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I said we never hear anything.
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Awesome. Welcome back guys to Lincoln Bio.
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I'm Jenny Alejandro and we got a great episode for you guys
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today. Take him away,
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brother Shakira's tax evasion.
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Apparently, you know,
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them hips got out of a sticky situation.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Maybe, I don't know.
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Well, you're just gonna have to see and we're talking about
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proper period products. So I'm interested in that because us women
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have to deal with a lot and we want to make sure
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we get the right shit and how salsa can get you sculpted
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not salsa eating, but salsa and bodine is in the house
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Nice. Let's get into it.
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A Spanish court has shoved an investigation into an alleged tax fraud
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by the Colombian pop star,
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Shakira. Shakira putting an end to her legal woes in the
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country where she once lived.
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So, Shakira was charged with tax fraud in September linked to
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taxes filed on her 2018 comes,
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she'd reportedly been accused of failing to pay about $7.2 million in
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taxes that year by using an offshore company located in a tax
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haven. I thought Shakira,
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I thought your hips didn't lie.
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Girl, what's going on?
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I don't know. I mean,
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I, I, I've heard through the grapevine,
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the Spanish government has been trying to finesse other celebrities.
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My girl probably isn't lying.
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yeah, it's funny because again,
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they shelved the investigation.
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but still Shakira maintained her innocence in her statement throughout my career
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I have always strived to do what's right and set a
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positive example for others.
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I knew her hips didn't like good on you,
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Shakira regardless if, if I'd rather finesse the government than the
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government finesse me, brother.
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Hey sister put that on the plaque because that's,
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that's facts. So get this sister,
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the star also criticized tax authorities in Spain,
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The star also criticized tax authorities in Spain whom she claimed pursued
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a case against me as they have against many professional athletes and
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other high profile individuals drain those people's energy time and tranquility for
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That's exactly so you can be Shakira,
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you can be messy messi get it.
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But you know a soccer player like if you have money,
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they're looking, it's like mm let me investigate your ass.
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You know, she's not entirely innocent or maybe I don't know
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But Shakira reached an agreement with Spanish authorities to resolve her
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big tax problem. She got a three year suspended jail sentence
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and has to pay a $7.5 million fine.
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Emergency Shakira in jail.
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I would not like that.
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I love that this queen right there.
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like, it's like she probably,
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maybe even just paid it off because she's like,
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dude, I don't want to deal with this,
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you know, get your name out of my mouth.
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Here's the money, shut up.
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Leave me alone. I think,
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I don't know, I'm still siding with my girl,
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but if she was found guilty,
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she could have gone to jail for eight years.
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Well, whenever we're ever secure,
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am I right? Let's go.
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You love dogs, right?
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Well, you might like this next story here.
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A company in Ohio cleverly named Throw Flame is now taking o
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for the world's first flame,
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throwing robot dog, the thin,
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the Bluetooth and Wi Fi enabled puppy comes standing with an arc
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flame thrower mounted on its back and is capable of shooting gasoline
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or napalm up to 30 ft hot dog anyways.
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And yes, it's legal in 48 states.
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Sorry. Not in California,
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What the, I don't get the fun stuff.
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I feel like I feel like A I and technology.
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I'm scared, I'm really scared now.
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People actually want these dogs back ordered and they cost $10,000.
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Why do you need all that,
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all that fucking fire.
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Well, don't worry because the company has an answer for us
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The company claims some legitimate applications of the robot dogs include
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wildfire control and prevention,
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snow and ice removal and of course entertainment and special effects.
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You know, it's like freaking universal studios in your backyard.
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Imagine going to the Carne Asada and your the has the dog
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like you guys were in my mind that wrote the script,
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like your blessing. Like the freaking Lena,
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you have your your fire pit like Los.
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Yeah, people don't want people are not going to even get
05:11
grills anymore. Brother.
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They're going to buy this fucking thing.
