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Mind your own beeswax.
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Hey, count out.
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Lean back.
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Yeah.
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Welcome back to Mind Your Own Beeswax, the podcast where together we are changing our mindset and leveling up our lives.
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My name is Grace, and today I am coming in hot with a beautiful episode to talk about my top three lessons that the one and only Dolly Parton has taught me.
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Now, if you do know me, I'm not the biggest country music fan, but I tell you what, I love and respect my girl Dolly.
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And RIP, since she passed uh about a week ago now, it has been.
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I have just been flooded in my newsfeed on my socials, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, every direction I'm looking is Dolly.
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And God, she was wise, God, she was funny.
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She just said some really funny, quirky, out there things.
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And over the last few days, as I saved and watched all this Dolly content, I just realized that this woman was so authentic and true to herself.
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Dolly never changed for anyone.
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She always maintained her signature Dolly brand.
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And no matter what, she was true to herself.
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And so, of course, I went down an absolute rabbit hole of searching, watching videos about her, learning about her life.
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And I am just obsessed.
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I love her.
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I think she has so much range, she's done so much, and she has such an iconic brand.
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So today, let's talk about my top three lessons that Dolly taught me.
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Lesson number one: don't take yourself too seriously and don't give a fuck about what other people think.
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Dolly did this perfectly.
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When you think about Dolly Parton, you think about the hair, the nails, the makeup, the boobs, the tiny little waist, the glitter.
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You think about her image, and that's the iconic Dolly style.
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And I feel like people always dress up as her.
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It's an iconic character.
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You know when someone is dressed up as Dolly Parton because her look is that iconic.
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But Dolly knows that this look has not always been popular, it has not always been stylish.
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I think Dolly came up in the 1960s.
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So she's lived through like 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, noughties.
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Every fashion era that you can think of, Dolly has lived through it.
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And has she followed the trends?
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Has she been wearing the latest outfits?
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Absolutely not.
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Dolly has been on brand with nobody else but Dolly.
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She's been authentic and just stuck to her guns.
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But unfortunately, the fashion police, society, social media, interviewers back in the day, she got a lot of hate.
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People would say, Why are you dressing like this?
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What are you doing?
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But Dolly didn't care.
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And in fact, because she didn't care, she said, let's go even harder.
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Let's turn up the volume.
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And that now is probably the most iconic thing about Dolly.
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I remember the interview where someone asked her why she dresses the way she does and where she got her sense of style from.
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And she talked about when she was a young girl in her hometown, there was like a woman in the town that dressed this kind of style.
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And I don't want to say she was like a stripper or something of that nature, but I think that's what Dolly was getting at.
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And she just said when she was young, she looked at this woman and thought, damn, she's beautiful.
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She's so glamorous.
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And that's what she aspired to be.
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And Dolly could see that that woman in her hometown, she was judged for the way she looked, but Dolly didn't care because she felt in her heart, in her own sense of authenticity, she felt that's what she wanted and she just loved it and she went for it.
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And that's what I love about Dolly.
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She didn't care what people thought.
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She didn't think about how I can be less embarrassing, how can I fit in?
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She basically said, This is me, and I'm gonna turn up the volume.
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And this is where the lesson came to me.
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I realized how often do we restrict ourselves from being authentic because we take ourselves too seriously or we're worrying about what people think?
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How often do you not post that photo on social media because you're worried about people's judgment?
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How often do you not speak up because you worried what you're gonna say sounds silly?
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How often are you just replaying conversations in your mind because you're wondering, did that person think I was annoying or stupid?
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You need to be like Dolly.
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Live authentically.
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Don't worry about what people are thinking, don't worry about what people are saying.
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And I guarantee you, nobody is thinking about what you're doing or saying more than you are.
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And let Dolly be the proof that when you are authentic and you do what you want, you dress how you want, you speak authentically, people love it.
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And I'm a true believer that when you are authentic and you do what you want and you follow what you love, there is no way you could ever fail because it's authentic, it comes from the heart.
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And someone like Dolly, she remained the same for like 50, 60 years.
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That is an incredibly long career.
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And she maintained that success because she was authentic.
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So this is your sign to be like Dolly.
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Don't worry about what people are thinking, don't be fearful of judgment, don't take yourself too seriously.
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Be who you are and trust that success will follow your authenticity.
