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Do Lectures Recap
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It is impossible to truly recap K and my trip to Wales for the Do Lectures Breakthrough workshop. So, I'm not going to try. Instead, I give a little insight as to what the Do Lectures company is, why we went, how we went, and a couple cool things from the trip. I don't listen to these after I record or do any editing, but know I left so much unsaid. I'm good with that though because I think it honors the experience, which can really only be felt in person.
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Return from Break and Recent Experiences
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Hello. All right.
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Gotta get back in the saddle here. All right, so it feels good to be back here on the Wednesday morning recording for the podcast here. Had a couple weeks hiatus, but man, was it a good couple weeks. Nonetheless, trying to knock some rust off, so just appreciate your patience in advance. Bear with me if I gotta retrain this muscle, so to speak.
Due Lectures Event in Wales: A Transformative Experience
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I want to talk today about where I was, where we were, where Kay and I were. So I'll just say right away, we went to the due lectures, due breakthrough event in Wales.
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This episode is not going to be a recreation or retelling of what we did For a couple reasons one it was three days long and nobody wants to listen to me ramble on for much more than about 30 minutes Secondly and more importantly
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There is no possible way that I could do what we went through in the experience that was to break through any sort of justice, any sort of service by trying to recreate it. It's one of those amazing and really, really genuine and powerful experiences that can only be experienced through in-person experiencing it.
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I highly recommend everyone go to TheDewLectures.com, follow their stuff, get involved, read, just get a feel for what they're doing. It's awesome stuff. Who is behind that? So David and Claire Hyatt and their team, their really awesome team are doing really cool things. They're doing just really cool things for the world.
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man, it was awesome to borrow some of the time and borrow some of the land that they created and
Exploring the Venue: A Secluded Non-Working Farm
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So I want to definitely be very, very clear about my support for their initiatives and try to share it with you guys because anyone and everyone can get value out of it. Maybe not everything for everyone, but certainly there's something there for everyone if you look hard enough.
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What do we do? Uh, where do we go? We went to, we went to Wales and we went to the, um, the do the do farm. I guess it's on this old farm. It's not a working farm anymore. Um, but it's a magical piece of land in, uh, in cardigan Wales, just an absolute beautiful area. Um,
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There was the sea, there was that really kind of dramatic coastline that you see in Scotland, Ireland, obviously Wales, but that's sort of a coast and really dramatic landscape.
Turning 40: An Inspiring Milestone
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And the people were super awesome very friendly very communal focused and and Just just get it man. They just they just got so many things On so many levels it was It's really really a magical place. I believe it will probably I don't know but I
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It's not exactly the easiest place to get to, which is kind of nice. It's not on the beaten path by any means, sort of off of natural lines of drift there. So yeah, just awesome. Just an amazing place. So that's kind of where we went. Why did we go?
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So, Kay just turned 40, and I remind her of our age gap almost daily. I'm just kidding. Well, I mean, not really, but anyway, she just turned 40. And you know, 40 is kind of like one of these benchmarks sort of years.
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you know I always say like I don't really buy too much into the age thing but I do recognize that especially for for women you know 40 is kind of like I don't know kind of like a benchmark on milestone whatever
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You know, it's funny because I've heard so many times and not just people telling Kay, but just in general. I mean, I think we all hear it, but like, I mean, they made a movie about it for God's sake. So the turning 40 and, you know, kind of being over, being like, Oh, just wait until 40.
David and Claire Hyatt's Mission with Denim
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Everything's gonna, everything's gonna fall apart.
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I gotta say, I think it's a load of bullshit. I really do. I mean, in my mind, like, or my eyes and whatever for Kay, like, she's getting better and that's awesome.
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You know, she didn't have any she didn't have any breakdown or meltdown kind of a thing and I wasn't really expecting that But it wouldn't have surprised me or shocked me if there was kind of this just moment There wasn't really any of those moments. I attribute that to
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I just attribute that to the work that she's doing, has been doing, and the place she's at. And yeah, super proud of her for being open and working on herself in ways that
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not only inspire me, but obviously inspire and benefit anyone that gets involved with her. So yeah, that's really cool.
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So the 40th, she, the 40th was kind of like the nudge, the convenient nudge to do something special. Honestly, if we found out about this thing next year, I'm not, I don't know. Like I, I don't know if we would have, if she would have committed to like wanting to do it. Um.
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That kind of leads to one of the reasons why it was really awesome that we did go to it, because it was like a forced stop. And over the past year or so, I mean, the pace has just been brutal and frankly unsustainable. So this was really from a timing standpoint, not just a nice to have, but a need to have.
