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Guys, it is official.

I am moving to London.

I am so excited to move.

I don't know why I'm...

Guys, will I even upload this video?

This seems like a really dramatic thing to make a video about.

But, someone who has quit her job, started a business, business has gone well, not gone so well, turned around, is doing pretty well again.

I feel like it's a pretty big achievement to be finally saying

that I'm moving out on my own

if you would have watched my I quit my job as a doctor video you guys will know

that it's been a big dream of mine to move to London for a while

when I was working as a doctor there was a couple of ways

I could have moved to London as a doctor however

so much of

that process is actually outside of your control some parts of the process come down to my exam scores

and how well I do my exam

but some parts it's literally like rolling a dice like there's no there's no strategy

or intelligence that goes into it I didn't really like the fact

that I would put my whole entire future

and where I live in the hands of luck

and it could have gone well it could have gone well

that I moved to London

or it could have gone I ended up in the middle of nowhere

and as someone who lives in the middle of nowhere

now I think I've had my fair share of nowhere I finally want to move somewhere hey

if you're new I'm Christina I quit my job as a doctor nine months ago now

because I wanted to build a life with more meaning I was working a job

that made me quite unhappy and quite miserable despite the fact

that I loved helping people

and I love to work hard

I just felt like I was working in a career where I had no reward all

I was doing was sacrificing giving up so much of my time energy

and peace and I felt like I just wanted to have more back

because I believe we all deserve to be happy

so I decided to take things into my own hands

if I'm not happy let me at least construct a life

that I would be happy in quit my job started a business

and things have been going up and down

but now pretty well ever since

and now I'm officially taking the leap to move to London guys I'm moving out

if you don't already know what I thought I'd what I thought

I'd do is split up this video into why I'm moving what I'm excited about what I'm nervous about

and what some of my goals are for London

because I do have some pretty big goals of what I'd like to do

when I'm there you might be wondering why are you moving why am I moving do you know what

because there's nothing wrong with where I live now yes

I live in the middle of nowhere yes there's not too much going on where I live

and as a 25 year old

very much ambivert I feel like an introvert

I also feel like an extrovert I just feel like where I live right

now the average age of the people on my street as I look outside probably about 40

which is okay there's a lot of families here a lot of young kids

and a lot of older people as well

I I just would love to live in like a city for a

while like even if it's just for a couple of years

I told my mom I've told my dad

I told my stepdad like I think

I'll probably move to London for like six to twelve months

that's my plan I don't really know what will happen after

that like whether I'll stay whether I'll come back I don't know

I would just like to move somewhere where there's a lot more going on a bit of a social life

I can walk outside my house and like go for a coffee like right now

if I want to go for a coffee

if I even want to just go to the supermarket

I have to get on like the motorway

I have to go on the dual carriageway to get to Asda like there's genuinely nothing in this town

and I don't mean that in a bad way at all it just it's very very remote

and I think it's good for families

but I'm not a family I'm a young girl who wants to see the world

so I'm excited to move for a

while as well it's made me feel a little bit I don't want to say behind

because I very much feel like I'm where I need to

be living at home has been really good for me

because I'm literally best friends with my mum like living at home has never been like I'm behind

or I'm not where I should be like I feel pretty good about it

because I feel like I live with my best friend

but there has been recent things where I'm like you know you're nearly 26

and like you're getting older now like there's been couples

there's been like maybe once every two weeks it pops into my head

that like you're still living at home and it's not bad at all

because if I had a friend who was nearly 26 I would reassure them

that like what you stress about like live for at home for as long as you need to

but that little thought in the back of my mind has been pretty active

and I don't even see it as a negative because I'm someone

that I think I do need a little bit of healthy pressure

I'm not talking like NHS burnout level pressure

I just need a little bit of like you know a

bit of a I need to be outside my comfort zone

a little bit to feel like I can take things to the next step

and I was looking at the numbers on my business

and whether or not I can move

and like pay myself enough to move basically because the business is fine

but it's like whether or not I can take enough money out of it

because I want to do all the things properly

and I don't want HMRC coming for me

so I have a meeting with my accountant very soon to talk about it in detail

but I'm pretty sure I can move out I'm pretty sure

I can move out I don't think

I need to make wildly more amounts of money maybe like one more client

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and then I'd be able to comfortably comfortably move but I feel like I'm ready to move and it just

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if I feel ready if I feel the urge

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if I feel like it would give me a healthy amount of pressure

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I feel like it's just the right next step to take

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okay let me tell you what I'm excited about I'm very much excited to be in a bit more of a busy...

