221: 🎯Going "all in" on your biz in 2025? Here's my advice🔥...

Hi there,⁠
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Are you thinking about going ALL IN on your business in 2025? If so, you’re going to love this week’s episode of The Mind School Podcast! 🎧⁠
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I’m diving deep into what “all-in” really means and sharing my best advice for making it happen without burning out or losing yourself in the process.⁠
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Here’s a sneak peek of what we cover:⁠
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✨ Define Your Version of “All-In”⁠
Before you take the leap, decide what “all-in” actually looks like for YOU—and make sure it aligns with your values. Your why matters.⁠
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✨ Find a Role Model⁠
Success leaves clues. Pick someone whose business aligns with your vision, and soak yourself in their mindset and strategies.⁠
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✨ Keep a Part-Time Job⁠
You don’t have to risk everything at once. Having a financial safety net can help you build your business from a place of creativity and confidence—not desperation.⁠
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✨ Play the Long Game⁠
Big goals take time. Stay consistent, patient, and focused on building sustainable success.⁠
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✨ Learn the Right Skills⁠
Your business can’t thrive on mindset alone. Invest in learning the skills that will set you apart—sales, marketing, leadership, and communication.⁠
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✨ Get a Mindset Coach⁠
Your business will only grow as much as you do. A great coach can help you navigate fears, self-doubt, and the mindset shifts needed to scale.⁠
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✨ Set Boundaries and Find Joy⁠
Have a hobby that fuels your mind, body, and heart. Boundaries aren’t just important—they’re essential to creating a business (and life) you love.⁠
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This episode is packed with practical tips and strategies to help you make 2025 the year you step into your power and go all-in with intention.⁠
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Listen here:⁠ https://youtu.be/Aiphh2QErec
Join the LUL2025 Waitlist here! 
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Big Love,⁠
Breanna 💛

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Transcript

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Music. Welcome to the mind school, the classroom for your mind and soul, where we design our lives from the inside out. Here you will find a human first approach to life, business and relationships, to create freedom, growth and constant evolution through mindset, emotional intelligence, leadership and connection to self. I'm your host, Breanna may educator, CEO mindset and business mentor, and my mission is to teach the things we were never taught at school so that no dream is left on the pillow and no purpose left unfulfilled. Here, you can expect a lot of laughs and thought provoking conversations as we squeeze every drop of juice from this beautiful, precious, crazy thing called life. Hello. Welcome back to the mind school podcast. I am going to dive into today's episode, which is all about going all in in your business in 2025 if you are somebody who has been, you know, dreaming of going all in on your business, working part time or working full time, but then doing your side hustle thing, and you're like, No, this is the year that I am really giving it a crack. This is the year that I'm going to make my business my full time income. This is the year that I'm going to really make something of it. This episode is for you, and I'm sort of reflecting a little bit on the things that I wish I'd known when I'd started, or the lessons that I learned, or the things that really put me in good stead to create a full time, sustainable business, which I absolutely adore. So I wanted to share the tips that I have for going all in on your business, whether that's coaching or not something outside of it. These are the things that have really helped me. So I'm going to start with my win. My win is that I'm meeting up with my best friend, literally in like 45 minutes, she's actually coming to the studio. We're going to do some chats. We're going to have an in person podcast episode. You might even know her, Steph is coming to meet me, and then we'll go for a drink and a bestie catch up, which my soul is really feeling like it just is craving. So I'm very much excited for that. And my challenge is, I don't have one today. I'm so sorry. I don't have a challenge. Actually, I'm not sorry, but it just is what it is. I Today's a good day. Actually, I lie here's my challenge. Right before I recorded this episode, I recorded an absolutely incredible episode, and before that, I'd been I'd hit record. This is the realities of content creation, fam. This is the realities of having a podcast. This is a reality of a YouTube channel. This is the reality of teaching. Even some days you just feel like you're on, like you're delivering, you know, those moments where like, Oh, I'm on, like, I'm delivering my best work, I'm fire, like things are landing, I'm being funny. I know all the content, it's just flowing. And then some days you hit record and you're like, what are words and like, get really in your head. You're like, who