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And that was, I think that contributed to some of the real positive that we were both able to experience. So our buddy Paul introduced us to the due lectures and that's accompanied, run by David and Claire Hyatt and their team.
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And they own Hyatt Denim, which is a Wales-based luxury denim brand that reminds me a lot of actually Rogue Fitness. We got to see their factory movement over there, which they moved into the factory only because Meghan Markle, the princess,
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said she wore their jeans and their popularity just went like through the roof and you know, they were in like this normal little store shop front and then the world figured out what jeans the princess was wearing and wanted them so they moved into this old denim factory about a year ago that had been abandoned for about 15 years and when it when it went down or when it shut down 400 people lost their jobs and so
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That's in a town of about 3,000, maybe 4,000, including the surrounding village. So needless to say, a large percentage of the local population lost their jobs as a result of this denim factory shutting down.
Immersive Experience and Personal Growth
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And David and Claire Hyatt's mission is to get those 400 jobs back. And what an awesome initiative. Again, like the state side and within the sort of crossfit space, you know,
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a lot of similarities between, um, between rogue and, and, you know, obviously Bill and Katie over there. And so it's, it was really cool to, to kind of see like, Hey, different industry, different part of the world, but you know, good people and strong leaders are still doing good stuff to, you know, for others. Um, but anyway, so.
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So Paul introduced us to that and then a lot of the details that that that they're about from like on the do lecture side a lot of the details the attention detail the Playing into the senses of experiences of finding interesting people to tell interesting things and just an overall mission of
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giving, curating and giving a quality experience to people. That's it. It's experiential and a lot of the same types of things that K and I value and try to create
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with the gym, with between the ears, most recently with become, there was a lot of similarities there and we found that to be inspiring and frankly, selfishly to be on the receiving end of that is something that's incredibly rare for us just because of the nature of the positions and stuff.
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So it was really cool. So anyway, so Kay went to the website or whatever and saw that they're having this three-day personal development type workshop. And she said, I want to do this. I want to go to the due lectures for my 40th. She said, awesome.
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can I come?" And she said, yeah, you can come. So I tagged along, which was cool. So they do lectures real quick. It is, there's two different types of things. They have like a three day TED talks type thing, where they have, you know, 20 minutes of presentation time for speakers to
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Just tell their story anything anyone from you know, Tim Ferriss to People you've never you've never heard of before have have spoken but everything that they have to say we can all benefit from listening to and You know, that's really cool. So David and Claire they don't get in the way of anyone's presentation by way of coaching them or telling them hey you have to you know adhere to kind of this template kind of like Ted talks might and
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They just say, you've got something to say, say it, which is, which is cool. I mean, everything that they do is authentic and genuine. So it's not a surprise to hear that that was that sort of their approach, but nonetheless, it's refreshing.
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So we didn't go to the lecture stuff. We went to the interactive kind of workshop. And we're in the business of working on ourselves so that we can help others do that for themselves too. And so for us, I want to be hesitant in saying it was like professional development. While it certainly was, it was much more personal development.
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And, you know, that was something that, that right away, I remember, you know, we had a couple chats about, um, we had a couple of chats about that as like a way to set an intention for how we wanted to show up to and engage with this experience. Because it would have been really easy and really comfortable to hide behind
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the work in the workshop in the three days as, okay, well, we're gonna do this so that we can better build between the ears, better deliver stuff at Motown, kind of fill out some of the stuff with the come and get this inspiration so that we can do this other things.
Openness and Authenticity During the Experience
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I kept referring to it as like the springboard. I don't wanna use this experience as a springboard because personally I know
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that would be that would be hiding behind something and I'd be missing an opportunity and Not addressing a need and the need is for me to work on myself You know, we're all kind of in this thing together and there's there's definitely some things that I want to work on internally and
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you know, I, I don't know of a better place and a better opportunity than this breakthrough event. Um, you know, I kind of asked myself going in, like, if I'm coming all this way and I'm not gonna be open, not going to be authentic, not going to be vulnerable, not going to be me, then why the hell did I come?
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And I'm going to pat myself on the back because what I was able to then experience was.
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was, was awesome, was magical, was moving. Um, and who I got to experience it with, obviously the most important person being Kay, but also the 50 other participants and David and Claire and, and their support staff. Um, you know, Hugh, he was awesome too. Um, just anybody that was involved in that.
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There was a shared experience of the magic that was created by
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by everybody. Yes, it was the Hyatt's farm and the cooking team was just phenomenal and everybody involved that helped chip into that. So there was those five senses, but then there was these other senses too that were like personal connection and exploration and trust among a group of people that had zero to know or very little to know rapport with each other.
