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Speaker 3: Welcome to fear Less Fabulous You. I am your host,
Speaker 3: Melanie Young, and Happy New Year. We are broadcasting the
Speaker 3: show on January first, twenty twenty five, and guess what,
Speaker 3: It's my birthday. So this is a pre record because
Speaker 3: I'm celebrating my birthday and I'm going to dedicate this
Speaker 3: show to a few things. One, what it's like to
Speaker 3: be in New Year's baby and special traditions that I
Speaker 3: want to share with you. And two resolutions and what
Speaker 3: I think about New Year's resolutions and what you may
Speaker 3: want to think about as you make them. Because everybody
Speaker 3: I think I know makes New Year's resolutions. They promised
Speaker 3: to lose weight. They promised to take up a course.
Speaker 3: They promised to quit a job or start a business,
Speaker 3: or take on a side hustle, or spend more time
Speaker 3: with family, or spend more time with friends, take more
Speaker 3: time for themselves. Basically, we resolve to do better and
Speaker 3: be better and have a better life. And I really
Speaker 3: hope that twenty twenty five is everything you wanted to be.
Speaker 3: So I was born. I won't say what year, but
Speaker 3: I was born on January first, and normally on January first,
Speaker 3: you want to be the first baby of the year.
Speaker 3: But guess what, I was the second baby of the year.
Speaker 3: I was born probably fifteen minutes after the first I
Speaker 3: don't know, but I was not born as the first
Speaker 3: baby of the year. So I missed all the perks.
Speaker 3: I miss being a tax deduction. My mother said I
Speaker 3: ruined the New Year's party where she had to leave
Speaker 3: because she went into labor, and my dad said I
Speaker 3: was poorly engineered and badly accounted for. Because they said
Speaker 3: that with love, but it kind of throughout my life
Speaker 3: meant that I always had a few things that seemed
Speaker 3: to be tied back to that New Year's Day delay,
Speaker 3: Like I was always running ten to fifteen minutes late
Speaker 3: for meetings. I never could get caught up. I always
Speaker 3: had to work harder to be number one. It seemed
Speaker 3: like I was always number two with everything I did,
Speaker 3: whether it was in course work or competitions, I was
Speaker 3: always second place but not first. And it really kind
Speaker 3: of made me, in one way, want to work harder
Speaker 3: to be number one, and then another way say, I
Speaker 3: don't really care. I'm happy with number two. And you
Speaker 3: know what, it's okay not being number one. It's okay
Speaker 3: being number two or three or four or why bother counting?
Speaker 3: Why bother competing with yourself and your parents' expectations, or
Speaker 3: your friends expectations, or your spouse expectations. Why do that?
Speaker 3: Why constantly have to live feeling you have to measure
Speaker 3: up well? That is how I had to live my
Speaker 3: life all my life because my parents expected me to
Speaker 3: be number one, because I was, you know, in mer mind,
Speaker 3: the best there is. My mother always said I only
Speaker 3: had one child because she was perfect, and she's everything
Speaker 3: we want her to be. That's a lot to live
Speaker 3: up to. So I all my life was competitive and
Speaker 3: went to the most competitive city in the world to
Speaker 3: you know, launch a business and you know, really build
Speaker 3: a major career New York City, and I felt like
Speaker 3: I was always hustling and going and looking for business
Speaker 3: and trying to be my best and being number one
Speaker 3: and on and on. Well, one of the things I
Speaker 3: think one of my resolutions is going to be for
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five is to stop worrying about measuring up
Speaker 3: and being number one. I was born and bred to
Speaker 3: be number one and be competitive and be the best,
Speaker 3: and I was voted most likely to succeed, and I
Speaker 3: did all these things. But maybe it's just time to
Speaker 3: say I'm good the way I am. I'm okay, just
Speaker 3: the way I am, because I'm a lot older now,
Speaker 3: and you know, the offers for jobs and opportunities don't
Speaker 3: come in as fast. But I'm also at that time
Speaker 3: in my life where I'm supposed to be just enjoying
Speaker 3: what I have for the rest of my life. That's right.
