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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 hugerist and whineologist expert.
She is your featured host today on January

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

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laugh and listen to Ms Jones with
her eclectic roster of guests as you learn

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life's lessons. These stories plus sharing
equal success. Welcome and remember beware because

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you are entering the no whining world
of January Jones. Good day everyone,

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I hope you're having a terrific day. I'm January Jones, and I'd like

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to welcome you to our podcast today. As you can see, I'm wearing

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my bright pink glitter hat, getting
ready to launch my new brand, glitter

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Granny Gifts. I will be selling
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at Amazon dot com and we'll be
launching Glitter Granny I think pretty soon,

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first week in June, so I'll
keep you all posted on it. Right

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now, for my listeners, let
me ask you a question. Have you

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ever heard of YouTube? I hope
you have. I know all of our

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grandkids have heard of that for sure, they're probably all on it. Would

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you like to learn how you can
subscribe to YouTube, how you can enjoy

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it and learn more about it today
we're here to tell you just how to

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do it. Then you can follow
our guest and me too, because I

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happen to be on YouTube. Tell
me have you ever thought about being an

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Internet celebrity or an influencer? I
think we all have in some way.

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Now, let me ask you a
question. Have you ever heard of an

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amazing book entitled Being a YouTuber One
Creator's Bumpy Road to one million subscribers?

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One million subscribers? Yeah, you
heard me. If you can answer yes

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or maybe of any of these questions
that I've asked you, and you are

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in the right place, and I'd
like to welcome you to January Jones sharing

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senior success stories. Now it's time
rass relaxed. Go get a glass of

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wine, get some crackers and cheese, and join us in the no wine

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zone. When most of us think
of YouTube, we think of stars and

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celebrities. But my guest is living
proof that you don't have to be a

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millennial to be a huge success on
that trendy YouTube channel. Our guest today

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was nearing her midlife crisis and twenty
twenty two when her YouTube channel hit one

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million mark, and then a month
later she turned fifty. You know,

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when you're eighty, someone turning fifty
is really really young. So I'm thrilled

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to have her with us today.
She is an English lane teacher and author

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of Being YouTuber One Creator's Bumpy Road
to one Million subscribers. Welcome to the

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show today. Jennifer Labidi. How
are you doing, honey, I'm doing

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great, January, how are you
today? I hope I pronounced your last

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right. That's a tough one,
leve A dev dav Oh, I didn't

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get. I'll work on that.
So let's talk about Jennifer, and tell

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us where your success story began,
where you were born, and give us

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a little background. Well, I
hesitate to call the whole life a success

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in progress. I'm still working on
it, you know, the one book

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is I'm still in the next writing
the next part of it. But it

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all began in Pennsylvania. I'm originally
from Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania. I was

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born and raised in Pittsburgh, and
then, in a roundabout way, I

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am now up in New England.
I am based in Massachusetts. Yes,

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and I am an English language teacher. And it I didn't quite know what

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path I was taking immediately, although
January, there are two things I was

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pretty certain about. I wanted to
become a mother at some point in my

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life. And I wanted to be
a teacher. And well, I was

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in college and I made the decision
to become a teacher and I think it

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was before then that there were signs
that this was the profession for me.

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So some people know, you know
immediately I'm going to be a doctor when

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I grew up whatever, But that
thought didn't crystallize until college. But before

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then there there were some signs there
were. I for a time, though,

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it's funny, I was so afraid
of public speaking, like just getting

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up in front of a crowd.
I would avoid it at any cost,

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especially in school. But then there
were some challenges that I faced and it

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became easier. But I remember in
ninth grade there was this assignment in English

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class. I remember this five minutes. That's it. You just had to

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get up for a five minute presentation
on a topic of your choice. I

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was so afraid of doing this.
I thought of even going to the teacher

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and telling her I can't do this, and I was like okay, But

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I kept preparing. I got my
index cards ready like everyone else. And

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it was the day of my presentation
and I was called to the front,

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stood up there, twenty some other
kids in the class, teacher in the

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back, ready to evaluate me.
And then something funny happened. I realized

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I wanted to do this and I
thought five minutes is not even enough.

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I was excited about the topic that
I chose and I wanted to tell everyone

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about it, and that sort of
continued by the time I hit eleventh grade.

