Sunshine and Social Media Battles in Marietta

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Oh yeah, this is how we do it.

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Ah, I am here in Marietta, georgia.

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I don't know if you can hear the squeaking of my Kango shoes.

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Can you hear it?

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Oh yeah, those are steps of progress.

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Moving and grooving, modium-vading myself to get out.

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Get up on my day off, get off of the couch, step away from the coffee and the comfy, and get up and get out here and enjoy this beautiful summer day.

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The sun is shining and I want to paint a picture that I am rocking a brand new bikini today.

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Oh, my gosh, how many times in my lifetime have I felt not good enough, not thin enough?

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Not.

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Would it be right to say beautiful?

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Yeah, not beautiful enough, pretty enough, not smart enough, not sexy enough?

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Have you ever felt that way?

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Have you ever felt just not enough?

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So many times in my life I have felt not enough.

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And how do you get out of that funk?

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How do you get out of the funk when your self-worth is just low?

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You just feel like you don't want to.

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And why?

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Why?

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What's your why?

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Why do you want to get up?

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Get stop scrolling off of instagram and facebook and tiktok.

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I don't know about you guys, but you go down the TikTok rabbit hole.

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I do, I do, but I have to stop.

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I set like a timer or a mental timer to say, okay, I'm going to do 20 minutes of just mindless scrolling.

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And I don't know about you guys, but like I'll start with cooking stuff and then I'll end up with adventure and then I'm watching silly animal videos and, if I'm not aware, it steals my time and it reminds me of a story.

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I went to this boot camp years ago and this boot camp changed my life and it was very difficult to do.

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It was part of the T Harv Eker millionaire mind intensives and all the boot camps and all the different programs that he had.

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Oh, this is probably 20 years ago and one of the exercises and I can talk about it now.

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At the time we were sworn to secrecy, but it's been so long now I don't even believe they have these classes anymore and if they did, it would be completely different.

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So we, you know, without giving too much away, I'm gonna give you kind of the experience and the feeling and the what happened out of it.

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So we're in this like unknown, disclosed location.

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We don't know what's going to happen.

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We're all just kind of like in this room that looks like sumo wrestler room and we have to put on this protective gear like elbow pads and knee pads, and I'm kind of nervous.

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I'm like, oh my gosh, what did I get myself into?

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And it was is that bad guys were dressed up with the symbols of the TikTok symbol, the, the Facebook symbol, all the different symbols.

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Well, I don't think TikTok was around back then, but the social media symbols that were around then.

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They were dressed with, wearing those symbols on them and they looked.

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They were bad guys.

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They were dressed with protective gear With the full on, you know, everything Like sumo wrestlers, and it was like they were unleashed, so to speak, into the room and they would attack you and you had to fight for them.

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You had to fight with them and you had to kick and hit and scream and yell and you had to say who are you fighting for?

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And I get gosh, I get a little emotional thinking about this, because it really put into I'm sorry, it really put into perspective what social media.

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Social media can be an amazing tool, but it also can steal your life.

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It can steal your dreams, it can steal your joy, it can make you feel not good enough.

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You see someone prettier, you see someone wealthier, you, you see someone else that maybe in some cases it will be inspiration, but maybe it makes you feel less than not good enough.

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And in this scenario that we did, I was this.

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This Facebook guy attacked me and I'm fighting.

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I'm he's got a hold of me and I'm fighting.

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I'm fighting, I'm fighting, I'm crying, I'm fighting.

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I'm physically fighting this guy that's dressed like a sumo wrestler with a Facebook symbol on there, and he's like who are you fighting for who?

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Why are you wasting your time on me?

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And he's just screaming all these evil things at me and I'm just I've lost it.

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I'm like I'm like physically, mentally, exhausted and he's saying the more time you spend with me, the more time it takes away from your family, the more time it takes from your dreams.

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I'm the dream stealer and you want to spend all your time with me.

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And it I mean talk about a wake-up call.

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A wake-up call, I mean holy moly, holy moly, like the experience of fighting for someone.

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I'm fighting for my family.

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I'm fighting for my mom and dad, I'm fighting for my sister.

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Do you know how many times I see these beautiful families now?

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Or husband and wife or boyfriend, girlfriend.