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So, so being open to that possibility was, uh, was awesome. And it was something that was a, it was a really nice reminder experience for me to, um, for me to remember, for me to cultivate and for me to continue to have that and take with me. Um, yeah, so that's kind of why we went in a nutshell. Um,
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That's also a little bit about how we went too. We went there, you know, we went there open to the possibility of what could happen. We went there looking for value, looking for benefit, looking for areas of our, of our self, of our inner self that we could work on, uh, looking for connection, of course, and pause, but you know, just, just looking for something. Um,
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And then we went there just authentically and honestly, and that was nice. That was really nice. You know, one of the things about the workshop was that
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The material wasn't exactly new. And I don't mean to say that in a dismissive tone. That's not what I mean. What I mean is, you know, a lot of the concepts that are in the personal development space.
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are not new. People have been talking about this stuff for thousands of years, thousands of years. So to say you should be aware of your thoughts, you're not the first one to say that.
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For some reason, for whatever reason, I sometimes feel like there's plagiarism personally. I'm not pointing the finger or saying that to anyone else. I'm not going to go down that road. But I'm very sensitive to not wanting to be, I don't know, feeling like a plagiarist.
Inspiration from Creative People
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And I think that a lot of times that's unnecessary. Um, and I beat myself up over that a little bit, um, a little bit too quickly and maybe a little bit too heavy handed, but I, it comes from a place of just, I dunno, I'm sure actually, it probably comes from a place of insecurity and some, some doubt and, and whatever, but, um,
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you know, you just always want to just I just want to be respectful to to others and everything and and and so one of the things about the material not being new that was good was that I have an experience to attach that to and to tie that to instead of it being like oh wow I never thought of that like oh no I've heard about that I've thought about that this is where I've succeeded with it this is where I've sort of struggled with it
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And so you can kind of build out the breadth and the depth of some of these you know ageless type Concepts that that can help you and that can benefit you So that was that that's kind of like on the material but what was also really great was that the environment that was created
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was so good that it provided the opportunity for you to get on a different wavelength and experience this same material or material you might have heard in a different frequency and have it ring a little bit deeper or just a little bit different
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And that was invigorating. That really was invigorating and inspiring and really, I really appreciated that. The efforts of everybody involved in putting on the breakthrough event
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establish an environment for some really good stuff to happen. I think that's about it that I'm going to talk about the content and all of that because I cannot recreate that experience that a lot of people and a lot of work went into.
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Something simple like you know in between breaks. There was like really good coffee Warm coffee out. It was cold. It was like pretty cold out there and most of it was outside It wasn't in like this you know It was outside for the most part, but anyway like people had to brew that coffee and plan and put it out and That's just a little tiny thing candles had to get lit flowers clipped like it's so many different things So yeah, I'm not gonna try that. I'm not gonna try to recreate that I can't um
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So a little bit more about the personal than the personal takeaways for me, sharing or recapping that experience. It was the first time I had spent that amount of time in an immersive type of environment with creative types. And again,
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Not saying that as a as a put down at all. Um, and I hope it's not an ignorant thing to say, but look, I don't have a lot of experience in the creative world. In fact, I have like none. Um, however, the challenge is like, there's a lot of things now given what I do that require creativity. Um, so while I was certainly in the minority and not in a bad way, I didn't feel judged or anything like that. Um,
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It also felt like, kind of felt like home. It was really cool. I felt like a total rookie. And I felt like, wow, these are some amazing people I can learn from. But it was a new experience for me. I guess that's really what I'm trying to say. It was a new experience for me. And when you do new experiences, when you put yourself in new experiences, if you approach it with open and willingness to be open, you know, there's just chock full of gold there,
Vulnerability and Unexpected Insights
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man. So I really had a positive
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experience by being in an immersive new population type of folks. Look, I'm still a Green Beret, like that's still part of who I am. And but it would be funny, like I was thinking so many times like, I wonder if I wonder what would happen if my team if like, if like, you know, the guys came up to this thing. And some folks would probably love it. Others would not have any idea what's going on. But
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Either way, just a notable point of the trip was spending that amount of time in that type of setting where people were super honest. People were really vulnerable. There was emotions there. There was connection and trust, like I was saying.
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And no, it wasn't like a doting on person give people sympathy. There was no tissue boxes being passed around like nothing like that. But the other thing with the creative type things like the creative people see potential.
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Creative people see opportunity, creative people see how to shift things a little bit to make it appeasing and appealing and moving to others.
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And I don't, like I never, I studied accounting in college, worked a couple years, went in the military. Yes, I was creative in some ways. I was actually way more creative on the soccer field than, and I never really thought of it.
