Happy Thanksgiving 2024 | DFS 323

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Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

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host, Jennifer Takagi, and today, the actual day I'm

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recording this podcast episode, is November 28 2024 and 16 years

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ago today, my lovely mother passed away at 73 years old. My

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father had passed away just 12 days before, on the 16th and we

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mom had had a stroke alone years before. We knew she wasn't well.

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We knew it'd be hard after my dad passed away. They got

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married at 16 and 18, and were a month shy of their 57th wedding

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anniversary. So we knew that it would be hard on her, but what

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we didn't know was that on Monday, she had had a spot under

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her tongue, and it looked bad. We took her to the dentist, and

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it was cancer. And this is on Monday, Wednesday, she starts

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going downhill quickly. We move her to a hospice Center, which

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was the best possible thing. If you don't know about hospice

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centers, when your loved one is terminal and the end is getting

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close. You can take them there, and they have way better drugs

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than you can get at home, and then you can go home and get

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some sleep and know that your loved one is cared for 24 hours

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a day. So we weren't we didn't know how long we would be there.

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We went there with my dad, and he passed within like four

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hours, so we didn't know how long we were going to be there.

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So they we were there all Wednesday afternoon, all

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Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon. And she passed away

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on Friday the 28th the day after Thanksgiving. But this year, the

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anniversary for death is on Thanksgiving. And when I was

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trying to decide what podcast episode to record that's coming

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out on December 2, which, oddly enough, is the day that her

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funeral service was it was like, I want to talk about gratitude.

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I want to talk about how thankful I am. Because if you do

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the strengths, finders, Gallup testing, gratitude is like my

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number one strength, I can be grateful for lots of things, and

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I can find lots of things to be grateful for. And I came in here

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to record this before I go to Thanksgiving at my niece's

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house. I looked at the computer and it said, November 28 and it

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was like, Oh my gosh. Number one, I need to honor my mom and

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be thankful and grateful for the journey that she had in her

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passing. She adored my father. Up until the day he died, he

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referred to her as his child bride, and he always saw her as

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the 16 year old girl that he fell in love with, and that was

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just always so special to me growing up, that my parents

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loved and adored each other that just meant a lot. And my mom was

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surrounded by me and my two sisters, she was well cared for

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to the very end, we did donate her body to a non profit

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scientific research place where they only take the tissue they

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need for whatever they're studying, and then they cremate

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her and return the remains to Your local funeral home. It was

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called Life legacy. If you Google life legacy, it comes up

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with a new name. I don't know what the new name is, but it's

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not as cool as life legacy. I'm just saying, if they ever see

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this or hear this, but they took very good care of her, and so

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did the funeral home, and she just happened to have on this

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cute little pair of white pajamas with pink and purple

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flowers, and the funeral home or the hospice Center said, we will

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bathe your mother and you can see her one last time. And they

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had taken her clothes off and put a hospital gown type thing

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on her when she got there and they washed her clothes, her

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nightgown that or pajama set that she had been wearing when

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she got there, and after they had prepared her for us to say

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our final goodbye, they put her back in her pajama set that she

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loved, and they said, Do you want her scent and cremated in

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her pajama set. And we were like, yes, so it was very

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comforting to know she's in one of her favorite little pajama

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sets. It looks really cute. So when we went to the funeral home

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to make the arrangements, it was like, I want everything pink and

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purple. I don't even know that my mom really cared much about

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pink and purple, but that's what we. Did. I am grateful that she

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passed so quickly after my father, he had battled kidney

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cancer for four years, and I'm glad they got to reunite so

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quickly. I don't know what your beliefs are, and I don't really

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care. I only can care about my beliefs and share mine. And I

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believe they are in heaven. I believe they're together, and I

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believe that that's where they want to be. They did not want to

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be a part. People often say, Oh, your mom died of a broken heart.

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No, she didn't. She was eating up with cancer. But the blessing

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in that is she had had a massive stroke, she was paralyzed on her

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left side, and she didn't have any pain till the very end, they

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immediately got her pain medicine, and so it could have

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been so much worse if she had not had the stroke. Dying of

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oral cancer would have been just horrendous. So as we celebrate

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the 16th anniversary of my mother's death, I'm grateful for

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her. I'm grateful for the lessons I learned. I recently

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was spouting out some of hers. I wrote a little book on the

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sayings of my mom and on Amazon. It's not formatted, right? It

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doesn't look great because I just did it for me and my

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family. I need to go back in and edit it. But like, one of the

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things she would say is, winners are on time, losers are late.

