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- So what's something that never leaves my side,
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constantly interrupts me
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and doesn't have a silent mode?
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My wife.
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(laughs)
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I'm a dead man.
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They say with great power
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comes great responsibility.
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And that couldn't be more true
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when it comes to the computers we carry around every day
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in our pockets.
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I, like many of you,
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have battled with how to bring my phone into my life
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without it taking over my life.
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So in this video, I want to talk about how I use my phone,
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and the apps I use regularly that actually improve my life,
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instead of drain my energy.
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This is what's on my phone.
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(chimes)
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- Oh, Matt, you got a message.
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Who's...
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(phone clanking on the floor)
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- It's a friend from work.
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I would never just unlock my phone and hand it to somebody,
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especially somebody like you,
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you filthy bastard.
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But, I wanna try to get as close as I possibly can
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in this video.
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So, I'm gonna walk you through my phone,
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detail all of the apps that I currently have installed,
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the ones that have added the most value to my life,
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as well as, I think more importantly,
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the things that I choose not to put on my phone.
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So, let's just look at it.
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This is what's on my phone.
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So by the way, before I get into it,
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I will be leaving links
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in the description for everything I mention in this video.
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So the first thing you'll notice
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when you look at my phone is that
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I don't fill up the entire screen.
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On this home screen here,
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I only keep the apps that I use on a regular basis.
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Usually those that I'm coming back to every week.
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On the second page here,
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I have the apps that I use less frequently.
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So I get a lot of use out of Apple's alarm clock,
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in addition to using it for my morning alarm,
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I also use it to remind me of meetings,
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phone calls, and important events.
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I realize, I could set a reminder
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notification through my calendar,
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but the assurance of an alarm clock is worth it for me.
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I just worry that if I put my phone on silent mode,
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I won't receive those notifications.
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I haven't missed a phone call or meeting
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since I've taken this approach.
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I use a lot of Google products for work,
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so I tend to go with their native apps
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instead of syncing them through Apple.
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These are some of my plans for the weekend.
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You might've seen in my last video
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that I recently made the switch
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from storing all my personal photos and videos on iCloud
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to Google Photos.
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I've been really happy with that switch
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over the past couple of weeks,
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syncing across devices is instant
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and the search feature is really powerful.
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So I can just click on Natalie's face here,
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and these are all based upon facial recognition
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so I don't have to do any extra work.
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A little bit creepy but it works.
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I use Apple Wallet to store all my tickets for travel,
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as well as my gym login barcode.
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I use the notes app on a daily basis,
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I created separate folders for different categories of work
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and one for personal.
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This Videos folder stores all my video ideas.
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I create a separate note for each idea,
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and then I flesh them out further right within the app,
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usually on my MacBook Pro.
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This is Audible,
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Audible is actually the sponsor of this weeks video,
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I'll talk more about them at the end of the video,
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as well as, talk a little bit about this audiobook
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I'm listening to now by Gary Vaynerchuk.
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It's a really good one.
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This app is Dashlane,
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and I use it to store all my passwords.
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This is the Waking Up app, by Sam Harris.
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Everyday he adds a 10 and 20 minute meditation.
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He has other content in there as well,
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but I mostly use it for the meditations.
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Now I usually don't have Instagram installed on my phone,
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but I've been posting to IGTV a lot lately
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and wanted to get a better feel for the platform
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and engage more on Instagram.
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I haven't found it to be too distracting lately,
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but I'll probably clear it from my phone
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as soon as I find I'm using it just a little bit too much.
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I use Slack for communicating with my team.
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At the bottom of my phone of course,
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we've got the phone and messages app,
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as well as Spotify.
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When I'm working, specifically when I'm writing,
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I like to listen to Deep Focus or low-fi beats.
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They really help me to get locked in to my work.
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This is some of the other music
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I've been listening to lately.
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And this app is called TeuxDeux,
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it's how I manage tasks for work and personal,
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I like it because it allows me to organize my to do list
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on a daily basis.
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It's super simple, but works for me.
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I'll add a little note here,
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(keyboard typing)
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You know what?
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I don't really have time to do this today,
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so I'll just push this until tomorrow.
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And on the second page here,
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I have different folders
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categorizing work, film, other, as well as travel.
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If we open up work, we have Google Chrome,
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looks like my brother was using my phone again,
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Google Drive, Sheets, Docs,
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and FreshBooks for scanning receipts.
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In the film tab I've got a couple of films tools here,
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from GoPro, to Camera Connect for Cannon,
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as well as ROV Motion for my electric slider.
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And let's go into the other folder,
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I'm not gonna go through all of these apps
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because I don't use them very often.
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GuitarTuna has been great for tuning my guitar,
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iRobot for our robot vacuum cleaner,
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which actually is surprisingly amazing!
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Scannable has been a great way
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for me to store my documents digitally.
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And nothing else really super interesting
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on the rest of these.
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And finally we've got travel.
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I use Maps.Me when I'm traveling out of the country,
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it works really great, it's good for navigation.
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I don't have an allegiance to any specific airline,
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basically the one that is cheapest,
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as well as least painful.
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And we've got Nest here,
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which is for home security.
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(sirens)
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that's probably not what you think it is,
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it's actually just money, drugs, and chili pepper.
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So, it's really not much of a big deal.
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I don't know why you guys are acting all weird about it.
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And that's it.
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That's everything that I have on my phone.
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I hope you guys got a little bit of inspiration
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from checking out how I organize my phone.
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Again, I think the biggest things are
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what I don't have on it.
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I don't have a whole lot of social media,
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I do have Instagram like I said, for now.
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But I'll likely delete it in a couple of days.
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I don't keep email on my phone,
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That's something I've been doing for,
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I would say,
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the past couple of years now.
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And that has been hugely helpful,
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in not keeping me distracted.
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If I'm traveling, I'll usually just download it to my phone.
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That's an important thing to mention,
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if you delete these apps,
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definitely check on which app you're deleting,
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you usually don't lose the data.
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So with Instagram, I delete it,
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nothing happens, and I can reinstall it at anytime.
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And I find that in the past, I have kinda hidden apps away,
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like three pages deep
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and then put them into folders.
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But I always found my way to them.
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I could just swipe down and just search for Instagram.
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So that, typically,
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hasn't helped me as much as just deleting the app.
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That amount of friction,
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having to go into the app store,
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download it, sign in, find my password,
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put it in, and then log in,
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it's just, I'm like, Ah, screw it, it's not worth it for me.
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So, hope that helped you out.
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Hope you guys got some tips
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about how to organize your own phone.
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So when it comes to life advice,
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I've always leaned on authors and audio books to help me.
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And one person,
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who I've been consuming and listening to a lot lately is,
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Gary V.
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His audio book, Ask Gary V, is available on Audible.
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And it's packed with tons of great, practical advice.
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What I love specifically about Gary's audio book is that,
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he doesn't just follow a script,
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he kinda goes off the cuff and gives these hot takes
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and deep dives into the topics he's talking about.
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Thank you guys so much for sticking around
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and watching this video.
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As well as, checking out my sponsor, Audible.
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It's sponsors like Audible that
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So, it really means a lot to me.
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I'll see you guys next time.