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In history class, we had to
choose another topic. It's this time

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a country of your choice, and
I chose my father's home country. He

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was from the Philippines. And I
don't even remember what the time limit was.

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I just know that I needed the
whole class period, and he gave

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it to me. I wanted to
tell everyone what I had researched, what

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I discovered. I talked about the
history of the politics, the religion,

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the culture of the cuisine. I
even threw in the national dance at the

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end because it was part of this
youth group troupe that had been performing dances.

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The point is that I discovered that
when you love something and find something

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interesting and have you see value in
it, you have this desire to share

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it in some sort of way.
And I think that's eventually what led to

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me being a teacher. I know
that I know something, I think it's

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a value to others, and I'm
excited to share it. But how I

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chose foreign languages is yet another part
of the story. If you care to

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hear it, you know this is
wonderful. I'm enjoying this story you're telling.

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And I haven't throw in the fact
that my three daughters have requested me

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to finally write something about myself because
they said, we're tired of you writing

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about Jackie Kennedy. You need to
tell your story. So I've started working

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on a memoir, a private one, and I went back, interestingly enough

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to people who influenced my life.
And guess what it was third grade missus

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Maloney, my English teacher. And
here I am at eighty with six books

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behind me, and who knows what
else, and I still have to think

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of her. So what an incredible
opportunity to influence young people? It is?

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It is the teachers of our youth
especially had such an impact, hopefully

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for better, not for worse.
But I remember all my teacher teachers,

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and I was very blessed to have
some inspiring ones. But you know,

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although I will say the part two
of that story is why teach English as

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a second language? Because I thought
when I got certified, I was certified

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to teach Russian as a foreign language, and I was thought to be teaching

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in my home state of Pennsylvania.
I got my certification and then I thought,

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well, I need more fluency,
because although I was certified, I

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knew I needed more proficiency. So
I applied to grad school. My studies

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took me over to Russia, and
although I didn't plan to stay long term,

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that's what I did. Life took
a turn and I started teaching English

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as a foreign language and really loved
it, really enjoyed the experience of it.

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And when I came back to the
US several years later, I got

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re certified to teach ESL, which
is English as a second language. And

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partly why I chose a foreign language
as although I really did love my school

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experience, overall, I was such
a diligent student who rememberable now. I've

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studied my heart out and I got
stellar grades. Six years of French studies,

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I found myself in Paris for the
first time and I couldn't function,

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really I couldn't, And I thought, okay, so I got straight a's

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in French, and what's up with
this? Because I could read, I

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could write, I could translate,
I knew the grammar and vocabulary, but

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it was the way I was taught. There wasn't an emphasis on communication,

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and so that was the issue,
and I thought, ough, So my

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desire to teach a foreign language where
a second language, is to help people

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avoid what I went through. I
want them to feel comfortable and confident to

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start communicating with whatever they know from
day one, even with high Hello.

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So that's something that I've been doing
as a language learner myself, and what

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I tried to help others do is
start using the language and get over the

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fear of speaking it. Oh I
need to wait. No, you don't

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need to wait. You can start
on day one in a beginner class,

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you know, to start using the
language, and it's exciting as long as

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you have the support and the guidance
yes, yeah, to help you along

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the way. Interesting. How long
did you live in Russia? About five

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years? Oh? Wow, Oh
my gosh. We were fortunate enough to

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be in the UK for one year
with my husband's work, and we were

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able to travel all over and to
be there for five years. Wow.

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That's such an amazing transition. You
were very lucky to have that experience,

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don't you agree? I do,
I think, especially as a language teacher,

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especially since English is my first language. It's not enough just to have

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that as my native language and then
know how to teach it. But I

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think there's an emotional component to what
I do. I need to EMPAThiE with

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my students, and I know what
it's like to learn a foreign language,

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and I've done it different ways,
so I've had my French experience. Then

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I started learning Russian, I had
a couple of years of Japanese. I've

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dabbled in other languages. And I
won't give a message to anybody at any

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age out there, especially fifty and
older, it is never too late.