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And it's like, yeah, how rude to make everybody wait for you

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because you're late. Like, that's a big deal. Um, winners

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have a full tank of gas. Losers are sitting on the side of the

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road hoping somebody will bring them gas. I have never run out

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of gas in my life. Knock on wood. I've never run out of gas.

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I had a car for 17 years, a Toyota Avalon, and the gas light

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never came on because it never got that low. And at some point

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I decided maybe it didn't work. So I just kept making sure

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there's plenty of gas in there. So yeah, lots of saves. They run

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through my head. And I do live my life a lot of ways, you know,

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based on on the things I learned from my mom, probably like you.

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You're probably doing things like your mom, kind of like that

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old adage of the the daughter gets married and calls her mom

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and says, Hey, I'm going to make a ham. Um, why do I have to cut

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the end off the ham? And the mom says, I don't know, your

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grandmother always did. Why don't you call her? So the the

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daughter calls her grandma, and says, Grandma, I'm making a ham,

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but why do we cut the end off? Like, is there a significance of

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that? And Grandma says, because it wouldn't fit in my pan. Like,

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all the hams are bigger than my pan. So we pass down these

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things, whether you know they beat anything or not or or if

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they still have meaning. I mean, that's the big question. Does it

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still have meaning? So I have to point out that when I do that,

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Strength Finders test every time, gratitude comes up at the

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top of my list, and I think that's important. The more

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grateful you are, the more things that you recognize and

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notice for gratitude, the more you have to be grateful for and

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the more things show up. I met Jack Canfield, the creator of

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Chicken Soup for the Soul books and also the success principles.

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And I had to get certified in success principles. If you've

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been listening to me for very long, you know that I love

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certifications, not the certifications so much, but the

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classes. Like I love learning the things and in success

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principles. One of the things he talks about is gratitude. And

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the more grateful we are again, the more we have to be grateful

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for. And he talks about when somebody is in a slump and they

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say, Everything's really hard and bad, I have nothing to be

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thankful for. And he's like, Well, if you woke up in the

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morning and you're breathing, number one, that's a big thing

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to be thankful for, because not everybody did not put I had

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surgery on my tongue. That's another thing I'm thankful for.

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It was not cancer, but I'm still, you know, have a little

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speech impediment going, but if you wake up in the morning,

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number one, be grateful for that number two, that you can take a

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deep breath, not everybody can breathe easily. Then when you

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get out of bed, oh my gosh, you got out of bed. I had my knee

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replaced in March, and when I get out of bed, it's a very

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different feeling. I It feels really good. Now it used to be a

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lot of pain getting out of bed. Now I can just like, pop right

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out. It's pretty exciting. Then we move on to, oh, my feet hit

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carpet when I stand up, and I like carpet, and I like the feel

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of it on my bare feet. So then you can go down a whole rabbit

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hole of why you're grateful. For that carpet.

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I picked the carpet so I like the color. I'm grateful for the

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person who decided to put those colors together to come up with

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this color carpet. How much Brown did they put in? How much

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white did to make it a tan color? Like I don't know, I

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don't know how that works. I'm grateful for the person who

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decided the threads like how dense and thick to make them so

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that they're plush and stand up and do whatever carpet does. I'm

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grateful for the manufacturing company and all the people that

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work there and make it happen. I'm grateful for the company

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who, if it's not the same one who created the padding under

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the carpet, and then two men came to my house and installed

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the carpet. Do you get my point? Like, do you get it? Like, you

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can go down a rabbit hole of goodness, of all the things

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you're grateful for, and you can get a really long list. Oprah

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has a fairly new book out in the last, I don't know, three to

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five years, and she talks about for 10 years she wrote down

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every night before she went to bed, three things she was

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grateful for, and they had to be different. Like, it wasn't like,

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I'm grateful for my family, I'm grateful, you know, it had to be

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different every night. And she said, reflecting back, that was

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her best 10 years. She felt the best. She engaged the most like

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she was the happiest. It was a great period of time. She was

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like, I don't know why I got away from that. So being

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grateful can be as simple, and as you're being more grateful,

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as you're being aware of what you're grateful for, it

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literally can start changing your brain, and you start

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looking for the good instead of looking for the bad. I had a

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conversation recently, and it was about somebody who had

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passed away, and the person I was talking to was not fond of

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the person who passed away. And I said, Well, you know, a lot of

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times when somebody passes away, all the good things they did

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rise to the top, and all the bad kind of is set aside like you

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let that go? And the response was, I don't I remember it all.

