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Hi guys, it's Sid.

Things are really advancing over here with the microphone.

You know, I got an increase in budget this last quarter.

No, I actually just pulled this from my Omegle days.

We're not even gonna talk about it.

I just wanted to chat and give advice that to be honest, I have no qualifications of giving.

I will say, I do think I give pretty good advice.

My friends say that I give good advice.

It's been like a year.

I think since I did one of these

So I went on my instagram story.

I asked you guys what you need advice on I struggle

so much with procrastination and later I end up feeling so horrible about it

That's so funny because I was going to procrastinate filming this video

because it's 11 p .m

And I was tired then I was about to get ready for bed

and I was like I can't go to bed feeling like this

because I didn't get done what I said I was gonna get done

If you procrastinate, it's prioritizing how you feel in the moment

and feeling worse later versus if you get it done right away and don't procrastinate, you feel worse in the moment, better later.

How to stop comparing other people close to you getting engaged or in a relationship.

This really hits home to me because I went through a breakup a couple months ago.

One of the hardest parts I think of it

when I was deeper in the trenches was just seeing all of these engagement posts all over Instagram.

It almost felt like once I went through the breakup, suddenly I was hyper aware of seeing everyone's engagement posts and wedding posts.

I think in terms of social media, if you're struggling, maybe just like limit it or get off of it for a bit.

But if it's people close to you who are getting engaged, I think really like your close friends getting engaged is such an exciting time.

Hopefully you can almost use it as like your hope and like motivation for what you want in the future.

Focus on their happiness and like take it away from yourself and like realize they can be happy and engaged.

Your friends can be having these milestones

and you can also still feel sad about maybe like going through a breakup or being single.

And knowing that your time will come.

Everyone just has different timelines and you can't even begin to compare.

Do you think two people can be right for each other but meet at the wrong time in their lives?

Personally, I believe right person wrong time can definitely be a thing.

I do think though sometimes we believe too much in the

right person wrong time thing to the point where we think

that person is perfect for us but it's just the wrong time

when maybe the person themselves actually isn't your person and they're like is never a right time.

I think holding on to hope in those situations where you think

that there's going to be a right time in the future is really detrimental

when it comes to breakups because you're just like delaying your healing process.

I don't think for me at least I could not fully grieve a breakup

if in the back of my mind I'm thinking maybe there is a right time with that person down the road.

And having this like glimmer of hope I think would just like set me back a lot.

I'm in a situation in which either I have to leave my friends or build my career.

Which should I choose? obviously I don't know the details here

but I would assume

that means you're moving away from your friends in order to like get a certain job opportunity

and in my opinion

that shouldn't mean losing your friends ironically one of my best friends you guys know Rachel

when I moved away from home at 18

we became even closer after moving far apart I think we just had

so much more to talk about

and like catch up on what has happened in our lives

and it really like makes us value our FaceTime calls

and like when we hang out in person so much more than before.

When you stick with a friend too like that, I feel like it just builds such a special friendship because as you get older,

friendships I think do take work.

You do have to put in effort for adult friendships more.

Having friends that can put in effort from afar, even if it's just like FaceTiming every now and then,

catching up on a phone call here and there, I think the people that are really your true friends would stick by you through it

and would probably encourage you and support you to go after this like new career.

I don't think you have to sacrifice one or the other.

How do I not lose myself in a relationship?

For me, it's important to just always have my independent hobbies, my independent friends, and my independent career.

I feel like having those things

and having your own identity still in those things is what

helps me to not lose myself in a relationship getting over a breakup please breakups suck

there's like no way to say

that they don't suck i think my best advice is firstly just going in no contact

i know this is like basics and everyone says this

but i don't think it's possible to get over someone

if you're still talking to them i would say that

and also during the sad times remembering the reason

or reasons why it ended and also I would just say letting yourself be sad

because it is like a loss it's like losing someone

so important in your life and allowing yourself to just grieve it

and move through it and then move on finding a balanced and healthy relationship with food and movement

As I've gotten older and sometimes maybe as I start to compare those things, I just stop and remember.

I know my body better than anybody else does.

One size is not fits all for what you eat, how you work out.

Like for me, I hate running.

Okay, I'm sorry to all the runners out there.

Walking only.

But I love Pilates and I love one of these workout cardio classes near me.

I do those things because that's what I like.

So you just have to find like what you enjoy because that's also what's going to make it sustainable.

If you're doing something you hate just because your friend is doing it, it's not going to work or last.

How to feel at peace internally.

