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We are back with the amazing Alicia Keys.
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I did not know this about you.
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I'm the biggest fan of the dictionary.
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Oh.
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Because, well, I was self -educated.
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The dictionary is like, I think, the portal to all things good.
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Yes.
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And you have a dictionary story, which is - Different than that, yes.
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Is this how you found your name, though?
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Okay, well, it was one of the paths.
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Okay to how I found my name.
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I was, you know, I guess around 15 or 16 when I first got signed to Columbia Records.
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And, thank you.
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And so I had also gotten accepted to Columbia University at the same time.
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Did you look up the word Columbia?
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Because it's obviously a theme.
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So I thought it was a sign.
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I was like, this is a sign.
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Like, how could this be?
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This is a sign.
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And during the process, we were kind of trying to figure out, like, what's the name, right?
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Like, because I was born, it's a really long name.
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And it just didn't have a ring.
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You know what I mean?
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It didn't have a ring to it.
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So we're looking for the name.
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Didn't have that pith, that punch.
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You know?
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So I'm looking through the dictionary.
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I was desperate.
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I was like, I can't think of anything.
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I'm looking through the dictionary.
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I'm like, come on, the dictionary has to have the name.
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Every word is in here.
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And I get all the way, I'm looking and I'm looking because I'm desperate at this point, and I get all the way to W.
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And I was like, Wilde.
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How about Alicia Wilde?
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And my mother was like, I sound like a stripper.
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And I was like, it does kind of sound like a stripper a little bit, huh?
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I don't think it's a bad name.
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I like it.
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Okay.
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I do.
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I can't ever hear anything but Not what your name is.
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Which is not wild, as we know.
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So Keys came from actually a dream.
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So even better story, Keys came from a dream, a person who was working with me super closely, Michael Malden, from the beginning.
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I was in Columbia studying, and he texted me on my pager, and I go down and go to the phone.
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He was like, I just had a dream.
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I was looking for my briefcase.
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It was locked, and I couldn't find the keys in my briefcase, and I'm running around looking for the keys, looking for the keys.
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And I woke up and I thought, Alicia Keys.
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And I was like, keys.
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Keys are piano keys.
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Keys are open doors.
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Keys is the word.
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It's better than wild.
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Thank God.
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Okay, so the dictionary did not find it, but he did.
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Right, it worked out.
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Okay, I love that.
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I love that so much also it is I remember
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when I first was getting to know
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you on the scene the keys were synonymous with your playing keys on the piano
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and it made me immediately associate you with an aficionado someone who really was inextricably linked with the key yes
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and it's a perfect name and of course that came in a dream where all good things do.
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I know.
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Fizzing of dreams, and yet this one, oh, one of my favorite books, it's called Off to Sea by Richard Stein, and the last page says,
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you know, they found each other in a dream, and the dream is real.
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Ooh.
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And it makes me think of your husband, Swiss Beats.
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Yes, my baby.
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I added his full name, because I don't know him, so I was a little intimidated to say Swiss.
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It's okay.
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He wouldn't mind.
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He wouldn't even mind.
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He said Swizzy.
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Okay, so when you and Swizzy found each other, where did you guys find each other?
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Oh, my gosh.
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Well, crazily, we've actually known each other since we were both...
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I was 15 and he was 16 because we both grew up in New York City.
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And a friend of ours, a...
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Mutual?
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A mutual friend said to him,
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like, you have to meet my friend Alicia sure she's gonna blow and said to me you have to meet my friend
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Swiss he's gonna blow and we met like in the Bronx at some high school
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that he went to that I can't even remember
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because he went to high school with my friend
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and I'm visiting my friend and we met there
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and I was like very unimpressed and I was like yeah like okay
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and he always says that I look like I was like super tough
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because I had on my North Face jacket
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and very New York he was like dad was scared of her a little I don't know where you are.
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And that was the first time we met, but who would have known that now we're married for 15 years.
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15 years.
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I know.
