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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Georgie Stephenson. I am a lawyer and health coach,

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Speaker 1: social media influencer, wife and dog mum. On the Rise

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Speaker 1: and Conquer Podcast, we dive deep into all things mindset, habits, career, health,

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Speaker 1: relationships and more. This is a podcast for women who

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Speaker 1: want to rise up to be the best version of themselves,

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Speaker 1: who have big dreams in who are willing to put

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Speaker 1: in the work to get there. I want to bring

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Speaker 1: you the tools and actionable steps to feel confident in yourself,

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Speaker 1: inspired to take bold action, and motivated to conquer your goals.

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Speaker 1: Are you with me, girl friends, Let's rise and conquer. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Rise and Conker Podcast. Today,

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Speaker 1: I have a very important guest for you. Her name

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Speaker 1: is Angela Simpson. She is a female health and happiness coach,

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Speaker 1: writer and speaker. She is the creator of the Gratitude

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Speaker 1: Project blog, which inspires thousands of women to step into

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Speaker 1: their light and live their best lives. Angie is one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent committed to giving women the tools to completely

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Speaker 1: change their lives through small acts of gratitude. Tweaks in

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Speaker 1: nourishing their bodies and the power to create what they

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Speaker 1: desire in their relationships, career, and personal lives. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: we chat about what exactly is gratitude, how much it

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Speaker 1: can really shift our lives, how to start being more

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Speaker 1: grateful right now, how to practice it properly, plus so

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Speaker 1: much more. I loved chatting with Angie on this topic

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Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to bring you this episode. Hi,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. You've got so many exciting stuff to

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Speaker 1: talk about. So before we get into the juicy stuff,

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Speaker 1: as this is the Rise and Concer Podcast, what is

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Speaker 1: one thing big or small that you are rising up

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Speaker 1: and conquering this week?

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Speaker 2: This is such a good question because actually it got

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Speaker 2: me thinking. Like when I was like I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be asked this, I was like, what am I rising

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Speaker 2: and conquering? My biggest thing at the moment is organization.

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Speaker 2: Like I just feel like sometimes because I've got a

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Speaker 2: few different legs to my business, and because you know,

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Speaker 2: I've got two kids and all the things that come

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Speaker 2: with it, I'm like, there is so much stuff going on.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to become more organized. So just before I

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Speaker 2: got on this call, I was literally sitting at my

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Speaker 2: desk going, okay, I'm like writing my list, I'm like

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Speaker 2: trying to make my desk a little bit neater. But

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Speaker 2: then I kind of wonder as well, like is it

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Speaker 2: Is that maybe a good thing. So at the moment,

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Speaker 2: it's organization, but that could all go to shit soon.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know, that's so funny.

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Speaker 1: I am very much the same, like I love things

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Speaker 1: to be organized and in place, but then I also

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Speaker 1: do notice I think I very much thrive off the

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Speaker 2: Totally same.

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Speaker 1: So for those who don't know you, can you give

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Speaker 1: us a bit of a snapshot of.

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Speaker 3: Who you are.

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Speaker 2: So I'm a mum of two, I live on the

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Speaker 2: I'm a health coach. I kind of stumbled into health

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Speaker 2: deciding to study. I suddenly realized that helping people was

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Speaker 2: to do. As my life's purpose. And I also have

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Speaker 2: a business where I teach girls how to create an

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Speaker 2: more choices. But really, outside of work, my life is

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Speaker 3: But it is so beautiful. How old are they?

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Speaker 1: And so today we're going to be talking about all

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Speaker 1: I love that I personally have only not only I

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Speaker 2: You know, can't my husband cook so I don't have

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Speaker 3: That is so amazing.

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Speaker 1: And I absolutely love what you said about how you

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Speaker 1: notice when you started becoming more grateful and shifting your

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Speaker 2: Effect totally, and I think that's with everything in your life.

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Speaker 2: I think when you become more negative, suddenly it's like

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Speaker 2: you notice more people being negative towards you, You notice

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Speaker 2: the bad things that happen, like it just, yeah, your

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Speaker 2: energy attracts what you want.

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Speaker 3: It to exactly.

