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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 Stevenson. I am a lawyer, tend health coach,

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

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Speaker 1: 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? Your friends, Let's rise and conquer.

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Speaker 1: Hi guys, and welcome back to the Rise and Conquered Podcast.

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Speaker 1: It is your host Georgie Stevenson with a solo episode.

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Speaker 1: So today I want to talk to you about life

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Speaker 1: lessons that I have learned and basically advice that I

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Speaker 1: would give my eighteen year old self. So I am

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Speaker 1: twenty four. I turned twenty five this year in August,

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Speaker 1: So in six months, I'm twenty five and I was

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Speaker 1: just thinking the other day of how different I am

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Speaker 1: basically how far I have come in regards to I

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Speaker 1: don't know, if you guys met me when I was eighteen, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you would believe I'm just so different.

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Speaker 1: And I realized my journey of self development and just

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Speaker 1: growing as a person has been huge, especially in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, and I just thought it would

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Speaker 1: be fun going through some advice I would give my

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Speaker 1: eighteen year old self. So of course, I would not

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Speaker 1: change anything in my life. Everything that I have done

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Speaker 1: has got me to this point has made me the

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Speaker 1: person I am, and I personally think you need to

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Speaker 1: go through life lessons, you need to go through struggles,

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Speaker 1: you need to have bad days so then you know

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Speaker 1: but I just thought it would be good. And also

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Speaker 1: I know from my Instagram demographics that I do have

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Speaker 1: a lot of young girls listening to this, so I

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Speaker 1: thought it just might sort of spark some you know,

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Speaker 1: so let's get straight into the episode. The first piece

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Speaker 1: of advice that I would tell my eighteen year old

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Speaker 1: self is it's okay to follow your passions and you

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Speaker 1: don't have to do what society kind of says you

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Speaker 1: of everyone else and what's happening in society. So basically

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Speaker 1: backing this up a little bit, I realized that when

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Speaker 1: that you were passionate about or that you really loved,

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Speaker 1: like that's a myth. You had a job that made

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Speaker 1: I remember adults talking around me when I was a

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Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, So I finished high school,

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Speaker 1: didn't do well out or anything like that, there was

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Speaker 1: that's the advice that I would give my younger self.

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Speaker 1: I think it's so amazing to reflect on where you

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Speaker 1: And I think that's realizing that who you are now

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Speaker 1: is not set in stone. So, for example, who I

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Speaker 1: that you won't be there forever. Things are constantly changing.

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Speaker 1: You were constantly changing, And another thing to remember is

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Speaker 1: if you don't like something in your life, you can

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Speaker 1: change it. So where you are at the moment is

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Speaker 1: if you want to be somewhere different, start making different actions,

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Speaker 1: start making steps forward, start developing, start learning about yourself,

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Speaker 1: start reflecting. But yes, anyway, I am going to wrap

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Speaker 1: this episode up now. I hope you enjoyed it. I

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Speaker 1: hope you reflect and think back on what you would

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Speaker 1: tell your younger self and just how much you've grown

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Speaker 1: at a person, because it's amazing. Anyway, I hope you

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Speaker 1: have a lovely day or night whenever you're listening, and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you guys my next episode. Bye for now.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the listening in. If you

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Speaker 1: at Georgie Stevenson. I hope you have an amazing day

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Speaker 1: or night whenever you are listening in Bye for now

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