Speaker 3: I've lived more than half my life. You may have too,
Speaker 3: so now I just want to enjoy what I have
Speaker 3: of the rest of my life and really nothing for granted,
Speaker 3: every day, every minute, the little things, not the big
Speaker 3: I've made it clear on many broadcasts how things and
Speaker 3: material things no longer matter to me. I seem to
Speaker 3: have a lot left because nobody wants to buy my stuff,
Speaker 3: and I'm not ready to donate everything I have. I
Speaker 3: just want to live with what I have, within my
Speaker 3: means and make my life more meaningful. I'll say that
Speaker 3: again because I want you to think about that. I
Speaker 3: want to live within my means and make my life
Speaker 3: more meaningful. I'm not ready to retire. I want to
Speaker 3: work and do things, even though I'm typically I guess
Speaker 3: statistically of retirement age, and I tell people who are
Speaker 3: facing retirement who really are like, I don't know what
Speaker 3: I'm going to do when I'm retire, and I actually,
Speaker 3: you know, because I was researching the concept of retiring,
Speaker 3: thinking Wow, what would I do if I said I
Speaker 3: was retired. I don't know because I'm always doing and
Speaker 3: being I'm doing this show still and I don't have
Speaker 3: to do the show. It's a labor of love. I
Speaker 3: like talking. I like talking to people out there who
Speaker 3: I hope are listening. I hope I'm making an impact
Speaker 3: and a difference and inspiring others. I told someone recently
Speaker 3: who's one of my social media followers, I have a
Speaker 3: lot thank goodness, he said, I you know, I'm starting
Speaker 3: a new chapter of my life. For over thirty five
Speaker 3: to forty years, I've always been defined by my career
Speaker 3: and what I write about. He's a writer and my topic.
Speaker 3: And now I have to redefine myself when I retire.
Speaker 3: And now I'm retired, and I wrote it back, I said,
Speaker 3: don't retire, rewire. That's the other thing. So learning to
Speaker 3: make my life more meaningful is one of my resolutions.
Speaker 3: And the other is, don't think about retiring, think about rewiring.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's time to step away for the career you
Speaker 3: had in the industry you worked in. Maybe it's time
Speaker 3: to say, maybe I don't want to stay current with everything,
Speaker 3: Maybe I want to just do something else. One of
Speaker 3: the people I know who's a friend, maybe she's listening.
Speaker 3: She's a chef all her life really terrific. The restaurant
Speaker 3: industry is a tough industry. You make really no money.
Speaker 3: You're constantly battling everything. And most of my friends who
Speaker 3: are restaurate tours, independent wines and chefs are struggling. She
Speaker 3: started doing Joey, she started designing beautiful jewelry. Now she
Speaker 3: has customers. She found something to do with her hands
Speaker 3: in a new way. She rewired her talents with her
Speaker 3: hands and her creativity and went from creating beautiful dishes
Speaker 3: to creating beautiful pieces a jewelry. I know a lot
Speaker 3: of people who are doing that right now. They have
Speaker 3: had this amazing run, successful run with their career, but
Speaker 3: maybe the either their career has left them, they have
Speaker 3: decided to leave their career and they're not ready to retire,
Speaker 3: but they rewire. I think that's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3: I'm going to rewire. I want to do more things
Speaker 3: with my hands. Frankly, I've never done anything with my hands.
Speaker 3: I've only done things with my mouth like talk and
Speaker 3: eat and sip and share, and I'm still doing that.
Speaker 3: But I think I want to do something with my
Speaker 3: body and my hands to be creative in a new way.
Speaker 3: I also want to so that's resolution number three, be
Speaker 3: creative with my hands and my body in a new way.
Speaker 3: Resolution number four is one that I'm going to really
Speaker 3: try to draw hard on this show. Is that I'm
Speaker 3: all about living healthy and having a healthy life and
Speaker 3: self care. But it's more than just physical and mental.
Speaker 3: I also want people to be financially well I want
Speaker 3: to really address financial wellbeing, not making money, but just
Speaker 3: living within your mans as I said earlier, and living
Speaker 3: with a life that is more meaningful. I don't want
Speaker 3: to see my friends and my colleagues worry about money,
Speaker 3: running out of it, losing their clients. I have so
Speaker 3: many friends and colleagues who are struggling to keep their
Speaker 3: business going, keep it successful. My heart was broken when
Speaker 3: one of my good friends is a man. He's a restauranateur.
Speaker 3: He is an amazing man. Ionic Benjamin, we love you.
Speaker 3: He worked in restaurants for many years. But it was
Speaker 3: in a terrible car accident in his car skid it
Speaker 3: off a road. I don't know whether there was ice
Speaker 3: or fog, but as a result, Yonic Benjamin's car hit
Speaker 3: a tree. He was badly entered, and he was left
Speaker 3: a paraplegic. Now he could have just said I'm done.