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I started learning Spanish in January this
year, and I'm so happy that I

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moved up a new level in five
months. I went from the Foundation's course

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to the Beginner's course. But the
idea is that I wanted to learn some

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Spanish, and I told myself,
I know I'm busy, but I can

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do this. As I'm not going
to use the excuse of I'm too old,

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I'm too busy, da da dies, I can do this. I'm

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going to work Spanish into my lifestyle
right now, and I'm learning Spanish and

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loving it. But also it helps
me remember what it's like to be a

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beginner in a language. It's very
humbling, well, you know, talking

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about humbling. If you're a whiner, this book is for you who will

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Not Whine The Eleventh Commandment that reached
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Jones based her book on our survey
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known author in the style of Irma
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her book being published in Korea and
China. You can find Valshaw not Wine

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at Amazon dot com. Welcome back
to the No Wine Zone with Jennifer,

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who is not a whiner because she
is a winner. Now, Jennifer,

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before we go on, I have
to do this before I forget. I

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want you to share your information and
share with our listeners how they can subscribe,

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how they can buy your book,
and how they can share your experience.

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Sure, so online I am under
the name English with Jennifer, so

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pretty much in any platform you can
find me. So my website is English

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with Jennifer dot com and that's for
students and teachers, anyone interested in the

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work that I do. And there
are links to my book there too.

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And then I'm on Instagram English with
Jennifer levetev and Twitter and Facebook. I'm

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actively posting on Instagram and YouTube and
where else LinkedIn anyone for professional connections reach

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out, feel free to and on
Amazon just look up being a YouTuber one

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creator's bumpy road to one million subscribers. On I have to share with my

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listeners that that book will be featured
at glitter Granny's Gifts because I feature all

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of the books of the many many
authors who have been on my show because

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those are the books that I can
personally recommend, and they're great books to

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give or to get. And what
an inspiration for the seniors who are listening

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to this show as far as taking
up a second language an exciting thing to

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do and it's something you should consider. I know a lot of people think,

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oh, I can't do that.
Well, here's the gal to show

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you how to do it. Jennifer
tell us how you've got your start on

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YouTube. What took you from teaching
in a classroom to being on the internet.

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Well, I said I wanted to
be two things, a mother and

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a teacher. So I became a
mom. I was a mom of two,

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and I found myself wanting to teach
because I had stepped out of the

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classroom to take on a book contract. And I really did try to consider

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and make it work to be a
mom and go to a school and commute.

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And I had a wonderful employer who
really tried to give me the amazing

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accommodations so that I could continue classroom
teaching. But it was so difficult.

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One of the biggest difficulties was really
the commute. It was one night I

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just remember how horrible The feeling was
because I was driving home at one point.

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my first born. I was so
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dark out. I'm like cracking the
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tongue because I need to be alert, and the thought, yes, was

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in my head, this is dangerous. Why am I doing this? My

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baby is in the background. I
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in life, you think there isn't
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and then somehow the universe does open
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doors, windows, craps, look
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a pandemic affect your career arch because
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to the pandemic were not at home. Then because of the pandemic, they

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took their careers and cyberated and brought
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from home, which of course gives
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it. It does I think now
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more understanding for what I've been doing
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really changed. The point is when
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with my children because that's where I
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to teach. That's part of who
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and I needed an outlet because there's
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YouTube was just starting and I was
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experiment put some videos up. I'm
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videos were posted with me teaching,
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people did not have good audio or
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and I just wanted to teach so
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the response was so positive, and
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continued to study with me, I
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maker and transition to be a better
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I just have to learn how to
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and I have made my own videos
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experimenting with this. Of course,
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station Talk for TV. But I
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it happened to have a video function. I didn't even have an external mic.

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I wasn't ready to invest. Also, with the two kids, I couldn't

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get out of the home easily.
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was balancing my camera on like bookshelves
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to crouch down to get to the
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point is, if you believe that
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have to have the courage to share
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resonate enough. You're not trying to
win over the world. Not everyone's going

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to like what you produce. Not
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You just need this core following.
Whatever you're delivering will have value to someone,

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and that's what you're doing on YouTube. Don't go out there to be

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a celebrity or to be a star. You're going out there to offer something

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of value to other people. And
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is that as you get older and
I look back twenty five years, I

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can go what's it's on YouTube?
Guys, it's there. I can go

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back and pull up January Jones playing
in the World Series of Golf and look

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back and see that I'm still a
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Jennifer can do it, I think any

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of you listening you could look into
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agree with Jennifer? Yes? And
it's again, there are many reasons to

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go on YouTube. It's first and
foremost, it should never be Oh,

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I want to be a celebrity.
That's not it. It's what do you

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want to share? What do you
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Whether it's entertainment or educational, you
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start with small steps. You don't
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just need a few answers to get
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so there's so many tutorials out there. There's a lot of information.