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And what's even, to add on top of that majesty is you're raising five.
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kids parenting advice please so beautiful we love our family is
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so beautiful big love our family is a special special unit
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a beautiful creative unit all of the kids are just brilliant
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and beautiful and so unique and um it's so special because each one teaches me something completely different you
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Like the oldest shows me what's coming and he's actually here in New York.
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He just opened an exhibit at Mercer Labs with this amazing animation called One Piece.
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All the kids know
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One Piece and so you have to go to Mercer Labs.
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It's an interactive exhibition and he's curating this whole thing.
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I'm going this weekend.
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You're going to love it.
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It's so good.
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That's amazing.
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So it's beautiful.
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Having a span of ages, which you do, what advice do you have for me? because I, God, I care so much.
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I think I'm just going to carry myself to death sometimes.
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I know.
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Is there a right and a wrong way?
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How am I ever going to make it through this?
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Any parenting advice?
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Cheers. And I love it.
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I love every second of it.
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I know.
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Even the hard stuff.
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I'm like, I don't know what to do other than to just enjoy this.
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I think that's the key.
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I think, you know, you have your instinct
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and you know what you feel
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and I think we also do have to learn how to separate ourselves from them
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because I think that's a big point
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that you're bringing up like naturally we do have our own triggers
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and we do have our own histories and things
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that we're working through and and so knowing that they're
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so pure you know knowing that they are a clean slate
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and a pureness we can almost take a step
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and say hold on that's mine that's not theirs let me just take a breather
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it might be a beautiful way to just even become more conscious about the things
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that you are personally working through i think i find
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that with with our kids too it's just like these things they bring up things in you
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and you're like ah wait a minute is that is
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that me though it's probably me
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so it's a beautiful way to work through i think that's why they're the most beautiful teachers
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because they bring to light what we have to see in ourselves speaking of
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that one syllable that perfect word that you're looking for you just gave
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that to me did i you said it's mine that's mine right thank you oh i need
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that that's amazing i love that it's one word it's like
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and it's the tip of that iceberg right but it's a call sign
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that helps me acknowledge oh i'm bringing the iceberg right
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it's okay all right everything's okay disembark that's mine right i'll deal with that later i'll go handle that
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Somebody can say something literally, I talked about this earlier, that just changes your life forever as you know it.
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Thank you.
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Oh my gosh.
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Mine.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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All right, I've been pouring through this book.
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I saw Hell's Kitchen.
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It's, I love it so much.
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And having seen the play, I really, it was a real page turner.
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I looked at every single thing in it and it really does embody the experience so well and so much more.
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Why did you decide to do a book of it?
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Because I feel like this could start a movement of also,
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we love theater and we want more of it and we wanna live with the experience.
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You made a book of it and now we can have that with us.
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It's so special, thank you so much.
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I think it's very original.
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It's just so, you know, to create Hell's Kitchen took 13 years.
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It's definitely one of my greatest accomplishments in regards to bringing to life an accumulation of many things.
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My mother is the quintessential
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New York story.
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She moved from Toledo, Ohio to New York when she was 19 years old to study at NYU.
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She's the reason I was born and raised in New York.
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And she's also the reason that she exposed me to so many things.
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Look at that beautiful woman.
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She took me to all the, to as many
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Broadway plays as she could.
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We stood on the TKTKS, like, cheap ticket line, and we'd be, like, waiting for our tickets, trying to go to the shows.
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And, you know, I was able to see
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New York in a way that was really impactful with what creativity could look like.
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And so this has been her dream in so many ways, too.
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She came to New York to study acting, and she has acted her whole life, and now she's brought me into that universe.
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So to bring this
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New York story to Broadway was like a full circle moment in the most major way.
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So to capture the process, it takes so long to put.. these things together.
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13 years.
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Whoa, and now it's been on Broadway for a year and a half, so that makes it 14 and a half years.
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Tony winning, Tony winning.
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This is an absolute magnanimous compilation of the journey.
