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Do you think that you're God?
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The way you treat yourself is the way people are going to treat you.
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You need to train your brain that your voice has power.
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Nobody is going to save you in this life.
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If you are lost, find your way.
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Hi everyone, my name is Nathanael and today I'm going to show you...
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Wait, so basically it was supposed to be a get ready with me, but it turned into a kind of motivational video.
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I'm going to show you how I do my makeup as well.
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So it's a kind of get ready with me
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and motivational video, okay?
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and yeah let's go shine bright like a diamond shine bright
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like a diamond shine bright like a diamond shine bright like a diamond i received fancy products
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so fancy beauty fancy hair fancy skin fancy everything
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we love fancy okay today's gonna be like a kind of get ready with me talk kind of
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because i have a lot of things to say okay
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so let me just be myself on my youtube page
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because i finally accept who i am this is so cool well
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so this is the first product
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this is the fancy beauty setting spray wait wait let me show you my camera is doing the job
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i don't know what i'm just gonna like use it
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while i'm doing my video okay anyway guys i finally accept who i am
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this might sound weird
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and for those who don't know i lose 60 kg over the past four years
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and i have done a video in french i'm gonna make a whole video in english for you guys
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so it's gonna be easier for you to understand the whole thing
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i've been through a process not only a rate loss
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but also on a journey where i was like looking for who i was i don't know
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if it's sound correct I always had the vision of the best version of myself
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that I knew that I was but I wasn't acting like that.
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My mindset was so bad.
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I had a bad self -reflection of my person.
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I didn't like myself.
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I didn't like everything about me
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and I was repeating this in my head every day
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so my brain was like oh if you say that it means
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that this is true and at the time i thought
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that this was the way i was and i could never change
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but let me tell you something look at me today look how gorgeous i am
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and i always have been gorgeous but i didn't know who i was
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and if you don't know who you are it can't be very dangerous
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because you might never never of your life accomplish the things
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that you're supposed to do on this earth you might believe
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or not that we came for a reason
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and in this world i think that if i am here
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that is for a reason
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i'm not born to be to be sad every day to be always in a bad mood
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or things like that i think
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that this is really important to like regulate your nervous system
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to regulate your program your life program for a very long time i thought
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that i was only going to be obese
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and unhappy my whole life then one day i was just like girl your mindset is really bad the day
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that i realized
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that i remember i was going to do my you know my drive license
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i didn't even pass the test at the time
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but i was like oh i already know
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that i'm not gonna pass i'm gonna fail can you imagine
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that this is the way i was thinking about myself
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and i remember
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that day something like wakes me up i was like what how can you think like
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that about yourself and
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if you think this way for you imagine how people can like see you the way you respect yourself
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or not is the same way people are going to treat
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you the way you treat yourself is the way people are going to treat
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you it's all about the mindset
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i've experienced a lot of things these last few years obviously
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through my weight loss journey my get to know myself journey things like
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that there is something that i realized everything is due time you can't rush
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and try to control everything it means that you don't trust god i'm sorry
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but if you act this way it's probably
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because you always have been used to it
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when you lose your parents at a young age
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when you have been very independent always have been like a
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different independent hey okay how can i say these words independent
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and independent self -independent yeah that is correct
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when you always have been used to this it's very hard like to trust someone else
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or to trust anything else than you because you're already
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because you're like oh i know what is best for me we always want to control everything
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because i i have been
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that person where for years I always wanted to control everything thinking
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that I was doing well
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but I was literally like destroying myself I was always stressed
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I was anxious like I was waking up my heart was beating so so fast because I was always always so stressed
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Because I thought I was controlling things, but I wasn't.
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I was just killing myself, like, literally.
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What I stopped to do is try to control everything.
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Do you think that you're God?
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And you are able to control everything in your life.
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You're going to lose your mind, like, literally, trust me.
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Arrive to a certain point.
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You need to let go and let God.
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You need to let go and let God.
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There are certain things that we can control.
