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  1. “Try on won't, or try on, that's not a priority for me right now and see how your body feels going back to this body truth. Something in me goes, you know what? I actually don't want to learn Italian right now. You know why? Because in my free time, I'm watching the House of Dragons. You know what I mean? I'm watching this show or that show, or I'm hanging out with my friends, or I'm doing this, I'm doing something else where I could be dedicating that to my Italian studies, but I'm not. You know, why? Because that is not my priority right now. That is so much more honest and it's so much more freeing. And then all of a sudden, I'm not a bad person. I'm not ambitious enough. I'm just me.”

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  2. “Your values, yeah. 100%. The way that I always like to keep myself honest about like what I want and to call myself out on my own excuses, this is the two word distinction that has helped me the most. Understanding the difference between can't versus won't. So anytime that I'm about to say, oh, I can't do that. I can't do this. I can't get up earlier to work out to get those six packs. I can't write my next book. I just don't have the time for me. Learning Italian. I can't learn Italian. I have so much on my plate right now with my business. So 99, not 100, 99% of the time when we human beings say can't, it's a euphemism for won't. And what is won't mean? Won't means we really don't want to. We're not willing to make the sacrifice. It's not that important to us right now. And so I always encourage myself and other people to play with this. Like anytime you're about to say the word can't.”

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  3. “It's someone else's, and I think that just having this conversation, because I would imagine there's folks listening to us right now that think that they should want to want something and they don't.”

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  4. “I don't know. And anyone who knows me, my friends, and even my aunties, they know I'm like very transparent. I'm like, I don't spend a lot of time on my phone. Like I'd prefer to write books. I create programs. Like there's other things. And then I just want to live my life. Like I feel like I'm like, oh, there's like, oh, if I was really committed to being a changemaker, then I would be making videos. I was like, what the hell is that”

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  5. “Yes, I had this same conversation with my best friend, and we were laughing about this because I have put so much pressure on myself at so many different points of my career because I think I should want something. And I'm like, but if I, okay, for example, I think you'll appreciate this because I think you and I share a similar philosophy perhaps about social media, for example. So I suck at social media, right? I'm never on it. I don't put any attention in it. I actually had a colleague of mine say to me, like, Marie, you're so good at what you do. Like, why aren't your numbers bigger? And it was like one of these, you know, like when someone makes a comment and you're like, oh, that kind of feels like a punch in the gut. And you're just like, Oh,”

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  6. “So rule number one is that all problems or dreams are figuratable. Rule number two, if a problem or a dream isn't figuratable, it's a law of nature, right? So death, maybe taxes. Rule number three. You may not care enough to solve a particular dream or reach a particular goal, and that's okay. Find something that you do care deeply about and go back to rule number one. And what that does is it creates a container. A container for us as human beings to be honest about what we care enough about to go figure it out. Because in my life, there hasn't been one thing yet that I have truly wanted to either understand, achieve, transform. Do you know what I have some different relationship with? That when it was true in my heart that I haven't been able to figure it out. And if I don't want to.”

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  7. “Yeah, today it's still messy. I talk about this all the time. I'm like, you know, 99% of what any of us need to do to grow our business, we've never done before. So we don't know what the hell we're doing. That's why for me, everything is figure out. This phrase is so useful. Like I use it every day still. It's not like there's some blueprint or some roadmap to guaranteed success out there. Like that's not how it works. And if you're someone who's innovative or creative or you're trying to do something outside of the box, there certainly ain't no playbook. So you have to be willing to just try things and experiment and flop around and laugh at yourself and then get up the next day and do it again.”

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  8. “And like, I think back to that cringy Marie, but she was also awesome because she started before she was ready. She didn't know what the hell was going on. But she did it. And it was like the worst thing I probably ever did, but I did it. And then it gave me a little bit of experience to then like go do something else and then go do something else. So to your point, it's like everything for me has been messy. I'm like, I don't know if this is going to work. This sounds like a lot of fun. I have energy towards it. I want to make a difference. Let's try it.”

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  9. “100% and so human. And so this is the other thing. Like, so start before you're ready. So, Stephen, I have to tell like as a young life coach, I knew how ridiculous it all sounded. It sounded cheesy to me. Again, can I tell you my first workshop, there was five people in it. I was 24. My parents, one or two of them, my yoga instructor from college and one of her neighbors, actually two of her neighbors that she pulled in off of the street. And I had created a whole little workbook. I had done it with like Microsoft clip art. I stapled the little workbooks together and I stood in front of five people in my yoga teachers basement in New Jersey and I delivered like a day-long workshop.”

