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Welcome to the Thriving Christian Artist the
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podcast , where we hope you connect with God
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to bus through the roadblocks that have held
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you back for years , create the work you
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love and really live the life you
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know . God created you to live
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as an artist in His kingdom . I'm
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Matt Tomah , your host . Let's get started
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. Why
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am I friend ? It's Matt . Welcome to another
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edition of the Thriving Christian Artist podcast . Super
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glad that you are here . You know , one
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of the dreams that I hear from artists all the time
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is oh man , I want consistent income
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, I want to be able to quit my job . I want to be able to
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, you know , add a little bit of money to my retirement
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savings or make life just a little bit easier
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every month financially
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, and at least at a very minimum pay
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for my art passion , so
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that I'm not having to come out of my pocket every
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month . But people have this dream
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of consistent financial
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income and yet very , very few
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artists have an idea
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of how to do that , because they've
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never been taught how to manage
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their money , how to develop wealth , how to
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build a business that has consistent
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income in it . That's one of the things that is
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very core to what we teach inside
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of Creative Thrive in our artist mentorship
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program is that you can absolutely
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create consistent income
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in a way that serves you
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and the season of life you're in and the vision
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that God has given you . But one
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of the things I've found that
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artists are really , really bad
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about doing is
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thinking about multiple streams
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of income in a way that has
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nothing to do with how they're
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designed or what they're called to do . Meaning
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this ? Meaning somebody thinks
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, well , I'm an artist and I need to be making
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consistent income , so
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I'm going to go work a job on the weekends , or
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I'm going to pick up this extra thing , or I'm going to go do
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multi-level marketing , or I'm going
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to start babysitting on the side , or I'm just
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going to start doing all this stuff , chasing
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money and trying to cobble together
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enough income to be
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able to pursue the dream that they have of
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being an artist . Now here's the dirty little
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secret because they're running
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around chasing this money that has nothing
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to do with how God has designed
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them or called them in
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their life , they lose all their energy , they
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lose all their passion because they don't
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have time for it , right ? They're so tired , you
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know , running around working all these other part-time
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jobs and doing things that God never designed them
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or called them to do , that they lose sight
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of the very thing that God
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has given them , which is their
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art . Listen , we believe
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in the kingdom that our income , our
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financial provision , comes through
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our unique design , and
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it's for the purpose of our assignment
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, not only so that we can walk in
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blessing and enjoy the desires of our heart , but
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so that we can be a blessing to others . That's
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how the flow of
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God's provision is designed to work
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in our life , and so I like to teach
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a concept in the mentoring
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program in our artist cash flow bootcamp , actually
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called a product ecosystem
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. In other words , instead
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of trying to cobble together a whole bunch
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of unrelated income
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opportunities , how can you begin
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to create a product suite
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and an ecosystem around
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what you do ? And I'll give you an example For
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me , you know , as a basket maker
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for years and somebody that did
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not have a lot of , you know , I
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had a couple of businesses before and had done a
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few things , but I was not by any means an
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expert entrepreneur , but I
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knew that I needed to focus my
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time and energy and resources . And so
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, for me , as a basket maker
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, what would I do Well . I would make baskets
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and sell them to people . I would also do
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shows . I would also put my
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work in galleries . I wrote a
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book about basket making . I started teaching
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baskets in person . I started
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teaching in other conferences
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and retreats . I developed some online
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classes . What was I doing ? I
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was starting to create multiple
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ways to bring income
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into my life as
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an artist , but all of them were
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related to my calling as an artist . Listen
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, that when you can do
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that and you start to build
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that little by little and build these streams
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, all of a sudden those streams become
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rivers and those rivers
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begin to be the very vehicle
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that carries abundance into
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your life . Now , listen , I've found
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very , very , very few artists who
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can do this by theirself . It's overwhelming
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. It's a lot . It's a lot to manage . It's
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a lot to even have a vision for
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that , maybe even understand . You know
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what that you do even has the potential to
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make money . And
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I would just say to you , my friend , if you realize
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that that is your issue right now , you need
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multiple streams of income . But for
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whatever reason you've tried , it's not work
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. You're frustrated with that and you're
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looking for some help specific
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to you . I would love to help
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you , my friend . The best way that we can
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do that is inside the Creative to Thrive Artist
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Mentoring Program . You can get started right
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now for just $14 for your
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first month and then after that
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, the investment that you're gonna put inside
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your own business is worth so
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much more than you would ever
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pay . Not only that , most
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of the time all those fees are tax deductible
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anyway , so you're getting to count that . You
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know , not even as a part
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of your taxable income . It becomes a business
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expense that you're using as
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you begin to build your business . My friend
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, I would love , I would love to
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help you develop that
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ecosystem , that product suite
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in your life so that you can begin to create
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consistent income through multiple
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streams of income and be able to have
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the time and the freedom and the energy
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to do the things that God has called
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you to do . You can click the link right
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here inside the show notes to
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join us inside Creative to Thrive and
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listen if you're kind of enamored
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by this idea of product ecosystem and
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understanding your products and
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what has the potential to make money . One of
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the bonuses that you get inside the program
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is our full training Artist
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Cash Flow Bootcamp . It's been one of the
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most transformative things we've ever
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taught folks in all
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of the Artist Mentoring I've done over the years , and
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it's yours free , as a part
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of your membership . Listen
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, don't put off another
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year , another week , another month of
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struggling on your own . Don't keep just
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pushing off getting help . Don't keep pushing
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off what could be . Make a choice
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today to become a part of Creative , to Thrive , and
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let us help you make this year
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your breakthrough year
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. I love you , my friend , and I look forward
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to seeing you inside Again . Until next
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time . Remember , you were created to
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thrive . Bye , hey
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. Thanks so much for spending a few minutes with me today on
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the podcast Listen . I hope it's been a
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huge encouragement to you on your journey
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as an artist . Hey , also , before
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you leave , make sure to hit the subscribe button
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so you don't miss any of the other episodes
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of the Thriving Christian Artist podcast
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, and also be sure to connect with me on Facebook
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, instagram or at my website
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, which is matttommymentoringcom
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. Until next time . Remember , you
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were created to thrive . Bye-bye
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, thank
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you
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.
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