Hey! It's been a minute!

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Hey there, stranger.

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It's been a minute, hasn't it?

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Welcome back to The Mirror Project.

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We're your hosts, Christine.

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Alexandra: And Alexandra.

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Christine: And we're

thrilled to have you with us.

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We've missed you so much and

we're so excited to be back.

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If you're wondering where

we've been, don't worry.

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We'll fill you in shortly.

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Back in September, we decided

to take a little break to

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rest, recharge, and realign.

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But now we're here.

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Ready to dive back into the

conversations we all love.

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So grab your headphones,

settle in and let's catch up

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because it's been way too long.

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All right, everybody.

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It's been so long.

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Alexandra, can you believe it?

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Somehow it's now 2025.

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Alexandra: I know, right?

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And we're already a little ways

into: 2025

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still am saying 2024 at times,

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Christine: yes, I've definitely

caught myself saying it, writing it.

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It's just the way it goes

when the new year begins.

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I'm like, I never know where

I am or what time it is.

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But of start off this episode by

filling everybody in on like what

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we've been up to, why we decided to

take a little hiatus from the podcast.

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Alexandra: Okay.

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I can get us into that.

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So back in the fall, we

were both really busy.

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And I was finishing up

my last term as my MBA,

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Christine: Woo hoo!

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Mm

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Alexandra: Sure we talked about on the

podcast previously last year that I was

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in my last calendar year of that program.

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Christine: hmm.

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Alexandra: This decision to, we were

set up to take a little bit of a

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break anyways, and it just turned

into a pause on the program because.

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I didn't want it to become one more

thing that we just had to check off the

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list of things to accomplish that week

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because this is a project that means so

much to the both of us, it's really about

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heart connection and deep, meaningful

conversations that bring it to life, which

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at the point that we both were, Wouldn't

have been what we were giving to you guys.

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Everything that was happening, we

realized that pushing forward as

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planned might take away from what makes

this so magical and so meaningful.

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By taking a longer break and that

proceed after the scheduled break,

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we gave ourselves time to recharge.

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Finch of our current projects that

we're consuming so much time and

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Christine: Hear,

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Alexandra: ready for 2025 and particularly

what we wanted to do with this podcast

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and bring ourselves back to the

shared passion, fully so here's a

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Christine: hear.

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Alexandra: been going on.

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So Christine.

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What was going on with you in the fall?

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Christine: Yeah mostly, I wasn't as

bitty, I wasn't as busy as you, my dear.

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I but I was with you in spirit

the whole way through cheering

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you on from the sidelines.

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But, mostly we Hehehehe.

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Alexandra: thank you so much.

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Christine: Always.

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I got you, boo.

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But, Gosh, I guess the main thing that

was, I was focused on while we were

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on our little break was my, my job.

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I started a new job just over a year ago

and Throughout the year it's had quite

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the evolution of what my duties and

responsibilities have come to be, and it's

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become a full time job, which is amazing,

and I'm doing so many wonderful things.

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I'm doing another podcast, I'm, diving

into video editing, and I'm doing

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a YouTube channel for the business.

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I'm in charge of all of the marketing and

social media and all of that So I've been

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learning a lot doing a lot, and it really

worked out well that we ended up doing a

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break from this creative project because

it allowed me to dive into that one more

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and learn new skills and develop skills.

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I already had that hopefully when

most likely will benefit this

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project So yeah, that's basically

what my whole deal has been

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Alexandra: I think there was something

else really special about fall,

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Christine: Was there oh my birthday

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Alexandra: Yeah.

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Christine: Oh yeah, I guess that's true.

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I turned 30 this past year, everybody.

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Alexandra: And

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: a whole party for it.

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An amazing

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Christine: I did.

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I did.

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I wanted to go all out.

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Usually, when it comes to, I love

to plan a party, but I don't like

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being the center of attention.

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But I said, you know what?

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Fuck it.

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It's my 30th birthday.

