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Welcome back to another.

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Episode of Tina's Arena, the podcast where I share things that I have learned on this journey of life.

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Oh boy, we're getting weird.

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This week, I want to quickly.

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Give a nod out to community.

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I've been.

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Giving lots.

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Of thought lately to the value of.

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Community.

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I have.

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Been someone that.

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Has searched.

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For community.

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For a very.

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Long time.

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I did not feel like I.

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Belonged in my family

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So I guess intuitively I searched for community

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And I.

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Found them online.

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I once met.

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With strangers for the first time.

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And we.

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Drove to Chicago together, which was a 4 to 5 hour drive.

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For me.

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People.

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That I had never met.

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But I had.

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Spoken to online in my online entrepreneur.

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Group.

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the very first group.

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I joined was Roommates Brain Trust.

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Which was put together by roommate to,

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An.

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Author and course creator that focuses.

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On finance and building businesses.

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I was pretty lucky that that was the first community I joined.

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I think.

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Because it has led me.

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To learn a lot about entrepreneurship, about money and.

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Values.

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In what is important to.

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Me.

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Roommate had actually put together a live.

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Event conference.

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Style.

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Event in.

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Chicago.

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And I coordinated.

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With people from that Facebook group that.

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I had never met.

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Before.

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And we got into a.

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Car.

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Together and we.

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Drove to Chicago. I believe this.

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Was in 2018.

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That trip was pretty awesome.

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I made friends.

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I still talk to those two people that I.

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Drove in that.

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Car with

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we're still friends, so you never know what can happen inside.

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A Facebook group. I have my own Facebook group.

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If you didn't know. And you can join it at Tina czarina.com/facebook group.

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So join us and let's be friends. I can definitely.

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Say that the.

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Online.

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Circles that I have.

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Inserted myself into have definitely impacted my life in a major.

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Way.

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I don't think I.

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Would be.

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Who I am if it weren't for.

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Some of these groups.

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Because it gave me access to all of these people that I thought were so smart that I looked up to, that were creating.

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All these businesses that I wanted to create and.

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They all.

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Seemed out of my league.

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Which is.

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My own.

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Problem.

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That I think I am.

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Below everyone else's leak. But it showed.

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Me and it humanized.

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All of these people.

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For me, because.

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I saw these people.

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Creating.

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Very successful businesses.

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From start to finish.

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It has taken me probably over a decade at this point to build the courage to start.

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Building my own business. I think.

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I have.

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Finally gotten to that point where I am just.

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So fed.

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Up with my own.

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Bullshit that it's like.

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Why not me?

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I have.

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So much knowledge in my brain around nutrition and fitness.

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And I have.

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So much.

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Desire to help people. And I've just.

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Been watching.

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Other.

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Amazing.

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People create.

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Amazing things for a long time now.

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I've been on the internet for a long time.

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And during this time that.

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I've been here.

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I've watched people with very small.

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Followings.

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Build.

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Million dollar businesses over and over and over and.

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And over time, I just noticed that they just didn't give up.

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They didn't. They never.

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Gave up. They just kept.

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Going and kept trying, kept reiterating.

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these people are incredible.

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And super.

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Smart and super talented. But I am too.

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And ever since.

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I've just been.

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Joining community after community after community, and now I'm a part.

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Of Heather.

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Chauvin community. She is my mentor and coach.

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And it is just filled with.

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Incredible women.

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That are.

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Creating and building the.

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Lives that they dream of, the businesses that they desire.

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And raising children in a healthy way, all while not losing themselves as a person.

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Which is incredible to me, and something.

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That I aspire to and look up to.

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I am shaped by the people around me.

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I am an accumulation.

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Of everything that I've learned from.

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Everyone else around me.

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My experiences, my thoughts.

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My feelings may.

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Shape the way that I.

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Communicate.

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It to you, but I.

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Am an amalgamation of everything that I've experienced,

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And I do believe that a lot of the best parts of me come from other people,

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because I was a sheltered child.

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I didn't experience much of.

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The world.

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So I was very impressionable.

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It's just like.

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Reading.