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Just throw the grill on top of the dog for all them
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jobs. But I don't know.
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Would you make a hardest for this?
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I know you're petrified something a little leash.
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Oh my God. I wonder,
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I wonder if you could pet it and go.
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It's gonna be lit literally last year.
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A team of women researchers decided to test period products with real
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human blood instead of just salt water,
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which is actually a practice used by male researchers until now salt
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Doctor Bethany Samuelson Banna and her team from Oregon Health and Science
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University in Portland published a study to understand how period products absorb
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blood, aiming to diagnose heavy menstrual bleeding better.
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This change sheds light on the negligence and properly testing period products
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an issue many women have faced unknowingly.
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Today we are chatting with Jess,
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the creator of Jess period.
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She makes handmade reusable period pads.
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Hi, Jess, how are you doing?
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Welcome. Thanks so much for coming on.
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Yeah, I, I just started my period literally five minutes
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ago. How convenient we have period talk with just period.
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You kind of manifested it.
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Yes, I manifested my fear.
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I've done that before.
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You're probably telling your body mentally like,
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yeah, so we're going to just jump right into it.
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Recent research uncovered that period products were never tested using human
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blood until last year.
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Why is this a big deal?
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My take away and I have three of them.
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The very first one is Doctor Bethany is bringing to light how
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there is very little woman research.
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There's no innovation, there's lack of funding,
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the infrastructure doesn't exist.
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She even details in her study,
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how they had to do everything manually themselves.
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There's no tools for it.
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I think that's the very first thing.
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Second thing is that they are highlighting how manufacturing period companies are
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not honoring menstruates. Why?
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Because the products don't sustain all the period blood they are saying
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they do. And then lastly,
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doctors use as reference what the period product manufacturing companies are saying
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to evaluate if a person has heavy menstrual bleeding.
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Obviously, if this is incorrect,
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then it's an incorrect reference and may lead to a misdiagnosed to
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a menstruate. Many of us grow up fearing and hearing about
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toxic shock syndrome. I'm scared about that.
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but I don't really know what it is.
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Could you help explain what TSS is to non menstruates or to
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menstruates and how we can better protect ourselves from this potentially fatal
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syndrome. So, TSS is caused by a bacteria that
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is already within the human body.
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However, it's associated with tampons because tampons may cause certain
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lesions or cuts in the walls of the vagina.
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And then this is when the bacteria inserts your system and that's
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when things get out of hand.
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It isn't necessarily that the tampon causes TSS.
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It's the function of the tampon when it's inserted in the vagina
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that can cause it some ways to prevent it are making sure
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that you're following the instructions of the tampons to not have them
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in your body for a certain amount of time.
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Right. Yeah, that's why I only like,
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I guess I, I'm scared of that because like that's why
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Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm just,
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I don't know, it's the troma because I've heard stories too
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I know, I feel like it was a really big deal
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growing up like, oh,
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you use tampons like,
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my mom would say we have,
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well, like, because she would say don't like because people
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you lose your virginity.
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The same thing. Like it was like,
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oh, you lost your virginity.
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It was t that was a thing.
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At least for me and my little friend.
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I don't know, maybe you're crazy,
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but I don't think so.
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I feel like that's a kind of Latino mom thing.
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Like my first experience with trying to put a tampon was in
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high school with my best friend and I was still not able
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to insert it. My mom never taught me about using a
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tampon. So I didn't have my first experience until high school
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like I said, she was very like all anti tampon like
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inserting anything like, oh,
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I mean, told me about patsy.
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Yeah. Well, this goes back to our culture,
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right? And kind of the education that we have seen that
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has passed on through generation and on.
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So the virginity myth is a myth.
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It has nothing related to it.
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And actually now they say that virginity doesn't even exist.
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So I mean, that's a quick takeaway there,
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but really is more about being educated and informed of what a
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I would like to mention that when tampons were first introduced,
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they were only introduced to married women.
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Oh I didn't know that.
