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She is sure, she is true, she is straw is straw,
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she is true, is true, she is praise, pray is
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she is you.
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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio. Here
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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,
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Dori Di Carlo. And you know we are here week
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after week, show after show, breaking those myths that morepreneurs
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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses
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from home, that we're just dabbling in between bake sales
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and getting our nails done. We're not. We are smart,
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we are savvy, and we are sharing the wisdom of
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women in business and in life. And I am looking
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forward to bringing today's guest into our Mompreneur Models show.
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Cynthia Massili is a sought after brand strategist and the
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visionary behind her Mentor, a faith infused mentorship platform for
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women ready to build intentional lives and purpose driven businesses.
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With nearly two decades of experience in creative design, brand development,
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and strategic marketing, Cynthia is known for helping clients transform
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scattered ideas into stunning, successful brands that exceed expectations. Her
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gift lies in strategic listening and intuitive planning. Equipping women
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not only with beautiful brands, but with the clarity and
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confidence to pursue the life and businesses they've envisioned. Though
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she stumbled upon in entrepreneurship, she always knew she was
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meant to mentor, and over the last twenty five years,
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as coached and championed women towards self awareness, personal growth,
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and bold decision making in business. Beyond business, Cynthia has
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a creative spirit. She finds joy and travel, dancing, and
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time by the ocean with her husband and son. She's
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a former Miss California u USA contestant and a trained
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mac makeup artist, so she brings beauty, depth and authenticity
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to everything she does. Blewin in Spanish, and passionate about
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legacy building. She's on a mission to help women become
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the first in their own families, just as she was
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the first in her family, earning a bachelor's and master's degrees.
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And she's the proud daughter and granddaughter of Mexican immigrants.
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And she wears so many hats, and I could keep
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telling you about them, but instead I want to bring
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her in. So Cynthia, with all that being said, welcome
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to Ward of MOMY.
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Hello, thank you so much for having me on.
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Oh it's my pleasure and I really look forward to
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sharing your journey. So really take us on that twenty
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five year journey that led you to your business.
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It is quite the story, mainly because I had never
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planned to own my business. It sounds funny to say
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that I stumbled upon it, but truly that's how it felt.
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Although looking back in time and being able to reflect,
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I can see the preparation that was actually taking place
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through the years, from when I was a child and
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I love to do and play with graphic design software
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to colors and scrap booking, and little did I know
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that it would slowly but surely start building that experience.
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And then when I had the opportunity to go to
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college and explore what it is that I, you know,
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wanted to be when I grew up and wasn't quite
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sure even at that point in time. And then honestly,
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it was through of course, my experiences, but I would
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even say the the real work experiences, not just my
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personal ones, but the real work experiences of working from
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or with small businesses, nonprofits to a large international corporation
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that really fueled the love for business itself. In me,
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and you know, I got my bachelor's, my bachelor's in
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marketing and advertising in psychology, but my masters was focused
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on business management. I really found a fascination and a
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love for understanding the intricacies of how a good foundation
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when it comes to businesses are really set, because successful
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brands and corporations don't just happen overnight.
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They are constructed, and you know.
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There's almost like an architect, if you will, in the
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background where there's pieces that are coming together, there's planning
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their strategy. And then fast forward to when I was
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married and I had my son at the.
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Time and I was a stay at home mom.
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I had a conversation with a friend that basically changed everything.
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But I really believe in perfect timing. So again, I'm
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so grateful for the experiences before that led me to
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that moment, because she said, just directly to me, you know,
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I think you need to stop giving.
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Out free business advice. I really think you should.
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Have a business of your own. And at that time,
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I thought, I don't know about that. That sounds very daunting,
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given I was a new mom at the time, but
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I just thought, well, the curious part of me was like, well,
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what would that look like and what could I offer?
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And so it was that moment that I just decided
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to do something that I wouldn't necessarily recommend to other entrepreneurs,
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but I just had to go with that feeling that
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I felt to test it out. And so I sent
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a message to my network and I let them know
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that I was going to be creating a business, and
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I let them know about my services, and within.
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A couple of weeks I was full.
