How I Taught My Daughters to Celebrate Our Family Name & Legacy

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What if your kids were proud of their last name?

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What if they actually believed in the family

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unit in the clan and they rallied behind it?

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What would be possible?

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That was a question that I asked myself a long time ago,

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because I had a lot of friends

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who actually hated the last name and hated their family,

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and is unfortunate, as sad as that was, that led me to believe that

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that might be part of the reason that they had a lot of issues.

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So when I was young, a young father, I decided to change that,

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and I wanted to talk about that today with my daughter, the beautiful, young,

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amazing little human that she is.

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The key to it.

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What's your name?

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Sorry.

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I did a terrible job of prompting her.

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This is my daughter, and she's Anastasia.

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She's here for spring break.

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Spring break?

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And she hasn't been on the show in a while.

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She's been working and doing all these things college life requires.

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But since she's here and she's crashing in my place,

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I said, you have to record this with

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this is a.

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It was a topic I was already going to record for this week,

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but what better way to talk about it than with someone who is a byproduct

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of this entire brainwashing process that I

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that I started when when there are babies.

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So first of all,

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it seems kind of silly to even talk about this.

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Well, of course they should be proud and whatnot, but if you ask around

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and maybe if you look at yourself, you might even

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you might feel that you have no sense of pride.

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You don't care about your name.

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You don't care about your family issues.

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Arise.

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So I felt early on, as I was a father,

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that maybe if I could change that, then I could.

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It would also help me install other things in them. Help

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install the sense of pride, other lessons revolving around our family values.

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We don't rob and steal. We don't cheat.

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Because we, as

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Iris, as a part of this family unit, don't do those types of things.

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So knowing what I just said and knowing that,

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the home that you did grew up with here, how did you feel that that was reflected?

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And I know for me, I always go back to him being taught my name.

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Yes. I'm so proud of my name and yelling my name at the top of my lungs.

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That was actually one of the first moments.

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When I had to teach her, it became obvious that it had to be very intentional.

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Through some crazy circumstances, she asked her what

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her name was, and she said another name, an associate.

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And I just say, Martinez. I don't even know.

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And I was like, offended.

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I'm like, who the hell is Martinez?

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And as

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I've said, as I was in the moment, I remember.

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Wait, I don't think I've ever taught you your name.

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And that particular day we're in the car, we're driving.

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And I said, okay.

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After I got over my my anger and my natural anger, I said,

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all right, let's, let's work on this.

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And had her start to say her name and not just obviously her name is either

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as Anastasia, saying it in Spanish.

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And do you remember how that worked out at the beginning?

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Oh, I couldn't roll my arms.

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Control your arms.

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And and I think you were you were a little sad because obviously the pressure.

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You did something wrong and you didn't.

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And then that's what I was trying to tell you.

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However,

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I was trying to start the first step, which was, let's just start saying it.

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I can't say and I can't, and I'm driving.

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You can say a slow IGF, whatever you can.

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And she eventually did.

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And it got to the point

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where it became a game.

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It became a game to be able to say their name.

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And one of the moments when I was most proud of is

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I actually had had her say her full name in front of my parents.

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She has my mother's first name and my father's last name.

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That's the family name.

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So I would ask her, what's your name?

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Ernest Garcia, I can I can't hear you.

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Oh. That's nice.

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Yeah, I can, you

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and I can see my parents get all emotional and I would get emotional,

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but that was one of the first instances where I like it made it made sense.

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Because if you have pride, pride in being a part of the unit,

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then almost anything else I thought would be easier.

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So we would. What else?

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Other examples that we did is,

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there was a building in Dallas.

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There was a building in Dallas that was the elder

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Roden building, and I think at one point was just the idea building.

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I needed something I needed at one point, I think I looked it up.

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It was an architecture firm of some sort, but

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anytime we would drive past it,

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we'd scream higher.

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And it was just a rallying call.

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You remember that?

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And even after it was sold, we continued to do it.

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It's not a gateway.

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We don't.

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It hasn't been created probably in five years.

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But a couple of years after,

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while they were still living here and we were still, going back and forth,

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we would drive past it without the name there, and we sometimes surprised the crap

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out of each other and just started screaming bloody murder. And,

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what was that like for you?

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Why was that important?

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I don't know, it just everything felt very intentional.

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Like, we have these traditions and they're.

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I don't know, just it was it was a game.

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It was fun.

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And, we always laugh and had a good moment together.

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And usually it's like when we're driving home from something.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And it was, it was just it was really loud.

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We it was, it was almost obnoxiously loud because we were just trying to surprise

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each other, hoping that the others wouldn't even pay attention to it.