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I wanna have, I wanna

go like, All out for it.

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And so I came up with a really cute

theme that's very on brand for me

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called teeny bit older because I love

a martini and I'm a teeny bit older.

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And for those, the OG listeners now,

one of my many not many, one of my

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nicknames family nicknames is teeny.

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So it all worked out.

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But.

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Yeah that I guess is the really

big update since we've all

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checked in with one another.

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And not only did I turn 30, Alex

came up to visit me for a little

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Alexandra: lot of fun.

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Christine: celebratory,

birthday celebrating.

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And then I went down to visit her

just between, just after Christmas

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and we spent the new year together.

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Alexandra: It

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: were back in college

living in the same state.

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Christine: I know!

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I, exactly.

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Two times in one month.

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Who, who are we?

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But it was so much fun and it was

such a great way to close out the year

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and start a new decade all at once.

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I'm so excited to be 30, everyone.

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I've, was so ready to leave my 20s.

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20s were, a rough time at a moment,

so I'm very excited for my 30s.

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All right, Alex, give

everybody the update.

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Alexandra: I think I think most

of it really was just the MBA.

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I think I called Christine and the panic.

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It must've been after we'd recorded

our last episode for September.

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And I was just like, I can't do this.

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I am so overwhelmed.

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And so just couldn't even

keep my head above water.

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And I think part of what was just,

I was taking very heavy classes,

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Christine: Yeah, it

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Alexandra: for the program and my last

course that elective was also my last

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course for my certificate as well as

the capstone course of the MBA program.

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And I don't think I've ever

taken an elective course.

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That was so much work, guys.

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Were three group projects, three.

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I'm sorry.

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There were three papers, big papers,

plus weekly discussion boards, plus your

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weekly quizzes, plus all your reading.

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And two of those papers happened to

be group projects with the same group.

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And all three of those timelines for

all projects were running concurrently

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on top of the consulting class with an

actual client, which is also what we did

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for one of our projects in marketing.

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At one point I was meeting

all five days after work.

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I was so And so by the time

like we came to recording this,

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I was like, I'm so tapped out.

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My brain was like a little fried and

I'm like, marketing, brand management,

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and, capstone and clients who didn't

know what they wanted, but they

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thought they knew what they wanted.

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It was a lot, there was a

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Christine: was a lot.

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Alexandra: I was like, how am

I going to get through this?

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I'm just never going to finish.

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It's going to, I'm not going

to, what's going to happen.

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I can't do this.

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Why is it this way?

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What's happening?

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And then Yeah.

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Work was also busy.

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We had a lot of data stuff and coming

up that I helped manage and then

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trying to do a lot of curriculum

stuff that I helped out with my job.

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So it was just an all around a lot.

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I really crawled under a

rock to just finish my work.

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I put my head down and

basically tuned out quite a lot.

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So really wasn't active a whole lot.

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I ended up did.

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commit to calling Christine weekly and we

did end up playing phone tag quite a lot

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because as I'm sure we've mentioned, I'm

very much a morning person and Christine

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is very much a night person and all

my classes and meetings were at night.

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So by the time they were over, I'm like,

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Christine: good night.

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Alexandra: Good night, world.

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but there was a few friends that did

make a point to catch up with like once

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a month and that was really helpful.

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And so then I graduated

in December, finished,

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Christine: I watched her walk

across the stage from New Jersey.

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Maybe.

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Alexandra: Fun, fun fact about that.

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I think Christine has potentially

nefarious intentions of putting that on

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our social media but my hood color is

actually the wrong color for my degree.

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When I'd ordered my hood, I had

ordered the correct, degree program,

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but they sent me the wrong color.

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So it looks like I graduated from.

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a master's of education

or religious education.

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I actually have an MBA.

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So I ended up getting the right color hood

because I wanted to do something with it.

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Christine: Sure.

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Alexandra: Want to frame it

and whatnot, but I had to go

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get the correct color hood.

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Cause like my invoice

said the correct color.