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There are certain things that, unfortunately, we cannot control you need to change your environment you really need to change your environment you think
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that you're depressed you think
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that you're losing your mind you are just on the wrong environment right
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now you are basically where all your trauma are contracts you are staying in a place where your childhood friend
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that didn't believe in you are in
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because i'm also trying this new cream bronzer
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that is from mua academy makeup academy
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and i can't wait to try this is my first time trying
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this by the way i also get this blush this liquid blush from them
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and this is like a pint of what shade is this watermelon watermelon you need to take
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that trip you know that one trip
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that you're thinking about to try to see new things you need to take that trip
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and it might change your entire perspective of life change your environment for growth
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you can't stay in the same place where where you were born where you received all of your trauma
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that is not possible you really need to go away
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and see different things let me tell you that this is not okay that
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when you are in your normal environment in your usual environment
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you're always stressed you're always anxious you're always thinking like the worst things
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that can happen to you you just need to move
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and see new stuff you need to try different things
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you can heal at the same place where you have been traumatized every word
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that you're saying is what is going to happen i don't know
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if you're religious i don't know what you are never mind never mind everything
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that you're saying is what is going to happen so
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if you say that you're a loser then you are going to be a loser and you are not going to be,
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you are already a loser.
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That's what you train your mind to think.
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Why can't you wake up in the morning and say, okay, I'm a winner.
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Oh, where is it?
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Oh, hold on, give me a second.
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Why can't you just wake up in the morning, say, oh, I'm a winner, I'm a good person.
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You need to train your mind.
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You need to train your brain that your voice has power.
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Take your power back.
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You need to train your brain
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that your voice has power you need to train your brain every day
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you know the brain is like a muscle like basically your
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brain has a good memory your body has a very good memory
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and if you train your body and your brain every day to say oh i'm
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so bad at this i don't deserve to leave
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that is what you're going to believe
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you need to train your brain every day for good things it's really not easy
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when for like 24 years 30 40 years of your life you always have been very negative
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that is what your mind is going to think
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that is true you need to control your emotion
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if you are not able to control yourself bad things are going to happen to you you know
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that a lot of people are in jail right now just
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because they wasn't able to control the emotion
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they wasn't able to control their emotion for like five minutes
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some people are like they they destroy their life for five small minutes
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it's really important to do like introspections self -reflection
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you need to take time for yourself you need to study yourself
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and nobody's going to save you in this life
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if you're waiting for your mom or your dad
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or your siblings to help you
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and save you nobody's going to save you the person
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that you're sharing your body with is you don't wait anybody to save you don't wait anybody to tell you
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that this is good
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or not you should be able to take your own responsibilities yeah
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you need to be aware of your own responsibility
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because nobody's going to save you if you do something bad this is your fault
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if you do something good this is your fault at a certain age
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you can't be like oh yeah my mom did this to me my dad did
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that to me wait how can i say that
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and not sounding rude we are responsible of our own trauma at a certain age
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you can't be every time like oh yeah i've been through this i've been through
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that at a certain moment i'm sorry i'm not sorry
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but you need to be like you need to take accountability
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of your own trauma everybody has been through a lot in this life
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i'm not minimizing anybody trauma anybody's sufferings we all have been through something in this life
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and it's not because i've been through something hard
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that i'm a bad person with you
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that i act a certain way with you
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that i know can hurt you
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and put you in a very bad position bad mood all of this just
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because i've been through that because i've been traumatized when I was younger.
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At a certain age, you're supposed to be able to to be responsible for your own trauma it's not people
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that are going to pay for you it's not
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you know people are not going to pay for your own trauma
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that don't sound good to me
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that don't sound good to my ears
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you need to you need to be able to say okay i've been through this i've been through
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that and maybe i'm not ready how can i say like i'm not ready to to pass this
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but it's going to come back to you anytime in your life you can't go ahead in this life
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if you didn't face your trauma you know we we still have our inner child
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so sometimes when we react to certain things it's not even us
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that it's our inner child and this is very sad
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but you can literally see like a 50
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or 60 years old person crying while thinking about something
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that their parents did to them when there was like five
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or six that's where you see
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that our inner child is still
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there whatever what your age is you need to take care
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of yourself just like i was saying before people like nobody's going to save you you know
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when i had the 60 kg to lose yeah that's where i knew
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that i was alone because you can be oh yeah i've been through this i'm traumatized okay
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but your body's your body
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i've been through very hard moments where i literally wanted to
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not be a part of this of this world anymore
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i remember i'm gonna talk i'm gonna do a video of my weight loss journey
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and what i've been through and all of that i had
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that this thing where i was like okay
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this is my time to lose weight this is where i remember very well
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that that day i say oh my god like i'm alone i was 21 years old
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and this is where i was like what like i really have to 60 60 like one two three
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59 60 okay i was like okay cool what should we
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do now it's not like we you can't go to your family members you can't go to your sister
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and be like okay can you help me to lose the
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60 kg she's gonna be like okay yeah go to the gym eat healthy do this
