Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery (Happiness for short) is the sister podcast to Counselor Toolbox. Happiness was launched to provide easily accessible tips, tools and tricks to help people achieve their highest quality of life. Each week we delve into topics that will help you enhance your happiness, better deal with addictions, anxiety, depression and understand the interaction between mood, physical health and addiction.
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Psychological Flexibility
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Objectives ~ Define psychological flexibility ~ Explore how to apply psychological flexibility ~ Identify the shortcut question What is Psychological Flexibility ~ The willingness to accept things as they are in the moment and make a conscious choice to act with effective purpose choosing behaviors, thoughts and feelings that move you toward a rich…
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Social Interventions for Depression
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Support from emotionally healthy family and friends is important to recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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An overview of the book 365 Days of Happiness which helps people start each day with a technique to live happier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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Environmental Interventions for Depression
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Environmental Interventions for Depression: Increase the Happy and Reduce the Stress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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Physical Interventions to Defeat Depression
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100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression Physical Interventions Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Counseling Education Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify why physical interventions are important to recovery and happiness ~ Explore different physical intervention…
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Cognitive Interventions for Depression
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~ The way people think and perceive situations has a huge impact on how they feel ~ Helping people embrace the dialectics can help them feel more positive and empowered ~ Just like it is imperative to add happy emotions, it is imperative to add happy thoughts as well ~ By practicing optimism and addressing unhelpful thoughts people can reduce their…
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Emotional Interventions for Depression
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Based on Doc Snipes' upcoming book 100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression. Summary When people are depressed, they often feel helpless and hopeless and nothing makes them happy. By adding in happy things, people can buffer against the depression By addressing the unpleasant feelings, they happy chemicals can be more effective. Emotional interven…
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Understanding the Need for Validation and Control
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Steps Toward Self Validation ~ Identify the values and characteristics about yourself that make you awesome. ~ Make a Bill of Rights. “I deserve to…” ~ Follow your own Bill of Rights ~ Identify the people in your past from whom you craved validation and never got it. Explore why that may have been more about them than you. ~ Identify why you crave …
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10 Tips for Raising a Happy Child
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Raising a Happy Child ~ Help them develop an emotional vocabulary ~ Develop self-awareness, mindfulness and psychological flexibility ~ Develop empathy and compassion for self and others ~ Develop self-esteem and self-confidence ~ Educate about unhelpful thoughts ~ Educate about hardiness ~ Develop good vulnerability prevention habits ~ Teach about…
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Depression and anxiety impact millions of men annually. In this episode for men's health month learn about the causes, signs, symptoms in men (which are often different than in women) and treatments available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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Psychological Flexibility and the Wizard of Oz
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The psychological flexibility matrix helps you identify how you feel and what you need and make informed choices regarding your responses based on what will help you move toward those things which are important in a rich and meaningful life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Gaining Confidence in Relationships
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Gaining Confidence in Relationships • Physical abandonment occurs when the physical conditions necessary for thriving have been replaced by lack of appropriate supervision • Physical disappearance (death, jail, job, choice) • Emotional abandonment occurs when parents do not provide the emotional conditions and the emotional environment necessary fo…
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Time Out Trials and Tribulations
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Time-Out Trials and Tribulations Identify the function of the behavior ~ Not wanting to stop doing something fun ~ Desiring attention ~ Fear ~ Testing limits ~ Trying to get same privileges as older siblings ~ Privilege creep ~ Trying to assert power and control ~ Want to go home or get candy ~ Lack […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap…
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Mindful eating helps you enjoy your food and better manage your calorie intake. Learn... What is mindfulness ~ What is mindful eating and why is it important ~ What are some techniques for mindful eating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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21 Tips to Beat Anxiety
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Based on the upcoming book Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery: 100+ Practical Tips to Beat Anxiety by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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15 Traits of Type A Personalities
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These people are plagued by a sense of time-urgency, hostility and often misdirected anger, poor organizational skills and a tendency to take on multiple tasks simultaneously. Type A people often strive for perfection in everything, which often leads to doing many things poorly instead of doing a few things perfectly. When things do not go […] Lear…