even cares? Like, all of that stuff. And I just want to make that really clear and normalize that that still happens no matter who you're looking up to, no matter who you're listening to, no matter who you're listening to and learning from the people who are really confident speakers, they still have days where they get caught in their head and where it doesn't land and where it's not fire. So anyway, I had one of those days this morning where I hit record. I was in my head. I kept getting frustrated. The words weren't coming out. Finally, I got myself into the groove. I recorded an incredible episode, incredible I was like, Yeah, girl, she's on. And then I realized that I hadn't hit record. So here we are recording the next episode, even though the last one didn't happen. I'll come back to it later. But that is that is actually my challenge. So I lie. My challenge is sometimes getting caught in my head, doing content and secondly, not even recording it when I am on. Love that for me. So let's get into my advice and my tips for going all in on your business in 2025 First things first. What even is your version of all in? I hear this term like thrown around. Are you going all in? I'm going all in. What does that actually mean to you? Think it's important that you get really clear and you define your key terms. You define, what does all in mean for you in this season of your life, if you're going all in but you have little ones, what does that actually mean if you're going all in on your business? What does that look like in terms of hours? What does that look like in terms of days? What does that look like in terms of investing? What does all in actually mean to you? What are the boundaries, sacrifices and payoffs that you are willing to make in this season of your life so that it aligns with more of your lifestyle goals, your values and all of that stuff? I obviously come from this, from a very biased perspective, because my personal preference is always life. Life and human first, and then I decide how all in I'm going in my business, depending on all of my goals. My goal might be really, really health focused. My goal could be that I'm in a season of, you know, one year, one time in the near future, I'm sure that I'll be in a season of, sort of consolidating and being in my new motherhood phase, like, that's another goal that all in might not make sense. Or my version of all in might be all in three days a week, or all in four days a week, or all in while I'm still my season for travel, like, I've had different seasons. But I think it's really clear for you that you define, if you're going all in, what does that mean? What does that look like? And therefore, what are you willing to do for it? Invest in it, and all of those kinds of things. So what is all in? Second piece of advice, if you're going all in on your business in 2025 is find a role model who you genuinely look up to for the way that they build or built their business, and for the way that they also live their life. So look for a role model, who you vibe with on a values level, who you vibe with on an ethics level, and who has a business similar to what you want. The reason that I say to find a role model is because if that role model has lots of content, has lots of long form content, has courses, has programs, has coaching containers, or just has lots of freebies that you can immerse yourself in. What that's going to do is help to change your psyche and your reprogramming. It's a really loud place when you go all in on business. What I will say, and what I found is that it can be loud. It can be loud on Instagram. It can be loud when you get different advice. It can be loud because there's so many different strategies. It can be loud because when one person says Zig, the other person says zag. It can be loud because one person says niche, and the other person says don't niche, and all of that can be confusing and it can be overwhelming. And the last thing you need when you start a business is overwhelmed, because that is one of the main issues or challenges or obstacles that I see people in the startup phase of business, is that it is overwhelming. And so my advice would be, find one or two mentors, and this can be official or unofficial mentors, one of my mentors, who was my actual paid mentor until he sadly passed. When I say sadly, he was of old age. So I'm very, very happy that, you know, he lived a full and rewarding life. But my mentor was my mentor, and still, now is my mentor, even though he's not on this earth. Just last night, I had a sauna. I was feeling a little bit unaligned. I was feeling a little bit flat. I was feeling like I needed guidance and I needed to get back into the psyche. That was his conditioning that actually changed my life. So I got in the sauna, I listened to his words, I got put back in his energy, and I got I attuned myself to his consciousness, and that helped me so much. Now you've got to choose somebody who you really resonate with, who you're like, I just vibe with them. I don't know what it is, and I love the way they lead their life. I love the way they've built their business. I think that they're really embodied. I really want something similar to that. Get that mentor and just bathe in their content, bathe in their psyche, listen to their stuff on repeat. Start to think like they would. Start to ask the question, how would they respond in this situation? How do they walk into rooms? How do they think? How would they react to this? What decision