Speaker 3: I'm just done. I'm going to just live on disability.
Speaker 3: But not my Friendonic Benjamin. He was working, you know,
Speaker 3: he was working as a somer. He was serving on
Speaker 3: the floor. He's working the floor, you know, telling people
Speaker 3: how to what to order in terms of wine. So
Speaker 3: he had a wine background, so he outfitted his wheelchair
Speaker 3: with a table so he could still continue to serve wine.
Speaker 3: And a friend of his, you know, nobody would hire him,
Speaker 3: he said, And I'm saying this and he said, man,
Speaker 3: but I'm sure there's many women out there who faces.
Speaker 3: He went on so many job interviews. People didn't know
Speaker 3: he was in a wheelchair and he would, you know,
Speaker 3: wheel in and he said, the look on people's faces
Speaker 3: when the interview would start. They didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3: They had to gather themselves. And of course many people
Speaker 3: did not hire him or give him an offer because
Speaker 3: he was disabled, which breaks my heart because that's wrong.
Speaker 3: You should not judge people because they have a disability.
Speaker 3: And he was quite able to sell wine and discuss wine.
Speaker 3: As a result, a good friend of his in the business,
Speaker 3: Jean Luke could Do, who sadly has passed away, asked
Speaker 3: Janick to work at his retail shop in New York City,
Speaker 3: and fortunately the retail shop had wide corridors so Yani
Speaker 3: could navigate the aisles. But what Yanik learned is not
Speaker 3: everywhere is accommodating for people who have disabilities, especially those
Speaker 3: in wheelchairs. So he pursued a dream. He rewired and
Speaker 3: he became involved with an organization called Wheeling Forward to
Speaker 3: help advocate for people living with disabilities and to make
Speaker 3: places more accommodating for them. And through that he met
Speaker 3: some friends as he continued to exercise and rebuild what
Speaker 3: he could of his body so he could do more things.
Speaker 3: And he has. He's been in marathons, you know, with
Speaker 3: his wheelchair. He's traveled the world. He's amazing. So he
Speaker 3: was able to get a dear friend to help him
Speaker 3: invest in the idea of creating and accessible focused restaurant,
Speaker 3: which he called Contento because he'd finally reached a point
Speaker 3: where he had accepted what had happened and he was
Speaker 3: moving forward, and he opened a restaurant called Contento. It
Speaker 3: was in Harlem. It was I think Contento was the
Speaker 3: one of the first restaurants in the United States to
Speaker 3: really focus on making it all accessible to people with
Speaker 3: any kind of disability. It was designed to accommodate people
Speaker 3: who had walkers and wheelchairs. There was braille on the menu,
Speaker 3: the counters were low, he offered sign language course to
Speaker 3: his servers. He really thought of everything, and then the
Speaker 3: food was arrasing. It was really great food. It had
Speaker 3: a Peruvian theme. The chef had a Peruvian background. The Wineless,
Speaker 3: of course, thank you Janik was terrific and featured many
Speaker 3: indigenous and verse and people of color. You know. It
Speaker 3: was a diversity focused wine to accommodate and acknowledge the
Speaker 3: diverse world of wine. Contento went on to receive many
Speaker 3: accalodes and awards, being named one of the most innovative
Speaker 3: restaurants in the country Accalodes and pressed Like you can't imagine.
Speaker 3: I remember interviewing Yanik and he was on a roll. Literally,
Speaker 3: he was on a roll, and he was raising money
Speaker 3: for Wheeling Forward with a program called Wine on Wheels,
Speaker 3: And I mean, everyone loves Yannick, so imagine what it
Speaker 3: was like to see his post in December twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four that he would be closing Contento on December twenty first,
Speaker 3: and the reasons just frankly gutted me. He said that
Speaker 3: he'd had to take on extra jobs just to afford
Speaker 3: his health insurance. Okay, don't even get me started on
Speaker 3: how that guts me. He had to take on extra
Speaker 3: jobs to afford his health insurance. He had to hire
Speaker 3: a full time security guard at the door at Contento
Speaker 3: because there had been so many thefts and there was
Speaker 3: a crime problem in his neighborhood. Okay, gout costs were
Speaker 3: high and basically he was losing money. And he closed
Speaker 3: Contento December twenty first, twenty twenty four. And I wrote
Speaker 3: him and said, oh man, you accomplished so much and
Speaker 3: you will continue to do so be proud of what
Speaker 3: you did. Don't look back, look forward, wheel forward, wheel forward.
