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Laurie Palau is a mom, professional
organizer and founder of Simply be
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organized. Welcome to this organized
life where each week she'll share
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practical tips. Even the most
disorganized person can follow.
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Struggling with clutter, looking for
the best products To keep you organized,
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you've come to the right place. Here's
your host Organizing expert Lori. Hello,
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everybody. And welcome to today's
episode of this organized life, my
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dearest Lord Plow joined by Miss Erika
Goodyear with up nothing. It is super
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exciting. We've got so much going on,
we are in the throes of summer. This is
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episode 82. In some ways, I feel like
it should be 182. Really? I'm like, Wow,
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82. We've heard on 82 of these. I know
it. I guess it just I feel like we've
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been doing it forever. In a good way.
Yeah, Not in a bad way. Yes. Yeah, but
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Maria, But for those of you who are
maybe just to name for the first time
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or new subscribers, you can go back if
you so choose and binge. Listen to as
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many episodes as you want. You could
start the beginning, work your way up,
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You could float around but summer is a
great time to do it all our episodes
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are 20 minutes. Give just take, which
is perfect. Everybody's got 20 minutes,
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right? Yeah. And if you ever like binge
watches show one Netflix time goes by
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so fast Well, it's funny because I'm
always like, Oh, if there's a 30 minute
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show, get like you're like, Yes, I feel
like I could get, like, twice as much
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in the hour show. Yeah, so, yeah, you
could get If you do, like hour long
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workout, you can listen. Three of our
episodes. Bam that. And then after
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you're gonna be like, What can I do?
What can I change my house? What kind
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of furniture can I do? A drawer. And I
do. That's I know it is. It puts you in
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the mood. I think it's really funny.
Actually. Have a quick side note. So we
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were recording this at the end of June,
even though I know that this is gonna
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air a little bit later. But so we've
been then throws of grab parties. Emily
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just graduated. Congrats to Emily. Yes,
we're exciting. But I was at one of our
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other friends grab parties and one of
her family members was there who had
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met briefly like a couple of years ago.
But we were chit chatting and she could
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be. You really should have a show
because you have a really good voice
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for that kind of stuff. I think my
voice is so not, but it's distinct,
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right? It's a distinct voice, and she's
like, I guess she listens to Cres a lot.
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She's like, You shove us challengers. I
go have a podcast like you dio she quit,
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puts a cold just like I listed podcast
all the time. It's good. Yeah, it's
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awesome. Yeah, So it was. It was pretty
funny. And when And I was just saying
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it when we were saying offline that Ah,
was it Shane his grad party? For those
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of you who listened, we had our intern,
Shane O with us, and she was a guest on
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her show, and she was actually really
good and had some great insight. When I
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was at a hard graft party, all of her
aunts and uncles were like, Oh, you
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were on Shane's show and I go, Yes, of
course, Yes, I watch Shane a all about
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change. Yeah, it was nice because we
haven't had, you know, I guess a
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younger, you know, teenage view of
things on the show. Yes, it was really
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nice. It was It was great. Any and I
love her. I went to her presentation
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that she had to do it school on. And so
she she she shared a clip of the show,
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which is really cute. And she told,
like all the high schoolers toe
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subscribe and download. She was, like,
totally our champion. Yes, it was
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awesome. We love her. We do love her.
But if you're looking for other stuff
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to do this summer are buck hot bass.
It's great. Summer read Super easy.
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We're gonna talk about books, which is
awesome. It's just awesome. Pick up,
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put down, pick up, put down. You know
what I mean? Like, if you're going to
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the beach and you want to read for 20
minutes, you can do that. And the
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chapters air. So sure you could just
read a couple chapters to write it down?
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Yeah, And you don't get law. You don't
get lost. I've got books before where
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I've read for 20 minutes when I come
back and I'm like, Who? What about?
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Yeah, I have to go back a little bit to
see, like where I got the plot? Yes,
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exactly. There's no plot, There's no
plot. There's no big words. But that's
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right. It's easy. It is on the other
thing that you can dio also. And again,
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we're gonna talk about today. We're
talking about shift in schedules is our
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blogged just for those of you again who
are maybe new and haven't aren't
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familiar with us. If you go to our
website simply the letter B like boy
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organized dot com, we have a ton of
free content in articles and blog's
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that's written by us a lot by our
partners, whether it's organizing your
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time or spaces or stuff for kids or
organizing in the workplace, whatever
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it is. So not only is there stuff, you
know, obviously the book in what not,
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But there's so much free resource that
we wouldn't be able to provide to
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people to help them, you know, help de
clutter and simplify their lives. Oh
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yeah, make her life easier. I know.
