Bonus with Tali and Amanda - Exploring the Magic of Yucatan: Orange Hatter Women's Retreat

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let's talk about the retreat.

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Yucatan, Mexico, March 16th through the

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Very exciting.

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This is Amanda.

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She is part of Project Yucatan.

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Project Yucatan is establishing the

Bitcoin Beach of Mexico in Sisal,

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Amanda: right?

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And throughout the Yucatan.

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So our focus is mostly

the Pueblos Magicos.

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So not just in Sisal, we're

also in Mani and in Merida.

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Tali: Amanda is on the ground

making all the arrangements.

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It's going to be a magical experience.

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So we just want to talk a little

bit about the retreat to give more

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details for people who are interested.

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And we'll ask each other questions.

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kick our question bucket back

and forth to give people as much

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information as possible so they can

make the decision to come and join us.

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Amanda: I love it.

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Okay, I have a question for you.

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Yes.

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I'm super honored and super excited

that we're doing this together.

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But I do want to know what made you

want to do a retreat in the first place?

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Tali: Yeah, it's a couple of reasons.

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The first is as I was traveling around the

country with Scott with HODL UP, which is

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the game that he designed to orange pill

me, and we've been bringing it around to

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share with other Bitcoiners who are trying

to orange for their family as a tool.

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So we've been traveling around to

different meetups and events and such.

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And I just noticed that there are very few

women present in a lot of these gatherings

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and the women who are present when I have

conversations with them, they all express

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the same sentiment, which is it's very

lonely being a woman in the Bitcoin space.

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Not only do you feel outnumbered

when you go to these gatherings,

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but also within your own close knit

family friend circle, it's hard to

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feel so excited and passionate about

a subject and then have nobody else

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want to hear anything about it.

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So you can't talk to the people who

you see every day, you go to these

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meetups and then everybody's nice.

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I'm not saying everybody's not nice.

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The men folk very wonderful.

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Everybody's passionate about this

revolutionary technology and everybody

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wants to share it, but it is different

when men get together and talk, they're

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masculine in their communication style.

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Women are a little bit different.

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Not one is better than the other.

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Just we talk differently

and we connect differently.

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And I just felt what if we could

get all the women together?

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What if we can, what if we can

support each other in a way that

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only women can do for each other?

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So I started thinking about the gathering

and I started putting out just feelers

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for different possible locations.

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And I was introduced to Amanda and

we started talking about the magic

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of Yucatan, that whole region.

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That was one of the first things

that sparked the idea for me was

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just my travels and conversations

with Bitcoiner women and how

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isolated they feel in this space.

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The other thing is I

will go on to Twitter.

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I guess it's called X now, but I will go

on to X and I will read these posts and I

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mostly pay attention to women posts just

because that's what I'm interested in.

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And I just find myself always coming

away feeling really down because

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when you're in the Bitcoin space and

your eyes have been opened, you've

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gone down the Bitcoin rabbit hole.

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You start to see

everything so differently.

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You're seeing all the news differently.

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You're paying attention to what's

going on in the monetary system.

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You're paying attention to what

the politicians are saying and the

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implications for yourself through

the trickling effect of the way

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the monetary system is set up.

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And I just, I feel so down.

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I don't think I have ever come away

from Twitter, not feeling down.

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Yeah.

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And it's a, it's like something that

I can't make non Bitcoiners understand

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why, because they don't see what we see.

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Yeah, so this retreat, it's so

important, I think, for us to fill

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our own cup because we're passionate

about this subject, we know we

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should spread the word, but if we

feel dragged down if we feel low

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energy, then we can't do that work.

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So those two things sparked my

idea for the women's retreat.

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And now I have a question for you.

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Because I actually have never

traveled to Mexico and the things

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that I never, the things I hear about

Mexico are usually about the resorts,

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Cancun and other places like that.

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So you started talking about

the magic of where you live.

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And I was so intrigued.

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So I want you to tell people like, what

is so special about where you live?

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There's

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Amanda: a lot that's so special.