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Living with ADHD With Doc Snipes More resources are available at DocSnipes.com Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity ~ Difficulty getting organized ~ Chronic procrastination or trouble getting started ~ Many projects going simultaneously ~ Trouble with follow-through ~ A tendency to say whatever comes to mind without considering timing or appropriateness…
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Problem Solving and Goal Setting
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Goal Setting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify the purpose of setting goals ~ Learn about SMART goals and how to set them ~ Explore ways to identify their goals ~ Identify the 7 most common pitfalls in goal setting, and […] Learn…
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Goal Setting and Motivation
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Goal Setting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify the purpose of setting goals ~ Learn about SMART goals and how to set them ~ Explore ways to identify their goals ~ Identify the 7 most common pitfalls in goal setting, and […] Learn…
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Setting Practical Realistic Goals
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Goal Setting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify the purpose of setting goals ~ Learn about SMART goals and how to set them ~ Explore ways to identify their goals ~ Identify the 7 most common pitfalls in goal setting, and […] Learn…
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56 -Addressing FEAR and Increasing Motivation to Achieve Your Goals
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With a clear idea of what you want to do, why you want to do it and how to go about doing it, you are well on your way to starting to create your rich and meaningful life. Learn how to clarify your goals, address fears holding you back and stay motivated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Special Episode | Surfing the Worry Imp’s Wave
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Review an amazing resource to help children learn how to deal with feelings of anxiety. Surfing the Worry Imp's Wave...a book, workbook and more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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55-Creating a Rich and Meaningful Life
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Happiness is about having a rich and meaningful life. To create that, you need to know what a rich and meaningful life looks like for you. Learn how to start figuring out the direction you want to go, get motivated, and start making changes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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54 -Positive Parenting and Reparenting | Overcoming a Bad Childhood
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Positive Parenting and Reparenting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox and Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Function of Parenting ~ Form a safe and loving place where people can retreat to ~ Allows the individual to feel more comfortable taking risks ~ Interpersonally ~ Cognitively ~ Physically Function of Parenting ~ P…
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053 -25 Things You Need to Hear
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Tips and tools for reducing stress and improving happiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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52 -Spiritual Principles for Happiness
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Explore some spiritual principles that can be helpful for avoiding or addressing some of the causes of your distress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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51 -Spiritual Steps to Happiness | Connectedness
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Connectedness helps you see how you impact the environment and others and how they impact you so that you can create an environment that brings out the best in you and you can feel like you are making a beneficial impact on the environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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50 -Stop People Pleasing
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People pleasing can be a nice thing to do, but when you do it to the extreme, it drains your energy leaving you feeling exhausted, uncared for and resentful. Explore reasons you may people please and ways to start taking charge of your life so you are able to be there for the people and things that are most important in your life. Learn more about …
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49 -21 Tips for Health and Happiness
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20 Daily Habits Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes ~ Start the day with a mindfulness reflection ~ Envision your day each morning to help you get focused ~ Eat a healthy breakfast ~ Get exercise (2/30) ~ Sit less and stand more ~ Get sunlight (but wear sunscreen) ~ Stretch ~ Practice good sleep hygiene ~ Reflect […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap…
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48 -20 Tips to Help You Lose Weight
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20 Tips to Help You Lose Weight Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Always consult your healthcare provider before making any changes to your nutrition or exercise Intro ~ A pound of fat = 3500 calories ~ If you are losing more than 2 pounds per week, it is very likely you are losing muscle and water weight […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f…
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47 – Tips to Deal with Stress
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Tips to Deal with Stress and Increase Productivity Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Podcast Causes of Stress ~ Politics ~ Relationships ~ Finances ~ Work Environment ~ Too Many Responsibilities ~ Health Problems ~ Unhappiness with Appearance ~ Common effects of stress on your body ~ Headache ~ Muscle tension or pain ~ […] Learn m…
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46 -Relapse Prevention Tools for Coaches