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And we had a couple of other exercises

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that we would do, which I'll share you in a second.

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But this, this, the reason for this,

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even this episode, was triggered by a friend of mine who asked me,

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I did a podcast

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with her in which it was about, overcoming generational trauma.

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And most families have it, and most of us came from something,

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something messy, maybe directly behind us.

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Our parents or grandparents may have been through some things.

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We may have been through some things.

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But how do you overcome it?

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And I have found that this once

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again, this, this act of installing family pride.

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And it wasn't through beatings like this.

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It I imagine the way kings and queens used to beat it into you.

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I don't know.

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I mean, there was privilege, so there's that, earning the privilege

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and at some point, being king or queen,

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being proud of that, but being proud of the fact that despite

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not having a lot, you could be a proud of this unit and this clan.

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Right.

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The poem about it.

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Oh, tell me about that.

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It was, I don't know, I was one of the first few poems I wrote.

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I could remember that I was like a featured poet.

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I was a VIP poet, and I got to perform, like the equivalent. Yes.

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Next to each other.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, even. No, but it was it was beautiful, actually.

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In fact, video of it. Yes.

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We are again. Listen, say stand up.

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We stand up for each other.

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Never. My son he he's a he's a dad.

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He fights for a city. Just he takes care of us.

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Now we are usually family. We are warriors.

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We fight for each other, which he can reach.

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And we are never lonely because they're always there for each other.

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And this love will never stop.

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We'll keep going on for generations.

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This love lasts until the world changed.

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It's no time to break this chain.

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Because you won't.

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We are unstoppable.

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We, Yeah, it's moments like that

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reaffirm that it was happening, that it meant something. It.

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That doesn't mean that they didn't get into fights

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or that we don't have disagreements and debates.

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It just meant that we still resolve it.

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Another principle that I stand by is that, and I think it's still true,

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and I intend to keep it going, is we bring everything to the table.

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We meet, we talk, we sit down for dinner.

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And especially if there's beef

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or issues with you, then we try to bring it to the table.

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Because there's one thing that I really, really hate in any relationship,

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including with my partner.

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And actually I talked about it

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in another video, I think, but especially as a family.

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I don't know about your family, but my family.

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I have a brother. He doesn't talk to me hardly.

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I have another brother that I didn't get a chance to talk to you.

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I have an older sister that doesn't speak to me.

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And a

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lot of it revolves around not resolving and dealing with stuff

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that may have happened in real time and just years and years compounded,

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and it just became ugly.

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So if you're watching this sister or family, I'm down for a conversation

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and hanging out and apologizing for whatever I may have done.

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I'm always willing to apologize.

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But sitting down and talking, that is a part of the family culture.

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We're not going to carry resentment.

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I would hate if you

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carried weeks or months on without talking to me because of something

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I may have said, and I feel like it's like just creating this culture.

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We can talk about it and then like a few minutes

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later, we'll laugh about it and laugh at each other.

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It's something I can talk with my sister, we can fight.

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And then five minutes later, laters and each other like a real.

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We could be laughing together because it's fine. We know we're still family.

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We're still a family.

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And at our core, we do genuinely love each other.

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And if there is a misunderstanding, bring it to the table.

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It's very important to me because it's unfortunately really sad

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that a lot of families and I'm using myself as an example.

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So I won't assume your situation.

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You don't.

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It's hard, those difficult conversations, like we just try to brush it

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under the rug, right?

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We keep pushing it under and then imagine 10 or 20 years of that

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and then 20 years down the line, you're you find out that

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your brother or sister is upset about something you did when you were 15.

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That to me is is sad and unfortunate.

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But we I hope that through the process of instilling the family pride in knowing

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that we are standing by each other, even when we say

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some shitty things.

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And we do some shitty things,

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make some bad jokes that if they.

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Right, well, how can you say about that?

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I was the person making the bad jokes earlier.

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But you were young and you're, for lack of a better word, dumb like ignorant.

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And as you got older, you're like that, a little wiser.

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Like, oh, that might have been a bad timing off color or whatever, right?

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Or just don't know what the other person's going through.

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But she could tell me that we could talk about that 100% so that those are

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the reasons that I felt that installing family pride was incredibly important.

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They're all grown now.

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Not at all.

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I mean, there's only two.

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It's like there's 20, but they're both grown now and I am been

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fortunate enough to see them grow and consistently continue to stay close.

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And actually, I think even getting closer as you both age

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matured and come to an age where you now understand your sister more, so now you're

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almost talking the same language because you're basically the same age.

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After a certain point when you're two years.

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I thought about this recently.

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When you're two years, that's a difference.