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I know this is gonna sound biased, but

you'll know and you'll be able to validate

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this when you get here, everyone that's

coming to the retreat, but truly I started

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to come here well more than a decade

ago, like well more than a decade ago.

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And I used to spend my winters

here with my daughter because I've

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always been allergic to the cold.

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I started to explore here.

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But the reason why I did that was this

seemed a pretty safe and cultural place.

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Because my daughter was young and I wanted

her to learn new culture and to integrate.

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And there's not, when you dig in, there's

not a lot of cities that you can find

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that, as a single mother, with a 12 year

old, that you're going to feel, and you

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don't speak the language taking your

child and after our first winter here,

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we started to come every single year.

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Because it, there's

something, it's magical.

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It's the only way I know how to say it.

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I've lived in Bali and I've lived here.

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I used to live in Canada,

I'll never do that again.

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But, I've lived in both.

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So, as you know, Bali is

like retreat central, right?

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This is where most people

go for their retreats.

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However, and there is a

beautiful energy there.

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There's a manifesting energy

there that is palpable.

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But it's different than here,

like this is the Merida, the main

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city that we're in is actually the

very first Mayan settlement ever.

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So this city was actually built by the

Mayans, which is really cool to me because

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if you look into Mayan history and all

the things that go back, like there's

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a lot of Mayan influence that's like

really affected us all along the way.

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So we had like when I first started

coming here, I was like, Whoa,

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that's where I went to Chichen

Itza was much different back then.

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There wasn't, 1000

tourists at the pyramid.

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But back then when you went,

you could feel an energy there.

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And I know this sounds silly, but

it's legit is when you're here, you

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have to actually be really careful.

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yOu have to be careful on

how you ask for things.

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Because you often get

what you ask for here.

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You'll notice when

you're here, it's weird.

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But it is, I just always

call it the Mayan magic.

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Because it's like

"manifestation nation" here.

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So like we have all the pyramids, we have

cenotes, we have nature, we have a city.

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I think we're one of the safest

cities in all of North America.

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Like definitely in the top three.

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I just don't know where

we are in the top three.

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So for a city of over a million

people, that makes it pretty special.

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I don't even lock my door, not

gonna tell you where I live,

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but I don't even lock my door.

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You don't have to here

like it's a special place.

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It really is.

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I think we have everything

we're 20 minutes to the beach.

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We have the city like it's magical.

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Tali: Yeah.

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Yeah, let's talk about the details of

this retreat that we dreamed up together.

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So one of the things that I really

want to achieve with this retreat

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is just the emotional space

for women to reflect inwardly.

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We were talking before.

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I don't believe that anybody can

give you answers that your body

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itself doesn't already have.

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And if you would just turn

your attention inward, you'll

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get the answers that you need.

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You'll get the healing and you'll

get the restoration that you need.

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But you can't do that if you're

running your day to day life, because

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there's not that emotional space.

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The main goal that I have when I was

dreaming up this retreat with you

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was just to be able to create that

emotional space for women to reflect

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internally and find their own answers.

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And we decided to achieve

that through different ways.

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So you want to talk about

some of the magical places

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we're going to bring them to?

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Amanda: Yes.

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Okay.

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Top favorites.

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Okay.

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Can I give my number one

favorite and then you give yours?

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Yeah.

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I don't know if they're

different, but let's see.

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Okay.

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My number one favorite that I'm most,

most excited about is doing Uxmal

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Pyramid with everybody together.

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Because actually I have

goosebumps talking about it.

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Because to me, it's a really magical day.

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Because number one it's a pyramid that's

still standing from all the way back.

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And it's not just a pyramid.

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It's actually a whole town.

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It's a town of pyramids.

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We can still walk to the top.

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We can still actually

go inside the pyramid.

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There is it's manifestation energy

there that's you can feel it.

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There's so much nature around, there's

peaceful areas where we're going to

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be able as a group to have our own

space where we don't have all these

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tourists around us and we can do some

energy and manifesting together and

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then we're going to one of my favorite

cenotes, which is pretty local.

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A cenote is actually

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A sacred water space.

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If you do some Googling about the

Mayans it was a sacred water space.