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this doesn't come, it is a,
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It's an ideology for the most part pads and tampons are the
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standard period products, right?
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Are there more options like more sustainable,
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safer for like my body or what do you recommend Jess?
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Yeah. And I'm going to circle back a little bit to
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Dr Bethany's research.,
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the reason why she did this research is because heavy menstrual bleeders
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were using menstrual cups and the menstrual cup was not part of
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their assessment chart. So it was already outdated.
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It was not considering modern day period products,
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any tips on how to choose the best period products for me
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I mean, I know I had to start using tampons
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early on because I'm a beach lover.
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My period is going to stop me from going out.
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But I know there's other options.
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I don't know, intimidated to try.
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Yeah. So a few things to consider is one your lifestyle
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like you just mentioned for you.
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It's more convenient to use a tampon because of the activities that
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you have in your daily life.
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The second thing is to consider your flow and your own
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personal preference. Not everybody can insert something in their vaginas.
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So not everybody can use a tampon,
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a menstrual cup or a menstrual disc.
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That's why you kind of have the opposite,
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which is the pad or the reusable pad.
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But all of these have different effects and something to look
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out for is making sure that if you're using a disposable product
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it is made out of the highest percentage of organic cotton
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Also that it has no fragrance and no chlorine because this
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may affect the hormones in your body.
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And then if you are choosing a reusable product,
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make sure that you are sanitizing it and being hygienic with it
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That's the way to be effective with reusable products.
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Did you say chlorine?
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Chlorine? Chlorine? Yes.
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Have you seen the pad?
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That, that's why it's so white.
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It's because it has chlorine materials.
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That's crazy. I didn't know that.
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This was a really fun and informative,
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important conversation to have.
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Also we want to ask where can people follow you and your
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business? Yeah. My website is jesper.com and you can find
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me on Instagram and tiktok at Jesper underscore where I talk about
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menstruation and reusable products and anything really related to periods.
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Talk all day, every day,
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period, period, period.
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Thank you, Jenny and Daniela.
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Thank you, my girl take care.
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So brother, I went dancing this weekend and I'm like super
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sore. Like in places I didn't even know that can be
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sore. Things went hard.
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I went hard but you know what's crazy?
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Like also I also went to the gym too but I don't
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know like it really takes me like,
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oh to go to the gym like I'm like always so flo
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hot and everything. But so I kind of wanted to do
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something fun, you know.
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So I kind of looked up,
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yeah, switch it up and,
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and try to find something that's like fun to do that.
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I don't really feel like I'm working out because I'm having so
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much fun. So I looked up salsa workouts and found Colombia
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Mafia fit and she makes working out actually enjoyable.
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I was looking through her Instagram and I was like,
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dude, that looks fun.
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She's all like sculpted and nice.
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I'm like, I want to get like that.
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So have you started the classes yet?
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And all that or any of the well brother,
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we're doing that today.
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You and I got you the shorts,
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got you the shorty short shorts.
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thank you. We're working out,
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brother. We're working out right now.
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You're here right here guys.
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So we're here with Maria from Colombian Mafia fest.
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He's gonna work our asses off and I'm so excited.
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Thank you Maria for Kobe.
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Thank you for having me here.
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but we need to start.
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First of all, we're gonna do a little bit of warming
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up stretching. So let's start by like doing circles with your
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legs. Yeah, let's find space,
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right. Yeah. In circles,
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Siempre always breathing with left and right.
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I've tried like Zumba,
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you know, with my PIAs and like weight lifting at the
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gym, but never salsa school.
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How did this program came to be?
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is a really interesting story,
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in the pandemic, like before the pandemic,
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I had my third baby and,
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like we were all at home,
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I couldn't train any clients.
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And as I was running one day listening to some salsa from
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wait, can we add back and dance and create resistance?
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And as we tone our muscles and I go home,
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I told my husband like,
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great, let's put the bands,
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let's use lighter weights and let's make it fun.
