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Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, shall Bessie's We are in for such a

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Speaker 1: treat today, y'all. We are throwing it back to our

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Speaker 1: conversation with Italian Food Royalty. She is a celebrity chef,

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Speaker 1: restaurant tour and New York Times best selling cookbook author.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the one, the only, Giada de Laurentis.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, December twenty sixth I'm Simone Voice.

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Speaker 2: I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from

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Speaker 2: Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to

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Speaker 2: share women's stories, to laugh, learn and brighten your day.

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Speaker 1: Oooh, big things happening on the bright side, y'all.

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Speaker 2: I'm hungry just thinking about today's episode.

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Speaker 1: Simone, I feel you. I wish I wish that we

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Speaker 1: had a test kitchen nearby. We could just, you know,

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Speaker 1: whip something up to keep us satiated during the interview.

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Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna have to let our imagination do

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Speaker 1: the work for us. Giada de Larentis threw down in

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Speaker 1: the kitchen on our TV screens for over two decades

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Speaker 1: on shows like Everyday Italian and Giada at Home. She's

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Speaker 1: also the creator of Giazzi, a home for recipes, travel tips,

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Speaker 1: and all kinds of delicious food products.

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Speaker 2: Her smile and her effervescent personality has been hopping off

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Speaker 2: on our TV screens for years. But here's the thing

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Speaker 2: in the midst of this thriving career that she worked

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Speaker 2: so hard for. Jada made waves last year by announcing

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Speaker 2: her departure from the Food Network after twenty one years.

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Speaker 2: Well you can imagine this decision sparked a lot of

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Speaker 2: thoughts about perception versus reality, because to all of us

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Speaker 2: at home, it seemed like she had it all. Hit

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Speaker 2: show after hit show and Emmy she always appeared happy

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Speaker 2: and vibrant, so it was surprising to think that she

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Speaker 1: This is so relatable, this idea of being in a

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Speaker 1: successful career, call it a dream job that maybe isn't

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Speaker 1: as dreamy as everyone else might think it is, and

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Speaker 1: then to have to navigate a pivot like this in

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Speaker 1: a public way. I'm really curious about what that felt

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean I know from my own experience,

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Speaker 2: I have never been more unhappy than when my insides

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Speaker 2: didn't match my outsides, Meaning you're putting on this happy

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Speaker 2: face at work, or on Instagram. But at home, you're

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Speaker 2: burnt out, you're frustrated, you're sad, and I think that

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Speaker 2: those emotions spark a change. The question is when is

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Speaker 2: it the right time to make that change. That's something

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Speaker 2: that we're going to ask YadA.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's been a year since she left the Food

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Speaker 1: Network and she's proving that investing in yourself does pay off.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, let's bring her in. Jada de Larentis, Welcome

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Speaker 2: to the bright Side.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's exciting to be here, Hada.

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Speaker 2: I am so excited that you are here, not just

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Speaker 2: because you are such a superstar, but also your partner.

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Speaker 2: Shane is a good friend of mine, and that's because

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Speaker 2: ten years ago he put me on TV for the

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Speaker 2: very first time as the very first person to take

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Speaker 2: a chance on me. And he's one of the most

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Speaker 2: creative people I know. The man can turn anything into

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Speaker 2: a TV show, and so I need to know how

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Speaker 2: many show ideas he comes up with with you at

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Speaker 3: Actually, I will say yes, he is by far the

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Speaker 3: also I think he has a fabulous eye for talent, Danielle,

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Speaker 3: which explains what he saw in you. I think is

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Speaker 3: that is his gift, Thank you, Joda. That is his

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Speaker 3: gift to all of us. My grandfather used to have

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it takes one to know one. You

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Speaker 3: Sometimes I think that like us ladies sometimes don't follow

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Speaker 1: Wait, tell me more about that, Giata. Is there a

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Speaker 3: I came from a movie family and we were immigrants

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Speaker 3: I think that at times it took me too long

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Speaker 1: So the big question that's on my mind is do

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Speaker 3: I think I am living it out now, but I

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm turning fifty four, and I realize sometimes,

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Speaker 3: But at times it's a battle between my mind, which

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Speaker 3: But yes, I think I'm closer to what I've always

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Speaker 2: Some of those other things were the biggest shows on

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Speaker 2: You were a judge on Food Network Star and to

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Speaker 3: I realized that I had dreams and goals that I

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Speaker 3: I stayed in my current position. I was a big

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Speaker 2: Mean Johnzy, you know, I got a text from my

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Speaker 2: I'm watching this show and I used to think I

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Speaker 2: loved Bobby Flay, but I really loved Jada, Like she

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Speaker 3: I think that for me. When I'm on camera, I

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Speaker 3: So I'm a very introverted, quiet person. I do not

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Speaker 1: As I'm hearing you talk about the on camera persona

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Speaker 1: I'm reminded of this quote that I heard you say,

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Speaker 1: But there's this relaxed nature about the way that you're

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Speaker 3: It's not that I'm a completely different person anymore than

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Speaker 1: Do you feel closer to your audience now presenting this

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Speaker 3: Oh, I feel way closer to the audience now. Also

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Speaker 3: within seconds of people seeing it. That's a completely different

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Speaker 3: And also I can have an immediate conversation with my audience.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like we all have control of our

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Speaker 1: a quick break, stay with.

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Speaker 2: Us, and we're back. Outside of your time at the

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Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Strip and your restaurant recently made it

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Speaker 2: to the ten year mark, which in the restaurant world,

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Speaker 2: You know, you could fill an entire bookshelf with Giada cookbooks.