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I'm not letting it go. And I went, there you go. You have a

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choice. You could choose to let it go or not. So my phone's

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going off. Um, so the question is, like, how do you want to

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show up? How Do You Want to Be it just it changes your whole

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physiological setup. The more grateful you are, the better you

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feel, the more opportunities you can see. So gratitude is a

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really big deal for me. So I made a very quick list of what

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I'm grateful for, and I did this literally in like 20 seconds

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before I get record. It's not like I put a lot of thought into

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it, alright? So of course, my husband and my family, I have

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two sisters. They both live in town. I don't see them or talk

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to them every week or every day, but I know they're there for me,

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and I'm very grateful for that. I've got nieces and nephews, and

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they're good to me. I've had multiple surgeries in the last

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couple years. Really stupid. My knee surgery was probably the,

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the most intense. But they've brought food over. They called

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and check on me. Oh, for Thanksgiving of 2024, years ago,

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I had COVID and I was very sick. I was not going to the hospital

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sick, but I was laying on the couch, which, you know, is dead

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because of the fever. I've never had the flu before. I understand

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that's what it feels like. I don't really ever want to have

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the flu, but my family would bring food over and leave it on

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the front porch and text me because they didn't want to get

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near me and catch it. So I'm very grateful for that. I'm

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grateful for my friend Debbie Robinson. Debbie, I don't know

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if you're listening, but I'm just saying I've had multiple

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surgeries, and she's literally come from Little Rock Arkansas

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to Oklahoma City to take care of me. She gets here, she and Bill

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have one evening together of deciding how bad I am, how much

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care I need. And then bill goes to work the next day and and

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he's happy and confident because he knows Debbie's going to take

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care of me. I have spent the last two years traveling almost

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every month, almost every month in, oh, I don't know February,

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March, ish of 2022, I found out that a friend of mine was going

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to go somewhere on her birthday. And I was like, oh, I want to go

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somewhere on my birthday too. So I went on her birthday trip. And

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I thought about it, I had been somewhere in January and

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February and March, and now it was April. I. I ended up going

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somewhere every single month. June is the only month I didn't

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like go out of state or out of the country, but I went to the

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lake so that, like, I got in my car and drove over two hours. So

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that was going somewhere, right? And now I've hit just about

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every month, other than when I had knee surgery, I had to stay

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home for a little while. I even had to cancel a cruise. That was

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sad. So I've traveled a lot. I like to travel. I like the

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experiences I spent from October 4 until November 3 in Marbella,

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Spain, on the southern coast of Spain. Our apartment overlooked

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the Mediterranean Sea. It was beautiful. It was spectacular. I

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was with my friend Kimberly Crowe. We had a wonderful time.

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It was excellent. It was wonderful. So happy I did that.

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I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for the experience and

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the fun people we met and the food that we had. And it was

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just absolute. You know, magic, pretty much every day was

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magical, in some way. I'm in Brendan Broussard Ultra

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mastermind group. I've, I don't know how many times I've flown

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to LA at least 1213, times I missed a couple going to his in

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person events. They've all been wonderful. I've met some amazing

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people. I've learned so much. I've grown so much personally.

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His deal is personal development, and people are

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like, Why are you into that? And he's like, why aren't you like,

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our whole purpose on earth is to get better every day and do more

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and do better. And he offered his high performance coaching

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program to become certified in that and become a certified

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coach. And I signed up for it, and it is amazing. Like every

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single session builds on the last I've gone through it two

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times, one on one practice sessioning. I'm now in the

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second round with a group coaching program with it, and

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it's transformative. He's the only coach out there. He's the

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only one with a program that is based all on scientific evidence

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of how everything goes together. And I am so grateful I was

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exposed to that, and I was introduced to it, and voila, now

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I'm certified as a CHPC coach. I can't wait to launch my own one

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on one program in the upcoming New Year, but the group program

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has been amazing. I was concerned people wouldn't share,

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and oh my gosh, do they share. It's been an awesome experience.

