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Okay, welcome to the first show of next the opportunity
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to think about what it is your next chapter will
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be like and how you can shape it for yourself. Actually,
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how I got to this idea is kind of interesting.
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I was in a bit of a slump, actually, and
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I went to this program that I go to every
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two years called Thinkers fifty and it's in London. A
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lot of my friends go. Everyone there has a pretty
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I was going to say, extinguished, but distinguished career, and
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I'm there sort of saying, well, I'm kind of not
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in that place anymore. And I wasn't sure how I
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felt about it. In fact, I didn't like it at all.
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And during that program there were a lot of great speakers,
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very well known people, and actually the audience was quite
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well known itself, and there were about six hundred people there.
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I was with three of my girlfriends excuse me, two
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of which one of which actually was launching her new book,
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The Seismic Shift in You, and the other one had
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just recently launched a new book. She and I had
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co authored a number of books together actually at a
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previous time. So I started thinking, Linda Gratton, who is
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a pretty well known professor at the University at London
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School of Business at the University the London School of
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Business and a big time author, real nice person. I
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know you're thinking, they're probably oh, another egghead, But she's
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not like that at all. In fact, most of the
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people there are not like that at all. You'd be surprised.
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So Linda gets up to talk and what she says
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was sort of startling. She talked a little bit about
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AI who doesn't today that's the new locomotive of the
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twenty first century. More to come on that on this show.
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But what Linda said is it used to be that
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people's life expectancy in a good way if all things
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were good was probably for US citizens about seventy seven
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seventy eight said well, okay, and then she said, and
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this was the startling part, that people today and most
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people in this room, barring any any other difficulties, are
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going to live to be one hundred. And her caution was,
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if you're going to do, if you're going to live
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to be one hundred, what does that next chapter of
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yours look like? And how are you going to shape it?
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Well that stopped me in my tracks because I had
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pretty much said, oh, in the big picture of life
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for what I wanted to do with my career, I
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had done most of that. But then I started thinking,
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there's more that I want to do, there is more
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that I can do, There's more that I can contribute.
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And frankly, I don't know about all of you, but
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I was a little bored with this kind of semi
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retirement situation that I was in. I wanted more out
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of my life. I do a lot of traveling, and
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that I love because I always wanted to travel the world.
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But what was I doing with all of that? So
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that's where I started to think a lot of people
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in this room are in their seventies. I know people
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who I associate with who are in their seventies. Some
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are just loving golf and taking care of their grandchildren.
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Others are doing other significant things in their life, carrying
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on their profession. Some person I worked with that I've
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known for many years on the West Coast said I'm
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probably going to work till i'm eighty. I love what
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I'm doing. So I started thinking about this, and originally
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I was going to focus this show on people who
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are seventy and older who have done continued to do
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significant things in their life. But as I started going
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around and talking to people, I realized that everybody has
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an next, and everybody has an next that they can
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and should seek out. I mentor some students from UNCW,
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which is University of North Carolina in Wilmington, which is
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in the area which I live, and every one of
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those students is spending a lot of time thinking about
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their next, which would make a lot of sense for
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people at that age starting their career. Then, I know
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a lot of people in their forties and fifties who
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are in what they would call their mainstream career. Many
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of those people are unhappy. They feel they can't change.
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They feel they can't transform. They don't know how to
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transition from what they're doing to what might be a
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more exciting endeavor or career for them. In other words,
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many of them are stuck, and they get stuck like
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perhaps I did. They get stuck because they're in a
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good career, they work for a good company, they are
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making good to great money, and it's hard to really
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pursue that next passion and walk forward. I know, it's scary.
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Happened to me. Actually, I was at a great corporate job.
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I hated my boss. Every day I went to work,
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I was like, ugh, it was just drudgery to see
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this person. And finally I just said, I took a
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sabbatical and it was the smartest thing and the best
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thing I ever did. And I started my own consulting
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practice and I loved it. In fact, I had a
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radio show during that time called future Proof Workplace, and
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I lead the leadership connection and it was great. I
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was one of the best professional things I ever did.
