Empowering Bytes: The 8 keys to unlock an empowered life

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Great day, amazing human.

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Welcome to the Empowered in My Skin podcast where our mission is to help 1 billion people in this world think in more empowering ways.

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Empower humans.

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Empower humans.

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So you are in the right spot to become a lead domino for Empowerment today.

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My name is Inke Chi.

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I'm not only your host, but I am a vibrant, optimist, obsessed success to bring you empowering content.

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With each episode, we will be bringing you content, alternating between longer episodes with featured guests and shorter episodes called Empowering Bites, where I'll be joined by my co host, Gabby Mamone.

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So if you're ready, let the show begin.

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Great day, amazing humans.

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Yes.

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Welcome to the next episode of Empowering Bites on the Empowered My Skin podcast.

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And it is the final one.

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But I'm not with somebody that's final.

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I'm with somebody that's fabulous and fantastic and what's another great F word, Gabriella Mamone.

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Oh, well, thank you very much.

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You have a lot of conviction and patience, and you were very patient and positioned in that statement.

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And relentless.

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And relentless.

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Did you know where we're going with this?

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I know where you're going because we had a B roll.

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Let's just be honest.

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We had a B roll.

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We had a B roll.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, today we want to talk about the framework, the framework of empowered in my skin, because it's important to have a framework of things that we believe in in the present.

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So the word be is powerful.

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The word be is very powerful.

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It's not like I want to be, it's like I am, you know, so the word be is important here.

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So I would like you to open this up and we'll start a discussion.

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I think so.

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And this is the last episode of season number six, and it was a gift because I was sharing with Gabby that what a lot of people don't know.

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So there are so empowered.

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My skin has a framework for an empowered life.

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Right.

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They actually start off as inky cheese framework for living, trying to empower myself.

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And it started off with four, which was be convinced, be relentless, be patient, and be positioned.

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you know, years ago, back in: 2014

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That I'm, you know, designed for greater.

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And then being patient, knowing that, you know, the greatest thins come after they've been Simmered and slow cooked and they can nurture and all this any other.

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And so learning how to not want things like quick like microwave oven, but like, you know, allowing them to come to me in the time that they need to and then be positioned.

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Right.

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And that's about who.

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Like the environment, you know, who.

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Who's in your environment?

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Who's.

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Whose environment are you in?

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Who's in your network?

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That kind of stuff.

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And so being positioned.

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And so.

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So.

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So I was telling her today that there's four others.

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And so I'm just gonna quickly gift them to you as part of leaving the season and helping you really, you know, find things that you can add to your toolkit to live a more empowered life.

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And so the four, the other four that we never talk about, the first one is be anchored.

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Yeah, I love it.

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And what this one is really, really quickly is about anchoring.

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For me, it's my faith, like God, like anchored to something that is higher and bigger than yourself.

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There was a time when I used to be anchored to like money or relationships or people or career titles and this, that, the other.

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And when those things go away, well, guess what?

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I would falter, I would fall, I'd be unshaky.

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And so.

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But when you're anchored to something that's bigger than yourself, a power that never wavers.

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Right.

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Like, people ask about my endless energy, and it's because I'm plugged into a very energetic source that has no bounds.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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So.

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And what I know about you.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah, I was gonna say, one thing I know about you from all these years is that you have a lot of self trust.

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Like you trust.

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You trust your intuition, you trust your inner guidance.

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You've got this really strong foundation.

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You're very resilient.

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And, you know, you bounce back.

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And this all comes with being anchored.

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Thank you.

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And I think what I've recognized, and I just have so much evidence, is like being anchored to God.

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Every mess has become a message, right?

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Every test is a testimony.

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I've turned, you know, I've turned from victim to victor.

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You know, so there's just love it and.

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And every step of the way, it's because, you know, just I continuously increase my faith anyway, so that's number.

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That's.

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That's actually.

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So it's be convinced and then it's be anchored.

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Then you get into be relentless.

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And then number four was used to be once upon a time, be focused.

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But then I realized, well, ink you're focusing on the wrong thing sometimes.

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And really and truly, I learned about.

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No, it's about eliminating your distractions.

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And so it became, how can I become indistractable?

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Yes.

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And a lot of people think the opposite of distraction is focus.

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The opposite of distraction is actually traction.

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Yeah.

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So it's staying true to what you said you're going to do long after the, The.

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The.

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The feeling you said has passed and getting to that, getting over the.

