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In 2003 Beatrice weighed 200 lbs, unhappy with herself, she realized that she was the only person who could start her weight loss story!

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When Beatrice found herself  weighing 200 lbs, she finally figured out that she was the only one who could change her life. She decided once she got down to the weight she wanted, she wanted to a trophy. Beatrice found herself training for a figure competition, and got her trophy! A lot of discipline was learned from training for the competition.

Three years ago Beatrice was staring down the road that revealed a lost job, a lost marriage all within 3 months. She didn’t take that sitting down, Beatrice is a fighter! She knew something good was around the corner her. Just a few short years later she found herself with the job, the man, and in the place of her dreams. Turns out, the job she used to do became available in Orlando, Florida. Someone from the TV station she worked for contacted her to go and apply for it. Before she knew it she was packing and driving Florida to start a new life with her brand new husband!

Beatrice aspires to be a better person than person she was yesterday. Her weight loss story is a great story of how you can stay strong in the face of adversity. Now that she is an avid runner, she decided to start coordinating her own 5k runs through the mall that she managers in Orlando.

I hope you enjoy Beatrice’s weight loss story, because it is important for you to remember to stay positive!

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Episode 33

Transcription

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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared 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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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m

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interviewing Beatrice fini

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who is living her dream through
attention-deficit disney disorder or so

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she would have you believe

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welcome to the show thank you thanks for
having me my own made-up terminology i

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hope it’s appropriate

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it seems that my talents are all disney
related in some way

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former fashion well you know on the show
we we do love our disney people so

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there’s nothing wrong with that

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thanks so let’s get started by giving
some background about yourself

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well i’m in 2003 I guess we’ll go back
that far i was someone who weigh 200

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pounds was unhappy with myself and
basically came to the conclusion that

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the only person who could change me was
me so I needed to do whatever it took to

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get to whatever I wanted to be and
that’s when I started to search out how

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I was gonna do that

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um I got down to the weight range that I
wanted to be and then I decided that

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after all that hard work i wanted a
trophy so I didn’t figure competition

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and came in third place and after I got
my trophy i retired that night it was a

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lot of hard work and it was wonderful
and it taught me a lot of great life

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lessons about discipline and fitness and
exercise and how to live a healthier

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life and and that took me to a lot of
other places but that’s where it all

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started

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then in $MONTH 2006 i actually went
through a period of time where my

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discipline and all the things i have
learned a couple years earlier helped me

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out a lot because i actually lost a job
of 12 and a half years because i was

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laid off they just the company deleted
my position and i actually got separated

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from a 10-year marriage and had to move
out of a house at eight and a half years

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and all of that job house and marriage
happened within three months so so many

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people were wondering how I could remain

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positive and and basically the only
answer I had was it was just because I

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knew that there was something better out
there that was gonna happen

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all of that was not gonna happen to
somebody without something good coming

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down the road and I just couldn’t wait
for whatever good was gonna start so a

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few years later I actually yeah since
that time i got married to the man of my

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dreams i live in the place of my dreams
and I have the job of my dreams so all

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of that has totally come back around and
one day I was at work I got an email

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from a former co-worker that I worked
with at the TV station that I had lost

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my job at a few years earlier the email
said your job is open and i just replied

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to her you know LOL and she she said no
seriously your job in the orlando market

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at a TV station is open and I can’t
think of anyone who would rather live

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closer to disney than you so my husband
and I i was remarried at that time we

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had just gotten married it was you know
brand new marriage we hadn’t even been

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married a year we talked about it and he
said well you know go for it you love

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Disney you’d love to be down there you
missed working in TV so try it it won’t

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hurt to try

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so I i applied they gave me a couple
interviews on the phone i was a little

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disappointed that they didn’t even fly
me down for an interview because i

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really wanted to come to orlando but
they gave me the job and two weeks later

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believe it or not I was here without
even thinking I was gonna be living in

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orlando but my friend said I have a
guest room and my two bedroom apartment