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I had a full client roster that I could take
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on at that time and ever since it had been
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word of mouth, and still to this day, primarily all
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of my business comes through word of mouth.
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But then through the years, I had a.
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Moment to actually work on my business, and so I
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set up a website and all the things that you
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know you do, and here I am today as the
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brand strategist.
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See you now, I have to say, that's exactly what
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you should be doing at their entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who
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are listening. You have a passion for something, go for
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at the time is right now? The perfect time to
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start is today. You haven't started yet, Start today, So
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I applaud you taking a week. I really do so
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let's talk about as a brand strategist, what do you
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bring what really makes you stand out when you're working
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with the people you work with.
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Well, again, having those experiences working for other businesses really
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gave me insight to see how different people run their
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businesses and what makes certain things work and what makes
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other things flop.
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But even in you know, the quote unquote fails.
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Of business, I think those are learning opportunities because you
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get to understand.
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What works, what doesn't work, and maybe wall you can
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do better next time.
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And I think just like a business is an you know,
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ever evolving organism, our life is ever evolving. I think
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should be we should continue to grow and desire to
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be better and figure out what is in alignment for
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my life in this season that maybe wasn't in alignment
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in the season before, and figuring out like those kinds
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of nuances and as a mom and then becoming a
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business owner, the value of understanding what I call the
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rhythm and flow for my life was really important.
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Knowing what was going to work for me.
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In that season, not trying to hold onto something from
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the past or just because someone else is doing it
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and maybe doing a great job. I really needed to
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pay attention to what works for me, because when you
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allow things to just fall into that alignment and they
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work for you and they're working for your business, then
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you'll notice just the natural success. For lack of a
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better word, it's just something that happens. You don't have
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to force it. And I find that when I don't
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force things, not only do I enjoy them more, but
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they really do there's something lasting about it. And I
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just have found that when I just listened to that
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intuitive sense and I just really hold on to that
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vision that I set before myself when I started this business,
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knowing what my values were, knowing what my priorities were,
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knowing what I would be willing to sacrifice and what
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I wouldn't. Motherhood was still really important to me, and
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I knew that there would be a way that I
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could figure out how to make it work. And did
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I trip along the way, absolutely, But I think again
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that's part of just growing and learning. And now I'm
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in a season where my son he's, you know, in
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his preteen years, and so I've kind of figured out
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some things that work for us at this point. And
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not to mention, I was a homeschooling mom for several years,
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and so you know, being able to again use those
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learning lessons to help me to get to where I
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am today has really helped me to have a firm foundation,
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because I really believe that the foundation, whether you're able
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to do a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow,
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and those little bits add up for the you know,
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the future. Those are the things that you're starting to
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put in place now that will help you build your
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life or build your business. And I have found so
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much value in that kind of perspective and mindset because
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we are under this illusion, especially with social media, that
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things just happen overnight, and while certain posts could go viral,
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that still doesn't necessarily mean something's of success. It just
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means there's been a lot of exposure. So being able
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to define what success is for you personally, being able
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to define what success is for you as a business woman,
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being able to define what success looks like for you five, ten, fifteen,
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twenty years from now. Those are the things that I
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was taken into consideration as I was building my business.
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But at the same time, even with not knowing exactly
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what I wanted to do in my business, and the
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evolution of what that would turn into today.
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I still kept true to those priorities.
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To those values, and so now I stand on a
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business that I'm very proud of and I'm very excited about,
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and I love helping other entrepreneurs and especially women, and
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it's just something that brings me joy. But it's because
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I've stayed true to myself. That's what I really believe
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is authenticity. You're not willing to sacrifice those things that
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value the most to you, and then as you see
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the picture unfold, you'll find yourself one day in that
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place that you never thought you could have been.
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So you were a homeschooling mom, you're also a pastor's wife,
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which carries a huge responsibility as a pastor's wife. How
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have you managed? And I can understand the faith based
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intuitiveness that is going on. How have you melded all
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of that together? Something?
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It was not easy.
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It had its challenges throughout the years, but again always
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staying true to what I know on my priorities, and
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I think quite honestly recognizing that there are sacrifices that
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come along the way, and so even building my business,
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there were times where if my son was sick or
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there was certain priorities that we're taking the forefront.
