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Welcome to Keep Going with Zadra, the podcast for honoring your truest self.
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I'm Zadra Rose Ibanez, certified life coach and public speaker, and I'll be bringing you concepts to help life feel easier, gentler, and kinder, yet also help you stand powerfully in your fullest self-expression so that you can have deep impact for your constituents and your clients, yet still have energy and joy for when you're at home.
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Bringing interviews with amazing individuals, guides, thought leaders, practitioners of magic and goodness, to more structured conversations with tools and technology for massive effectiveness, you'll gain new insights that'll help you love who you become along the way.
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Thank you for joining me.
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Shall we begin?
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Welcome! Tonight is the Hunter's Moon.
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It's a full moon in Taurus.
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Taurus is a fixed earth sign, so it's steady, rooted, sensory.
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It invites you to feel your feet, to fill your seat, the weight of your body held by the earth.
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I have two seemingly disconnected ideas for you today.
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First, trusting yourself, your intuition, your self-worth, and having your own back.
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And second, why caring for the earth and for each other matters, even when it feels like a drop in the ocean.
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Taurus is about stability, self-worth, money, physical resources, and the land itself.
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It's ruled by Venus, who is retrograde right now, along with several other planets.
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It's asking us, what do I truly value and where is my energy going?
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The sun is in Scorpio, which is ruled by Pluto, and it's the sign of depth and power and shared resources.
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So this full moon is asking us to look at what's mine and what's ours, and at what I earn versus what I believe I deserve.
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The themes are long-term financial gain and clarity of direction.
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So we're not looking for a flashy windfall.
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We're looking for slow, sturdy, lasting growth.
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So tauras, earthy, grounded, physical, tangible, one would say practical.
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Many of us were taught that logical and productive means spreadsheets, data, hustle, the five-year plan.
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Those things are valuable.
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You know, I love me a good five-year plan.
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But in the capitalist society, anything that isn't that is treated as unrealistic or fluffy or not as valuable.
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I'd like to offer that intuition is actually a different form of logic.
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It's pattern recognition, it's happening below the surface.
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It's built from everything you've seen, felt, and lived.
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It's not less than a thought.
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It's not less than math or logic.
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It's a different way of being logical.
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It's a different way of knowing, your intuition.
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Your head says, here's what the numbers say.
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And then your gut or your inner knowing, your heart-centered says, here's what the numbers don't see.
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You want to include both aspects.
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So this allowing for both sides, that's what having your own back is about.
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So one is trust your instinct.
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Know what you need, what you desire, and what will work best for you, not for your neighbor, your mom, the algorithm.
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Taurus is a sensory sign.
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It knows in the body when something feels right and when it doesn't.
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Call it a hunch, right?
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Two, your worth, your self-worth, is not your net worth.
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So Taurus rules money and possessions.
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It's tempting to think that this moon is only about earning more.
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But self-worth doesn't come from our finances or our external wealth, even though we like to think it does.
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It really comes from within.
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And you are 100% worthy right now, regardless of your bank account, regardless of your accolades, regardless of any of those things that you collect, any of those someday goals, any of those when I this, then I'll be worthy, then I'll like myself, then I'll feel better.
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Any of that, no.
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It starts from within.
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I remember the line in Cool Runnings, uh, John Candy says, he's talking to one of the Olympians from Jamaica.
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If you haven't seen that movie, I really like it.
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Um, but anyway, there's a line in there where he says, if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.
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And I think about that a lot because we look to external factors to tell us that we've achieved something and that that means now we can rest on our laurels, or now we can like ourselves, or now we can go and participate in the world.
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No.
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We like ourselves now, we participate in the world now, we celebrate our accomplishes, our accomplishments now.
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And it's
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the same when we're aggregating wealth or abundance or practical, tangible physical resources.
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We start with what we desire and then we create those things.
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So the last part is to tend the garden within.
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If we want the external abundance, we have to prepare the soil.
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And that means creating physical and mental environments that can support the wealth flowing in.
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An organized workspace, a calm morning, boundaries that protect your time, inner talk that sounds like a friend instead of a critic.
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And when you stop spending energy on self-doubt, on second guessing and pleasing others, then all of that energy becomes available to point laser-focused at what you want to create.
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Self-doubt is expensive.
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I've been watching The Good Witch.
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I love I don't know.
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I like taking the time to just fall into something soft and gentle and not uh not shoot 'em up.
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So I go for something like The Good Witch.
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Um, but I also have been watching the Transformers rerun.
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So, you know, we get to have both, right?
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Anyway, The Good Witch.
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Cassie Nightingale to me is the picture of self-trust.
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I admire so much about her.
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I don't actually want to be her, but I do admire many of her qualities.
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So she's gracious, she's elegant, she's generous, she loves hosting guests, runs a bed and breakfast, always has a kitchen full of baked goods.
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She's kind, patient, and compassionate.
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Her eyes light up with delight, but she brooks no disrespect.
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She has diplomatic ways of putting people in their place or gently correcting them in a way that they can learn something new or see something they hadn't seen before, but still save face.
