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Hey.
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Hi.
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How are you?
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Yeah, I am feeling a bit awkward today,
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if I'm being honest, because I have to sit you down and have a serious conversation with you today.
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That's really what it feels like.
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Jokes aside, it literally feels like I'm sitting down a friend to have a serious conversation.
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And that's never fun.
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Yes, it can be productive and healthy and beautiful,
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but that doesn't mean it's easy.
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That doesn't mean it's fun.
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Hell, it's never fun.
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Today, I'm going to be giving you some news that I consider to be bittersweet.
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For those of you who enjoy Anything Goes,
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it might be shitty news.
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For those of you who hate Anything Goes,
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oh my God, this is going to be your favorite episode I ever make.
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In fact, turn it up.
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Turn it up.
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You're going to love this one.
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Let's just rip off the band-aid, okay?
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Let's stop beating around the bush.
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I am taking a little podcast break.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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Taking a little podcast break.
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Now let's rip the bandaid all the way off.
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Cause I was just ripping it halfway off.
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Let's rip it all the way off.
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Now.
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I don't know how long the break's going to be.
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I wish I had answers for you.
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I don't have answers for you.
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I'm taking an indefinite podcast break.
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Now I know what you're thinking.
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Emma, that means quitting.
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That means you're done forever.
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Emma, where did this come from.
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This is coming out of left field.
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I feel betrayed by you.
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Fuck you.
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You're a fucking bitch.
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You suck.
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Go fuck yourself.
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Go punch yourself.
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Go into the backyard and beat yourself up.
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You're a bitch and you suck.
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And I'm unsubscribing and I'm blocking you and you suck.
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Honestly, if you feel that way about this news that I just gave you,
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I take that as a compliment because the fact
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that you enjoy this show enough to be mad at me is actually really nice.
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But yes, okay?
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I understand all these feelings if you're feeling this way.
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I also can't tell if I'm like,
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am I being too self-important?
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Like, does no one even give a fuck?
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You know what I mean?
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Am I like, okay, you guys,
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let's rip off the bandaid with this bad news.
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I'm taking a podcast break and everyone's like, okay.
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Okay, all good.
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See you later.
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Don't care.
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I don't know.
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But sometimes when I speak about myself or what I do in this way to the audience,
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I'm like, wait, am I completely delusional and no one really cares?
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And I'm like, oh, I hope you're not mad at me that I'm doing.
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And then like, everyone's like, yeah, no one's mad.
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No one cares.
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Well, just assuming that there's one person out there that is maybe a bit bummed by this news.
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I get it.
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It did kind of come out of left field.
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However, it has been something I've been ruminating on for a while now and been avoiding,
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but I ultimately had sort of an aha moment about a month ago where I realized it was time to do this.
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And once I knew that I needed to do it,
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it was like, okay, I got to do it.
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And I consider this episode,
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okay, that I'm making right now to be bittersweet.
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I don't think it's sad because I actually feel really inspired by this decision.
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It's not like I'm making this decision because I'm feeling really down in the dumps.
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I'm feeling really bummed out.
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I'm feeling really burnt out.
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I'm making this decision because I know it's time to grow and evolve and restructure.
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Go back to the drawing board, career-wise for me.
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And that's really scary because when something's doing well,
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when something's working, it is not necessarily intuitive to say,
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OK, now I'm going to take a break and go back to the drawing board.
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You know, it's not intuitive.
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It's intuitive to just continue.
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However, in my soul, and I wish I could explain it, but I can't.
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In my soul, I woke up one day and I knew
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that I needed to go back to the drawing board because I knew that the way I was doing this podcast,
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the way that I was not even beyond this podcast,
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the way that I was structuring my work life was not working for me.
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And it's up to me to step back,
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make necessary changes, and then re-enter.
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And here's the thing.
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I'm not like disappearing off of the internet.
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The thing is with the podcast is that the podcast is a scheduled thing, right?
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Whereas everything else is not.
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So that's why it feels necessary to come here and say,
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I'm taking a podcast break.
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I'm not doing that with anything else.
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And I've never done that with anything else in the past because it hasn't been on as rigid of a schedule.
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But going back to what I was saying,
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this is a bittersweet episode,
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in my opinion, because I'm not making this decision from a place of weakness, of sadness.
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It's not coming from a place of burnout.
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It's coming from a place of excitement,
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inspiration, and the desire to restructure things in a way
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that will actually allow me to create more of the things I want to create.
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Because I've always been somebody that likes to do everything myself.
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I've always been someone that has to have her little grimy hands on every single thing that she does.
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And listen, I will continue to be that way.
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However, there are various structural shifts
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that I can make in my career without sacrificing integrity