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busy city with stuff going on people to see things to

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do places to eat new things to try experiences to go after places to travel to london has the eurostar

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i'm so excited to get the eurostar me

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and my mum have been saying for a couple of years

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now we'd love to get the train from london to paris even just saying

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that in a sentence train from london to paris sounds

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so cool would love to go with the fact

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that you've got you've got four different airports in london or

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if not five like traveling traveling is fine where i live

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but it would just be even easier in london I'm

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so excited to see more of the world

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and I think I said this on TikTok

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but I'll say it again here on YouTube guys I see a lot of those AI headlines

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and I talk to you guys a lot about it in person as well every single time

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I've been a meet up recently

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I've gone a little bit tin hat on AI like guys AI is going to come in like an alive

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or sore like count your days it's not we've not gone long like I am

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that crazy woman that's like panics by AI or not panics but weirdly

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seeing some of these headlines around AI might be responsible for

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human extinction in the next 10 years is a crazy headline

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but for me as someone who is a bit of a workaholic

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and can be tunnel vision on work it actually gives me a bit of reassurance to know

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that well because you know what if you don't even have what

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if you don't have as long as you think what

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if you actually have a lot shorter shorter time than you think why not live your life

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it's weirdly given me a bit of reassurance

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and permission to relax a little bit

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that we might not have long we might not have long

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and maybe I'm wrong maybe all the headlines are wrong maybe AI will be fine with us maybe

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it won't come for us all the headlines aren't looking likely

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but if so then at least I got to enjoy a couple of years

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because I feel like the way I approach work now isn't the healthiest I work too much

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and I don't really know how to enjoy myself like you could literally clear my calendar for the evening

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I would accidentally trip and fall into my laptop

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and start writing emails like it's actually not okay part of why I want to move to London as well

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it's a very busy city with a lot of young hard -working people

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but there's also the flip side to London where there's absolutely

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a lot of people having fun doing cool things trying new things

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and I think being in an environment where a lot of people are like me young

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and hard -working

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and in different careers I think it'll be quite nice to be surrounded by the same like -minded people

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and I know a bunch of you guys live in London especially

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when I don't whenever I do my community event that's something

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I'm excited for as well oh my gosh every single time I've done a community event

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so far they've always been in London guys the wait list for

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that is that like it's nearly 400 people that's crazy

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that like nearly 400 of you guys would want like to meet up

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and meet like many people

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but anyway the London one is neat is really it's a lot the Manchester one is very small

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but I'll link below both like

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if you would like to meet up with some very cool people in London I look forward to these events

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so much like you i know you guys enjoy them too

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but it's something that i literally look forward to in my calendar to meet you guys um

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and to see you guys all making connections

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but the manchester one is very small i think it's literally under 10 people

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so if you're a northern girly i'm a northern girly for now let me know

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if you would like to meet up in manchester

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because i'm gonna create a manchester one that'll be linked down below

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i'm excited to network more i am i guys i am a LinkedIn baddie like

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when it comes to LinkedIn I don't play you guys

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if you guys have downloaded my LinkedIn accelerator comment down below I don't play

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when it comes to LinkedIn LinkedIn has genuinely changed my life

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I'm not even being dramatic YouTube has changed my life clearly

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but so has LinkedIn I'm so passionate about LinkedIn because simply

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if you're someone that's unhappy in your job

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you need to be on LinkedIn maybe you're thinking of a career pivot maybe you want to pivot

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but don't even know where to start

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or you just kind of want to make some extra money on the side using the skills

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that you already have without spending hours coming on camera

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and posting online you need to be on linkedin i'm on a mission to make hundreds

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if not thousands of you guys become linkedin baddies

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because linkedin will change your life trust me

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it's a lot easier than you think you probably only need three hours a week to take linkedin seriously and

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if you don't even know where to start

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i put everything down below in the linkedin accelerator i'll put a link down below for you guys it's something