Yeah, but today I wanted to talk about
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adapting your schedules because this is
something that's very real and relevant
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in my life. I would assume inures to
totally yes. And because of all the
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snow days where we live, our kids are
just I mean, by time this airs, Thank
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the good Lord above. They will be out
of jail. But right now they're in their
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last couple days. Yeah, still in. Yeah,
and I'm ready like I'm ready for this
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shift in schedules. And I spoken about
this before how I feel like there's a
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lot of kind of new starts. There's the
new start of in January. You have the
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new start with back to school on, and I
also think the end of school year
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summer is a new star. And so for so
early, and for some of our listeners
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that are in the South or Midwest, that
may have gotten out already. Maybe
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years already started, but for us here
in the Northeast, it happens towards
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the end of June. Usually right on, how
do you like it's, you know, how do you
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make that shift and what does that look
like in terms of not having your house
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go completely off the rails. You know,
what's the give and take that happens?
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I wanted to talk a little bit about
that. So, um, for me, I think I'll kick
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it off. I know. For me, there's things
that I put off specifically until the
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summer. For example, I don't read
enough. Or as much as I would like
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during the year, like talking about
OPEC, that's totally made that I agree
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with that. Yeah, and like Josh is an
excellent reader like he is very
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disciplined. He reads all the time. He
loves reading. He's like a bookworm
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nerd. Um, I am not that good at carving
out time to read during the year, so I
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tend to read in the summer more. I'm
very similar, except I do do audible
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you dio dio. So, like, if I'm at home,
you know, I really can't do that by
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yourself because nobody wants to listen
to your book unless I'm like in my
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bedroom folding laundry away because
you don't have, like, a commute. That's
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great. People that commute right, you
can, like, put it in the car and stuff.
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Yeah, yeah, but I'll put it on like
what? Just unfolding laundry in the
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house and I'll listen to a couple
chapters Are, you know, that kind of
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thing, Or even walking the dog do with
podcast? Yeah. See for me that, like my
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podcast time? Yeah, I'm going to talk
about some of my fever podcasts in down
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the road, cause yeah, horse. Um but I
think that for me, I'm always like, Oh,
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I want to be back. And I actually have
a list of books that I am started
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rating and that I want to. So almost
like a New Year's resolution off this
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summer. This is, ah, goal that I want
to accomplish because, you know, what I
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try to do is replace some of the
activities that normally would take
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place with the school year with
something else productive, you know? So
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I know Josh makes lunches, But like,
for example, if I'm not making lunches,
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what else can I do with that time? Not
that I just want to stay busy, But if
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there's things that I want to
accomplish, Like, how can I repurpose
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that time? That No, I think that's
awesome. Yeah, So you know, for me, I
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think reading is a big a big one for
May. What about you? Is there anything
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that you I do definitely read more in
the summer? Definitely. I mean, that's
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definite. I haven't made a list yet of
what I want to read. I tend Teoh, um,
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grab books from people that have
already read. Yeah, so? And I'm usually
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I usually stock up, and then I take
them. I usually take them up to the
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islands coming out There are a lot. So
and I definitely like to read on the
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dock. Geo, have a particular genre or
do you mean Ah, I mix it up totally.
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I'm reading a memoir right now. Yeah.
So you know, I I'll read anything. Yeah,
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I do, too. Yeah. And it's funny because
I was writing for when I was prepping
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for the show. I literally pulled up my
my podcast page my pockets. I looked at
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the episodes because I wanted to share
some of my favorite podcast figure. Hey,
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if you guys you're listening to my
podcast, you probably listen to other
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podcasts. So maybe I can share some of
the ones that I find enjoyable. And you
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might want to listen to them too. Yeah,
and it's so diverse in terms of the
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content. And we're like, I'm all over
the map. Well, I also like, toe learn
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and I like under nod everything. I'm
not I don't really like a mystery. Not
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so much, but anything medical. I like
anything. I I tend to pick books that
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are in London for some reason because
you lived in London? Yes. And so, like,
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when I'm reading it, I'm like, Oh, I
used to go down that street or I used
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to do this. Sir, it's so funny idea,
you know, histories, histories. Good.