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And I think for us, it's

also a sacred water space.

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So after the pyramid of the

magician, Uxmal will be going

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to do a cleanse with just us.

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So this cenote is not well known.

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It's not on the tourist route.

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It's like one of my favorite

hidden gems that I love to share.

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There's going to be maybe 8 or 10 local

people there and the rest will be us and

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we can have our time and space together.

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That's my favorite.

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Tali: Yeah, that sounds amazing.

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My favorite, I think every

single day is my favorite.

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I'm really looking forward to

the day we will spend in Sisal.

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I was talking to Mercedes' daughter

and she says she grew up in that area

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and every time she takes the boat to

go into the flamingo habitat, she's

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blown away by the majestic feeling that

you just swells up from within you.

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And that's one of the things that we

really want to achieve from all the

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locations that bring you to is just

that feeling that comes from within.

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And so really looking forward to that.

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I think that's going to be amazing.

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I feel like every day is my favorite.

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Amanda: I've made your connection, but

our Sisal day is actually an experience

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that I haven't even experienced.

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So the company that's taking us

out has actually done something

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really special for us that they've

never done for anybody else.

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So I've never experienced it either.

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So I'm really excited.

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Yeah.

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I've experienced the

flamingos and the boats.

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I do it often.

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I was there this weekend.

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Yeah.

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But what we have together

is going to be different.

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So I'm really excited.

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And

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Tali: Sisal is also where you guys are

working to create Bitcoin Beach of Mexico.

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Amanda: That's our vision of

the Bitcoin Beach, Mexico.

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We still have a ton of work to do there.

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We're just tipping the iceberg right

now, but it's a pretty magical beach.

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It really is.

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Tali: Yeah.

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And so we are just by us being there.

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Hopefully we are supporting your

efforts bring attention there and

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hopefully spending Bitcoin there.

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And so I'm looking forward to that day.

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I'm also really looking forward

to the day we get to go and tour

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the Mayan women's the honey farm.

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Amanda: Okay, can I just rip off

that specific thing because you just

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made me think of something one thing

that really felt when we were first

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connected to do this retreat together.

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There was one thing that I

felt aligned with us here in

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Bitcoin Yucatan so much so.

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anyone that doesn't know

our team leader is Mercedes.

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She is an incredible woman who

was born and raised in Mexico and

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she's worked and lived all over

the world with marginalized women.

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And when we were creating the

idea for Bitcoin Yucatan, this

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is one thing that Mercedes said.

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Is that for us, women in Mexico

is probably going to be the most

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substantial entry point because of

how women think of how women work of

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how women take care of their families,

how there's a cultural connection

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here where women are that are it.

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And so when you said I wanted to,

you know, a retreat for women,

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I was once again I'm like, Okay,

this is special so the women of

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Mani, so Mani, I call it Money in

jokes, but the town is called Mani.

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It's a Pueblos Magico and we are working

on hyper Bitcoinizing there as well.

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So it's along our route and

Mercedes has been doing education

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with the women in the center.

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And these women literally run the town.

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Like they are the entrepreneurs

they're the mentors.

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They're really amazing.

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And so this is where all the women

energy of Bitcoin actually has been

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totally centralized, in this one

area is that's really like the big

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basis of our project right now.

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So I think with us women being there

together with the women of Mani,

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and when they see us as Bitcoiners

and them as Newcoiners, I think

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it's going to bring a really awesome

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Tali: connection.

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Yes, definitely.

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And also the honey is magical as well.

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Amanda: Oh, the melipona honey I try,

I'm trying not to say it's honey these

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days because it's actually medicine.

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It confuses people.

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But the melipona is special, so you'll

get to actually see how it's made.

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It's pretty cool.

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Tali: Yeah.

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And then there's the other day that we

are going to spend on a private beach

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by ourselves, our closing ceremony day.

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Okay.

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We have really special stuff planned.

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Are we

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Amanda: like giving out?

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I'm so excited for that day, too!

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That I think is going to be there's a

reason why everybody's going to get a

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little pack of Kleenex in their little

swag bag when they arrive, right?