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your phone, and you know how
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there and upload from there. Wow, you're inspiring me because I think it's

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fun to do things, and for
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I'm going to be going back to. You know, we're going to take

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a break and hear about sixty years
later who killed Kennedy when we when we

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come back, we're going to talk
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you a question, are you still
wondering who killed Kennedy? Over fifty years

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later? The assassination is still a
mystery. It is unfinished business for our

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country. Now get ready for a
theory that you've never heard before, but

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will make more sense than any other
conspiracy theory that you've ever heard in the

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past. January Jones speaks the Unspeakable
in her book Jackie, Ari and Jack

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The Tragic Love Triangle connecting Jackie and
Aristotlone ass romantically prior to JFK's assassination.

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Did you know that Ari was Jackie's
guest in the White House during the JFK

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funeral. He was the only non
family member who was invited by Jackie to

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stay there during the funeral. Aristotalon
Asis was one of the wealthiest men in

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the world, with the means,
the motive, and the money to order

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an assassination that was the perfect crime
of the last century. All ra needed

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class and Jackie needed cash. They
were perfect for each other. Now what

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is Camelot? It is but another
tragic love triangle? Jackie, Ari and

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Jack is available at January Jones dot
com, Amazon dot com, and audiobooks

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dot com. Read by mis Jones. Welcome back with Jennifer. This is

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so much fun to be chatting with
you. You know, you've produced hundreds

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of video lessons, so you're actually
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beyond the revenue, how has YouTube
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done for your career. It's been
amazing, first and foremost because at the

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beginning at two thousand and seven,
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Everyone who was posting was doing it
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years straight and then I thought,
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household income, and so I decided
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wasn't Zoom back then. It was
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quick announcement that I'm offering private lessons, and less than twenty four hours later,

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I had enough students to start.
That's a demonstration of if you're already

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putting out content and showing what you
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you then move to some sort of
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to connect because the connections actually already
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when I did get certified back in
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physical teaching portfolio, you know,
with the pictures, my lesson plans and

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all that. What I didn't realize
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haven't had to show a resume in
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am, what I can do,
and then the invitations and proposals come.

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I haven't had to prove anything.
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I put that on my website.
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show anyone my resume and ages because
it's usually already clear what I do,

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what I can offer. That's been
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people ask, they think, oh, you're online, you work independently,

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You're not connected to anybody. You're
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Like absolutely not. I've been so
connected with so many people, you

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know, not just us worldwide,
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I have new colleagues, not to
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the students. So it's been incredible
to have the connection what you truly and

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from a good heart, have a
service something to offer people. Once it

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go on YouTube, it takes on
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podcast, for example, is going
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I can't believe the numbers, and
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these days, aren't they, Jennifer. They are. It's a wonderful place

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to connect. You have to find
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and offline activity, but still it's
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what I really want to focus on, is saying YouTube is amazing and I

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love the idea of having this global
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and it's one way to measure our
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focus on the numbers, you're only
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is that we have to look beyond
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revenue, subscribers, it's just part
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personally bring in stories, connections,
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that really matter. You know,
it's interesting. I was intrigued. I

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turned fifty thirty years ago. What
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and this time in this crazy world. Tell me some of your thoughts about

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turning fifty, Jennifer, Well,
it's not so much something that I feared,

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but of course when you hit the
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of reflection of like where am I
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enough? And that really was the
impetus to write. I like to write,

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and I knew I needed to reflect. But you're among those people who

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inspire me to know that it's how
you live your life. It's so much

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of your mindset and your choices of
lifestyle can show itself in many different ways.