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I needed to be okay to let what I.
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the most important thing to me, and that's my responsibility
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and I took pride in that and taking care of him.
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And you know that again goes back to my values
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and how I wanted to raise him alongside of my husband,
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of course, but I was the one with him every day,
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and so you know, being able to focus on and
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let go of the things and trust that God was
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going to work it all out, that just because I
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didn't get to do what I had on my list,
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that I could wake up that day or the next
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day going God, what do you have planned for me today?
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Is what is it that you are going to entrust me.
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With today that is going to be my priority and
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maybe not something that was again on my list to do,
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But at the end of the day, I really want
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to bring honor to God's name, and I want to
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be able to honor my husband and my child, and
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one day I want them to be able to look
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back and be like, Wow, you know, whether it's.
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My husband, I'm blessed that I have her as my wife.
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And whatever reasons he could say, right, But I always
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think in terms of legacy that what I'm doing today
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it's going to be talked about in the future, and
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so what I can't control what people say, but I
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know that I can live in the truth.
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Of what I know today to be.
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And if I live in alignment with God's word and
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his will and his way for my life the best
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that I can, because this is not about perfection as
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we know, then I know that God will fill in
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the gaps, and those gaps of maybe I'm not able
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to get certain things done on a certain day. God
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can just you know, give me more time the next day.
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Supernaturally there could just be opportunities that doors that could
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open the next day or the next week. And that's
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how it's been unfolding. I mean, there are doors that
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have opened for me that there's no way anyone nor
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I could have done myself. And again, looking back, everything's
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twenty twenty in hindsight, or at least many things.
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When you live true to when it comes to faith,
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the way that God has designed that season for you
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to live in and show up and be and truly
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trying to bring honor to his name and recognizing also
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the blessings that we have in our life. You know,
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sometimes when if I'm gonna get frustrated because I don't
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get to do something that I want, I can just
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take a moment and look around be like, you know what, God,
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I'm grateful for what I have. I'm grateful that I
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get to live in this country. I get to have
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a business, I get to be a mom, I get
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to be a wife, I get to and I could
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just go on and on and on, and then suddenly
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it's amazing how it just happens. But you aren't so
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frustrated anymore, because there's no room for any anger or
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bitterness when joy is coming in, when gratitude is filling you.
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And that's what I choose to fill myself up with
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every single day. No matter what is happening in the
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world or in my life, whether it's you know, I'm
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on the mountaintops or I feel like I'm in the valley,
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I'm gonna take a moment and I'm gonna thank God
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because at the end of the day, He's still on
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the throne no matter what happens in my life.
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And We're back here on Word of Mom Radio. We
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are talking with Cynthia Macilla about faith. We were talking
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about it before we started recording Everything going on in
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the world right now. I think faith is so important,
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whatever your belief system is, that having faith in that
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being that is greater than us. And for me, it's
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why today is always my favorite day because wonderful is
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always out there. I made trip, I may fall, lots
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of things happen, but you know what, I'm here and
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all of us, we are all going through our own
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trials and tribulations and our tests of faith. And again
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that being greater than ourselves and our faith in ourselves,
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and how we're showing up in the face of everything
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going on and are we being true to ourselves and
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to those around us, Because if we're not showing up authentically,
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how can we do anything. So as you work, the
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leadership that you teach and the traits that you have,
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you know as a mom. We interviewed somebody who wrote
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a book called Manage Like a Mother, because think about
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it as women as moms, everything you do, it translates.
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We're born to be business people and we don't even
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realize it. So how had you brought those values into
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your business, and the things that you've learned.
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Oh gosh, I've learned so much as a mom, that
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is for sure, And I think more than anything, as
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a mom raising another human, it's the honor and privilege
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to be able to help.
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Form and shape another human.
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In their character, in their perspective, in their faith, in teachings.
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There's so many things, and that is such a full
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time job that I don't think that we really stop
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to just take a moment and soak in as moms
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at times, because we get caught.
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Up in the day to day and the day to
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day there's so much to do.
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I don't know that any mom really ever feels like
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she catches up with everything she needs to do on
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any given certain day.
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So I have found that I can.