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Speaker 1: And so for people who are new to this, they

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Speaker 1: they obviously understand what gratitude is, but they're not yet

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Speaker 2: Whereas if I'm kind of thinking about like, oh, how

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Speaker 1: So it's sort of an almost two step process with that,

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Speaker 1: What is your personal gratitude sort of practice?

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Speaker 3: I know you touched on a little bit, but just

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Speaker 3: for the audience.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I don't do a gratitude journal at night anymore.

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Speaker 2: It's become a habit now for me that I literally

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Speaker 2: lie in bed and it automatically comes to my mind.

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Speaker 2: I just automatically think about it. The only thing that's really, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, against scheduled into my calendar is fakeful Thursday.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes I forget what day is it is because

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Speaker 2: I work from home and I've got kids, and we

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Speaker 2: never not like I'm like, is it Monday or is

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Speaker 2: it Sunday? I have no Cloe, So that's definitely always

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Speaker 2: scheduled in. And you know what, I think that for

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Speaker 2: everyone after a while of doing it, after you spend

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Speaker 2: some time really becoming aware of what's going on within

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Speaker 2: your mind, it does just become second nature. So, like

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Speaker 2: I said before, now it's just one of those things

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Speaker 2: where when something happens and I feel like it's hard.

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Speaker 2: Immediately I'm able to say, Okay, well, where's the benefit,

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Speaker 2: where's the blessing in this? Where's the lesson? What am

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Speaker 2: I becoming because of this experience?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's almost like second nature to you now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I know you are also a happiness coach for women,

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Speaker 1: which is amazing, And I want to talk about your

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Speaker 1: journey with happiness. What does that sort of look like look?

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Speaker 2: I think for me it happened around the same time

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Speaker 2: as I started practicing gratitude. For me, it was just

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Speaker 2: actively working on the things that made me hap be

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Speaker 2: you know, like my husband worked at jobs that he

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Speaker 2: hated and he was stressed out and we never saw

496
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Speaker 2: each other and he was home late every night, and

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Speaker 2: he was missing out on our first daughter growing up.

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Speaker 2: And for me, focusing on our happiness, my family's happiness

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Speaker 2: really just meant asking myself difficult questions like, Okay, well,

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Speaker 2: how do we change this? Is there a better way?

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Speaker 2: Is there something that I can be doing? Is there

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Speaker 2: something that I can take out of my life that's

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Speaker 2: going to make this better? And so I have what

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Speaker 2: I believe is sometimes a unique view on the world.

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Speaker 2: I think we're kind of predispositioned to believe that life

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Speaker 2: is meant to go a certain way. You know, like

507
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Speaker 2: you go to school, you go to uni, you know,

508
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Speaker 2: as a female, you meet the man of your you know,

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Speaker 2: you get a job, you meet a guy, you get engaged,

510
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Speaker 2: you get married, you have babies, you stop working. You know,

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Speaker 2: you go back to work when the kids are in school,

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Speaker 2: or maybe after your maternity leaves over, whatever it might be.

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Speaker 2: You know, husband works most of the year and gets

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Speaker 2: four weeks off. And to me, like I looked at

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Speaker 2: that model and I was like, I don't understand how

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Speaker 2: so many people are working in jobs that they don't love,

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Speaker 2: you know, with people that they don't love, and that

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Speaker 2: women are going back to work when they want to

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Speaker 2: be spending time with their kids. I kind of almost

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Speaker 2: sometimes feel like we've been set up for failure in

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Speaker 2: a way because what we're being told is normal. It's

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Speaker 2: not in our nature. It's not instinctive for us to

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Speaker 2: leave our children after a certain amount of time to

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Speaker 2: go back to work, but financially, a lot of people

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Speaker 2: have to. So for me, when I see things like

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Speaker 2: that and I go, okay, well, that doesn't feel good.

