January Jones sharing Revolutionary Optimism for Seniors with Dr. Paul Zeitz

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Who is January Jones. She is
not a young, beautiful, talented

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actress on Madman. She is not
an older, gorgeous exotic dancer from The

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Johnny Carson Show. She is an
author and she wrote Thou Show Not Why

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the Eleventh Commandment that rates number one
at Amazon dot com. She is a

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reality TV golf personality with World High
Stakes Golf televised on hd Net. She

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is a huge and why knowlogist expert. She is your featured host today on

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January Jones sharing success stories. So
sit back, relax, and get ready

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to laugh and listen to Ms Jones
with her eclectic roster of guests. As

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you learn life's lessons. These stories
plus sharing equal success. Welcome and remember

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beware because you are entering the no
whining world of January Jones. Hello everyone,

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I hope you're having a wonderful,
terrific, fabulous day. I'm January

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Jones and I'd like to welcome you
to our podcast today. As you can

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see, I'm wearing what are my
glitter cowboy hats. I'm getting ready to

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launch my new brand, Glitter Granny
Gifts. I'll be doing affiliate marketing at

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Amazon as an associate next month.
I'll be selling books and products and we'll

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be telling you more about it as
the date gets closer. Now, for

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my listeners, let me ask you
a question. What do you know about

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anxiety and depression during these troubling times? Do you think about it? I

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think we all do. Would you
like to meet someone today who can help

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you deal with our global and domestic
problems that are all over the world every

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day from the minute we wake up
till the time we go to bed.

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The big question here that we're going
to try to answer is what we can

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do to actively contribute to healing and
transformation. Tell me, have you ever

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heard about an amazing book? Called
Revolutionary Optimism. If you can answer yes

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or maybe to any of these questions
I've asked, then you are in the

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right place and I would like to
welcome you to January Jones sharing senior success

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stories. So now it's time for
you to relax, Go get some cheese

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and crackers, and welcome you.
I'm welcoming you into our no wine zone

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today. Let me tell you about
our guest. Our guest has written a

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practical handbook for anyone feeling anxiety about
their life and the super crisis is affecting

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our world at this time. The
book is called Revolutionary Optimism. Seven Steps

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for Living as a love centered Activists. This book inspires the reader, step

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by step to live the path of
love and choose to actively contribute it to

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our collective healing and our transformations.
It's my pleasure to welcome to the show,

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doctor Paul, writs, veteran leader
on the front lines of multiple global

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and domestic movements at this time.
Hi, doctor Paul, Welcome to the

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show. How are you today,
Hey, January, great to be here.

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Thanks so much for having me.
I'm honored. Oh, We're so

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happy to have you. I've been
looking forward to this you know, before

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we talk about your soon to come
out book, which by the way,

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is at Amazon now and it can
be pre ordered, I wanted to ask

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you where did your personal success story
began? Where were you born and tell

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us a little bit about your background. Thank you for that question. I

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was born in Philadelphia. My parents
owned a hooky shop or a sandwich shop,

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and my sister and I were the
first generation in our families to go

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to college. My parents were very
smart, but they didn't have that opportunity

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and were my grandparents before them so
or any prior generation. So going to

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college was a great first success for
me, like getting out of the house.

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Parents got divorced around the time I
went to college, and I lived

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in a bit of a cauldron of
dysfunction, and there was a lot of

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love as well, so it was
a mixed bag situation. And then I

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went on to medical school and that
was like a big challenge and a big

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opportunity to grow and I succeeded at
that. And during that time I decided

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I didn't really want to do clinical
medicine, or I didn't I didn't really

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want to see patients. I looked
at the health of the population and I

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was really focused on preventive medicine.
How do you how do we create human

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well being and how do we keep
people healthy, vibrant, alive, you

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know, during their lives fully?
And I think that's the question I'm still

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on. Okay, So then you
know, it's interesting our backgrounds are so

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similar because I'm from that first generation
that got to go to college also,

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and we were carried on the shoulders
of our wonderful immigrant grandparents and our parents

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who assimilated and did a magnificent job
raising us. So you were a medical

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doctor and then you decided not to
do that, And now did you have