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  10. “Oh my goodness, I had no freaking clue. At that moment, I was just entrenched in my coach training and I wanted to be a great coach so badly, meaning I didn't really have a huge vision because everything was so new. And I think there was so much uncertainty. And quite frankly, as a 23, 24 year old, I didn't really have the ability to have vision. Like I read so many success books, Stephen, that were like, you know, and this was like a kind of a line in many of the networking talks I'd go to. It's like, well, what's your five-year vision? Right. I was like, I have no idea. I'm literally trying to just get the next three paying clients. Like I will coach your dog if you let me. I will coach. That's where I was because I was so committed to trying to be the best coach I could be. And I knew that I needed experience. I needed to work with as many people as possible. So I had no vision for where this thing would go. I just kept taking.”

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  11. “As they started their business, were 33% less likely to fail. And so I think for anyone listening, it's like, okay, well, you may quit this job, but is there any other circumstance, whether you take another type of job, you go part-time? Like what is going to be the kind of financial runway or situation that you need to give yourself an ability to see if this business could work if starting a business is what you want to do?”

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  12. “I would have been so miserable. And so I think there's a couple of things to it. One, I think understanding your risk averseness as a human being is very important. And let me tell you what that means. For me, financially speaking, I'm thoroughly risk averse. Because of my upbringing, because of this kind of perpetual financial scarcity that there was, I'm not the kind of person who's going to burn the ships behind me and say, okay, I'm quitting my job, you know, at the magazines. And let me just start this coaching business and figure it out. It was like, no, I went back to bartending and waiting tables pretty much seven days a week because that's what it took to keep the roof over my head and eating food while I figured out this life coaching business. So I would say for anyone listening right now, if you're thinking about quitting, take a look inside. What's your risk averseness? You know, there's a study that was done in the United States. They tracked about 14,000 entrepreneurs and they found that those who kept their day job”

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  13. “Your head, where you're just giving yourself time to walk around the outside and take a walk in the block and in nature and actually let your mind think or wonder or rest or exercise or do any of these other things that can open creative channels where you'll get a download and you'll get an idea like, oh my God, I would have never thought of that if your face was stuck in Netflix or Hulu or TikTok for the seven hours a day that you're not working.”

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  14. “Oh, that's not having the time is probably one of the biggest excuses that we can all use from time to time. And it really is an excuse because all of us know when it's important enough, we make the time. If not, we make an excuse. We know this. If you're spending any amount of time on Instagram or TikTok, on social, if you listen to podcasts, if you do anything outside of your actual job and just feeding yourself and doing what you need to do to stay alive, you have time. You really do. You have to do some basic math. I would recommend we talk about this in the book, is track your time meticulously for seven days. You will be shocked at how much time flitters away doing things that don't really create a ton of value for you, that don't give you an opportunity to even have open time where you're not looking, you're not consuming anything, where you're not having other people's thoughts, ideas, or agendas inject into.”

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  15. “Clarity comes from engagement, not thought. You're not going to figure it out sitting on your couch. You're not going to figure it out necessarily scrolling on Instagram or your phone. You're going to figure it out by getting into some kind of action and giving yourself permission to experiment, right? Giving yourself permission to try things and it might not work. And that's okay. But you're going to learn something. You're going to discover something. You're going to have a conversation. You'll stumble upon your own article where your own body lights up like a Christmas tree and you'll be like, oh my goodness, this is the thing. But it's not going to come if you sit at your desk every day. Know that your work isn't right, but you don't do anything active to actually go find out what is.”

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  16. “Okay, I love this question. So here's a mantra, and I live my life by mantras. They help keep me on track. And here's one that really works. Clarity comes from engagement, not thought. Clarity comes from engagement, not thought. What does that mean in this context? It means that every single person listening right now, let's say they have a job and they're like, I am done with this job, but I don't know what else I should be doing. There's something in them that has an interest. It could be an interest in art. It could be an interest in baking. It could be an interest in music. Find a way to go take action in that direction, no matter what it is. It could be interning for someone, working for them for free, picking up a book, taking a class, finding some way to get involved in that area will give you not only insight, but it'll start to open up creative channels, you'll start to meet people, you'll start to say, oh, this is great as a hobby, but I would never want to do this as a career. I think that all of the insight.”