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Speaker 2: I go, okay, well, what can I do to make

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Speaker 2: this feel good? So for me in the beginning, it

529
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Speaker 2: was just okay, I'm going to work from home a

530
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Speaker 2: little bit so that I can create some income that

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Speaker 2: maybe can relieve some pressure from my husband and stop

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Speaker 2: me from having to go back to a retail job

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Speaker 2: where I would have to put my child into day

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Speaker 2: care and I really don't want to. So it's just

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Speaker 2: little things and kind of looking at you know. For

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Speaker 2: my husband, it was, you know, he's in a job

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Speaker 2: that it doesn't fulfilm. It pays him really well, but

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Speaker 2: it doesn't fulfill him. So let's figure out a way

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Speaker 2: that he can get out of that. Let's really brainstorm

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00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 2: and get a little bit uncomfortable, and even just the

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Speaker 2: little things like day to day. You know, am I

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Speaker 2: enjoying this experience? Am I waking up? And am I

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Speaker 2: feeling excited about the day ahead? And if the answer

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Speaker 2: is no, it's figuring out what would make you happy,

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Speaker 2: you know, And I think that not many people are

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Speaker 2: aware that you can do that. You're allowed to make

547
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 2: choices in your life that are directly correlated to the

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Speaker 2: happiness that you're going to feel. It's just being aware

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Speaker 2: of the fact that you actually can change it, and

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Speaker 2: you actually can do something about it, and you're actually

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Speaker 2: really powerful.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny because last night I literally wrote a

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Speaker 1: caption on my Instagram explaining that since moving to the

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Speaker 1: Gold Coast, like I was talking to you about before

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Speaker 1: this episode, I have made it kind of like a

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Speaker 1: non negotiate that every single day, if the weather permits,

557
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Speaker 1: I I'm going to visit the ocean because I'm probably

558
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: like five hundred meters from the beach, and the beach

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Speaker 1: is my total happy place. And even if I've had

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Speaker 1: a crappy day or you know, stuff has happened, if

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Speaker 1: I go to the beach and I put my feet

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Speaker 1: in the sand, it has just lifted my day and

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Speaker 1: it can honestly be like ten twenty minutes. And I

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Speaker 1: wrote a caption about it, just saying, like, we get

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Speaker 1: the choice to pick happiness every single day. And previous

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Speaker 1: to that, I was very much that person who was like,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if I totally hate my day, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll wait for the weekend or I'll wait for a holiday,

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Speaker 1: and that sort of stuff. And I've really sort of

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Speaker 1: shifted at and been like, no, I deserve a bit

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Speaker 1: of happiness every single day.

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Speaker 3: So it's so funny you're talking about this.

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Speaker 2: I love that I love and I did the same thing.

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Speaker 2: I go to the beach every single day. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I have to. It's it's my therapy. And I'm like

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Speaker 2: little things like that, and sometimes I'll walk down for

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Speaker 2: five or ten minutes, or I'll take one of my

578
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 2: daughters with me, and I'm like, I just need that injection,

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Speaker 2: Like I just that's all, that's it. It doesn't have

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Speaker 2: to be extreme exactly.

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Speaker 1: And I'm even noticing because previous to this, I lived

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Speaker 1: in Brisbane and we lived kind of in an area

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Speaker 1: where there was nothing too much around us. And I

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Speaker 1: realized that my happiness that I was doing every single

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Speaker 1: day was very much the gym. So I loved being

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Speaker 1: in the gym. I loved my head. I love sweating.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny because since being at the coast, like

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Speaker 1: I think I've done Jim like maybe two or three

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Speaker 1: times and the rest of the times, like I just

590
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Speaker 1: go to that and I always thought, oh no, I

591
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Speaker 1: have to exercise every single day. But I'm realizing it

592
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: was very much like a release and a happiness for

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Speaker 1: me but now that I'm getting it somewhere else, it's like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it's shifted.

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Speaker 3: It's really weird, but I am enjoying it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so cool.

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Speaker 1: And so I want to talk to you about your

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Speaker 1: biggest non negotiables too foster happiness in your life. So

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Speaker 1: you obviously just touched on the beach, but is there

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Speaker 1: anything else that you've injected in your life?

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Speaker 2: Oh, so many things. Way to begin. I definitely I'm

602
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: very big on community, and I'm very big on connection.