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See it because Josh makes fun me?
Because if somebody will recommend a
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book and it's like a period piece, he's
like, You don't you're not gonna like
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this. Well, Todd makes one of me cause
I'm like a huge lady, that Diana fan
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and I follow all the weddings and I
look on that history part and he's like,
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Yeah, I think it was every born as,
like, somebody that lives in Kensington
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or something. Yeah, that just doesn't
do it for you. Like that stuff. I'm
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like the days of yore. No. Give me,
like a good self help book. Yeah. What?
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I'll do that, too. Right? And I like
the psychology behind people, that's
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all. That why people think or do
certain things. Yeah. Yeah, you like
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that? But I also like a good young
adult book. Yeah, Yeah, I just I just
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finished one not too long ago. That was
in the young adult sections like, Oh,
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this is really good. This is enjoyable.
Yeah. So I think it's it's good to kind
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of keep things, you know, brushing.
Yeah, but I know for me, it's I guess I
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also have less guilt for not, um,
reading throughout the year, even
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though in again, in theory, I would
like to say, Oh, throughout the year,
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I'm gonna every night I'm gonna re But
I just don't I'm just not that person.
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And maybe when my kids graduate, high
school or at night, like my life
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changes and I'm not running to a
different activities and things like
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that, I'll be able to carve out more
time. But at this particular season
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that we're in, it just doesn't seem to
fit into my world on a regular,
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consistent basis. But I do prioritize
it and make time for guilt free in the
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summer. Same with me. I have a hard
time sitting on the couch while I have
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a pile of laundry sitting there 100% so,
like, sit and just read for an hour.
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And I always want to be that person. Me
to that also reads before they go to
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bed. But I am. I read maybe two pages
and the book is like, um, I'm asleep.
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Oh, and then I had to re re except
forgot what I rub. Yes. So it's a
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little pointless. Exactly. Eso Okay, so
I'm going to talk about the books that
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I'm reading just so that people in case
in case anyone's curious, you might ask.
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All right. So I
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Have you heard of the Enea Graham? No.
Okay, so I hadn't either. And I feel
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like I was, like, a little late to the
party because everyone on my podcast
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that I listened to all my my my fake
podcast friends. Yes, they are all
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really big into the any grandpa. So I
as you know, I'm really being in tow.
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Like personality assessments. Whether
it's Myers, Briggs, Gretchen Rubin's
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for tendencies. Will that kind of stuff
so the any a gram and I'm going to
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probably misquote it. It's like an
ancient. It's traced back toe, Egyptian
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or Greek times. Steve, have you heard
of the anagram? Have not. Okay, so it's
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trace back. And there's nine distinct
personality traits okay, that are tied
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to like who you are like from. And I
haven't read the full book. I just
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started it, but there's like a little
bit of each personality trait in all of
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us, Okay, but but one man is more
dominant, and it's basically how you
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see world like the world through your
lens. So you and I could see the same
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situation and process it completely
averagely because of our personnel on
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and so and I don't have the less, but
it's very fasting. So first of all,
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this is totally my lane, because I love
that I can try toe figure a way to
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understand people better. I think it
just yeah, I know. I like to pretend
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like I'm a psychologist, but I think it
also helps me with my kids and just
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other interaction, whether it's with co
workers, more people in life. But it's
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interesting in this stuff that I've
read so far, like I just did the quick,
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quick overview. Yeah, and I'm like, Oh,
how many? Oh, so he's a sex row. You're
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too right, right, you know. So I'm very
have to grab that one and there's a lot
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of different. Um, there's a ton of
books like if you even just go on
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Amazon or you just like Google that any
Graeme There's a lot of different
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authors and stuff. I mean, but the I'm
sure their interpretation very somewhat.
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But the nine traits are the nine trade,
right? So, um, I'm interested toe do a
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little bit more research and, like,
read about it a little bit worse.
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That's not Yeah, it always is very
interesting to May. So that's what I'm
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reading now. And I also want to read,
Um, I'm a big Jen Hatmaker fan, okay?
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And she's an author. She's an
influencer. And so I I'm following her
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podcast, which is one of my podcasts at
him jamming on these days. So I just
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ordered she's written a bunch of best
selling books, but one of the books
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that she wrote, it's called Set. Here,
let me get the actual it's called seven.