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that would actually allow me to create more than what I'm creating now.
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Allow me to put out more than what I'm putting out now.
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if I just take a step back,
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go back to the drawing board and figure out how.
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And I know I need to do this because,
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again, I like woke up one day and just knew.
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And whenever I have intuitive feelings like that,
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I really try to honor them.
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And I will say I've been kind of feeling that for a little bit and kind of ignoring it.
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And then I woke up one day and it was really loud and I just knew.
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and now we're here and this decision has been made.
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But it's ultimately because there's more things that I want to do.
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And in order to do those things,
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I need to restructure, if that makes sense.
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And I don't really want to elaborate on what that means because I tend to prefer to work in silence,
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figure it out on my own and then come back when it's finished, you know?
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And so I'm sorry for being vague, but that's one thing.
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Another thing is, in addition to more of a technical restructuring of my career,
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I also am feeling really inspired by the idea of not being on a schedule,
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not being on a schedule at all,
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which is a luxury and a privilege that I do not take for granted that I'm able to do that.
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But I would love to just have some time to like
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create freely this idea of like freedom where I could make whatever I wanted.
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If I wanted to make a podcast episode one week,
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I could do that.
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If I wanted to make four YouTube videos,
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we don't get any ideas,
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but I'm just saying like,
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if I wanted to make four YouTube videos one week,
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I could do that.
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If I wanted to make 50 Instagram reels, I could do that.
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If I wanted to spend an entire month just working on Chamberlain coffee and that's it.
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If I wanted to, I would like to have a period of time where I could experience that without a schedule.
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And I feel like that would be really inspiring for me.
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And I want to give myself that.
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So that's another thing.
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And last but not least,
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I've been podcasting for seven years now.
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I think I started in 2019 with Stupid Genius and then I started Anything Goes.
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Stupid Genius was my first podcast.
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If you remember Stupid Genius,
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whoa, I love you that you ever listened to that.
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And then I think I started Anything Goes in 2021,
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maybe 2020 I don't remember but it's been like six seven years now
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and I have not taken more than you know maybe a
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month off since I started really I mean maybe maybe between stupid genius
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and anything goes listen you get the idea I've been going pretty consistently for six
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or seven years
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and I think psychologically I think it would be nice to
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experience a little break where I just can live my life
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and not think about how I'm going to make an episode about it I think that would be really beneficial for me,
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my mental health, the health of my mental,
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I think it would be really nice for me,
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and ultimately healthy to have that.
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You know, the interesting thing about podcasting is that it's usually weekly,
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with very few breaks during the year.
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That's sort of the common structure.
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Maybe a week off here or there for some shows,
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maybe a month off for the holidays for other shows.
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But for the most part, it's pretty consistent.
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But if you think about TV shows or musicians,
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a season will be put out or an album will be put out.
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And then there's a bit of incubation before the next sort of era,
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the next season or the next album or whatever.
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And I feel like I need a little incubation phase.
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However, I don't necessarily think this is going to be an incubation phase
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because I do have things that I want to just like make for fun,
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not on a schedule.
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And so I don't think I'm not like disappearing off the internet.
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I'm not like going full incubation phase, like disappearing.
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There's even a chance that I might start posting more just on my other YouTube channel or on Instagram.
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Like I don't even, I don't even know.
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It's kind of cringe to talk about this stuff out loud too,
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being like, listen, this is my, this is my strategy.
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Like I don't, I don't,
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I don't really have a strategy.
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This episode is kind of all over the place,
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but to be honest, my brain is kind of all over the place.
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I think that's pretty representative of where my head's at.
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And I wish I had a more clear direction to explain to you,
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but I don't really have that.
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And I think that's why I put off making this episode for a few weeks,
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because I was like, let me just take a few weeks to gather my thoughts and figure out where I'm going.
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But I don't think I can even discuss it yet.
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I think I need a little bit more time.
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But I'm feeling really positive.
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Okay.
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I'm feeling really inspired.
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I do have a lot of ideas of things that I want to try.
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However, because they're just things I want to try,
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I don't necessarily want to talk about them because it's like,
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if it doesn't work out,
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I don't end up liking the types of things I want to try to make for entertainment for you all.
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If I don't end up liking doing those things,
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if they don't work out,
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I don't want to feel like I made a promise I couldn't keep.
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but ultimately I want to entertain you all I want to hang out with you all
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that is my number one priority and I feel like I could be doing
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that even better than I'm doing now I'm like 99.9% confident in
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that but I also know that in order to do
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that I have to sort of wipe the canvas clean
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and paint a new painting of like what that looks like because what I've been doing which is mainly you know,
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focusing on the podcast is not allowing me to sort of diversify the type of entertainment
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that I get to make for those of you who want to consume it.
