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How Television Changed Stephanie Kurze’s Life

Crazy For KDrama, Stephanie Kurze

Stephanie worked up the courage to move to a totally different state and
lifestyle, as well as blogging about Korean TV Dramas!

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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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welcome to the juniors podcast I’m your
host Joe part of and today I am

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interviewing Stephanie curves who is
living her dream by moving to North

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Jersey and running a successful korean
entertainment blog

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welcome to show Stephanie hey Joe thank
you for coming on

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thanks for having me is pleasure to have
you so let’s start by giving our

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audience a background on yourself okay
well I as you said I just moved here I

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live in New Hampshire for all of my life
and then I discovered this crazy thing

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called kdrama which is the term for
korean television and I started a blog

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and it it’s been about hello like
two-and-a-half years now and it just

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completely changed my life and I got
inspired to you move away from my town

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into the city by myself my cat and try
and just experienced a lot new a lot of

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new and bigger things what would you say
is your biggest inspiration i get

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$ADDRESSNUM e honestly I get inspiration
from everywhere it’s it’s almost a

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matter of too much inspiration too much
things just coming into my head I

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started out you know I started out I
knew that I when I grew up I knew that I

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wanted to be a writer was definitely
going to be writer i wanted to write

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books didn’t and I started out doing
that and and I work really hard at

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trying to write and it just you know it
wasn’t working for me and then when i

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started watching these shows and i
wanted to talk about them you know I’d

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had a couple blogs before and they never
really you know i was just knew never

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really inspired to keep going with them
i have a pretty short attention span and

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but this one I just kept going and
really it was having people read me like

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it’s amazing i am i’m such a numbers
fanatic

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I’ll on the back of my blog or you can
actually see

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how many people are are are reading you

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we’re across the world and it just was
astounding that people all around the

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world where was actually interested in
what I had to say and it just completely

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changed my life and I you know was just
really inspired to keep trying and keep

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pushing for what kind of books would you
write as a kid I was always a big big

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into romance I was a big romance fanatic
and so that’s actually what got me into

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