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to go for more training to you
became a psychologist? I'm assuming no,

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no, no, no. I
went on. I finished medical school and

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I got specialty training in public health
and preventive medicine, and I worked on

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how do you bring preventive solutions to
large populations. So the first job that

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I had was working on global polio
eradication. We were using the polio vaccine

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to eradicate polio. I worked in
Africa and I worked on the HIV AIDS

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pandemic, and it was during that
time that I realized that we had available

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solutions in the global North, but
they were not available in Africa, Asia

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and other parts of the world,
the life saving aids medicines, and so

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at that moment I had like an
awakening, I would say, or I

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became an advocate and activist because I
realized that you can solve problems not only

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from the inside of the institutions and
systems, but more importantly, you can

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create advocacy movements on the outside that
can put pressure on decision makers, and

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that's how you get the paradigm transformation, which pressure. Yeah, and that's

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interesting that you mentioned the polio vaccine, because what a amazing thing that was

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for our generation. And you probably
recall, like I do, I got

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small bugs in Yeah, when that
came out, my parents we were first

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in line because one of my brother's
friends, a seven year old boy,

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had died of polio in that time
and our family was deeply affected by it.

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And so my parents were so thankful
to get the vaccine and that we

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were able to for our generation pretty
much eradicate the polio situation. And it

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was so interesting how they embraced it. And then as time goes on,

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when we see the reaction to the
vaccines that have come out since. It's

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disappointing in some ways, isn't it. Well. I think that there's been

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a rapid evolution of the number of
vaccines, and during the COVID pandemic recently,

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which we all lived through, it
was the most rapid development of a

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new vaccine ever in human history.
The prior example best was Mump's vaccine in

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the nineteen fifties. They developed that
in five years. All the COVID vaccines

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were developed in less than a year
and then deployed domestically in the United States

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and globally. That was a massive
feat of human endeavor to be able to

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do that. And I think that
the people that are questioning vaccines, you

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know, they have a legitimate perspective
in terms of wanting transparency from the pharmaceutical

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companies and the government about what the
risks are. And I think that's a

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legitimate advocacy effort not to but we
need to. I believe in vaccination.

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I'm vaccinated, my kids are vaccinated, my grandchildren are vaccinated. I believe

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in preventive measures like vaccination. It's
very powerful way of staying healthy. Yeah,

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yeah, I know, and likewise
we do. But you know,

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it's interesting so many families, ours
as one of them, have people who

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disagree about it. Yeah, it
makes for such fascinating holiday dinners. So

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we've kind of learned that it's important
to listen to everyone and to not be

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too judgmental. Wouldn't you say,
that's pretty good advice, That is really

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perfect, And that's a good segue
to my book Revolutionary Optimism, the Seven

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Steps for Living as a Love Centered
Activist, because what you're talking about is

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really part of the heart of the
book, which is step four, which

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is called peace crafting, and it's
about the art of how do we relate

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to each other, And it's a
fourth step cycle. The first step is

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being a listening friend, like really
working on being a good listener. And

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then second is embracing multiple points of
view, like I have my point of

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view, you have your point of
view. People have a legitimate point of

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view, and we have to listen
and be respectful of multiple points of view.

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Then the third step is the third
part of the peace crafting is using

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love speech, using speech that's loving
in response to whatever is going on,

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not have to win a battle and
put people down or shut people up.

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You know, it's love speech empower
people. And fourthly, it's about expanding

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truth, you know, learning how
to build trust between people. I trust,

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Yeah, so we have a trust
of meeter you know how you can

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go up and down in building trust
with people, which is essential for sure,

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for sure. Well, right now
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back to the No Wine Zone with
my guest today, Doctor Paul writes he

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is not a whiner because he is
a true winner. And Doctor Paul,

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would you share with our listeners your
website information and some information about when your

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Amazon. Sure, thank you very much.