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An experimental mutiny against excess
on. She wrote it. I actually, she's
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that would really, really make my day.
It probably my year, but I would not
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hold my breath on that. But this
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that she and her family did. They live
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so cool. And they pick seven distinct
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my head what they were, but it was like
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her family like, immediate PM immediate
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Children? Yes, over her husband,
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I follow him on instagram. So we're
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instead, friends with her. I don't
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five kids. Okay, Three biological and
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know, like, you know, I want to be her
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was Basically they felt like they had
too much material things. So they did
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this year. Long experiment, how they
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and or things in these seven categories.
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want a misquote, cause I haven't read
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workbook activity thing, like, and I So
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to ride like activities and answering
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Okay, I think I need to go to the
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But anyway, I got it. And like I said,
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Okay, in general. So I thought this
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really relevant contact content for
what we dio. Yeah. Oh, I need to get
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that. I need to get on that train. Yeah.
So, um, what, three minutes already?
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Steve, just give me the three minute
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that because we like to be on their way,
like chicken. Okay, so I'm going to
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scooch over the podcast stroke since
we're Yeah, running low on time. All
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right, so those are two of my big books
that I'm gonna be reading this summer
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for sure. Podcasts. I m listening. I'm
a big fan of Jamie Ivy, which I think I
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may have mentioned before. She, um she
is a Christian podcaster, and she is a
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show called The Happy Hour, where every
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Okay, um, to talk about their life and
what they're doing. And, um, she just
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got really interesting gas that I find
her very like inspirational. And she's,
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you know, she's she's a mom. She also
some adopted kids, and I just I really
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like her as well, and I like her
messaging. So I was like listening to
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her and on that same genre, the going
Scared podcast with Jessica Honaker.
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She founded noonday collection, which
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offend her by saying it's like a direct
marking like its They do, um, home
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sales story. But it's all made by, like
people in like Rwanda and underserved
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country. So all the jewelry goes to
fund all of these like villages So it's
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all, like, sustainably responsible. And
that's awesome. Yeah, so it's really,
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really cool. And I like her and she has
this podcast cold going scared. I just
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talks about like people, whether
they're in the workforce or just things
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that they've done in their lives that
they've done. Despite being afraid on,
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I just again think it's really
inspirational. E I enjoy it. Ah, like I
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said, Jen Hatmaker is podcast for the
love. But then switching gears Alec in
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the dark. For those of you who, like I
said, some mystery, something it is,
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it's like one is true crime podcast
like cereal and all those flip
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advantage. Yes, because I I listened to
serial once in a while we talk, got me
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on that on. And I was like, Oh, I don't
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I like freaky. I like it. So, yes, so
in the dark is really good. I'm in
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season two now, in one. I loved season
shoes a little tougher for me to get
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through are not liking it as much, but
I really am enjoying its if you like
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that kind of true crime podcast. Um
also then again switching gears again.
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There's this pocket school how to be
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already am not just our about you.
Maybe I need to listen to that. So I
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like Listen, I like listening to
entrepreneurial. Yeah, casts and other
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things about how toe help people thrive
in their job. So there's a couple that
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let's do this one called work Life with
Adam Grant. He's an organizational
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psychologist. And, like I said, the how
to be awesome at your job, which is
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Pete. I was forget his last name. I'm
gonna mess it up, Have a look that one
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up. But they're really good. And again,
you don't have to listen all of them
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because they're not, I mean, the true
crime ones. Or like sequential. You
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have to listen in order for to make
sense. But these other ones are also
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because you just bop around like pull
out the ones that are what I like. Well,
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that's like what are depends on Yeah,
because of all depends on how I'm
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feeling that day. Yeah. You know what I
want to listen to or what I learned
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about? Yeah. So I mean, there's a lot
of different ones out there, and those
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are just a few that almost in two. But
we would love to hear what you guys
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you're listening to because obviously,
if you're listening to our show, I
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would like to believe that you're
listening to some other podcasts as
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well. And we're going to do like a
recap after, and I'm gonna let you know
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all the ones I listen to and the books.
Oh, yeah, I'm putting it down there.
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Yes, we're going to do it in the fall.
We're going to say what we accomplished.
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Like what we do in our summer vacation?
Yeah, we're absolutely going to do it.
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Goodyear with up nothing. It is super
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exciting. We've got so much going on,
we are in the throes of summer. This is
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episode 82. In some ways, I feel like
it should be 182. Really? I'm like, Wow,
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82. We've heard on 82 of these. I know
it. I guess it just I feel like we've
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been doing it forever. In a good way.
