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The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Declutter Your Life, Home Organization & Finding Balance
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Whitney English
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Tudor Dixon
listening to the Tutor Dixon podcast, and it is officially spring. And oftentimes in spring, we feel like it's time to clean out our houses and declutter and get rid of all the stuff that we don't need. And if you are anything like me, in my house, we have a massive amount of stuff that we don't need. And we've kind of like, over the years. We haven't moved for 20 years. So over the years, we click. I see Whitney, who is with me. Her face just went like, oh, my gosh, that. That's a nightmare. And it is actually not moving is a disaster. I love our house, but it just is, like, a place that collects crap. So I needed help with this, and we found an expert. We have Whitney English with us. She is an organization design and decluttering expert and also a creator of incredible art. Because I was going through your Instagram page, Whitney, and I was like, I want to be you. And your house is, like, so inviting and lovely. And I feel like I walk in my house and it's chaos. I have four kids, and. And I blame them, but we really are just like, there's stuff. There's stuff. Help me.
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Whitney English
Well, I can try. I think that I wrote a book about organizing because it is a battle that I also feel like I constantly fight. So I'm hesitant to step into the role of expert, but I'm happy to, like, talk about it and brainstorm it and, you know, give people suggestions for things that have worked for me.
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Tudor Dixon
One of the things that I saw you saying is, like, start on something small. And then you. You kind of feel like you've accomplished things. And I do think that that is my problem is where I'm like, okay, now I'm going to take on this giant. We have this craft. We call it the craft closet. And it is. We just did this last weekend, but it. I thought it was going to take me a few hours, and then it was days of. And then it's all over the place. And there's this moment of feeling like, oh, this is so overwhelming. What if we have to live amongst this all over the place? And eventually we got it all cleaned up. But how do you get to the point where you bite off small, small bites, and then you go, okay, I'm
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Whitney English
conquering the big thing for me. The. Well, there's that Idea of. You've heard like productivity experts say, eat the frog for like, get up and do the hardest thing first. And for me, that just require too much willpower to get started. I need these little tiny dopamine hits that will build momentum along the way. And so I just got back from a pretty much a three week art show. I was in Round Top, Texas, selling my art, showcasing it for three weeks. Everything is in the entryway. I mean, it's. My stuff is everywhere. Little tiny, like boxes, piles of stuff. The way I'm going to tackle that is one box at a time. And each. And I just, I just remind myself that I'm going to get a dopamine hit when I get to the bottom of one box. Even though they're like 30 boxes in the entryway that have to be unpacked and something has to be taken to its home and put away. And so that's my answer to, to that is just, it's okay to do like the small things first. And I. And it, it builds that dopamine hit over time that keeps you going.
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Tudor Dixon
I'm glad you're saying that because I totally assumed. I'm like, we're gonna get on here and she's gonna be like, well, you know, I just can't stand to see a mess, so I have to have it all cleaned up right away. And I'm like, that is not. My personality is because there's so much going on. And I also think, you know, when you're a working mom and you come home, I mean, I get home at 5, the kids have already been home for an hour. They are, you know, I'm constantly after them. Like, I'm sorry, did you just eat a bag of chips? And then think like, mom's gonna come and throw this bag away. Why do I need to throw this bag away when the maid is gonna be home from work in an hour? You know, do you have that? I mean, am I the only person that has that?
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Whitney English
No. I have three kids and I was. There's a coffee table behind me. I was sitting there talking to a friend right before this podcast interview. And I looked in front of me and there are four coffee cups on the coffee table. It's like all from this morning. I just went to my bedroom. This is my own fault. This isn't my kids. But I, I drink my coffee well, well into noon. Like I. All morning long.
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Tudor Dixon
It's.
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Whitney English
It's a slow, long habit I have. I just pick up a coffee cup and took a sip and I realized it was yesterday's coffee cup because I had not taken. Oh, God.
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Tudor Dixon
Okay. That makes me feel better.
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Whitney English
Yeah. No, it's. It's a constant. It's never done. Decluttering is never done. This idea of making room for things that matter in our heads, in our visual, like, in our environment, like, the things that we see. It's a constant process. There's like a. In my. The book I wrote, organize first, decorate Second, I talked about editing and how it just never. It just never stops. I mean, you. You just. You have to have a party to get it, like, maximum edit point. It's like writing a book or a blog post or something. You. You just have to edit until you have to hit publish. And then throwing a party or hitting publish, you've edited all you could. It's the best it possibly can be. And then it's just going to start building up again over time. And. And, yeah, the conversations with my kids feel incessant. Like, can you please throw away the cookie wrapper? The. You know, clean up the. You know, they. My kids are teenagers, so they're making their own coffee in the mornings. I'm like, clean up the coffee grounds, maybe.