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This is the book. It is
available now on Amazon for pre order

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and it will be released on May
first. My website is doctor Paul zas

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at dot org or Unified Movements dot
org. Is it or is the movement

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that I'm working on with many others
to bring about love at the center for

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our social, economic, and political
systems. Well, what a wonderful movement,

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and what a magnificent project you've been
undertaken. I mean, we certainly

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need it. It's just amazing what's
going on in the world today. The

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upheaval and the anxiety is shared by
so many people. When you talk about

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your seven steps, let's go back
and summarize a little bit about step one,

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and that's called it's go time.
Now, would you explain what that

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is and how we can do it
and learn more about it. Yeah,

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So it's go time is kind of
an attitude, and it's about like waking

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up in the morning and going,
I'm alive, it's go time, like

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get on with it. And it's
about making choices about how you want to

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live your life, about how I
live my life, or how each person

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lives their life. So there's a
set of practices in step one which helps

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you understand like or ask the question
rather, how can I serve today?

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And there's a whole section and practices
like waking up, it's go time.

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Okay, I'm alive, I'm still
breathing. How can I serve today?

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And that can take many forms.
It can be taking care of yourself and

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self care number one priority. It
can be caring for loved ones. It

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can be taking action at your community
or at a church or in some group

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that you're part of. And it
can be involved in taking on the challenges

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of our country and our world.
So we look at all four of those

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levels as being ways of serving.
And then I ask people to imagine future

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generations. I invite people to imagine
the future generations and look look forward into

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the future at your children, or
your grandchildren or your great grandchildren, and

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imagine them looking back at you and
thanking you for the amazing action that you're

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taking today and every day, you
know, so that you can really be

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inspired about, like we're a living
legacy from the past, and we have

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a future ahead of us, and
those future generations there's a way of I

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share ideas about how you can imagine
them and use that as fuel for your

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moving forward and its go time.
Oh yeah, I don't know about you,

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but I have seven grandchildren, and
of course I'm very concerned about what

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kind of world they're going to be
in. And of course one of my

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goals has been to attempt to try
to grow old graciously and to try to

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be what we talked about before,
open to all kinds of viewpoints, opinions,

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and help the grandchildren because it's going
to be such a difficult world for

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them to navigate, don't you think, Yeah, exactly, And that's why

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I wrote revolutionary optimism. I wanted
to offer the best practices from my adult

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life and how I have learned to
generate myself as a revolutionary optimist because I

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have. I was struggling with anxiety
and despair and hopelessness. You know,

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it's overwhelming, the day to day
struggle of life now plus all the crises

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that are going on around us.
So we are going through a passage in

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our country and as humanity globally,
and so the intent of the book is

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to really open people up. Take
a breath. You can relax now,

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like, Okay, we have you
know, everyone shared the shared anxiety.

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Now we have the opportunity to breathe
a little bit. There's some tools in

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here about how we can work together
and unify ourselves to solve these local and

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global challenges. That's the only way
we can solve them well. And my

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next question, obviously is going to
be about this last pandemic that we went

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through and what are your thoughts about
how we did, how we survived it,

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and what we need to do in
the future. That's a great question,

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thank you. The pandemic was a
major global disruption. Now, of

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course there's been pandemics before that,
humanities had to deal with. But this

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was different in that it was in
a globally interconnected world where we have all

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this media and telecommunications and global travel
in an unprecedented way. One hundred years

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ago that did not exist, right, So the way that it spread so

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rapidly, and the way that information
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and I think the public health response
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misinformation. And you know, no
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in this era of global information telecommunications, So there was a lot of bad

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information that was going around. It
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on. There was a lot of
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Like what's going on? You know, And there was a lot of learning,

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and it was so disruptive to life. You know, all of our

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lives were disrupted, every single person
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that that was a practice run for
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decade decades, humanity is going to
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more challenges. With the climate emergency, with the teetering of our democracy,

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with the economic inequality, all these
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right now, or I actually feel
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you know, a transformative phase that
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know, we have evolutionary progress and
then there are periods of time where things

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get ignited and there's revolutionary transformation.
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on. Okay, you know it
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get with the AIDS, I thought, well, nothing could be worse than

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this, you know, I thought
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were going to experience. And then, of course the pandemic came. But

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then I was thinking about our parents, our grandparents, and you know,

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like when they went through World War
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a pandemic because it was a worldwide
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world had to pull together on that, and I think the pandemic was a

