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Speaker 1: Everyone knows how brutal the entertainment industry can be, whether

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Speaker 1: you're grinding away just to get a foot in the

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Speaker 1: door or doing everything you can to keep working. The

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Speaker 1: struggles of the working artist are so well known they're

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Speaker 1: almost cliche at this point. But one entertainer who's beaten

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Speaker 1: the odds for more than two decades is Aida Nikodimu,

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Speaker 1: who you might know better as Leah from Home and Away.

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Speaker 1: How has Aida done what so many haven't been able

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Speaker 1: to figure out? And hold a steady job in the

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Speaker 1: notoriously unstable world of TV? And how does a working

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Speaker 1: actor manage her time, energy and attention, which is also

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Speaker 1: a brand ambassador and a parent to a young child.

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Speaker 1: My name is doctor amanthe Imma. I'm an organizational psychologist

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Speaker 1: and the founder of Behavioral science Consultancy Inventium, and this

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Speaker 1: is how I work a show about how to help

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Speaker 1: you do your best work. I feel like being an

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Speaker 1: actor in a daily Sophie could not be any more

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Speaker 1: different from my life as a consultant, So I was

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Speaker 1: very curious to know what does a typical week.

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Speaker 2: Look like for Ada Aida.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to start with understanding what does a week

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Speaker 1: in your life look like.

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Speaker 3: Every week is different, like every day is different.

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Speaker 4: We tend to get a schedule on a Thursday night

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Speaker 4: for the following week, but the last couple of years

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Speaker 4: with COVID, nothing is certain as everyone else is, you know,

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Speaker 4: facing the same problem, So we do get a rough

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Speaker 4: draft for the following week. But if someone tests positive,

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Speaker 4: then you know, you can get a phone call. Go,

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Speaker 4: you know, come in. You don't have a day off today,

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Speaker 4: You've got twelve scenes that you need to do. But generally,

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Speaker 4: let yeah, I get my schedule, and the minute I

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Speaker 4: get it, I start scheduling my own things. Then obviously,

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Speaker 4: first is making sure that my son jonas you know,

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Speaker 4: can be picked up, dropped off, when am I doing it,

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Speaker 4: when my partner doing it, when his dad's doing all

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Speaker 4: that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm scheduling my workouts and any sort of appointment.

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Speaker 3: So tragitial.

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Speaker 4: So what I usually like to do, Like this morning,

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Speaker 4: I was at the gym. I left home about like six,

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Speaker 4: so I wasn't too bad, went to the gym. I

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Speaker 4: had a day of today, so I've gone to the gym.

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Speaker 3: Like I was saying to you, I just after.

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Speaker 4: The gym when looked after my grand my goddaughter, and

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Speaker 4: you know, now I'm not going to do a bit

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Speaker 4: of work at home, but otherwise I tend to go

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Speaker 4: to the gym at if I'm working, I don't know,

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Speaker 4: like four point thirty five o'clock if I can, and.

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Speaker 3: Then go to work.

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Speaker 4: Usually at work by seven or six, do makeup, and

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Speaker 4: then you're on set. Know it just to but every

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Speaker 4: day is different. Like some days I might not start

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Speaker 4: until twelve or two.

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Speaker 3: Other days I.

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Speaker 4: Might be finished by nine o'clock in the morning. Like

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Speaker 4: every day is different.

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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so talk me through a day where you're

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Speaker 1: on set for the majority of the day, Like what

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Speaker 1: would that look like?

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, you'll go into makeup, get you're going to

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Speaker 4: your dressing room, get.

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Speaker 3: Change, go into makeup.

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Speaker 4: I always have a coffee while I'm getting my makeup done.

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Speaker 4: Makeup tends to take about forty five minutes. I'll also

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Speaker 4: go through my lines while I'm sitting in the chair,

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Speaker 4: like obviously you know them by this stage, but it's

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Speaker 4: just nice just to sort of read over them.

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Speaker 3: I'll do that, then get made up, go on to set.