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Tudor Dixon
I literally. I was just saying I had this situation. There's one of. And she'll know when she listens to this. One of my kids is like, the queen of this. And I walk into the room the other day, and I have a room where I have a bunch of plants, and behind the plant, I see a glass, and I'm like, oh, is there a glass? And we don't leave glasses on tables in our house because we have a cat. And she absolutely loves to bat them off and watch them break. Oh, my gosh. Somebody left a glass there. But I don't even know how long it was there, and I can't tell you what was in it. But the memory of pouring it down the drain is going to cause PTSD the rest of my life, you know? And I'm like, I want to make you have to pour this down the drain. But that is so. So that is just. And I feel like that's a constant effort with kids. But I also think that as things build up, there is. There is this. You have to stay on top of it. And this is where I feel like I didn't do that, because I just, you know, put the toys in the basement and will.
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Whitney English
The.
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Tudor Dixon
The floors that we live on will keep kind of decluttering those as we go. But then I go down to the basement and I Think, okay, there's stuff we need to let go of. How do you make that decision? Because we do. I also have. I have this problem, and my kids have this problem where it's like, I might use that again, but I'm not going to. I'm not going to let it go.
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Whitney English
Right. I think it's helpful to think about the life cycle of a thing and not, I guess, the opposite of that would be the. Maybe I'm going to use this in the future. Have I used it? Has it served its purpose? Can I. And I've done this with my kids since they were little, but can we say thank you to that thing for the service that it's provided us and then put it in the trash can? We practice this with their art when they were really young, because a kid draws a picture and they, like, want to hang on to it for forever, and you're like, no, this is a really good picture. Now we can take a picture of the drawing with our phone. So that helps a little bit. But it's almost like having a closing ceremony for a, like a little tiny funeral for this thing. Like, we are going to say, thank you. This thing has served its purpose. And then we're going to pass it along, whether that's to the trash can or maybe Goodwill box or something that just. How do we move it along in its life? Because it's not serving us, just sitting there collecting dust that.
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Tudor Dixon
So there is a contrast out there for everybody, every parent out there and for grandparents who are looking at our generation and going, why are you keeping this stuff? There is kind of this movement to be like, keep your kids things and make your kid feel good about all of their art. And so when my girls were in elementary school, and that's when the heavy art is coming home. I'm starting to get content on social media because they know everything about your life, right? So I'm starting to get this content that's like, you can frame your kids art, or you can send us a picture of their art and we'll make you a great big framed piece of their art. And I'm going to tell you, there was a moment where. So embarrassing. There was a moment where I was like, well, that would be adorable. I should have this. And I'm like, where would I put this? Why am I even. How am I getting sucked in? I am a marketer's dream, literally. I go to the grocery store and the same orange juice that I see every week is in a different container. I'm like, that Looks good. I think it's the same, you know, so I see this and I think, oh, that would be so cute. How do you stop yourself from adding more chaos? Because I feel like there is a push to keep cluttering, keep adding chaos to your house.
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Whitney English
And I think even in the decluttering space, people are. Marketers are trying to sell us solutions to problems. And the problems that we're having is the problem is too much stuff. And so we go to Target and we buy bins and boxes and things, and we bring them home because we think that they're going to make us more organized. Honestly, I think that the best answer to that question is practice being resourceful. Don't go buy anything. I mean, I mean, just. Just stop. Just stop buying. I mean, I know that is so hard for some people to do, and sometimes I think it probably takes more willpower to just not buy this stuff than it does to come home and start to organize it. But I think that there is. I think our kids are losing resourcefulness as a trait, as a skill, as a character quality. We are. By just buying another solution. Air quote. Solution to their problem, or even just for ourselves, I think we're showing them that buying something is the answer instead of using our own ingenuity or critical thinking skills to. To create a solution or invent something. Like. Like there's an ingenuity that comes along when you say, okay, I'm not going to spend any money on this, but I still am going to solve this problem. And. And there's probably stuff in your basement that could help make some of that happen.
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Tudor Dixon
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I mean, and I look at that, and I also think this space has been used for such a long time. And like I said, my house is 20 years old. So when I look through, I just see this needs to be freshened up. And there is this overwhelming moment where, okay, I gotta take everything out of here to freshen it. But you say that's what you should do to. To design and to redesign your space, or to design your space if it's new, you have to move everything out. Right? Explain how you. How you work that through in your mind.
