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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll explore how an unexpected weekend getaway
Speaker 3: during a snowstorm leads two contrasting colleagues to discover the
Speaker 3: perfect blend of structure and creativity, transforming their office dynamics.
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Speaker 1: marsoons bring them baker House. The best creazis blank nicht
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Speaker 1: Productividad and Inovatzi and zhou kid is innit a layin
Speaker 1: physik to uch mark ok osenfniute team Narmata de winter
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Speaker 1: zhou Fronda, the cowddach informed and Samowerkin.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any part you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
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Speaker 3: The office was a sea of glass and steel.
Speaker 1: J to rama cake near up the Drugta from the
Speaker 1: ste bar men's haste un snap and the winter coow.
Speaker 3: Large windows looked down upon the bustle of the city
Speaker 3: where people hurried to escape the winter cold.
Speaker 1: Bin In devarmed from the modern ramde ult Blum.
Speaker 3: Inside in the warmth of the modern space sat brom Hey.
Speaker 1: Start in arsenscherm re focused obscense spreadsheets.
Speaker 3: He stared at his screen, focused on his spreadsheets.
Speaker 1: Bloom was a meeto di sepoyecht manager.
Speaker 3: Brum was a methodical project manager.
Speaker 1: Hey yield from order and strictt your.
Speaker 3: He loved order and structure.
Speaker 1: Don't need to holt alas alte nechius forns plum flobe.
Speaker 3: So far everything had always gone smoothly according to plan and.
Speaker 1: The one conte from the gamer soltis.
Speaker 3: On the other side of the room. Sat leash har.
Speaker 1: Comtour wuk sought full met clers hetz envildeide.
Speaker 3: Her office corner was full of colorful sketches and wild
Speaker 3: ideas alls.
Speaker 1: Creative unvereper Zurza alte nainiure sponde maner ding doun.
Speaker 3: As a creative designer, she was always looking for new,
Speaker 3: exciting ways to do things.
Speaker 1: Mar fondach fool de desai routine alsainswedeik.
Speaker 3: But today the boring routine felt like a heavy blanket.
Speaker 1: Bed veliksa for harding slur de spawning.
Speaker 3: Over Tensions flared during the weekly meeting.
Speaker 1: Blum cake fun saint nailis forstele.
Speaker 3: Brum frowned at least proposals.
Speaker 1: The lopen achter. Eh, hey, we are.
Speaker 3: Falling behind, he said.
Speaker 1: The heaben ni pricissi noder hainville deevei seringa.
Speaker 3: We need precision now, not wild changes.
Speaker 1: Ye surte leiche, sighed the mutinet pojet op frise on
Speaker 1: the srack of the a la malfost.
Speaker 3: We need to refresh the project or we'll all get stuck.
Speaker 1: Na the f hadering playfut.
Speaker 3: Still after the meeting, it remained quiet.
Speaker 1: Blon dikt in eer firs metsein pen opodouro.
Speaker 3: Brom tapped nervously with his pen on the desk.
Speaker 1: Yeas cake nei do snail floco di spiels lung set ramdvalde.
Speaker 3: Leish watched the snowflakes playfully swirling past the window, na and.
Speaker 1: Moment von stilte spruck li splotseling.
Speaker 3: After a moment of silence, Leich suddenly spoke.
Speaker 1: Bluem baron cham the neat and weak.
Speaker 3: Enjievet Bram, why don't we go away for a weekend.
Speaker 1: Even uld snap ann advirk and distress.
Speaker 3: Just to escape work and distress for a bit.
Speaker 1: Bluem fulstas and vengbra.
Speaker 3: Bram raised his eyebrows, hey dacht and the dead line.
Speaker 3: He thought about the deadline.
Speaker 1: Mar it e Leise blake rach to Heim.
Speaker 3: But something in leichh gaze touched him.
Speaker 1: Missrien was a date for inferndering.
Speaker 3: Perhaps it was time for a change.
Speaker 1: Zum larfder urselet stemmed heat.
Speaker 3: Without further hesitation, he agreed.
Speaker 1: Suco sfnspontan estay the trip narnabe le Ristat.
Speaker 3: They opted for a spontaneous city trip to a nearby town.
Speaker 1: Op fre de affelt Ftrocus.
Speaker 3: They left on Friday evening.
Speaker 1: De re spauhomhote Marford dots elf smile an affelt male
Speaker 1: hodecun plum feel an enzvire snail storm.
