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Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive.
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We have another great show for you.
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I got Miss Teresa Ramirez here with us.
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She's award-winning best-selling author, motivational speaker, and you know what we're going to get ready to change that world with her too.
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So I'm excited.
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Thank you for coming on to Keep Home Alive.
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So can't wait to hear your story.
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But, but, but, but.
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I was like I'm not letting you talk, no, go ahead.
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No, I was just going to say thank you for having me.
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You are so welcome.
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So really quick, before we get started, random question like squirrel moment here how many weddings have you been to in, let's say, the past year?
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One One, okay.
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So when you go to a wedding and you're walking in maybe it's a church or you know you're walking in there is something to sign to let the bride and groom know that you were there.
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What are you signing?
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um at that wedding.
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Well, we normally sign the registration book that says hey, we were here, but um that wedding, they wanted us to sign a big white board and put well wishes not just sun, but add well wishes.
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That is so cool.
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I see a lot of that.
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Or I see Jenga pieces.
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One of my sponsors is named Life on Record and what they do is they have a vintage rotary phone setting out there that your guests can pick up and there is a QR code right next to it.
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So if you don't want to stand in the line, your guests can pick up and there is a QR code right next to it.
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So if you don't want to stand in the line, your guests can actually scan this too.
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But you can leave them a one minute, five minute, 30 minute.
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Well, if it's a wedding, don't do 30 minutes recording.
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Say congratulations on your wedding.
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You guys are such a cute couple.
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Many years of happiness, or?
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Hey, dude, it's about time you put that ring on Finger.
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I've been waiting and waiting and waiting and we got to have this party right now, so they can leave any kind of message, and this really goes for like any kind of event too.
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So I just don't want to cater it fully to weddings, but with all these messages, they'll burn it on a 12-inch vinyl record, or they have a key speaker.
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That is really adorable.
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So like it's a year later and you're sitting back enjoying your one-year anniversary.
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You get to hear all your friends and family voices, so it's so cool.
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I love it.
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So their plans start at $99 for the year.
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You do get that phone number for one year, which is really cool.
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So visit them at wwwlifeonrecordcom.
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All right.
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So, teresa, I love your hair.
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By the way, I love that color.
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I used to be redhead in 2017.
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And so funny, all my grays were coming through.
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So I was like I'm going blonde to hide them and I was like, no, I can still see in my video they're coming in.
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But I was like I'm going to just embrace life and let these grays just fly through.
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So, but, yes, I'm so glad to have you on.
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It sounds like your journey in life has just been so well thought out and planned and you know what.
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Who is Teresa?
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So well thought out and planned and you know what.
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Who is Teresa?
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Well, I have grown children and I'm unlike you.
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I fight the grays every step of the way and they're all colored.
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I wish I could do that.
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I wish I could just let go and say oh, don't worry about it, I really like my red.
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So I have.
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My kids are gone.
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I have a dog and a cat who make keep life interesting, and I love hiking and kayaking.
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And when I'm not doing that, I am trying to spread kindness wherever.
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I go.
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Good, I'm glad to hear that, Because I think that's our mission in life is to spread the kindness, the love, the joy and the hope.
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And you know, every time I go out, I'm hearing a new story from somebody.
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I may not even be talking directly, but I can hear them saying oh, I got this issue and da-da-da-da-da-da-da, and there's parts of me that go.
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Should I just tell them?
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I have a podcast and a series on this that they can listen to.
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So that's the one thing.
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They have an app called Linktree and with every episode I have done, I can go up to somebody and go, I think you would like this one.
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What's your phone number?
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I'm going to send you my.
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So there's different stories to be heard and spreading awareness and stuff.
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So how do you do that?
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Well, I can give you an example.
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Listening is huge.
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Listening is probably one of the kindest things we can do, and I mean really active listening, so that always helps.
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But you know you say you get stopped somewhere.
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I walk my dog in the park every day and I was going up the steps and this woman was going down the steps and she said, oh my gosh, can I please pet your dog?
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And I was like, oh sure, you know you're the fifth person today.
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But okay, and here she proceeds to sit down on the steps.
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The dog, of course she plays into this, jumps in her lap and the woman just starts petting her.
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And then you just see these tears and I was like, oh, I didn't bargain for this.
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And here she starts talking.
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She lost her husband six months ago.
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She just lost her beloved dog a month ago.
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You know how terribly lonely she is.
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She's going on and on and I'm just sitting there going uh-huh, uh-huh.
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I mean I just was so blindsided but I just listened to her and I let her pet my dog and I think that's all she wanted.