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She doesn't go about embarrassing people to correct them.
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She lets them gently change their minds.
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She's heart-centered, intelligent, a problem solver, and she trusts her intuition.
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Warmth and boundaries aren't opposites.
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So that's the Taurus full moon in a person.
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It's soft and strong, generous and grounded.
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Remember, I admire those qualities.
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Some of those qualities I adopt or I see in myself, and some of those qualities I just like watching in somebody else.
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That doesn't mean you have to want to be everything that you admire.
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There is an aspect though where if you see it in someone else, it's because it exists in you.
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So before you discredit or discount yourself in that, look look for ways that people that you admire are reflected in you already.
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Okay, so speaking of grounded, the second angle that I wanted to talk about is Taurus is soil, nature, and tangible resources.
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No other sign is as aligned with sustainability or nonprofit work, particularly environmental work, and the basics of human dignity, feeding, sheltering, and clothing people, helping families buy homes, helping communities rebuild after fires, coastal flooding, and hurricanes, no other sign is as connected to that physical, tangible, real as Taurus.
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Earth.
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It's an Earth sign.
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So if you do this work, sustainability, nonprofit, if you do that work or you support it, you know how easy it is to get discouraged.
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There's so much to do that it can feel like your efforts are in vain.
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But nothing could be further from the truth.
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The energy and the intention of helping others is what matters.
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We have to believe in a world of safety, kindness, comfort, and adequate resources.
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We have to believe that it's possible.
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We have to believe that the environment is worth protecting and that it can be protected, and that we are capable of protecting it and affecting its health and making a difference.
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Self-worth goes beyond questions, do I like myself?
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and reaches into identities.
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The world around me matters, and I believe in my ability to help is an identity.
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And self-worth comes from that chosen identity.
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And the earth is billions of years old, and it's watched species come and go, and climates have changed, and lava and water, and polar ice caps, and meteors and asteroids, and our lives, our lifespans are a handful of decades, right?
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80 to 100 years-ish.
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So on a cosmic scale, it doesn't really matter whether whales exist or whether humans are kind to each other or whether I live debt-free.
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So if it doesn't matter on a cosmic level, then why bother saving the starfish?
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Because if it doesn't matter either way, then I get to choose.
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And I choose kindness.
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I choose to protect a world that's livable and gentle for myself, yes, but also for generations after me.
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Because I like it better that way.
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I find it more interesting, prettier, happier, healthier to live in a world that's green and has water and isn't on fire, and a world where you can see the moon.
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That's the point.
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It's a choice.
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Every day is a choice.
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You act in the direction of the world you desire, or you lay down and let nature quote unquote take its course.
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Nobody hands us the meaning.
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We make it one decision at a time.
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And from a spiritual context, you also get to make that choice.
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So this brings me to this week.
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Samhain is less than a week away.
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The Celtic New Year, it's right around the corner, October 31st to November 1st.
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It's a threshold, a time to release what's finished and prepare the ground for what's next.
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A Taurus full moon at this threshold is a gift because it asks us to bring the practical earthy energy home.
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So this week, let's think about four things.
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Where does your physical environment reflect and support your evolution as a person?
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What room could you imagine or reimagine?
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Or where could you do an inventory reduction, aka a declutter?
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Let go of what belongs to a previous version of you.
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Let go of a fantasy version of you for the version that you actually want to be.
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Next question: What routine could you create to touch the earth?
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Hands in the soil, a walk among trees, sun on your face, fresh air in your lungs, Taurus heals through the senses.
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So where can you employ that and embody that in your day today, this week?
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Next question: Where does your financial life want attention?
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It's not judgment, only attention.
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We're looking.
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Looking is the first act of care.
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Paying attention, giving attention, giving energy and focus.
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And lastly, how will you practice trusting yourself when you discover these answers?
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Because you'll find them.
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Your intuition probably already knows the answers.
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So tonight under the hunter's moon, where do I need to trust my knowing?
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Where am I giving away energy to doubt or pleasing others?
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And what's one small choice I can make this week for my inner garden and one for the world around me?
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Remember that you are worthy, 100% worthy right now.
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You are capable.
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You can have your own back.
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Go plant something.
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Thanks for listening, and until next time, keep going.
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I've given you a lot to think about.
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Sometimes we want to sit with new ideas and ponder them.
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Does this make sense to me?
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How can I apply this in my life?
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What will change if I do?
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At a certain point, though, it becomes more useful to think through these insights with help, with a guide.
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You're ready to accelerate.
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You know you want change.
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You aren't sure if this is the best fit.
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Right now, you're deciding your next step based on what you know of the past.
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Yet your current thoughts are what got you here.
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They will not be what creates the future you desire.
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Schedule a conversation with me.
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We'll map out where you want to go next, what coaching can help with, and you'll have the information you need to decide what's best for you in this moment.
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To take the next step, visit zadaroseibanez.com to pick a time to talk.
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You know what you want.
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Will you allow yourself to create it?