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you the story because you may have
Speaker 3: had not the best year in twenty twenty four. Many
Speaker 3: of us felt twenty twenty four was disappointing. Many of
Speaker 3: us wanted to see the first woman president elected, huge
Speaker 3: disappointment for those who did. Many of us wanted the
Speaker 3: situation in the mid least resolved and hostages were turned home,
Speaker 3: and oh brother, it just keeps going on and on.
Speaker 3: Many of you would hope that the world would be
Speaker 3: a better place for everyone, but there's still school shootings,
Speaker 3: even up before Christmas. There was a recent one, and
Speaker 3: climate change, and climate change is hitting places you didn't
Speaker 3: think climate change would hit, like Asheville, North Carolina, and
Speaker 3: Hurricane Helene. And you know, one side says the economy's better,
Speaker 3: But recently I was getting a facial and talking to
Speaker 3: my facialists, and she said, the economy is worse. We're
Speaker 3: having more of a struggle. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but what I do know is we need to wheel forward.
Speaker 3: We need to push ourselves forward and not allow ourselves
Speaker 3: to live in the land of would have, could have,
Speaker 3: should have and regret. We have to wheel forward. So
Speaker 3: if twenty twenty four was not your best year, don't
Speaker 3: be angry, don't be sad, don't have regret to say
Speaker 3: it wasn't the best year. But I'm going to wheel forward.
Speaker 3: I'm going to find more meaning in me and in
Speaker 3: my life and live more meaningful and live within my means.
Speaker 3: I think you have to do that because you want
Speaker 3: to stay focused and positive. And whether that's I've I've
Speaker 3: decided to retire, I'm done. I've decided to rewire and
Speaker 3: do something new, or I decided to sink into where
Speaker 3: I am and just work harder and be better at
Speaker 3: it and enjoy it. It's your choice. It's your choice
Speaker 3: to decide what you want to do. I'm at that point.
Speaker 3: I actually had a pretty amazing twenty twenty four. Yes,
Speaker 3: I wanted Kamala Harris to become president, and I'm pissed,
Speaker 3: but I stopping pissed because, you know what, the die
Speaker 3: was cast, the vote was cast, and we have a
Speaker 3: new you know, an incoming president who many people voted for,
Speaker 3: and I have to accept that. And I'm not going
Speaker 3: to bitch anymore because I'm not going to spend my
Speaker 3: life bitching and moaning either. I'm just going to keep
Speaker 3: going my merry way and doing my thing and trying
Speaker 3: to be living a life of meaning and being meaningful.
Speaker 3: I had a pretty good year, though, when I do
Speaker 3: reflect back, and I'm going to tell you something interesting.
Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety, oh god, this is a long time ago,
Speaker 3: thirty five years ago. I think it's thirty five years ago,
Speaker 3: or I can't count. One of my bad elements is math. Anyway,
Speaker 3: since nineteen ninety I have celebrated New Year's my birthday
Speaker 3: somewhere different every year. I made it my special tradition,
Speaker 3: so that every year I would start the new year
Speaker 3: on a new foot and a new placed, with a
Speaker 3: new perspective. I wheel forward, as I say, and boy
Speaker 3: have I done some amazing things. It started. My first
Speaker 3: one was Amsterdam. I celebrated in Thailand, I've celebrated in Bli.
Speaker 3: I've celebrated in Borneo. I've celebrated in Nepal, the Himalayas.
Speaker 3: I've celebrated in Brazil, in Chile, Peru, Budapest, Switzerland, on
Speaker 3: a plain to Paris, Edinburgh, Scotland. I've traveled the United States.
Speaker 3: I've celebrated Charleston and Savannah and Nashville and Palm Beach,
Speaker 3: Orlando at SeaWorld and New York. So many places, and
Speaker 3: each has been such an important building block of my
Speaker 3: life and who I am and how I approached my
Speaker 3: birthday and starting a new year and a new chapter
Speaker 3: and a new life and a new attitude. And it
Speaker 3: was really important after my mother died, when I actually
Speaker 3: had no plans because we put all plans on hold
Speaker 3: because we were waiting for my mother to she was dying,
Speaker 3: and she died just before Christmas and my last show
Speaker 3: I talked about that, and we had no New Year's plans,
Speaker 3: and I was just like, I don't know what we're
Speaker 3: gonna do. Maybe we'll just drive somewhere. Maybe we'll go
Speaker 3: up to BlackBerry Farm. It's a beautiful place. We've celebrated
Speaker 3: there in Nashville. We didn't know, and then serendipity landed
Speaker 3: in my lap and a friend of mine in the
Speaker 3: wine businesiness said, I'm organizing a tour de friends, a
Speaker 3: buying trip, and we'd love to have you and David
Speaker 3: join us to see what it's like. Can you leave
Speaker 3: January fifth? And I was like, can I leave January fifth?