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that i've made myself it's kind of been like a bit of a passion project

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that i've done over the last few weeks even jumping on calls with you guys

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and learning more about you

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and your industries from HR to finance to a couple of

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you guys medical like it's been really cool to learn from you everything

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that you need to kind of take the link seriously

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and be more visible I put into the program

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and I'm doing a special discount for the first 100 people I'm going to give you guys 50 % off

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that is no small discount

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if you definitely want to grab the LinkedIn accelerator I'll have it linked down below for you guys

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and make sure you grab

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it sooner rather than later first 100 people moving to London is no easy feat

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I am very much nervous about i think the main thing

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i'm nervous about is two things one is the cost

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i understand london expensive city i think it's up

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there with new york i've seen the rent prices

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i'm browsing pretty much every week it's an expensive city i'm nervous about

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that but then it's also again a skill i don't have i'm so frugal frugal almost to a fault notes.

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I'm so, so frugal.

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It's actually, I think, a little bit of an issue because, again, like I'll work so hard and I won't treat myself

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and I'll just keep working hard and then I won't treat myself.

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I almost invite burnout sooner than is necessary because I don't give myself a chance to rest.

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So I think moving to London where things are more expensive and there's a lot going on,

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I think I will be forced to socialise more and I will have to spend,

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which I think is a good thing because I physically can't spend

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so it'll force me to learn how to spend

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but hopefully with the fact

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that I naturally am a budgeter like I naturally track things

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I've got a bunch of budgeting apps one of the ones

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I think I recommended to you guys ages ago was snoop it's free it tracks everything

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that you spend you can see how much you spend on groceries on parking on transport

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and at a glance every month you can see where your money goes

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so I'm naturally a budgeter

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so I don't I don't think money will be flying out of my account

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but at the same time I am excited to learn the skill of like enjoying myself

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because I physically I struggle to do

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that now I'm excited to learn how to do that

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but I'm nervous yeah the first one is kind of finances we'll see how

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that goes the second one the first one is finances

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but also I've got to mention I'm planning I'm thinking of selling my car

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so my car she's not you know a flashy fancy car at all

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I actually made a video about my car years ago

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this was back in my uni days it's just a car

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that is 10 years 11 years old now I think

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I'd maybe get four thousand pounds for it maybe five thousand

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if I was lucky I'm planning to sell my car

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because in London you don't really need a car

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it's kind of like one of those cities where the transport is pretty good

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so you don't need a car and

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if anything the traffic would probably be quite bad in London

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so I'm thinking of selling my car when I move so

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that money that I get from the car will almost act as a little savings pot

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that I can just have on the side so that's my plan

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so I'm not too worried I suppose about the finances we'll see how things go

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but what I am worried about is also the social side crazy how that's something I'm excited for

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but it's also something I'm nervous about I have a couple friends who already live in London

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and they constantly say how London is a lonely city

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which sounds crazy because it's like I thought there's

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so much to do see that never sleeps so much to do

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so many people to see but the the things I hear about London is that people

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often don't want to go outside because things are

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so expensive like you get on the tube it's five pounds gone

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you get a drink 12 pounds gone like I I get the thing I get the vibe

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that things rack up quickly

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and even whenever I'm there for like a weekend it does get expensive quick

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but I think one of my close friends I was talking to she lives in London now we were saying

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that when I moved down we definitely like see each other

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and like grab coffee and have like more night in I think I think things get expensive

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when you often go out for food brunch dinner drinks

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and I I don't mind a drink I don't mind brunch

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but I definitely would prefer actually like a more homely vibe

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like seeing friends at home having a board games night

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or like a dinner night in I prefer that

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so we'll see how that goes plus often I think people go wrong

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when they move to London is they maybe get a good flat that's a good price further out

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but actually you definitely want to be closer to friends so it's why I'm really hell bent on like

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South London

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because all my friends are there like I don't I don't know I know one person in North London

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but besides that all my friends are in South

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so I'm very much like okay

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I need to be where my friends are at my family's in South London

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they're in Kent like I just need to be where the people I know are

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so hopefully those are the two things I'm nervous about

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and I've kind of got a plan for both sell my car move to South London so hopefully that

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That will mean that things will be okay.

