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Speaker 1: Jones and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Sam very excited to chat to our next guest, a

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Speaker 2: Spanish model, a Spanish actress, a film producer. She's an

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Speaker 2: author of a brand new health book called Strong. On

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Speaker 2: top of all that, she's married to Thor. She's here

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Speaker 2: to visit us, which is perfect timing for the silly

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Speaker 2: season coming our way. Good morning, Elsa Bataki.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Also, I'll say this your husband, Chris we met many

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Speaker 4: years ago. Amanda was on Dancing with the Stars in

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Speaker 4: two thousand and six and so and coincidentally I ended

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Speaker 4: up doing a bunch of TV shows with him, you know,

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Speaker 4: just various. I don't know what he's up to these days,

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Speaker 4: but please if you see him, just pass on.

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Speaker 3: Our well will. He's just the last actor.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to be an actor.

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Speaker 3: It's really hard.

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Speaker 1: I remember saying to my said, you might not make it,

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Speaker 1: you know, but you're a big guy. You could be

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Speaker 1: a laborer. There's other other field.

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Speaker 3: He made her. He married me, so he did.

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Speaker 1: Jack pot.

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Speaker 2: I work with a Spanish chef on a TV show

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Speaker 2: and Miguel Maistre says that in Spain things about food.

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Speaker 3: Did you grow up like that too?

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Speaker 5: Totally yeah, yeah, it's like that's one of my passions.

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Speaker 5: I love and it every time I come back to

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Speaker 5: Spain and I'm like, I call my my friends and

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Speaker 5: like take me to the best restaurant right now, which

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Speaker 5: is the last one, you know, And I'm very excited.

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Speaker 3: And what she always asking me, like what what do

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Speaker 3: you want? I'm like, just ham because he's our favorite.

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Speaker 5: Like it's very difficult to get here, so we have

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Speaker 5: our like Spanish hums hame on ham which is amazing.

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Speaker 5: And you grew up I don't know, it's kind of

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Speaker 5: vegem for you guys, like you grew up with the

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Speaker 5: with the hen come on we love and my kids

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Speaker 5: already know what ham on is very good, but and

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Speaker 5: the Spanish dotiya, which we love. So it's just, yeah,

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Speaker 5: you grew up with all these things that are so

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Speaker 5: typical there that all the Spanish people.

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Speaker 3: Just love it.

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Speaker 5: And we love to enjoy long dinners and lunch just

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Speaker 5: like you can be like three four hours seriously having

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Speaker 5: like nobody hasn't.

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Speaker 1: Believed me eat so late at night.

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Speaker 2: We do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's one of them not really healthy things that

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Speaker 5: we do. I feel and I was trying to even

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Speaker 5: with my boot turn to just like explain to people

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Speaker 5: that it's not a great thing to go to bed

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Speaker 5: with your stomach really full of food. And I change

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Speaker 5: that with the year SMB and here, and especially when

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Speaker 5: you have kids, you kind of like start having dinner

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Speaker 5: with them, and I have dinner six, which in Spain.

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Speaker 3: Now the thing I'm crazy lunch change exactly.

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Speaker 5: That's totally lunchtime. Like I used to when I was

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Speaker 5: a kid. Everything is really late. So kids usually they

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Speaker 5: go late to bed and they have dinner like a

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Speaker 5: nine o'clock because the school's finish at five, and then

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Speaker 5: they're like after activities and they have so they get

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Speaker 5: home at seven thirty or so, and then they have

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Speaker 5: dinner and they go to bed. So yeah, so it's

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Speaker 5: just everything is kind of like really late, which is

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Speaker 5: something that I should keep changing. It should change in

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Speaker 5: a healthy kind of talk, Like you know, I think

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Speaker 5: it's just not great.

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Speaker 1: And you met Chris through exercise, So when you're at

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Speaker 1: the gym, do you.

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Speaker 2: Want to film together?

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Speaker 5: No, we met It was a kind of a blind

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Speaker 5: day because we were in a lave and we have

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Speaker 5: a dialer coach.

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Speaker 3: He was working with a dialer coach. This dialer coach

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Speaker 3: with his.

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Speaker 5: Accent and British accent for a moving on and I

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Speaker 5: was just trying to get my my this is Spanish

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Speaker 3: And and this girl just decided that we had to meet.

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Speaker 5: And we haven't seen each other at almost like he

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Speaker 5: keeps she was, keep talking.

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Speaker 3: About each other. You have to meet his She showed

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Speaker 3: me a photo of him.