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It is the journey, it's the artist, it's the very beginning of the casting, it's the costumes, it's the hair,
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it's the lights, it's the everything in there.
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I think this could start a movement of more books about the Broadway shows that are Tony winning, that we come to love,
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that we wanna keep living with.
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This is genius.
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Thank you, thank you.
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All right, I have a game that I like to play here, if you will, it's called Memory Bank.
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And because you're in reverie of your life and Hell's Kitchen and storytelling, I thought this was a good segue for that.
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And will you play
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Memory Bank with me? Of course.
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Okay, it's Memory Bank, everybody.
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All right, so I'm gonna pull up a photo and will you tell us what your first thought is, where you are?
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All right, I am at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Bam.
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Exactly.
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I am performing my very first Unplugged album.
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MTV Unplugged?
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MTV Unplugged.
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Look at it!
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And it was like the biggest deal and the biggest thrill.
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Obviously, you know, you have Nirvana,
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you have Lauryn Hill, And then for me to be able to do my own Unplugged was this moment right here, and it was unforgettable.
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And look at that beautiful set.
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I love the floor.
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Right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And by the way, is it true
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that you're actually doing a very special pressed vinyl album and releasing it of this Unplugged session?
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This Unplugged session is now out on a brand new vinyl
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that is so gorgeous just to celebrate this moment and it is really, I mean, the album is so special.
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When I was listening to it, I'm just like, this brings back so many great memories.
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Wild Horses with Adam Levine, of cool covers that I never did before.
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This album is like really musical at its finest.
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Do you think that we should bring Unplugged back?
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I loved that series and it was, it like really meant something.
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It was really special.
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Well, thank you for bringing that back.
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And I have a feeling Unplugged is gonna take a note.
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Yes, note.
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All right, here's another photo.
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Let's see what this one is.
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Oh, is that you and Swizzy?
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Me and Swizzy!
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Actually, this is really, really amazing.
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Swizzy and I have created, we have our personal art collection, which started like a while ago,
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but this is not new.
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No, many, many, many years ago.
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So, in fact, the first time that he took me out on a date, he was late.
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Okay.
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And I was very upset.
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I was like, who does this?
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And then he brought me this bag, and inside was glasses.
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And I was like, what?
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How come you're getting me glasses when you're late?
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They were very, very, very special glasses, because he's a very fancy guy, but I was still upset.
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And on the outside of the bag was this interpretation of this artist named Erte.
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And I said, who's this?
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And he was like, oh, this is Erte.
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You don't know Erte?
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And I was like, no. And so he was like, I'm gonna introduce you to Erte.
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So I was like, okay.
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I was still a little chilly, but I started to warm up and we had a nice, you know, had a nice time.
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How late was he?
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I mean, late enough, I was busy, you know?
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You know?
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Right, right.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And so, so.
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I used to always be the late one, too, so I'm like, oh, this is what they're feeling.
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It's a thing.
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I'm not the best either, so I can't be too mad.
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But anyway, it's for the sake of the story.
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It really works, you know?
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So then, the next time we get together, we drive down to this place, and it's kind of like, kind of downtown, like around here,
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and it's like, kind of blacked out, and I didn't know what was going on, and we walk in.
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And he had asked our dear friend, David Rogath, who owns a gallery,
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to bring all of Erte's work to one place so that I, he could introduce me to Erte.
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Wow, that's a move.
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So that was like the...
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And I was definitely didn't know Erte before that moment, and it was the most thoughtful, beautiful, kind, over -the -top,
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like, loving thing anybody had ever done to me.
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He got a chef to make all vegan food, because, you know, I only am pescatarian.
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And it was like...
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I couldn't even believe what was going on.
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So that was our first date.
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And fast forward to our collection, because he loves art and we love art
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and we love supporting living artists and artists of color and really being a championship for really putting out there
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the genius and the giants that we all are, collectively, creatively, particularly artists.
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And everything from a Gordon Parks to someone you may not have heard of, and you're introducing people, and that's this collection.