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Speaker 3: It depends again what set it is, but say it.

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Speaker 4: Might be the Morgan House or the diner, which I

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Speaker 4: mean a lot you'll do.

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Speaker 3: How many sings do you do before lunch? Maybe it

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Speaker 3: might be about eighte scenes before lunch. Then you've got

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Speaker 3: an hour lunch break, and then there could be some scenes.

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Speaker 3: If you're on all day, then there's probably another eight.

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Speaker 4: After lunch, and then come home, get your son ready,

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Speaker 4: get into bed and learning a cook dinner, learn your lines,

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Speaker 4: and do it all again.

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Speaker 3: But it depends.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so learn your lines.

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Speaker 1: You make that sound so easy, but I mean eight

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Speaker 1: scenes before lunch, and I imagine it's not just remembering words.

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Speaker 1: You're remembering the blocking, the physical movement of where you

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Speaker 4: No, not anymore so when I first started in Home

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Speaker 4: and Away, we used to it was a completely different setup.

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Speaker 4: So there was like three massive cameras. I'm sure you've

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Speaker 4: seen this where you've seen like live TV shows being

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Speaker 4: then so we would have rehearsed it beforehand, and we

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Speaker 4: would have rehearsed all of our blocking, and we wrote

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Speaker 4: down all the blocking. And the director's not on the floor,

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Speaker 4: the director's up sort of in the second level, sort

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Speaker 4: you know, control the floor, whereas that doesn't happen now.

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Speaker 4: You go in for a scene, you sit down, you

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Speaker 4: do a quick line run, and then the director will go.

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Speaker 3: You know, start at the cough machine, maybe.

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Speaker 4: Online to walk over, pick up a plate, go into

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Speaker 4: the kitchen, whatever. But that's quite collaborative as well, and

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Speaker 4: depending what the scene is, you know, you might have

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Speaker 4: something to do with the blocking, the director might have

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Speaker 4: something to do with the blocking. So basically, when you're

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Speaker 4: learning lines, you're learning lines nowadays, but you know, obviously

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Speaker 4: you've got to do a bit of script work, so

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Speaker 4: you've got to understand what the storyline is and you

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Speaker 4: know where your character has been, where your character's going,

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Speaker 4: all of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: So how do you learn life? What's your process?

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Speaker 4: I'll read the whole script prior to rehearsals, and then

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Speaker 4: when I get my schedule for the following week, I'll

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Speaker 4: break it all down into the days and then if

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Speaker 4: I know that, for example, on Thursday, I've got a

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Speaker 4: really big day, I'll just sort of read over those,

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Speaker 3: The weekend, or like just a couple of times, So

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Speaker 3: it just depends on what it is.

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Speaker 4: But my process is with learning lines, just to keep

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Speaker 4: doing it, you know, just before bed. I find if

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Speaker 4: I read my lines before bed, they tend to sink in.

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Speaker 3: But it just depends on what sort. If you've got

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Speaker 4: Monologue, then you've got to sit down and really spend

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Speaker 4: a bit of time learning your lines. But if it's

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Speaker 4: conversational stuff like reading it, you know a few times

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Speaker 4: read them again, and then you've got a couple of

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Speaker 3: Tend to be in your head. I've been playing Lea

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Speaker 4: So it's a lot easier because I understand the character

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Speaker 4: and I feel that they probably right close to us

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Speaker 1: How do you try to relax before those big days

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Speaker 1: where you are kind of mentally maybe stressing and preparing

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Speaker 1: what strategies have worked for you.

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Speaker 3: Exercise really works for me.

