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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to your weekly diary episode. Now, I

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Speaker 1: know you're used to these coming to from beautiful Byron Bay,

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Speaker 1: but I've just moved to Ala, so these episodes will

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Speaker 1: now be coming to you from.

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Speaker 2: The Land of Dreams. I'll be sharing all.

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Speaker 1: Things lay life, places I go, people I meet, and

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Speaker 1: things I do, all in a bid to inspire you

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Speaker 1: to have the courage to chase your own dreams. Big

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Speaker 1: love from La, the City of Angels Yilohan, this is

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Speaker 1: your first Friday Diary coming from Sunny Ala. Before I

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Speaker 1: get too far into it, I just want to send

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Speaker 1: some love to Melbournians who have just has just been

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Speaker 1: announced that you guys are going into a seven day lockdown,

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Speaker 1: to the point that I actually had already recorded this

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Speaker 1: and I text a boss and I was like, I've

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Speaker 1: got to rerecord it and send love to Melbournians.

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Speaker 2: So sending you guys mega love.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope that these seven days really kick it in

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Speaker 1: the butt.

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Speaker 2: For people that are new.

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Speaker 1: Basically on a Friday, I do a little diary check

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Speaker 1: in or yeah, a little life journal entry via the

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Speaker 1: pod if you will, And this is the Friday check in.

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Speaker 1: It's usually from Byron Bay, but now it's from LA

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Speaker 1: because in the last seven days I relocated here to

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Speaker 1: activate my green card. So the boss go is still

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Speaker 1: very much in Byron Bay, but I am in sunny California.

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Speaker 1: So what I want to do is just kind of

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Speaker 1: like keep your update on all things LA life. If

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Speaker 1: you end up knowing that you want to visit here

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Speaker 1: after the border is open eventually, then hopefully I can

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Speaker 1: give you some places to go and check out. I've

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Speaker 1: already tasted some delicious food. I now know where to

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Speaker 1: go for all your supermarket goods. I've been on some

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Speaker 1: ripper hikes, and I just want to share all of

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Speaker 1: that with you, so that hopefully if and when you visit,

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Speaker 1: you've got a little bit of a guide. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of the goal, and that was the same goal with

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Speaker 1: the Byron episodes. So yeah, it'll just be a little

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Speaker 1: check in on what I've been up to in the

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Speaker 1: last seven days. So first of all, I flew seven

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Speaker 1: I flew from Sydney to LA. I stayed with my

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Speaker 1: I flew out. First thing, I think the flight was

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Speaker 1: about that, kind of like more the visa process and

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Speaker 1: travel exemption got rejected. I had to with a lawyer

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Speaker 2: Also, I'm not really this isn't a holiday.

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Speaker 1: This isn't like, whoo, let's go to Disneyland, although I

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Speaker 1: would love to do that after I'm vaccinated. This is

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Speaker 1: So as soon as I landed, so from Sydney to

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Speaker 1: just for my own health, but for the community. That said,

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Speaker 1: I got a shit ton of bullying and backlash and

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Speaker 1: whatnot about it. So if this triggers you in any way,

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Speaker 1: and safest thing to be doing. Where in a country

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Speaker 1: like the first thing I did. Now I have really

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Speaker 1: If you know you're coming to la if you know

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Speaker 2: All the foody places for you.

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Speaker 1: So first of all, when we got in, I had

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Speaker 1: I then had another green smoothie bowl from a place

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Speaker 1: That's called moon Juice. They've got a really cool institute.

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Speaker 1: and I got this really yummy salmon salad. So here,

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Speaker 1: very interesting takeaway stuff. I went to Air one Americans

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Speaker 1: call it Era one, and I got they do my

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so megalove, just sending you love from LA. I

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