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But funny

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Christine: Yeah,

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Alexandra: back at my email, The picture

was wrong, but the name was correct.

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Christine: that's so weird.

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Alexandra: programs

all across the country.

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And the color is called drab.

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Christine: Because, why?

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It's so

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Oh, Lord.

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Alexandra: like a brown taupe drab color.

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It was like, is lovely

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Christine: drab.

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Alexandra: so, uh, I went up to

see Christine for as a combination

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celebration of graduation and early birth.

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It was still after your birthday,

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Christine: was after, yeah.

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Alexandra: pre birthday party celebration.

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And we went into New York City,

so that was fun to go back and

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Christine: I don't remember

the last time I was in the city

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before we went, so it was great.

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Alexandra: I know the last

time I was, was with you.

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I think we went for, the Van

Gogh or did we also go in for

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something else after that?

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Christine: Klimt.

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I think we went to a similar,

but it was for Klimt.

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Yeah, mm hmm.

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Alexandra: we do that day?

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We did Clemton, something else.

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Christine: Oh, Sleep No More.

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Alexandra: Uh, Yeah.

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Christine: Mm hmm, That was really fun.

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It was like an immersive

theater experience.

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Was interesting.

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I don't think it was a fan.

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Alex was a fan.

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Yeah,

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Alexandra: being scared shitless

or wanting to punch somebody.

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I don't know if anyone's ever done

it, but it's, you're in masks.

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Christine: yeah.

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Alexandra: It was, took me a while

to remember that it was about Hamlet.

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Christine: Was it?

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I don't even think I do that.

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Alexandra: Yeah.

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Christine: Quick little tangent

for those listening wondering

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what the hell we're talking about.

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So this was a, I don't think

it's on a thing you can see

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anymore, but it was a production

in New York called Sleep No More.

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And it was an immersive theater

experience inside of a building that um,

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Alexandra: I think.

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Christine: yes, that there were

things happening on multiple

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levels in the building.

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And you as of attendee of the Experience

could go wherever you want, and basically

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you could lock on one specific performer

and follow them and see what they're

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up to, like what What is driving their

character forward, or you can just

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explore the different rooms and see

what happens, what might show up but

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you are wearing a mask the whole time,

and I'm slightly claustrophobic, so

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I, you start sweating, you're going up

and down and through different levels.

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At one point, Alex and

I got separated, and

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Alexandra: I

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Alexandra: Bar and I was like um,

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Christine: we're done.

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Alexandra: moment.

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This was also, guys, at the time

Covid was mostly done, but you

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: in public places.

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: had masks covering our

mouth, and then we had a top face mask.

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Christine: Yep.

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Alexandra: Most of the

place was also really dark.

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I was really worried I would fall

And because when we got separated,

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it was like you were in a maze.

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And I was like, I don't know how to

get back because there's people there

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to help you if you need you have a

medical emergency or whatever, but for

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the most part, you're not supposed to

touch, interact with the performers.

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Christine: like,

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Alexandra: with the sets.

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Christine: We could.

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Yes, we could open things up,

we could flip through things.

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It was just, it was an

interesting concept, but I

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don't know if it's, was for me.

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Alexandra: I can't remember.

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Christine: Not really.

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Alexandra: So it was almost like

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Alexandra: too, that

you're interacting with.

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Christine: Yeah, and I'll

be honest, I don't know.

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I don't know the major story.

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Cause things are happening

at different times.

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And like, a character would run

and then everybody would start

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running to follow that person.

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I'm like, I'm not running.

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Alexandra: I looked at

Chrissy and I went, no.

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Christine: No.

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But we you could Whatever you want,

go back to basically there was like a

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speakeasy where you could have food and

drink and there was performers there.

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So we went back there and just finished

the rest of our experience there.

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Alexandra: a, I think, a jazz

singer at the bar, so that was nice.

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Christine: But that was our last

visit when Alex was in town this time

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around we did something different.

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Alexandra: Yes, we did.

