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Welcome back to the Suzanne Venker Show, where men and women are equal in value, but wildly different by nature.

When I was young and would say something to my mother about not being able to do what the other kids are doing,

she would say to me, who wants to be like everyone else? How boring.

It must have stuck with me because I spent a lifetime thinking

and behaving differently from most people I know. Or maybe it's just my personality. Either which way,

as difficult as it can be, to go against the grain, for me it has paid off spectacularly.

Today, Andre and I are going to talk about living according to what you want as opposed to the life others want you to want.

But before we get to that, I have a few announcements I wanted to say about the podcast.

And then let's see, this month I have pretty much two guests coming up.

So I've been doing, as you know, Andre, I have Andre

with me, and he is here, by the way. Hi, Andrea, say hi. Good morning. I have Andre with me every week,

and then I've been doing guests once a month. Last month was Rolo Tomasi, and next, this month,

I'm interviewing someone here locally in St. Louis,

so she's going to be in-house, which is kind of fun, a psychologist. And then I'm going to have

a special guest after that, my virtual assistant, Kelsey, who lives in Florida, and she will be in

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