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I want to feel youthful in some
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of the wisdom and life experience I've
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I have so many people who've inspired
me to age well and wisely and in

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a healthy way. My dear cousin
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that when she didn't know what it
went to go live. I had her

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go live with me not too long
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year, but bless her soul.
Gina is a woman who inspires me because

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she has so much laughter, life, love life, and I would be

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so happy to be ninety six with
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feel young still. I know I'm
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point, and I know that I
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in the second half of my life. And I have good models in front

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of me. Thank you January of
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you know, I wrote my first
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was hitting that is a big number. I don't care how you look at

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it. Fifty is a biggie.
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the thing about a book that was
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of like planning a tree. Once
you write it, it's for real,

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it'll be there forever and it has
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an ego thing into writing a book, and then you go on to write

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five or six more. Talking about
enticing people on YouTube, I had my

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eighteen year old granddaughter who had to
do an interview about me for her English

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class. I invited her my show
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from eighteen to eighty and we turned
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questions. And it's one of my
favorite experiences is getting to people people to

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do this that have never done it
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yes, that's what it's all about, is having the courage to take some

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risks, and it doesn't mean no
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just trying things that are new.
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you have within you, whether it's
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also the key is are you still
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is taking organ lessons. Wow,
you keep learning in some way? Challenge

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yourself and enjoy it. Okay,
that's a challenge to our senior listeners.

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I want you all to do that. You know, you have a chapter

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called Finding your Inner rock Star in
your book, Who is your Inner rock

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Star? I wonder if you can
guess if I tell you my hometown is

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and there's a
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city. Won't you be? Won't
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Mister Rogers? Yes, Fred Rogers
is my rock star. So I'm

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shattering the myth guys that to be
a YouTuber you have to be this young,

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hip, cool rock star. The
ideas you have to feel your become

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your own rock star. But to
do that, you can think about the

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kinds of performers and celebrities that you
admire and respect and think, why what

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is it about them as people?
What's in their character, what's their style?

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of all the people who are on
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of Fred Rogers, you know,
he is not the He was not the

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hip as coolest guy the people might
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or but he delivered something of value, and he was welcoming and kind,

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and he was a true educator and
he left his mark. He made a

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contribution, and he took his young
learners out into the neighborhood to show him

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things. I've done a couple of
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of my and so that's what it
is. Who will inspire you? Who

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is wonderful? Because he's one of
my personal heroes. I was a very

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young widow with two small children,
and we made mister Rogers show our dinner

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time down at a little table watch
him, and he became like our substitute

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father. What an incredible man and
his spirit was so pure in kind and

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it's such an amazing example for young
children. And you know if he had

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showed up at the door, I
would marry him on the spot. I

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really admire what he's done, what
he's contributed, and I can only hope

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that I can do something similar in
my career. I think you are headed

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in the right direction. And I
usually at the end of the show ask

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all my visitors if they could have
dinner with anyone living or dead besides me,

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who would they choose? And I
now know who you would choose,

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and I would like to be invited. It might be it might very well

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be Fred Rogers. Yes, I
think for sure I would love to have

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dinner with him and just tell him
how much he's meant to everyone, so

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many people. What a wonderful man, And you're the first person who has

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talked about him on my show,
So I'm very pleased to share that.

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Also, I'm very pleased to share
priceless personalities people who have been on my

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show. Have you ever met someone
who was unforgettable, someone who has touched

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your heart and soul, People who
have faced difficult problems, people who have

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struggled to find solutions, people who
fearlessly shared their stories, people who have

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not only informed you, but inspired
you. People who have Priceless Personalities.

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I have been fortunate to host an
internet radio talk show called January john Sharing

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Success Stories, and it has been
my privilege to interview hundreds of guests.