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Like we have a special bag that's

prepared for everybody on their arrival.

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And there is specific things that we've

created in there that you're going

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to need along this week's journey.

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And that little pack of Kleenex for

that last day that we have together

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I think is going to be really good

because That day, I think with us

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being at the beach house removed

from any other humans, it's just us.

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Like we are so removed from everybody

else and we're right in front

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of the ocean and it's just us.

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So there's so much releasing that we'll

be able to do after everything that

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we've experienced through the week.

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I think we're going to become the ocean.

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It's going to be awesome.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I was looking for a ceremony.

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We have so many, it's going to be special.

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Tali: Yeah.

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What about the first day?

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Because the first day we're spending in

the town of Merida, like the whole day,

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we're just going to be hanging out there.

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Tell us about that town.

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Amanda: Merida, you can look for

yourself and Merida is a cultural city.

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So like I said, this was

the first Mayan settlement.

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Then I don't want to get too far into

history because I nerd out a bit.

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But when the Spanish came over

and of course, there was a

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war that ensued and whatnot.

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And.

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Literally, the Mayans were pretty

much pushed out of Merida into the

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smaller Pueblos, aka the Pueblos

Magicos, that were Bitcoinizing at

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this time, whereas you had the Spanish

came into the city and built these

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big, beautiful colonial buildings.

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It's like a whole entire city of these

big, beautiful colonial buildings.

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And the pride and history

in this town is next level.

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So we have rich culture.

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If you're a foodie, buckle up on day one.

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Because we can, literally it's fun to eat.

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You can eat at any little roadside stand.

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And it's food made with pride,

made safely, made, in the

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Mexican way, but it all works.

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Everybody has pride in what they do.

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When we go to the park, families coming

together and they'll bring their guitars

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and just start playing for people.

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You feel this, there's

an energy of a city.

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But to me, it's like how

cities are supposed to be.

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There's not sirens and lights, like

we can actually all walk together.

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When the night comes low, everyone

lights up, like downtown, there's music

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playing, people put like their tables

at the restaurants out in the street.

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It's a really, it's a people place.

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And we'll just be

spending the day together.

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There's a part of our day where

the roads are closed to the

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public for cars and stuff.

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And it's just bikes and walking.

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So we'll all be walking together.

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You feel there's like horse

and buggies go down the street.

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Like you feel like you've

stepped back in time.

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So it's like a technologically

we're advanced, like we're not

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missing anything for a city.

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We're literally not missing

anything, but you actually do

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feel like you step back in time.

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That's I think one of the coolest parts

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Tali: Of Merida.

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So awesome.

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So looking forward to it.

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I can't wait to share it.

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Let's talk about some of the stuff that

we have planned with the local brujas.

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Ah, okay.

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Amanda: Just to give you a little

bit of a low back on what a bruja is,

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so there's like a brujo and a bruja.

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A bruja is like a woman healer, or

if you ask the local Mexican people,

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they'll just say a woman witch.

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Or a man witch, and it's not a derogatory

term, it's just how it's translated,

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but to us, it's more like a shaman.

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So you can look back in history,

even go look into some like Don

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Juan and Carlos Castaneda, just to

get your own little thing on there.

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But that goes back to the history of how

shamans, brujos and brujas in Mexico have

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been using nature and plant medicine and

energy for healing for so many decades.

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And it wasn't like Europe where they came

and stopped everybody from doing that.

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Like this kind of thing, was it really

apothecary has been alive and well here.

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So there's still like

modern brujas and brujos.

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And so we're going to be

doing a copal ceremony.

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Which is really special.

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Copal is a resin that you, I

believe it's only in Mexico,

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but I, hopefully I'm not wrong.

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It might be in other places.

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But it's a it's a tree

that's endemic to Mexico.

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And it's a resin that comes out,

this resin has been used for years in

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energy cleansing, spiritual cleansing.

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Many women locally and brujas will tell

you at 7pm in their homes, they'll do,

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they burn some copal, because any of the

night spirits that come out to play will

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usually leave when these things happen.

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Yes, we're going to have some bruja time.