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similar experience. Yeah, I think
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globalize and be interconnected over you know, since World War Two. Actually,

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Did I agree with you? That
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we have a lot of war going
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Ukraine, the war in Israel,
Gaza, and all over Africa, other's

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wars. So you know, we're
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we don't necessarily feel those wars directly
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military family, then you do really
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I think that the political violence here
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in that is creating a lot of
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see that kind of civil breakdown.
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neighbors. We want to love thy
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hearted people from the majority. So
it's a challenging time. Okay, Now,

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your second step is self liberation,
liberating oneself to find an act from

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your unique path of service. Okay, let's talk about how does one go

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about finding their unique path. Yeah, thank you for this, so excited

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to share it with you. Honestly, self liberation as a concept that not

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everyone understands, right, that you
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potential. So even that as a
concept is new for some people and then

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there are practices and tools and tactics
for how do you go about doing that.

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So one of the main ideas in
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can. We are on a journey
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self, and we have to work
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that we have to do is work
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There's something that's a part of human
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which is our inner judge, our
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voice that tells us we're not good
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might upset other people, or whatever
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mind or your mind or other people's
minds. It's something that I struggled with

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for many, many years, and
it was like I had like an inner

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conflict, Like I was like felt
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be a loving person, but I
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down by myself and I was self
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how to master, not master that's
not the right word. It's about creating

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a piece with my inner dragon within
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piece. Do you think this inner
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family, So yes, I had
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childhood sexual violence. So the kind
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defense system that was like very overactive. I would say, you know,

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it was always like in a fight
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it forced me to heal myself in
ways and learn. Oh, I didn't

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even know there's an inner dragon,
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really, I've done a lot of
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you heal this relationship that goes on
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me. It's many people struggle with
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to take a break now because when
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about that, about how people can
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to know if you recommend psychiatry or
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before we do that, it's sixty
years later and people are still wondering who

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killed Kennedy. Let me ask you
a question. Are you still wondering who

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killed Kennedy Over fifty years later,
the assassination is still a mystery. It

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is unfinished business for our country.
Now get ready for a theory that you've

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never heard before, but will make
more sense than any other conspiracy theory that

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you've ever heard in the past.
January Jones speaks the unspeakable in her book

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Jackie, Ari and Jack The tragic
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romantically prior to JFK's assassination. Did
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the White House during the JFK funeral. He was the only non family member

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who was invited by Jackie to stay
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one of the wealthiest men in the
world, with the means, the motive,

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and the money to order an assassination
that was the perfect crime of the

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last century. All Ra needed class
and Jackie needed cash. They were perfect

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for each other. Now what is
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triangle? Jackie, Ari and Jack
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Amazon dot com and audiobooks dot Com. Read by mis Jones. Welcome Back

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with my guest, doctor Paul writes
he his new book Revolutionary Optimism, is

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coming out on May first. We
were talking before the break, and I'm

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curious to know what your thoughts are
about people getting into therapy in order to

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help this process a lot. I
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I think every person has to make
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life about how they choose to get
self healing. I think there are times

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where therapy can be very helpful.
I've been in therapy multiple times, and

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it's like something you can go into
and stop and go back when you're going

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through a passage or a healing phase. And it's not the only way though,

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you know. There's some people do
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and those kinds of practices. Some
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There's not one there's not one size
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Okay, I think you're right about
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kind of explore what works for them, what's a good fit. Step three

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is accessing the unity consciousness. Now
share with us your thoughts on how to

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open yourself to a higher level of
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of the book is really about self
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as effective as possible when we're interacting
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think is really important. And again
it's something that is a new concept for

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some people. Not everybody knows that
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we can imagine or we can experience. And so the step three, I

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think is really essential about accessing this. It's a mind state in my mind

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about understanding that we're all interconnected and
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all life even beyond the human form. And so by understanding that we can

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access that and we can then use
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Once you learn learn okay, there's
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learn, oh, I can access
it. I develop the muscles to be

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able to access unify consciousness, then
I can deploy it. So if I'm

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in a tough situation or I'm gonna
I'm in I'm gonna row with someone,

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or something's going on, I have
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so that I can generate myself as
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and I can see the whole picture. It's not just about me,

