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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, this episode of our podcast is going

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Speaker 1: to be all about dignity, love and joy as we

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Speaker 1: talk about death, we'll explain. Stay with us here, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to this episode of Amy and TJ and Robes. I

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Speaker 1: say that because we are going to be focusing on

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Speaker 1: end of life, which is now. It scares the heck

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Speaker 1: out of anybody to think about the end of your life,

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to plan for that. But there's an

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Speaker 1: organization now that has been around for several years as

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Speaker 1: trying to make this a part of life and not

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Speaker 1: I guess as daunting of a task or a thought

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Speaker 1: as most of us think it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what do we do when we're afraid of

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Speaker 2: something or we don't want to think about something. We

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Speaker 2: ignore it. We don't plan for it, we don't talk

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Speaker 2: and it is something that is inevitable, we cannot escape death,

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Speaker 2: not on one of us. And yet somehow we don't

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Speaker 2: talk about it and we don't plan for and you

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Speaker 2: and you also don't take the opportunity to actually be

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Speaker 2: a part of that planning and be a part of

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Speaker 2: that understanding and it can be a loving, beautiful thing.

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Speaker 2: But because it's scary and because we want to avoid

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Speaker 2: miss those moments that are there. And so yes, there

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Speaker 2: love this making end of life part of life. That

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Speaker 1: And the founder of the organization, doctor Joshana Ungerlighter, is

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Speaker 1: going to be joining us here now she is on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. But not just doctor Hungerlighter. We have with

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Speaker 1: us also a name, a face, and a voice. I

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Speaker 1: think Robes is familiar to a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we have Yvette Nicole Brown. You know her love

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Speaker 2: robertson Inside Out Too, one of TJ's daughter's favorite movies.

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Speaker 2: So but that's just I mean I could go on

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Speaker 2: and on and on naming all of your.

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Speaker 1: Accolades that this is wild.

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Speaker 1: I actually asked her ahead of time, can you please

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Speaker 1: Welcome to you both. It's so good to have you

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Speaker 1: both with us here on the podcast. Doctor Ungerler. How

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Speaker 4: I'm well, thank you, Thank you so much for having

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, And I wanted to ask you how did

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Speaker 5: how do we ended up working together? Did you just

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Speaker 5: see me in the caregiving space and go she might

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Speaker 4: Exactly? We basically were like vet is incredible. She is

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Speaker 6: And I learned so much you guys about end of life.

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Speaker 5: And I mean, the thing that blew my wig back

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Speaker 5: last year was death doulas because we've all heard of

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, so a death doula is exactly the same

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Speaker 1: How exactly isn't this, doctor Aungerler, This is so much

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Speaker 6: You don't have them. You gotta have them. You gotta

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Speaker 1: You'll explain what it means. By the end of life experience,

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Speaker 4: It's really a bigger conversation about what it is that

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Speaker 6: and it's silly because it's inevitable. Yeah, you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 2: You said she gave you that gift, but I mean

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Speaker 2: you you you also gave her that gift like it.

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Speaker 2: It's reciprocal because you now don't have to You and

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Speaker 2: your brother didn't have to feel guilty. You all didn't

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Speaker 2: have to feel conflicted. You all didn't have to be

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Speaker 2: pulled in different directions because you knew because.

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Speaker 6: She told you.

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Speaker 2: So that's a that's a beautiful conversation because everybody wins

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Speaker 2: in that situation.

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Speaker 3: Who can raise that?

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Speaker 1: You know, doctor Angelira and Ivette, I am almost embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what my parents want. Like, we haven't

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Speaker 1: had this conversation.

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Speaker 2: Jay.

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Speaker 5: When we get off this zoom, you call your parents

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Speaker 5: and you ask them what they want. Do they want

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Speaker 5: to be buried or cremated? Do they want heroic efforts?

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Speaker 5: You need to know this because I'm telling you, when

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Speaker 5: you're fit, when a moment happens and you're looking at

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Speaker 5: them in the bed, everything within you is going to

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Speaker 5: be like extendment why yeah, And they may not want it.

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Speaker 2: And that's why they may not want it, because you

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Speaker 2: don't want to let go.

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Speaker 6: You don't you know.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you it was only until I had

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Speaker 2: my cancer diagnosis where I went in the night before

463
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Speaker 2: my double mistectomy and I went in to a lawyer's

464
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Speaker 2: office at seven pm at night and I begged him

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Speaker 2: to stay open for me and I made my will

466
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Speaker 2: that it took me getting a cancer diagnosis and going

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Speaker 2: into major surgery and thinking, oh my god, I have

468
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Speaker 2: to get my you know, my estate in order I

469
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Speaker 2: have to let people know what I want to happen.

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Speaker 2: If worst case scenario ends up being reality and it

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Speaker 2: took something dramatic like that, I've amended my will since then.