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My guests have shared their stories,
their struggles, their secrets, and their

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successes in their own words. In
this book, we're talking about people dealing

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with problems such as incest, molestation, runaway kids, child abuse, drug

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abuse, polygamy, unemployment, scandal, and starting over. Then there are

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my guests dealing with difficult physical struggles
such as blindness, cancer, and birth

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defects that are beyond traumatic. My
guests have all been exciting, eclectic,

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and energizing. They have amazed,
amused, and even astonished me. I

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have adored getting to meet them and
I adore sharing them with you. Attention

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all listeners. Priceless Personalities success Stories
Shared by January Jones, Volume two is

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now available at Amazon dot com in
paperback and kindle editions. You'll be able

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to meet ten amazing people who will
be sharing their own personal stories with all

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their struggles, successes and solutions sprinkled
with lots of humor and hope. Priceless

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Personalities features a teenager who becomes one
of the famous supremes from Motown. A

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nurse who has a humorist helps people
to heal, an inspiring laughter yoga instructor,

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a mother dealing with the loss of
a child, an incredible motivational speaker,

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a woman who married five times,
a gifted paranormal nurse, a wise

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economist, a funny female humorist,
along with an older man sharing his sweet

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childhood in the Deep South. January's
guests are all amazing and amusing. You

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will never forget meeting them. Go
to Amazon dot com for your own priceless

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experience. Won't you be my neighbor? Welcome back Jennifer, who is also

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another priceless personality. When I get
to volume three, I'm sure you'll be

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in it. Tell us, Jennifer, what are the myths about YouTube?

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00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:46.599
Things about YouTube that would cause people
to pause? What can you share with

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us that'll make it easier for them
to explore this opportunity. Well, I've

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00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:53.639
addressed some of them. I am
the first thinking that you have to be

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young, hip and cool to be
a YouTuber, and you don't. It's

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your your person, and you have
something of value. If you have a

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00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:07.840
genuine delivery and you're offering something of
value, you'll have followers, and you

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don't need the world to follow you. You just need that core following.

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So don't let that stop you.
Some people say, oh, I don't

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have the time. If you're a
content creator, it's twenty four to seven.

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It can be if you allow it
to. And it's something I had

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to learn myself is that you need
to set those boundaries. You need to

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have balance. And that's a big
lesson that I had to learn along the

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way and I'm still getting pretty good
at it, but still have things to

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00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:37.800
learn about taking care of myself.
And that's true of whether you're a YouTube

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or not. Just to prioritize the
self care. I didn't always do that.

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That's a big one. That's a
big star time management. And also

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I might add at this point you
have to learn as you get older about

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time management and you have to learn
how to say no yes. That was

466
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a big one for me, and
I'll tell you that I wasn't learning.

467
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.400
I didn't balance things great, especially
when you love something, you keep giving,

468
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:07.920
giving, giving, and you realize
that you know you can't just keep

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00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:12.760
giving a life, you have to
also receive and that means receiving the time

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for your self care. And I
didn't always do that very well. And

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I'll just tell you briefly, there
was a period I wrote about it that

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I felt like my whole body was
breaking down from head to toe. I

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had so many, like all kinds
of health issues you couldn't always tell looking

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at me. I'd smile on camera
and say, Hi, it's Jennifer.

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But I had so much going on
from like this problem with my patureless ustation

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tube. I had an echo in
my ear, I had tension headaches,

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I had back issues. I didn't
realize my body was sending all kinds of

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messages to me, like, Oh, you need to slow down, you

479
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.920
need to take some time, and
I just didn't just like getting messages in

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00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.519
my inbox. I'm like, oh, read it later, read it later.

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00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.679
My body was sending me messages.
I refused to read them or acknowledge

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00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:00.239
them. And then so the universe
had to get a little creative and I

483
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.719
started getting the messages I needed to
hear, the lessons I needed to learn

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through my students, because we talk
about things, write about things. They

485
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:13.360
were telling me through their homework and
different assignments. The lessons I needed to

486
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.920
know about help, life, sleep, relationships. And I was paying attention

487
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:21.079
because I care about my students.
I respect them. I wasn't listening to

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00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.840
myself my innervoice, but I would
listen to my students. And that's how

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that's the universe teaching me, like, you need to make some changes in

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your life. You need to slow
down, say no, set those boundaries,

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00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:36.840
and live the life that you know
that you really want to live.

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And that's when I started making changes. But the book was part of it.