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Whitney English
You go get a laundry basket and you do just take everything out. You just literally hide it. Not hide it, but we don't have any cabinets in our kitchen. We have an unfitted kitchen. I did it because I thought it was going to be fashionable and affordable. It would be very beneficial if there was a cabinet and I could put the spices in it and just close it. We have shelves in sort of a pantry area behind our kitchen where I can go put those things. But sometimes it's beneficial for me just to go through the kitchen and just take everything off the kitchen counters, just take it all off, go put it in the pantry where it can be stored on wire shelves very simply. And then one by one we can take those things out as, as we need them. But yeah, I mean, you just, I, I don't think there's anything wrong with. I've, I've heard, I've heard it called quieting a room too. Like just this idea of like taking everything out and just sitting in it. And then the fun thing about this process is when you start to introduce things back into it, whether they're old things or new things, they start to feel fresh and new and you start to be able to appreciate and enjoy them again. And I love that benefit as well.
- [14:54]
Tudor Dixon
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon Podcast.
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Tudor Dixon
There's been this mindset in the last few years that to make your space, to declutter your space, you have to be a minimalist. And there's nothing. And I've never, I didn't grow up that way. My mom had a very traditional house and it wasn't like we were cluttered with knickknacks, you know, but there were, you know, decorations and things. And I feel like the next generation, well, sort of the generation below me was like we want nothing. We want just very straight lines, nothing, no lace. Like it has to just be very. Everything has to look very clean. And to me, those sterile spaces are not comforting and homey up to other people. They are so Is there kind of a balance? Is there a change. Do you see a change back in design at all that we might be getting back into, like those traditional bigger couches and homey feeling?
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Whitney English
Absolutely. We are that. I mean, I think we see those giant swings culturally, not just generationally. I think different things happen in our. In our lives and collectively that, you know, if we grew up in a very traditional home, maybe there is going to be sort of a pendulum swing to minimalism. But then maybe something happens in someone's life and they. They lose a loved one or they. They find themselves in need of a comfort source, and they think, well, let's go put a lace tablecloth on top of this. Let me p. My grandmother's china and start to reuse it. I think that it's important to. I've been through different. Different swings in my own design, and there are things. There are things that I wish I had hung onto. Interestingly enough, I had this painting from my grandmother that was a duck painting. And I was like, I just don't think we need duck paintings anymore. This was back in the 2010s, and now there's duck paintings. Everybody wants a duck. If I found a Goodwill painting, a duck painting at the Goodwill, I'd be like, oh, my gosh. Anyway, I gave it to my cousin. It's great. It's still in the family. But I think that sometimes it's okay to put things in an attic that might have sentimental value in the future. It's hard to be selective about what those things are. So, you know, try not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. But I don't. I think the pendulum. I think that too far one direction, too far the other direction. We have to learn how to, like, live in the tension in the middle, in the messy middle. And I think that as humans, we were so driven by narrative that we're racing towards resolution. And sometimes I think learning to live a balanced life means living in a little bit of clutter, but then also taking the time and effort to just stand up and go get rid of some stuff at the same time.
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Tudor Dixon
I think what you're saying to me, it reminds me of a book I read. I think the book was called Bittersweet. And it was a book that I read at a really critical time where my kids were babies. Everything was very chaotic. And the author, John A. Nyquist. Yes, yes. She also had little kids at the time and was making the point, like, if you're not inviting people to your house, regardless of the mess and there, and there's not a fellowship around you, then really, you're missing out. And I think so often we live in a society where we're racing toward the goal, but we don't actually know what the goal is. It's like we've got. If I could just get here. If I could get. Just get here. But really, the journey is. That's the whole part of. That's life. You know, the journey of getting to whatever the next goal is has to be enjoyed, has to be savored. And when I hear what you're saying, this idea of, like, keeping the things around that have meaning and knowing what's important, but also living in this space and not letting the space get to the point where you are shutting other people out or shutting. Shutting life out. Because, you know, we sometimes our house is chaotic. I have four kids. We have a million kids. In the summertime, our house is just filled with other people's kids. It's totally full. And sometimes I look around and I think, oh, my gosh, I can't believe other people's kids are here in our house. It's, like, insane. And then I remember her words of. Of like, this is. These are the times. Living it fellowship. Enjoy those spaces together, regardless of whether somebody left a wrapper out and there's, you know, books piled up on the desk and everything else.