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Speaker 2: I love people, I love talking to people, i love

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Speaker 2: helping people. For me, that's the non negotiable. It's one

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Speaker 2: of my top values. And if I go a day

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Speaker 2: without connecting with a friend or connecting with someone in

607
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Speaker 2: the Gratitude Gang or anything like that, I really just

608
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Speaker 2: feel depleted. So for me, it's really important that every

609
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Speaker 2: day I'm having, you know, those conversations all that time

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Speaker 2: with the people that I love. That's definitely something that

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Speaker 2: fosters happiness within me. Like, my top love language is

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Speaker 2: physical touch. So if you ever meet me, I'm going

613
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Speaker 2: to be like touching, Like I'd like touch your arm,

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Speaker 2: I'll hug you, like if we're just standing there, my

615
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 2: arm is around you, and it was something I was

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Speaker 2: actually it wasn't my my husband's love language at all,

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Speaker 2: and so it was something I was actually becoming really

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Speaker 2: deprived in and I would get quite frustrated not knowing why.

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Speaker 2: And now I'm more aware that that's actually something that

620
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 2: really fills me up. So I'm really conscious when my

621
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: kids are around, I just say them, Mummy really needs

622
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: a cuddle, Mummy needs them touch time. And I used

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00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 2: to be one of those people. I would meet people

624
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 2: and I'd be like, Oh, don't hug them, it's weird,

625
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 2: whereas now like, if you meet me, I'm going to

626
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 2: give you a hug because that's my way of showing

627
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 2: love and it makes me really happy. For whatever reason,

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00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: I like the physical like I don't know, I just

629
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Speaker 2: I like that way of exchanging energy. So I'm super

630
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: aware that if I'm sitting at home all day in

631
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Speaker 2: my office and I haven't seen anyone, I will call

632
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Speaker 2: my kids up and be like, guys, like, we need

633
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Speaker 2: cuddle time. We need to just sit on the couch

634
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Speaker 2: and I need to just tickle your arm or something.

635
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Speaker 2: So that's one that's kind of weird, but it's definitely

636
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: that's so me. Yeah, it's something I definitely need. I'm

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00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 2: very big on that. And again, I think this is

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00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 2: about knowing yourself. But I love beautiful things. I mean

639
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,719
Speaker 2: in the way of I love a beautiful space. I

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00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 2: love my bed to be made and my room to

641
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 2: have fresh flowers. I love for things to be neat

642
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 2: and tidy. My bookshelf is color coordinated, Like I love beauty,

643
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 2: and so for me, it's really important that every day

644
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 2: I'm seeing beauty around me. So again it's just it's

645
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: little things. It's making sure that the places I am,

646
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: the environment that I am, the things that I'm looking

647
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Speaker 2: at have a form of beauty that lights me up.

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Speaker 2: It does it really makes me happy. So I think

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Speaker 2: in kind of rounding that up, I think it's important

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Speaker 2: for people to know what makes them happy and what

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Speaker 2: really lights them up, because for some people, they might

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Speaker 2: be like beauty means nothing to me, or physical touches

653
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Speaker 2: like my worst nightmare, and they're listening to this going

654
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Speaker 2: that girl's a freaking nutcase. But you've got to figure

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Speaker 2: out what it is for you. You've got to figure out, like,

656
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Speaker 2: what are the moments where I'm feeling most in ecstasy

657
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Speaker 2: or in joy? And make sure that you're experiencing them

658
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Speaker 2: every single day.

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Speaker 1: I love that and really sort of doing the work

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Speaker 1: to realize what makes you happy, because I feel like

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Speaker 1: so many of us just don't really know totally.

662
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Speaker 2: It's actually interestingly, whenever I have a client, the hardest

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Speaker 2: question I ask people, like, the hardest question for them

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Speaker 2: to answer is what brings you joy other than another person,

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Speaker 2: because everyone, like all the moms will be like my

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Speaker 2: kids or like my partner, and asking people what brings

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Speaker 2: you joy? The only time I find it's easy is

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Speaker 2: people who love exercise will say, like, you like going

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Speaker 2: to the gym, They'll be like, that brings me joy.

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Speaker 2: But if people aren't into the gym, a lot of

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Speaker 2: people find it really difficult to answer that question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so true.

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Speaker 1: I think it's also because in society these days, it's

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Speaker 1: very much almost seem selfish if we put our you know,

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Speaker 1: happiness and joy first. Like you know, how I was saying,

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Speaker 1: I've been going to the beach every single day. Like

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Speaker 1: there was this one day where it was like close

678
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Speaker 1: to five, the sun was about to set, but I

679
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Speaker 1: still had so much to do, and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I really want to go to the beach.

