Episode 28

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Published on:

7th May 2025

Fangirl Confessions: Miami Grand Prix Edition

It’s giving iconic chaos, Radiant Icons — and the Miami heat had nothing on this Grand Prix weekend. 🔥

In this episode of Dare To Be Iconic, Amanda takes you behind the scenes of her iconic trip to the Miami Grand Prix — from trackside thrills and unexpected moments to the deeper lessons that came with showing up unapologetically fangirl. She reflects on how far she’s come since her first F1 race in Spain and what it means to create space for joy, community, and confidence in motorsport culture.

Whether it was racing past imposter syndrome or fangirling at full throttle, this weekend was more than just a race — it was a reminder that your passion has power.

🎧 Tap in for a ride through Miami, iconic confessions, and the heart behind every high-speed moment.

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Time Stamps:

00:00 Welcome to Dare To Be Iconic

01:12 Miami Grand Prix: A Weekend of Icon Hood

02:47 Iconic Lessons from Miami

03:02 Iconic Lesson 1: The Power of Community

11:17 Iconic Lesson 2: Daring To Be Yourself

17:41 Iconic Lesson 3: Following Your Passion

26:40 Iconic Lesson 4: Celebrating Every Moment

34:31 Thank you & See you next week!

Transcript
Amanda Paolicelli:

What's up, Radiant Icons and welcome back to

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Dare To Be Iconic, the podcast made

for icons daring to be themselves.

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I'm your host, Amanda Paolicelli, and for

today's Tea Time sesh, we are spilling

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the tea all about the iconicness.

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That was the Miami Grand Prix.

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And let me tell you, when I said last

week that it was going to be iconic.

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It lived up to that expectation.

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Honestly, it exceeded it, and I am so

excited to spill the tea behind all

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the behind the scenes of this weekend

with you guys right here, right now.

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But before we get into that,

make sure to connect with me on

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socials on Instagram and TikTok.

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It's at @amandapaolicelli_

and @daretobeiconic_.

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And if you're on LinkedIn, you guys

already know what I'm gonna say.

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Make sure to connect with me on there.

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It's Amanda Paolicelli all of my socials

are linked in the show notes below.

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Now, radiant icons, let's get to Miami.

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If I can think of one word that

encapsulates this entire weekend,

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honestly, the entire past week, it would

be girlhood, it would be sisterhood,

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it would be, in my personal opinion,

what I like to call it, icon hood.

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So, are you ready?

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radiant icons because your

tea time sesh is starting now.

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You know, it wouldn't be dare to

be iconic if I didn't have some

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iconic lessons or iconic takeaways

to take from my trip to Miami.

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And that's exactly what we are breaking

down here today as I spilled the

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tea behind all the behind the scenes

iconicness that was this entire week

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of Miami, and to be honest with you,

yesterday, May 5th, when I woke up and

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went straight into my nine to five,

I logged on my computer, went into

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that staff meeting, I was like, wow.

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I really am living the

Hannah Montana life.

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I really am living the best of both

worlds because I just had the most

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iconic week of my life juggling my nine

to five and going to all the amazing,

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iconic events that were happening in

Miami for the Formula One Grand Prix.

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And then I'm back to reality

working my nine to five and

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then juggling Dare To Be Iconic.

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But you know what?

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I wouldn't have it any other

way because that means we get to

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break down everything together.

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And I kind of get to debrief with you

guys in real time because I am literally

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recording this the day before this episode

comes out because there is just so much

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going on that we need to break it down.

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So I have four iconic lessons

from my trip to Miami.

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And the first one starts with what I

said in the beginning of this episode.

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What one word encapsulates my

experience of the Miami Grand Prix?

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And that would be girlhood or like,

I like to call it, Icon Hood because

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lesson number one for the Miami Grand

Prix is that community is everything.

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And we rise together

when we come together.

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And for me, this was so prevalent

throughout the entire weekend.

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But if I can choose one exact moment

where I was like, wow, this really

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is where community comes in hand.