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too much like that, but you know, and then, you know, in the military, unconventional stuff, you got to be a little creative, but there's, there's limits to that. So for me, it was really an interesting experience to be in and around folks who see the world totally different than I do. And, and that was inspiring. That was cool to, uh, to kind of learn from them. Um, you know,
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there and the common theme through them is that, personally, I opened up and talked about things I had never talked about before. I haven't really done it here. I'm not sure when I will, perhaps. Maybe I won't. I don't know. I think, and I'm not trying to, like, be coy or keep things close to the chest or, you know, not be vulnerable
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There's a couple moments I'll never forget.
Follow-through After the Breakthrough
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or open. That's not my intention.
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And what's funny is like the things I talked about that I never talked about before I had no plan on talking about them
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I kind of knew what I was gonna say before it was like kind of my turn to speak in these different things and that plan went right out the window and I just kind of said to myself like look talk from your heart be open be honest and what came out was was somewhat surprising to me just because I never heard myself really speak them and
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And it was, yeah, it was pretty special. So that was unforgettable. And, uh, you know, I was just, I'm just so fortunate and so happy that I was able to, to share those experiences, uh, with gay and then.
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you know honored and privileged to share with the with the with the other group or with the group that was there with the 50 other participants and and countless other or loads of others who were helping put that thing on so I'm very grateful for that so the event was called Breakthrough and there's
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Like there's a feather, there's, there's an action that happens with that. You know, you maybe kind of bust through a layer, an external layer and expose something on the inside. And, you know, that's very much in line with what, um, with what between the ears does, um, with what some coaching does with, you know, the gym sure as well. Yes. Uh, but it was like, it was intentional.
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So now regardless of like what the breakthrough was or how deep it was or whatever, the key is the follow through. And that is the point of honoring this experience and allowing it to not just be something in the history books and letting a picture, which we actually have like none of, which is really actually kind of nice. Um,
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you know, not just having it be, not just having it be fleeting because it is, it will, it is fleeting. And that, that, that sensory element, that emotional element that happened there for those three days, like I'm not going to be able to find that again today or this morning.
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But I don't need to recreate the whole thing I just need to take bits and pieces and have the follow through So that I can continue and Kay and I can continue some of the meant momentum that was started as a result of this experience So things like, you know Finding daily pause for me like writing moving You know, those are big things
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listening to yourself, following through with things, you know, there's, I'm not really doing it justice right now, but because also for each person, it's going to be different. But the, the, the
Engaging with Due Lectures and Future Plans
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the responsibility to have the follow-through now rests with the individual. And that is inspiring to me. That promotes change and positive movement. And it also keeps you anchored to things that were
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things that were influential. So that's kind of where my head's at right now. And I wanted to do a dump with kind of the overall sort of recap.
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You know, it's like 28 minutes now. I'm gonna call it because I don't want to continue to ramble I want you guys to experience the the due lectures in whichever way you can Ideally go there if that's not in the cards or short-term you want to like get involved go to their website
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website, TheDewLectures.com, Instagram at TheDewLectures, David and Claire Hyatt, Hyatt Jeans, just seek them out. And all the talks, by the way, the talking arm of it, they're all online, which is cool. They're all online, they're free to watch, I believe. The Duke Book Company, there's a lot of resources out there
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that you can get an idea for this company, this initiative, this cause, and recreate or bring with you. You don't have to go to Wales to experience it. And that's awesome. I am personally
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very grateful to have attended and I really yeah having never really attended something like that and much more recently being usually the deliverer of these experiences to be on the receiving end was just awesome so I'm super grateful I'm a huge huge fan and it's important for me to share that stuff with you guys
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I definitely also have some ideas coming up and I want to, you know, those, those will come out and those will present when they do. But yeah, there's, there's, it's a, it's a source of inspiration for, for, for many. And I hope this was helpful in maybe being a similar type of nudge for you to go out and exploring and get involved with them. So, all right, guys, that's about it.
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If you want to engage further, you can hit me up on Instagram at BillAnthes and at Between the Ears, BTWN the Ears. Send me a message, send me an email, billatbetweentheears.com, whatever it might be. Happy to chat further, happy to answer any questions you might have or point you in the right direction.
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For some things so definitely definitely definitely reach out wants to share. I want to share this this awesome community environment world with y'all so That is that I'm gonna give you a quick shout a little tease Be ready for the between the ears app to drop hopefully in the next week or so so
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Anyway, that's all I got. I hope you have a great rest of the day and weekend and I'll chat with you next week. Okay.