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Speaker 3: going to get a lot of you know, backlash. It's

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Speaker 3: just is what it is. You either have a thick

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Speaker 3: had to gain a thick skin because it certainly did

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Speaker 3: not come to me easy. A lot of crying, a

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Speaker 3: lot of like falling apart and picking myself back up.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the honest age, Yata, because I think people,

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Speaker 2: including myself hearing that, appreciate knowing that it wasn't all

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Speaker 2: like perfectly tied in a bow as you created this.

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Speaker 3: Is it ever our lives ever perfectly put together strung together?

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Speaker 2: No, but I think it helps to be reminded.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's important to talk about the fact

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Speaker 1: that people in our society still think we're only capable

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Speaker 1: of one thing. But women are capable of doing more

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Speaker 1: than one thing. We can be smart and beautiful, we

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Speaker 1: can be brave and afraid at the same time. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: yes to everything that you're saying, Giada.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think the best thing we can do

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Speaker 3: is teach the younger generation that, right, like I try

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Speaker 3: to teach it to my daughter. And if we can

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Speaker 3: just do that, then we'll have a generation that comes

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Speaker 3: up behind that is like, go, we can all do

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Speaker 3: it together.

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Speaker 2: Well, I love that you just put your arm up

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Speaker 2: in a muscle pose because I've been hearing about your

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Speaker 2: hustle during this conversation. But I also heard and felt

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Speaker 2: your heart, and I want to talk about that for

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Speaker 2: a second, because this is something that I learned. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know this that you were heavily involved in a

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Speaker 2: number of charities, but you recently received an award from

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Speaker 2: Safe Place for Youth, which empowers young people experiencing homelessness,

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Speaker 2: and you could have picked a million in different charities.

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Speaker 2: I'm so curious as to why this was close to

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Speaker 2: your heart.

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Speaker 3: I was introduced a Safe Place for Youth through my

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Speaker 3: daughter's school when she was in elementary school. And I'm

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Speaker 3: always looking for charities that I can support that are

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Speaker 3: also in my community, right like I feel like a

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Speaker 3: lot of us support charities that are outside of our communities.

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Speaker 3: But I really wanted to do it for our community,

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Speaker 3: and since I live on the West side of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 3: I wanted to find something that would help kids on

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Speaker 3: started Safe Place for Youth, and she was living in

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Speaker 3: Venice and her son he was always surfing, and she

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Speaker 3: was making sandwiches for her son and his friends, and

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Speaker 3: they started sharing these sandwiches with other kids, and she

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Speaker 3: started to realize as a whole, like young kids surfing

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Speaker 3: community that is actually homeless and lives on the beach.

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Speaker 3: You know. A year later, she was making tons and

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Speaker 3: tons of sandwiches for all these kids and realized, oh

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Speaker 3: my goodness, there were all these homeless kids on the

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Speaker 3: west side of LA There was only one shelter, and

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Speaker 3: that was on the east side. And so she started

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Speaker 3: this charity. And I went one day to visit with

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Speaker 3: my daughter, and I fell in love. And I helped them,

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Speaker 3: you know, raise money for their garden and to teach

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Speaker 3: these young kids different skills that they could go out

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Speaker 3: into the world. You know. Now we've raised enough money

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Speaker 3: that they're buying buildings in Los Angeles and in Santa

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Speaker 3: Monica where they can actually house these kids. It's been

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Speaker 3: very rewarding, and giving back is probably the most rewarding

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Speaker 3: thing when you get to my age, too, is just

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Speaker 3: the ability to help other people. We all need help

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Speaker 3: at all different stages in our lives. You know, we're

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Speaker 3: all here to support each other. We certainly can't do

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Speaker 3: it just by ourselves. None of us can.

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Speaker 2: How are you nourishing yourself at this stage in your life.

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Speaker 3: I would say that charity work is very nourishing. I

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Speaker 3: would say that spending quality time with my daughter and

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Speaker 3: doing fun things with her is very nurishing. Doing my

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Speaker 3: yoga and committing to that five days a week. And

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Speaker 3: then I think taking time to breathe during my day,

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Speaker 3: especially when I feel like I'm overwhelmed. I felt like

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Speaker 3: I was holding my breath a lot when I was stressed,

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Speaker 3: so trying to remind myself to breathe as much as possible.

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Speaker 1: Giata, before we let you go, we have a very

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Speaker 1: serious question for you. Okay, we need you to drop

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Speaker 1: the Italian woman beauty secrets because your skin, your face,

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Speaker 1: it's just always so refreshed and beautiful. What do the

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Speaker 1: Italians know about beauty that we don't know?

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Speaker 2: And can we add a tab to jiatzi with your

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Speaker 2: beauty secrets.

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Speaker 3: I have had a strict routine on my skin since

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Speaker 3: I was like twenty and I got it from my mother,

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Speaker 3: and my mother really from my grandmother. Oh yeah, thirty

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Speaker 3: minutes at night to take off well makeup to use

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Speaker 3: my facial scrub which I make with just rice flour

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Speaker 3: and my olive oil to really cleanse my face. It

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Speaker 3: takes thirty minutes. I also have to think my mother

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Speaker 3: because my mother has great skin, lots of water and

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Speaker 3: lots of olive oil. Like I probably ingest at least

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Speaker 3: a quarter cup a day, if not more.

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Speaker 1: Danielle, we have to try her cleanser, rice flour and

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Speaker 1: olive oil. That's it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Jada, this has been so wonderful. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for sharing so much with us.

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Speaker 3: Now this was fun, ladies. Thank you for the great questions.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thank you for your time.

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Speaker 1: You really brightened up the bright Side today. Thanks Yiada,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Giada Da Larentis is an Emmy Award winning

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Speaker 1: television personality, celebrity chef, restaurant tour and a New York

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Speaker 1: Times bestselling author.

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Speaker 2: That's it for today's show. Tomorrow, we'll hear an encore

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