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Whitney English
A hundred percent. I've actually been to Shauna's house and experienced some of her hospitality, and I love that. I love what you described about all these kids at your house in the summer. I love the idea of throwing the doors open. I also have been known to tell neighbor kids to kindly pick up after themselves. So I don't think there's anything wrong with maintain, you know, asking the people who come to your house, especially kids, to participate in maintaining certain standards, even if they are loose. I think that's important for kids, too. But, yes, I am all about nothing. I always say, if a guest spills a glass of wine, I will toss them a dish towel. And I just say, nothing can be more precious than you are. Buy your furniture on Facebook Marketplace, so that the wine spills don't matter, you know, and. And let people know that they do.
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Tudor Dixon
It's interesting because at this time, I do think in this season of spring, we feel this tremendous pressure. We're kind of like, especially in Michigan, we're climbing out of the snow. We're coming out of the winter days, and it's like those. Those long, dark times, you know, days are very short in the winter and you have, you don't see the sun very often and then suddenly you get a few peaks of the sun and you go, oh, it's getting warm. It's that time, it's. Everything's starting to sprout again. It's that time to make a change. The world is changing, life is starting again, and we should make that change in our house. And I think sometimes that can put you into a little bit of a funk also because you can get overwhelmed by that. And I see in my girls especially where they have like these big feelings of, I'm going to clean out the closet. And in the spring, the church is always like, we have a big, a big clothing drive. Bring all your clothes. And then they get overwhelmed because they have play practice and basketball and soccer and blah, blah, blah, and everything builds up and then they end up feeling a little disappointed. So when you talk to families and you're talking about those small bites, how do you break that up amongst kids and parents?
- [24:48]
Whitney English
I think that it's important for my kids to practice critical thinking skills. And in order for them to do that, I think they need safe places to make their own decisions. So I, you've. I don't think I invented this and you might have done this, but sometimes I'll say, like, we're going to do a 10 minute tidy. Like, I'm going to set a timer for 10 minutes and I look at each kid and I say, what are you going to go tidy? You know, pick an area, what are you going to go do? It always kind of like fizzles out at the very end. They, they get very distracted very easily. But I think the exercise of setting an intention, deciding what you're going to go do, and then going and doing your best effort is important sometimes. Last spring break, I actually got into my daughter's room and I was like, we have got to. It was bad. It was really bad. And it builds up over time. I don't think there's any way to keep it, you know, if you do a deep declutter, I don't think there's any way to keep it deep decluttered. It's just going to build up. So we have to teach our kids that practice of clearing the space visually and mentally.
- [26:05]
Tudor Dixon
That's. So that is, that isn't the biggest challenge with, especially my one child that tends to just love to explore and be artistic and do whatever, but then struggles to get everything back on track. But when I look at your Instagram page, for example, when I Look at your house. It seems like there's still a lot of creativity. There's a lot of ability to have fun and play and craft and all of those things. To me, that's. There's a very important balance between that. Like I said, here we are on the journey. The journey is experience, and the journey is kind of that freedom of being able to figure out who you are. And a lot of times, I do feel like that's through art.
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Whitney English
My girls are.
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Tudor Dixon
Oftentimes they sing. I don't sing. They are great at singing. They sing together, and they'll sit in the family room, and they'll all harmonize and sing together. But they love to also paint. So we get the big tablecloth out, and we pull everything out and we paint. How do you make sure there is that balance of. I think sometimes you can be so rigid about things have to be perfect all the time that you can't learn to get there. And then that can sometimes have the opposite effect with family members.
- [27:18]
Whitney English
Yeah, it really can. I. I grew up with perfectionist parents, and I have a sister. And I think that the. Our response to that perfectionism was different. Mine was to go very creative. I have. I'm very okay leaving the craft project out on the table. The rest of my family is not. My sister took the opposite direction that I did, and everything is very wrapped up with the tidy little bow. The project is finished. We're calling it done. We're moving on. And I. I. For me, the answer to that comes back into that just, are we living in the moment? Are. Are we speeding towards, like, perfection, which is not achievable on this side of heaven? Or are we saying, you know what, it's okay that there's a mess on the dining room table for a day? And then also recognizing within myself that probably my tendency might be to leave that mess there a little bit longer than some other people might be okay with. And. And reaching into my will in practicing discipline and saying, we're going to pick it up, even though it feels like the project isn't done, even though it feels like the painting is still in progress, it is okay. I have a pile of paintings in progress. I mean, that is just. That is just something that I have had to realize as an artist, is that sometimes you can't finish a painting in one sitting, you know, when it's done, but it's hard to know when that moment is until. Until it is, and then you're like, it's done. And so there's a lot of rotation through that. And I do appreciate the the challenge that comes with like how how do I organize this creative process? I love a system. I love to I I have a very analytical, creative mind. I think that comes from having an engineering father where I love using resourcefulness to create solutions for the messes around me. That's another So I also will look at that as sort of a creative outlet as well.