I feel like I'm always looking for change or improvement.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking I'll be happy once I achieve this or I'll be happy once I accomplish this goal.

And that is such a sad way to live

because then you're basically saying that you're not allowed to be content in the moment.

Sometimes I just really don't appreciate all of the blessings that I have.

Sometimes it just takes me like writing down three things a day,

what I'm grateful for, to really be more present and realize I have beyond everything I could have ever dreamed.

How are you able to handle missing your family when you went to college?

I was not good at this and I'm honestly still not good at this.

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Like I just got home from Minnesota yesterday and I was so sad last night going to bed because I missed them.

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I think things shifted for me when I realized I'm so lucky to feel like I miss my family.

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So many people don't miss their family because they don't have a good relationship with them.

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And how lucky am I to have such an amazing family and relationship with my family to miss them?

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More reasonably, to your question, planning trips and having trips pre -planned.

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So like when I leave them, I know when I'm going to see them next.

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Exactly.

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Found out my boyfriend lied about something small.

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What do I do help?

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From my experience, you have to communicate everything thing.

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Small things lead into big things if you don't address it right away and brush it under the rug.

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I just think you need to have an open honest conversation about how you're feeling before things snowball.

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How do you feel about friendships where you drift apart?

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I think we actually kind of need to normalize it.

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Not that it's a great thing.

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I think it can be seen as very sad

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but I think sometimes we just outgrow people

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and like sometimes nobody does anything wrong but there have been a few people

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that I was friends with years ago and I'm not as close with anymore

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and like nothing really happened like no one did anything wrong

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but we just didn't really click anymore and I think it's something

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that you kind of see slowly over time

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that one of you is growing in one direction

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and the other person's kind of going another it can be really sad to grieve a friendship

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that you had with them but that's

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when I just try to value the time that we had together

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and appreciate all the good memories and the relationship

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that I had with them because they like helped form me into the person that I am today.

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They were maybe just in my life for a season.

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Does it truly get better after high school?

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High school for me was the worst four years of my life and it has gotten unimaginably better.

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If you're going through a tough time and you're in high school, just hang on.

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It gets better.

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I have trust issues and it makes everything so hard in life.

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Like I can't even trust my own mom.

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I think you just really need to learn yourself and find the root of that to like discover why, why you feel that way.

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And I'm sure there's a good reason.

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I'm sure someone probably disappointed you in the past and that's horrible, but it's about understanding it and realizing that just because one person did it,

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not everybody is going to betray you because you don't want to be tainted forever.

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And you want to be able to trust people again, just the right people.

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How to start enjoying your own company.

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I think you have to almost treat sometimes your time alone as a date.

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Why are we not getting dressed to go out to dinner for ourselves?

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So I just started doing that, you know?

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I was like, wait, why don't I take myself to dinner?

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Who am I waiting for?

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I think there's such a sense of empowerment that comes with that.

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It's so empowering to realize that you can give yourself all the things that you want.

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I think it makes the time with yourself even more enjoyable.

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How How to make friends in a big city.

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Moving to New York was really tough for me.

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I would say around the six month mark, I almost backed out.

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I almost broke my lease.

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I was really struggling because I moved here knowing zero people and I'm not exaggerating, zero.

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I really went in completely cold.

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I lived alone.

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I just tried to put myself out there a lot.

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And I think it's kind of like dating.

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You kind of have to meet a few people, see who you mesh with, see who you don't.

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I remember meeting so many people and I would just ask them, hey, do you want to get coffee next week?

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You know, I just moved here.

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And a lot of the times people were more receptive than I anticipated.

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I think we underestimate how other people are also probably maybe feeling lonely and also looking for friends.

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Sometimes all it takes is just putting yourself out there and someone might be just as receptive.

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What other self -care activities do you do to keep yourself well besides journaling and exercising?

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Hanging out with my friends is a big one.

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FaceTiming my family always makes me so happy.

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I love getting massages.

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It's like my guilty pleasure.

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I do spend a lot of my money on that.

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Oh, I also love facials.

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How do you navigate a relationship without seeing it as a threat to your independence?

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I think if you're with the right person, it won't seem like there is any threat to your independence.

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Obviously, just being aware to keep your own hobbies and keep your own friends and relationships with your family,

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making sure that those are still just as much of a priority and your career.

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Don't forget about those things, especially in the beginning of a relationship when the honeymoon stage is there

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because you don't want to lose friendships over dating someone and you shouldn't have to sacrifice that.

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So this is so interesting.

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Is maturing mentally a subconscious phenomenon as you grow or an active choice?