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Tali: And just to emphasize, we're

not doing the religious side of

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this for people who are concerned.

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This is just.

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This is apothecary as

you're talking about.

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It's energy healing, energy

release type of ceremony.

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So we're not diving into any

of the local religious stuff.

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Amanda: Yeah.

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No medicines, just energies.

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Yes.

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energetic medicine, I guess

is the best way to say it.

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Tali: Yeah.

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And tell me about the Reiki session.

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Cause I'm really looking

forward to that too.

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Have

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Amanda: you ever had a Reiki session

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Tali: before?

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I brought my daughter to one

and I watched from the side.

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Amanda: Okay.

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All right.

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I think there's a lot of people in this

world that say they're a Reiki master.

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I studied Reiki or I did this, but I

think you already have to have a little

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bit of a bruja to you to do that.

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Like you have to already understand

and feel work with energies.

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So someone who is a strong

practitioner in Reiki, like a truly

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strong practitioner can move your

energies without touching you.

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And you can feel it.

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And I'm not trying to be super

fluffy, but you literally can

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feel things moving inside of you.

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When you're having a Reiki session,

but you're not being touched,

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your energy is being moved.

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And we have a Reiki practitioner that

will be coming to spend time with us.

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Also, she'll be able to do some before

and after sessions for anybody that

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needs to do any kind of releasing

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.

So Sometimes you can't get everything out on your own and you

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just need a little bit of help.

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So we're going to have

that around as well.

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But this is just a moving of energy.

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They're not going to be, it's not a

focus because we're doing it as a group.

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This is more like to get you in

touch with the feeling of your

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energy, because you might not know

where your energies are sitting.

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But if you have an ailment, you might not

know that you have it, but once your qi

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has been moved, you're going to feel it.

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So that's what we're doing.

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Tali: So cool.

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Let's touch on the the other aspect of

the retreat, which is just the building

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of the friendship, spending time

together and not in passing, not like

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a quick conversation in the hallway.

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Hi, how are you?

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How's life?

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But really experiencing all

of these things together.

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We're going to have sharing circles.

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We're going to have breathing exercises.

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We're going to have journaling time.

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We're going to be really mindful about

giving you the emotional space to not only

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connect with other people, but also to be

introspective and connect with yourself.

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So we'll have evening stretches.

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We'll have morning breathing.

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Amanda: We have an afternoon quiet time.

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Yes.

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So lots of times to recollect yourself.

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Yeah.

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We're going to be spending

a lot of time together.

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But yeah, there's things that are

going to come up with us internally

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that you might just need to have a

moment to yourself, or maybe you're so

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happy you just want to have a little

cry and dance it out and you don't

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feel like doing it in front of others.

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You can go have your moment,

but we're also going to be

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doing some of that together.

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Tali: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Looking forward to that.

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I

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Amanda: think we've created

a lot of safe spaces.

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Tali: And it's going to be a small group.

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That's the reason we kept

it very small in number.

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We want everybody to be able to

hop on the same shuttle and just

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be able to spend time together.

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But again, we're going to be mindful

of your own emotional battery.

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Some people have more some

people have less and that's fine.

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And we'll be really respectful

of each other in that way.

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Let's talk about why we're

requiring an application for this.

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Oh, yeah,

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Amanda: totally.

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I actually think that's really important.

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There's something that we

all talked about separately.

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Yes.

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Which makes it pretty valid, right?

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Yeah.

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Do you want to explain a little

first from your point of view?

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Yeah,

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Tali: it's not a way for us to filter

out people we don't want to spend time

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with that is not the reason at all.

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It's just we want to make

sure our goals are aligned.

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So for example, if what you're looking

for is a touristy kind of experience

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where you're hitting a lot of places

checking them off and eating fancy food.

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Unfortunately, that's not what

we're going to be focusing on.

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And if you're coming here

looking for that, you're going

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to be really disappointed.

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And we don't want anybody

leaving thinking, Oh, my gosh,

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I didn't get what I want.