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and do that but who is the person
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that has to do it it's you yourself
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and your person you can be like okay i can involve god in this
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but it's you who's who's going to wake up in the morning
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and go to the gym it's you who's going to go do some healthy groceries it's you
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and not your friend and nobody else that is where there are certain things
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that you're supposed to do alone in this life
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that are going to build you this life is not a team project this life is you yourself
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and your person you maybe you have been used to be around people around
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i don't know your siblings around your friends
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and you never have been used to be alone some certain moment
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you're supposed to be by yourself
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there are certain moment in your life where you need to be alone
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you need to educate yourself you need to read books
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you need to i don't know to meditate you need
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you need time for yourself you need to respect your person
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and you need to be alone you need you're supposed to study yourself
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because if you don't do that trust me
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that people are going to do it for you
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if you don't define who you are people are going to decide for you you know for example me
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i'm 24 years old i'm turning 25 this year
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and people are like oh you're done with school like
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when are you getting married and i'm like married this is not something
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that i'm planning right now in my life okay
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so i'm like what are you even asking me this
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and they're like oh no because you know it's time
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and i'm like first of all i didn't ask you anything
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and then if i didn't know myself
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if i didn't know where i was going i would let people think
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that okay they know better what's good for me
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so basically it's like if you don't know who you are
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if you don't know what you want people are going to
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decide for you just like a little kid what do you want to eat
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i don't know okay let me choose for you oh what are you going to wear today oh
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i don't know okay let me choose for you you're not a kid
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you're supposed to take your own decision you're supposed to be able to know what is good for you
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or not and don't let people control you don't let people decide for you
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because you are grown woman girl man
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and you're supposed to take decisions for your life i'm
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so sorry but at a certain age you can't be you can't be a victim okay
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but now it's time for you to leave okay
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it's time for you to do the right things for your life
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because you only have one life okay i think that already say that
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but you need to trust yourself like you really really really need to trust yourself
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you need to study yourself you need to know yourself on a very deep level where you even know that okay
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when i feel like this this is what i should do
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we always like get in a better position like we grow we're growing like we grow up
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and things like that
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but you should really take time to know who you are
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in a very in a very very very deep level where you can't let anybody tell you what
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or what about you and i wanted to say something else
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that when i was losing weight i i noticed is don't let anybody speak
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bad about you don't let anybody talk about your body don't
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let anybody talk about your life don't even let the opportunity
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to people to speak wrong about you don't let just anybody
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if some someone say something bad about your body just talk back like oh yeah your body is changing
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or this don't let anybody
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because you're letting them the access to your life to your person
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because it's like it's not your body anymore it's like everybody's body it's like everybody can talk about your body
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and this is not a good thing just like i was saying earlier train your brain
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that your voice has power
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you want to say oh what do you mean by take your power back just
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you need to be aware of who you are you stop hiding yourself just be genuinely yourself
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that's the only way you could be happy
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you need to be rational obviously you can't be like oh
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i want to do you know crazy stuff be your true self
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and that's the only way you can be happy in this life
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and when i mean your true self i mean by
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that you know what i'm talking about like don't try to make me talk
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you know you know what is your call
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you know what you're supposed to do on this earth
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you're just trying to hide yourself beyond stuff to please people to please
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you don't even please yourself like every day in your bed before the sleep you're crying you are thinking oh
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if i was doing this i would be more happy like just make
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that decision i wipe the certain moment you're supposed to be you're supposed to live the life
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that you want you know that life
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that you always have been dreaming of this life exists because
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if you can busy out if you can see it it means
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that this life this is going to happen
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but don't be like oh i want to be a millionaire
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and then you sleep every day and repeat the same thing again again again
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and again if you want to get something
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that you never had you need to do something
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that you never did before did i say something
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you need to stop hiding yourself you need to start being your true self okay
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you have a good personality
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you're just hiding your personality to try to not be like
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to be cool around people some people have very good personalities for example me
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i know i have a very good personality
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and for a very long time i was hiding myself
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because oh what people are gonna say we don't care
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we're all gonna die one day like maybe tomorrow is going to be my last day on earth god forbid
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but we don't know like this life is too short can you imagine
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that some people went out or they said i'm gonna clean my room
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when i go back home
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and they never come back their life ends just like this we never know
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when our last day is so that one thing that project
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that one thing
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that you wanted to do like just do it okay oh my god
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this powder is going everywhere give me it gave me a minute okay oh yeah
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and stop trying to be perfect to start what you're supposed
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to start since 20 since 2020 stop trying to be perfect
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you have a phone cool then do it what are you reading for you just
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you're just reading for no reason
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you don't even know what to tell me why you're not doing things why are you scared
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you don't even know what to tell me you don't have to neglect the power of prayer
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and meditation don't neglect that part of your life that is very important you can't literally see the difference when you pray,
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when you meditate, and when you don't.