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This really is where your network

becomes your net worth because you know,

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they say it all the time in, you know,

those professional settings of like,

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yeah, your network is your net worth.

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And I was like, yeah, like you're right.

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Like whatever, blah, blah, blah.

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'cause that opens doors for you.

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But honestly, this past week in Miami

has proven that tenfold and when

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we emphasized community and coming

together, we truly do rise together.

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And that one moment, there's so many

moments that I can think of, but I think

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Friday, for me personally, that first

day of the race was when I really saw

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that community piece come to light.

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For me, when I started Dare to Be Iconic

or even Let's Go all the way back, little

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Baby Amanda, when she was thinking of

the life that she wanted for herself,

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one of the things that I always would

tell people is that I think it's so

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cool to have a community of people who

will champion you, who will elevate

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you and uplift you, and that's what I

want to do when I build my empire and

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wow, I'm already getting emotional.

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But Friday was really when I saw

that whole vision come together

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for me and how special Dare to be

Iconic is, and the impact that it is

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making and just the iconic power of

friendship, as cheesy as that sounds.

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That's when I really saw community come

together and that's when I really saw

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a dream for me that I wanted so much

a wish I should say, because I just

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thought it would be so cool, right?

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To see it come true before my very

eyes is one of the most I iconic things

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that I, I could ever ask for as a

young entrepreneur who is running her

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own business that champions women.

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And for me, it was Friday.

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Now, Friday was by far the

best day for me throughout the

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entire Grand Prix experience.

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And I think that's because we started

off with the female quotient event,

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which I will get to a little bit later

on for another lesson because that

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event you guys, oh my God, I have never

felt cooler in my life than stepping

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into that room for female quotient.

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There were a lot of emotions behind

that exact moment that we will

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get into later on in this episode,

but for me, we were able to come

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together a female quotient, right?

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Meet some of the lovely radiant

icons, some of my amazing friends

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there, and then we all went to the

track together and we had Lando Bash.

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Lando Bash, an iconic meetup for

fangirls by fangirls was a meetup that

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my friend Kimi from DeluluForFastCars,

as you probably remember her from

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the Spanish Grand Prix episode.

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We came together, we created that

event, that meetup, and we co-hosted

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it together on Friday at turn three.

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And to see 20 amazing and beautiful

and inspirational radiant icons

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come together and just love what

they love so unapologetically and

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just be so bold in who they are.

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Was such a pinch me moment for

myself and it really proved that

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community truly is everything.

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Because once Lando Bash ended

in quotation marks right, the

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party really never stopped.

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We all went together to the

Heineken viewing area, which is

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this really cool like cover shaded

area that is right by the track.

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I forget which straight it's by,

but there's TVs and then you see the

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cars right in front of you, right?

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And all I remember is just this

big group of girls dancing and

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laughing and having the time of

their lives filling up this row.

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And we were able to watch, you know,

sprint qualifying together and we all were

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like screaming and yelling and holding

each other's hands when we saw Kimi

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Antonelli make history as the youngest

pole sitter in F1 history for Sprint Quali

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and like that moment right there will be

forever ingrained in my DNA because that

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is the definition of girlhood and that

continued throughout the entire weekend.

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On Saturday, I continued meeting up

with so many amazing radiant icons,

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autumn, and Emmy and Erica and

Oceania and just, we were hanging out

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the entire time and obviously I met

Katie there and you know Katie from

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season two of this podcast, right?

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An Everyday Icon.

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I finally met Katie from Race Tips.

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I just think it's so amazing the power of

Formula One and how it has brought me so

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many amazing, iconic women into my life.

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And I've created lifelong

friendships because of this sport.

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Because this sport gave me the

permission to fan girl again.

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This sport gave me friends

that will last a lifetime.

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This sport gave me the confidence to

love what I love so unapologetically

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that I can empower and champion women to

do the same, and to be able to go to a

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race and see this sport in person that

brought so much joy, that brought so much

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fullness and richness to my life, and get

to experience these once in a lifetime

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memories with the women that I met through

this sport is something that is unmatched.