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Miss the most beautiful moments if I don't force myself
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to slow down, if I don't force myself to just
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be appreciative of what I have in that moment, regardless
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of what is happening. I've had seasons where I thought
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they would take me out or break me, but I
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realize I have two choices. And I've always believed this
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that when you have those really dark seasons that you
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think I don't know God. If you don't help me
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out of this, I might not make it out. It's
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those moments that are so critical. And as I lean
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on my faith and as I glean from the wisdom
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of the Bible, and I see that I'm not the
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first one to deal with some really dark moments in
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my life, and so I'm not going to.
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Be the last.
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But I do have a choice, because there are so
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many examples, again in the Bible or even in history,
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where anything can literally change just in a moment, and
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everything changes by a choice that you make as the
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first step that leads to the next step, that leads
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to the next step, and so on. And so I
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have chosen in those moments that the defining moment is
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not necessarily what happens to me, but truly the way
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I decide to show up and respond, and again holding
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tight to my faith and my values, knowing that no
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matter what, I know that God is real because I've
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had my own encounters with Him that there's no way
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anyone can convince me otherwise, and so I hold on
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to Him in those really testing times. But I also
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know that I have the way and responsibility of being
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a wife and a mother, and I hold those so
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dearly to me and a friend and so on. All
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these titles, all the titles do is just describe the
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areas of responsibility and things that I've been entrusted with
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to steward. So even my friendships, I want to show
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up a certain way in my friendships. Do I think
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I'm perfect, Absolutely not. But my goal is not perfection.
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My goal is to be authentic and to be transparent
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and honest and cultivate. We'll first choose those relationships accordingly, right,
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because not everyone's values and beliefs are going to align
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with yours.
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And with that said, I have many that I know
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that we.
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Don't have the same religion, we don't have the same
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beliefs and all of those things.
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But it doesn't mean that they don't have a.
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Place in my life. It's just looks differently. And so
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those that I allow in a closer proximity, we are
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going to tend to share those same values and beliefs
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and whatnot. Because when you go through the hard times,
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the beautiful thing is you can lean on them when
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you feel like you don't have the strength, you can
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lean on them for me, that they will be praying
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for me. And so all of these things have really
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worked together to help me to understand that first and foremost,
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you know, you kind of.
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Alluded to it. Life is a gift. We're here one day,
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we may not be the next.
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We're not promised anything, and so what we do with
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today really counts. It matters, and we can't go back
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and do over anything. And that's not to say that
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anyone should live with shame of their past. You know,
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decisions or experiences we get today to start over, and
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it doesn't mean we pretend the past didn't.
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Happen, but we just glean what we want.
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To keep with us to move forward, to help us
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be better, not bitter, and to make good life decisions,
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to make good business decisions.
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All of it, all of it working together.
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I'm going to go into your past a little because
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you were a makeup artist. Do you feel like it
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is your things in your business, things that you learned
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as a makeup artist.
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I have tried to glean from every experience, whether it's
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relationships or work experiences, to be able to help point
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me in the direction that I want to go. So,
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for example, that in particular, I loved my time as
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a Mac makeup artist at that time, in that season
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of my life. Working for Mac was it's kind of
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like you made it for the industry of makeup, and
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it was so fun because it actually not only cultivated
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this part of me that I didn't even know I
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had in terms of what beauty really is, and being
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able to do makeup on so many diverse faces and
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listen to my clients as they sat in my and
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I was able to even be coaching them in those moments,
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training them and educating them on things regarding makeup. But
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then when I would get young girls who were in
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their teen years.
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I knew that they were looking for beauty.
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They couldn't see it themselves, and so that was my
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opportunity to be able to speak life into them, to
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be able to uplift them, to be able to show
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them that there's actually not a perfect face out there,
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despite what they see and the illusions, whether social media
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or photoshop.
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But really it's the perspective that you.
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Hold, and how we see ourselves really is the beginning
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of how others will see us, because it will reflect
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the way we carry ourselves, the way we speak to
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others the way we speak to ourselves, and so having
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that opportunity to be able to take a job that
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could seem in a way shallow because you know, doing
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makeup all day, but I really took it as an
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opportunity I can use this to touch lives, to make
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a difference, and to make an impact that would care yond,
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far beyond what they would even remember that I taught
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them about the makeup because when I could see, especially
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the youthful faces in the chair looking in the mirror,
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waiting for that validation, waiting to hear something from me
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as the professional makeup artist, and seeing them leave with
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the biggest smiles on.