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Having my knee replaced in March was huge, huge. I did not

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realize how much pain I was in all day, every day, and how much

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it was impacting me and what I could and couldn't do. And I'm

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grateful for my doctor, Dr Rob German here in Oklahoma City, at

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McBride hospital. Shout out to all of them. He highly

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recommended I have a blood test done to see if I had an allergy

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to any metals. And it was $400 they have to send your blood

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off. He goes, we don't make any money on this, just so you know,

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this is not tied to us. We have to ship your blood off to be

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tested. But if you're allergic to nickel, and we put a

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replacement in that has nickel in it, and you're allergic,

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you're going to react. It's going to be bad. We're going to

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have to take it out. We're going to have to put a spacer in, and

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then you're going to have to have another replacement later.

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It's going to be like, a big deal. I've since learned that it

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can take months to find out why you're needed in heal. And it

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comes down to this metal allergy. A lot of surgeons don't

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believe in it. The surgeon that it was recommended I go to and

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did not doesn't believe in the test or that people are allergic

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to nickel so thank God I went to doctor. German Doctor Jeffrey

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Pierce recommended him, and they did the blood test. And two or

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three weeks passed, and the nurse called and she said, I'm

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calling about your blood test. Well, I had called my husband,

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and I was like, Hey, I just blew $400 on a test I didn't need,

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but the doctor thought I might. And he goes, Well, I'm glad you

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did it like if he recommended it, that's probably a good

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thing.

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The nurses are called with your test results. And I thought,

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yeah, like, you know, that was a wasted $400 and I was like, Oh,

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okay. And she goes, you're highly reactive to nickel. And I

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went, wow. What is like now? What do we do? And she said,

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we'll use a non nickel.

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Is it called a prosthetic? I don't know. Device, whatever

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it's called replacement. And I said, Well, so what does highly

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reactive mean? And she said, Well, if anybody scores eight,

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we consider them. Active, and we use non nickel metal, like

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titanium. The highest we've ever seen is 15. You were 20.2 so if

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they had put that in, I'm just coming up with all kinds of

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stories in my head that I probably wouldn't have left the

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hospital without having problems like it would have been

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catastrophic. That's the story I'm telling. Anyway, I do energy

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healing, and I've cleared people of allergies. Cat allergies seem

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to be like a specialty of mine, and in 1520 minutes, the person

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is no longer reacting, even though the cat's still there.

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And I know I could clear this metal allergy for myself, and

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one day I will, like I just haven't yet, I'm busy, but I

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wasn't even going to attempt to clear it and risk them putting

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that in now I might clear it and do the test again. When it

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becomes more widely available, my insurance will cover it. You

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know, might do it again, but I'm very grateful that I had my knee

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replaced, that I went to, the doctor I went to, and that I

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recovered so well. And as I'm doing all these shout outs, um

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Shannon, villaloba, I think I said that right, she does

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crystal clearings and opening chakras, and I did a session

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with her before my surgery. I did one after my surgery, and

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then I did two or three more, just to break up that scar

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tissue and get it good. So that really helped. I am thankful

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that I have these spots removed from my tongue and that they

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were benign, and we can let that go. I'm also thankful that I

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quit smoking, because the reason they were so insistent of taking

Jennifer Takagi: 00:21:46

them out was because I used to smoke, and they were very

Jennifer Takagi: 00:21:49

concerned about that. Oh my gosh. I went to check my podcast

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to make sure the show notes were changed in listen notes, because

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I made a shift in my podcast from straight leadership to more

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success, you know, topics and it's in the top 5% globally out

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of over 3 million podcasts. And that, that's thanks to you.

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Thank you for watching my podcast, or listening to my

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podcast and liking and sharing and subscribing and doing all

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those things that you can do. Like, thank you so much, because

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I I never dreamed this is podcast number 323, and last

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week, I was in the top 5% globally. Like, that's huge,

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huge, at least it is for me, and I'm super thrilled about that.

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Um, on this last one, I'm thankful, thankful that I have

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chosen to say yes. I have chosen to say yes to all kinds of

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opportunities, adventures, personal development, personal

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growth, and I'm so grateful that you're along for the ride with

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me and making small, consistent changes in your life so that you

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can show up as the person you were truly meant to be. I'm

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Jennifer Takagi with destin for success. I look forward to

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connecting with you soon, and happy Thanksgiving. You.