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Lesson two from Dolly is don't be afraid to pivot and don't freak out if things have to change.
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Back when Dolly was first famous, she was on a TV show back in 1967.
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Um, and they invited her to the show to replace the previous female singer, and she was there for a few years.
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After a successful period on the show, Dolly eventually wanted to go out and establish herself as a solo artist and do her own thing.
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But it wasn't easy, and her and the host of the show had a very difficult professional split.
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But here's where it gets amazing.
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So Dolly wrote the song, I Will Always Love You about leaving that professional relationship.
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She wasn't writing it about something romantic.
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It was just simply because that relationship had ended.
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Now, when I say the song I Will Always Love You, yes, I mean the famous Whitney Houston song from The Bodyguard, the iconic I Will Always Love You.
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I didn't even know Dolly Puton wrote that song.
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And that is one of the greatest songs of our generation.
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And how incredible that Dolly was in this role on this TV show, which I guess at the time was her idea of success, right?
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If you want to be a singer and you get a gig on a TV show, that is incredible.
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Like how amazing to reach such an incredible point in your career.
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And maybe it's something at the time that she wasn't sure about leaving or was probably scared to go out on her own.
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And because she did that and she went through the struggles and it was difficult for her to leave, that low, that stress, that hard situation led her to creating one of the greatest songs of all time.
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Like that just blows my mind.
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I've heard that song so many times, and I had absolutely no idea that is where it came from.
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And there's so many lessons in this.
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You know, number one, hard times make us tougher, and they are like an inspiration.
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You know, if you don't go through those shitty times, you're not going to be inspired, you're not going to be motivated to do and create great things.
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And that's what happened to Dolly.
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She had that tough situation that inspired her to write one of the best pieces of music ever.
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And then equally, she took a leap of faith.
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You know, she did the hard thing, she left the show and she went out on her own.
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And how scary would that be?
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Being on something like a TV show, it's probably a very secure, stable source of income.
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Going out on your own is a huge, big risk.
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And I think a lot of us feel that, right?
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If you want to start your own business or do your own thing and you're in a full-time job right now, hell yeah, going out and doing your own thing is terrifying.
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It is so scary to make big moves and to chase your dreams.
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But let Dolly be the example that when you do those hard things and you rip the band-aid off, that is where success comes.
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And even though it's gonna be hard, because it will be hard, it is worth it.
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And those hard times and those tough decisions, they make you stronger, they make you better, and success will flow.
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It will always be worth it.
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So thank you, Dolly, for doing the hard thing, for ripping the band-aid off, and not only teaching us this lesson, but creating an absolute banger.
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And I think the perfect Dolly Parton quote that just sums this up is when she says, the way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
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And that job, your job, your current situation, maybe that's the rain right now, but you've got to get through it, and there will never be that dream, that rainbow, unless there is the rain.
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My third and final lesson from Dolly is don't be afraid to live across different chapters.
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Your life will be different in five years, ten years, twenty years.
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Just go with it.
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Don't be scared.
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Dolly did so many different things.
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She started out on that TV show, she had a solo career, she's done movies, she's done TV shows, she's done it all.
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She's got her Dollywood brand, she did Bloody Hannah Montana.
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Like, if that ain't diverse, I don't know what is.
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But her career was so long.
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She started on that TV show in 1967, and we are in 2026.
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So I'm trying to do the math here, but that's like 60, 59, I don't know, don't at me.
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That's a long time.
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It's basically 60 years.
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Let's just summarize 60 years in the business.
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And I think there's a few key lessons here.
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Number one, success is not an overnight thing.
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Imagine that Dolly's dream was to be on Hannah Montana, right?
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That's a very specific thing.
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But imagine she just wanted to be cast on a TV show.
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That took her, Hannah Montana was like 2009, let's say.
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Her career, again, 1967, that's like 40 odd years.
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And she had to do multiple different things.
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She had to go through different phases, meet different people.
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All those roads, those connections, those things that she did led her to that situation.
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And if she hadn't had that long career, she never would have ended up on Hannah Montana.
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And I know that seems like a very random example, but I think it's the perfect example of when you have a very specific dream or goal and you say, I want XYZ.
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I know that I want exactly this.
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It can be so hard to allow the universe to bring that to you, you know?