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Right, you expose yourself to all of these new ideas.

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And you just.

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Absorb the best of it. I just keep what I want for myself.

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Obviously I'm not stealing intellectual property. I'm giving credit.

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Where credit is due.

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But a lot of the ideas that I have shared.

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On this.

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Podcast so far.

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Are not new ideas. I'm just communicating them to you in the way that I've understood them, and the way that has worked for me so far.

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And I'm so grateful for communities because.

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There's been many times when.

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I have felt.

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Alone in my life, in my IRL life, my in real.

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Life life where I have reached out to.

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Friends online to make me.

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Feel less.

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Alone, and they've all been so.

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Incredibly supportive.

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When I needed it.

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And as I'm growing my business now.

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A lot of people.

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In my direct circle might not understand because they're not.

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Building businesses.

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So I am so fortunate to be in Heather's community because.

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It's filled.

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With entrepreneurs. And I can reach.

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Out.

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And they might be a couple.

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Of steps ahead of me. or beside me.

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And we can.

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Troubleshoot together.

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And I can learn about what's.

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Worked for.

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Them and how I can adapt that and make it work for me.

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And there has been so many times where.

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I.

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Have not believed in myself.

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But other people believed.

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In me and gave me enough energy.

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Willpower.

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Motivation, aspiration to keep going. There has been plenty of time when I have relied on my community.

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To help.

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Me through hard times.

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And that is why I feel like it's so.

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Important to continue to build community.

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That is why I have.

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My own Facebook.

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Group.

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And it's free

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And I try to get people together.

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In person.

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I try to create new shared experiences.

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I lead cold.

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Plunges into the.

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Detroit.

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River. And it's an immediate bond that you.

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Create because.

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It's such an experience.

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I don't believe that any successful person has succeeded on their own, in isolation or in a vacuum.

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Sure, you might have.

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Started from the bottom and now you're.

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Here.

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But it didn't happen in isolation.

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you wouldn't be.

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Successful if there weren't.

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People buying from you, supporting from you, or helping you.

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If you feel alone.

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You don't know where to start. You don't know what to do next.

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Reach out. Reach out to the people.

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Around.

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You.

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reach out to people that.

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Have done what it.

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Is that you want to do, and ask for help. Ask for advice.

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if you're in.

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Over your head.

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Then I.

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Hope you.

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Understand that you're not the only one.

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That although we all.

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Are.

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Individuals.

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Yes, and we're all unique.

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We all actually have the.

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Same.

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Fears.

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And the same problems and we all.

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Suffer.

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And it really similar way.

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Not to minimize.

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Your suffering.

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In any way. And I don't want to do that in any way.

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However, it is more than likely that the exact.

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Scenario that you're going through has happened to somebody.

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Else. So if you are.

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Struggling, then start asking questions.

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And start seeking answers and start wondering how other people.

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May have solved this.

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Problem that.

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You have before you.

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I would love to hear your experiences.

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Around online communities.

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And I would actually love.

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To know which communities.

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That you love to.

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Spend time in.

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Are they online? Are they in real life?

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Are there.

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Forums that.

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You like to go to a lot? Please share with me, especially.

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If they happen to be around food and nutrition.

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I would really appreciate that

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Speaker 1
And please remember it is.

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Speaker 2
Free to support podcasters and creators. All that you have to do is share, like.

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Speaker 1
Comment or.

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Speaker 2
Rate, subscribe, whatever it is, on whatever platform.

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Speaker 1
That you're listening.

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Speaker 2
it would really help with reach,

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Speaker 2
So if you.

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Speaker 1
Resonated with this message, I.

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Speaker 2
Would really appreciate it if you shared it with.

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Speaker 1
Someone that you think needs to listen.

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Speaker 2
As always, if you.

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Speaker 1
Would like to inquire.

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Speaker 2
About group coaching.

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Speaker 1
Or a one on one coaching with me, you can do so on my website.

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Speaker 2
At WW.

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Tina's arena.com. Thank you for listening.

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I hope you have a great day.

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Speaker 1
and I hope.

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Speaker 2
You feel supported by your.

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Speaker 1
Community.