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They're in these most beautiful locations and they're on their phone just scrolling.

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They're not talking to their family.

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They're not talking to their family, they're not playing with their kid.

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You know, I'm out in these beautiful locations with these gorgeous pools and I look around and the kids are just pretty much like ignored.

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And a lot of the parents and a lot of their loved ones, well, they want to be on social media more.

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They want to be scrolling on TikTok.

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Put down the phone.

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There's a time for social media.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I do love all that.

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I love my posting, I love checking and seeing what everybody's doing.

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But keep it into balance.

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Keep a perspective.

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Fight for your kids, fight for your dreams, fight for your loved ones.

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Don't let social media steal your dreams, your joy, your love.

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We're not promised tomorrow.

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I wasn't going to talk about this, but I do feel like I need to bring up a few more things.

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But that experience at that boot camp changed me forever, like I never looked the same.

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When I think about I'm just going to mindlessly sit here and scroll, I set a timer If I'm going to do my social media postings.

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I set a like.

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Okay, I'm going to work one hour on this.

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If I go with a friend to dinner, I put my phone away, I put it on silent, I take it off the table or turn it upside down.

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Be in the moment.

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Don't let our social media steal your joy, your dreams, your time with your loved ones.

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Be aware, set it into perspective.

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I'm not saying don't do it, because I do love the social media.

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I'm saying just be aware, be present.

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We are not promised tomorrow, case in point.

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So, wrapping up the boot camp, I mean I cried hysterically and that experience just changed my life and it just forevermore.

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I remember that experience and I'm so grateful I had that experience.

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And you know, I'm probably going to have to Google it and see if they still have any type of camps or anything, because it was T Harv Eker was absolutely phenomenal teacher, great inspiration.

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So let's talk about the story I was not going to talk about and I'll keep it kind of anonymous as to who it happened to but the other day I got a message from a good friend of mine that someone now we can't ever say that someone died on a plane because they can't, as far as I know, they cannot say that you died on a plane, so they pronounce you deceased, I believe, on the ground of wherever you land.

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So one of my dear friends had someone come out of the bathroom and just have a massive heart attack, stroke, whatever.

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They tried to resuscitate him for over 45 minutes over 45 minutes trying to bring this man back to life.

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My friend was active in trying to save this man's life.

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Working with the crew, working with the ground, working with she kept calm.

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Her skills kicked in for what we are trained for as a flight attendant.

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Au contraire to what many people think, we are way more than a waitress in the sky.

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Our training is extremely intense.

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It's actually it is hard to become a flight attendant.

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It's hard to go through that training and many of you don't know what we go through.

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We're trained to save your life Bottom line Safety, number one and my friend was a freaking superhero.

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She went into action, she called on her team, she got the wheels in motion and she kept her calm.

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She kept into action.

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She called on her team, she got the wheels in motion and she kept her calm.

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She kept her cool.

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So get this.

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They are in a city on the east coast.

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The experience happened shortly, I guess.

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After takeoff they diverted, went to a different city.

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Unfortunately, they were not able to save this man's life and I pray for his family.

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I pray for his family.

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I pray for his soul.

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I pray that he's in heaven reflecting on an amazing life and that he was traveling with someone he loved and his journey just continues in heaven.

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That's what I pray for and please help me pray for this man, and God will know who he is, to pray for him.

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So the man is taken off the plane.

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They have to get back in the air.

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My friend has to do, and this brings tears to my eyes.

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My friend has to do a service, has to do, and this brings tears to my eyes.

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My friend has to do a service, a meal service after this man dying on her plane and dealing with all the emotion and all the stress and all the trauma.

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My friend had to be a rock star.

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She had be strong.

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She had to keep it together because she knew her job and what her mission was.

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She kept it together.

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Then they had storm delays.

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It was like almost three hours more in the air after the man passed.

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They land in an undisclosed city on the west coast.

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They have to wait for an hour because the ground crew was not expecting them to arrive at 2, 3, whatever time it was in the morning.

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They weren't prepared.

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They did the best that they could do and, not saying anything negative about her airline or what happened, they did the best they can do.

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But my friend had to keep her level of professionalism.

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She witnessed a man dying for the first time in her life.

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She kept it together until the very end of getting off that plane and I feel really grateful that I was up early that morning.