Speaker 3: The journey started well, but before they could even plan
Speaker 3: a dinner, a heavy snowstorm fell.
Speaker 1: In its cleaner hotel, shouland zatu sebey in open heart.
Speaker 3: Sheltering in the small hotel, they sat by a fireplace.
Speaker 1: The storm blocured olave touch.
Speaker 3: The storm blocked all roads back.
Speaker 1: Sir hadefin Enrique sa donteprat.
Speaker 3: They had no choice but to talk.
Speaker 1: The date dru and sam rfen comfortablo op contour.
Speaker 3: Time push them together away from their comfortable rolls at
Speaker 3: the office.
Speaker 1: Natur le bergreb ikt deadlines say yes harhant rustant o
Speaker 1: de zegne.
Speaker 3: Of course I understand the deadlines, said Lise, her hand
Speaker 3: resting on his.
Speaker 1: Marsum spring the baker house.
Speaker 3: The best creazis, but sometimes a little chaos brings the
Speaker 3: best creations.
Speaker 1: Blum knicht nadenkans.
Speaker 3: Brum nodded thoughtfully.
Speaker 1: Iksi nu dot structuur bilong regis mart mahons nite naude.
Speaker 3: I see now that structure is important, but it shouldn't
Speaker 3: hold us back.
Speaker 1: Yeo and ushasme is unstakelik.
Speaker 3: Your enthusiasm is infectious.
Speaker 1: The storm numb ain't look off a metestrall and the
Speaker 1: zumbo for the fierce rafaul of snail and yihershab.
Speaker 3: The storm finally subsided, and with the bright sun above
Speaker 3: the freshly fallen snow, Brahm and Lise felt renewed.
Speaker 1: Selachte and mark to Plomer for junturuchkir not conteur.
Speaker 3: They laughed and made plans for their return to the office.
Speaker 1: Tulu rucom fundism better ritma Fudwerg.
Speaker 3: Upon returning, they found a better rhythm for work met.
Speaker 1: Blum stricture and lease kreatifidate fast comtour nu and e
Speaker 1: fe vicht replek from productifida and Inofatzi.
Speaker 3: With Brahmas structure and lease creativity, the office was now
Speaker 3: a balanced place of productivity and innovation and.
Speaker 1: Zokiir de janit alain pyjique tu ruch mark ok alsenfniute team.
Speaker 3: And so they returned, not only physically but all so
Speaker 3: as a renewed team.
Speaker 1: Narmat devinter forordered the shat new day of ortal bluiant
Speaker 1: on leklading.
Speaker 3: As winter progressed, new ideas took root blooming under their
Speaker 3: joint leadership.
Speaker 1: Zhou Frond de cad dach invarmed ensemwe king.
Speaker 3: Thus cold days transformed into warmth and collaboration.
Speaker 4: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 4: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Dutch, then in English.
Speaker 1: Drukte, dlucte, delucte, bustle, maeto, dishu maeto, dish matos, methodical forcetele,
Speaker 1: for stell for stele, proposals, pray sisi, pray sisi, pray sisi, precision, arseleu,
Speaker 1: arsilin arzileu.
Speaker 3: Hesitation, spontana, spontane, spontane, spontaneous, Souland, Soouland, Souland, sheltering, open heart,
Speaker 3: open heart, open heart, fireplace of numb, of numb, of numb, subsided.
Speaker 1: Enthusiasm, enthusiasma enthusiosme enthusiasm, unsteak look unsteak, look, unsteak, look infectious.
Speaker 1: Here's happen, Here's happen, Here's happen, renewed duvarlde, duvarlden, duvarlde
Speaker 1: swhirling loctor, locter, loctor, touched flunder, the frounder, the frounder,
Speaker 1: the transformed deacon, daked deacon, blanket, op friezer, op friezen,
Speaker 1: op Friezer, refreshed Outina Utina hou Tina, routine, house house, house, chaos, Creazis, Creazis, creazis,
Speaker 1: Creation started, Started, Start stared news here Head news here
Speaker 1: Head news here Head, Curiosity, Blick blick, black case deadline, deadline, deadline, deadline, strict,
Speaker 1: strict to your striped, to your structure Todayful todayful todayful,
Speaker 1: doubt only, naming only, naming only, naming Venture, Funke, Funken, Funk, Spark, Rooster, Uster, Luster, Leisurely, Product,
Speaker 1: Tief Product, Tief Product, Tief Productive.
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