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it's about us collectively, so that
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of our collectiveness is really critical.
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something that people are exposed many times
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the community, whatever your religion may
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was always taught that the power of
prayer magnifizes and increases the more people who

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are involved in it. And it's
so true because so many times I can

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actually feel the energy sometimes from different
people from different organizations. And it's something

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to really focus on, isn't it. I think it's essential actually, and

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I definitely agree with you that prayer
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but I think it's universal for all
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a life event, like if there's
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if there's the death of someone that
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a mystical awareness, a sense of
being interconnected, you know, through the

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generations, or if you have a
medical crisis, there's a sense of a

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heightened awareness. Even you're running or
doing sports, you get like a runner's

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high. Or there's something called nature
mysticism. When you go to see the

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Grand Canyon or you see some beautiful
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wow is what I'm talking about.
That's a sense of unified consciousness. So

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I think everyone's had a taste of
it, and like my intent is really

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to open it up and say,
hey, this is like accessible and you

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can use it to optimize, to
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transform our world. Oh yeah,
and once people read your book, then

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they also have the opportunity to get
involved in your movement. And that was

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just it's just like it spreads it
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you with us. Yeah, thank
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centered people understand that we're all out
there and we're not alone, and that

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we have to like stand up and
reach out and connect. This is a

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time in our history where that could
be really powerful. Okay, Yeah,

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and then step number four is we
talked about earlier peace crafting healing the separation

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and conflict between people, organizations,
countries. It's a very to actually reach

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out to others and begin this peace
and this loving process is an amazing experience,

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and I think a lot of people
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exactly. And I've been, you
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so as I wrote the book,
and peace crafting got more clear, you

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know, as I studied the literature
and reviewed my own life experience, and

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actually it was written over this past
year when we were dealing with the war

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in Gaza and Palestine and how that
affected me personally, my family and all

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the divisions that we experienced. So
it was like real time learning. And

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then this four step cycle that I
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that. And it works. Actually, it's like spinning in my head now,

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like it's in there. It's like
and it works like if I'm at

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a family dinner and there's someone who's
saying stuff that I react to, you

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know, I go, Okay,
how can I be peacecrafting? Or when

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I'm in a zoom call with activists
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you know, and there's disagreement so
there's conflict, how can I be

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peace crafting? You know? So
it works at all different levels. So

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it can work in a church or
a religious setting, or in a group

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setting or where people go to work
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peacecrafting I think has a lot of
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talks about like how do you open
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you review your own narratives and your
own stories that are in your head and

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recognize that maybe they can evolve,
maybe they're not static. Maybe it's a

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dynamic thing that we can all shift
our narratives, and that can be hard

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and painful. Oh yes, you
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I just turned eighty this year,
and I'm very aware. Oh yeah,

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I'm very aware that the generational device
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and it's really hard and I,
my husband and I are trying very hard

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all the time to bridge the generational
because the world our children and grandchildren are

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growing up in is so unbelievable when
I think back that my grandparents they never

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flew, they barely left house,
and our children are now walking around with

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these little iPhones. And of course
I love them too because I can ask

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all kinds of questions and it's like
hello, I need help. But there

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is a big division between the generations, sadly. Sadly, yeah, I

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mean intergenerational communication and piece crafting I
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is a divide and technology has created
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And we are living in this information
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so fast and it's not going to
stop, you know, for as long

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as we're alive. It's going to
keep accelerating. So humans are struggling,

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actually don how to navigate this changing
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technology and taking technology holidays and you
know, not using your phones while

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you're at a meal with a loved
one. You know, all these practices

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that are hard. You know,
you walk into restaurants and the kids on

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a little screen and the parents are
texting each other, you know, so

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people are not connecting eye to eye
and hard to heart. And so technology

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holidays are something that can be part
of a daily practice and or longer and

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social media holidays too, because that's
also very divisive. Oh for sure.

