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Paisley: Hey everybody, I'm here
again as Paisley imperfect, and

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today I'm going to do something
different than I have done so

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far. Of course, I just started
this two weeks ago. So we'll

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see, maybe this will be
different. Maybe this will be

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the norm. Quite a few times in
the last few weeks, I have been

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told that I have a strong
personality. And I've been told

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that as though it's a bad thing.
It can be, it can be a bad

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thing. But when I was reading
and getting ready to talk about

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being still, I read this
devotional from elder Ballard

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back in 2014, called Be still
and know that I am God. And in

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it, he says, so sorry, just a
little bit of background. It's a

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young single adult, it was the
young single adult broadcast

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devotional that he did down here
in San Diego, actually.

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And he starts, it's Be still and
know that I am God is the name

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of the devotional. And he's
talking about how he's heard

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that church leaders live in a
bubble. And so he kind of burst

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that bubble. And then he says
something about how he about how

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they've heard that they're just
too old. They don't get it,

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right. And so he burst that
bubble, too. And then he says,

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There, he talks about their
individual and obtained wisdom,

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as a combined group of the 12
and the First Presidency. And he

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talks about how that combined
wisdom helps. Then he says, Let

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me also observe that none of the
12 are shrinking violets. We

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each have strong personalities.
So when we are unified in a

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decision, you can rest assured
that we have counseled together

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and come to that decision after
much prayer and thoughtful

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discussion.

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I read that sentence, we each
have strong personalities. And I

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was like, yes. Okay. Finally,
somebody with a strong

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personality, that is claiming a
strong personality other than

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me, okay, to be clear, a strong
personality does not give me or

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anybody else, the right to be
little people, or to use that

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strong personality to make
someone else feel less. So I am

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by no means claiming that that
is okay. I am not claiming that

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that is okay. on any level. What
I am saying is having a strong

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personality is okay. And a good
thing. And then it reminded me

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of this talk from President
Nelson.

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This was in October of 2015. And
this is my most favorite talk of

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all time. He talks about how in
1979. So I was born just before

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this, I was maybe six months
old, when President Kimball made

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a profound prophecy. This is
quoting from from President

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Nelson, that President Kimball
made a profound prophecy about

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the impact that covenant keeping
women would have on the future

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of the Lord's church. And this
is what President Kimball said,

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he said much of the major growth
that is coming to the church in

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the last days will come because
many of the good women of the

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world will be drawn to the
church in large numbers. This

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will happen to the degree that
the women of the church reflect

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righteousness and articulate
pneus in their lives. And to the

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degree that the women of the
church are seen as distinct and

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different in happy ways, from
the women of the world. So

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strong personality in happy
ways. That's my struggle.

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But he also President Nelson
goes on and he quotes President

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Packer. And then he gives us as
women he gives us some more

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things that we can work on to
help further the work, so to

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speak, right to help spread the
gospel of Jesus Christ to help

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bring people to Jesus. He gives
us other things that we can work

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on with our strong
personalities. He said that we

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where is it

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My dear sisters. You who are our
vital associates during this

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winding up seen the day the
President Kimball for saw is

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today you are the women he
foresaw. So I was six months

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old. And I was one of the women
he first saw your virtue light,

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love, knowledge, courage,
character, faith and righteous

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lives will draw good women of
the world along with their

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families, to the church in
unprecedented numbers.

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And then he goes on to say what
the church needs What our

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brethren need from us and our
strong personalities. He says we

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need your strength, your
conversion, your conviction,

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your ability to lead your wisdom
and your voices. The kingdom of

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God is not and cannot be
complete without women who make

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sacred covenants and keep them.
Women who can speak with the

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power and authority of God. And
then he quotes President Packer.

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He says President Packer
declared, We need women who are

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organized and women who can
organize. We need women with

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executive ability, who can plan
and direct and administer women

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who can teach women who can
speak out. We need women with

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the gift of discernment, who can
view the trends in the world and

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detect those that, however
popular are shallow or

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dangerous. And that's where he,
he stops quoting President

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Packer right there and then he
adds his own.

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Today, let me add that we need
women who know how to make

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important things happen by their
faith, and who are courageous

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defenders of morality and
families in a sin sick world. We

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need women who are devoted to
shepherding God's children along

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the covenant path toward
exultation women who know to

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receive know how to receive
excuse me, personal revelation

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who understand the power and
peace of the temple endowment,

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women who know how to call upon
the powers of heaven to protect

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and strengthen children and
families, women who teach

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fearlessly.