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Speaker 3: It's my non negotiable.

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Speaker 1: But I've got so much work, and for so long

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, just you know, sit here, do

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Speaker 1: your work. And I almost felt guilty for picking you

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Speaker 1: know that ten minutes of joy and happiness compared to working.

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Speaker 1: And it's really weird because I feel like that's very

687
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Speaker 1: much what society says that we should do, rather than

688
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Speaker 1: really chasing our joys and happiness totally.

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Speaker 2: And then you look at like the increase in environmental

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Speaker 2: and stress related disease, and you look at how many

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Speaker 2: people are now suffering from depression and anxiety, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: because no one says it's okay to search for your joy.

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Speaker 1: Do you have like little tips or tricks on how

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Speaker 1: can someone sort of become a happier human or sort

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Speaker 1: of inject that joy and happiness.

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Speaker 2: I think you've got to find yourself first, and like

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Speaker 2: not go on a European gap year and find you,

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Speaker 2: like find you by just becoming a little bit more

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Speaker 2: aware of you and how you functioned today. And in

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Speaker 2: my opinion, this is not an easy task. It takes

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Speaker 2: time and it takes money. I've done a lot of

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Speaker 2: personal development. I've had a lot of coaches. I think

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Speaker 2: that it's important to be okay with investing in yourself

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Speaker 2: to find these things out and to take time around

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Speaker 2: it because I still, like, I'm like seven years into

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Speaker 2: this business. Even just daily, I still feel like I'm

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Speaker 2: figuring out something new about me, and especially during challenging times,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my gosh, okay, that's that's how I react.

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Speaker 2: That's how I show up when things get challenging. And

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Speaker 2: you know, my belief is that strength isn't how we

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Speaker 2: show up when things are good. Strength is how we

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Speaker 2: show up when we're being challenged. And I think that

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Speaker 2: if you can put yourself in situations where you're uncomfortable,

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Speaker 2: you know, like go to a personal development course, go alone,

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Speaker 2: to a yoga retreat where you have to go in,

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Speaker 2: like go and get yourself a coach, do something that

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Speaker 2: is going to allow you to look into you. Because

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Speaker 2: we're so focused usually on the external stuff like get

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Speaker 2: a job, make enough money to buy a house, get

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Speaker 2: healthy enough to fell pregnant, you know, like everything we do,

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Speaker 2: it's usually for other people or for something outside of us.

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Speaker 2: And I think that if people were spending time each

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Speaker 2: week or each day just going Okay, how am I

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Speaker 2: investing in myself to find more about me? It would

725
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Speaker 2: make the whole world so completely different, even if it

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Speaker 2: was just five minutes a day of that internal questioning

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Speaker 2: how am I feeling? Am I good today? Am I happy?

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Speaker 2: Just those questions it's so quick, But to take the

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Speaker 2: time to really think about you and what you want,

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Speaker 2: it makes such a massive difference.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love that, and that is it's such a

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Speaker 1: good reminder that we can spend that money and time

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Speaker 1: on ourselves to find ourselves, to find what makes us

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Speaker 1: feel good, what to find, like, what's going to make

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Speaker 1: our life better? It's really lovely and so you have

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Speaker 1: a gratitude gang? Can you tell us about that?

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Speaker 2: I have my gang. I love my gang.

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Speaker 3: A gang. Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I remember when I was like, what do

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Speaker 2: we call it? Like a crew? And I'm like, it's

741
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Speaker 2: we're going to get jackets. It's going to be amazing.