Yeah, Not in a bad way. Yes. Yeah, but
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Maria, But for those of you who are
maybe just to name for the first time
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or new subscribers, you can go back if
you so choose and binge. Listen to as
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many episodes as you want. You could
start the beginning, work your way up,
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You could float around but summer is a
great time to do it all our episodes
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are 20 minutes. Give just take, which
is perfect. Everybody's got 20 minutes,
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right? Yeah. And if you ever like binge
watches show one Netflix time goes by
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so fast Well, it's funny because I'm
always like, Oh, if there's a 30 minute
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show, get like you're like, Yes, I feel
like I could get, like, twice as much
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in the hour show. Yeah, so, yeah, you
could get If you do, like hour long
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workout, you can listen. Three of our
episodes. Bam that. And then after
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you're gonna be like, What can I do?
What can I change my house? What kind
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of furniture can I do? A drawer. And I
do. That's I know it is. It puts you in
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the mood. I think it's really funny.
Actually. Have a quick side note. So we
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were recording this at the end of June,
even though I know that this is gonna
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air a little bit later. But so we've
been then throws of grab parties. Emily
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just graduated. Congrats to Emily. Yes,
we're exciting. But I was at one of our
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other friends grab parties and one of
her family members was there who had
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met briefly like a couple of years ago.
But we were chit chatting and she could
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be. You really should have a show
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for that kind of stuff. I think my
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right? It's a distinct voice, and she's
like, I guess she listens to Cres a lot.
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She's like, You shove us challengers. I
go have a podcast like you dio she quit,
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puts a cold just like I listed podcast
all the time. It's good. Yeah, it's
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awesome. Yeah, So it was. It was pretty
funny. And when And I was just saying
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it when we were saying offline that Ah,
was it Shane his grad party? For those
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of you who listened, we had our intern,
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her show, and she was actually really
good and had some great insight. When I
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was at a hard graft party, all of her
aunts and uncles were like, Oh, you
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were on Shane's show and I go, Yes, of
course, Yes, I watch Shane a all about
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change. Yeah, it was nice because we
haven't had, you know, I guess a
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younger, you know, teenage view of
things on the show. Yes, it was really
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nice. It was It was great. Any and I
love her. I went to her presentation
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that she had to do it school on. And so
she she she shared a clip of the show,
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which is really cute. And she told,
like all the high schoolers toe
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subscribe and download. She was, like,
totally our champion. Yes, it was
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awesome. We love her. We do love her.
But if you're looking for other stuff
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to do this summer are buck hot bass.
It's great. Summer read Super easy.
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We're gonna talk about books, which is
awesome. It's just awesome. Pick up,
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put down, pick up, put down. You know
what I mean? Like, if you're going to
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the beach and you want to read for 20
minutes, you can do that. And the
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chapters air. So sure you could just
read a couple chapters to write it down?
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Yeah, And you don't get law. You don't
get lost. I've got books before where
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I've read for 20 minutes when I come
back and I'm like, Who? What about?
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Yeah, I have to go back a little bit to
see, like where I got the plot? Yes,
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exactly. There's no plot, There's no
plot. There's no big words. But that's
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right. It's easy. It is on the other
thing that you can dio also. And again,
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we're gonna talk about today. We're
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blogged just for those of you again who
are maybe new and haven't aren't
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familiar with us. If you go to our
website simply the letter B like boy
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organized dot com, we have a ton of
free content in articles and blog's
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that's written by us a lot by our
partners, whether it's organizing your
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time or spaces or stuff for kids or
organizing in the workplace, whatever
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it is. So not only is there stuff, you
know, obviously the book in what not,
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But there's so much free resource that
we wouldn't be able to provide to
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people to help them, you know, help de
clutter and simplify their lives. Oh
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yeah, make her life easier. I know.