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If you're looking for that deep

connection, if you're looking for the

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emotional space to be introspective, if

you're looking to connect with the Bitcoin

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action on the ground in Merida and general

Yucatan area, this is the place for you.

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So we just want to make sure our goals

are aligned and that everybody will

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be happy who comes on this retreat.

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And again, as I mentioned before, we're

keeping the numbers small because we do

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really want this to be a friendship that

you build that will last a lifetime.

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And in order for you to have that,

you really need to be connected

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deeply and not just in passing and

not in the huge group of people.

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Amanda: Another thing, just being

on the ground that was important

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to me on this application.

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So some of the questions you'll see that

are aligned with how we were thinking in

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the planning is a lot of people that are

coming are, you haven't been here before.

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And you haven't experienced this.

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So it's important, I think for me

and the rest of our Bitcoin Yucatan

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team, while we're planning is to

make sure if you have, any physical

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limitations, that we have what you need.

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If you, so that you don't have to worry

about, oh, when I get here, what if.

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If you have, if you have some kind of

health reason you might need to see

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a doctor or something.

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We need to know ahead of

time so we can help you with

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these things and organize it.

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This is supposed to be about

you arriving, get to the hotel,

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and then you're full on bliss.

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So I think the application, if

there's because all of our meals

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and stuff are included, right?

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So we need to make sure we

have the dietary restrictions.

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If there's anything you don't like,

we need to know ahead of time.

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This means, this is supposed to be

an experience about bliss, so the

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more planning that we can do to

make it blissful for you is better.

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I think that's why it was

so important on my end.

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Tali: Yeah, definitely.

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Let's touch on Casa Bitcoin because we

didn't get to talk about that at all.

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It's within walking distance to the hotel.

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Amanda: It's definitely walking distance.

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It's still a bit of a stroll,

it's we're not next door, but it's

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within Merida Central and it's a

beautiful, enjoyable walk as well.

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So we'll all be walking

together down to Casa Bitcoin.

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Casa, this will be our very first

month, actually, that we'll be

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having people in and out of Casa

Bitcoin is during our retreat.

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We actually have a full time club

space that we're just in the middle

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of some last minute renovations

before we can open to public.

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But, this is a hundreds of year

old building that's a very historic

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building in the downtown in a beautiful

neighborhood called Santa Lucia.

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So this is going to be our full

time club space for us, because we

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haven't opened to public yet for the

retreat is going to be our space.

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So this is just going to be nobody

from the public will ever be in.

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And this is going to be a place

where we'll be going to do some

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workshops together we'll be having

some catered meals there together.

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We have a beautiful outdoor garden

and there's also, like you had

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said, some places that, if you

need a moment, you can have it.

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It's a three story building with eight

rooms there's lots of spaces for that.

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I think it's going to be a great little

central meeting place for us as well,

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when we're exploring in downtown.

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We could just slip in and out, get some

water, have a drink, use the toilet, like

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all those things while we're downtown.

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I think it's going to be our nice

little besides our fabulous hotel is

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going to be our second safe space.

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Tali: Anything I've missed

that we should talk about?

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Amanda: Oh, there's probably so many more.

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I think we need to come back

again when we think about it.

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There's just so much that we have.

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We put a lot of heart and

soul into this, right?

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So I think sharing the exciting

details is going to come out in

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Tali: bits, I think.

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Yeah.

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If you have any questions after

watching this video, you can shoot a

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question in either our Telegram group.

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Hopefully you're part of that.

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If not, the link is below.

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And you can also just email me directly

and I will find the answer for you.

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If we have enough requests, we can

also do a live Q&A going forward.

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Just make sure you go and check

out more details on our website

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at www.orangehatter.com/yucatan

and there'll be more details there.

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The application link is there.

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And I think that about covers it.

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We hope that you can come and join us.

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It's going to be amazing.

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Amanda: Amazing I keep

calling it bliss week.

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It's our retreat week, but I'm calling it

bliss week because I'm really excited and

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I'm really excited to connect with more.

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Everything that was your reason

is the reasons why I'm excited to.

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So thank you

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Tali: so much, Amanda.

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Amanda: Yeah.