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When you're two years apart and you're ten and eight.

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I think that those two years can be a big difference.

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12 and ten and so forth and so on.

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But now they're 22 and 20,

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but especially when you get to 30

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and 28, the difference in mindset at that point is like

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the gap is closed and you're basically on the same wavelength.

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Understanding the humor, understanding the times and whatever's

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going on in the world,

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understanding each other.

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Right.

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One of the biggest things, another I'm sorry,

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one of the things I also wanted to do as a part of this is create

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not a culture and, a sense of pride, but also a brand around it in modern terms.

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But, coat of arms.

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And I designed something that I called the, and I'll

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not yet know, you know, yet.

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I called the Bleeding Spade.

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I put it on myself as a tattoo many years ago, and I have an outfit and a fair

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and anesthesia. She's an assassin.

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They are my biggest sense of pride and joy.

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They're the one.

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They're the reason that I am the man that I am more thought I've given to it.

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Like you girls literally force me,

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to grow up and stop being so immature.

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You and your and your brothers and siblings.

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And it's something that I don't take lightly.

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I took the job seriously, but you two and the bleeding spades symbolize us.

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I like to think about it as,

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we will fight

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and bleed for our passions, for our love.

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So it's a it's a spade, right?

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And it's red.

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Over the years,

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I think I've had it long enough that they also grew fond of it.

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So what did you do, young lady?

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I turned 18, I went and got the same thing.

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She got a tattoo with it and her sister before her when she turned 18.

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Shortly after, she also did.

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Now I'm not recommending that you do this

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and there's nobody on contributes.

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That would be sadistic.

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Is that the word? Yeah.

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I'm not suggesting that.

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However, I do feel like if you're intentional

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and you have things that they can look to see,

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feel that they will get behind it.

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And I think the biggest point is just the consistency.

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Over the years, I'll give you a couple of other things that we do.

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Well, he's one I can't take it at the end of every night.

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And we did this since there were babies.

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And it's corny.

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You did it last night is really corny.

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It's, kind of cliche, but it works at the end of the day.

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Like, what are we doing?

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But it doesn't matter because the passion is there.

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So when we do it in the every night

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and we do, I have a new 1 or 2 we haven't done in a while, but we,

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put it up.

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We would.

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It's three of us.

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And now is with my my fiancé.

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We would have all of us is one, two, three.

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Are you either or is if I mean I mean, sorry, I got confused.

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One, two three.

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Familiar.

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And it's the little things like that that I think we don't do.

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We don't have time and and I get that.

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But I feel like these little moments are investments

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and you put enough of these together day after day, year after year, year years.

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We know

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I text it to them as often as I can because they're not here with me anymore.

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I won't cry, not today.

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How do you feel that that's all impacted you?

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I don't know, I I'm a creature of habit, and I.

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I love our traditions.

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I love when I get the familiar text line text back in, in that year

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when we did it last night, I was like, oh my gosh, I forgot we do.

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This is a steal it.

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I forgot what it's like to do it in person.

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It's just that I don't know.

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There we say it too much at pride.

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Yeah, it's it's a sense of being in a part of something.

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I think we take for

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granted where our children will take in and adopt.

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We're unintentionally giving them bad habits.

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But I like to think that a large part of my parenting was intentional.

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I had to be. I had to figure out.

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And for me, I look around and that's basically my philosophy.

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I look around,

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look at my family, look at other families, and hear the stories from my friends.

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And you can see some patterns and look, like I said at the beginning,

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a lot of them

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hate their families, or maybe they love their parents,

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but they hate their families.

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It was some some weird mixture of the two, and I knew there had to be a better way.

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So it was an experiment and I think it worked.

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And even a woman didn't do it.

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I don't know, Priscilla.

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Now to be like, okay, to to do it again, do it again.

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Yes. Yeah. It was

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it's a little things like that.

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And I think we can all we can figure out what those things are for us.

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You will say something. I felt like it cut you off.

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That. Oh, yeah.

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I heard you briefly before we did it.

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We would sit there at the end of our day and just chat.

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Yes, 30 minutes to an hour.

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It would take us forever to go to bed. That's true.

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So yes, we would go to bed.

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We would all go to bed together.

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Actually, that was another reason that the, That's a good point.

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The chance was our way.

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The signal of the day is off, the day is over, and let's go to sleep.

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I never had a, a problem

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putting them to bed now, and they don't necessarily go to sleep right away.

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They might still be of

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chattering and playing and making jokes, but it was a signal,

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I think, as a because of a pattern that was set in motion.

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Like this is when we go to bed.

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Excuse me.

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One, two, three familiar.

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They once we got to that.