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so you can stay in my guest room until
you find a place to live so my husband

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was back at home packing up everything
and trying to prepare to move and I was

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just staying in her guest room and work
in a new job and just basically came

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down here on on an email

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who’s like your jobs open and that’s how
my life changed but I’ve always been the

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type of person to just find something
and go for it no matter what direction

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it is no matter what it is is how i got
into the rundisney all that the

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races and all the medals and all the
things that I’m doing now I run with my

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wdw radio running team we raise money
for our dream team project to make a

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wish so we help with children help make
their wish come true by coming down to

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disney i have recently married a couple
of disney world I’ve just every which

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way you can turn it just kind of comes
into my plate and I just figure out how

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to do it and go through the proper steps
to make it happen

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well before we move on could you explain
how you were able to marry a couple in

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the world believe it or not

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Florida is one of three states in the
country that allow a notary public to

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marry a couple and so my friends wanted
a really small wedding is just the two

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of them and their daughter and my
husband was actually the second witness

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because we needed to witnesses and so
they just had a really tiny wedding with

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us they had booked the fireworks cruise
at the contemporary so you know you go

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out on the boat and they even because
you have a driver they allow the

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champagne and the cake on the boat with
you because since you have a driver

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you’re not driving yourself you could
you know we just had a small ceremony

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and it actually ended up with a thunder
and lightning and some rain so we did

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have a back-up plan of where we went
with that but you know because it was so

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small it wasn’t like it attracted a seam
and it’s not something that I do all the

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time you know I don’t advertise that
sort of thing but but you know it’s just

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one of those things that people say can
you do this and I’m like well actually

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yeah i’ll figure out the proper steps to
take I’ve never done it before but we’ll

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figure this out and you know it’s little
things like that and i’m kinda proud of

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that you know you just make them steps
forward to learn new things and always

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try something fun and exciting

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yeah you gotta try that’s that’s usually
the first step towards was cut towards

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completing it this is trying you can
think about things all the time but that

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doesn’t get you anywhere

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that’s one thing people say all the time
like how did you know how to do it I’m

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like what you just have to research it i
mean if you don’t try

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I’ll never actually do anything you know
you could succeed but not if you don’t

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try you could fail but you know I’d
rather try something and then have to

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try it again later than just never tried
to begin with so i’m actually not

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surprised that Florida is one of the few
states that lets almost anybody marry

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people

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oh yeah really that’s a pretty wacky
state you know i was amazed that vegas

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wasn’t on there but you know really yeah
well that would hurt their industry i

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guess that perfect but that’s not
something I generally do but I’m you

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know it just happened a couple weeks ago
and I’m just really excited for them and

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it was another opportunity to learn
something new and just go for it you

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know

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definitely so what would you say
inspires you I just always want to be

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better than the person I was yesterday
somehow and I don’t know what I’m a do

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tomorrow but I hope that I learned
something new everyday the way I look at

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things every single day is like a blank
picture and then you wake up in the

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morning and you create your masterpiece

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so whatever it is that you might be
doing on that one particular day you

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know just try to do it well or do
something

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learn something that you didn’t know
yesterday and that’s what inspires me

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all the time it’s really nice

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how does your dream of getting in better
shape come about I just didn’t like how

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i was at the time and the only way to
change that rather than just sit there

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and complain about it what that wasn’t
fixing anything

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so basically I needed to learn how to
eat better i needed to learn how to

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properly exercised better and to do
things along those lines even after the

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the competition that I did I continue to
work out in the gym and I still do that

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now but the running actually started
from marathon weekend of $MONTH 2012 i

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was down there and the the team that I
run for now we actually had a

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make-a-wish family that was down there
and some of the people on our team got

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the opportunity to meet the family and
they were so incredibly touched at the

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lives

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it they lived you know that the child
that was going through so much the

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family that was going through such
incredible things every single day with

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hospitals and treatments and just the
fact that they had a few days that they

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could just put all that behind them and
just enjoy everything magical it