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Speaker 4: A really good breakfast, Like if I'm and if i'm

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Speaker 4: tired or hungry, I'm not good to anyone. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: I like to have a really good breakfast. And I'm

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Speaker 4: one of those people that wake up hungry. So I

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Speaker 4: have no issue with having breakfast or whatever. Like I

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Speaker 4: can have breakfast at three o'clock in the morning, but

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Speaker 4: I'll always make sure it's a big one. But I

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Speaker 4: find exercise and if you could just go to the

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Speaker 4: a big day, I find I'm just a lot more alert,

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Speaker 4: and yeah, everything just sits in a lot better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it just really works for me.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to say a good night's sleep, but ever

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Speaker 4: since I've turned I don't know, I'm forty five now,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to say the last two three years, I'm

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Speaker 3: I think it's just my age. So yeah, I battle

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Speaker 3: with sleep a lot.

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Speaker 1: Do you have almost like a shutdown or a switch

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Speaker 1: off richeal when you've shot all your scenes for the day,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing left to do, but you've still got the

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Speaker 1: full face of makeup and the lashes and everything. Is

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Speaker 1: there a process that you used to switch off?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I find that my drive to work prepares

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Speaker 4: and then I find the drive coming home helps me unwind,

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Speaker 4: so because I feel like, you know, because you're talking

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Speaker 4: you know, say hi to the family, I have to

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Speaker 4: go wash my face, wash the lashes, draw it, pull

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Speaker 5: And then I'm ready because I do I feel like

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Speaker 5: I do need to wash that, or I'll have a

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Speaker 3: So I just, yeah, I just need to sort.

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Speaker 2: Of wash it all off on your drive home.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything else that you're doing to transition out

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, sometimes I'm thinking about the day and breaking

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Speaker 4: sometimes you know, I mean, you might be doing a

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Speaker 4: course you have to take that on because you have

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Speaker 4: maybe play a bit of music, or maybe listen to

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Speaker 4: But I don't like to bring my scenes into my

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Speaker 4: home life, So yeah, I'll do that and what I

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Speaker 4: have found as well. But because we all like, if

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Speaker 4: I've got say twelve fifteen scenes in a day, you're

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Speaker 4: not always going to feel like you've done a good

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Speaker 4: job with all of them. But if I did one

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Speaker 4: and it was terrible, go I let it affect my

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Speaker 4: other scenes where I find now, I don't let it

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Speaker 4: I didn't you know, I felt like I didn't sort

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Speaker 4: of achieve what I wanted to achieve.

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Speaker 3: But I got to let it go.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully someone just got up, made a cup of tea

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Speaker 4: at that point, didn't even see the scene because they're

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Speaker 4: affect my whole day, because we can't be perfect all

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Speaker 4: the time and we.

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Speaker 3: Are never perfect. So yeah, I do just have to

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Speaker 3: shake it off.

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Speaker 2: How did you learn to do that?

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Speaker 4: I think just survival, you know, because I was finding

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Speaker 4: that I was letting it really get me down because

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Speaker 4: I am a perfectionist. I think I am type A personality,

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Speaker 1: I feel like they're two different lives that I live.

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Speaker 4: But so it's nice sort of having those two lives

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Speaker 1: Sundays got with his dad before his dad passed away.

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Speaker 1: And I sort of I like to remind myself of

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Speaker 1: just how, you know, how precious that time is, because

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Speaker 1: it can just feel very mundane as well being a

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Speaker 1: parent and you know, feeling like you're doing the same

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Speaker 1: thing day and day out with the time that you

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Speaker 1: don't have Jonas, how do you think about that time?

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Speaker 1: And I guess make the most of it given the

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Speaker 1: you know that you don't have this big responsibility that

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Speaker 1: you have in the other half of your.

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Speaker 3: Life, Like obviously I try. I have a partner that

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Speaker 3: I've been with for quite a while and we try

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Speaker 3: and you know, do our date nights or have weekends away,

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Speaker 3: and you know, just and fill our cups in different ways,

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Speaker 3: like whether it's like I mean, I could spend all

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Speaker 3: day at home just pottering around the house, cleaning and

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Speaker 3: just organizing things. I love doing that. It's I just

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Speaker 3: find it really relaxing. So I love doing that.