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And diversifying my output for you all in creating various different types of entertainment for you all is really important to me.
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And I need to restructure things so that I can feasibly do that.
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Because it's been really hard for me to balance all the different mediums that I enjoy creating content for.
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It's been really hard for me to do it all because I do everything myself.
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It's been like very challenging for me to create a satisfying amount of content for all the different platforms
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that I want to create content for and entertainment for, if you will.
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And so that's what I need to go figure out.
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And then hopefully I come back to you with things that you really enjoy to watch and listen to,
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because that's the thing too.
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I love podcasting.
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I really, really do enjoy it.
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And it's something that I've been doing very consistently for so many years that I,
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the thought of like taking a little break from it is kind of incomprehensible to me.
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But my ultimate love and passion is in visual entertainment.
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That's where my heart lies.
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But I also really love podcasting.
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So I got kind of into this sort of routine of making two episodes a week for three years,
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and then this year, down to one episode a week.
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And that was so all-consuming that it left me not much time to create visual video-style content,
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and that's something that I really miss doing,
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that I want to be able to get back to.
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But it's very consuming because I tend to like to edit things myself, et cetera.
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I just need to figure out how I can do everything I want to do all at once.
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You know what I mean?
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And not have to sacrifice one thing to do the other,
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if that makes sense.
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And that requires going back to the drawing board.
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And I just want to say to all of you who have listened to Anything Goes for the last,
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what, five or six years,
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I want to deeply thank you for hanging out with me.
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Okay.
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Truly.
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I love this podcast.
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I love hanging out with you all.
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Anything goes is not going away forever.
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Okay.
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I can't give you a plan or a day.
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I can't give you anything because I don't even know yet,
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but just know that I'm here.
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I'm not going anywhere.
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And this is ultimately a decision I'm making so that I can create more.
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Does that makes sense it's it's like it's ultimately very positive
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and it's going to result in in there will be fruit
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it will bear fruit this decision it's not like oh my god she's like quitting this
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and now she's like because she fucking is a lazy sack of shit
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and she's disappearing and she's gonna
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because she's lazy you know it's not i promise you i promise you it's not
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that i promise you it's that I've felt frustrated for years feeling like,
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oh, there's so many things I want to do and I want to make for entertainment for these people.
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And I don't have the fucking time to do all of it because I'm not structuring this properly.
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And I've been struggling with that for years and I cannot do it anymore, you know?
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And on top of that,
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I'm inspired and have all these ideas of things I want to try,
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but I haven't had time to try them because I've been in the minutia of,
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you know, the sort of work life that I've structured for myself.
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And so this is ultimately a very positive, productive, awesome thing.
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And I'm excited because I am very deeply passionate about creating things for you.
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Now, whoever you are, you know, it doesn't even matter.
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Whoever you are who wants to consume it,
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this is my ultimate passion and I want to be able to do it more.
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So that's where this is coming from.
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Seems a bit counterintuitive.
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Seems a bit counterintuitive, but that's where it's coming from
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and i deeply thank you all for supporting me in in this podcast
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throughout the years i'm not going anywhere maybe i am for a little bit
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but ultimately in the grand scheme of things i'm not going anywhere
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and i really deeply cherish what we've created here
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and i do not take it for granted and i'm not just running away or anything like that i'm weirdly like emotional.
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I'm like, what the fuck?
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Wait, why is this?
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What is happening?
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What?
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Like my eye kind of got a little watery.
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I was like, Ooh, what's that?
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There's probably a trillion things that I am forgetting to say,
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but my brain's kind of mush,
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to be honest, because I think I had a lot of anxiety going into making this episode,
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but I'm feeling a lot better now that we've communicated.
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See, look at the power of communication.
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What I've always said on this show,
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anything goes, the power of communication.
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It's powerful.
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It really is.
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I'm not going to lie.
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I'm nervous because I think the second I stop recording this episode,
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the second I turn off the buttons,
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it's like, okay, Emma, now what the fuck are you going to do?
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You know what you have to do,
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but now you got to go do it.
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It's kind of that.
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And that's really exciting, but also a little bit terrifying.
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Anyway, not to be overly parasocial,
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but I do love and appreciate you all.
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And I'm grateful that you all show up for me.
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To those of you who do show up for me, I'm very grateful.
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And I hope that you can feel my gratitude through the screen.
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And with all of that being said,
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I'll talk to you very soon.
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And listen, again, you're going to be like, Emma didn't even disappear.
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She like posted on Instagram and then she like randomly posted a YouTube video,
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like,
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or
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and then she like randomly posted about like I don't know
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I don't know what's happening I don't know what's happening
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so you just have to just I'll probably talk to you sooner than you think
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okay I love you all I love you and I'm gonna make you proud okay I promise you I will