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So women can fall in love with working out because I think
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that's the problem, right?
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Women always have an excuse like this.
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I have to do this and that and they don't see it
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as something exciting. Exactly.
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Right. So it can be something so fun.
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So that's how salsa came out and you know what's crazy?
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Because as Latinos, we love to dance,
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So I love that like how it just doesn't feel like a
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workout. You're like having fun.
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I mean, I gotta remind you like,
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come on, I need to do a little wider because yeah
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we're dancing, but we're using bands,
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we're using weights. So we're utilizing resistance to really challenge the
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muscle. Right. So it is fun,
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but it has that element of toning your body and getting you
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out of your head and getting into your body,
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you know, and building muscle,
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which is at the end,
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the most important thing for us,
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women and men, you know?
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Exactly. And I know you're mom of three.
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Right., how do you manage like,
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your lifestyle? Because I know,
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a fitness instructor,
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you know, you're so,
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Right. Yeah. Always hustling Latina,
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how, how do you balance it all like that?
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I think the most important thing about balancing life with kids or
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not even having kids having a job,
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taking care of your family is prioritizing your well being because the
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moment that you take care of you,
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give yourself the best version to others.
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So to me, one of the things my therapy is working
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eating healthy food being,
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having nice intentions and really being present,
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right? Because we spend so many times like thinking about the
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past and what's gonna happen in the future?
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Well, what's gonna happen today?
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Girl? Are you breathing?
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Are you moving your body?
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Are you building muscle?
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Because it's not about being skinny,
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it's about being strong and having that nice armor that is holding
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you up and is empowering you as a woman.
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So you gotta be strong,
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you gotta be and hey,
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we women, we do it day and night.
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I did it three times.
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Power like hook up power all the way.
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And what does that mean?
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CUCA power? What does that mean?
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COCA power is empowerment like that cca that you haven't between your
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legs that is empowering you to be your best version.
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and all this CUCA power came in because women are always like
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no, like no mommy empower yourself.
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There you go. We got that in between our legs because
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we got power. They all want it.
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They all need it and we use it for our own,
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you know better. Oh OK.
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I know we're called Adriano.
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We're getting into it but let's start.
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Let's, let's start if I'm excited.
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OK. So what do we need your bands resistant bands on
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your ankles? Alejandro is gonna be using just your bands for
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your feet and your hands and we're gonna be using your dumbbells
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in your hands and the bands in your ankles.
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Remember to move with control.
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Always bring your belly in and have fun and let's go.
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1212. Always breathing.
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Come on D Alejandro Chue 1212.
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T Desperado. Always breathing.
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How are you feeling guys?
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Good. Are you breathing?
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I don't heard brand here.
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OK. Let's try another step over your arms.
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left, right, control elbows.
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A always controlling that movement is so maybe I didn't have a
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bit of shoulder move that it.
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Oh Got it. You breathing?
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I know and let's do a third one for your back arms
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up, you bring your bands out and you step back.
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OK. Exhale to the back.
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Email, exhale to the back.
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How are you doing Alejandro up?
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Power? Power. We can do another one for your shoulders
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where you step to the right step to the left hand,
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always bending those knees.
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So say we control like a robot.
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How you doing? Amazing.
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I love it. We did it or not.
20:25
We felt that that was so good.
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Oh my God, we made it,
20:33
we made it. There we go.
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Well, maybe not you but we do and you feel it
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Exactly. So where can people take your classes?
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Maria? And where can they find you?
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So they can find me on Instagram,
20:48
Colombian Mafia fin. If you wanna train with me,
20:51
I have programs that never expire.
20:53
You do a one time payment and you,
20:55
I also have weekly zoom classes a month where you can get
20:59
packages. So there's always a way to move your body and
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taking care of you prioritizing yourself.
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Definitely. Oh my God.
21:07
Let's give it up one more time guys.
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Thank you. Thank you so much.
