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Hey y'all, it's Mariel.

Hmm, is that too casual?

Let me try that again.

Hello there, fine people.

Good day to you.

How does the morning find you? There we go. Go there, find people. Good day to you.

How does the morning find you?

There we go.

Is that a better etiquette for a greeting?

People really think the etiquette's about just dining or being snoddy or, you know, and being pretentious. But I love to kind of retrain people that etiquette is just

about kindness and about thinking about other people first and respect at the end of

the day.

That's Modern etiquette expert, Micah Meyer.

She's the founder of Beaumont etiquette, where she teaches courses in everything from business

and social etiquette to public speaking and afternoon tea.

So the way that we do things, the way that we present ourselves, we get dressed in the morning

for work or for a social event.

And of course it's to make us feel good, but it's also to show respect to the person

so we're not just rolling out of bed to go meet that person.

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