Yeah, but today I wanted to talk about
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adapting your schedules because this is
something that's very real and relevant
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in my life. I would assume inures to
totally yes. And because of all the
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snow days where we live, our kids are
just I mean, by time this airs, Thank
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the good Lord above. They will be out
of jail. But right now they're in their
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last couple days. Yeah, still in. Yeah,
and I'm ready like I'm ready for this
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shift in schedules. And I spoken about
this before how I feel like there's a
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lot of kind of new starts. There's the
new start of in January. You have the
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new start with back to school on, and I
also think the end of school year
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summer is a new star. And so for so
early, and for some of our listeners
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that are in the South or Midwest, that
may have gotten out already. Maybe
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years already started, but for us here
in the Northeast, it happens towards
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the end of June. Usually right on, how
do you like it's, you know, how do you
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make that shift and what does that look
like in terms of not having your house
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go completely off the rails. You know,
what's the give and take that happens?
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I wanted to talk a little bit about
that. So, um, for me, I think I'll kick
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it off. I know. For me, there's things
that I put off specifically until the
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summer. For example, I don't read
enough. Or as much as I would like
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during the year, like talking about
OPEC, that's totally made that I agree
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with that. Yeah, and like Josh is an
excellent reader like he is very
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disciplined. He reads all the time. He
loves reading. He's like a bookworm
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nerd. Um, I am not that good at carving
out time to read during the year, so I
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tend to read in the summer more. I'm
very similar, except I do do audible
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you dio dio. So, like, if I'm at home,
you know, I really can't do that by
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I know Josh makes lunches, But like,
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what else can I do with that time? Not
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definite. I haven't made a list yet of
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grab books from people that have
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islands coming out There are a lot. So
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dock. Geo, have a particular genre or
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I'm reading a memoir right now. Yeah.
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I do, too. Yeah. And it's funny because
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content. And we're like, I'm all over
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when I'm reading it, I'm like, Oh, I
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to do this. Sir, it's so funny idea,
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or something. Yeah, that just doesn't
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like the days of yore. No. Give me,
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I'll do that, too. Right? And I like
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all. That why people think or do
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that? But I also like a good young
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this is really good. This is enjoyable.
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of keep things, you know, brushing.
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also have less guilt for not, um,
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though in again, in theory, I would
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I'm gonna every night I'm gonna re But
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changes and I'm not running to a
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that, I'll be able to carve out more
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that we're in, it just doesn't seem to
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consistent basis. But I do prioritize
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summer. Same with me. I have a hard
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a pile of laundry sitting there 100% so,
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bed. But I am. I read maybe two pages
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Oh, and then I had to re re except
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little pointless. Exactly. Eso Okay, so
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I'm reading just so that people in case
in case anyone's curious, you might ask.
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Have you heard of the Enea Graham? No.
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like I was, like, a little late to the
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that I listened to all my my my fake
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really big into the any grandpa. So I
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Like personality assessments. Whether
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for tendencies. Will that kind of stuff
so the any a gram and I'm going to
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probably misquote it. It's like an
ancient. It's traced back toe, Egyptian
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or Greek times. Steve, have you heard
of the anagram? Have not. Okay, so it's
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trace back. And there's nine distinct
personality traits okay, that are tied
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to like who you are like from. And I
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started it, but there's like a little
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us, Okay, but but one man is more
dominant, and it's basically how you
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see world like the world through your
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situation and process it completely
averagely because of our personnel on
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and so and I don't have the less, but
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this is totally my lane, because I love
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understand people better. I think it
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like I'm a psychologist, but I think it
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other interaction, whether it's with co
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interesting in this stuff that I've
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quick overview. Yeah, and I'm like, Oh,
how many? Oh, so he's a sex row. You're
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too right, right, you know. So I'm very
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of different. Um, there's a ton of
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Amazon or you just like Google that any
Graeme There's a lot of different
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authors and stuff. I mean, but the I'm
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But the nine traits are the nine trade,
right? So, um, I'm interested toe do a
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little bit more research and, like,
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That's not Yeah, it always is very
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reading now. And I also want to read,
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podcast, which is one of my podcasts at
him jamming on these days. So I just
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ordered she's written a bunch of best
selling books, but one of the books
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that she wrote, it's called Set. Here,
let me get the actual it's called seven.
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An experimental mutiny against excess
on. She wrote it. I actually, she's
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She's a big deal. Also, I would love
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that would really, really make my day.