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Our next guest is a Dutch born Puerto Rican singer and model
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who just released her latest EP chemo Lento.
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Welcome to the show,
21:24
Bodi Gracia Gracia. OK.
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So talk to us about growing up multicultural in a multicultural family
21:37
How has that affected your music and dancing.
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Yeah, I think I've had the opportunity to live in Amsterdam
21:46
for a long time of my life.
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And so music there is PP and house.
21:55
So it was completely different world when it comes to music.
22:00
And then when I move to p you know,
22:03
listening reggaeton for Primera was definitely,
22:09
it was like listening to porn,
22:11
you know, it was really interesting and mixing those two together
22:18
I think definitely is refle de mi Musica Can and Lo
22:25
both worlds has definitely complimented and dancing and music and all of
22:31
I love the way you said the whole,
22:33
it's a scene to poor.
22:34
And I think I've always say something when I like something like
22:36
so much. I say I made your ears,
22:39
you know, just because I'm like,
22:42
but you're also classically trained in piano and opera,
22:46
right? I love opera,
22:47
love opera. So I was like,
22:52
have you ever felt underestimated when people focus on the modeling side
23:01
I don't want to say upset me but OK,
23:04
contra, they're just looking at it that way.
23:06
And I'm actually a musician,
23:08
I think in any industry,
23:09
it doesn't matter what you're trying to do,
23:11
you have to earn your respect.
23:13
So I took that back and I was like,
23:15
you know what, I have my patience and I just work
23:18
myself through music and I just polish myself and writing better,
23:22
composing better. And not only that,
23:24
but I took my time to find the right team which I
23:27
appreciate and adore and I think I would have not been here
23:31
if I would have not had my team in place for sure
23:35
a village of the right people.
23:43
which artists are currently on your playlist.
23:48
It's a power list for sure,
23:51
I think Tosha just released something with V and Tilla.
23:54
That's super fire. So sexy.
23:58
So good. It's interesting.
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I don't know what they loop,
24:01
it's fire, whatever.
24:03
I love her. I think she's fire.
24:07
I love everything she does.
24:08
I love Leon. She came out with a record today.
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Yeah. There's a lot of upcoming new artists that I really
24:15
admire. There's a girl so named J Noah.
24:18
She's super fire to the Dominicana on Ara.
24:22
I love that. I love having the opportunity to collaborate and
24:25
talk about their experience and connect.
24:28
I think that's so cool.
24:29
I feel that the community between women is getting stronger and stronger
24:34
and that's so important,
24:35
you know, like have each other's back.
24:38
I don't know, it's just harder in the woman's side,
24:41
but I feel they are,
24:44
we are understanding more that is just so important to have to
24:49
survive. And the fact that you're shouting them out,
24:51
it's nice because it's like we don't gatekeep,
24:54
we're going to pull each other.
24:56
I think there's enough room for everyone.
24:59
And I always keep saying that,
25:01
you know, Relo Barone Reggaeton,
25:03
they do not want remix altogether.
25:05
They maybe do more than 50 women in their time.
25:11
Why aren't we? We need that too.
25:16
that community and I think I try my best,
25:19
at least in my journey to really embrace that and put that
25:23
together because you know,
25:25
it doesn't need to have that relationship tomorrow.
25:28
Boom. But I take my time and once I feel and
25:32
that relationship and that bonding,
25:34
I think it's special.
25:36
So what's next for you?
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And also how can people find you on social media?
25:42
You guys can find me on Instagram on tiktok everywhere,
25:48
Bodine dot X and yeah,
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what's next? I just want to keep creating,
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keep collaborating and keep understanding and discovering myself more who I am
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Well, thank you so much for having me.
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Thank you. Let's give it up.
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And that's today's show.
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Thank you guys for tuning in.
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We'll see you guys on Wednesday and Friday.
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Once again, I'm Alejandro and I'm Jenny.
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This has been Lincoln Bio.
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See you guys. Bye guys.
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