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Sure we definitely talked about it

on our Worlds in Words book episode.

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I can't remember when we filmed

that, but we both love to read.

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are also both lovers of the

romance, fantasy romance genre.

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And there is a bookstore in that is

dedicated entirely to the romance genre.

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So we went out to the Rift Bodice

and I think we spent two hours there.

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Minimum.

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Christine: Easily.

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Alexandra: hours.

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And it was a beautiful, rainy day.

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Not

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Christine: Mm hmm.

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Alexandra: Too rainy.

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Bryant Park and walk around.

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We did a lot of Christmas shopping.

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Christine: Mm hmm.

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Alexandra: For Christine's

30th birthday, I wanted to do

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something special and different.

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Something that was more consumable

and not just something that she would

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have to stick on a shelf somewhere.

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So I ordered some cookie art

a creator in New York City.

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And She did a wonderful job, but it was

an adventure to pick up the cookies.

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It was a kind of a crazy time,

the holidays, it was just weird.

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And so at some point we did get a

taxi over to where we picked him up.

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: asked me, are

we staying in the city?

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And I went, No.

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So we ended up, the cookies weren't ready.

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So we ended up going to dinner and

the artist was very sweet and had them

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delivered to where we having dinner.

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Cause we had to head back.

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But they were all around her

birthday theme, a teeny bit

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: 30.

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So they had some beautiful

cookies in there.

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So that was a really fun adventure day.

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And then she also took me all around

her town which funny enough, the last

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few times I visited Never really got

to see much of Montclair, so that

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: fun to walk around the,

the, the city and just get to spend

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time with each other that wasn't

centered around the podcast and

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like also just to, be with your

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Christine: Yeah.

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Exactly.

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Celebrate your accomplishment

of graduating from your program.

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Yeah, it was, we did a lot of wonderful

things with the short time we had that

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weekend, but then we knew we were seeing

each other in just a few short weeks when

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I, I actually drove down, did a little

road trip for myself down to visit you in

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North Carolina, and we spent the new year

together, and it was great to see you.

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Your mom, and we went down to

Charlotte for New Year's Eve,

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and that was a lot of fun.

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It was like the perfect

amount of activity.

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We were home to watch the ball drop

but we went out and had a great meal.

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Gosh, that, I still dream about

that meal, because it was a steal.

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It was good sushi for the, for so cheap.

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It was great.

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Alexandra: And I was

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Christine: Um.

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Alexandra: Christine and some friends

we were with and my sister that I was

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like, I don't think I've seen up for

the ball drop in quite a few years.

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So it was

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Christine: I know.

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Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

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I got to meet your sister's puppy.

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Alexandra: Oh

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Christine: adorable, and it was so funny.

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We were getting ready to toast, and we

were all ready, counting down, and she

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wanted to be a part of the moment, but

my arm was out, and she was jumping

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up onto the couch, and literally,

it was, I felt like slow motion.

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She hit my arm, and It, the

shot went flying and I was

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like, okay, happy new year.

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I wish we caught that on

camera because that was crazy.

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Actually, she, we might have

because doesn't she have a

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camera set up in her apartment

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Alexandra: Oh yeah.

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Christine: on the bar?

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Oh my gosh, we totally should.

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Alexandra: It's hey, do

you have film of that?

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Oh yeah, that was quite fun.

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Christine: That was fun.

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Yeah.

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And So that brings us to today.

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Alexandra: Christine, do you want

to talk about our goals for the

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mirror project for 2025, now that

we're back and in full swing?

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Christine: yeah, so we're,

we're both so happy to be back.

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We're ready to go all in.

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We're going to be back to

doing our weekly episode drops.

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I know.

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I'm really excited for that.

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And.

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Just like last year, we've

planned out a few short breaks.

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But you can always count on us

to be back with fresh content

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pretty regularly for you all.

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And for me in particular, one of

my main goals for this year for

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the podcast is video content.