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Speaker 2: We just don't do anything illegal, which is very good.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're not a naughty gang. We're like a

744
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Speaker 2: good gang. So the gang is basically it's a leg

745
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 2: of my business with a whole bunch of girls. I

746
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Speaker 2: think we're up to about five hundred and they're all

747
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Speaker 2: learning to create an income at home, using social media

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Speaker 2: and using the internet. So for me, like I said before,

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Speaker 2: one of my biggest passions, other than helping people around

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Speaker 2: health and well being, is helping women to be financially

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Speaker 2: free within themselves. And I think for me personally, just

752
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Speaker 2: going from being a woman who made a good income

753
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Speaker 2: to having kids and kind of having that pulled away

754
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Speaker 2: quite a bit and losing the time that I had

755
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Speaker 2: because obviously, when you have kids, you want to be

756
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Speaker 2: with them, and I will isn't conscious enough before having

757
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Speaker 2: kids to understand what was going to go down. So

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Speaker 2: for me, I'm really passionate about helping women who are

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Speaker 2: both without kids and with kids to be able to

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Speaker 2: create something financially for themselves where no matter what happens,

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Speaker 2: you can be happily married and you can have a

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Speaker 2: husband who makes a lot of money, or you can

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Speaker 2: be a single girl with an amazing corporate job, but

764
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Speaker 2: you've just always got something that's helping you to create

765
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Speaker 2: an income that is completely yours, to just have more choices,

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Speaker 2: because I know that money is not everything, but I

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Speaker 2: also know that without the income that I make, I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to go to everything my kids do,

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Speaker 2: Like I go to the Easter bonnet parades. I go

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Speaker 2: to every cross country I go to everything I can

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Speaker 2: with my kids, and I'm like the minority there. Not

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Speaker 2: many mums get to do that because they have to

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Speaker 2: go to work, and you know, we get to buy

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Speaker 2: organic food, and we get to spend quality time and

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Speaker 2: go on holidays together, and we get to do the

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Speaker 2: things that are within our value because of the income

777
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Speaker 2: that I've been able to create. And so my biggest

778
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Speaker 2: passion is just helping other women to be able to

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Speaker 2: do that and to say yes to the things that

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Speaker 2: really light them up and that are really important to them,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 1: And so we're going to finish off this episode just

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Speaker 1: with some health questions because I love to know. So,

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Speaker 1: what does your morning routine look like?

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Speaker 2: I love my morning routine. So I wake up. My

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Speaker 2: kids are usually in my bed with me when I

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Speaker 2: get up. They sneak in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 2: so we just cuddle and we have some one on

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Speaker 2: one loving time and then they usually fight. So I

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00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 2: send them out and then if I can, I'll go

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Speaker 2: for a beach walk while they're still home. If Hugh

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00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 2: is still around, or if not, I'll I'll do a

793
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Speaker 2: workout in my office upstairs. We've got a massive office.

794
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Speaker 2: It's the whole top floor of our house. So work out,

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Speaker 2: and then I'll make a smoothie, usually after school drop

796
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Speaker 2: off and all of that, like to eat a little

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Speaker 2: bit later. And my smoothie is like heaven for me. Like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone out there like loves food

799
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: pretty much everyone, but yeah, my smoothie is It's so

800
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Speaker 2: tasty and it just gives me an everyone no, so

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Speaker 2: I have, Yeah, I have a smoothie with a whole

802
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 2: bunch of good things that make me feel good but

803
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 2: also tastes really good. I'm not a fan of, you know,

804
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Speaker 2: drinking or eating anything that doesn't taste good. I see

805
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 2: people putting really weird stuff in their smoothies and I'm like,

806
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Speaker 2: that must taste like crap. I'm not drinking that. And

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Speaker 2: that's my routine. It's really just focused on making sure

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Speaker 2: I have time for my family, getting my physical touch in,

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Speaker 2: you know, doing the things that make my body feel

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Speaker 2: good and yeah, and spending some time in nature.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: And I would love for you to let the audience

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Speaker 1: know where they can find you, where they can get

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Speaker 1: all your good stuff.

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Speaker 2: I would love to tell you, guys that, So I

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Speaker 2: mostly hang out on Instagram. I just love it there

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Speaker 2: and it's easy. So on Instagram if you just search

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Speaker 2: my name and Simpson without a PSI, MSN, or my

820
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: handle is Gratitude Underscore Project. I'm also on Facebook and

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Speaker 2: then my website is the Gratitude Project dot com. You

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Speaker 2: can just google the Gratitude Project and it'll come up.

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Speaker 2: And then the main places I hang out.

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Speaker 1: Really amazing, and I'll make sure I chuck all those

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Speaker 1: links in the show notes. Guys, as always, but it

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Speaker 1: has been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: taking the time today.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you for having me.

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