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I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She explores. I don't usually do this but I'm going to ask

something of you over the next 30 or so minutes.

As you listen to this episode,

tuck this question in the back of your mind.

Are you allowed to change your dream?

Gosh, that's a heavy one, isn't it?

And yet the answer could be liberating.

I can rephrase it for you.

How stuck is too stuck in your ways. What if your life isn't

where you thought it would be? What if you're working towards something, but you've lost sight

of why? Do you even need to be able to articulate your dreams

to have them? Many of us live with a timeline in our minds, conscious and subconscious.

And we look ahead and behind for markers to let us know whether we're on the right path

or not. Just saying yes, being really open.

Instead of, you know, you have your five-year plan and your 10-year plan and your 20-year plan and

you're just sitting there checking boxes it's so linear.

I mean if I knew what my life was gonna look like in five years

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