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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.

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Speaker 2: We're there, our friend Jamie is here. Can we just

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Speaker 2: hear me talking about this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we can.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 2: Jamie has been at Light FM down the hall for

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Speaker 2: what thirteen years?

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Speaker 1: Just yep, just about and.

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Speaker 2: Jamie's been on our show several times. We've talked about

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Speaker 2: the dating world and how you're out there looking for

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Speaker 2: that guy because you want to start a family.

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Speaker 1: You know, do you want to start a family?

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Speaker 2: Yes, of late, you've been through a couple of health things,

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Speaker 2: which you know. Okay, so we heard the other day

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Speaker 2: Jamie has made a decision. Tell everyone the decision you made.

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Speaker 2: You made And it was announced just a day ago.

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Speaker 4: Today.

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Speaker 1: They literally quit my job, like just walked in there

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Speaker 1: and did it.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 2: There was no tweek notice.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know how this worked.

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Speaker 5: I went into my boss's office and I just told

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Speaker 5: him the truth. I've been having some health issues and

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Speaker 5: I need to get my I get myself in a

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Speaker 5: better space. And I did three rounds of IVF last

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Speaker 5: year and I turned forty in May, and I want

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Speaker 5: a family, and unfortunately this environment for me anymore for

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Speaker 5: my health and wanting a family is not the space

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Speaker 5: for me anymore. And I have family here and I

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Speaker 5: loved it, and I loved all my time here and

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Speaker 5: I'm blessed and grateful for it. But it's time for

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Speaker 5: me to now go to the next chapter of my life,

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Speaker 5: which is going to set.

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Speaker 1: Me up for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 5: And there you God, yeah, not scary, but I did it.

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Speaker 2: The reason why I'm so grateful that you came in

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Speaker 2: to share this with our listeners because all a mega

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Speaker 2: tone of our listeners are going through the same thing.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to find the answers in life, and they're

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Speaker 2: just in a spot that doesn't allow them to see

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Speaker 2: clearly and find that path they need to be on.

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Speaker 5: And I get that, like I was paralyzed in fear

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Speaker 5: for over making a decision like this, Where am I

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Speaker 5: going to go? Because I don't have something lined up now?

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Speaker 5: How am I going to pay for things? What am

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Speaker 5: I going to do?

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Speaker 1: And then the fear of not.

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Speaker 5: Having a family was scarier than the fear of just

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Speaker 5: jumping out of the airplane going universe catch me.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I did.

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Speaker 5: And I'm a little bit shaky, but I know the

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Speaker 5: universe is going to have my back and I will

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Speaker 5: land in a place where I'm supposed to be and

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Speaker 5: have my family one day that I do so desperately

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Speaker 5: want to have there.

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Speaker 1: You go, yeah, so be brief, just do it. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you just have to jump. Rip the band aid off,

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Speaker 1: James jump.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Let's talk about courage. That's it.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people listening right now are going, God,

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Speaker 2: I want that courage. What was it? Was it any

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Speaker 2: one thing or just a collection of things that made

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Speaker 2: you go, Okay, I'm pushing the button today.

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Speaker 1: A collection of things.

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Speaker 5: Really. My health was just after the twenty one years

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Speaker 5: of these hours. It's really rough on the body. And

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Speaker 5: then I spent so much of my money on IVF

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Speaker 5: last year and that put my body through a lot.

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Speaker 5: And I just looked back and thought, I didn't do

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Speaker 5: all this to go never mind. And when that door

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Speaker 5: closes for a woman, that's that's it.

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Speaker 1: So I was.

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Speaker 5: I decided I'm finding him, I'm having those babies, and

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Speaker 5: I have to leave.

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Speaker 1: And I just pulled the trigger and I did it.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, I love.

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Speaker 1: This for you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean you've known me forever. It's like,

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Speaker 5: it's just it's something I've always wanted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, you guys have known each other since before

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Speaker 2: you came here, right, yeah, yeah, so in Boston. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you were talking about this plan back then.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. And I know not everybody wants kids. It's a

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Speaker 5: very personal decision. But for me, it's just too important

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Speaker 5: to wake up one day and I'm my windows shut.

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Speaker 1: That can't be me. I have to just do it now.

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Speaker 2: Good for you. Yeah, but you know, it may not

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Speaker 2: be kids, it mayn't be found. It may be a

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Speaker 2: rainbow of reasons why. Yeah, someone is listening to another thing.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that.

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Speaker 2: I have to get the courage to do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and you are, you're jumping out of the plane with

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Speaker 2: no shoot.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes I did.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, Okay, it's all good.

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Speaker 1: It's all good. It's all good. I feel really good.

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Speaker 1: I feel good.

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Speaker 2: Well, do you vacillate with your feelings a little bit?

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Speaker 2: Like one minute you're a little frightened that likes and

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Speaker 5: And it's like an excitement because I know that great

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Speaker 5: things are going to come my way, and.

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Speaker 3: You're so talented, you have so many you know, things

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Speaker 3: you can thank you to, you know, other places of employment.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I full disclosure. I jumped without having a

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Speaker 5: backup plan. And sometimes you just have to do that too,

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Speaker 5: You just I will land somewhere. And but if I

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Speaker 5: didn't jump, I wouldn't have done it. I would never

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Speaker 5: have done it if I kept thinking about it.

