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Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect.

What's up, good people?

Welcome to an amazing episode, another episode of checking in.

Listen, every episode is amazing because as long as we are living and breathing, we have every faculty as far as our senses are concerned.

I'm going to say it's another amazing episode because without certain things, I would not be able to do what I do.

I wouldn't be able to be here, especially because y'all keep subscribing and downloading the episode. So I'm thankful to my Black Effect family at Eye Heart. I am thankful for every listener.

I hope y'all have been having a great summer so far. We are going into what this is pretty

much the last full week of July.

We are really flying into this year of 2023.

I was about to say we are flying into the new year, this new year, but it ain't so new.

We are seven months, almost eight months into this year.

I hope you've gotten a few things accomplished, a few goals reached.

And if you haven't, it's okay.

Maybe let's get some help in finding out, you know, what's been keeping you from reaching

those goals.

But don't feel any pressure.

Remember, your race is your race. Run it at your pace. But if you can be built and conditioned

to run that race, to pick up the pace, as I should say, I would say, go for it, go for it.

But it is your own race. You run it how you run it. But again, if I'm the coach

and if I can see that you can be conditioned to run your race at a faster pace, then that's

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