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Something that I, you truly can't put

the words on it, but the energy that

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we brought from Lando Bash to Sprint

qualifying to watching actual qualifying

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at that like turn nine bridge viewing

area and running across to each gate.

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And it's just all these amazing,

iconic women just celebrating and

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loving the sport and just having

the time of their lives like that

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is the energy that was encapsulating

the entire Miami Grand Prix weekend.

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And honestly, the week too, it was

filled with so many amazing and powerful

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and inspirational women that just made

me want to keep pushing forward and

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fueling forward and doing what I do

and just meeting more amazing women.

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And when I say community is everything,

that is what Miami proved to me time

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and time again because it was the

women beside this sport that made me

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feel safe, that made me feel inspired,

that fueled me to keep going forward.

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They are the reason why I do what I do.

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They are the reason why Grand Prix

weekends are so magical because I

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am such a firm believer that Grand

Prix are for the girls and they

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always will be because it's that

energy that I experienced throughout

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the entire weekend that makes it so

magical and makes it so inspirational

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and heartwarming and just like the

best thing in the world, you guys.

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And I just think that Grand Prix

will always be for the girls.

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It's so important to find the

women that will elevate and

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champion and uplift you in life.

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And that is what I have found, and

that is something that is so special.

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And I'm just so, so grateful for

the sport that has cars go around

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in circles that brought me some of

the most amazing women in my life.

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So lesson number one is that

community is everything.

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And when we come together, we rise

together and we're better than ever.

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So lesson number two is daring to

be you unlocks doors and puts you in

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rooms that you are meant to be in.

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And when I think back on

this lesson in particular.

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I think of the Female quotient event,

which I am so excited to finally

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talk about because that event you

guys, oh my God, I have never been to

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such a nice event before in my life.

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Like that truly was like picture perfect,

like Pinterest board worthy event.

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Like I just can't believe how incredibly

lucky I am to be in these rooms and

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to be surrounded by so many women.

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Again, so many women that

don't believe in competition.

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They believe in collaboration.

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They believe in creating something that

is bigger than themselves and coming

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together to create a movement, to create

momentum, to keep on closing the gap and

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fueling forward so that all of us can win.

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And that is exactly what the

Female Quotient event was for

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me, or at least what I took

from it as a young entrepreneur.

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That was the lens that I was viewing

that event as for me personally.

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And oh my gosh, you guys,

it did not disappoint.

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I have always, always, always, actually,

when I started Dare to Be Iconic, I

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wrote a list of partnerships that I would

love to have and that are like my dream

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partnerships and my two dream partnerships

are F1 Academy and Female Quotient.

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And to be in the room where these two

organizations, 'cause it wasn't just

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female quotient, it was female quotient

and F1 Academy coming together for

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a think lounge and to be in the room

with two of my dream partnerships and

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getting to hear and be a part of these

important conversations that do affect

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me as a small business owner, that do

affect me as a woman in sports that

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do affect me as a female entrepreneur.

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It was so amazing, and I know I keep

saying that everything's amazing and

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iconic, but honestly like it's these

moments, these memories that make the

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Grand Prix week and weekend, just so

memorable and just honestly one of

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like the best weeks of my life because

I couldn't believe how lucky I was

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to be a part of these conversations.

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It's so important to be

surrounded by women, right?

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We're going back to community, right?

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Community is everything, and when

we come together, we rise together

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and that's exactly what we were

doing in that female quotient.

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F1 Academy, think Lounge.

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We were coming together and having these

conversations that were necessary so

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that we all can fuel and move forward

and make progress and close that gap.

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And I just keep thinking that.

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None of this would happen if I didn't

dare to be myself, because daring to

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be myself, showing up authentically and

not apologizing for who I am and just

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fully being myself so authentically,

so boldly, so loudly, allowed me to

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show up in that room with Susie Wolf,

who I did meet the managing director

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of Formula One Academy, which was the

most brain shattering moment of my life.