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  17. “I want to dive a little deeper with you on that body sensation because, in my experience, that's usually where the intuitive feeling kind of really lives. Less thought generated, more body truth.”

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  18. “I wonder, and this would be fun, maybe you can text me and let me know in the future. I'm curious more of a body sensation. So, like you, I can be like, oh boy, got some travel coming up. And my thoughts can generate a sense of tiredness, let's say. But when I'm talking about expansive and contracted, I'm actually talking more about a physical sensation in your body, almost like either in your solar plexus or in your gut. So it's less of a thought generated feeling and more of a visceral full body notion. Does that distinction? Yeah, just I'm super curious because I agree with what you've said in terms of there's been times where I'm like, oh, I don't know about this. And I was so, and I got over myself. I was like, you know what? There's X, Y, and Z people. I like them there. I'm going to go see them. And I was so happy.”

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  19. “Yes. So let's play here for a moment because I think that's so interesting what you shared. A lot of what you felt dread about was thoughts.”

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  20. “I'm curious when you felt contracted and then you overrode that. Can you tell me more about whether it was the voice? Like what made you override that feeling”

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  21. “Oh my gosh not as much any more but I did it so often earlier on my journey because I was so desperate for approval and I was so desperate to be successful and I had these ideas if I partner with this person, if I say yes to this particular activity, if I show up here, then I'm going to have some kind of more stature, right? Or I'm going to be noticed more. So these days it happens much less frequently. And I feel like that just comes from having skinned my knees enough and tortured myself enough and created enough pain and chaos that I'm like, I don't need to do that anymore.”

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  22. “When I close my eyes and just feel in my body and say, does the idea of saying yes to this make me feel expansive or contracted? And Stephen, when I ask that question in a nanosecond, I say, okay, does saying yes to the speaking engagement feel expansive or contracted, I guarantee in your body you feel something. It is so subtle, but either there is a lightness, there is like your body starts to expand like this, you lean forward, there could be a little bit of joy, even if you're scaredless. Even if saying yes to this is like, oh my goodness, it's the biggest opportunity ever. Or your ego wants to say yes, but inside there's a part of you that says no, it closes down. You feel heavy, you feel a sense of dread. That's your intuition trying to lead you in the right direction.”

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  23. “Requires like hearing your intuition requires you to heal anything because I think that voice is always trying to talk to you. And I think one of the best ways to understand it's your intuition and not fear. And we should maybe talk about that a little bit. That's a, I can give people a very simple exercise about how to know, is this my intuition speaking up, saying, no, you know, like you shouldn't go in this direction or is this just fear because I want to stay safe and I don't want to put my ass on the line. Here's how I tell it. So let's say I'm thinking about saying yes to a particular opportunity. It could be a business deal. It could be speaking at a particular event, anything like that.”

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  24. “You know, it's a great question. I think we're all on a healing journey constantly because I think all of us, you know, we've kind of collected little hurts, disappointments, things from our childhood, things from our adult experiences that kind of get lodged in there.”

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  25. “Or an external voice was like, no, you got to go for this. This is a great deal. This is going to get you X, Y, and Z. You should say yes to this. And you overwrote that little voice and it cost you big time. So I think to answer the question, how do people start to kind of hone into that discernment? I think look in your past to where you ignored it before and you'll have examples of like, oh, that's what it sounds like. That's what it feels like. That's one. And then I think number two, this works for me. I'm someone who has ADHD, so I can have a very overactive brain. I need to meditate and I need to exercise. Those are two things that help me dial down the noise so much of the static and create enough space for that inner voice to not only feel like for me to be able to detect it more, but for it to speak louder and for me to hear it.”

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  26. “Not you should make a move with your partner. If people actually look back in time and start to look in their past, Do you know those times? So everyone has usually, if you start to filter through your mind, it could have been a financial decision. It could have been a business decision. It could have been someone to hire. It could have been about saying yes to a job, a relationship. But there were times when something in you was piping up and your ego.”