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Their faces because they felt beautiful.
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And I reminded them, really, makeup or my brushes, my
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brush is not a wand.
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It's not changing your face.
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It's just highlighting the things that are already there that
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maybe you can't even see, but I can because I
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have a trained eye.
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And that's where I got to share about perspective.
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Makes all the difference and how to accentuate certain things
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for them so that they just felt empowered, because at
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the end of the day, I knew that it was
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not going to be just the amount of makeup that
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I sold. It really was going to be about the
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way that I could touch these young hearts lives and
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make an impact forever.
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Talking about empowering, let's talk about for mental and what
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you are going to be doing the.
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Things her mentor is really just inspired from all the things.
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That I feel life has just kind of.
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Placed me in this moment for me to be able
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to steward. I really believe that many things don't happen
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by accident. I think we have choices on what we
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decide to do with things that we've come across, encountered, experience,
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and so on. And her mentor was just inspired from
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years of mentoring and coming alongside of women since I
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was a teenager, from being that support for my friends
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in high school, to being the support for my friends'
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parents in high school who couldn't understand how to communicate
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with their daughters, to meeting strangers on the street in
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my early twenties and having deep conversations with people well
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beyond my years and really enjoying it and using what
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I would say the things that I was not proud
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of in my childhood or upbringing, the things that happened
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to me the things that could have kept me from
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moving forward. But I made a choice. I made a decision.
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It doesn't matter what happened to me. I can do
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something different. I could be like the people that hurt me,
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or I could be better.
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And I chose to be better.
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And that had been my mission since my early twenties.
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And I remember there was this distinct moment in church
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when I don't know how to describe it other than
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to say, it's like these words crossed my mind and
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they were so vivid, and it was be the kind
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of woman you wished you had in your life. And
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I grabbed a hold of that and I decided, that's it.
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That's the way that I want to live.
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I never put words to it like that moment, but
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from that moment, it really set me on this different
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trajectory to be so much more intentional again about the
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way I was going to show up in life. And
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so all of those things would start to be almost
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not even practice, because there's never a practice when you're
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encountering other people, and there's really there's real lives that
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you have an opportunity to influence or make an impact on,
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but practice, as in I didn't have anything formal.
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At the time, I didn't have titles.
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I was just being me And so at this point,
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her mentor really is me being able to create a platform,
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create a space for my ability to connect with women
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of all ages, to be able to talk about things,
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whether it's business life, leadership relationships, from love relationships to
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family to friendships. Because I have found that there's a
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growing gap of a lack of knowledge that many are
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experiencing as though they didn't have anyone to guide them
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or mentor them, and I understand what that's like. And
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so my hope from her mentor is to be able
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to pass on wisdom so that people can start to
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realize one they're not alone in facing whatever they're thinking
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or they're feeling or they're experiencing.
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But two, my.
