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Speaker 1: ideal of beauty. Sign Finally, make hello and welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. This is the podcast

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Speaker 1: for my girl gang who want to take control of

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Speaker 1: those who are ready to turn their biggest dreams into

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Speaker 1: their reality. I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson. I'm a former lawyer,

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Speaker 1: entrepreneur and personal development junkie. So, as you guys know,

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Speaker 1: this podcast is called Rise and Conquer and it's all

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Speaker 1: about empowering you to rise up and conquer different avenues

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Speaker 1: of your life. I know it could be quite broad,

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Speaker 1: come up for two reasons. Two reasons. So the first

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Speaker 1: I have been getting into my own sword of brain

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