It probably my year, but I would not
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hold my breath on that. But this
particular book, it's an experiment
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that she and her family did. They live
in Austin, Texas. Oh, my God. This is
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so cool. And they pick seven distinct
things. I don't remember off the top of
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my head what they were, but it was like
food, clothing, activities. What's a
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her family like, immediate PM immediate
family like her and her husband and
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Children? Yes, over her husband,
Brandon. I feel like I know them cause
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I follow him on instagram. So we're
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instead, friends with her. I don't
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five kids. Okay, Three biological and
two adopted kids from Ethiopia. So, you
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know, like, you know, I want to be her
door gaskets for Africa. Yes, and so it
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was Basically they felt like they had
too much material things. So they did
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this year. Long experiment, how they
eliminated all but like, seven things
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and or things in these seven categories.
That's interesting. Yeah, so I don't
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want a misquote, cause I haven't read
it, but she's, like a whole, like
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workbook activity thing, like, and I So
I just bought the book because I want
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to ride like activities and answering
questions, figuring out where you are.
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Okay, I think I need to go to the
bookstore before I leave for the island.
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You shut. I think she they have a DVD
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But anyway, I got it. And like I said,
I'm a huge I'm a huge IMAP acre fan.
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Okay, in general. So I thought this
would be awesome, and it would be
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really relevant contact content for
what we dio. Yeah. Oh, I need to get
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that. I need to get on that train. Yeah.
So, um, what, three minutes already?
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Steve, just give me the three minute
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that because we like to be on their way,
like chicken. Okay, so I'm going to
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scooch over the podcast stroke since
we're Yeah, running low on time. All
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right, so those are two of my big books
that I'm gonna be reading this summer
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for sure. Podcasts. I m listening. I'm
a big fan of Jamie Ivy, which I think I
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may have mentioned before. She, um she
is a Christian podcaster, and she is a
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show called The Happy Hour, where every
week she invites a guest on the show.
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Okay, um, to talk about their life and
what they're doing. And, um, she just
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got really interesting gas that I find
her very like inspirational. And she's,
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you know, she's she's a mom. She also
some adopted kids, and I just I really
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like her as well, and I like her
messaging. So I was like listening to
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her and on that same genre, the going
Scared podcast with Jessica Honaker.
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She founded noonday collection, which
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offend her by saying it's like a direct
marking like its They do, um, home
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sales story. But it's all made by, like
people in like Rwanda and underserved
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country. So all the jewelry goes to
fund all of these like villages So it's
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all, like, sustainably responsible. And
that's awesome. Yeah, so it's really,
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really cool. And I like her and she has
this podcast cold going scared. I just
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talks about like people, whether
they're in the workforce or just things
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that they've done in their lives that
they've done. Despite being afraid on,
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I just again think it's really
inspirational. E I enjoy it. Ah, like I
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said, Jen Hatmaker is podcast for the
love. But then switching gears Alec in
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the dark. For those of you who, like I
said, some mystery, something it is,
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it's like one is true crime podcast
like cereal and all those flip
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advantage. Yes, because I I listened to
serial once in a while we talk, got me
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on that on. And I was like, Oh, I don't
know if I'm gonna listen to this. See,
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I like freaky. I like it. So, yes, so
in the dark is really good. I'm in
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season two now, in one. I loved season
shoes a little tougher for me to get
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through are not liking it as much, but
I really am enjoying its if you like
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that kind of true crime podcast. Um
also then again switching gears again.
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There's this pocket school how to be
awesome at your job. Oh, maybe actually,
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already am not just our about you.
Maybe I need to listen to that. So I
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like Listen, I like listening to
entrepreneurial. Yeah, casts and other
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things about how toe help people thrive
in their job. So there's a couple that
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let's do this one called work Life with
Adam Grant. He's an organizational
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psychologist. And, like I said, the how
to be awesome at your job, which is
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Pete. I was forget his last name. I'm
gonna mess it up, Have a look that one
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up. But they're really good. And again,
you don't have to listen all of them
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because they're not, I mean, the true
crime ones. Or like sequential. You
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have to listen in order for to make
sense. But these other ones are also
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because you just bop around like pull
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that's like what are depends on Yeah,
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feeling that day. Yeah. You know what I
want to listen to or what I learned
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about? Yeah. So I mean, there's a lot
of different ones out there, and those
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are just a few that almost in two. But
we would love to hear what you guys
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you're listening to because obviously,
if you're listening to our show, I
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would like to believe that you're
listening to some other podcasts as
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well. And we're going to do like a
recap after, and I'm gonna let you know
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all the ones I listen to and the books.
Oh, yeah, I'm putting it down there.
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Yes, we're going to do it in the fall.
We're going to say what we accomplished.
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Like what we do in our summer vacation?
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