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Hope is that they would be able to hear parts
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of my story or just experiences, and you know, being
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able to share other people's experiences, bringing other people on51200:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.000
as well to share their stories, like, hey, we're all51300:27:21.119 --> 00:27:24.240
navigating and figuring out life. Some of us though, have51400:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.640
been further along than others. And my hope is to51500:27:27.640 --> 00:27:29.759
be able to reach out my hand and help as51600:27:29.799 --> 00:27:32.559
many as I can, so to say in that kind51700:27:32.599 --> 00:27:35.119
of a way where it's going to make an impact51800:27:35.400 --> 00:27:38.319
far beyond my ability to be able to physically connect51900:27:38.319 --> 00:27:41.240
with people like I have over the years, and to52000:27:41.279 --> 00:27:44.160
be able to pay it forward for those voices and52100:27:44.200 --> 00:27:46.880
those women and those people in my life that I'm52200:27:47.000 --> 00:27:49.880
very grateful for and I have been touched by along52300:27:50.160 --> 00:27:53.839
through the years that have spoken into my life and52400:27:54.359 --> 00:27:57.079
did encourage me and did extend a hand when I52500:27:57.119 --> 00:27:58.920
needed it and I felt like I was alone.52600:27:58.920 --> 00:28:00.960
And so it's another.52700:28:00.720 --> 00:28:02.559
Vehicle, if you will, to be able to do what52800:28:02.599 --> 00:28:04.559
I feel that ultimately God has put me on this52900:28:04.599 --> 00:28:05.039
earth to do.53000:28:05.480 --> 00:28:08.119
What a fabulous way to kind of wrap up this53100:28:08.160 --> 00:28:12.079
conversation as we close out, Cynthia, what would you like53200:28:12.400 --> 00:28:15.119
to leave by our listeners with and how may they53300:28:15.160 --> 00:28:15.920
reach out to me?53400:28:16.680 --> 00:28:19.160
I think one of the things that is always a53500:28:19.200 --> 00:28:21.279
burden on my heart is that your life is not53600:28:21.359 --> 00:28:24.640
a mistake and it's not an accident, and there is53700:28:24.759 --> 00:28:28.519
beauty in every person's story. And I think one of53800:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.440
the greatest tragedies is when we compare ourselves to someone53900:28:31.440 --> 00:28:34.559
else's story, because you will never get to see the54000:28:34.599 --> 00:28:36.240
beauty of the story that.54100:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.599
God wants to write for you and.54200:28:38.839 --> 00:28:42.279
The story that you really do you've been entrusted with,54300:28:42.799 --> 00:28:47.480
and it it takes time. Though nothing unfolds overnight. My54400:28:47.720 --> 00:28:50.880
story has been twenty plus years in the making to54500:28:50.920 --> 00:28:53.039
even get to this point, and I don't even know54600:28:53.039 --> 00:28:55.359
what the next ten twenty years holds for me.54700:28:55.839 --> 00:28:58.559
But I know that I can do whatever it is54800:28:58.599 --> 00:29:01.640
that is in my hands right now that I've been given.54900:29:01.359 --> 00:29:04.680
And entrusted and try to multiply it and try to55000:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.839
do something that could leave a lasting impact. And I55100:29:07.839 --> 00:29:12.039
think that no matter what your career choice is in55200:29:12.359 --> 00:29:15.359
whether you're a nurse, a stay at home mom, the55300:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.799
list goes on, every one of us can play such55400:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.200
an incredible role in this world.55500:29:21.279 --> 00:29:23.039
And what better time than in.55600:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.960
These days where we feel like we're surrounded by darkness.55700:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.920
It only takes one person to be a light in55800:29:29.960 --> 00:29:33.039
a dark place and then suddenly it's not so dark anymore.55900:29:33.079 --> 00:29:35.839
So my encouragement is that look around at what you have.56000:29:35.960 --> 00:29:38.400
You don't have to start a business or have a business,56100:29:38.480 --> 00:29:41.519
or have a platform, so to say, or even a56200:29:41.559 --> 00:29:43.079
podcast to have a voice.56300:29:43.359 --> 00:29:45.079
I did it for twenty plus years.56400:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.160
I just I was very intentional in the way that56500:29:48.200 --> 00:29:50.400
I was showing up for my family, for my friends56600:29:50.400 --> 00:29:53.480
