In this episode Duan kicks off the new series "From The Bottom". There are a lot of reasons we started this series. Mainly is to be more active in a community of people who are at the bottom. It could mean in health, wealth or even just the journey in life. Let's get into this episode with Duan.
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Yo Q what up?
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Man I'm keeping it real what up Duan.
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Welcome.
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To not
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just music.
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Where we keep it real
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and honest.
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Always.
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How I really feel.
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My mama praying telling me Q
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you need to chill.
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They can't respect the truth from just
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What's going on everybody it's your boy
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Dwan Burino from not just music
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podcast.
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And this is our new
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segment called From the
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Bottom. From the Bottom
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has a lot of meanings
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that it can take.
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And
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one could come up with on their
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own from the bottom but
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the from the bottom that we're speaking from
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is from a very
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big standpoint of being
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at the bottom.
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Like you might be
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you might be
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running.
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You know this might be your first time
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starting to exercise. You might be
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running. You might be walking.
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Up the sidewalk. You might be on a treadmill
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right now.
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It could even be something as
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if in you know
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your your health is
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is depleted.
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You know
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you're hanging on by a thread
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right now literally.
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Sometimes I know it's like
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what can you do
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when it's like
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if it's a life
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changing altering
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moment.
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What are you going to do?
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Are you going to let that situation like beat
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you up? You know are you going to like
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sit there in sorrow?
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Be sad? Whatever.
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Or are you going to like really be a stand
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up individual? Are you going to take charge?
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Are you just going to you know are you going to
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stand up on top of
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that thing and be like you know what I'm going to beat this?
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I'm going to beat it.
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I mean even if it's like a thing of like
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death. If you're like
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you got to realize dying is not
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a bad thing.
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The odor I've gotten I can understand
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that's a journey that
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we're all going to have
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to take. Everybody's going to have to die.
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But there's pride in
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everything. There is good
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good
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good in everything.
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There's excellence
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in everything even in your worst
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moments.
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Even in your worst moments.
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Like a lot of people may take
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it may take time
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to sink in.
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a life
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changing situation for it to sink
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in.
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I mean it's going to happen.
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Like I looked at a moment when
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just recently for the
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past two years I've been dealing with something with my
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skin with my
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I used to you know
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used to have a whole full beard.
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like I had the perfect beard. It was
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like it had
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grown and then
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out of nowhere boom.
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I hit this
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roadblock and then my skin just literally
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my face
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just like literally literally
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shedded all
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it's skin.
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was it was
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for two years.
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finally
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at the end of 2023
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officially my skin
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finally is almost
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completely healed.
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Realistic moment.
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You know.
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being at the bottom
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hold me back from
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anything
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that I was trying to achieve.
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Like even starting
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this podcast. I started this podcast
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in the midst of
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not even knowing what my skin was
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getting ready to do. And the crazy part was
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is like I had to be prepared
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to sit in front of cameras and do all of this
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stuff and try to continue
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life as you know
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as it's supposed to be.
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But I know sometimes people will see me hiding
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you know I hide behind masks a lot.
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But at the same time
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like
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it really made
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me feel a certain way about
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myself.
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But thank God for family.
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Thank God for my significance.
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Thank God for all of those
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times when I felt like
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you know I just wish I could
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push a button and all of this
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just go away.
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it put me in a very humbling situation
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at the same time.
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You know it helped me realize
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you really can be at the bottom
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and be on top of everything
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else.
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And still have to deal
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with both of them at the same time.
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Like literally you could be at the bottom
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and still be having to manage life.
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You still have to get up, go
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every single day. Take care of your kids.
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Take care of your family. Make sure
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everybody's straight as in every single
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day. But you're still battling
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that thing that you're going through.
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Seriously.
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Seriously. I think I heard Tim Ross
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and Mike Todd talk about
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this. You know it was like one of those
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situations of you literally
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can be right in your success
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and still basically
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be carrying all
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of the weight that you already
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had. Meaning
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you can
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don't expect to be
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great.
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great
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without dealing
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with all of the
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things that you have already been
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dealt.
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You might as well
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keep working. Keep going. Keep moving.
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Keep moving.
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Because the thing is
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just learn
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to...that's what I'm basically saying.
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When you're at the bottom
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you really have to learn
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that it's a mentality that
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you have to have.
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It's not the money that you have to have. It's the
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mentality that you have to have. If you're not
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willing to have that mentality
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to go, God has already
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given you the strength.
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The biggest gift you already have is
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you're waking up every day. Even
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if you wake up in that situation where you're
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sleeping in your car, whether you're
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sleeping outside somewhere
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in a shelter,
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wherever you're at, at the bottom,
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that's the gift you get
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every day from God.
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You're looking for that monetary value,
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that money value,
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more so than anything, yes, but at the
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same time you can't
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go get the money until you wake
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So a lot of this stuff that we go through
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daily with our mentalities, you know,
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we really have to do
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better.
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That's the first
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thing. We have to learn to be happy.
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Get up, be happy,
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like, you know, that's the rejoiceful
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thing that you can do. Because with a good
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mentality, with a good head on your shoulders when you get
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resting because what happened yesterday is
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gone once you go to sleep on yesterday
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and wake up. It's a new day.
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A whole new day.
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A whole new 24 hours.
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into a 24, or a
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good quarter or tenth of a way into it
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when you wake up, but at the same time
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you had that opportunity, you had that chance.
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thing is, I'm
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saying, and this is just
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introducing this segment from
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the bottom, I gave you an open
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moment for me
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and I'll give you more open moments like
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this.
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But the biggest thing is, is
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you have to own up to the situation where you're
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at. You can't allow a situation
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to like really stop you.
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really one of the biggest things too. Ask for help.
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Don't be scared to ask for help. If you're
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scared to ask for help, you're never going to get
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there.
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Never gonna get there.
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like I said,
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if you're listening to this right now, just
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remember, you're not at the bottom
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alone.
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Listen to what I'm saying.
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You are not at the bottom alone.
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Somebody is willing to
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listen, somebody is willing to talk.
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And if you do need help, hit
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us up at Not Just Music Podcast or you
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can contact me
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directly, Duann Barrino, CEO at
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duannbarino.com or
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if anything,
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like I said, Not Just Music Podcast
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dot com, hit
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our contact info.
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We are right here.
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We are willing to listen.
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We are right here.
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We are willing to listen.
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And again, this is just an introduction and I hope
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somebody can feel inspired
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by it. Somebody can, you know,
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pass it on
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to somebody that would need this.
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is right, you know, a lot of us are at the bottom.
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Even though we have many, but still, a lot of us
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are still at the bottom.
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keep that good mentality. You know, keep that
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good vibe. You know,
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remain happy. You know, even if
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it's hard to be, you know,
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if it's hard to smile, I get it, I understand.
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You know, if you have to cry, cry.
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Get that cry out. But just remember, at the end of
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that cry, you should rejoice.
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Rejoice. You made it through that
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moment. You made it through that hurt. You made it
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through that pain. You know, rejoice. Be
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happy about it. Alright?
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Love.