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And now it's in a museum.
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And so it started at the Brooklyn Museum, was the first place that we did.
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That's incredible.
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And it's the largest individual, largest owned collection of individuals, not owned by an institution.
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And then it went to the High Museum in Atlanta, and then it went to Minneapolis,
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and now it's opening at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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Oh, my gosh. In November.
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So this, it's a big deal.
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It's a really special commemoration of what we care about and love, and we're really proud of this.
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Did you ever think, like, you know, when you're coming up in New York, you're watching your mom, you're standing on those lines for tickets,
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you don't know where your life is going.
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Mm -mm.
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Did you ever see this?
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Mm -mm.
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Mm -mm.
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Nope.
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And now that you do, what do you think?
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Um, man, um, I think that I'm so grateful.
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I'm super, super humbled.
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And I'm particularly excited by the fact that there truly is no limits to us.
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We actually don't have any limits.
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And I think a lot of times in our life, we're given limits we're given this idea that we have a ceiling,
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and I truly see now that there is no ceiling.
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And as long as we can be brave enough to try, no matter what, and we're gonna fall, and it's not gonna go right,
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and everything's not gonna be perfect, but we're gonna get up, and we're gonna try again, and we're gonna not forget our dreams.
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And no matter what age, we're not gonna forget.
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And that's how I feel.
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Well, I love all things beauty.
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And to me, you are very synonymous with me in my mind of a healthy approach to beauty.
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I love that.
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You have been someone that I've really admired
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because I've wanted to be comfortable in my skin no matter what that looks like.
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You know, I've fluctuated in weight.
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Um, I was a child performer who, like, at one point was getting,
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like, you know, very strange thoughts and feelings told to me, like, well, you know, you're too young, or you're too big, or you're this,
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and I, you know, growing up, growing up is so awkward for people anyway, and then, you know, sometimes the beauty world,
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I think, can be a little impossible standard.
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Totally impossible.
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I think people have chipped away at that and actually been the cause of change because I think you've put such positive,
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empowering, natural, be yourself, put yourself out there, confident, again, very un -toxic,
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healthy, appropriate, good messages that you give to people.
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I love that.
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Through the way you carry yourself through the world.
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And so now you have
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Key's Soul Care.
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Yes.
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Which I have been, live this beautiful line of products, which I have been pouring through.
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Thank you.
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I love to test and get in there.
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It's fun.
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You have these amazing highlighters, actually, that are illuminating.
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Illuminating serum.
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And if they're a serum.
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Oh my gosh.
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I love them.
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And they're so good for you, too.
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I've never seen anything like that.
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I love it, too.
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I've never seen a serum that's also a highlighter.
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Yeah, isn't that special?
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In fact, today, we put it just on my face first and then, because it can be used as a primer
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it can be used by itself
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it has three different shades all inspired by crystals moonstone golden bronze a little pinky tone oh it's
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so it's so beautiful it's great for all skin tones it's
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so special it's purposefully made to one fill your soul because the idea is how can we create rituals
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in moments you know i think a lot of us are looking for meaning we're looking for purpose
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We're looking for, like, what fills us up?
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How do we find that place where we don't feel so empty?
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And so, for me, through meditation or through affirmations,
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there's this kind of solidifying or ability to find strength in yourself.
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instead of looking for it everywhere else.
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And so each bottle has an affirmation on it.
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I've never seen the messaging right there on the bottle.
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It's very intentional.
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Yes, it is.
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This is the kind of storytelling with beauty that only you can do.
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So it didn't surprise me that I'm reading the bottle with my glasses on and really taking it in.
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The idea is like, okay, everyone washes their face, hopefully, if you don't, please do.
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But you wash your face and you have, you know, the three minutes before you,
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you know, You know, you're rushing to get the kids and you got to get up.
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You know, I have my son, he plays basketball.
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I have to wake him up at 5 .30 for the 6 .30 practice.
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Ah!