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We had all of the are immediate
family, all seventeen. We're here for

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the last holiday, and when we
all went out to this dinner at this

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long, long table, Okay,
I don't make many rules, but the

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one rule was phones on the table
right right, and we all have to

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talk to each other. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. One of my kids,

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you know, we had that rule
sometimes as well. And one of

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my kids was like sitting at the
table like this, and I'm like,

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what are you doing? And they're
like, I'm praying. Oh. I

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love that. I was just praying. Yeah. Yeah. And one of

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mine came back with I'm doing research, and I was like, okay,

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welcome to our world. We're not
only going to talk to each other.

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We're going to try to listen,
which is a concept that is new to

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some of them. You know,
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Writes, who is also a very
priceless personality. And I'm so pleased to

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have you with us now, Paul. The step five is a word I

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have never heard. I have something
you must have created. I love it.

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It's imagineering. Yes, actually I
want to give credit to Walt Disney.

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He actually created it, and I
have adapted it and evolved it over

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the last phase of my life.
The way I describe it in the book,

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it's really about opening up your visions, doing radical imagination, unlocking political

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imagination as well about what's possible,
and then translating those visions and that imagination

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into reality manifesting it. So it's
vision plus manifesting is imagineering, and that

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is the idea in the in step
five. Step five, I think is

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the longest step because we go into
really, how do you unlock your vision?

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Your visions matter, ideas matter,
the world that you want to create,

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Whatever you have in your heart,
we need to unleash that and release

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that and bring it into our experience
and our dialogue and our conversations wherever we're

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having them. And then by working
in movements, by not doing it ourselves.

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You know, the problems are big. Even at a local level,

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it's complicated. So you need to
work with others and build movements of folks

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that want to align with you on
achieving something. And that's what the second

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part of step five is about.
Yeah, oh my gosh. Well,

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you know, my personal mantra and
I try to share this with our family

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and my friends, is basically that
you can think it, you can do

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it right. And so many times
people think I hear this, Oh it's

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too hard, I can't do it. They're very negative, and you have

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to just step forward and change the
narrative and anything you think you're actually capable

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of doing. Yeah. So that's
the inner dragon voice, that voice that

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says you can't do it, or
I'm too small, my voice doesn't matter.

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That's what we cover in step two
as the inner dragon that needs to

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be healed because what you're saying is
true. Open up your visions and believe

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that you can help make them happen. That's what Step five is about.

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And it's very it's fun. Actually, well you know, it kind of

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gives you the graveness to do things
that scare the scare you selling exactly.

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That's I thank you for raising that
point, because bravery is contagious. Actually,

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and I forgot to tell you.
As a doctor, I feel like

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it's a responsibility and an opportunity to
let you know that revolutionary optimism is highly

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contagious. Oh. There is no
cure and there is no vaccine for it.

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So it cures anxiety and despair,
and once you have it, you

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know, sorry, you might have
it forever. Yeah. And you know,

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one of the other things I talk
about in my book Thou Shalt Not

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Wine is the power of the smile. Yes, And basically when I'm a

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smiler, you know, I smile
whether I like it or not. One

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time I was recovering from surgery and
the doctor said I was actually in the

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recovery room smiling. So I can't
help but not smile. I smile all

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the time, but some people have
a hard time with it. And what

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I have found that if you put
a smile out there, guess what comes

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back. Yeah, it's a human
biological reaction, right. And also if

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you ask people instead of ask them
how you are today, one of the

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things that optimists do is ask what
was the best thing that happened to you

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today? Oh, instead of saying
how are you, which is like you

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have to go through my good or
am I bad? And I got to

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say fine when you not really fine
or whatever. And so another way of

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saying it is what is the best
thing that happened to you today? And

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that triggers the brain into optimism,
like looking at your life as full and

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what can I be grateful for and
how So that's really an important practice as

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well with smiling. Yeah, we
have two more steps before we have to

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close out our visit Number six sparking
peaceful revolutions. Where do you give people

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hints on where to look for practical
tools and where they can go to join

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your revolution? What do they do? Yes, Yeah, Actually Step six

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is very practical. It's very focused
on once you have imagined the new world

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that we want to create, and
you're working with others, you're building movements,

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love centered movements, you're coming together
on that, then Step six is

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really about the tact of peaceful resistance. And really there are phases in history

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and time where you have evolutionary progress, and there are phases where you can