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She's so incredibly nice and icon, I, I

just can't believe I got to be meet her.

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But like to be in these rooms where it

was like the CEO of Female Quotient,

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Susie Wolf, Lizzie Macintosh, all

these amazing intelligent women.

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And the reason I was able to be

there, the reason that I was in that

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room was because of the work that

I was doing with Dare To Be Iconic.

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It was because I was daring

to be myself no matter what.

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And that unlocks the door for me

to go to these events and make my

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presence known and talk about Dare to

Be Iconic, and obviously debrief with

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you guys afterwards and create these

connections and create this community

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that is bigger than myself because that's

what I'm doing with Dare to Be Iconic.

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I am creating a world.

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I'm creating a movement

that is bigger than myself.

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So to be in rooms where these women are

already doing it and I get to learn from

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them is the most incredible thing ever.

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And I just keep thinking back that, oh

my God, this all happened because I'm

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living out the Dare to Be Iconic message.

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If I didn't dare to be myself,

I wouldn't be where I am now.

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I wouldn't have the community that I

have now, which is you guys, the radiant

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icons that I love so incredibly much.

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I am, I don't know why I'm getting

emotional again, but whenever I think of

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you guys, I just get emotional because

it's like, wow, like we built this

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together and we're doing this together.

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And so the community that I've been

able to build through my work in Dare

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to be Iconic and the rooms that I'm able

to be in because of Dare to Be Iconic,

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is like the most mind blowing thing.

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And it proves to me time and time

again the power of the Dare to be

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iconic message because daring to

be yourself is the most powerful

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thing that you can do for yourself.

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And little baby Amanda just would not

believe the opportunities that she's had

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this past week because little baby Amanda

was bullied for having these big dreams.

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And to think that this Amanda now gets to

live out all those big dreams that little

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baby Amanda got bullied for relentlessly

is like a big pinch me moment.

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And it's, it's really cool.

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And I'm at a loss for words and I

just feel so overwhelmingly grateful

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that this is my life and that I

get to share it with you guys and

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bring you along for this journey.

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And that the message of Dare To Be iconic

is standing true time and time again.

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And I have never been prouder of

the work that I have done and the

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journey that we are going on together.

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So yeah, lesson two proves time and

time again that daring to be yourself

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will unlock doors for you that maybe

you never thought were possible.

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You're kicking down the damn door

and you're in that room because

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you were daring to be yourself.

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You were daring to be iconic.

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I think lesson three may

actually be my favorite.

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And I know you guys are gonna say,

Amanda, you say that for every time

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you make a guide for us, or every time

you have lessons for us, you always

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say that lesson number three or guide

number three, or step number three,

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whatever it is, is always your favorite.

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You're right.

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You are absolutely right.

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Call me out on it.

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Call me out on it time and time again.

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Lesson three.

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In this case, maybe one of my favorites,

honestly, it probably is my favorite

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because lesson three is following your

passion, even when it feels scary.

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That lesson is rooted in trust.

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And as we know, last year was the

year of trust where I had to build

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that foundation of trust from

ground zero to where it is now.

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And it's still a learning process, okay?

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I still have trust issues in every sense

of the word, but it's better, right?

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That skill has been strengthened because

I worked on it so much last year.

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So now, when I think

of lesson three, right?

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When I think of following your

passion, even when it feels scary,

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it all comes down to trusting your

heart that it will lead you to the

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rooms that you are meant to be in.

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Which also ties perfectly back to what

we mentioned in lesson two, right?

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Because daring to be yourself

is rooted in trusting yourself.

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And when it comes to trusting yourself.

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At least for me, it's

always the hardest thing.

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It's hard for me to trust my gut.

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It's hard for me to trust my instinct,

but because last year I learned how to

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trust myself and really listen to my

gut and really strengthen that skill,

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it allowed me to continue to follow

my passion even when it feels scary.

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I literally do the scary thing because

I know what's going to teach me more

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about myself, but I also know that my

heart, if it's telling me to do this, it

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will not lead me in the wrong direction.