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Speaker 4: But I just it's really important just to you just

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Speaker 4: do stuff for yourself. I love like I'll read, like

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Speaker 4: I said, or I'll go for walks, or I spend

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Speaker 4: you know, I'll see my friends.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, trying trying.

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Speaker 4: To relax is very important for me because I can

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Speaker 4: just be on all the time. If I'm not careful,

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Speaker 4: I don't. I'm not great at relaxing. And when I'm

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Speaker 4: with Jonus, obviously you don't relax. So yeah, when I'm

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Speaker 4: not with him, I do try and do things like that.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, just just fill my cup in many

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Speaker 4: different ways.

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Speaker 1: How do you make sure you do relax when it

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Speaker 1: doesn't come naturally to you.

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Speaker 4: I have to I have to talk myself into like

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Speaker 4: I had to. No, no, no, you don't need to

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Speaker 4: do the fifth f looad of washing.

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Speaker 3: Or whatever it is. No, just sit down on the

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Speaker 3: couch and read your book, and of course once you do, like,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's lovely. I don't know where I get

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Speaker 3: it from. I think my mom's a bit like me,

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Speaker 3: and she's always just been.

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Speaker 4: On the go and and I don't know it's a

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Speaker 4: female thing though as well.

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Speaker 3: It's always, oh, you know, I'm so busy.

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Speaker 4: Like I don't know why we wear this badge of

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Speaker 4: we need to be really really busy all the time.

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Speaker 3: So I do have to talk myself down a lot.

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Speaker 1: So I think i'd love to hear from people is

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Speaker 1: the best advice that they've received.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to start with advice.

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Speaker 1: Relating to your career and as someone, you know, one

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Speaker 1: of the lucky ones that has had a pretty stable

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Speaker 1: career in the entertainment industry, what's some of the best

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Speaker 1: advice you've received.

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Speaker 3: I think it's just to teamwork.

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Speaker 4: I think it's never never believing the publicity, never believing

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Speaker 4: that you're more important.

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Speaker 3: Than the next person.

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Speaker 4: Where we all are the reason why the show is

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Speaker 4: so successful, and if it wasn't me on the front

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Speaker 4: cover of TV Week, it'd be someone else.

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Speaker 3: It's just a job that you feel.

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Speaker 4: It's not because of it doesn't It's not because I'm

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Speaker 4: special that you know, I'm on the cover of this

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Speaker 4: so I've got this campaign or whatever it is, just

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Speaker 4: because you're on Home and Away and it's a really

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Speaker 4: popular show.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I just think I'm always.

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Speaker 4: Very aware that it's teamwork, and yeah, that's really really important,

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Speaker 4: is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it hard? Sometimes I guess not to believe the hyph.

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Speaker 3: No, not not for me.

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Speaker 4: I was really like, I've been look like I said,

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Speaker 4: I've been in the industry since I was sixteen. So

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Speaker 4: I remember when I first started in the industry.

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Speaker 3: You know, of course it got to my head.

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Speaker 4: I was a teenager and I was a little shit

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Speaker 4: Like I remember talking back to a runner once and

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Speaker 4: I just was so embarrassed about it afterwards, like who

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Speaker 4: are you to like demand? Like it was just it's

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Speaker 4: not how I was brought up. But I was really

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Speaker 4: lucky that from the moment I was in the industry.

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Speaker 4: I have a very strong Greek mum who firstly didn't

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Speaker 4: let me have the money. She saved all of my money.

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Speaker 4: She'd give me like a little bit of pocket money

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Speaker 4: every week. I had to finish my schooling and I

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Speaker 4: would come home after being on set all day or

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Speaker 4: being at some amazing premiere and I'd be having to

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Speaker 4: scrub the toilet or do the house for it or

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Speaker 4: like it was.

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Speaker 3: I was always brought back down to reality. And I

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Speaker 3: think because Mum did that with me early on, it's

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Speaker 3: just stuck with me like that. It's just a job,

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Speaker 3: Like we all just have a job out there. And

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Speaker 3: I make sure that Jonas is aware of that because

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Speaker 3: kids these.