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For you know, I was like God.

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Why am I reporting where I have to get up at 2 30 in the morning?

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I always work nights.

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I work nights starting at two o'clock in the afternoon, working until midnight, one or two.

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I normally go to bed at two, but this particular day God had me up at 2.30.

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And I think God worked through me that day because he needed me to support my friend, to be that level of support for her during a time I need and I love how God works that way and you know, a lot of times when things happen in our life we don't, we don't know why it happens, like, why does something happen.

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Why did I, you know, get up at 2.30 in the morning to report downstairs by 4am?

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That's so like?

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I avoid trips like that at all costs.

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But I was there.

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I was there for my friend.

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I helped her, I think, on emotional level.

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I was proud of her.

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Still I'm very proud of her.

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You can imagine how traumatizing that would be.

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But this experience in talking with her after, of course, was traumatizing.

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Her airline's been super supportive and given her a week off of work time to regroup and she's reflecting a lot on her life now, doing all of the things that she wants to do, doing all the things she aspires to become and the people that she wants to be with.

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Like she couldn't wait to be with her son and and she's helping her son to be on a mission of losing weight and starting to date and gaining his self-confidence.

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We all need that support system, right?

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We need that support system just like I need my coach, cj.

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I'm a support system to you.

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I'm a support system to help you get out of your rut.

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I'm a support system to help you see your light on the world, to make you feel enough.

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You are enough, you have gifts and talents and you'll inspire and light a light in someone else.

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Just like Coach CJ has lit a light in me, I'm lighting a light in you.

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Work with me, be with me, let me help you.

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Reach out to me.

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You can reach me through all the social media channels.

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Take flight with Monica.

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I'm here, let me be that support system to get you to shine your light, to feel enough to live your life to the fullest, whether that's taking that dream vacation.

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I know I talk a lot about travel because that is I love, the experiences it gives me and it's really interesting if you think about it.

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A lot of times on a flight you won't have like Wi-Fi, or sometimes you won't have entertainment.

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You're kind of almost forced to cut yourself off from the social media channels.

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You're kind of forced to be present and a lot of times when I'm sitting on that jump seat I'm dreaming, I'm planning, I'm letting my light shine on the world.

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I'm inspiring someone, I'm helping someone, I'm bringing someone joy, I'm leaving them in a better space than what they were and it feels really good to do that.

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I love being a fly girl because I'm pulled from the normal and pulled off of the couch.

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I'm just did a little reel and I saw I was waiting for an Uber and I saw these guys dancing.

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They were like break dancing and they were doing some really super cool stuff and I'm like hey, can I join you, can I dance with you?

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And they're like, yeah, I've never done that before, I've never done it before, but it made me laugh, it made me smile, it made me feel like I was 20 again.

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So what is this podcast show about?

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This show is about lighting you up.

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Waking you up.

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Don't let Facebook and social media steal your joy, steal your family, steal your dreams.

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Wake up, get up off the couch.

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Inspire someone, help someone, leave the world in a better place than it was before.

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Shine your light on the world, my friends.

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Light on the world, my friends.

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That is my message for you today is to just shine that beautiful light, and you are enough.

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Hear me, hear my voice.

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Play this over and over and over again.

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You have enough money, you have wisdom, you have passion.

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Don't let the social media steal your joy.

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Get out there, get your exercise, do the things you know you need to do to keep your temple, your body, healthy, to support your dreams and your light on the world.

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You are a blessing to the world, you are love, you are joy, you are enough.

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And with that I will leave you on this beautiful Tuesday as I'm squeaking along getting my exercise in with my can-go shoes and I'll talk more about those on another podcast show.

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Thank you for sharing this time with me today.

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Just today, I was working with a client and actually she's been a good friend of mine for a really, really long time since I was like I don't know, 10 or 11 makes me laugh.

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We used to do some crazy things back in the day and we had lots of talks and lots of moments together and and we're working together.

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And today I lit in her the fire to write a book, a fire to light her light up.

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What's your calling?

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Where are you going?

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Light your fire, you are enough.

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When it calls, when the time calls, will you answer?

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Will you answer?

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Spread your joy, spread your light.

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You are enough.

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Much love, take flight with Monica.

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