has been moving these days. Like I woke

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Speaker 1: up today and I blinked it, I said, what is

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Speaker 1: the date? Like, how is it that November is literally

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Speaker 1: around the corner? And I feel like time is moving

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Speaker 1: at a breakneck pace because so many things are inundating

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Speaker 1: us with time, toxicity and poison. And you know, on

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Speaker 1: one hand, it's like, great, can we hurry up and

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Speaker 1: get through all of this? On the other hand, I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling like I want to be more intentional about the

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Speaker 1: moments that I am living. What does that mean? It

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Speaker 1: means to really be present in your moments of joy,

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Speaker 1: really be present in your moments of peace, and acknowledge

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Speaker 1: them for what they are, give gratitude for them. Because

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Speaker 1: I feel like our nervous systems are just in such

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Speaker 1: not being really conscious about how we are spending our

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Speaker 1: peace time, and which I and I let me not suggest.

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Speaker 1: This is not to suggest that your peace time should

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Speaker 1: be bottled up within two days or really a day

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Speaker 1: and a half, which is what the real weekends are. Right.

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Speaker 1: You work on Friday, you have Friday night into Saturday

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Speaker 1: and then Sunday, But then Sunday night is preparing for Monday.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm not saying to bottle up all of

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Speaker 1: your good time, peace and joy in those in that

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Speaker 1: short time frame. No, it should be throughout your day, right.

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Speaker 1: I think that we also live in a society where

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Speaker 1: we're supposed to work, you know, fifty weeks out of

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Speaker 1: Other places have six week vacations, have four to six

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Speaker 1: week vacations that are spread either throughout the year or

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Speaker 1: all at one time. And I'm thinking to myself, we

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Speaker 1: never give ourselves a break, and then when we do

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Speaker 1: have our break moments, we're riddled with guilt about taking

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Speaker 1: realize nowadays that it is just so import to do

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Speaker 1: nothing right, to just like let our nervous system relax,

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Speaker 1: say that because in preparation for the week ahead, I

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Speaker 1: have found that when I am very intentional about my

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Speaker 1: to rest, I am much better focused. I am a

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Speaker 1: lot more creative. And that's the energy that I like

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Speaker 1: to all of you, to you know, if it's if

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Speaker 1: it's necessary to be super intentional, meaning put it into

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Speaker 1: your calendars each and every day. What are these moments

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Speaker 1: that I am taking that I am owning. Do so

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Speaker 1: if it's just the feeling of you know what, I

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Speaker 1: need to take a pause, I need to take some breaths,

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Speaker 1: do so because all of it is to help neutralize

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Speaker 1: And we live in a society that is not interested

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Speaker 1: always said that I've chosen a career and careers because

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Speaker 1: I have moved around. I believe that life is a

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Speaker 1: and so I honor that reality. I say that because

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Speaker 1: And what if we all were to just look at

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Speaker 1: look at the ven diagram of these things, it's like, Yes,

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Speaker 1: these are the people that believe that they have they

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Speaker 1: And that to me is just an absurd way to exist.

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Speaker 1: And it's such a waste of energy. You know. I

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Speaker 1: I say, nowadays, I am much more aware when energy shifts,

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Speaker 1: I'm recharging. It's almost like standing in the sun, versus

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Speaker 1: and the Steve Bannon's, when I look at these people,

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Speaker 1: the sentiment that is behind just utter ring these people's names.

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Speaker 1: Right to make your existence so nasty? You know, nothing

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Speaker 1: is about uplifting. It's always about me, me, me, And

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Speaker 1: what can I do to increase my power? Right, my presence,

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Speaker 1: assert myself one of the things that I'm hoping as

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Speaker 1: because I believe that we are in an incredible transitional moment.

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Speaker 1: I know that I am personally and many people that

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Speaker 1: I used to be in a state where I could

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Speaker 1: not let these things go. That I felt so deeply

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Speaker 1: And it's not to say that it's not happening, And

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Speaker 1: I don't think that the alternative is to ignore it.

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Speaker 1: I think that it's to acknowledge it, right, and then

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Speaker 1: to try and move the needle, to try and be

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Speaker 1: because it is going to fall where it's going to fall,

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Speaker 1: you know, unlike how Donald Trump exists. We alone can't

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Speaker 1: space to feel all of our feelings, to acknowledge what

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Speaker 1: like what it means to really be abundant and align

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Speaker 1: and to be woke, right, it is to be conscious

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Speaker 1: of what you can impact right, do that what you can,

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Speaker 1: Be proud of what you've done right, what you were

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Speaker 1: able to check off. You are not just your production,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we all want to be doing good right,

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Speaker 1: go right, don't spend your weekend, don't spend the rest

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Speaker 1: be real, the signs are not pointing to things getting better,

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Speaker 1: and so when things around you begin to fall apart

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Speaker 1: lose hope. So I want to hear from all of

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Speaker 1: That conversation is coming up next, folks. You know that

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Speaker 1: I am always thrilled because the legal news in America

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Speaker 1: is much like Charlotte's Web. It is just tangled and

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Speaker 1: all over the place. Glenn, let's start off with this

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Speaker 1: this week and the fact that Steve Bannon in a

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Speaker 1: vote of nine to zero with the one six commission,

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Speaker 1: they voted to hold him in criminal content. We have

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Speaker 1: In front. Because sadly, I wish that this justice system

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