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This week, we're bringing you

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something really special. Join former

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Bachelorette Hannah Brown on a

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transformative journey, not towards

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love, but towards a better tomorrow. Yes,

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you probably know Hannah from The Bachelorette

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and Dancing with the Stars. But

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now you can go deep with her to

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ask every week, am I better today than

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I was yesterday? On this

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podcast, Hannah takes you on a

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deep dive into the topics that

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matter most from confidence to love

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to making time for yourself. Hannah

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shares all of her most relatable

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experiences. She really is that every

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woman Bachelorette we know and love. So

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brace yourself for advice that

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hits home, intimate emotional explorations

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and eye opening reveals. As

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a progressive woman of faith, Hannah

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challenges societal norms, guides her audience

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and starts meaningful conversations. Hannah knows

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she's no expert. That's because she's figuring

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it out for herself along the way,

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just like the rest of us. So

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get ready for a better tomorrow because

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your journey starts here. So now we

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have a very special clip of better

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tomorrow with Hannah Brown, and when

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she gets into her engagement story with

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her adorable fiance, Adam Willard. And if

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you like what you're hearing, you can

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listen to better tomorrow with Hannah Brown

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wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm

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engaged. You are? Yeah, you're

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engaged. I do. I don't have anything to

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show for it though. Except

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for an empty bank account. Oh my, but

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it was worth it. It was worth it. It's

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the ring. Beautiful. Okay. Before

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we start this, I feel like you're

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gonna have to really help my brain in trying

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to track this story because

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our engagement is not

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a normal story. Beautiful

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photos. We

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have beautiful photos. But as far as

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the story, it's complicated,

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which it shouldn't be any

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other way. Yeah, it

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explains our relationship. It

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really does. How

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are you feeling today? I feel great. I feel

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really, really good. My day's

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going great. Started with a cold plunge. I

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mowed the lawn, which I shouldn't have to

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be doing, but you know, we've

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had. That sounds like there's something underneath

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that statement. Well, we

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signed a lease that said that there was going

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to be lawn care and

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there's not. So I had to

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go out and buy a lawnmower and an edger and

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a blower and do it all myself. And it takes

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up two and a half hours of my day. I

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know. And it's like when I don't do it on

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the weekends, I have to do it during the

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week before work and I get

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bit by bugs. I

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do enjoy doing it, but if I have to do

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it during the week, it really messes things up. I

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get it. But you look really good

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out there with your shirt off. Thanks

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babe. Pushing that lawnmower. Thank you. Blowing.

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But yeah, I, it's weird. I

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get that it's frustrating, but

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it's like you have this weird relationship with it because

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I feel like you like mowing the lawn.

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But you complain about it a lot

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too. Yeah. So

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yeah, that's how you started your morning. When I saw

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you, you were a little just irritated about mowing

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the lawn. And I actually had one of my

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first good mornings in a long time. Engagement

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day and after included.

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Yeah. I mean, it's

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a wonderful memory and I'm so happy it

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happened. But as

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far as mental health wise, today was

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my first pretty good day with my

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anxiety because I actually got up and

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did what I know works, which I haven't

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been doing for, I don't know how long.

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I actually journaled or had

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my Bible. I am reading

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this book called the wisdom of anxiety that my therapist told me

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to read. And

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what else did I do? I finally,

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made my dentist appointment. I made a

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facial appointment because my skin's dry and

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I'm like I gotta figure this out. Like

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knocking off. I know it feels

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so good in the morning to be able to check

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something off. You sent me a voice

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memo that just made my life. Oh

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thank you. Because I think today was the

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first day I could really appreciate everything that

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has happened with

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the engagement and just all that you've

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done. Just

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investing in the ring. And I know that sounds so

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bad but I think I was just such in like

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a anxiety

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was just very

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very present. More

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present than I was. And

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even though there are so many great moments that

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I still I feel like I really was there

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for just overall. Last week was

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super busy

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for me and I didn't

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handle my emotions always the best. So today

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it was just like I had

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this moment of wow like that

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you planned all that and

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still wanted to marry me after all the

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crazy which we'll get into and

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got down on me and that you like

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invested so much into this

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ring not only just finances

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but making sure

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that it was absolutely perfect and

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everything that you planned. I just

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think today was the first day I could truly

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like take in the gratitude and be able to

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let you know how I felt. I

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appreciated it. I'm

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so glad. How was the the

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weekend leading up to engagement?

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So we're just gonna get we're gonna just go into it. I

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think we should. Yeah. I think people are wondering why

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there are two sets of pictures and... Yeah

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our engagement I think is

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looks confusing because it is confusing.

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Not the weekend we got engaged. but

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the weekend before we were with my

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family working on a project working on a project And

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I love my family so much,

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but sometimes spending time with

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them can ruffle up some

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emotions some Probably

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insecurities little trauma here

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and there and and

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It was a lot this project was was

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taking a lot of our time and I

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was in my head It

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was in Mentone, Alabama Our

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family is from where we have our farm

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house and all the things so

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it's been a long day working

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with the fam and At

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night when we were getting ready to go to bed.

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I just kind of like unloaded on a head of

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Of all my biggest Like

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fears every thought that I have

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I also

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telling him more about like what I've been like

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working on in therapy and how my Therapist

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said with what's all going on all the

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work that we're doing because we're doing some

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really like intense trauma work

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right now in my therapy a

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lot of Deep EMDR and

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and our family systems work. I think

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that's what it's called. I have this

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and That can bring

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up stir up a lot of stuff Add

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that on to being with my family which also stirs

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on stuff so that that night I was just telling

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you everything and told

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you that my therapist said right now I

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should not be making any big life decisions

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and I'm

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not knowing what that means to you, but I Think

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I was just like, you know, I don't even know what love

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is. I don't even know Are

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you and then I was like, I don't know what love is like How

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do you know you're sure you want to be with me? Are you sure

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you want to be with me? like

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really big questions and

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me not knowing that this is a week

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before you plan on proposing to me. So

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why don't you go ahead and say

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how all that felt to you? Well,

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I mean, I keep pretty even keel for

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the most part. But yeah, whenever you were saying

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this, I was like, you, you've got to be

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kidding me. Well, now I'm dying

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to know what he's gonna say next. Me

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too. I'm like on tenter

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hooks. I need to listen to the

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rest of this episode. I know. I

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love love. I want to find out how it all

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came together. Hannah

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is just I mean, she's just like us. She

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gets insecure. What can I say? You

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can listen to Better Tomorrow with Hannah Brown

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wherever you listen to podcasts every Wednesday.

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