Feeling Invisible? Discover Hope and Empowerment with Jason Tharp on the BHP Podcast

Join Jason Tharp on the BHP Podcast as he shares a personal and powerful message about overcoming feelings of invisibility and finding hope. Jason discusses his own journey with vulnerability, the importance of sharing your struggles, and practical steps to embrace visibility. Tune in for a heartfelt and empowering episode that offers support and inspiration for anyone feeling lost or unseen.

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MEET JASON:

Hi, I’m Jason!
Ever since I was six, I knew I was born to tell stories. As a best-selling author, illustrator, and sought-after speaker, I've turned my personal battles with grade four brain cancer, obesity, and negative self-talk into fuel for transformation. My keynotes don't just talk—they spark potential, ignite creativity, and build resilience. If you're ready for an engaging experience that challenges the status quo and propels your organization to new heights, let's turn your 'impossible today' into 'possible tomorrow' together!

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Transcript

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hey guys welcome back to the Beyond hope

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project my name is Jason Tharp the

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champion of Hope and I have a very short

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one for you today that you can refer

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back to often so whatever it is you

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listen this listen to these on uh hit

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that favorite button bookmark it set it

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to repeat because I want this to just

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provide a power up and it's meant for

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those days that you're having those

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moments where you feel completely

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invisible and I just want to say before

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we get started that you know how much I

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appreciate you showing up listening to

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this and supporting what we're doing and

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ask a favor if you know two people that

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know two people um share this with

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somebody share this with at least two

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people that's all I'm asking if you've

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picked up anything along the way on this

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listen to this podcast just share with

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two people and with that let's let's

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Jump Right In again like I said I think

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you uh are going to enjoy enjoy this one

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because what I really intend to do with

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this is just to provide you with just a

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little boost it's something that you can

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refer back to if you're having a down

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day or if you're feeling a little bit

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lost

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and to give context I remember when I

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was diagnosed and when the doctor came

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in and they were very blunt with me in a

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very quick within a few minutes of

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knowing me telling me I was going to be

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dead in seven

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months in that Rush of the feelings

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um what it felt like was all of a sudden

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like I was a kid again and everybody

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tell me all the reasons why I wasn't

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going to be able to do all the things I

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wanted to do it was somebody making a

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prediction on my life and for the first

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time in a long time I felt really really

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invisible it was easy when I was a kid

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because I could kind of get sucked into

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uh my sketchbooks I can get lost in

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creating stuff because that was my world

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I was able to control that but this

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world is different and this world I have

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responsibilities and I have other

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obligations that I needed to live up to

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so feeling invisible as an adult was was

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was weird um I felt invisible before but

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not to this level and most of the

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invisibility I felt when I was adult was

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more internalized it was a lot of

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self-inflicted

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invisibility um whereas this one it felt

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like I was invisible to the world like

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nobody can understand what this feels

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like nobody can understand how this is

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taking over everything and it felt

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incredibly lonely and maybe you're going

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through that right now maybe right now

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something is happening in your world

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where you feel that nobody understands

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anything that I'm going through and

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there's no way that people can possi

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relate to me right now and everywhere

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you look it looks like everybody's just

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putting their hand on your head and

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trying to push you down and when all you

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want to do is fight for that breath of

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air to get just a little reprieve from

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this noise because it's loud and it's

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obnoxious and I just want everybody to

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leave me

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alone this part

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sucks and while there's no magic pill

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that's going to help you feel visible

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again what I have found that has worked

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well for me was understanding that I'm

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not as long as I thought I was and that

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by sharing the stuff that I'm going

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through I will find that there are other

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people out there that are just like

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me for you it might be something to

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laugh at

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you know a good comedy show or maybe

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it's a scary movie or maybe it's a walk

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in the woods maybe it's creating

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something maybe it's going out and just

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yelling out to the

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air allow yourself to do those things

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don't do what I did which was bottle it

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all up I would pressure it down I'd push

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it down until this diagnosis came all of

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a sudden I was being choked out it was

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like anxiety just rolled up into my

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throat and it was like a giant that had

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their hand around my throat and it just

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kept squeezing every time that all I

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wanted to do was somebody just to say

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it'll be

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okay wasn't like I needed somebody to

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say here's the magic thing that'll fix

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it all I just wanted somebody to say

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it'll be okay you're not

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alone and maybe share something with me