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But even before that we'd be sit there and talk about our day as we get ready,

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as we're getting ready for bed and we decompress and share stories of the day.

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And it became a magnificent experience.

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Right?

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Hey, remember earlier when I told you about rockstar marketing and how we could

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stop your marketing strategy from flopping around like a fish in the desert?

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Yeah, that's still true.

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But maybe you didn't catch that.

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Maybe you're thinking, oh, I'll just keep throwing money at random guys, I'm sure.

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Something to say eventually, right?

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Wrong. Spoiler alert it won't.

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Look,

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you don't want to be that business owner that keeps trying to solve

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their marketing woes with duct tape and wishful thinking.

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You need results, need Rockstar, not marketing.

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So if you're finally ready

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to stop a slow motion train wreck, that is your current marketing plan.

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There's a

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rockstar marketing.

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Let's make your business the rockstar it deserves to be.

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Otherwise, enjoy those crickets.

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And now back to our show.

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And recently we started a new one.

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Before you left, something we call the team meeting.

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That was I got off the internet,

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which was fantastic, which is the idea

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thing is to use touch, touch each other.

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We have to be touching, feet or something.

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Is for emotion. How? Some.

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How are you feeling about the day?

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About us, about each other. It's education.

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Is it education?

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Something new you learned? Something. Thank you.

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Because we haven't done it in a minute.

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She's hasn't been home to create

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education.

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A is appreciation something that you appreciate about the other person.

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And M is mood.

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There might be mood and where you should rearrange you.

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We rearranged it because mood actually usually ends with something that you felt

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the other person may have done to hurt your feelings or disrespect you, whatever.

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So we moved it to the beginning so we don't in on the negative.

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So it became TMA.

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But the point is

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it allowed us to kind of talk about in real time things that may have come up.

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And that was something that just started in the last year or two before you left,

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and it worked really well.

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The only problem was took way too long.

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We'd be talking for an hour, and it was it was too long.

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Point is, it was a great experience is something that we still continue to do.

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And I would recommend you guys

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to like look into how you can install this in your family.

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And in case you're wondering, well, I don't have anything

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to be proud of or I don't have great history in my family.

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I don't come from kings and queens.

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You know what? It doesn't matter.

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You may have come from some tragedy,

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but if you truly I believe, if you truly want to do

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right by your family and you want to create new stories, then

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essentially that's what we're doing.

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We're creating new stories.

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I personally decided that I was going to tell them about our family,

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where we came from. We're immigrants.

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I'm the first one to speak English, and the first one

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who graduated from high school didn't go to college. She's going,

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that's pretty cool stuff, right?

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But from this point on, we're going to be really intentional.

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And from this point on, we're going to be incredibly proud.

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We will talk about it in our families and with our children and grandchildren

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and great grandchildren.

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From this point forth, we're going to be bleeding spades,

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bleeding spacecom you can visit that and you'll be taken to my main website.

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I do own it. You like

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but you there's no reason that you can't start your day.

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The stories you tell, it doesn't matter.

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Your child just came in to drive today.

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Teach them today.

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And they will believe it.

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And they will love it as long as you believe it and you love.

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And any final thoughts, my dear Sally carrying on.

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Name she does. Oh, that's right. So

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now this is

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not an obligation is not something I put on them. But.

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And talk about that please.

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Well both have them. Yes.

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Because both of them have their own their own stories.

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But I guess what specifically is like I love my last name and should I get

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married, I love I love that person too, but I want to keep that part of me.

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So the most I'll do is like a house. I'll hyphenate.

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My kids will have a hyphenated name.

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I want them to feel that pride, really have a cousin who wants to be an actress.

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And it's just it's interesting that that's the

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those are the moments where I'm like, oh, you want to be a part of this thing?

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You know, like there's so much pride.

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Yeah, we're we're the cool kids.

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Or or we we like to think we are.

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And why not?

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We're fun, we're

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engaging, and we're we're silly.

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Thank you.

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If you have any thoughts or considerations, please let me know.

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I'd like to think, let me know what you've done

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for your family to create family tradition. I'm actually really curious.

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Drop it in the comments.

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Or, feel free to message me directly.

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I feel like there's so much that we can learn from each other,

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and that's the point behind these videos.

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I want to share what I've learned that has brought value

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and helped me create a life and a family that I'm incredibly proud of.

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And I'm curious to hear what you have, because there's so much information

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and knowledge in the world, that I'm eager to learn from all of you.

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So until next time.

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My name is TV and this is Anastasia.

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And you've been tuned in to the becoming

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Better Ancestors podcast and show.

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We'll talk to you later. Bye.