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Getting to the finish line.

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So being indistractable in that journey, whatever it is that you are, you want to get traction on.

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So being distractible.

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Right.

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And that's about eliminating the distractions, the things that cause you to not get traction on the things that you like, where you want to go in life, and.

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And so focus on gaining traction every step of the way.

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Love it.

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Yeah.

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And that in turn, causes a clear vision and maximizes productivity.

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Maximizes productivity.

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I love that.

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Yes.

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It puts things that you need to do on your calendar.

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Right?

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Yes, I love it.

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Then be patient.

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Right.

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Which we already went through.

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Then after that, it's be informed.

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You know, I think some of the things that I've observed is like.

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And I think that's why I actually started a podcast is like, I just wanted to be informed.

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I wanted to be.

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I want to start to learn how to be more insatiably curious, how to, like, practice active listening, how to get information so that I know that either I'm using it to make sound decisions or, you know, less likely to, like, pounce on something without having all of the information that I have.

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And I think with information, you can also.

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Then also inform others.

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Right.

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So then it's also getting to the practice of informing other people, like sharing data, you know, making decisions based on data and not just based on hearsay.

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So be informed is such a powerful leadership tool.

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And then obviously be.

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Be positioned.

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And then rounding up the eight is be grateful.

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It is so hard to be hateful when you're grateful.

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Yeah.

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Practice gratitude.

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I think it's an attitude, like, you know, the attitude of gratitude you often hear about.

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I write in my gratitude journal every single day.

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And you don't need to be grateful for the big thins.

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Be grateful for the small things.

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And I think when you're grateful for small, you give yourself the opportunity to.

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To get more.

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Right.

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So I think, yes.

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You know, the Bible talks about be faithful over a few so that you can be ruler over many.

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But I think it starts with just the small, small acts of gratitude.

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You know, every single Day, like, be grateful for yourself.

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Be grateful for others.

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Be grateful for what you experience.

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Be grateful for the hardships.

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Because you can't have good ships without hardships, right?

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Like, how would you know the difference if you didn't?

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So, yeah.

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So those are.

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Those are that.

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That rounds up the framework.

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So again, all eight, be convinced.

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Number one, know who you are.

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Be anchored something.

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Connect yourself to a really higher like, stronghold force that never wavers.

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Number three, be relentless.

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Fight the attack.

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You've got this.

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Run your own race, you know.

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Number four, be indistractable.

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You know, shut down distractions.

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Get traction on the things that you want to do.

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Number five, be patient.

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Number six, be informed, you know, and inform others.

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Number seven, be positioned.

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And number eight, be grateful.

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And there you have it.

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All eight positive frameworks empowered in my skin life.

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Yes.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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What a great way to round up the season.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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And I love it.

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I love you.

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I am so grateful for you.

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So grateful for the season.

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We did 26 episodes of these and guess what?

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Are you coming back for season seven?

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Hi.

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Will you take me?

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Of course I will.

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Yay.

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I'm so.

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I'm so.

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And Kachi, I just want to say thank you on behalf of everyone.

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You impact so many lives all over the world.

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Thank you for creating this safe space, this vulnerable space.

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Your words of wisdom.

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I've totally enjoyed spending this time with you.

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Each time we record and share an episode, it's quite a gift.

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And likewise, Gabby, I appreciate you for being the force that created this for the brainchild behind this.

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And it's been such a pleasure actually having this co host opportunity.

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I learned a lot from you.

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You energize me, you know, kindness like no other.

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And yeah, it's a great sisterhood that we have here.

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I love it.

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I can't wait.

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We're going to be watch this.

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I'm going to put it out there now.

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Get ready.

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Are you ready to join us for.

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For season 50?

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I love it.

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I love it.

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I wonder what will look like.

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Oh my gosh.

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We're going to look beautiful.

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Fabulous.

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And yes, I agree.

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I love it.

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So to everybody, thank you so much for an amazing, empowering season.

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We look forward to seeing you.

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Season seven.

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Stay tuned for the trailer.

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We're going to be bringing you another episode 52.

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52 episodes of Empowered content.

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So we love you unconditionally, every listener.

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We love you.

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Thank you.

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And this is where we say I.

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Mink and I'm Gabby with one B.

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And we're out.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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There you have it.

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I trust you are feeling more empowered in your skin.

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As the late Dr.

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Maya Angelou said, when you get, you give.

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When you learn, you teach.

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