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in

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that

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and it did finally happen for me um it

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took a few days for it to happen but it

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was amazing once I started to realize

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that like wow I'm not as invisible as I

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feel the anxiety subsided I was able to

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start to look at the world in a

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different way and I think for the first

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time this is where hope really showed up

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for me it was where I started to

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understand maybe my purpose is a little

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different maybe how I can start stepping

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into this is having these vulnerable

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moments with other people to be able to

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share what is and does go through my

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head quite often and not being so afraid

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to feel invisible anymore because what I

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have found is and when I'm feeling

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invisible the more I can kind of share

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that the more I actually feel that I'm

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seen

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and the the crazy part for me was that

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people appreciate that and that was that

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was new that feeling of letting

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something out that I had been afraid to

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show

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everybody but realizing that people

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appreciate

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that I I didn't know that was a

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possibility and

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so I would encourage

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you if you are one of those people right

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now that are feeling pretty invisible

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and you're feeling

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Alone um to to not be afraid to share to

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not be able to afraid to to reach out to

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other people to see that video or that

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real online or somebody's post that

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inspires you and not to be afraid to

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reach out you know I think that in your

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boldness you'll find a lot of healing

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taking bold steps to actively change

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your intention away from being invisible

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into feeling visible will open doors

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that you think are closed but they're

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actually open and it's really going to

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come down to you being brave enough to

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step into it we use hope a lot of times

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on here and it's about being hyper aware

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how am I thinking how am I feeling right

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now in this moment am I living in a past

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made up of past memories that I'm trying

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to hang on to or trying to predict a

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future that doesn't exist instead being

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present in this moment being hyper aware

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of how I'm feeling what am I thinking am

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I living off of some sort of past

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leftovers you're openhearted enough to

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love yourself to do the hard stuff you

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know breaking that pattern of

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invisibility does require you to take

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bold action on yourself you know whether

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it's writing in a journal or talking to

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somebody or whatever it is I don't know

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what it is for you for me it's always

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been making stuff creating something you

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know making a world up and all those

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things like that that makes me feel like

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I'm seeing because what I'm actually

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doing in that process is I'm taking out

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of my head and putting in real life so I

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can see the Monster isn't as big as I've

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brought it up to be and then understand

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through persistence that every day is a

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reset I might have had a really crappy

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day today but that doesn't mean that

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tomorrow has to be crappy what I could

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do is I I can reflect on what today was

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like through my hyper and Su being open

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hard enough I can understand that

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tomorrow I get to redo what did I learn

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today that I can bring into my next day

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to reset this and start the new and

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process each day and knowing that each

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day it may not be easier tomorrow but I

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am taking one step closer to it becoming

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easier and the last is you're empowered

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when all those things come together

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you're going to feel pretty empowered

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you're going to start to appreciate

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yourself differently you're going to

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start to understand your values your

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morals your your what I'm willing to

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accept for myself my authenticity all of

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these things that you right now because

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we're invisible feel is worthless you're

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going to find you are worthy of all of

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those things and that through that

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process you're going to find that

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there's lots of people out there that

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are just like you and the crazy thing

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will happen is once you start to do

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these things is that the whole time you

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thought you were invisible and you start

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to share these things and you start to

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embrace who you are and allow yourself

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to

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evolve that you weren't invisible at all

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that people have been paying attention

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and actually have been inspired by you

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just by you simply being

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you and that will blow your mind because

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I know it did mine so guys as I wrap

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this up I just want to uh just tell you

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that how much I appreciate you showing

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up today I appreciate you being in this

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world with me I appreciate how much you

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persist at showing up and being the best

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you you can possibly be today not afraid

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of being good in pursuit of being great

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because a lot of times your good is

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better than most people's whatever

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definition of great is and this requires

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you just to show up and I appreciate you

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for doing that and if you do know

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somebody that needs to hear this message

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make sure you share it I'm looking for

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two people that may know two people

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that's all I'm asking and make sure you

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go in there rate review put this on

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repeat listen to it again go back and

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any days that you're feeling

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alone you know know that you're not

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alone find me on social media if you

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need somebody to reach out to reach out

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to me um I'm happy to uh help point you

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in that direction but guys uh thank you

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for showing up today thank you for being

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in this world with me being a human

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isn't easy and you're doing a great job

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just one little step at a time and you

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are getting closer to finding yourself

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than you

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realize hope this helps power up

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