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It will always lead me in the right one.

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Our gut is never wrong.

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Our instincts are never wrong.

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So win our gut.

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When our instinct.

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When our heart is telling us to go

after something to follow that passion,

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even when it feels scary, even when

it feels daunting, even when it feels

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overwhelming, we have to do it because

that means we are meant to do it.

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That means we're supposed to

do it, that we have to do it.

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And there are two scenarios

throughout the entire weekend that

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I think ring true to this lesson.

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The first one is the F1 Academy

Premiere, it's basically F1 academy's

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version of Drive to Survive.

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So when I think of the F1 Academy

Premier and how it applies to lesson

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three, follow your passion even when

it feels scary, I was in that room

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because I continued to follow my dreams.

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I continued to show up and work

for what I wanted, and I got to

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witness history because of that.

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Being in the room watching that first

episode, being in the room with Reese

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Witherspoon and Susie Wolf and the

past and current F1 Academy drivers

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before anyone else is something

that I truly will never forget.

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And it all comes down to trusting

my heart will lead me into the

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rooms that I'm meant to be in.

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And even when I hit roadblock after

roadblock, I continue to show up.

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And because I continue to show up, because

I continue to do it when it's scary and

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because I keep on following my passion,

I get to be in rooms and witness history.

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I get to be in the rooms where these

conversations, these decisions,

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these history making moments are

happening because I continue to

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trust my heart that it will lead me

exactly where I am supposed to be.

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Also when I think of lesson three,

I think of the Williams fan zone.

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Now you guys know the most iconic

way to start off your grand prix

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weekend is at the Williams fan zone.

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I love Williams.

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I love their culture.

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I love what they do for fans.

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And you know, I had the most

amazing time in Spain with them.

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I mean, that's where I

got to meet Logan Sargent.

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That's where I got to meet Lia

Block and Zach and Luke and Franco.

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Like, I got to meet everyone in

Spain at the Williams fan zone.

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And you know, the girls and I

felt so comfortable and safe that

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we spent the whole day there.

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And Kimi and I did that again this year.

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We love what they are creating

and doing for fans and the

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experiences that they bring to us.

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And one of the experiences

is their q and as.

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And for this day that we went, it was

Lia Block and James Vowels and which

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James is the team principal for Williams,

for all my non F1 Radiance icons who

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are enjoying this teatime session.

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Um, but Lia Block is the F1 Academy

driver for Williams and James Vowels is

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the team principal for Williams Racing.

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And we were able to speak

with them in a q and a format.

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And when it came to Lia's q and a, she

was actually the first one of the evening.

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And I always have my

questions prepped, right?

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Because we know James, James the

host, um, not James Vowels, right.

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James?

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That is the host for the

Williams fan zones q and a.

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Um, and he's like, get your questions

ready, like make sure this and that,

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la la and so Kimmy and I always

have our questions ready, right?

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We are prepped, we are prepared,

we are ready to ask the questions

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when they give us the mic.

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But all of a sudden when it came to Lia's

q and a, which was the first q and a

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of the evening, I got really insecure.

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I started doubting myself.

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I got in my head, I was like, oh,

I don't know if I should ask this.

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Like, maybe it's like not a good question.

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Like maybe it's really dumb.

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Like she's gonna think X, Y, and Z.

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Like I was telling myself all

these untrue things, right?

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Because I got this wave of insecurity

and I've never experienced that before

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because as you guys know, if there is an

opportunity for me to speak to someone

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that I want to speak to or there's just

an opportunity in general, I'm gonna kick

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down that damn door and make it happen.

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But in this instance, when it came

to asking Lia a question, all of

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a sudden I got really in my head

and I got really insecure and

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I don't know what it was in me.

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Well, no.

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I do know actually it was lesson three.

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I was following my passion

even when it feels scary.

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So I, I trust in my heart because my heart

was yelling at me to ask Lia my question,

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which was, what has been your most

iconic moment of your career thus far?