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it touched them so deeply that on
marathon weekend of $MONTH 2012

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I did probably the craziest thing I
think I’ve ever done and signed up for

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princess half marathon when I was not a
runner i had never i don’t think i have

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run a complete mile at that point so I
had six weeks to train and I started

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training immediately and building up and
realizing what sort of a talent i had

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taken on and it was the inspiration of
seeing you know imagining the faces of

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the make-a-wish children and you know
how they can’t run so I needed to be

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strong and do this for them and in my
head you know I’m thinking all these

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things i literally was crying as i was
running sometimes because i was just

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thinking about the reason that I signed
up to do it and from that point on

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you know I’ve done two marathons two
half-marathons I did the adobe challenge

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this year

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ok congratulations on that thank you
very much that was another huge one for

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me and you know most people stop at the
48.6 but you know i’m just not the

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average crazy person so I met with some
of my friends on Monday morning and we

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rounded out that last one . floor to
make it an even 50 it’s so we actually

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created our own sort of ultra marathon
so we did the 5k 10k half-marathon full

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marathon and then round it out with the
1.4 to make it 50 miles in five days

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so that’s how i got into rundisney and
by being a runner and inspiring some of

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my co-workers and things we actually did
a 5k we coordinated it because I work

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now I work in a mall office and our mall
management office got with a local

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charity families in transition and so we
developed a five

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hey that and we actually put it together
and you know got sponsors and got

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runners and we had a really great
turnout

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februari the first we did our first 5k
get forfeit and so now I have not only

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been a runner but then on the
coordinating side of it as well so it’s

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been a heck of a fun time trying to
figure all this stuff out so something

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that I usually ask the people that are
into disney that are on my show is what

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got you into disney when I was a kid I
always wanted to go to Disney and my

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parents were not disney people i put
that in quotation marks you know they

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they actually said those words to me my
mother was like I’m not a Mickey Mouse

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person and all that sort of thing so I
never actually had the opportunity to go

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until I was an adult and when I did go

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I was so absolutely blown away by how
wonderful i thought everything was that

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I literally was crying when i checked
out of the resort of state i stated the

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contemporary my very first trip and as I
checked out i had just tears coming down

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my face and and that day I doing the
disney vacation club and so I’ve been

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many times since then and now even
though I live here i still go visit and

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use my TBC points and have a travel
agency that I still contact when I like

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to do my disney trip so absolutely still
total disney dreamer because when I got

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there the first time I had always
dreamed of being there and it was like

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every single moment that i was there was
like something I had never had you know

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I’ve never gone on a lot of family
vacations as a kid I’ve never had you

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know that the Disney family the siblings
the fun experiences so many other people

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see so now I get to see other families
doing that and just being a small part

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of that is so fun for me and I’m
silicate hard to so it’s like I went to

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see Peter Pan what time and he was like
will you be my mommy and I said well no

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because I’m never gonna grow up either
so then we decided we were just gonna be

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friends forever so you know it’s one of
those things i’ll just never grow up and

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i’m always enjoyed it so how was your
dream of getting in better shape

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received by your family my mom

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I was not really happy about it because
she was actually a head chef in Germany

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when she met my dad so she really enjoy
cooking and she really wanted me to come

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over and eat more and she was not happy
with my you know food choices and

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dietary changes and the fact that i was
working out so much and they haven’t

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kind of a tough time with it and in fact
my parents didn’t even go to see my show

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so it was kind of difficult to do all
that but it was something that I wanted

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and I needed to do it for my own health
and for my own happiness and I’m proud

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of me to this day and you know they
bought me a necklace and they told me

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they were proud of me but it was just
the fact that i could tell that they

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still wanted me to be the old me what
about moving the disney how was that

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received they are actually down here now
they never wanted to come down here but

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now their health is is not well so i had
to get them closer to me so now my dad

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is thankful that he’s down here i will
never forget the one time that I did get

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them to disney world and I i do think
that my dad kind of liked it his