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Like Dolly, if she specifically wanted that, when you think about it, you're like, well, how would that happen?
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What would I do?
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How would I get there?
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And you get caught up in the details of the exact planning to get to that exact situation.
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But when you play the long game and you put yourself out there, you have a go, you're positive, you show up, you say yes to life, opportunity will come to you and you will get to your goal somehow, some way.
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You just have to trust.
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You can't know the specifics, you just have to trust and you have to say yes.
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And that's what Dolly did.
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She said yes to everything.
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She did all the talk shows, she did the movies, she made the connections, she was funny, she was memorable, and that allowed people to connect to her.
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And because she showed up, was her best self, and had a go, opportunity came to her.
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And you can use that yourself.
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If you've got a specific dream, can you let go of the how?
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And can you just show up as your best self?
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Can you say yes?
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Can you be authentic to yourself?
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And when you live that way, watch your dream come to you in a way that is totally unexpected and way better than you could ever have imagined.
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God bless Dolly Parton.
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We bloody love her.
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Dolly taught me to be authentic, and when you're true to who you are, your success is inevitable.
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When you do hard things and take a leap of faith, it will always pay off.
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You will learn lessons and you will become a better version of yourself.
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And as Dolly says, there ain't no rainbow without the rain.
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And finally, if you show up, say yes, and give the world the best version of yourself, your dreams are just gonna flow to you in unexpected ways.
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Be that best version of yourself and watch opportunities flow to you in unexpected and incredible ways.
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Thank you so much for pushing play on this episode today.
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I hope this has added value to your life, has brought a smile to your face.
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And I hope after listening to this episode, get on Spotify and listen to a Dolly Parton playlist because screaming nine to five at the top of your lungs is gonna be very healing and very motivating to get up and get after your dreams.
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So be like Dolly.
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She wasn't just successful, she was resilient, she was authentic, and she was true to who she was.
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So this is your sign to care a little bit less what people think, be a little bit more unapologetically yourself, and when something doesn't work out, take a breath, dust yourself off, and ask yourself all right, what's next?
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I will talk to you next time, as always.
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Love you, bye.
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Mind your own beeswax.
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Hey, counting up lean back, yeah.
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Mind your own beeswax.
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Hey, count out.
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Lean back.
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Yeah.
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Welcome back to Mind Your Own Beeswax, the podcast where together we are changing our mindset and leveling up our lives.
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My name is Grace, and today I am coming in hot with a beautiful episode to talk about my top three lessons that the one and only Dolly Parton has taught me.
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Now, if you do know me, I'm not the biggest country music fan, but I tell you what, I love and respect my girl Dolly.
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And RIP, since she passed uh about a week ago now, it has been.
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I have just been flooded in my newsfeed on my socials, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, every direction I'm looking is Dolly.
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And God, she was wise, God, she was funny.
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She just said some really funny, quirky, out there things.
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And over the last few days, as I saved and watched all this Dolly content, I just realized that this woman was so authentic and true to herself.
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Dolly never changed for anyone.
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She always maintained her signature Dolly brand.
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And no matter what, she was true to herself.
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And so, of course, I went down an absolute rabbit hole of searching, watching videos about her, learning about her life.
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And I am just obsessed.
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I love her.
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I think she has so much range, she's done so much, and she has such an iconic brand.
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So today, let's talk about my top three lessons that Dolly taught me.
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Lesson number one: don't take yourself too seriously and don't give a fuck about what other people think.
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Dolly did this perfectly.
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When you think about Dolly Parton, you think about the hair, the nails, the makeup, the boobs, the tiny little waist, the glitter.
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You think about her image, and that's the iconic Dolly style.
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And I feel like people always dress up as her.
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It's an iconic character.
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You know when someone is dressed up as Dolly Parton because her look is that iconic.
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But Dolly knows that this look has not always been popular, it has not always been stylish.
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I think Dolly came up in the 1960s.
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So she's lived through like 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, noughties.
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Every fashion era that you can think of, Dolly has lived through it.
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And has she followed the trends?
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Has she been wearing the latest outfits?
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Absolutely not.
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Dolly has been on brand with nobody else but Dolly.
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She's been authentic and just stuck to her guns.
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But unfortunately, the fashion police, society, social media, interviewers back in the day, she got a lot of hate.
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People would say, Why are you dressing like this?
