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Maye Musk On Raising Successful Children And Leveling Up Her Own Career - YouTube
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so your book is called a woman makes a
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plan but you talk about in your book how
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plans are often sideswiped and you have
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to make a new plan so what is it about
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the plan and not holding on to it too
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tightly well you do want to hold on to
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it tightly because you've got this plan
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and it's going to be great and then you
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know all sorts of things get thrown at
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you and then you are miserable and then
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you have to say now I need to make
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another plan and what my book says is
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that I stayed in miserable situations
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too long so maybe you don't have to and
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you talk about untraditional ways that
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you pushed your career forward when you
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were met with resistance can you talk to
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me about that well everything you do the
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first of all does a dietitian I actually
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started my own practice you know I was
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21 I started my practice at 22 because I
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was felt pregnant on honeymoon so you
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really can't go looking for a job and
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it's a bridges from home you know small
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practice picking up over the years and
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then so that's why you figure out well
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you have to work from home because
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you've got kids and then you find that
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you become very successful and you think
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maybe I can live better than this by not
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being absolutely miserable every day in
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this bad marriage and when you moved to
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New York you signed with a very big
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modeling agency and it wasn't going
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better than but like you expected it to
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go so how did you deal with that I was
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very sad because I you know I would go
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into the agency and us well first of all
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I've had some big campaigns and then I I
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would join this the larger agency and
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they just kept on saying yeah I'm just
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not good enough and nobody wants to see
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me at castings and I'm thinking but
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surely they could just meet me and then
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maybe you know and then sometimes they
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would I would say look I've joined you
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for six months the first draw job I went
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to you book a book the job tonight I
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don't have any more castings and I
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didn't join you to stop modeling and
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they said we do not based within our
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best don't don't complain you know we're
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doing our best and then then then they'd
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send me I fall for one casting and then
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the petting director would see me you
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are lining up a 30 woman come and gray
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as long lost we've got you and they
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bring me to the front and they said we
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want you for this job and I said great
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and then they said because you've just
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haven't been available now thinking why
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am I not available and then I would
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mentioned for agency and then they would
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scream at me saying wow you know we
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doing our best in and then they mixing
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you up with other models and I'm
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thinking how many models marriage so
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this went on for for a long time and
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every time I try complain they would
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scream with me that they doing their
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best in and then I started getting model
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agencies all around all surrounding New
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York as well as Europe and then I could
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model
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have you had moments of lapses of
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confidence and what do you do to help
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get over those yes you have many lenses
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of confidence you are defeated many
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times where you think I'm in this dog
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tunnel and I I can't climb out of it and
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you you just have to keep on thinking
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how do I get out of this bad situation
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and you you know sometimes the law has
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to change for you to be able to to get
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divorced or move out of a contract you
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know you have to be able to fight for
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yourself but I was always a softy so I
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always trusted people ours always didn't
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know why they would be malicious and
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what or why would they be nasty what's
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what's the advantage to them and obvious
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people just like control and power and
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if they can have power over you it gives
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them joy but it's not why change seems
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to be something that helps people grow a
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lot but it's also very scary for most
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people reading your book is like one
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major life change after another is to
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change something that you lean into or
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it's something that you were forced to
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do and every time I was it was to better
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my situation and it was always scary and
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I just went into the deep end you know
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and then I kept swimming until I came to
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the surface it takes a long time so when
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you move it back to a new city or new
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country you know nobody I work for
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myself so it's not like ahead
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around me and it takes you a while to
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get friends or meet people and to build
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up your practice so that I mean I was my
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kids were eating peanut butter
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sandwiches for dinner and to be able to
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actually buy a chicken yeah once a month
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once a week to have some chicken and
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potatoes vegetables so that was that was
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always a Thrall so you look forward to
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good things like you raise incredibly
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successful children you have three
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children can you tell me what you did
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when you were raising them that made
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them the way that they are today well I
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think it's similar to my parents you
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know they were working all the time I
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only saw them at 6 o'clock in the
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evening for dinner and they just made us
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independent we started working for them
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when they were when we were young and in
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the same way my children were helping me
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and they were very aware that I had my
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practice at home and they need to be
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well behaved and do their own homework
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because I didn't have time to work with
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him and they were they were really good
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kids I was very lucky and you let them
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follow their own passion they followed
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their own passions may all went in
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different directions and what is so
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magical about the age 12 well you don't
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know it's a magic age until you tell
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your stories and then you say oh
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actually by 12 we already knew what they
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were going to do and then they as I said
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they went in different directions when
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when we moved to Toronto my fans were
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blocked so I didn't I was a research
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officer at the University of Toronto so
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they could have come there for free if
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they studied or very little if they
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studied medicine or law but Iran in
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Kimbo wanted to study business and then
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anon went on to study physics as well
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Tosca wanted to study film so they they
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had to get their own scholarships they
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had to get their own loans and they had
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to support themselves and they did it
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and looking back at the way you raised
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your children what is the best gift you
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think you gave them well I think I was
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strict and they tell me I was a pushover
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so there you go
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yeah I think being polite and
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considerate of others and doing good for
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others
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I think they saw that as a dietician
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they saw me doing that
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and they all do good things for others
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and at 69 you became the oldest cover
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girl in history how did they get you to
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do that campaign what was that process
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like
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well first was Instagram so Instagram
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got me IMG Models which they said
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there's a beauty company that's
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interested me and I thought oh yeah you
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hear these things and then they said oh
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we're going to be meeting with covergirl
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and I said okay and I go there and I see
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all my Instagram photos upon up on the
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mood board and saying hmm interesting
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and then they're talking as if I was the
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cover girl already and then after as I
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leave with my agent I said am I have a
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girl night she said yes the country
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we've got the contract we're working on
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it I said oh until I sign that contract
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I'm not doing anything and and well I
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wasn't allowed to say anything and then
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when that contract came it was just
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fantastic I just thought wow it's like
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every models dream to be the face of a
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makeup brand and now I know I am and the
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commercial I still remember seeing it
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for the first time it talks about age
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head-on and it's very moving
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what was that process like and what did
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you think about the campaign when we
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were shooting it well I thought they
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made me look fabulous they really did
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and then they wanted me dancing on a
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rooftop but there wasn't me walking in
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the street they they had a lot of ideas
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and and I'm willing to do it all yes and
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I was treated like a big star because I
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had my own trailer a large trailer and I
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had a double who was there for the
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lighting and I never had that before
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so this was all new to me and very
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exciting to be looked after so nicely
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and where do you think we could still
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need more age diversity in media we need
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age diversity everywhere you know
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because you know as men get older they
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they are still in the media still
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everywhere and women are neglected and
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they you know they have they don't want
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to book them anymore
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and my saying is that 50 percent of CEOs
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should be women 50 percent of presidents
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should be women because we'll have
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kinder gentler world and also so women
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should support women to get to that
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position that men should support women
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too we're not competition to men we just
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think the best person should be able to
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get the job
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