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So you're trying to, like, you're washing your face with the golden cleanser.
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The golden cleanser has turmeric, it has manuka honey, it has chamomile, it's calming, it's relaxing.
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It smells like sage and oat milk.
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It has a beautiful scent.
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It relaxes you and the affirmation is I'm devoted to this moment.
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So you can wash your face and you can kind of say, like, wait, I'm just present.
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I'm right here, I'm right now, and it's for me.
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It's a special part of it.
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It really doesn't surprise you.
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Actually, we wanted to give someone a little mini glow up to a special audience member
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and actually happens to be one of your biggest fans and the music teacher, Nicole.
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Where are you?
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How are you?
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How are you?
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Hi, guys.
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How are you?
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Nicole, you're so gorgeous.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much.
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I love you.
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Good to see you.
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You have been teaching for 24 years, Yes.
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Wow.
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Oh, my gosh.
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You're a gift.
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Thank you.
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And this pink is everything.
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So you want to get a little bit of a glow up.
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I can't talk to her.
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Sure.
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Why not?
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Oh, my...
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You're already glowing, so...
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Aw, thank you.
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You know, you're already a queen.
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What would you suggest from the line?
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Well, actually, what I'd like to start with is the candle.
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And this is...
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I like to create these little mini rituals like we were talking about.
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It's kind of like modern science meets ancient rituals because I really believe in rituals.
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And so if you were at home, you could light the candle.
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And I like to just do a deep inhale.
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Exhale.
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I just like to release all the things.
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And I would create an affirmation for the moment.
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So say for you just today, my affirmation is, I am a glowing goddess.
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Okay.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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Do you know that?
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I know that.
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Okay, I know that.
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
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Good for you.
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Yes.
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So I am a glowing goddess is what we're going to hold inside of us for the whole day.
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You light your candle.
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You know, you can put it on the top of your vanity, wherever you might be.
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You know, just kind of let the I am a glowing goddess energy permeate.
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First, I want to just show you, like, on the back of your hands.
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Like, it's just super beautiful, and it just feels.
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And then it just becomes, you know, it just has this glowing, look at that.
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Hydrating.
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Look at how that hands.
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It's illuminating.
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and it's really, really beautiful.
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All right, so should we put a little on your face?
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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Jira, you want to do it?
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Sure.
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And hands are perfect, by the way.
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Mm -hmm.
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Ooh, look at that.
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Your skin is already glowing more.
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It's so true.
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Like we're all touching her mouth.
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By the way, your skin is so beautiful.
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Thank you.
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This is stunning.
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Look at this.
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It is glowing.
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It can go on the lids of the eyes.
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The lids tell a lot of story.
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Okay, so now you have...
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And this has niacinamide, something that's gonna be gentle on your skin.
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And when was the last time you took a moment for yourself, by the way?
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I can't remember.
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I know.
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Well, now you can get your candle, set aside a minute.
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By the way, what grade do you teach?
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Well, I have middle school now.
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Oh, my God, I have two girls in middle school.
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Any advice?
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Well, in middle school, the trend that's going on now is everything is 6 '7".
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Oh, my God, what is the 6 '7"?
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Where did it start?
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I can't believe we're talking about 6 -7 right now.
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Everywhere.
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Everywhere.
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What is it?
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I still don't understand what it is.
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Some guy on TikTok started it.
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Now we all say it, myself included.
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I'm literally sucked in.
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Yeah, 6 -7.
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And I don't know what it means.
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But yeah, you're right.
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They're all doing it.
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And by the way, whenever, because I get dressed up and made up at work, I just give up in real life
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I really look like I just have given up on living at least my daughters
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and definitely I mean
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I do I see what they're saying like they're like are you coming to the school thing like that
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and I'm in like my big hat my dumpy sweat pants and my vintage t -shirt I'm like why
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but I just have to say like I really think that what you're introducing here is also the notion of
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A few minutes of investment can pick us up so much.
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Whenever I just do a little something, something, I'm like, why don't I do this every day?
