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Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. What can I do for you?

I need help with being more mindful of to my husband. So let me set the stage. We both have a side business together and once a year.

I don't want to give it away what we do, but once a year we award our students for their support and recognition. It's a awards and recognition ceremony.

And he prepares really hard for it and thinks about each individual and puts a speech together for each individual, including myself. He's the front of the business. I'm in the back of the business.

And it was a business to personally help me have more opportunities doing what I love.

And I'm sorry opportunity to do what you love. What is that?

I'm not understanding the connection. I'm changing the art form.

It's our students, whereas when I was in other groups, I was not able to do that. I wasn't Spanish enough, black enough or white enough. Just the culture of other dance groups was pretty bad.

to this year. In particular, I had a couple of surgeries and I was not able to help, but I,

again, I do the back-end stuff. So when we had our annual awards, I'm in charge of the

video and an audio and he asked me to come say a few words and music. And I, part of my speech, was on my

phone, which was being used, you know, to capture our moments. And I can't remember exactly what I

said, but I tried to remember my speech and as much as I could. And the other parameter is we were

the play three rented, which we were going over our time limit. So I just had all this logistic stuff

going on in my mind. And I also wanted to make sure that things are recorded with audio this year.

I made the mistake last year. We're not doing audio. Good God. You have a lot of excuses for doing

something so blatantly obvious. Without my husband doing all of this, I would not have had the

opportunity. You're not the only ones who benefited. I benefited. All you had to do was say that.

You didn't need to look at your phone. You didn't have to look at the clock. Nobody was going to

shut you down if you took 20 seconds to say without him, I wouldn't be dancing. Thank you.

How do I not miss other moments like this? Am I just not mature enough or am I not paying attention?

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