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There's a lot to unpack in those
three quotes. There's a lot from

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President Kimball just in being
distinct and different and happy

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ways. There's a lot to unpack
from President Packer, who is

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calling upon our organizational
skills, people who can teach

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women who can teach and speak
out. And then from President

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Nelson, who can make important
things happen, women who can

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make important things happen
because of their faith. Women

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who are devoted to shepherding
God's children know how to

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receive personal revelation and
then act upon it.

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I am here to tell you that
sometimes when you act on that

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personal revelation, it feels
crappy. It feels horrible. That

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is the refiners fire. That is
all of our impurities coming

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out. He says President Nelson
keeps going he says, My dear

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sisters, whatever you're
calling, whatever your

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circumstances, we need your
impressions, your insights, your

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inspiration. He doesn't say,
when you're in a good mood, he

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doesn't say temper your
personality, he doesn't say rein

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it in. He says whatever you're
calling, whatever your

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circumstances we need your
impressions, your insights, your

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inspiration. He keeps going, we
need you to speak up and speak

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out in Ward and stake councils.
We need each married sister to

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speak as a contributing and full
partner, as you unite with your

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husband and governing your
family. married or single you

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sisters possess distinctive
capabilities and special

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intuition you have received as
gifts from God, we brother and

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cannot duplicate your unique
influence.

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And then, towards the end of
this talk, again, called a plea

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to my sisters. He says My dear
sisters, nothing is more crucial

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to your eternal life than your
own conversion. It is converted

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covenant keeping women whose
righteous lives will

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increasingly stand out in a
deteriorating world, and who

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will thus be seen as different
and distinct in the happiest of

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ways. The happiest part is the
hard part for me, because of

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this resting face that I have
been blessed with my resting

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face does not always does not
always allow for other people to

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see that I actually am happy to
be a daughter of my heavenly

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Father. It doesn't. Even in
these videos, I've gone back and

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watch these videos, and I'm
either expressionless or just

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look mad all the time. And I'm
not. That's just the way I look.

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The happiest part. That's the
part that I struggle with the

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most and the part that I'm
working on. He says today I

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plead with my sisters of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter

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Day Saints to step forward. Take
your rightful and needful place

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in your home, in your community,
and in the kingdom of God. More

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than you ever have before. And
this was in 2015 this was almost

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10 years ago, you guys. almost
10 years ago. He was asking us

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to step forward and take charge
in our lives. I plead with you

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to fulfill president Kimball's
prophecy.

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And I promise you, I love it
when they have promises. I

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promise you in the name of Jesus
Christ that as you do so the

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Holy Ghost will magnify your
influence in an unprecedented

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way. I don't know about you
guys, but I feel I find that to

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be very uplifting and
encouraging and coupled with

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elder Ballard's Comment about a
strong personality

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my personality will help me step
up and speak out. I just need to

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work on the happy part. And I am
working on that. But a lot of

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these things in here are hard. A
lot of these things in here are

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hard things to do. Women who are
organized and women who can

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organize. I can, it doesn't mean
that I always do. When women

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with the gift of discernment
something i, i Gosh, I wish I

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had just been given that gift.
But something that I need to

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work on. There are so many
things in here to work on. So

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many things that we can, that we
can make better. The things that

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he's talking about in here. The
qualities, the personality

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traits, characteristics,
whatever you want to call them.

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These are the things that are
going to change the world. And I

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don't know about you, but I kind
of want to be a part of that.

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So it's the happiness part, I
got to work on the happiness

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part. Which one of these things
are you working on? What can we

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work on together? Let's work on
these things together. Anyway,

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this again, it's a little bit
different than what I've been

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doing. I've been coming prepared
to talk about a talk that fits

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within a theme. But this week,
as I was looking for the next

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talk, I got to this, we each
have strong personalities, and I

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just couldn't pass it up. I
couldn't sit on that one. The

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stillness, in a strong
personality is hard to find.

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Coming from somebody who has a
strong personality, that

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stillness is hard to find
because you know that you offend

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people when you open your mouth.
I can walk down the hallway at

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church and offend people just
because I have a resting grump

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face. But I'm doing my best. And
my heavenly father is calling on

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me and he's calling on all of us
to be a strong personality in

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the happiest of ways. Stand up
and speak out. Okay, I'll stop

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now.

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Thank you for listening to this.
I would love to hear what you

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guys think. I would love to hear
what you think. You can comment

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on YouTube. You can comment on
Instagram, Facebook, any one of

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those places, send an email. I
would love to hear what you

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think about this, and especially
what it is that you're working

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on. Let's work on it together.
Let's look into it together.

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Thank you so much again for
being here. And until next time,

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enjoy the rest of your week.