and strangers on the street. And those are the things56700:29:53.519 --> 00:29:56.720
that led me to this point to realize, Okay, this56800:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.119
is where I'm going to go next. But it was56900:29:59.200 --> 00:30:01.759
all of those experienperiences. And I encourage you, if you're57000:30:01.799 --> 00:30:04.240
listening right now, that you look back on your life,57100:30:04.559 --> 00:30:08.160
there is always a beautiful thread woven into every one57200:30:08.240 --> 00:30:10.880
of our stories. But you have to stop and slow57300:30:10.920 --> 00:30:14.279
down enough to look and to be able to realize57400:30:14.279 --> 00:30:15.000
that there is.57500:30:14.960 --> 00:30:16.759
Something unique about your fingerprint.57600:30:17.079 --> 00:30:19.960
If there wasn't, all of us would have the actual57700:30:20.079 --> 00:30:21.160
same fingerprint.57800:30:21.160 --> 00:30:21.920
But there's a reason.57900:30:21.960 --> 00:30:24.880
We're all created with the purpose for a purpose, and58000:30:25.319 --> 00:30:27.680
we will all leave a different kind of fingerprint in58100:30:27.720 --> 00:30:30.920
this world. But my hope is that for myself, I58200:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.319
can say this that when I do leave this world,58300:30:33.359 --> 00:30:35.960
that it's a little bit of a better place, a58400:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.680
brighter place than what it was when I entered it58500:30:38.720 --> 00:30:39.480
for the first time.58600:30:40.000 --> 00:30:42.720
Lovely, how can people find you, Cynthia?58700:30:43.559 --> 00:30:47.440
Everyone can find me, whether it's through my business, which58800:30:47.519 --> 00:30:51.480
is the brand strategist dot co or her mentor dot co.58900:30:52.039 --> 00:30:54.359
All of Cynthia's links are going to be live on59000:30:54.440 --> 00:30:59.759
word of momradio dot com, reach out, enjoy her mentor59100:31:00.079 --> 00:31:04.759
connect and keep the faith because we all, like doctor59200:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.720
Sue says, there's no one newer than me. You know,59300:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.559
so be treated you, Cynthia, thank you so much for59400:31:11.680 --> 00:31:14.440
taking the time to share your journey with us. You're59500:31:14.480 --> 00:31:17.799
on Word of Mom Radio, appreciate it. And for all59600:31:17.839 --> 00:31:20.480
of you tuning in, thanks so much for being here.59700:31:20.559 --> 00:31:23.720
We're going to close out with our fabulous theme song59800:31:23.799 --> 00:31:27.720
from Smith's Sisters and the Sunday Drivers Son Till next time.59900:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.519
This is Dory de Carlo saying, go out and create60000:31:30.559 --> 00:31:32.599
a marvelous youth. Bye for now.60100:31:35.559 --> 00:31:38.119
She is sure, she is sure, she is strong, she60200:31:38.200 --> 00:31:42.240
is strong, she is true, she is true. She is60300:31:42.400 --> 00:31:46.839
braz Bra. She is she is you, is you, she60400:31:47.000 --> 00:31:50.599
is you. She is sure, she is sure. She is strong,60500:31:50.680 --> 00:31:54.680
she is strong, she is true, she is true, she60600:31:54.880 --> 00:31:59.119
is brave, she is she is you. She is you,60700:31:59.400 --> 00:32:02.920
she is you. She is sure of herself. Yes, she60800:32:02.960 --> 00:32:06.319
takes care of his powerful and strong. Yes, she knows60900:32:06.319 --> 00:32:10.680
who she is has integrity, woman, strong and true. You61000:32:10.799 --> 00:32:11.640
know her by name.61100:32:11.880 --> 00:32:13.160
See this woman is you.61200:32:13.480 --> 00:32:17.400
She is sure, she is strong, is strong, she is true,61300:32:17.680 --> 00:32:22.440
is true, she is brave, brave, she is, she is,61400:32:22.839 --> 00:32:27.640
she is you, she is, she is, she is sure,61500:32:26.960 --> 00:32:30.960
she is strong, is strong, she is true, is true,61600:32:32.640 --> 00:32:36.319
she is brave, she is, she is, she is you,61700:32:36.559 --> 00:32:40.799
she is you. She is adds value and hope has61800:32:40.920 --> 00:32:43.960
proved to be brave. See it's never too late, never61900:32:44.079 --> 00:32:48.279
time to behave Reaching for dreams doesn't matter. The age62000:32:48.640 --> 00:32:52.279
believes in herself, unleash from her cage. She is sure,62100:32:52.359 --> 00:32:55.559
she is sure, she is strong, is strong, she is true,62200:32:55.839 --> 00:33:01.799
is true, she is brave, she is, she is you,62300:33:02.119 --> 00:33:07.640
she is, she is sure, she is strong, she is strong,62400:33:07.680 --> 00:33:12.440
she is true, is true. She is braid, is braid,62500:33:12.519 --> 00:33:14.680
she is, she is, she is you.