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I actually need to stay on top of this so that I'm good at my job.

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So I'm excited to stay dialed in to the industry by being at the epicenter of the industry.

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And that kind of brings me on to one of my goals.

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I have been so proud of myself in the last few months that my clients all, you know, I've got quite a few.

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I say I've got five core clients.

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The results that they've had have been amazing.

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Like one of my clients is a career coach

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and we started together zero subscribers right we got her to at 400 subscribers

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she closed ten thousand dollars in sales from her youtube videos

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that we planned together put together like she's smashing

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it one of my clients is a fitness coach she is again

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we started together from zero on average guys

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i'll tell you this it takes 12 months on youtube to reach a thousand subscribers that's on average she achieved

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that in three months four times faster than average

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and she's booking up

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so many calls in her calendar

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she literally booked six calls last week for like high ticket

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clients she's already made three thousand dollars from youtube in like

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such a small amount of time like she's getting some amazing results

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and like all my clients they're smashing it

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so what i'm excited to do is in london potentially network more to get some more clients

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i'm not held bent on this because actually a lot of my clients are based in the u .s

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Those two that I mentioned are in the US.

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I remember I went to an event ages ago in London networking.

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It was like a women in women's career thing.

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I met someone who wanted to become a client, but was like, now's not the right time.

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So we'll revisit in future.

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Either way, I think being in London around other small businesses, other founders, I think I'm just I'm likely to meet more clients.

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So we'll see how that goes.

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I might be wrong.

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It might be a stupid decision because right now most of my clients are actually in the US.

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So part of me was thinking, do I move to the US? but then also

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that seems like a huge move

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that seems like a huge move like the whole visa

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and immigration like I don't know I feel like London makes sense for now and even

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if I don't meet more clients I think

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I would actually quite like to network simply just in the founder space like right now I network

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so much on LinkedIn

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and it's worked out for me it's worked out pretty well for me on LinkedIn

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but I can't help but think

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if I actually take some of this offline like how much of an impact

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it would have I can't predict exactly where the networking will take me

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but networking is a huge reason why I'm moving like I'm really excited for

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that I don't know exactly how it will pan out

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but I just know simply being in the right rooms can have such an impact

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I'm excited to be more in more of those rooms not just virtually

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but actually in real life and I'm not gonna lie I'm actually gonna be honest

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so a couple weeks ago you guys will know

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if you got my email

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so I sent much I'm exhausted I'm stressed I'm tired I can't do it anymore I think this is actually

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when one of my clients wanted to break up

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so I had a client one of my biggest clients genuinely

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like I think 30 % of my income was like I want to break up

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and I was like okay this I am done now like I can't hack this this is just too stressful

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and I was genuinely thinking about going back to a nine to five not healthcare

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I don't think I'd ever go back to healthcare again but I was thinking about going into like a marketing role,

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a growth role, a content role, because my skills, I'm so confident that my skills could get me a good job.

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I'm actually very grateful for that.

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Say worst case scenario touchwood, if I ever needed to get a job, I can get a very good job,

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especially knowing what I know with LinkedIn.

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Again, I put all the things I know about LinkedIn,

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I've put in, I put into the accelerator and I've squeezed it into that LinkedIn program down below.

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But part of me was like, do I just get a job because this is

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so stressful like guys you know you know how sometimes you panic about payday

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because you're like I don't have enough money to pay for this thing

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and that thing and you're like kind of stressed waiting till payday imagine

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that stress every single week like it's not

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it's not even like a payday stress

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it's like just a weekly stress of income will I make

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enough will this client go will I have enough like tax like it's just a lot to think about

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and when I was thinking of all that

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and a client was like she's gonna leave I was like it's just a lot it's just a lot

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so yeah I was panicking about nine to fives and I was like

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well you know technically if I live in London I might actually be able to network

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and finesse and just find a way into a good nine to five

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because I'm actually in the area of where it's all happening for now that's left my mind

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I don't think I don't think I need a nine to five right

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now I think businesses is okay it's funny off because

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that client and I did break up

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but I think I'll be fine without her I've realized that I just need to focus my attention elsewhere

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shouldn't i shouldn't have one client make up 30 of my income anyway that's not that's not safe

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because of how much it stressed me out