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  27. “Yes. Oh, I love this question. And I also love talking about this because I think it is one of the most powerful sources of wisdom that we all have. But there are so many things that we can talk about. I want to talk about a few. One is if you start to pay attention to the small things, so I'll give you an example. I've actually been practicing, this is going to sound extremely superficial, but stick with me. Intuitive shopping. I don't like to own a lot of things. I'm just not a person who likes a lot of clutter and I just don't want to have a bunch of crap laying around. And so I realize that sometimes I'm like, oh, well, so-and-so, if I try on an outfit or whatever, I'm like, oh, I think this looks pretty good. And I've been paying attention to like, nope, you're never going to wear it. It sounds so silly, but when I quiet down and I listen, I'm like, okay, I have this little guidance for these little moments of my day on the best path to take. I want people to pay attention to the small moments, what you should order on a menu, whether or not”

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  28. “Soft spoken. It feels as though you're having an inner nudge toward something that may not make sense to the outside world, it may be counter to all of the social conditioning, the familial conditioning that you've been brought up with, but it is gentle, it is encouraging, and it is persistent.”

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  29. “I absolutely believe so. That's my personal belief. Everyone has that voice. They may not have been trained to articulate and understand and discern it, but I believe it's there.”

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  30. “To me I believe it is my intuition, it is my when I say higher self, I believe the part of me that is timeless, that's probably been here before and that will be here beyond this particular incarnation. And if anyone out there, I certainly do believes in a higher power that there are other levels of intelligence that are actually supportive of us, that's who I think that voice is.”

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  31. “When I read this article it was as though something in my soul lit up like a Christmas tree. It was like the clouds parted and little angels came out and it was like oh like this is what you're supposed to do and I said I'm going to do this life coaching business and I went back to bartending and waiting tables and just devoted myself to figuring out how to build a business during the day.”

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  32. “And the only combination that felt like it could work in an industry was magazine publishing at the time that was still a thing. And I went to a temp agency. I got a job at Gourmet magazine. But about six months into that job, which was interesting, I started hearing that same voice against Stephen. I was like, oh, this isn't who you are. This isn't what you're supposed to do. This isn't what you're supposed to be. So I'm on the internet. One day at work, probably when I shouldn't have been, and I stumbled upon this new profession at the time called coaching.”

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  33. “And I just felt trapped because I didn't want to bring shame upon my family. I felt like a total failure. And the little voice then said, call your dad. So I took out my flip phone at the time, which gives you an idea. It was like the late 90s. And I was crying to my dad. And I said, dad, I'm so sorry. Like you and mom work so hard to get me through school. And I just, I can't stand this job. I want to quit. And he broke in all my sniffly, snotty crying. And he's like, Ree. He's like, calm down. He's like, if this job is getting you this sick and you hate it, you have to quit. I said, but dad, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Like, this isn't like me. And he said, look, you're going to work for the next 40 or 50 years of your life. You have got to find something you love. And if this job isn't it, then start bartending, do whatever you need to do again. But don't stop looking until you find something that you really, really want to go to do every single day. So the only things I knew about myself were that I loved business, but I was also highly creative.”

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  34. “Oh my goodness, I failed at so many jobs. So I remember when I was on Wall Street on the New York Stock Exchange, I was really excited about it because it was this place where there was tremendous potential for income, right? And I was around people that were making millions of dollars a year, which is so far beyond anything I could have imagined in my life at that time. And I kept hearing this little voice inside, Stephen, that's like, this isn't who you are. This isn't what you're meant to do. This isn't who you're supposed to be. And that little voice kept getting louder and louder. But the little voice didn't tell me what else I was supposed to do. And one day I was crying my eyes out because I felt like such a failure. My parents had busted their buns to help me get through college, first in my family to go to school. And I knew that I was so lucky to have that job, just any job, right? Healthcare, a steady paycheck. And here I was miserable. I wanted to quit so bad.”

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  35. “Oh my goodness, I think that would depend on your definition of coached. So we've had over 100 million people interact with our videos and given advice that have heard your advice.”

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  36. “It was coming from a place of lack where these days I'm coming from a place of contentment and then an additional place of curiosity and excitement about what's unfolding next. Does that make sense?”