would they make in this environment? That is something that I think of often, and I only have a couple mentors. And the side tangent there is be very, very, very considerate and almost protective of who you choose, because who you choose as a role model or a mentor will have so much impact on you. Choose wisely, and then, I would say, unfollow, unsubscribe, and sort of put your blinkers on and just have one or two mentors that you listen to and observe and outside of that don't get caught in the noise, because it can be overwhelming, and so, like I said, I would suggest that you do some paid mentorship or courses or something from your role model. But if you can't, like I said, I physically cannot, my number one mentor is no longer on this earth. I listen to his words every time I need it, and he is still my mentor that I choose to embody because he lived a life that I find very admirable. So think about who that person is and invest into just getting into their psyche. Number three, this is not the most common piece of advice, but it's one that I stand for, and I'll preach for a long time, purely because it helped me so much. But it is not the common thing in this space, and that is, keep a part time job. Have a part time job while you're growing your business. And the reason this is almost counter intuitive is because people think going all in on their business means quit your job, cut all ties. It's almost like in the business world, there is. This sense of shame for having a job, or this sense of like I've gone backwards or I haven't fully made it yet if I have a job, I do not believe that. I think it actually is the biggest amplifier to your success to have a part time job that does a few different things. One, it gives you that bullet and consistent security blanket so that you can make more bold moves within your business. It makes sure that you're not in complete scarcity. You're not spiraling in an unsafe nervous system and then creating just doing things in your business that are a bit shady, because let's be honest, when you are in a place of scarcity, when you are spiraling, when you don't feel safe, when you feel desperate, what kind of energy do you believe you put into your business, and what kind of humans are you going to attract in from that frequency? It's just not a nice way to do business. And you start to say yes to things that should actually be a no. You start saying yes to clients and over delivering, and then getting burnt out, and all of a sudden, business doesn't feel good because you're doing whatever you can just to get by. So my advice is to get a part time job. Second to that part time job, and the other tangent to this part time job is either one of two things, get a part time job in a realm that is going to amplify your skill set in your business. So let's say, for example, you have a coaching business, but you work part time for a marketing agency that, to me is like, win, win, win, win, win. You're learning skills that will actually amplify and expand you in your business, and that is incredible. So get a part time job where you're learning skills that you can bring across to your business. That's what I did. I was making multiple six figures consistently, and I was still working part time inside another coach's container as their resident mindset coach. And that income just felt so nice, and it gave me that freedom and flexibility. I didn't even pay myself in my business because I kept reinvesting all my money, and that allowed me to grow, to get team, to get systems in place, because I was being quote fed by my part time job, and that meant that I wasn't operating from scarcity. So in that regard, I had a coaching business, and I was part time working as a mindset coach, which was further developing and expanding my skills and further growing my business. But the other option to a part time job, which is just another piece of advice that I would say, maybe even for if you are somebody who goes so all in on things that it becomes almost obsessive and you can't relax and you can't switch off, and business is taking over. I would suggest getting a part time job that is actually completely mindless and unrelated and almost like just mind numbing or creative or like, for example, I've had this. I've literally joked about this with my mom, where I'm like, I actually wouldn't mind being a barista once or twice a week now, and I'm talking now fam like that is purely because I like being out and about and talking to people and having chats and and not being so serious, and being outside of my own head, and all of those things. So having a job where you're literally pouring pints and chatting to people and yarning to people or something like that, where I remember back in the day, when I was a uni student, I used to do like, Great picking down south, and that was just something that you did as a uni student. It was really good money, and I loved the mindlessness of it, but then the mindfulness that came with it, when your mind or when your body is busy doing something and you're just in this sort of flow state. In that particular instance, it was just picking grapes and picking fruit. That's when ideas came, that's when inspiration came. That's when I had so many moments of clarity just through doing something that was actually repetitive and monotonous, but it put me into a flow state. Looking back, a lot of the jobs that I had when I was at uni, put me into a really repetitive like flow state. I used to be a pill