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				<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Invest in your friends&#8221;. &#8220;Plant Some Seeds&#8221;. Become Electric Again (paraphrasing), the feeling that goes &#8220;to the basement of your soul&#8221;, Find &#8220;the green growing edge of your life&#8221;. His webinar, the interview, was recent, April 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXgNOb_oiTs These are some of his words I loved best. He was talking about needing community, how we [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;Invest in your friends&#8221;. &#8220;Plant Some Seeds&#8221;. Become Electric Again (paraphrasing), the feeling that goes &#8220;to the basement of your soul&#8221;, Find &#8220;the green growing edge of your life&#8221;.</p>



<p>His webinar, the interview, was recent, April 2025.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXgNOb_oiTs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXgNOb_oiTs</a></p>



<p>These are some of his words I loved best.  He was talking about needing community, how we can feel when we help others to launch toward their purpose, Change v. Transition.   </p>



<p>See what you think yourself?   </p>



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