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It made me feel so much better about myself.
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And now I'm not mentally scratching away that I don't feel attractive.
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That investment really does pay off.
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You, by the way, you look so money right now.
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And it's so simple.
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You see how it's light?
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But it's so beautiful.
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A little bit open right there.
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Chef Fitz, you look so beautiful, I put myself first, I put myself first,
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don't forget that, it's important,
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alright, well the good news is everybody can put themselves first because we actually heard that your school needs supplies,
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and so we want to donate $5 ,000 and I'm going to match that, so that's another $5 ,000.
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Oh, my God, that's $15 ,000!
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Oh, my gosh.
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Oh, my gosh!
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Because we just want to support everything that you're doing.
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Thank you so much.
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Yes, they're in need.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Also, a little something for you, because if you put yourself first, that is donating to you and your class,
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but for you, Colette is actually wanting to send, and I love this travel company because they have the most chic, luxury accommodations.
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I'm not kidding.
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They want to send you and your husband on a 16 -day
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Wonders of Thailand tour, starting in Bangkok.
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How does that sound?
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Oh my God.
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Oh my God.
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And by the way, everybody, put yourself first.
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Probably in the moment it is hardest to even fathom doing so when you have so much going on.
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Special ritual.
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And everyone in our studio audience is going to go home with items from from Keys Soul Care, and Alicia's book, House Kitchen, Behind the Dream.
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And everybody can just be communal in this experience.
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Thank you, thank you for doing everything you do.
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Thank you for doing everything you do.
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This is so good.
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And we'll be right back, everybody.
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Thank you for the show.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Alicia Keys on How She First Met Her Now-Husband in High School”. Este vídeo tiene 513 frases y 4497 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 26:52. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 167 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| glow verbo | /ɡloʊ/ | fulgir, fulgurar |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | Dios mío, caramba |
| dictionary sustantivo | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | diccionario, tumbaburros |
| ritual sustantivo | /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/ | ritual |
| introduce verbo | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | presentar |
| candle sustantivo | /ˈkæn.dəl/ | vela, candela |
| goddess sustantivo | /ˈɡɑdəs/ | dea, diosa |
| serum sustantivo | /ˈsɪɹəm/ | suero |
| tone sustantivo | /ˈtəʊn/ | tono |
| wash verbo | /wɑʃ/ | lavar |
| gorgeous adjetivo | /ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/ | guapísimo, hermosísimo |
| genius sustantivo | /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ | genio, genia |
| desperate adjetivo | /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/ | desesperado, que necesita desesperadamente |
| piano sustantivo | /piˈænɪː/ | piano |
| relax verbo | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | relajar, aflojar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| bring up verbo | levantar, alzar | |
| get up verbo | levantarse | |
| grow up verbo | crecer | |
| dress up verbo | vestirse de gala, ponerse elegante | |
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar | |
| get together verbo | reunir, juntar | |
| look up verbo | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | mejorar |
| pay off verbo | valer la pena, salir a cuenta |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Is this how you found your name, though?
- You know what I mean?
- How come you're getting me glasses when you're late?
- We're looking for, like, what fills us up?
- You see how it's light?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa | I've been pouring · have been pouring · have been teaching |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | we've actually known · has been · has acted |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was born · was locked · was inextricably linked |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | story, which is · person who was · someone who really |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 147 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, theirs /ðɛɚz/, thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/, thrill /θɹɪl/, breather /ˈbɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, wash /wɑʃ/, chef /ʃɛf/, rush /ɹʌʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, institution /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, exhibition /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spin /spɪn/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/, sweat /swɛt/, stripper /stɹɪpɚ/, stun /stʌn/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vinyl /ˈvaɪ.nɪl/, brave /bɹeɪv/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, vintage /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/, interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: bronze /bɹɑnz/, regards /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdz/, exhibit /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/, cheers /t͡ʃɪəz/, theirs /ðɛɚz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como glow, gosh, dictionary.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.