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The book is like the snapshot of
me in August twenty twenty two,

494
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.119
and I needed to look at that
snapshot, step back and say, Okay,

495
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.760
some things are going well, some
things aren't. What do I need

496
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.639
to change? Where am I going
from here? And the first decision from

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00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:59.760
writing that book was like, I
do want to go on. I know

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hired, I know I'm feeling broken
down in some ways, but I'm not

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ready to quit. I still want
to share things, okay, but how

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to do this in a healthy,
sustainable way. Now we're in the second

501
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:14.719
phase here, how can we do
this better? And that's what it was

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all about. Yeah, oh I
hear you, And the universe does have

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a way through my experience with writing
TV radio. Along the way, at

504
00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:34.519
one point I had TGA happened to
me trans global amnesia, and then along

505
00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.960
the way, I had a brain
cluster. And so your body adjusts and

506
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:42.760
tells you, Hey, time out. This is where you have to take

507
00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:46.599
care of yourself and you have to
listen to it. And you were lucky

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00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:52.519
that you had students there who could
help you find your way. They did,

509
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:57.880
and they didn't even realize how precious
their writings and their the conversations were.

510
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.800
Like I was helping them learn English, but they were helping me remember

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00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:05.880
what life is really about. They
were recommending books that I needed to read.

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Thanks to my students, I learned
about atomic habits and identity based goals.

513
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:15.599
I learned about Louise Hey because students
were recommending these books to me.

514
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:20.239
I'm like, oh my gosh,
Wayne Dyer, the book in my students

515
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:23.440
put me on the path of self
growth and I have. It's been amazing

516
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:30.000
the past few years have been wonderful
because of books and and discussions I've had.

517
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:36.800
I'm sure Louise got me through being
a widow and restarting my life again.

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00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:43.559
What do you want. Is there
any specific message you want readers to

519
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.840
take away from your book? I
guess the final thing is just remember that

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each and every one of us is
capable of inspiring and being inspired. You

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00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.280
just have to have the courage to
open up and share what you can.

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00:41:55.719 --> 00:42:00.960
And remember when you start looking at
what you're doing and you question if it's

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00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:06.519
successful or not, don't let the
numbers be the only way you evaluate your

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00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:10.519
success or your happiness. Right.
You have to define success and happiness on

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00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.880
your own terms. And for me
personally, that is beyond the numbers.

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It's contributions, connections, and experiences. That's what defines my success and happiness.

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00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:29.880
Wow, sixteen seventeen years now,
do you ever get tired of doing

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00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:32.320
this? No? I have.
I'm like, oh my gosh, there's

529
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so much more that I want to
do. It's that desire. It's that

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that fifteen or fourteen year old again
in English class, like five minutes that's

531
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not enough, fifty years that's not
enough, eighty that's not enough. There's

532
00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:46.519
so much that I want to do, but I want to do it in

533
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:52.239
a healthier, wiser way, and
I want to enjoy this second part and

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00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.400
I want to create a smooth or
happier road for myself. And that's what

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00:42:55.440 --> 00:42:59.960
I would hope that other people would
do. Having read my mistakes in a

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about my bumpy road, may my
second. If I choose to write a

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00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:07.920
second book, then I will have
it be a journey on a smoother road,

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00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:12.760
not a bumpy road. For six
books, I know you're going to

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00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:16.559
write one and you get addict to
doing it, and I know I did

540
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:22.639
that. I at one point I
was doing six shows a week, one

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00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.960
hour on the hour every day or
so. It was incredible and I had

542
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.360
to say stop, I'm going to
go on hiatus and it was interesting.

543
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:36.480
I said, oh, I'll be
gone for six months. Well six months

544
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:43.320
turned into three years because guess what. I started just doing things for fun,

545
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:47.760
things for my family. I wasn't
answering to a network or a station,

546
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.440
and it's very hard to do that, but it pays great, great

547
00:43:52.519 --> 00:44:00.440
dividends once you catch your breath,
and it's hard to do, isn't it

548
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.679
It is? But then you discover
the many rewards of doing so, like

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00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:07.039
why didn't I do this sooner?
And you feel so much more fulfilled Because

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00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:09.639
I am a mother, I am
a teacher, I am a YouTuber,

551
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:14.880
but there's other parts of me that
I want to still identify as, Like

552
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:17.239
I am a healthy person and I
experiment. So I'm like, yeah,

553
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.599
I'm going to take tai chi because
that's who this Jennifer now at fifty two

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00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:25.000
is going to do. She's going
to do tai chi. And I'm learning

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00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:30.159
Spanish and I'm making time for Russian
lessons and taking walks because this is all

556
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:34.440
about that picture of who I believe
I am, who I want to be,

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00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:37.480
and how I want to live my
life. So I'm saying this.