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Speaker 5: I was like, okay, and she did the same thing

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Speaker 5: I think with him, and he googled me, by the way,

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Speaker 5: I didn't google him, but he did, and he was like,

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Speaker 5: because you knew everything about me, was like I didn't

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Speaker 5: know anything about you when I met you.

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Speaker 3: And and we were just like, okay, let's just meet.

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Speaker 5: And he called me in the phone and I'd hear

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Speaker 5: his voice and that's one of the things I like

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Speaker 5: love about him.

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Speaker 3: It's just he has these amazing boys. I'm like, oh god,

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Speaker 3: this is great.

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Speaker 5: And then we had yeah, blind day, we just came

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Speaker 5: with a knowing each other. I just had a coffee

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Speaker 5: and it took time, like and it was like two

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Speaker 5: or three months after then we talked again and yeah,

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Speaker 5: step by step, then we went really fast and everything well,

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Speaker 5: but I like this start was pretty slow.

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Speaker 1: You have three kids? Yeah, but how have you been

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Speaker 1: together for ten years?

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Speaker 3: Ten years?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, but like yeah we married like like not

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Speaker 5: even a year after we met.

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Speaker 2: Like it's the sliding doors of your life, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Who would have thought growing up in Spain that you'd

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Speaker 2: meet an Australian actor, you'd moved to Byron Bay, you'd

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Speaker 2: be one half of Australia's.

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Speaker 3: Most loved couples.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting journey, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It is?

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Speaker 3: It is and one of the most amazing things.

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Speaker 5: When I say, like my destiny was to go to

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Speaker 5: LA I always say it is because I it was

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Speaker 5: to meet my husband, because it happened great things in

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Speaker 5: the La But it was just like gave us a

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Speaker 5: lonely place to be and it's really hard town to

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Speaker 5: work in and so but I met Chris and that

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Speaker 5: done made it my whole time that I was there. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I just met my husband and have my kids and

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Speaker 5: that was the reason probably I went there.

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Speaker 1: I feel that's extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: And the book is full of we're coming into Christmas,

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Speaker 2: We're coming into where Australians just go crazy. Can you

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Speaker 2: give us a few tips on how to get through

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Speaker 2: the silly season, this sal season.

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Speaker 5: One of my first advice is, like I know, it

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Speaker 5: comes to summer, and this is the one of the

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Speaker 5: mistakes I feel people does a lot is just having

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Speaker 5: that quick diet just before the summer and it's trying

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Speaker 5: to lose that weight in like a few weeks.

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Speaker 3: Just before they get into the swimsuits.

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Speaker 5: And I think doesn't work. It works for a little bit,

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Speaker 5: but I feel and what it's that what I've explained

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Speaker 5: in the book, I don't believe in any diet that

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Speaker 5: is very quick diet.

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Speaker 3: It's more to changing you habit.

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Speaker 5: It's like I like a philosophy of life in a way,

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Speaker 5: and you start with a strong mind and thinking, okay,

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Speaker 5: I'm going to change everything.

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Speaker 3: I want to eat healthier.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna try to just do a little bit exercise

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Speaker 5: and start and I like twenty minutes whatever you can take.

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Speaker 5: And I know people is really busy, but that's why

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Speaker 5: it comes a strong mind to just I decided to

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Speaker 3: I'm going to make an effort.

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Speaker 2: That's what you do and right, look, you're a great

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Speaker 2: example of living well.

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Speaker 5: It's a will I think, of course, I do more

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Speaker 5: like a lot and I've been doing for a long

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Speaker 5: time and and and the miracles doesn't exist like it's

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Speaker 5: just like I wouldn't say they changed your both in

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Speaker 5: from like day and night. But yes, you can start

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Speaker 5: with a little bit just seen changes in your body

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Speaker 5: and that makes you.

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Speaker 3: All, I feel great, Oh it's changing a little bit. Oh,

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Speaker 3: let's just eat even healthier.

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Speaker 5: And then you get in that wheel and that is

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Speaker 5: just a healthier and then you start getting addicted to it.

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Speaker 5: And that's the point I wanted people to just get

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Speaker 5: there to like, this feels great, and then you want

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Speaker 5: to do better and better.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's why I used to say to christis

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Speaker 4: it's not going to happen, and I don't know if

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Speaker 4: it will happen for you, and you know, pass on

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Speaker 4: good luck.

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Speaker 1: But also it's great to meet you. This is so

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Speaker 1: great you came in the studio. The brand new book

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Speaker 1: Strong is in all Good bookstores December three. I was attacking,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, thank you

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Speaker 5: For having me, thank you joining and Amanda, good morning,