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so i've really like not my lesson

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i should have a broader approach to my clients the client should be a lot more diversified

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and not just be like a bulky a bulky client making up loads of the income the lesson learned

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but i basically yeah my number one goal is just to network more

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i'm excited to have more of a network i feel like i've helped

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so many people in my network like I know a bunch

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of you guys some of you guys have messaged me being like can you help me with this

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and I've been like I can't but speak to this person

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and it's just it's

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so nice to be able to pass people on to the right people

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you should speak to them you should speak to them

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and I'm just excited to do more of

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that really that's like my big reason for moving plus also

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to push myself out of my comfort zone naturally the overthinker

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that I am there's been times where I'm like what

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if I regret moving what if I hate it what if it's too much what if it's this, whatever, it's that.

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But I kind of think that you can't think your way through every single problem or dilemma.

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Sometimes with these dilemmas, you actually just have to do it and then figure out if you like it or not.

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I don't have like omnipresent knowledge of every single scenario that will ever happen and how it will pan out.

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Rather than stress myself out thinking whether or not it's the right move, right time, is it the right time of year?

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I think I'm just going to move.

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I'm just going to move.

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I'm just going to figure it out.

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And I've told friends and family up here

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that worst case scenario i'm probably only going to sign a tenancy for six months not

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that long not that long

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and i'm probably only gonna genuinely i think i'll probably move for six months at a push 12

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and if i don't like it i'll just move back not

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that deep so as much as it feels scary to like sell my car

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and save all this money

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and spend a thousand pounds a month on rent it seems like a big move i think

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that if you try

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and live your life knowing exactly what's going to happen at the next step

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you're never actually gonna live a life as big as what you as big as what you deserve

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like so many so many things that are worthwhile in life are actually unexpected

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and unplanned so you have to make room for that unplannedness

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and that's yeah it's kind of what i'm planning with the move to london let me know in the comments

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if you'd ever move to like a big city or

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if you're planning a move at the moment i'd love to know

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i feel like moving out of your family home is a really big step for some people

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it's like finally i can't wait to leave

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but for me it's kind of like it's bittersweet like i'm excited to go

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but i'm like almost also a bit sad

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it's a bit of a mix either way comment down below a cherry emoji

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if you made it this far into the video you're officially part of the cherry gang

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and last week i just made a video talking about why being a full -time content creator is actually overrated

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i don't recommend it i don't encourage

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it content creation is the best side hustle not the best full -time career

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if you want to find out more about

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that topic then i've made a full entire youtube video breaking it down you can watch that next over here

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I'm moving to london !!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: london, client, linkedin, excited. This video has 396 sentences and 4844 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:50. The speaker talks fast, about 232 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% 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
genuinely adverb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/	In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly.
headline noun	/ˈhɛd.laɪn/	The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.
naturally adverb	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	In a natural manner.
nowhere adverb	/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/	In no place.
pound noun	/ˈpaʊ̯nd/	A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
panic noun	/ˈpænɪk/	Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
calendar noun	/ˈkæl.ən.də/	Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
scenario noun	/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/	An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
payday noun	/ˈpeɪdeɪ/	The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.
subscriber noun	/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/	A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
founder noun	/ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/	One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
skill noun	/skɪl/	A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
comfort noun	/ˈkʌm.fət/	Contentment, ease.
dramatic adjective	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	Of or relating to the drama.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
break up verb		To break or separate into pieces.
move out verb		To leave one's present location; to leave somewhere for another place.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
look forward to verb		To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.
book up verb		To reserve or book all of something, for example by purchasing all the tickets.
come back verb		To return to a place.
come down to verb		To reach by moving down or reducing.
do over verb	/ˈduˌoʊvɚ/	To cover with; to smear or spread on to.

Sentences worth repeating

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

I don't know why I'm...
Guys, will I even upload this video?
I say I've got five core clients.
I'm actually very grateful for that.
I think I'm just going to move.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if I feel like it would give · if anything the traffic would probably · if i don't like it i'll just
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have been going · have been saying
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has quit · it's been · I've had
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is split · be surrounded · be linked

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 215 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, smash /smæʃ/, immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/
Long words — get the stress right: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/

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 genuinely, headline, naturally.

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