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Speaker 4: Days from a very young age, just want to be famous.

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Speaker 4: It's not about working hard, Like what's important is about

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Speaker 4: being And I always say to Jonas, That's not what's

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Speaker 4: important to me. What's important is that I work really

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Speaker 4: really hard.

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Speaker 3: I enjoy my job. I work really really hard.

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Speaker 4: I'm nice to people, I can provide for you, you know,

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Speaker 4: all of that stuff's really important. And yeah, I just

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Speaker 4: I just really try and instill that in him that,

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Speaker 4: you know, because they all want to be YouTube stars

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Speaker 4: these days, which I just don't get.

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Speaker 1: How do you manage those situations where you're out in

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Speaker 1: public with him and you've got fans approaching you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: He he went through like different stages, like when he

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Speaker 4: was a baby of city in England, standard and a toddler,

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Speaker 4: and then he used to get really angry that like

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Speaker 4: the attention was off him, and then he was quite observant,

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Speaker 4: and then he really liked it, you know, and.

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Speaker 3: So now.

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Speaker 4: Now sometimes he likes it, like but you'll go, oh,

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Speaker 4: can I get in the photo too?

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Speaker 3: Like, no, no, no, you're not getting in the photo.

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Speaker 3: You stand back.

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Speaker 4: Mammy is taking a photo, and they go, oh, does

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Speaker 4: you do they watch home in away. I'm like, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 4: what's my job, so I think, But now it's sort

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Speaker 4: of becoming a little bit more matter of fact. But

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Speaker 4: I noticed him at school the other I picked him

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Speaker 4: up from school and some of the kids in the

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Speaker 4: playgrounds that came up and were chatting or whatever, and I.

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Speaker 3: Could see him just like looking over and like being

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Speaker 3: aware of.

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Speaker 4: It, but being sort of proud, but like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's just that's just what.

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Speaker 3: Happens, you know. So I don't know, like I'm forever

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Speaker 3: talking to him about it, and I just I just

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Speaker 3: want him to know that it doesn't mean a lot

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Speaker 3: to me, and but it's come from a lot of

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Speaker 3: hard work, and it's you know, if I could do

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Speaker 3: my job and not be famous, that'll be even.

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Speaker 1: Better now aida for people that want to connect with

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Speaker 1: you in some way. They can obviously watch home in away,

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Speaker 1: but how else can people connect with you?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I guess my Instagram. I try and answer people,

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Speaker 3: and you're gonna ask me what it is as well.

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Speaker 3: I think it's just dating Nicodemo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I guess guess through that through my Instagram

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Speaker 4: and I got Facebook as well, so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bazie, I will link to those in the show notes. Ada,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time. It's been absolutely

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Speaker 1: fascinating getting an insight into your life.

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Speaker 3: Ah. Thanks, man, know, it's been lovely and I'm fine.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad we finally got to do it.

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Speaker 2: Me too, Me too.

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Speaker 1: I loved hearing about Ada's process for switching off from

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Speaker 1: her day, especially considering how emotionally draining some of her

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Speaker 1: days must be.

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Speaker 2: It's strange when you work.

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Speaker 1: From home, you miss out on the commute home, which

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Speaker 1: for many people I suppose is a chance to start

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Speaker 1: that switching off process. I'd love to know what you

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Speaker 1: do if you work from home like me, How do

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Speaker 1: you switch off and leave your work day at work,

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Speaker 1: even when work might be in your home. Drop me

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Speaker 1: a note on the socials. You can find me at

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn for my name Amantha Imba and also on Instagram

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Speaker 1: at Amantha I How I Work is produced by Inventium

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Speaker 1: with production support from Dead Set Studios.

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Speaker 2: The producer for this episode.

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Speaker 1: Was Liam Riordan and thank you Tom Nimba, who does

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Speaker 1: the audio mix for every episode and makes everything sound

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Speaker 1: so much better than it would have otherwise.

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Speaker 2: See you next time.