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And was it scary? Sure? Was I afraid I wasn't
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going to make enough money? Sure I was the primary breadwinner. Actually,
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and lo and behold, I loved it. I was in
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command of my own schedule. I could take assignments that
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I want, and I was building a great consulting reputation. Now,
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needless to say, I had a lot of help along
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the way. A guy named Marshall Goldsmith, you should look
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him up, help me a lot. And there are people
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out there that will give you confidence and will give
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you support and help you if you ask them for it.
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So I did move into this next career and loved it.
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And then the pandemic hit and people like me who
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were consultants and traveled to work with leadership teams and
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you know, give give keynote speeches all over the world,
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that kind of dried up. Just wasn't happening anymore. So
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I said, okay, well maybe this is my signal to
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sort of hang up my skates, and I kind of
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did did. But playing golf just it's fun, but it wasn't.
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My raise on Deetra wasn't the reason. And I thought
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now that the pandemic's over essentially, and I went to
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this Thinker's fifty, ran into this Linda Gratton who said,
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what is your next? What are you thinking about next?
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And I started asking people there that question and It
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was fascinating because a lot of people had not thought
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about it, including myself. I didn't really think I'd have
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an opportunity for a next, but I do, and you
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are witnessing the launch of my next. I planned to
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do this every two weeks for a half an hour
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to forty minutes. I've lined up some great people who
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have worked on and are working in their next and
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they see a future and you know what, guess what,
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we all know this. Intellectually have an exciting purpose is
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the key to a great life. And your purpose can
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be lots of things, but it's got to be one
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that excites you and turns you on. I So the
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focus of this show is going to be next, what's
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your future? What are you thinking about? And some examples
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and stories from people who have crafted they're exciting next.
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And you know what, it's age agnostic. It can be
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at any age. And if you're fifty and you're bored
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to death and you're doing the same old thing, think
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about your next. And I have some steps that you
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can do and you can take to move yourself through
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that to your next transformation. And you'll be talking to
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and hearing from people telling their stories how they found
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their next and I think this is a great opportunity.
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We'll be doing this show every two weeks with different
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people from all walks of life who have found an
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exciting purpose for themselves. You know, do have a story.
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And I'm not disparaging this at all, but you know,
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there are a lot of people who end really great
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careers and what are they doing. They're being greeters in
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in their local whatever the store may be. And you
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know what it's such as sod in a way, and
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they will say this a sad use of their knowledge,
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their skill and the experience that they have that they
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can share with other people. If you've got great experience,
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you've got great knowledge. I want you to share it
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because it can be wonderful and helpful for everybody out there.
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It doesn't really matter what your next is as long
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as it's exciting. It's something that makes you happy, and
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it's something that brings joy to your life. And while
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this may be a cliche, puts a spring in your step.
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I think if we're going to live to be one hundred,
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we need to be thinking about what's our next purpose
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and what's going to make us exciting and what's going
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to put that sprig in our step and guess what
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I think. And there's a lot of research to support this. Actually,
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it's going to make you more vibrant, it's going to
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make you more exciting. It's going to make you more
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excited about yourself and your life. We're also going to
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be spending a lot of time talking about artificial intelligence.
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This is the new railroad of the twenty first century.
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Nobody knows where it's going to go and how we're
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going to use it. And there's a lot of exciting
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things about it, and there's a lot of scary things
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about it, and how are we going to make this
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work for all of us. It's just like before when
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the machine came into play. It's going to take jobs
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we won't be able to work. Well that's probably not true.
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What it will do is it will take certain jobs,
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and it will bring in new professions and new enhancements
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to life. No point in burying your head in the
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sand around this one. It's here that cat is out
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of the bag and everybody at any age is going
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to need to learn how to leverage artificial intelligence to
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our advantage. Well, that's all I have to say today.
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This is my inaugural show. I hope you'll tune in
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every Tuesday, every other Tuesday, sorry, at nine am and
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watch and listen on W four CY Radio. And I
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will be having great speakers that are going to tell
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their stories. This is not an academic show. This is
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a show about stories of next and how people have
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created a great life out of what they have learned
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and what they can share and what they can do
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going forward. I hope to see you soon and I
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hope to see you in two weeks. Thanks so much
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for listening. Bye for now.