- [29:27]
Tudor Dixon
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon Podcast.
- [29:33]
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Tudor Dixon
on the way to school today, I had this conversation with my one daughter. I was like, you are very good at procrastinating and finding a million other things to do. And I know that feeling. You know, I, I, it's not unique to her. I can understand that. And I said, honestly, sometimes that's fine, and sometimes, you know, it's not fine. And that's something that you have to work through on your own. You really have to push yourself. And that's something. And honestly, that's something that you can call on God with prayer. And that's. And I told her that's, I, I've done that, too. You know, when I'm like, I have all these deadlines to hit, and I know my tendency is to, you know, push back or go over and get distracted here and start making some dessert we don't need. And then I'm off track, and I know I'm never going to get to the next thing. You know, I'm like, that focus, God can get you there. You, you need, but you need to know that you need to ask for it. And I think that's some of the issues that we have when we get so busy and we are caught up in the journey, that you have to know when you have to step back and say, I personally need to go, okay, God, how do I get to this next level. How do I, how do I get all, how do I achieve all of this? How do I get it all done in my own power if I'm not leaning on you?
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Whitney English
Yeah, a hundred percent. I, there's two things that I do for myself when I find myself kind of. I feel like when I start procrastinating, I start spiraling mentally. Like I just start thinking through, overthinking stuff. So one thing I do is I focus on finishing things. I mean, just this idea and I'm back. That's back to me, finding those little dopamine hits. Like if I focus on finish, if I focus on finishing things, momentum will take care of itself and I'm off to the races. Another thing that I do is take captive every thought, focus only on true, good, lovely things and beach and, and, and repeat that practice in order to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. That goes back to three scriptures. And so I'll just, I, I do that to kind of like take hold of the mental spiral that I'm devolving into. And then the other thing that I believe in and I'm seen one of my children struggle with this is. And I, I tried to avoid it for a long time is some people really do struggle with ADHD or even depression or mild depression. And so I think seeking medical, clinical help and diagnosis should not. I think that we need to do away with, with a stigma around mental health. And just also like the judgment and the criticism that sometimes I think we put on each other when we're like, oh, look at her house or her yard, you know, what battle is she fighting that we know nothing about? Can we have grace?
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Tudor Dixon
It's easy to compare yourself.
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Whitney English
Right. You know, but, but can we have grace for that other person? And.
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Tudor Dixon
Right.
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Whitney English
And if we, if we don't have grace for other people, it's really going to be hard for us to have grace for ourselves. But I don't want to, I don't want to get to the other side of a conversation about decluttering without saying that sometimes even my therapist will say willpower is not enough. Sometimes you need medication to help get you there. And so I would encourage people to not discount that avenue of as a resource as well.
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Tudor Dixon
I agree. I've seen that take hold in people's minds too. And I do think that there is that constant need to move to the next project and then you don't get that first one done and there's that inability to focus. So I, you also wrote a book though, so I want to get to that before we go. You wrote a book. Tell us about the book.
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Whitney English
The book was, was called Organize First, Decorate Second. And I wrote it because my editor said they were always looking for an organizing book and I wanted to write a book about home. So I wanted to take just the needs of a publisher and, and then my personal practices, which are a little bit divergent and, and really I just wanted, I wanted to write a book that talked about how do I as a creative person live with three kids and, and practice grace in a, in a regular home on an everyday basis. And so I tried to weave narrative and tried to tell stories and just talk about that we've had as a family and share how there's tips and tricks and all that stuff. But I, sometimes I'm like organizing tips or just, I mean they're all the same. At the end of the day, I think what's, what makes my book different is, is the stories that I've woven into that.
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Tudor Dixon
I love that and I, and it's been great talking to you. I totally relate to everything you're saying. Whitney English thank you so much for coming on the podcast.
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Whitney English
Thank you Tudor.
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Tudor Dixon
Absolutely. And thank you all for listening to the podcast. As always, for the this podcast and others, you can get it wherever you get Your podcast, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Rumble or YouTube uteRdixon. Just make sure you tune in and go off now and have a blessed day.
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