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And when she was done, she just stood up, wiped her tears and just said and when she was done, she just stood up, wiped her tears and just said you have no idea what you did for me and walked off.
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And I'm still sitting there stunned, going what just happened?
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You're an angel in disguise.
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That's what happened.
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I'm going to tell you that sometimes that's all it takes is active listening to help somebody out.
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I mean, those tears came flowing, they're, they're gone.
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You know like when we go through that once we have a good cry and I hope we like.
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One thing I noticed when we sleep that night and wake up the next morning it's a little bit better, and then the next day is a little bit better, and wake up the next morning it's a little bit better, and then the next day is a little bit better, and it's just kind of like, yeah, it's just, it's amazing how it works.
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But I understand when you get built up and you've just got to release that, you know I call it pure energy and of course we don't want to bottle up and, you know, restore it for later.
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We need to let it out right in there.
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But you know what?
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Your dog and you are the biggest therapy for her and that's amazing.
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It was it was an incredible experience, it is, it is and it makes you feel super good about yourself too, and then you're going to start noticing it's going to happen more and more and more to you.
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Yes, it does.
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You know when you're making, when you're making just something small like that that really all I did was take some time, no big deal, it doesn't cost anything to be kind.
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And when you're doing this in your everyday activities, you end up making it as natural as breathing and the next thing you know, like you said, stuff shows up all the time.
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And I had another, a gentleman.
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He was so cute, he retired, didn't know what to do and so he just went to be a parking garage attendant.
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He said it's the best job he's ever had.
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He was in his seventies.
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But what was funny about it, he said, said was I went on vacation for two weeks.
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When I came back, his regular parkers kept saying gosh, I missed your smile and your good morning.
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My days have not been.
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My days have been awful the last two weeks without your smile and your good morning.
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And the guy said I had no idea that I had that impact because it was each customer.
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He said it was one right after the other and it wasn't until he said you know, you, kindness, lady, you told me.
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And he said I didn't realize how impactful that just a smile is until my customers told me.
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So you know it doesn't take much.
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It doesn't.
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It doesn't and they need that.
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I remember well the company I work for.
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I love to death and they're well-known in Allen.
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But it's the shirt, it's the logo, and I remember I was at a local grocery store and because they're family owned, I thought it was cute because they were like, are you the daughter?
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And I was like nope, and they were like but she came out of the store kind of like maybe it was she wanted to.
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I was going to my car and she's like and you know, it was that little thing she took extra steps, she got outside to even say bye to me.
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But it brought a smile to my face because you don't see that many people actually going out of their way to show kindness and it's very important in today's world.
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It is so important and I was going to say and most people, some people say well, that's just fluffy stuff.
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And I said, no, there's actually scientific studies behind it that if you and I exchanged an act of kindness, your serotonin levels would go up and so would do mine.
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And serotonin are your happy hormones.
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So you and I are happy.
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But the fascinating thing I have always said is that anyone who observes that act of kindness, their serotonin levels also go up.
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I see you spread it and we didn't even know it.
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I love it because I know like when I work trade shows I will always have that positive vibe energy.
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And it was funny because it was yesterday had somebody come by.
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He was like your energy level is really good, I don't want to leave, and I just I was like it made me feel good.
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But also I was like what do I tell my boss that I have like really high vibes here?
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You know, I was just like.
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But you know I was like, sir, can I sell you ABCD?
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Or you know, come and do this for inspection.
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And you know, it was just funny.
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He's like I don't need anything.
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I was just like, okay, but it's funny because I'll get that a whole lot.
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You know, and I think sometimes also, being in customer service, they can pick up on that energy level too.
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You know, for me I never try to sound like anything robotic.
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I have the best intentions in my heart.
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I want to put that out there.
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You know, I remember another lady was like are you a robot?
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Like I was like last time I checked.
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No, but I'm here, I'm human.
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I had to laugh because it's so fun.
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I love that.
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You know we're able to talk to people and help them, but we get to use those levels of our energy to show that we care, that we're here, they're being listened to and heard.
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Yep.
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All that, yeah, and it doesn't take, like I said, I keep.
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It's so simple and people try to complicate it and it's not.
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it's not, it really isn't.
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So are you uh mentioned to pay it forwards?
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I was when I was younger, I still do it every now and then.
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I remember I I did, um, when I first started this podcast, I did a pay-it-forward one.
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I had a really good one.
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I've been doing it.
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Usually it was at grocery stores, gas stations, starbucks and McDonald's.
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I would always do a pay-it-forward.
