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Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week.

Okay, I was thinking today as we are in the middle of July and I was thinking about one year ago

and how much life can change in one year. It's incredible. So if you don't know,

if you haven't been with me for a while, a year ago, my son had come out of Zoom school and had not

done very well, like most kids, you know, just wasn't very engaged on the computer all year

and had to make up some classwork. So he ended up going to an academic camp for four weeks

in July last year. Now it doesn't sound like that big a deal, but let me break it down for you.

Again, first world problems I know, but my son's an athlete and the only camps he'd ever been to

or sports camps, right, to play basketball and do the things he loved. But now it was basically

get on a plane, fly to Boston, drive to New Hampshire, go into this really rural camp and do homework

and learn all day and you don't get any access to your phone other than 10 minutes a day.

And you live in a tent. Okay, not that appealing, right? So especially when you're used to living

in South Beach, right, in a condo in South Beach and, you know, can basically do whatever you want.

Okay, so this was not an exciting time for him. And of course, as a mother, it wasn't really

for me either, right? But I knew, listen, the alternative was you're going to have to repeat the

grade if you don't make up the work, right? So he thought long and hard about it and he said,

okay, I'm clearly not going to repeat the grade I need to make up the work. So it was his choice.

So, you know, like anything, somebody has to want to put in the work. Someone has to want

to make the change, you know, go to the camp, whatever it may be. And he did want to do that. So

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