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在這段影片中,演講者以輕鬆的口吻開場,但隨即轉向更為嚴肅的話題,分享一條對他而言“苦樂參半”的訊息。他的坦誠和幽默感使這段對話充滿了真實感。通過這種方式,演講者與聽眾建立了情感聯絡,儘管內容涉及一個他認為具有挑戰性的宣告——他將會暫停播客。這種狀態不僅對演講者本人有影響,也讓聽眾感受到了情感上的波動。

日常交流中的五個關鍵短語

  • Hey. Hi. How are you? - 打招呼時的常用語。
  • I am feeling a bit awkward today. - 表達情緒不安的方式。
  • Let's just rip off the band-aid. - 勇敢面對問題的一種表達。
  • I am taking a little podcast break. - 通知他人自己暫停某項活動。
  • I wish I had answers for you. - 表達對不確定性的無奈。

逐步跟讀指導

為了提高您的英語口語能力,特別是在面對如影片中這樣含有情感變化和語氣轉換的對話時,您可以採用以下的跟讀(shadow speech)練習方法:

  1. 初步聽取:首次觀看影片時,專注於整體理解,而不是每個單詞的細節。
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  3. 跟讀模仿:在播放段落時,暫停並跟讀,注重提高英語發音及語調,模仿演講者的情感變化。
  4. 深入理解:在反覆跟讀過程中,分析每個短語的含義以及在情境中的作用。
  5. 應用練習:嘗試使用這些短語與他人進行對話,或自主創造類似的句子,鞏固所學內容。

這種方法不僅可以幫助您提高口語流利度,還能增強聽力理解,為《雅思口語練習》提供一種有效的練習形式。通過“shadow speak”練習,您將能夠在真實情境中自信地使用英語,流利地表達自己的情感及觀點。

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構,並附上影片中的原話:

結構影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作I've been ruminating · I've been podcasting · I've been going
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事I've never done · I've always been · I've been
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼,而不是誰做的has been made · will be put · being said

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