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But you know, there was one time my baby boy was born.
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He was in the carrier, I had my camera on me and I was on the third floor of the aquarium and I stupidly literally take these glasses Well, not these.
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I put it in my shirt like this.
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I pulled my camera up and I was zooming in on the monkey and my brother's standing next to me and he goes I hope you got the monkey.
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Where's your glasses?
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What do you mean?
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And I was like and I'm looking down they had fell at the bottom of the aquarium and I didn't have any health insurance.
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I went for a good.
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I think it was six months without glasses, but all that mattered was the kids and everything.
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And back in the day with the short down, it's really sad.
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I was walking and I walked into one, like I got last place.
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You know how they have the doctor there.
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Nobody could have heard anything.
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I said I was the only one in there.
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They're like it's $69 for the visit.
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I was like, okay, I'll just come back when I have the money to do it.
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And then I was pushing the stroller out.
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We're in the middle walking and there's that whole area to buy glasses and stuff, and my daughter was with me and we're just getting to the other side and this lady comes running out.
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Getting to the other side, and this lady comes running out hey, hey, are you a single mom?
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And I was like, yeah, and she goes God is telling me to talk to you.
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I got to finish up, don't go anywhere.
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And my daughter's like what's happening?
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And I go, uh, pay it forward maybe.
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Yeah, I don't know, but I go.
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Should we wait?
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And so we did.
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She ended up not.
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She said when she came out do you need glasses?
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I had extra pair.
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I got 300.
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I want you to have 300.
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So I went back in to see if that company could take me and they couldn't.
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So on the other end there was another doctor's office and they took me.
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I was in tears.
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I was like I'm going to be able to see.
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This is amazing.
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But that doctor knew what had just happened and he did my daughter's eyes for free, got my daughter glasses and he goes.
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This is your second period forward of the day and you talk about when you're helping people and just listening and hearing.
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Yeah, it really does work.
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It does, it does.
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And you were shocked, weren't you?
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You were surprised that somebody was being kind to you, because that happened to me only.
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It was a coffee, and you know, I always buy the person behind me coffee all the time and I was shocked when, oh, they took care of yours.
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I'm like what, where, who?
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Me?
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And I was like I wonder why we're so surprised that somebody's kind to us.
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I still ask that question because we shouldn't be.
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Yeah, we shouldn't be.
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It's like I was with a group, like a meetup group, and some people bought it was like five ladies all our meals.
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But you know, I paid for mine in advance and so I wasn't covered and I'm like, wait, can we rewind this?
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But I thought it was very.
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That is very important For me.
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I used to get in a way after I did a pay-forward.
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I remember one lady followed me on the highway and she was like and it was a cup of coffee, that's all I bought.
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But she went out of the way to follow me down to make sure and she had the time.
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I didn't think that went through too fast, because if it's already paid for, she gets to go right and they're just handing her the coffee.
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I know, that was many, many, many years ago but you know, here we are living in this world, and I think it's come to my knowledge that with listening and being heard and understanding what somebody goes through is the most important, and that's how we learn and that's how we build on our path and foundation to help people too.
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So I was just thinking.
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Personal pain is so unique it's as unique as a fingerprint, and you just never know what somebody's going through, and so you should always be kind.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean depression, chronic pain, all that is hidden.
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I saw a reel today.
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It's like people will see oh, how many awards did they get or what's the relationship status.
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So maybe it was talking about Facebook or social media.
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You always see this top layer, but you don't know all the bills they're paying or if they had a really bad breakup or just whatever it is.
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But you got to keep that in mind.
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That is there.
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Yeah, let's just put it where it is.
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It's like how are you really doing today?
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That makes me feel good when I hear that I washed my cell phone yesterday in the washer.
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I had a little thunder bender and I almost ran into a washer on the highway what else?
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There was a tree on the road and then I got two bad news and when I went to T-Mobile they were like well, how is your day, ma'am?
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I was like ABCDEFGHI.
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They're like come right now, we're going to get you all set up.
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I was like it was a great experience and it was so funny because I just oh, my car broke the week down before so I had to get a new car, but it seems like everybody has a black SUV.
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So I was like why are my keys not working?
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And I'm like trying to get my door on.
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And you stupid me I could say this out loud Stupid me.
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I put my bag on top of the car and I put my purse there and I'm like trying to get in and I was like why is the head chain like around the thing different.
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I was like, oh my gosh, and T-Mobile has all the see-through windows.
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I'm like, oh my gosh, it's not happening.
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But I got my purse and I was like I looked at the window.