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And not only did Lia love the question,

she was living for it, but when she

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came around and was signing stuff,

I had her sign my phone case, she

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stopped before she signed it and

was like, I loved your question.

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Literally my day was

made because me right.

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Before I asked that

question, I was in my head.

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I told myself all of these untrue things.

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I told myself all of these lies.

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I made up all these situations

and scenarios because I

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started doubting myself.

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I started getting insecure, but it was

because I pushed through my insecurity.

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I acknowledged it, I felt it, but I pushed

through it that I got to have that moment.

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And so for Lia to reassure me basically,

and be like, I loved your question.

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Prove to me that even when it

feels scary, even when it feels

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daunting, even when you don't know

what the outcome is going to be.

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You still have to push through.

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You still have to trust your heart, right?

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My, my heart and my brain and

everything in me was saying,

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do it, Amanda, raise your hand.

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You're not going to regret it.

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But it was the insecurity that was washing

over me that was almost debilitating

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me from going after something that I

wanted, going after this opportunity

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that was presented to myself.

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And I've never experienced that before,

but I'm kind of glad I did because it

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proved to me that even when it's scary, I

have to acknowledge the insecurity, right?

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But I also have to push through it

because you'll never know the end result.

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If I never asked Lia that question, I

would've never had that moment with her.

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Right?

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But because I pushed through

my insecurity, I pushed through

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that wave of doubt that I was

battling, and I still did it.

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I still followed my passion,

even when it was scary for me.

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I was able not only to ask my question

and to be honest, I do think she loved

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my question because you could just see

it in her face like she like loved it.

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But to also have that personal moment with

her when she was signing my phone case

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and being like, I loved your question.

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Like she looked me dead in my eyes,

stopped before she signed my phone

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case and said, I loved your question.

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That is everything to me.

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That proved to me that lesson three stands

true because your gut and your heart and

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your instinct will never lead you astray.

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It will always lead you exactly

where you were supposed to be.

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And in that moment, even though I

was fighting a lot of inner demons.

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I was supposed to be there and I

was supposed to ask that question

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so that I can have that moment with

Leah Block and debrief it with you

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guys here in the pod because we need

to spill the tea about everything.

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And if I'm being honest, that that was

a moment where I really didn't know

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why I was feeling that way, but I think

it's all making sense now that I, that I

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rambled to you guys on this mic about it.

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And the last iconic lesson, or take

away from the Miami experience because

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it was an experience radiant icons,

it would be celebrate every moment

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because you're living the dream.

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As I mentioned earlier in this

episode, I've always had really

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big dreams like Little Baby Amanda.

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Dreams so big, right?

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She was a small girl with

big dreams, fun facts.

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That actually was supposed to be the

name of this podcast before I came

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up with the concept of my business.

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Just, just a fun fact.

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Um, but I've always been a small

girl with very big dreams, and

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with that my mind is always racing.

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My mind is always thinking about

the next opportunity, the next

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pathway to get to where I want to be.

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It's always forward thinking, right?

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And my brain truly never

stopped, and sometimes that's

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really, really exhausting.

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And I, I, I, I'm working on it, you

guys, but when it comes to celebrating

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every moment because I'm living the

dream, sometimes it's hard for me to

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recognize the magic while I'm in it.

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It's a lot easier for me to kind of like

take the step back after the trip and like

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break down these lessons and like debrief

with you guys and spill the tea about it.

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Like that's easy for me to do, right?

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Because it allows me to like process

my thoughts and have that self

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reflection and self introspection

and all that, like good stuff.

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But something that I'm really

working on this year is recognizing

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the magic while I'm in it.

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These are the moments that

make life worth living, right?

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Getting to meet so many amazing women.

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Getting to be in the rooms that I want to

be in, that I've always strived to be in.

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I'm there, I'm in those rooms.

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I'm having those conversations.

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I'm being an active participant in

change that I want to see for women like.