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favorite characters goofy so he’s got a
little fun side he just do they they try

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to hide it and be adult like a putt but
i think that you know small part of them

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is thankful that I’ve chased my dream
they supported me when I came down here

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and they said that I couldn’t live my
life just by being where they were in

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North Carolina and I did need to do what
was in my heart to do so that I think

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that they really kinda came around to
support me and I appreciate it

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so what steps did you take to get
started could you go into more depth

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about how you got started with getting
in shape and then also go into the steps

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that you took to move from North
Carolina to disneyworld well for getting

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into shape

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I knew that I needed some help in trying
to figure out you know what to eat how

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to handle how much to eat in a day you
know what the proper kind of foods and

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the I learned actually that it’s
probably ninety percent of food ue and

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ten percent x

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ties I mean yes you do need to move and
do things but the whole discipline of

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how much the portions are and the types
of foods that you eat the things like

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that really did mean a lot more than I
thought it did so I learned a lot about

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nutrition I had a trainer at the gym
that really taught me a lot and believe

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it or not at that time I kind of learned
a lot with weight watchers and you know

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counting the points and that sort of
thing just to kind of figure out how to

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make proper to food choices until I I
knew more about it so that was one way

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of doing it and then the trainer at the
gym really they were very blunt about

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the way they worded things and I
appreciate that because I would do like

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an hour and a half of cardio and I would
work my tail off and they came over to

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me one day and said you know I see you
in here working so hard and you’re not

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making physical changes so you know I
feel like you want to put the work into

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it you just don’t know how

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and they looked at me and they said well
you know what do you want to look like

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and they said . me . someone in this gym
that you would like to look like so I’m

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sitting there on the bike you know i
like what i want to look like that and

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they said well you know what is she
doing is she over here you know peddling

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on the bike or she was actually over
lifting weights and and Tony and so they

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said well then why aren’t you over there
doing back from that point on they

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started to teach me how to do the
exercises properly its own and so

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between the dietary changes i was making
and the toning and the new exercises

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that I was learning that really helped
me start to make the physical changes

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and moving down here was just an
amazingly fast process

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I mean two weeks after I even thought
about it I was packing up the car

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because i had the email that you know my
job was open and I did some interviews

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and then they said that you have the job
but we really need you to start right

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away i had a friend and co-worker and
then my other person was a manager that

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worked at that station that actually
hired me in North Carolina the TV

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station i worked for so between the two
of them one hired me one had worked with

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me before also and they were saying

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you have got a guest room for you to say
in all you have to do is just get down

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here so i just loaded up the car I was
like Beverly Hillbillies you can almost

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not see-through see the rearview mirror
by I was packing you know gym clothes

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were closed recreation close because i
knew i was gonna be trying to get the

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disney world on the weekends and you
know just so much going on and I haven’t

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even been married a year yet

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my husband was back at home packing up
the townhouse and figuring out what was

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he gonna do because he didn’t have any
job plans down here I mean this was just

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totally out-of-the-blue so we really had
a lot of changes to make but I totally I

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think him but I totally got out of the
whole packing and moving sequence he had

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to do all that stuff I was just down
here in doing in life but so he gets a

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lot of credit for all he did on that one
because I just I came down here and and

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just enjoyed every moment of the
transition I don’t think you mentioned

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earlier what do you do in the television
industry

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well i actually started out in a
production in audio and camera and all

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that sort of thing and I decided at that
point that I wanted a more normal

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schedule because i was either come into
work at like 330 in the morning or I was

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there until midnight basically so and i
was working every holiday because on

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christmas day you’re sitting at home and
you know there’s news people are on

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there so because i wanted a more normal
life

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I got into the sales department and i
worked as an administrative assistant in

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sales so basically my job at that point
was to create the presentations that the

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sales people would take out and sell
commercials so that I love when that

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position was eliminated then I ended up
in a mall management office which is

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where I work again now but so after 15
years of working in television station

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in Orlando was a little bit different
than I was used to in North Carolina