Speaker 3: I can leave December thirty first, do you mind? I'll
Speaker 3: pay for my time leading up to that, he didn't
Speaker 3: seem to care. I said, you know, my mom just died.
Speaker 3: I gotta get out of Chadanooga. I can't be in
Speaker 3: this house. So literally, two days before December thirty first,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, I booked that flight through his travel
Speaker 3: agent to Paris, and we spent New Year's Eve flying
Speaker 3: to Paris. It's my first time flying to Paris on
Speaker 3: a plane, so it was a first. We watched the
Speaker 3: movie New Year's Eve on the plane. I cried. I
Speaker 3: was still grieving over mother. Be landed in Paris and
Speaker 3: the city, the Champs Lyse was littered with trash and
Speaker 3: bottles from the night before, and we ate beautiful meal
Speaker 3: of oysters and fresh clowns a coquilage. They call it
Speaker 3: a charming Parisian bistro and drink really good champagne. And
Speaker 3: the way staff brought me my favorite dessert, have LoVa
Speaker 3: with a candle, and I get to tell you, it
Speaker 3: was really special. It was really special, and I realized
Speaker 3: that you can make your party wherever you are. This year,
Speaker 3: we're doing it a little differently. For the first time
Speaker 3: in all those years, I'm breaking Tradisian. I've always celebrated
Speaker 3: New Year's in the same place. Twice. The first was
Speaker 3: when my hut when I was going through chemotherapy, and
Speaker 3: I had planned the trip to go to Asia for
Speaker 3: New Years. My husband's never been and I said, we're
Speaker 3: gonna go to Asia. We're going to celebrate New Year's
Speaker 3: even Cambodia. And I had this, oh, actually, Hong Kong. Sorry,
Speaker 3: we have very dear friends in Hong Kong and we
Speaker 3: were going to fly over and celebrate New Year's with them.
Speaker 3: And my own cologist said, you know, when I realized
Speaker 3: after my double mass ectomy and all the diagnostics came
Speaker 3: back that I would need chemotherapy, my oncologist, doctor Marie
Speaker 3: A Theiadula, said well, we need to start chemotherapy. And
Speaker 3: I looked her straight inly. I said, well, here's my schedule.
Speaker 3: I'm scheduled to fly to Asia for Christmas and spend
Speaker 3: New Year's in Hong Kong for my January first birthday,
Speaker 3: so I can start chemotherapy around January tenth. Will that work?
Speaker 3: And this was November and she looked at me. She said,
Speaker 3: that's not how cancer works. You will start chemotherapy in
Speaker 3: December and you're not going to take the trip. I said, no,
Speaker 3: I'm going to take my trip. This is my tradition. Anyway,
Speaker 3: she won, I didn't. I ended up spending that birthday
Speaker 3: in the Hampton's. A very dear friend just said, here's
Speaker 3: the keys to my house. Go out, because at that
Speaker 3: point I would in the second round of chemo, when
Speaker 3: my hair was starting to fall out. That was the
Speaker 3: first time I repeated a New Year's in the Hampton's,
Speaker 3: and the second was when my husband turned fifty. I
Speaker 3: gave him my birthday. He wanted to go to Switzerland
Speaker 3: to see friends very badly, and we both have dear
Speaker 3: friends in Switzerland's His was in Zurich, mine was in DeVos,
Speaker 3: and I've already spent New Years in DeVos. But I said,
Speaker 3: I'm giving you my birthday and we flew over to
Speaker 3: Switzerland to be with our friends and it was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. This year, I'm doing it again. I'm
Speaker 3: repeating in New Year's, but I'm doing it differently. We
Speaker 3: did in New Year's once because we were always going
Speaker 3: home to see my mom for a long time after
Speaker 3: dad died. We did Chattanooga to New Orleans. We did
Speaker 3: a drive and spent a New Year's with friends at
Speaker 3: their uptown, beautiful uptown home, and she had a dinner
Speaker 3: party and we went to Commander's Palace for my birthday
Speaker 3: and it was very lovely. But now that we live
Speaker 3: in New Orleans, we want to embrace the city and
Speaker 3: all seasons and celebrations because for the first time in
Speaker 3: a long time, I feel home. I love it because
Speaker 3: for many years, whenever I visit and I would tell
Speaker 3: my New Orrollenian friends how much I love this city
Speaker 3: and I would like to live here one day, they
Speaker 3: always said, you're already home. And when I finally got
Speaker 3: here and I said I'm home now, they said, welcome home.