popper. And I mean that, I mean that in so many different ways, I used to literally be quite a party girl, but actually, my job when I was finishing high school and then saving for uni was that I was like the Webster Packer in a pharmacy. So you know, how old people get their medication all in these like Webster packs. I was the person in the pharmacy that sat literally for eight hours a day popping pills into their and I was fast. I was like a robot, like I just loved that monotony, but it was so I think now looking back, it's probably a little bit of the spicy brain. It loved that mindlessness, but also being active, but it was also where I had so much time with my thoughts and where ideas came in and things like that. So if you're going all in on your business, this is contrary to popular to belief, you can be all in on your business and have a portfolio, sorry, a part time job. And I believe, if done correctly, that part time job can actually collapse timelines in your business, because you'll be doing things from such a clean energy and a grounded space. Number four, my advice for going all in in your business is to be playing the long game. Um, and that can be challenging. My I'm someone who I can think really big picture. So I find it really easy to think long game. But then I often find it a little bit more challenging to get down into the nitty gritty details, but having a long term vision and a long term game, what it's all moving towards and allowing, like, it's like this, it's a really interesting dance, and we, I call it calm urgency, like grounded urgency, where it's like, this needs to happen and it's gonna happen fucking soon. Like, let's fucking go, let's collapse timelines. And I will do it for as long as it needs to happen. I've got all the time in the world. It'll happen when it happens. And I'm acting with calm urgency. So I think it's really helpful to have a long term as in, where is this all going? Like, where would you love it to be three years, five years from now, and then starting with the end in mind, and reverse engineering that, because if you only do short term planning, and you don't really know what it's all for. It's going to be really easy to get bogged down in the minute day to day, and that can take you away from like the excitement, the passion, the the locked into the vision, the locked into the big dream, because you're just so bogged down in the nitty gritty. So I think having that vision that keeps you going when you do have to get down into the nitty gritty can be really helpful. So really, when you're going all in on your business, think about what it's all for and be willing to do it for a long period of time. One thing that I've definitely learned with business is that if you consistently seek instant gratification, business won't feel good for long. It just won't Yeah, you can keep getting to those goals and you can keep getting the gratification, but if you're not doing it because you love the process, however long it takes, business will not feel good. So you kind of need to have a big vision and then make sure that you are enjoying the process of getting there. And yes, you want it to be quick. Yes, you want it to you want to collapse timelines. You want it to work quickly. You want to be in it soon. But you've got to be someone who enjoys the process and the journey so that you can also be okay with I'll keep doing this as long as it takes. I'm enjoying the process and who I'm becoming. So have a long term vision in mind that was number four. Number five is prioritize learning skills. And the part about learning skills is that it feels crap. Learning Skills, when you are starting from a newbie, from a beginner, it actually sucks, because you feel clunky, you feel awkward, you feel cringy. You have to embrace all of those things, because you are going to need so many skills in business that you didn't even know you needed, or that you don't even realize that you currently aren't even very good at you might be even unconsciously incompetent, not realizing, oh my gosh, I'm not actually very good at this. I came into business with such an inflated it was almost like ignorant bliss. I came in with a background. I was like, I've got a law degree. I've got a journalism degree. I've been a senior English teacher. My whole career has been about communication, writing, copy, literature, all of these things. I was like, I'll be able to write a sales page. No, like, that'll be so easy. I can create content. This is easy. I'm so good at this. And when I look back at my first pieces of copy and content, I'm like, oh dear Gosh, you didn't even know that you were so bad. And so we need to check our egos, and we need to really prioritize being someone that consistently refines and learns new skills. Business is going to be about lots of different skill sets. So have a think about what are the skills that you are actually quite confident in, and what are the ones that you know let you down. For me as an example, I'm actually pretty confident with, like the creative stuff, the content, the podcasting, the speaking, the creating courses, all of that. It's the nitty gritty, it's the spreadsheets, it's the data, it's all of that where I know I need to build skill sets and I need to actually stay with the disgusting feeling of I hate this. This doesn't feel good. I don't like this. Let me get away from this. I'm not good at it. Blah, blah, blah, the overwhelm. I need to stick to it. And this is my consistent thing in business, staying