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basically what we call a try opoly so
it’s kind of three stations in one so

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there was three different stations of
people selling commercials three

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stations of program logs with all

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look the television programs on them
three stations of all the commercials

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and you have to input all the
commercials with you know the

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appropriate dollar signs that people
paid and exactly what show they put him

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in and you all the details to the TV
world and because they were three

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stations in one and so many people were
stressed out it was a completely

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different world and I decided that with
the stress level that I had I just I

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needed to find a more happy place so I i
left the TV world after 15 years and

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working the mall management office again
and every day i’m so thankful because

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it’s it’s fun

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I mean every day has its challenges
there are still things that happen with

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you know tenant issues or customer
issues or you know Christmas time and

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you know that busy busy times and you
know they’re all sorts of things that

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happen but I’m thankful everyday because
i truly love what i do now and to me

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it’s a much happier environment it’s a
great team and we really work together

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every day to just do the best we can do
and the fact that the stress level is so

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much lower and it really helps that it’s
not like you’ve got three stations that

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every commercial has to be there and
every years it’s just a whole different

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level of all that has to go on you huh

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there’s still a lot of work but you know
it’s just a much happier place to be

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you definitely got enjoy what you do
since you gotta do it for about 40 years

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or so give or take

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give or take a decade it’s like a friend
of mine says you know if you love what

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you do you never work a day in your life
so you know I had to get myself into a

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place where I wasn’t so worried and
stressed out so this is actually you

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know I did love working in television
but you know this what I’m doing right

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now is like a dream come true so what
were boxes you hit first with getting in

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shape and then also with moving there
are always things coming at you you know

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just the whole life in general you know
you’ve got stuff that happens but every

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single thing that happens helps you down
the road that you’re supposed to go

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oh and i truly believe that you know
sometimes we make our choices and you

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know there they might be the long road
but you’re gonna learn a lesson that you

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were actually meant to learn and
sometimes it will make you tougher

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sometimes it will make you stronger

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whatever the reason for you going down
that road I just really truly believe

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that everything has a reason and that
everything makes you better

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so don’t ever let anything coming away I
mean between job losses or you know

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having to move and times when you really
didn’t plan to have to move or you know

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just different life things that are
thrown at you and it always makes you a

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better person and it helps you to figure
out where you’re meant to be what you’re

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meant to be doing what makes you happy

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how you get there and if you’re not
there right now if you don’t like what’s

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going on in your life change it and if
you can’t change it for whatever reason

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change the way you look at it because if
you can change the way you look at it

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and become a happier person that will
help you get through every day to get

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where you want to be so my next question
is how you overcame those things but you

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kind of already hit that one out of the
park so thank you

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so there’s been a part of your dream
that haven’t quite worked out i don’t

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think so because the way I look at
things as things are never over

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so you know there was something that
maybe hasn’t worked out yet I can’t

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think of anything but you know if there
was something it’s not over yet you know

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you’re still on the road to get there so
you just always got it as long as you

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just keep making steps forward and when
those things get in your way to slow you

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down

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always remember that the roadblocks are
not setting you back to the beginning

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they might take you back a step or two
but you’re not going to start over so as

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long as you don’t get frustrated and
stop you’re gonna keep going in the

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right direction even if you have to go
around that little block to get there

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you can still you know start from where
you are and not the beginning any

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anymore you’ve already passed that point
so if you were stranded on a deserted

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island with your family what three
things would you want to have with you

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let’s see i would probably need the
internet i don’t think i could do

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anything without that anymore

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you know as long as I had my husband
there with me we can get through

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anything together you know i’d probably
have my little disney dreams and you

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know be trying to find a way to get a
boat to get me to Disney World for

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vacation but I feel like flagging down
the disney cruise ships to get the

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iphone honestly most of my stuff is just
you know the mental the motivation the

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determination so that no matter what is
around us we could get there you never

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know what kind of situations re-enter
where you are what you’re going through