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What are you doing?
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But Dolly didn't care.
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And in fact, because she didn't care, she said, let's go even harder.
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Let's turn up the volume.
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And that now is probably the most iconic thing about Dolly.
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I remember the interview where someone asked her why she dresses the way she does and where she got her sense of style from.
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And she talked about when she was a young girl in her hometown, there was like a woman in the town that dressed this kind of style.
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And I don't want to say she was like a stripper or something of that nature, but I think that's what Dolly was getting at.
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And she just said when she was young, she looked at this woman and thought, damn, she's beautiful.
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She's so glamorous.
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And that's what she aspired to be.
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And Dolly could see that that woman in her hometown, she was judged for the way she looked, but Dolly didn't care because she felt in her heart, in her own sense of authenticity, she felt that's what she wanted and she just loved it and she went for it.
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And that's what I love about Dolly.
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She didn't care what people thought.
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She didn't think about how I can be less embarrassing, how can I fit in?
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She basically said, This is me, and I'm gonna turn up the volume.
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And this is where the lesson came to me.
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I realized how often do we restrict ourselves from being authentic because we take ourselves too seriously or we're worrying about what people think?
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How often do you not post that photo on social media because you're worried about people's judgment?
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How often do you not speak up because you worried what you're gonna say sounds silly?
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How often are you just replaying conversations in your mind because you're wondering, did that person think I was annoying or stupid?
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You need to be like Dolly.
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Live authentically.
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Don't worry about what people are thinking, don't worry about what people are saying.
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And I guarantee you, nobody is thinking about what you're doing or saying more than you are.
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And let Dolly be the proof that when you are authentic and you do what you want, you dress how you want, you speak authentically, people love it.
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And I'm a true believer that when you are authentic and you do what you want and you follow what you love, there is no way you could ever fail because it's authentic, it comes from the heart.
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And someone like Dolly, she remained the same for like 50, 60 years.
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That is an incredibly long career.
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And she maintained that success because she was authentic.
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So this is your sign to be like Dolly.
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Don't worry about what people are thinking, don't be fearful of judgment, don't take yourself too seriously.
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Be who you are and trust that success will follow your authenticity.
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Lesson two from Dolly is don't be afraid to pivot and don't freak out if things have to change.
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Back when Dolly was first famous, she was on a TV show back in 1967.
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Um, and they invited her to the show to replace the previous female singer, and she was there for a few years.
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After a successful period on the show, Dolly eventually wanted to go out and establish herself as a solo artist and do her own thing.
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But it wasn't easy, and her and the host of the show had a very difficult professional split.
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But here's where it gets amazing.
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So Dolly wrote the song, I Will Always Love You about leaving that professional relationship.
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She wasn't writing it about something romantic.
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It was just simply because that relationship had ended.
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Now, when I say the song I Will Always Love You, yes, I mean the famous Whitney Houston song from The Bodyguard, the iconic I Will Always Love You.
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I didn't even know Dolly Puton wrote that song.
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And that is one of the greatest songs of our generation.
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And how incredible that Dolly was in this role on this TV show, which I guess at the time was her idea of success, right?
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If you want to be a singer and you get a gig on a TV show, that is incredible.
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Like how amazing to reach such an incredible point in your career.
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And maybe it's something at the time that she wasn't sure about leaving or was probably scared to go out on her own.
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And because she did that and she went through the struggles and it was difficult for her to leave, that low, that stress, that hard situation led her to creating one of the greatest songs of all time.
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Like that just blows my mind.
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I've heard that song so many times, and I had absolutely no idea that is where it came from.
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And there's so many lessons in this.
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You know, number one, hard times make us tougher, and they are like an inspiration.
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You know, if you don't go through those shitty times, you're not going to be inspired, you're not going to be motivated to do and create great things.
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And that's what happened to Dolly.
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She had that tough situation that inspired her to write one of the best pieces of music ever.
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And then equally, she took a leap of faith.
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You know, she did the hard thing, she left the show and she went out on her own.
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And how scary would that be?
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Being on something like a TV show, it's probably a very secure, stable source of income.
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Going out on your own is a huge, big risk.
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And I think a lot of us feel that, right?
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If you want to start your own business or do your own thing and you're in a full-time job right now, hell yeah, going out and doing your own thing is terrifying.