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Sometimes it's hard for me when

I'm experiencing these once in a

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lifetime moments to truly take it in

and truly just like be there and be

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present 'cause I'm always thinking

of, okay, what can I do with this?

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What can I do next with this?

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Where's the next pathway?

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What's the type of

content I need for this?

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Right?

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Sometimes I have trouble

really just like taking it in.

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And I've made a conscious effort this

year especially to be more in the

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moment and more present and to recognize

the magic while I'm currently in it.

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So like when the podcast was

a year on March 27th, right?

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Like I was so in that moment, I

was so present with celebrating

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with my family and celebrating my

accomplishments with my loved ones.

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Like I was so present in that moment

and that was something new for me.

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The only time I'm ever really present in

the moment would honestly be my birthday,

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like, you know, National Amanda Day.

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It's a national holiday.

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Like for me, I'm able to

recognize the magic of that day

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and that moment obviously, and

like be fully present in it.

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Right.

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But when it comes to dare to be

iconic wins in general, right?

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For me it's, it's really hard

to kind of celebrate them in the

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moment and take that gratitude.

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'cause I'm always

thinking of what is next?

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What can I do with this?

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How can I learn and grow, right?

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I don't take the moment of, let

me just sit in this, let me sit

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in this feeling of gratitude.

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Let me sit in this feeling of

joy and happiness and all of it.

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And this year I've been working

on that more and more, and I

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was able to do that this year.

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But specifically for this event, and

I should say for this experience,

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because it's not an event at

this point, it's an experience.

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It's a week of iconicness and every

magical moment, every iconic moment

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that I mentioned here, right, that I

spilled the tea about with you guys were

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moments where I really allowed myself to

celebrate that win of being in that room,

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of meeting this person of X, Y, and Z.

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Because I've worked so incredibly

hard for dare to be iconic and

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for everything that I have created

within this dare to be iconic world.

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So yes, I'm going to cherish these moments

'cause I worked too damn hard not to.

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And at least that's

what I'm telling myself.

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And at least that's what I'm putting

into practice this, this time, this year.

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Um, because I need to do that.

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And I know a lot of us, you know,

we, we kind of bypass these big and

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small moments in our lives and we only

look to those really, really big, big

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milestones that we wanna achieve, whether

that's college graduation, whether

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that's buying a house, whether that's

marriage, engagement, so on so forth.

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Right?

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Getting that first big girl job.

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It's the little moments in

between that build momentum

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to those bigger wins, right?

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So we need to celebrate those smaller

wins, those smaller iconic moments

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'cause that builds momentum to get to

that big win of marriage, engagement,

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buying a house, graduating college,

nailing your first big girl job.

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All of those big wins had

smaller wins that built up to it.

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And for me, I'm learning that I need to,

I actually really do need to celebrate

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those smaller wins in my life, because

those bigger wins of that one year of

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the podcast, in October, it'll be two

years of my business of Dare to be iconic.

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Like that's insane, right?

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Those are big milestones and

obviously I'm gonna celebrate,

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but what about those smaller ones?

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What are the smaller wins

that I was able to accomplish?

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Right.

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I was able to go to the Miami Grand

Prix . I was able to meet Susie Wolf,

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managing director of Formula One

Academy, a dream partnership of mine.

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I was able to attend an event for female

Quotient F1 Academy, two of my dream

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partnerships for Dare to Be Iconic, right?

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I was in that room.

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I was able to be in the room with Reese

Witherspoon, miss Elle Woods herself.

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I was able to meet Abby Pulling World

Champion of F1 Academy from last year.

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I was able to meet Alba Current F1

Academy driver that I literally am

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so obsessed with, like I love her.

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Like I was able to meet these people and

be in these rooms and also experience

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these once in a lifetime memories with

so many iconic women that I wouldn't

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have met if it wasn't for this sport, and

it's just like I need to celebrate that.

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Lando Bash wouldn't have happened

if I never met Kimi in Spain and

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we didn't come up with this idea

together and put it on its feet.