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(This is an episode of Counselor Toolbox I thought would be helpful for you) Relapse Prevention Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHCExecutive Director AllCEUsObjectives~ Define relapse in terms of addiction as well as mental health~ Examine relapse prevention techniques~ Explore needs of the person: Psychosocial and MaslovianWhat is Relapse~ R…
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45 -Eating for Happiness
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1.Don’t eliminate any food (just moderate). Eliminating something can cause you to feel deprived and crave it, or feel sad that you can't have it anymore. Try keeping your less healthy foods out of the house and buy them in single servings. For example, if you buy a bag of cookies, separate them into single […] Learn more about your ad choices. Vis…
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44 -10 Common Dialectics to Embrace for Happiness
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43 – 10 Tips to Quiet the Mental Noise
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42 -Address Cognitive Distortions to Stop Being Miserable
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Anger and Fear are responses to a threat. Depression is a response to a loss or a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. All of these feelings can contribute to misery. When you feel a feeling, the first step is to accept it. Don't fight it thinking you should or shouldn't feel a certain way. You […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho…
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41 -Using Mindfulness to Improve Self Care
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10 Ways to Use Mindfulness to Improve Self Care 10 Ways to Use Mindfulness to Improve Self Care Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHCExecutive Director: AllCEUs.comPodcast Host: Counselor Toolbox and Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery ~ What is mindfulness~ How do you do mindfulness~ FLOAT: ~ Focus~ Let go of judgement~ Observe your thoughts~ Awaren…
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39 -Finding Balance in Life
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10 Ways to Find Life Balance Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director: AllCEUs.com Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox and Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Find Life Balance~ 1. Create a calendar and block out the must-dos~ School/Work~ Sleep~ Shopping~ Laundry/house cleaning~ Bills~ 2. Make a list of all the things you are trying to j…
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38 -More Ways to Deal with Depression
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Depression Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director: AllCEUs.com Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox and Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Prevent Depression ~ 1. Get enough sleep ~ 2. Get regular physicals ~ 3. Eat a healthy diet ~ Good protein ~ Complex carbohydrates ~ Water ~ Minimize sugar and caffeine ~ 4. Silence your internal […]…
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37 -10 Ways to Deal with Anger
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Anger is part of the fight or flight reaction in response to a perceived threat. Learn ways to deal with and diffuse anger and let go of things that are not actually threats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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35 -10 Ways to Deal with Your Depression
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Depression is very common. Learn how to identify your triggers and take steps to prevent depression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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36 -10 Ways to Deal with Social Anxiety
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Social anxiety plagues millions of people. Learn tips to help you start conquering your own social anxiety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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33 -10+ Ways to Improve Performance
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10 Ways to improve performance for yourself or your friends, family or staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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32 -10 Ways to Achieve Your Goals
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Tips for becoming mroe effective at achieving your goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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Learn why you procrastinate, how to address it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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30 -Understanding Diagnosis and Various Causes for Your Symptoms
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When you can't seem to shut off your brain, it makes it harder to sleep and concentrate. Learn about this symptom and more in today's presentation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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30e -Understanding Diagnosis and Various Causes for Your Symptoms
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Difficulty concentrating can make life very frustrating. Learn what causes it and how to address it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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30d -Understanding Diagnosis and Various Causes for Your Symptoms
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Low energy is caused by a variety of things, not just sleep deprivation. Learn about how your thoughts, held onto resentments, environments and physical health issues can all cause low energy and what to do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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30c -Understanding Diagnosis and Various Causes for Your Symptoms
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When you sleep your body restores and rebalances. Poor sleep will cause fatigue, difficulty concentrating and lack of motivation (all symptoms of depression). Learn about what may be disrupting your sleep and what to do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes által
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30b -Understanding Diagnosis and Various Causes for Your Symptoms
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Your nutrition has a huge impact on your body's ability to make the hormones and neurotransmitters to feel happy, manage pain, stave off illness and get good quality sleep. Learn about some things that may cause you to over eat or not eat enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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