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I want, this'll be the first episode

that is over on YouTube where you can

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watch us And we're going to be doing

that more and more, and my goal is to

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also go back and do our earlier episodes

and provide video for that as well.

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So, More on that, but,

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Alexandra: you aware.

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We'll keep everyone aware of when we

drop those episodes, when we go back and

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Christine: yeah.

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Alexandra: the video content.

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And.

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Be kind to us, guys, because we had not

really intended for those to be totally

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video content, so We're learning as we go.

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Christine: We are.

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Alexandra: I think Christine is

really working on being a great friend

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and pushing me outside our comfort

zones, because Oh, this is gonna

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be so interesting with the videos.

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Christine: Yeah, we know that

it probably will be cringey.

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We embrace the cringe.

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Embrace it with us.

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Livin it.

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Livin it with us.

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Alexandra: Just really makes me

work on becoming the recovering

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perfectionist that I am.

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So the fact that Willingly

putting ourselves out there.

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Christine: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Alexandra: this.

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Christine: And we'll, we'll just be

able to look back and see how far we've

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come when we're like, way down the road.

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But,

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Alexandra: also want to film one,

one episode together in person.

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: side by side, recording.

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So that'll be coming up too.

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Christine: For sure.

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Not quite sure when that'll happen, but

it's definitely a goal for the year.

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Alexandra: I do think we have a

big thing coming up this year.

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Christine: do we know?

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Yeah.

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Mm hmm.

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Alexandra: I'd love to

do a big trip to Europe.

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Do you want to go?

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And I was like, absolutely.

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course.

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I want to go back to Europe.

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so we're going to go to.

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Rome, Venice, and Paris so we have

finally settled on time of year.

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So we're going to go in the fall,

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Christine: In the fall.

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Alexandra: and I

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: love to do some specific

content for you all about that.

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: be something

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Christine: Maybe it's some like little

vlogs or who knows what we'll do, but

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Yeah I've always wanted to go to Venice.

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I've been to Rome before and

some other spots in Italy, but

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Venice has always been a dream.

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I've been in love with it

since I was a teenager.

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And Alex has never been to Italy at all.

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So we're gonna start in Rome.

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We're gonna, Throw a coin over our

shoulder at the Trevi Fountain so

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that she'll be able to come back and

experience all See the Vatican Maybe

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do a couple of other little things and

then we're gonna scoot on up To Venice

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stay there for a few days and then

we're gonna go to Paris and I've never

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been to Paris but You, my dear, have.

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So she it's cool.

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It's a fun balance.

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We're doing new things,

but we're also experiencing

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things that we've done before.

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Alexandra: Mm

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Christine: I'm very excited for that

and very I'm really looking forward

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to what sort of things we come up with

to share with you all on our journey.

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Alexandra: Yeah.

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Maybe by that time we'll certainly

be more comfortable being on camera.

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We

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for 2025 when we were sitting down to

plan out is that we want to revisit some

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meaningful topics that we started in 2024.

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And we had noted that we

want to come back to you.

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So

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Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: will be conversations

like our body health and image

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that we did last February.

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probably push that out.

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We ideally would love to

get some guests for that.

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So we honestly want to work

on what we want to talk about,

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what we want to revisit.

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What new thoughts we have to add

to that conversation and we talked,

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I think there was an episode

where we talked about confidence.

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So that's something to constantly revisit.

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And a couple others.

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And if any of our listeners

who are joining us again, want

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us to revisit something, reach

out to us and let us know.

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So we can put that in

our rotation of episodes

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Christine: And to that point,

we want to keep, we want to keep

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growing our reach and our engagement.

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So this year we're putting more of

ourselves into our social media presence.

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Our goal is to surpass a hundred followers

on social media and it reached, hopefully

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this, Reaching over 100 listeners per

episode whatever the numbers end up being

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: 00:22:17

is a big accomplishment, but it's always

it's nice to have a benchmark to try and

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meet and surpass, so that's definitely

a major goal driving us this year.