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I would've never met all these amazing,

iconic, radiant icons if I never

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took a chance on myself on October

th,:

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None of anything that I just mentioned

would've never happened if I didn't

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take in all the small wins that led

to these big ass moments in my life.

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So if there is one thing that

you take away from this episode,

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please let it be that you need to

celebrate every moment in your life.

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Whether it's small or big, you need to

celebrate it because this is everything

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that you have ever dreamed for.

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It's coming true for you,

it's coming true, and you

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need to just be in the moment.

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You need to be present, and you need

to recognize the magic while you're

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in it because there is no other,

because there is no other amazing

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feeling in this world than being in

the moment of celebrating your win.

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That is your tea time slash

for today, Radiant Icons.

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If you enjoyed today's episode, make

sure to subscribe to leave a rating, a

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review to tell your friends about us,

to tell everyone and anyone, because

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you know, we love more radiant icons

in our iconic community of ours.

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But honestly, you guys, Miami was a dream

and I am so incredibly grateful that

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not only do I get to share these iconic

moments and experiences with you guys,

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whether that's in person or online, right

through my podcast, through my content,

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whatever it is, right through the blog.

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Like whatever way that I get

to share these experiences.

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I'm just so incredibly grateful that

I get to do that and that I also

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got to hug and meet so many of you

guys in person this week in Miami.

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Like I was telling someone that I'm

very close to now, and you probably get

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the hint of who I'm talking about if

you've been on my Instagram or my TikTok

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or if you were honestly at Lando Bash

because I was introducing that person

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to like everyone through the phone.

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Um, I was telling him that

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sometimes I truly can't believe how

lucky I am to have such an iconic group

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of radiant icons who are on the same

mission as I am, which is to dare to be

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yourself and to live life so boldly and

unapologetically, and that we get to come

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together and meet in person and just live

life and love what life has to offer and

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to uplift each other and champion each

other and elevate each other, right?

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Like I am so beyond grateful for the

community that we have created together.

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And it's so magical to see us all come

in person and just be like the best

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of friends and it's all collaboration

and there's no competition and it's

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such an amazing iconic environment.

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And I'm just so, I'm just so grateful

and I'm gonna cry again because I

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think it's so cool that we have a

group of iconic radiant icons that

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are just like loving life and living

out the Dare to be iconic message

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and are just there for one another.

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And like the support in this

community, in this Radiant

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Icon Club is just so so insane.

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And I'm just so, so proud of you guys

and I'm so proud of us and I'm, I'm

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proud of what we have done and what

we will continue to do together.

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And I am just so, so grateful.

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I was gonna curse and I'm trying not

to curse, but I'm just so grateful

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that you guys are here on this journey

with me and that I get to be a part

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of your dare to be iconic journey.

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This is like the best thing ever.

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And like Little Baby Amanda would

literally just be like, wow.

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Like just so in awe that the one

thing that she always wanted, which

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was a community, right, of people

that would back each other and

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support each other and just like

champion each other is like happening.

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And it's really cool to

see your dreams come true.

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Of course, I'm crying

again, but I'm just, yeah.

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I just love you guys so much.

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Thank you for changing my life.

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I really do mean that from

the bottom of my heart.

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Thank you for changing my life because

none of this would've been possible

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if you guys weren't supporting Dare To

Be Iconic from the very beginning when

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it was just a blog, and here we are.

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Oh my God.

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I feel like sobbing right now.

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But

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I'm so proud of us.

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I'm so incredibly proud and

I love you guys so much.

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Okay, I'm gonna go.

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I'm gonna stop crying, but I

will talk to you guys next week.

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Remember, radiant icons.

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Dare to be iconic.

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Bye.

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Dare To Be Iconic
Embrace Your Iconic Self
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Welcome to "Dare To Be Iconic," the podcast made for icons daring to be themselves. Hosted by your favorite icon, Amanda Paolicelli, "Dare To Be Iconic" is not just another self-help podcast—it's your weekly tea time session where Amanda spills all the tea on topics like self-confidence, self-improvement, healing, and personal growth.

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