with the skills that don't feel natural to me, and not letting that be an excuse not to learn it. Because if you just turn a blind eye and you think, Oh, just delegate, delegate, delegate, you don't actually become an empowered person, and you don't even know if your team is doing a good job, because you didn't first learn the skill to be able to direct your team when you grow and scale. So in the startup phase, it's actually so important that you prioritize skill sets. And I mean marketing, I mean advertising. I mean sales, I mean content. And if you're a coach, the skill of coaching, I won't rant, but if you're going to be a coach, it goes. Because I would have thought it's common sense that you would prioritize the skill of coaching, because that is what's going to build your business through referrals and testimonials and all sorts of things. So learn skills and embrace the ick. It's so Ick. It's so Ick. That's another thing. Here's the thing. This, actually, this wasn't in my notes, but I'm waffling. I'm not waffling. I'm on a rant now. I'm on a wave now. So here's the other thing about going all in in your business, you need to embrace the cringe. So much of starting or growing a business in the beginning phase is doing things feeling awkward. Your first coaching sessions, you feel awkward. Your first group coaching programs, you're nervous. The first time you do a real video, you're like, oh, cringe, cringe, cringe, cringe. The first time you record a podcast, and you know that there's only three people listening, it's a lot of internal cringe. You need to do so much cringing and so much God, this feels awkward. God, this feels clunky, and you need to embrace it. If you can't handle the cringe, you're not going to grow in business. So before you go all in in business, let's make a pact now that this is the year of the cringe. If 2025 is your year of going all in in your business, let's also make 2025 that year the year that you make yourself cringe so much, and you just step into it, and you know that it's part of growing, evolving and getting better at something. You need to suck and do it while you suck, and keep doing it while you're awkward, and keep doing it while you're cringy, and keep doing it while nobody's watching, and keep doing it acting like you're a big deal, even though you have two followers, and keep hitting record and acting like you're a big shot podcaster, even though it's only your mum listening, do it cringy and keep showing up in that energy, because eventually, that's what creates freaking superstars. It's the people that kept doing it despite the cringe. So that's your bonus one that I did not have in my notes, but it needs to be said with all that in mind that probably leads very well onto my next point, which is the most under utilized skill or resource, I believe, especially when you're starting and going all in in your business, is to have a mindset coach 1,000% I believe the people who are successful in business and make something of it are the people who have mastered their internal world. Success in business truly is 5% strategy. The thing is, all the strategies work, all the different strategies work, but not if you don't have your internal world on check, if you can't get on top of your own sabotage, your own procrastination, your own perfectionism, your fear of failure, your fear of success, your ghosting, your avoidance patterns. If you can't get rid of that stuff, if you cannot make yourself move, mindset is going to be the thing that stops you. And I've seen it again and again and again. And even if I share vulnerably from my own perspective, I know, I know the reason that I'm not yet where I know the mind school can be and will be, is because I'm still holding back a little bit from an internal place. It is me internally that is holding back. I've got clients, students, graduates, coaches, mentors who are like, Breanna, what the hell. Why aren't you putting freaking like, why aren't we putting some gas, gasoline on this? This needs to be seven, eight figures. You need to be like, la, la, la, la, la. And I know, I know I'm still working on a few things behind the scenes, internally to get it to that place. And when I'm a match for it, it will happen. I know it will happen. I know right now I'm working on some internal things to become a match, working on some beliefs, working someone on some identity stuff, that stuff will happen. Mark my words, but what's actually in the way right now is not a strategy, is not a PR plan is not a content strategy. It's nothing but me and as the person driving the business, as the CEO, you need to have your internal world on check, and that is why I believe especially, especially in the startup phase. Like I said, when I went all in on my business, the first thing I invested in was a mindset, mentor and coaching skills. That is what led I was guys. I was petrified when I started my business. I didn't tell anyone. I had a podcast. Anyone I was so afraid of judgment. I didn't want to tell my colleagues what I was doing, because I felt like they would be laughing at me, hoping that I failed. I was so afraid of all of these different things. It was actually mindset work that I needed. Then I actually needed to sell things. Oh my gosh. I had so much money stuff to work on. I was like, Oh, I'm so I'm not materialistic, I'm not greedy. I don't want to be salesy. All of this stuff was mindset launching again. Every level of business is mindset. I've had launches where I've