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Praying is not begging like, oh, this is a...
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Learn how to pray.
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You need to learn how to pray.
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You need to be your true self when you pray.
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You need to be genuine.
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And this whole life is about being genuine because you know when you're trying to act like something, one day you're going to be exposed.
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And don't try this don't try to be exposed
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because you know be fun to be exposed yeah there are signs stop trying to play a role
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and you know what i'm talking about
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when i say this you need to be able to follow your intuition to listen to yourself you know
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that thing that tell you don't go out today
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listen to it because you don't know what is going to happen you need to you need to
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trust yourself just trust me you need to trust yourself
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if you are lost find your way
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you'll be like how how then how you need to spend time with yourself
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you need to know yourself you need to take time
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you need to pray you need to get to know yourself
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and most of the time people can see what you can't see for yourself
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and from yourself and for yourself oh yeah
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and don't rush okay don't rush because good things take times
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so i'm gonna use this fenty beauty um i can't believe
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that fancy beauty sent me products
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and i can say um i'm gonna use fancy beauty diamond bomb
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so it takes nine months for a kid to be from
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in the womb of her mother what do you want to rush
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you know this project can take five years it can take five months it's been four years
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that and i am on my waist loss journey
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and you're gonna be like oh but you lose your 60 kg you're down I'm not down.
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This is a life battle.
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I fight every day for this weight loss journey.
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So this is the one that I'm using today.
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I don't feel like wearing lashes though.
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I don't know.
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I will see.
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I don't know if in English this term, these quotes exist.
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But it's like, if you breathe, there is hope.
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If you're still alive, it means that you still have things to do.
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And you can continue to pursue a dream.
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The limit is death.
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The limit is yourself health you know when you if you drive
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and the gps say oh yeah take this road
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and you take it and then you arrive and you see
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that it's closed do you stay there stuck for weeks for hours no
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you try to find a solution you try another road the goal is to arrive to your final destination
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so don't stay stuck if you see
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that you are stuck try another thing try another road now my makeup looks
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so really really really nice well educate yourself take care of
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yourself take care of your health sleep take your sleep schedule seriously
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you need to sleep eight hours a day at least yay
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if your body's dead you can't do anything you can't do anything yeah i'm gonna put this setting spray
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and this is my first time trying this
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so i don't know how it's going to melt everything together well guys
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this is the end of the video i hope you guys enjoy it
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and yeah so basically everything i can say is believe in yourself
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if you're lost find your way don't find a way find
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your way spend time with yourself love yourself follow me everywhere on every one of my platforms
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if you want to know anything about my makeup just feel free to ask me in the comment section
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and yeah that's a bit of it that was a bit of me
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and i'm your new favorite influencer aka your favorite international babe period make sure to follow me everywhere
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and see you guys on my next video bye
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and give yourself some grace change your mindset mindset your mindset is everything
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if your mindset is dead your life is dead okay
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so take care of you take care of your mental health
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and be the best version of yourself
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and see you on my next episode of glowing up with me
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this was very bad be the best version of yourself anyway see you guys bye
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “If you feel lost, watch this video”. This video has 375 sentences and 4287 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:24. The speaker talks fast, about 191 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| fancy noun | /ˈfæn.si/ | The imagination. |
| trauma noun | /ˈtɹɔm.ə/ | Any injury to the body of a living thing. |
| mindset noun | /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/ | A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one. |
| pray verb | /pɹeɪ/ | To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. |
| diamond noun | /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ | A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron. |
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| shine verb | /ʃaɪn/ | To emit or reflect light so as to glow. |
| arrive verb | /əˈɹaɪv/ | To reach; to get to a certain place. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| loser noun | /luzɚ/ | A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. |
| expose verb | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light. |
| mood noun | /muːd/ | A mental or emotional state, composure. |
| genuine adjective | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/ | Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native. |
| gorgeous adjective | /ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/ | Sumptuously dressed. |
| spray noun | /spɹeɪ/ | A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| talk back verb | To reply impertinently or rudely; to answer in a cheeky or rude manner. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
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 was doing this i would be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have done · i've been · have been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are lost · were born · have been traumatized |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | wasn't acting · was repeating · was thinking |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 199 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: rush /ɹʌʃ/, shine /ʃaɪn/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
- Long words — get the stress right: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, accountability /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/, millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/
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 fancy, trauma, mindset.
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.