Speaker 3: And that's a New Orleanian term, welcome home. And I'm
Speaker 3: finally home, both physically and emotionally. And mentally, so I
Speaker 3: said to my husband David, I don't need to go
Speaker 3: to another southern city to celebrate. We were thinking about
Speaker 3: going to Savannah. We did his birthday there but at mine.
Speaker 3: But I was like, why go to another southern city
Speaker 3: when I'm already in the most beautiful city in the
Speaker 3: South in my mind and I love it. So we're
Speaker 3: going to spend or we're spending New Year's my birthday
Speaker 3: because this is airing on my birthday here in New Orleans, celebrating,
Speaker 3: and I couldn't be happier because I'm learning that sometimes
Speaker 3: there is no place like home. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 3: travel the world and experience different things and live life
Speaker 3: to love where you are. It doesn't mean I'm going
Speaker 3: to necessarily do this every year, but I'm happy to
Speaker 3: be in a home where I'm having so much fun
Speaker 3: and enjoying life and finding me new meaning and making
Speaker 3: my life more meaningful. So you don't need to escape.
Speaker 3: Escaping and leaving something doesn't necessarily mean you're getting rid
Speaker 3: of something. You will always be going back. The only
Speaker 3: thing you're getting rid of on the first day of
Speaker 3: the year is the year before that. It's over, the
Speaker 3: year is past. It's now history. Today is your gift
Speaker 3: and tomorrow's mystery. So make those resolutions. Don't beerate yourself
Speaker 3: if you don't stick to them. Just make a few.
Speaker 3: I write mind down in a diary to diary of
Speaker 3: every New Year, New Year's Birthday, New Year's Eve, New
Speaker 3: Year's Day, birthday, since that trip to Amsterdam. Think how
Speaker 3: long that's been nineteen ninety and now it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: It's the story of my life. In handwritten diaries, I
Speaker 3: reflect on what the year brought in and what was
Speaker 3: going on in the year. Where was my head, what
Speaker 3: was good, what was not so good? What I hope
Speaker 3: to achieve in the following year. What's my bucket list
Speaker 3: of things to do in life? And as I as
Speaker 3: my life progresses, my bucket list gets smaller but becomes
Speaker 3: more meaningful. It's different. There's different things I want to
Speaker 3: do with my bucket list, and some have dropped off
Speaker 3: the bucket list because I've already done them, like spending
Speaker 3: New Years even Scotland to experience Hogmanay. But you add
Speaker 3: new things like working with your hands and keeping your
Speaker 3: body strong and find meaning where you are enjoying life
Speaker 3: more and worrying less. So think about that as you
Speaker 3: plan your year. Be ready for the unexpected and expect
Speaker 3: to be surprised and amazed what can be. I think
Speaker 3: that's my message I want to leave you with. Be
Speaker 3: always living in a world of awesome. As you're in awe,
Speaker 3: things can be awesome and in fabulous. Be curious, be inquisitive,
Speaker 3: live in a world of wonder. Wonder and learn to
Speaker 3: wander and explore. Seek meaning by meaning fully define yourself
Speaker 3: the way you want to be or redefine. If you
Speaker 3: are planning to retire, say I'm rewiring, spend your world
Speaker 3: and turn it into something beautiful that you want. And
Speaker 3: if shittaki comes your way and something's not great, except
Speaker 3: that that's going to happen too, there's nothing you can
Speaker 3: do except just figure a way to rewire it and
Speaker 3: rethink how you're going to tackle it, because that's really
Speaker 3: all you can do. So Happy New Year to you,
Speaker 3: Happy Birthday to me, and always remember you have a
Speaker 3: choice in life on how you want to live and
Speaker 3: how you want to approach and tackle every day. I
Speaker 3: believe in choosing fearless and fabulous, and I hope you
Speaker 3: will too. Happy New Year, Thank you Jay Dead used
Speaker 3: to dre