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It is so scary to make big moves and to chase your dreams.
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But let Dolly be the example that when you do those hard things and you rip the band-aid off, that is where success comes.
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And even though it's gonna be hard, because it will be hard, it is worth it.
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And those hard times and those tough decisions, they make you stronger, they make you better, and success will flow.
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It will always be worth it.
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So thank you, Dolly, for doing the hard thing, for ripping the band-aid off, and not only teaching us this lesson, but creating an absolute banger.
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And I think the perfect Dolly Parton quote that just sums this up is when she says, the way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
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And that job, your job, your current situation, maybe that's the rain right now, but you've got to get through it, and there will never be that dream, that rainbow, unless there is the rain.
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My third and final lesson from Dolly is don't be afraid to live across different chapters.
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Your life will be different in five years, ten years, twenty years.
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Just go with it.
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Don't be scared.
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Dolly did so many different things.
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She started out on that TV show, she had a solo career, she's done movies, she's done TV shows, she's done it all.
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She's got her Dollywood brand, she did Bloody Hannah Montana.
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Like, if that ain't diverse, I don't know what is.
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But her career was so long.
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She started on that TV show in 1967, and we are in 2026.
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So I'm trying to do the math here, but that's like 60, 59, I don't know, don't at me.
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That's a long time.
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It's basically 60 years.
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Let's just summarize 60 years in the business.
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And I think there's a few key lessons here.
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Number one, success is not an overnight thing.
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Imagine that Dolly's dream was to be on Hannah Montana, right?
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That's a very specific thing.
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But imagine she just wanted to be cast on a TV show.
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That took her, Hannah Montana was like 2009, let's say.
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Her career, again, 1967, that's like 40 odd years.
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And she had to do multiple different things.
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She had to go through different phases, meet different people.
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All those roads, those connections, those things that she did led her to that situation.
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And if she hadn't had that long career, she never would have ended up on Hannah Montana.
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And I know that seems like a very random example, but I think it's the perfect example of when you have a very specific dream or goal and you say, I want XYZ.
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I know that I want exactly this.
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It can be so hard to allow the universe to bring that to you, you know?
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Like Dolly, if she specifically wanted that, when you think about it, you're like, well, how would that happen?
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What would I do?
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How would I get there?
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And you get caught up in the details of the exact planning to get to that exact situation.
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But when you play the long game and you put yourself out there, you have a go, you're positive, you show up, you say yes to life, opportunity will come to you and you will get to your goal somehow, some way.
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You just have to trust.
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You can't know the specifics, you just have to trust and you have to say yes.
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And that's what Dolly did.
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She said yes to everything.
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She did all the talk shows, she did the movies, she made the connections, she was funny, she was memorable, and that allowed people to connect to her.
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And because she showed up, was her best self, and had a go, opportunity came to her.
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And you can use that yourself.
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If you've got a specific dream, can you let go of the how?
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And can you just show up as your best self?
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Can you say yes?
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Can you be authentic to yourself?
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And when you live that way, watch your dream come to you in a way that is totally unexpected and way better than you could ever have imagined.
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God bless Dolly Parton.
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We bloody love her.
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Dolly taught me to be authentic, and when you're true to who you are, your success is inevitable.
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When you do hard things and take a leap of faith, it will always pay off.
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You will learn lessons and you will become a better version of yourself.
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And as Dolly says, there ain't no rainbow without the rain.
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And finally, if you show up, say yes, and give the world the best version of yourself, your dreams are just gonna flow to you in unexpected ways.
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Be that best version of yourself and watch opportunities flow to you in unexpected and incredible ways.
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Thank you so much for pushing play on this episode today.
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I hope this has added value to your life, has brought a smile to your face.
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And I hope after listening to this episode, get on Spotify and listen to a Dolly Parton playlist because screaming nine to five at the top of your lungs is gonna be very healing and very motivating to get up and get after your dreams.
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So be like Dolly.
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She wasn't just successful, she was resilient, she was authentic, and she was true to who she was.
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So this is your sign to care a little bit less what people think, be a little bit more unapologetically yourself, and when something doesn't work out, take a breath, dust yourself off, and ask yourself all right, what's next?
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I will talk to you next time, as always.
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Love you, bye.
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Mind your own beeswax.
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Hey, counting up lean back, yeah.