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Speaker 2: You know who could be after you? Who's next in

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Speaker 2: line for this? This is very important. So when we

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Speaker 2: know who is ready for a family, ready just to

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Speaker 2: quit this job?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, this plan until the plane comes to a safe.

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Speaker 2: Lan dropped in, So we crashed the plan. He's ready

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Speaker 2: for a family, He's ready to get out of here.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't like this job, doesn't like anything it brings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're kind of the opposite, but I still love you.

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Speaker 2: Scary Okay, So what do you know, Jamie? For a year,

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Speaker 2: we all have. What are your feelings about what she's

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Speaker 6: You told me in the garage and we hugged it

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Speaker 6: out because honestly, you I know how long you've wanted

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Speaker 6: all this, and there's no way that any of that

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Speaker 6: demands of your job distresses and the struggles. So I,

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Speaker 6: for one, am very happy. And I got to say,

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Speaker 6: I'm super proud of you. You're a stronger person than

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Speaker 6: me because you actually you're taking a leap of faith here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to be solicit for like a GOM?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Please? Farmer's Only?

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Speaker 5: So, I mean, I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: Farmer's Only?

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Speaker 2: Who is Canadas high? Candace? Hi, you did the same

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Speaker 2: exact thing thatck in May that Jamie's doing right now.

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Speaker 4: I did, and I'm so proud of you, Jamie, like

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Speaker 4: it's so scary, take the leap, I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 4: I got out of a toxic work environment. It was

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Speaker 4: best for my mental health. I have a ten year

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Speaker 4: old son. I said, you know what, I want more

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Speaker 4: time with my kid and more time for me.

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Speaker 2: Well see, there's a kid involved here. So you walked

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Speaker 2: away from a career with a child because a lot

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Speaker 2: of people say, well, god, you know, I'm lucky I

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Speaker 2: can walk away because I don't have any children. You

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Speaker 2: have a child. How was that? How frightening was that

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: My god, it was the scariest thing I've ever done.

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Speaker 4: Like she said, it's like jumping out of a plane

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Speaker 4: with no parachute. Right, But the universe had my back.

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Speaker 4: I picked up a bartending job. My son and I

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Speaker 4: have had the best summer ever. Oh love. He was

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Speaker 4: so happy, he said, Mommy, this is our summer. Our

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Speaker 4: summer twenty four did not miss. And let me tell

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Speaker 4: you something. It was the best decision ever. I'm happier.

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Speaker 4: My mental health is through the roof.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: My biggest reward is friends and family saying, you know what,

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Speaker 4: you're glowing. You look like you're happy.

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Speaker 1: So happy for you. That sounds amazing.

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Speaker 4: Wow, thank you. I'm so happy for you, Jamie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Candace.

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Speaker 2: As we hear the story between Candace and Jamie doesn't matter,

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Speaker 2: you can admit it. Maybe you're thinking, look what if

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Speaker 2: I did that, Damielle.

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Speaker 5: It's all.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, is Jamie.

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Speaker 3: When we see you in like two weeks and you've

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Speaker 3: reset from getting up at this time of morning, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna feel human again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So good.

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Speaker 4: You're ten years younger, sleeping in and getting your coffee

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Speaker 4: and going outside and grounding yourself and doing the bird

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Speaker 4: stirping and not stressing. Girl, You're gonna fall in love again?

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Speaker 2: Is that what happens in the morning when we're working?

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Speaker 5: Is that what happens birds out there forgotten by?

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Speaker 4: Look at that? It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Well, Candace, congratulations and you know what, I love that

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Speaker 2: you hearing Jamie's story sparked you and made you reach

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Speaker 2: out to us. I love that. Congratulations and all the

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Speaker 2: best to you and your son.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Good luck to you, Jamie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Candace.

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Speaker 2: So when you walked in did you do that? Did

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Speaker 2: you know when you walked in? This is it? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you walked into his office.

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Speaker 1: I was, yeah, I was. I was shaking. I was shaking.

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Speaker 2: How did it roll out?

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Speaker 5: I just sat down and shut the door, and I

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Speaker 5: had this conversation in my head and I just said,

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Speaker 5: I don't even really know how to get into this.

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Speaker 1: There's really no easy way, but I have to give

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Speaker 1: my resignation.

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Speaker 5: Wow, after twenty one years in this industry, more than

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Speaker 5: half my life. That it was not an easy decision.

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Speaker 5: But I have to put my health first and just

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Speaker 5: what I want more than anything in this family, which

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Speaker 5: in this world rather than is a family that is wild.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you told this story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, thank you. I'm so happy.

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Speaker 5: I hope I can just encourage at least one person

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Speaker 5: just to jump out of that airplane and know that

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Speaker 5: it will be okay and it will change your life.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it will all work out.

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Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Are they panicking over there?

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Speaker 1: I don't I think it is. I love them all,

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Speaker 1: That's why I have to ask. You know, they'll find somebody.

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Speaker 5: Let me tell you, there's been three people that already

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Speaker 5: asked about it. But he's not even cold yet