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or what’s gonna come at you but you know
as long as you’ve got what’s going on

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inside your head you got the faith in
the belief in the determination and the

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positive attitude to get through
anything

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then it doesn’t matter what tools you
have they’re gonna work

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so what are your dreams for the future
look like I would love to remain in this

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area this is the place I’ve always
dreamed of being so I hope to stay here

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forever

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I do honestly kind of hope that somehow
my life might take on a little bit more

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Disney you know I have so many friends
that do you know podcasts and blogs and

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and i have a blog that i actually don’t
have much time for between working and

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you know working out running in and I
volunteer with runDisney events and i

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just recently volunteered with Special
Olympics Florida so with all of the

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different like I said the ne D D D
attention-deficit disney’s order

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anything related to disney the Special
Olympics withheld at ESPN Wide World of

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Sports so by being affiliated with
Disney sports enthusiasts i was able to

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volunteer and really see the faces of
those kids and and I just hope to

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continue to you know if I’m not running
I’d like to be volunteering I’d like to

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be doing more with all of my friends
that do the you know Disney dreaming

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things that just like you do and I love
your show and I

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every enjoyed it so far but you know so
many people have so many great things

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that they’re doing and I just I would
love to somehow find a way to to be more

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part of all of the the disney fund that
everybody’s having it

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well thank you for the compliments i
really appreciate that oh you’re welcome

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i’ve really enjoyed it and you know I i
just love to see all the things going on

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and all the positivity and you know
you’re helping a lot of people to get

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where they want to go and and that’s
another thing that I want to do as well

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you know it’s just like Disney says that
you know anything can happen as long as

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you have the courage to dream it if you
can dream it you can do it all of Walt’s

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wonderful quotes that you know we look
at we read every day we believe in

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ourselves so that we can do something
great and that’s really what it’s all

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about is trying to help other people to
actually think about you know getting

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off the couch and figuring out how to do
something themselves or you know if they

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can’t figure out how to do it themselves
they can listen or read about how

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somebody else did what they want to do
and you know just by knowing that

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someone else did it might help someone
to think maybe I can too

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yeah i mean that’s definitely the mantra
of the show and definitely try really

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hard to motivate other people to do what
it is that they love to do so do you

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have any last thoughts to share with the
audience now i think i had shared so

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much and and gone in about every
different direction that their head is

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probably spinning as much as mine is but
but you know I I just enjoy everything

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i’m one of those people that you know if
you hear if you watch the movie up you

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know you see squirrel and the little
dogs like squirrel you know you focus on

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that until the next thing comes across
and they’ll focus on that

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so you know I’m very much like that and
I put myself into something with

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everything that i can at the moment
until the next thing comes along and

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then I jumped into that and so I just
hope to continue to do that and i hope

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to somehow inspire some other people to
do the same thing

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well I hope so too which like the plug
any websites Twitter’s facebook pages i

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am on a facebook and twitter is Beatrice
Feeny my blog that i would love to have

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more time for I

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is doing one every month or so or week
or so for as often as I can but my blog

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is that Disney girl in orlando so I do
enjoy showing some of the things that i

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had the opportunity to see and enjoy
disney or you know I put a lot of

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pictures in my blog and different events
that disney has that you know like the

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24-hour day or rundisney volunteering or
you know different things like that you

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know so if I get a chance to participate
in something i do enjoy writing about it

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and showing some pictures of how that
all goes about so those are my ways

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while make sure to have them in the show
notes thank you for coming on the show

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Beatrice I really appreciate it

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your story is very inspiring and I hope
that it touches a lot of people

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oh thank you so much thank you for
having me i really appreciate that and

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what your show so you keep up the good
work too and thank you so much thank you

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I’d love to have you on again like six
months to a year and we can talk again

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and and follow up with how you been and
what you’ve been up to

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oh that sounds great we’ll see what I
get into between now and then we’ll take

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care

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I think you to thank you for joining us
for this episode of the dreamers podcast

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yeah