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Speaker 2: But I will say I feel I feel relief knowing

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Speaker 2: that my daughters aren't going to have to make tough decisions.

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Speaker 2: TJ is not going to have to make tough decisions,

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Speaker 2: My parents aren't going to have to make tough decisions

476
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Speaker 2: because I have laid it all out. No, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to be in the ocean.

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Speaker 6: The last place a cherry tree planted on top of

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Speaker 6: my ashes. And how lovely and how lovely is that

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Speaker 6: you didn't send the cherry tree.

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Speaker 5: And every time somebody walk by a cherry tree, whether

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Speaker 5: it's you or not, they're going to think of you.

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Speaker 6: It's a beautiful gift to give to you. It's wonderful, wonderful,

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Speaker 6: you know.

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Speaker 4: And in truth, we don't know what tomorrow is going

486
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Speaker 4: to bring, right, you know, a diagnosis can happen at

487
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Speaker 4: any time, you know, step.

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Speaker 5: Off the wrong curb and go on to glory. So listen,

489
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Speaker 5: y'all be out there running. Y'all run too much and

490
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Speaker 5: not know what you want, you be in them straights

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Speaker 5: with your cars.

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Speaker 6: You better tell people what you want now, and I

493
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Speaker 6: wish none of that on you, but you've got to

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Speaker 6: tell people what you want.

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Speaker 1: You all, remember when I started this podcast episode by saying, dignity,

496
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Speaker 1: love and joy, and I can't believe we are four

497
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Speaker 1: of us have been sitting here, laughing and cutting up,

498
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Speaker 1: and this whole conversation has been about death essentially.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, but that brings in the opportunity to experience life,

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Speaker 2: and it frees you up from thinking about it because

501
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Speaker 2: you've already planned it, you've already said we you want it,

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Speaker 2: and you don't have to dwell on it. I had

503
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Speaker 2: so much fun googling you and falling in love with

504
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Speaker 2: your love story, so I know tomorrow could be our

505
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Speaker 2: last day. You gotta get busy living. So when's that

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Speaker 2: wedding happening.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be before the years up. Nice, I'm

508
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Speaker 5: mid planning. We're planning right now. So it's been a

509
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Speaker 5: mad scramble to get everything done before the years up.

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Speaker 5: But before twenty twenty five. Kids, if I live to

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Speaker 5: see it, I will be missus Davis.

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Speaker 1: Where we going?

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Speaker 6: Listen, I'm trying to figure that out too, destination.

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Speaker 2: We just letting you know.

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Speaker 5: Perhaps I might, we don't know. We still when I

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Speaker 5: say scrambling, I mean scrambling.

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Speaker 1: You know what congratulates your story is a if folks

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Speaker 1: don't know it, google it. But it has been a

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Speaker 1: beautiful story that certainly speaks to us in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways. And we'll have to tell you as well

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Speaker 1: as we let you go. It was so cool this

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Speaker 1: morning that we were getting ready at the house for

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Speaker 1: my daughter, eleven year old daughter saving to go to school,

524
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Speaker 1: and we were talking about you, and we said inside

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Speaker 1: out too, and she said, well, who is it? And

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Speaker 1: we said your name. She was immediately able to identify

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Speaker 1: coach Roberts from inside out too, and she said a

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Speaker 1: hockey coach. I said, a black hockey coach. That was

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Speaker 1: my response.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen the movie myself.

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Speaker 2: She said, a black female hockey coach, female hockey coach.

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Speaker 1: But think about that. She if you she passed her

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Speaker 1: on the street, she would have no idea about your face.

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Speaker 1: But you have such an impact with your name, with

535
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Speaker 1: your voice, with your character that even my eleven year

536
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Speaker 1: old daughter this morning was like boom, boom, boom, and

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Speaker 1: right on top of it. So I appreciate, very happy,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here, but I just want to

539
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Speaker 1: share that story. It just happened this morning, and how

540
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Speaker 1: cool of an impact you are having and so much

541
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Speaker 1: of what you're doing, and doctor Unger Lauder as well.

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Speaker 1: To recruit event into that cause and to have you

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Speaker 1: both here is really really a treat for us.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having us. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: You've got us thinking, I don't know how TJ wants

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Speaker 2: to go, So we'll have that conversation afterwards. I'll be

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Speaker 2: writing it.

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Speaker 1: Down as late as possible.

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Speaker 2: Today today, Thank you, ladies, and have a wonderful symposium.

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Speaker 2: We love what you're doing and it's got us all thinking.

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Speaker 2: I hope everyone listening is also making those notes in

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Speaker 2: their head and wanting to have those conversations with their

553
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Speaker 2: loved ones. It's so important and we just appreciate you

554
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Speaker 2: being here on the podcast.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having us.

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Speaker 2: Theation, bad

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Speaker 3: Bcations, the patents,