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Alexandra: and Christine has some

plans in the work to help us get there.

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She definitely is, has been using the

knowledge that she's gained from her

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job and Got some ideas for us to do some

platform specific content for you all that

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: 00:22:42

we'll release out throughout the year.

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Mostly we want to be consistent and,

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Christine: Yes.

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Alexandra: up for you all.

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And that leads us into another

aspect of REACH and that's

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building support and sponsorships.

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We would like to work on some securing

some sponsorships and gaining listeners

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: 00:22:59

support through some of our memberships,

which we might actually end up doing.

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special content for on this project

that mostly we can continue to do this

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: 00:23:08

project that we love and produce content.

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Christine: Yeah, exactly.

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Totally.

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Alexandra: is interested,

knows of anything, again, has

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ideas, please reach out to us.

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We would love to hear them.

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Christine: Absolutely.

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We're excited for whatever

may come our way this year.

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And I think the last thing we'll talk

about in terms of goals for: 2025

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continuing to deepen our conversations.

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Last year taught us so much

about podcasting and ourselves.

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So moving forward, we're committed

to being more vulnerable and

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diving even deeper into topics

that matter the most to us, to you.

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: 00:23:46

And we're just really

excited to go even further.

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So

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Alexandra: Yeah.

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Christine: yeah.

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Alexandra: And part of why we're

telling everyone is this, is to also

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hold ourselves accountable to these

goals that we set for this project.

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Christine: Yes.

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Alexandra: like, yes, we said

it, we're going to do it.

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So let's get it done.

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And I think it's going to be really

interesting as Christine mentioned

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with us trying the video content.

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: 00:24:09

I think we're going to be able

to look back, start at: 2025

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when we started in 2024 and look at

like how far we have come and what

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we've learned, how we've improved.

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: 00:24:20

Yeah.

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At least hopefully have improved

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Christine: Yes.

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Alexandra: And definitely

be more comfortable.

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So hopefully you'll see more of

our faces on social media and here,

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and please support us by listening

both on, where you listen to your

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: 00:24:35

podcasts, but also go check us out on

YouTube get to see the faces that you

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: 00:24:39

Christine: Yeah.

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Alexandra: your ears.

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: 00:24:41

Christine: Exactly.

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: 00:24:43

Alexandra: to see, get to hear

the voices attached to the

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faces that you hear in your ear.

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: 00:24:48

know if that made it any better.

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: 00:24:50

Christine: Ah, it's okay.

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We'll go with it.

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: 00:24:53

Alexandra: I definitely think we'll be

releasing some definitely blooper reels

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: 00:24:56

of funny moments where we've messed up.

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things don't come out quite so polished.

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Christine: No.

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Me.

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Thanks,

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Alexandra: are so

grateful to have you back.

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: 00:25:08

With us as we kick off this next chapter

and next season of the podcast, it's been

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quite a journey, and we can't wait to

bring you along for everything we have

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planned for this year, from revisiting

those big meaningful conversations

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that we started last year, to sharing

more and being more vulnerable with you

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all and even our European adventure.

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So who's ready for that?

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I know I am.

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So next week, we'll be diving

into the idea of new year.

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Same me, always a work in progress.

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: 00:25:37

We'll chat about the pressure to

constantly reinvent yourself every

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: 00:25:39

January and why embracing growth

at your own pace is probably more

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rewarding and certainly enough.

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: 00:25:46

like something you're interested in.

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: 00:25:48

And how you've been feeling, join

us and we'll unpack it together

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Until then, stay curious, stay

connected, and hey, don't be a stranger.

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: 00:25:56

Let us know what resonated with you

today or what you'd love to hear next.

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: 00:26:00

You can find us on social media, where

you know you'll definitely be seeing more

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: 00:26:03

of us this year, or shoot us a message.

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We'd love to hear from you.

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And until next time, have a great week!

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Christine: Bye guys!

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See you soon!

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Alexandra: Bye!