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Wabi Sabi - The Perfectly Imperfect Podcast with Candice Kumai

EP 43- 10 Things I Wish I Told My Younger Self: From a Self Made Perspective

Wabi Sabi - The Perfectly Imperfect Podcast with Candice Kumai

Candice Kumai

Health & Fitness, Education, Health, Wabisabi, How To, Nutrition, Mental Health, Wellness

4.9793 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dear Little Candice,  Here are 10 legit things, I wish I could tell you.. but, I'd rather you dream, learn and grow on your own.. look at how good you turned out!? LOL xx    xxx Off to Japan in the morning ... to crush more dreams xxx I almost can't believe it xx  10 Things I Wish I Told My Younger Self: The Legit Gangsta Ways💝💛 1- Don't Rush Anything.  2- Hard Work will Get you Everywhere: Kaizen  3- Date as much as you want, for reals tho.. don't settle  4- Be Honest  5- When you Lose Yourself, Wabi Sabi -- Perfectly Imperfect  6- Be Kind Whenever Possible, everyone is fighting a battle  7- Friends Will come and go, and that's okay.  8- Love is really the only thing that matters, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you 9- Dreams Will Come True, but not overnight  10- Live in the present moment, its all we really have Ganbatte ne, off to complete the journey xx ki yo tsukete, ne! xx ck

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0:00.0

Hi guys, welcome to the Wabi-Sabby podcast, episode number 43. So this is a really special episode today

0:15.0

that I'm dedicating to all of you who are in need of some love, support, and a real voice that is going to help to get you

0:25.6

through the next few years. I never wanted to be this person, and I never counted on being this

0:31.9

person, but it is the day before I leave on a one-month immersion plus.

0:42.5

It's actually going to end up being a few months of traveling to Japan

0:48.0

to shoot a dream series that I've always imagined doing.

0:59.0

And I kept thinking, not now when, when would this opportunity come ever again? When would it be the perfect time? And when would I ever have the

1:06.4

perfect crew and my family and my friends in Japan ready and waiting for us to come and shoot a new

1:13.7

series. If not now, when? This episode is going to be called Dear Younger Self. And this is a

1:23.8

letter that I will read aloud. I haven't written it yet, but I'm going to speak the

1:32.1

truth about my younger self and wish that little Candice knew all of these things, including

1:42.8

all of her dreams, were actually going to come true.

1:50.5

Dear Candace, I want you to know that your life is not going to be like everyone else's.

1:59.9

I want you to know that you have very big dreams and you have a

2:04.6

big calling. And every time an adult looked at you and said that to you when you were a little

2:10.7

kid, you should have believed them. But you were too young at the time reading Matilda books by Roald Dahl and the Witches

2:20.3

and watching your favorite episodes of, oh, I don't know, duck tales or even saved by the bell.

2:32.5

And you were too busy having fun, playing soccer and always scoring goals

2:38.0

or paddling out in the lineup and the surf and checking out the hot surfer boys, or even just

2:44.5

throwing crazy parties in high school and baking cakes and cookies for everyone in college and cooking for everybody you knew

2:53.7

in culinary school. There are a few things I want to note to you that I wish you knew

2:59.8

before you got older. And one of the things that I think is super important is I don't want you to rush finding a life partner. I think that

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