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spark transformational or revolutionary phases. So
there's a lot of risk. Right now,

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we're in a we're at a crossroads
where go down a path of destruction

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or we can go down a path
of repair and healing. And so I'm

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advocating for us to participate in peaceful
revolutions to really transform the way that we're

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relating to each other and our earth, so that we can put love at

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the center of our social, economic, and political systems. And that is

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really what and we go into you
don't always have. All you need is

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like three point five percent of the
people on the streets calling for action,

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but you need another twenty five percent
of the population who's supporting them, giving

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them food, giving them housing,
giving them money, or doing peaceful resistance

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from your desktop or from your office. So there's many different ways for people

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to participate, and not everyone has
to be out there protesting or on the

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revolutionary further, people do need to
do that, so we talk about those

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kind of different roles that people can
choose. Yeah, kids, you can

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slowly, quietly do it from the
sidelines and you don't have to be right

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out on the front lines all the
time. Is a wonderful book for you

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to have written, because we are
so desperately in need of hope. We're

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desperately in need of your message,
which is peaceful revolution and the thought of

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uniting, unifying so many diverse people, cultures, aspects, it becomes overwhelming.

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How are you able to accomplish this, write this book? It's amazing.

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Yeah, So Step seven is unifying
and it really is the culmination of

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this journey and really revolutionary optimism.
The seven steps, it's like a journey,

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and it's like each step is a
lifetime of opportunity for growth and transformation.

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It's not like you read this and
all of a sudden, everything's going

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to be there. It's like an
ongoing thing. So unifying is about two

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00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.800
levels. One unifying within yourself,
like really, what is your soul's purpose,

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what is your deployment? How do
you want to serve at a macro

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at a life level, you know, and really aligning whatever that truth is

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00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.000
for yourself with how you're living your
life. It's taken me a long time

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to actually do that, you know. And then it's about unifying around us,

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00:46:53.400 --> 00:47:00.880
So interracial, interspiritual, intergenerational,
interpart as an international you know,

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like all these length all these ways
that we can see each other as one

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and as connected, and it's like
this, it's like you have to look

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at reality through those lenses of unifying, and then you start seeing things differently,

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Like what would it be like if
I put love at the center and

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I was unifying As we talked about
intergenerationally, what action can I take if

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I wanted to create a dinner where
I had boomers and gen z and be

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you know, all the generations you
know, and created space for everyone to

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have a voice, their voices heard. You know that that alone would be

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transformational. What a wonderful world before
we go. This was a question I

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00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:51.280
asked all my guests, if you
could have dinner with anyone living or dead

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00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:55.400
besides me, who would you invite
to be your dinner partner? Oh my

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00:47:55.480 --> 00:48:02.480
god, I didn't know that question
was coming. I think right now,

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in the wake of publishing this book, I would have to say Reverend Doctor

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00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:14.719
Martin Luther King Jr. I have
really been deeply immersed in his writings and

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his teachings and his love centered activism, and I feel like revolutionary Optimism is

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just like another iteration of his teachings, you know, for our time,

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and I feel like I could learn
so much from him, and I could

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be so inspired by his wisdom and
his clarity. Wonderful. Yeah, that

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would be an incredible dinner party,
and I hope you invite me too.

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So for now, I want to
thank all of our listeners for entering with

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doctor Paul and I into the no
wine zone today, and please share our

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stories in his incredible book with everyone
you know, and remember right now you

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need to stop whining and then start
small and being optimistic. And if that

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doesn't work, then you can just
start eating chocolate. Lot love chocolate.

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Signing off from the Glitter Granny and
Doctor Paul Wright. Take care and stay

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safe until we meet again. Thank
you. We want to thank you for

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listening to January Jones sharing success stories. Always remember miss Jones' personal mantra,

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if you can think it, you
can do it. That's what all of

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our guests have done with their lives, and so can you. You are

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the ultimate success coach in your own
life. All you need to do will

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be to start sharing your own story
with your family and friends. We hope

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that our guest stories will encourage you
to explore an equation in your future that

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will combine your creativity plus connecting with
others will enable you to be successful too.

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Always remembered your passion ulus your purpose
will equal prosperity as you explore the

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