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I think it's both.

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I don't think it's just one or the other.

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I do think there's truth, of course, to your brain.

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Scientifically developing as you grow into your mid -20s and late -20s, I totally felt that shift when I turned 25.

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And people around me would say, when you turn 25, you're going to feel like everything just clicks and you see the world differently.

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And I don't know a specific moment win, but it really just showed me that a lot of my problems really don't matter.

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And it really made me see what's truly important

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and not just these like minuscule little things that I thought were so important.

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So it really put things into perspective for me.

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Aside from the science of your brain maturing, I do think there is a choice involved

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and I do think it's mature to take time to self -reflect on maybe mistakes you make

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and what you want for your life, where you're headed.

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So financial advice, how to earn more money and how to manage your money.

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This is a great question.

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And I don't really talk about finances very often on here.

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From my experience, my parents always encouraged me to start saving at an early age.

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I am in a very fortunate position where I started my career super young.

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I was like 15, 14, 13.

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I don't know.

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But ever since I started making money at a really young age doing YouTube, I just saved.

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And my parents set me up with a financial advisor who helped me from a young age start saving for retirement.

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There's obviously rules in how much you can allocate each year and things.

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There's so many different investment funds and stocks and portfolios and things that you can invest in.

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I'm not an expert on that.

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So I decided to hand that off to someone who I believe is the expert

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and helps me and guides me with my money.

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So, I mean, if that's something you're really interested in and passionate about, I think investing is a very smart thing to do,

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especially when you're young.

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No matter what the amount is, big or small, investing and saving for your future if you're able to do it.

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I feel so lucky and privileged, of course, to have been able to do this.

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So I do just want to stress that any amount

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that you can save and even just put in an account

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that builds interest versus sitting in an account that doesn't build interest is very smart.

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How to have a really good relationship with food.

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Some of you guys know I had ORFID, an eating disorder, a few years ago.

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Very hard time of my life.

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I went to treatment for it and I am like fully on the other side now.

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Looking back, I cannot believe that I went through that and how much has drastically changed in my life since then.

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That's definitely a loaded question and something that you need to really work on within yourself.

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And I think sometimes professional treatments, if they're accessible, are the best for that.

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So I guess instead of answering how to have a good relationship with food, I'm more coming at it from the stance that it is possible.

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And I just saw this and I just wanted to answer this

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because I just wanted to give people hope

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because I remember being at the depths of this eating disorder

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and feeling like I'm never going to be able to eat normally ever again.

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And for a long time, it really felt like that.

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And coming out on the other end now, after years and hard work, I feel like I've not even thought about those things in years.

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I guess I saw this and I just wanted to get people.

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Hope

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that it is possible how to stay consistent in reading my

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bible for me something as simple as like literally just having it on my nightstand has helped

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if i find it's like tucked underneath my desk in a drawer very deep

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i will not read it as much

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so i've tried to like just keep it really conveniently placed

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and to be honest that has helped a lot

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so maybe maybe that'll help help you too okay guys

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i think that's everything i have for today we are at 57 minutes

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so it's going to be a long one to edit for me tomorrow.

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Definitely take this with a grain of salt.

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I am no expert, but I did just want to give my two cents and chat with you guys.

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Love you so much.

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Stay on the lookout.

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I have some really fun videos coming soon.

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I'll see you in my next video.

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Bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “giving advice i probably need to take”. This video has 243 sentences and 3009 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:01. The speaker talks fast, about 200 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
breakup noun	/ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/	The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
friendship noun	/ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/	The condition of being friends.
engage verb	/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/	To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
compare verb	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
invest verb	/ɪnˈvɛst/	To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
mature adjective	/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/	Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
encourage verb	/ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/	To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
horrible adjective	/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/	Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
suck verb	/sʌk/	To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
versus	/ˈvɝsəs/	Against; in opposition to.
disorder noun	/dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/	Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
engagement noun	/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/	An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
sacrifice noun	/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/	Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
hobby noun	/ˈhɑ.bi/	An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
consistent adjective	/kənˈsɪs.tənt/	Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
get over verb		To overcome.
back out verb		To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
drift apart verb		To lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
look back verb		To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight).
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

We're not even gonna talk about it.
How do I not lose myself in a relationship?
What do I do help?
I was like, wait, why don't I take myself to dinner?
Who am I waiting for?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	It's been · has happened · I've gotten
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	can be seen · be tainted
Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form	stop comparing · hate running · start enjoying
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the hardest · my best · the worst

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 73 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
Long words — get the stress right: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like breakup, friendship, engage.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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