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Speaker 1: It's Mandy here with another episode of the ba qa

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm glad to be here. Thank you for having

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Speaker 1: Talk to a bunch of strangers about what's happened in

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Speaker 1: your career and everything? This is normal, It's a normal Tuesday. Well,

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Speaker 1: I love this type of question, first of all, and

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Speaker 1: am ready to defend my LinkedIn. Okay, LinkedIn is bay

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Speaker 2: Hello, my name is Keyvanya. First, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, all right, Kevanya, why are you

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Speaker 1: I wish you were a member of my coaching community.

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Speaker 1: That's what I do every day. You're so not alone.

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Speaker 1: get on LinkedIn and it seems like people got stuff

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Speaker 1: you stave off this anxiety, this you know, t tick

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Speaker 1: should have, should have, should have, should have. We got

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Speaker 2: The vocab, I've heard that I'm trying.

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Speaker 1: You're trying, You're where you need to be. And and

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Speaker 1: again like, do not discount you have a year under

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Speaker 1: the things that you wish you had that you don't have,

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Speaker 1: and you don't have a mentor, and blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: bah blah. Just sell it, you know, tell that story,

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Speaker 1: Tell it? Okay, all right, Kivanya, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for letting me pour into you a little bit and

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Speaker 1: talk your head off, and please keep me posted because

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Speaker 1: I do get quite invested with our BAQA listeners, so

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Speaker 1: I want to know more about your journey. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: stay in touch.

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Speaker 2: Okay, absolutely, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome. All right. I want to say thank you

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Speaker 1: so much to Keivanya for joining us on the VAQA.

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Speaker 1: If y'all want to be in the hot seat live

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