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00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:39.719
I learned this, like You've got
to say no more to the things that

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you don't want, so you can
say yes to the things that you do

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00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:47.199
want that fix your life vision.
That's what I'm doing. Good for you.

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You go, girl, share again
with our wonderful listeners how they can

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00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:58.679
contact you, how they can work
with you, and how you can help

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00:44:58.760 --> 00:45:02.199
them get track. Well, the
one place to find me is my website

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00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:07.960
English with Jennifer dot com. But
please read my story. It's on Amazon

565
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:13.599
and it is being a YouTuber one
creator's bumpy road to one million subscribers.

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It's a story for everyone and anyone, very wonderful. This has been so

567
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:24.920
fun having you visit with us.
Now, if you were an older person

568
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:32.000
and what we're thinking about taking up
another language, which one would you recommend?

569
00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:37.440
Which would be let's say the easiest
one. It's not about easy,

570
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:42.000
January, it's about the one that
is interesting to you. I chose Russian

571
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.000
at the time because it connected with
me and I thought it's so beautiful.

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00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.920
I just wanted to learn it,
and I was curious about the culture and

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00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:52.840
the history, and it just grabbed
my interest. Now I'm learning Spanish because

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I hear it so much around me
here in Massachusetts, let me tell you.

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And I thought, you know what, I don't want to be the

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00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:02.960
person when I'm eighty ninety saying I
don't understand all of this around me.

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00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.400
I want to be part of it. I want to be able to speak

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00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:10.880
English and Spanish where I live.
So I think it's the usefulness of Spanish,

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00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:17.400
the beauty of Russian that has won
me over. Well, I'm living

580
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:25.480
in Florida now Spanish and we use
Uber all the time because neither one of

581
00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:30.159
us are up to driving that much
these days. And it's amazing all the

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00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:37.000
drivers who are new to this country, Cuba, Venezuela, you name it.

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00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:43.039
They're all coming here. They're all
learning they're English by driving and talking

584
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:50.039
to people, and it's such a
wonderful opportunity to interact with young people and

585
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:54.360
see them starting new careers. I
mean, I should be doing commercials for

586
00:46:54.519 --> 00:47:00.360
Uber. I'll have to send them. Oh, I want to tell them

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00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:08.239
I'm available, Yes, yes,
okay. In partying my thought for the

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00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:13.800
day, I even wrote this down. It says, sometimes my mind is

589
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:20.079
like an internet browser. I have
at least nineteen open tabs. Three of

590
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:27.679
them are frozen, and I have
no clue where the music is coming from.

591
00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:34.960
But like Jennifer, I keep pressing
on and I hope if you're listening

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00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.679
to this podcast, you will do
the same. Thank you brandering the No

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00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:44.159
Wine Zone with us today. And
as I told you, Jennifer is certainly

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not a whiner because she's a winner. Please share our stories and podcasts with

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00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:57.079
everyone you know, and remember you
must stop whining, and then you must

596
00:47:57.119 --> 00:48:01.960
start smiling, just like Jennifer does. And then if that doesn't work,

597
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:09.519
you can start eating chocolate. Thank
you, January, I recommend it.

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00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:13.800
Hope you'll come back again. Thank
you so much. For having me,

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00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:16.760
January, I really have appreciated the
time with you. That's great. Thank

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00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:25.599
you. We want to thank you
for listening to January Jones sharing success stories.

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Always remember miss Jones' personal mantra,
if you can think it, you

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00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.880
can do it. That's what all
of our guests have done with their lives,

603
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:37.599
and so can you. You are
the ultimate success coach in your own

604
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.480
life. All you need to do
will be to start sharing your own story

605
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.679
with your family and friends. We
hope that our guest stories will encourage you

606
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:52.239
to explore an equation in your future
that will combine your creativity plus connecting with

607
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:57.760
others will enable you to be successful
too. Always remembered your passion plus your

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00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:04.880
purpose will equal prosperity as you explore
the wonderful world of January Jones