Pull yourself up at your bootstraps.

You need to fix your mom.

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I'm Catherine.

I'm Robin.

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and we talk about how to get there one problem and solution at a time.

Yeah. we talk about how to get there one problem and solution at a time. We have a website, optimisteconomy.com.

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Just looping back on that.

I'm just going to circle back to that.

I mean, consider for a moment, y'all, like, if we're this awkward asking people who

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I do think the best part was that I wrote this,

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