{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":1.86,"endTime":4.23,"body":"Welcome to"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":1.86,"endTime":4.23,"body":"Personal Development mastery"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":4.23,"endTime":10.41,"body":"podcast. I'm your host, Agi"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":4.23,"endTime":10.41,"body":"Keramidas, and this episode is"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":10.56,"endTime":16.8,"body":"the fifth in a quiet series of"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":10.56,"endTime":16.8,"body":"personal reflections. Each of"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":16.8,"endTime":23.64,"body":"them also a moment for you to"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":16.8,"endTime":23.64,"body":"pause listen and perhaps to"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":23.73,"endTime":30.12,"body":"recognise yourself in the"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":23.73,"endTime":30.12,"body":"questions I'm asking. If you"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":30.12,"endTime":35.04,"body":"have been following these recent"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":30.12,"endTime":35.04,"body":"episodes, and you will find a"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":35.04,"endTime":40.47,"body":"link to all of them in the show"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":35.04,"endTime":40.47,"body":"notes, then you know the thread"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":41.37,"endTime":46.32,"body":"you've done the inner work. You"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":41.37,"endTime":46.32,"body":"have grown, you have shifted."},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":47.19,"endTime":56.46,"body":"Yet a quiet question surfaces"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":47.19,"endTime":56.46,"body":"and remains, what's next? What"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":56.46,"endTime":64.14,"body":"comes next? 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But something deeper in"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":195.27,"endTime":202.35,"body":"me said, this is an opportunity"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":202.56,"endTime":206.16,"body":"say yes, and so I did!"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":207.6,"endTime":213.81,"body":"That, of course, brought the"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":207.6,"endTime":213.81,"body":"fear of anticipation of you"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":213.81,"endTime":218.7,"body":"know, what could go wrong, and"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":213.81,"endTime":218.7,"body":"all those things the Mind says"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":218.7,"endTime":223.32,"body":"to keep us from taking"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":218.7,"endTime":223.32,"body":"uncomfortable action, but to"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":223.32,"endTime":230.46,"body":"stay in the comfort zone anyway,"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":223.32,"endTime":230.46,"body":"I digress. 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Reach out to me"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":425.64,"endTime":428.46,"body":"using the link in the show"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":425.64,"endTime":428.46,"body":"notes, and we'll have a"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":428.46,"endTime":434.94,"body":"conversation until next time"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":428.46,"endTime":434.94,"body":"stand out don't fit in and don't"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":434.94,"endTime":439.95,"body":"settle for a life that feels"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":434.94,"endTime":439.95,"body":"smaller than the one you know is"},{"speaker":"Agi Keramidas","startTime":439.95,"endTime":440.46,"body":"possible."}]}