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  37. “Yes, I love this. A, I think for me, it is this ever-evolving daily practice that I never quite get right, but I'm always playing with. These days, it's about recognizing that, you know what? I have created so much. I'm so proud of what I have and I'm a human that is entrepreneurial and multi-passionate and creative. So there's all these things. It's the joy of going like, oh my goodness, I'm so grateful for what I have. And here are the things that I am so excited to create. And for me, it becomes this really beautiful, dynamic sense of being where I am fully joyful and grateful for exactly what's happening and super excited for what I'm creating next. So in the past, it was like, oh, well, this isn't good enough. I'm not good enough.”

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  38. “And I would say, God, you know, I really want to take a break right now, but I've got X, Y, and Z to do. And I said, I feel so lazy if I take a break. I can't take a break. Like there's so much that he's like, Marie, you are one of the most productive, non-lazy people I have ever met in my life. No matter how many times he said that to me, Stephen, for so long I didn't believe him. I was like, he's lying. He's not as productive as I am. He has lower standards than I do, which is all not true. And it was tough. It was just I wasn't very kind to me.”

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  39. “In some ways, it was wonderful because there was a rooting in solid work ethic that was fabulous. And at the same time, a self-punishment. I'm never doing enough. It's not quite enough. This is not good enough. It can be better. I can be better. And, you know, for many years, especially early in my career, I didn't really have an off button. You know, it was working seven days a week, morning until night, you know, missing out on whether it was friends getting married or this one or that one. And some of that, you know, it's complicated. It's multi-layered, right? A lot of times if friends were going on, let's say, a bachelorette party to Vegas or whatever, I legitimately didn't have the money to go. And I found myself working all the time just to kind of climb out of debt in the early days of my business, for example. So there's a little bit of give and take there. You know, there was the cost. And I think eventually as I started to get into my 40s, I started recognizing just this pattern of overperformance, of overdoing, of overpushing. Sometimes I would say to my partner, Josh, we've been together for like 20.”

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  40. “One of the decisions was that the lack of having enough money equaled the loss of love, the destruction of family, and so much pain and suffering, like seeing my mom in pain, knowing my dad wasn't there, knowing my family unit wasn't okay, and I just everything felt unsafe. And I made this promise in this decision. I said, okay, when I grow up, I'm going to somehow make so much money that I am going to take care of the people I love. And if anyone around me needs money to handle the pain, I'm going to be able to take care of them. Now looking back, I'm in my 40s now. I can see how much that fear and how much that desire to have be healed has driven almost every part of my career.”

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  41. “And Stephen, I was just like, you know, as a seven or eight year old, like in shock, of course, I love my dad. My dad's an amazing man and I love my mom. And that experience in a few seconds, I made all of these equations in my mind and I made all these decisions and I made all these promises to myself. And I'll tell you what those were.”

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  42. “I have nothing I have nothing. Do you understand? I have nothing. I don't know what I'm going to do. And so, you know, there's tears coming down. And I'm just frozen in fear. She hangs up the phone and she bends down and I just see like her makeup running down her face and the tears running down her face. And she puts her hands on my shoulders and she puts her face right next to mine up to my nose and she shakes me. And she says, do you see what I'm going through right now? I have nothing. Do not be stupid like I was. Don't ever let a man, don't ever let anyone control your money. I need you to grow up. I need you to be your own woman. I need you to be independent. Don't be stupid like me.”

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  43. “One of the biggest ones was actually a memory I had when I was about seven or eight years old. So my parents had just gotten a divorce and I remember being in the kitchen in my house in New Jersey with my mom and I'm looking at her. And she has one of the old school phones with a cord like wrapped around her hand and it was wrapped around so tight that her hand was kind of turning white because she was cutting off the circulation. And she was on the phone with her mother who was in Florida at the time. And she was crying unconsolably. And I'm watching my mom with tears running down her face and everything looked drawn and she was saying”

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  44. “Someone who has ADHD, so I can have a very overactive brain. I found myself overperforming and overworking, wanting to control everything so I could have a sense of safety. That's where the real cost came in for me. I started dreading waking up in the morning. Like I wish I could just disappear. Yeah. Steve, these were scary thoughts, and it almost destroyed my relationship”

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  45. “Track your time meticulously for seven days. You will be shocked at how much time flitters away that don't create a ton of value for you and you'll get an idea like I would have never thought of that if your face was stuck in Netflix or TikTok for, you know, the seven hours a day that you're not working.”

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