put things out there and it has not gone how I wanted it to go straight away. I had to be so on top of my mindset to make sure that I didn't then ghost and I kept showing up, convicted. It was because of all the. Work I've done in mindset that has actually allowed me to keep growing this thing, and that's why I truly believe, like I said, at point two, if you cannot, if you don't yet have the resources to invest in a mindset coach, then at least find one, whether it's this podcast or some a book or a mentor that you find online, and just consume yourself, bathe in their wisdom and their knowledge and reprogram yourself through their free content. But truly, if you can invest into anything when you are starting and going all in on a business, make it mindset work, because that will be the thing that either catapults you and expands your timelines and collapses your timelines, or the thing that completely sabotages you. It really is an internal game. It really is a mindset thing. And the last one, this is actually one, and I'm going to give credit where credit's due. I was chatting to my best mate, one of my best mates, yesterday, and he just said something in passing, and I was like, that is so freaking true, and he embodies it so well, he said something that he's always remembered and lived by, is that you need to have a hobby for your mind, a hobby for your body, and a hobby for your heart or creativity, and a hobby for making money, or a way of making money and financial freedom. So we were talking about that, and we were reflecting, and he was sort of saying, Well, you know, he's got music. He's a DJ and a music producer. He's huge into BJJ, so that's for his body, and he's into trading, so that's for his mind and his finances. And I really sat with that, and I was like, that is another thing, even if you are going all in on your business, even if 2025, is the year that you're like, No, this is my season of hustle, of making it happen, of all in on business. Please also remember you are a whole human who has a mind, a body, a soul and a spirit, and you need to make sure all of your cups are full, even when, especially when, especially when, when you are in your hustle season, when you are going all in, that is more a reason why you need to have a hobby for your mind, a hobby for your body and a hobby for your soul or creativity. So what are you doing for your health, and how are you prioritizing that so that you're not running all cylinders on empty? What are you doing for your heart? Where are you prioritizing family time? Where are you prioritizing your hobby for your creativity? Where is your hobby for your like, all of those different things? So we've got body that is your health. What are you doing for your body? What are you doing for your health? What are you going to do outside of going all in that is going to keep the vessel. Because you need your vitality. You need your energy. If you're going all in, you need to make sure that the vessel that you do it through is on point. What are you doing with your diet? What are you doing with your exercise? What is the hobby within that space that you do purely for enjoyment? For your body also? What are you doing for your mind? How are you learning? And that might be within your business. What are you doing to learn for your mind and then for your soul? That's the creativity piece, or the soul piece, where you just feel lit up when you're around certain people, or you're camping, or you're in nature, or you're playing with your dog. What are the things that you're going to do outside of business? And that kind of leans into make sure you have boundaries. You can go all in, and you will need to have boundaries if you're going all in. And that means times that you are not on your phone. You're not stuffing around scrolling, you're not available to other people to come in and chat to you. What are your boundaries? So that you are when you're working, you are fully working, but equally when you are not, those boundaries are equally as tight, so work hard when you're working and when you are not, have freaking clear boundaries. No, this is my soul time now. This is my hour. This is my few hours of wine, wind down time. This is not for business. This is not for growth, this is not for productivity. This is my time that is for me, or this is my time for my family. So boundaries are so important when you are going all in on your business. In fact, it's probably more important when you're in that season. So that is all of my tips, my pieces of advice, things that I've learned through trial and error and tribulations and fuck ups, and all of the things I'd love to know which one of these have really landed and what you're implementing. And if you really want to go one step further, sit down after this episode and actually create a plan. This is all just knowledge until you turn it into action. What are you implementing and doing differently in 2025 that is going to help you to go all in on your business in a really aligned and wholesome way that is all for today. Thank you so much. And if you resonated with this, I would love, love, love, love, love, if you could please, please help me to grow this baby. Share it on your socials. If you're watching on YouTube, Like and Subscribe. It means the absolute world. We are doing so much this year to really invest in the production, and it just means the world for you to share and and help us to grow this thing. 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