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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesย ยทย 2:25

Birthday Eve reflection - thank you Swellcasters ๐ŸŒฟ

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So I wanted to have sort of a birthday gratitude moment here to just thank people who have had the courage and the wherewithal to open up their hearts and their minds and their ideas here on Swell and kind of be here and without ceremony, without feeling you're performative, just showing up in your authentic way. It's awesome. So thank you for making making the next year of my life be as meaningful as last year has been

Picture from this week in Los Angeles. My swell 2 years ago https://s.swell.life/STHFPAttn8T7sQR

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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowieย ยทย 0:55
Happy birthday, Deb. I hope you have an amazing one. And just wanted to say, like, I'm really grateful for all of the the conversations you've started this past year, particularly about topics that can be difficult to speak about regarding mental health and identity and just emotional experiences in general. I feel like so many of us have learned things through those conversations, including yourself, which I know you just said
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesย ยทย 0:52

@bowie

Oh, Bowie, that's so nice. Thank you. You're the best little love fest going on here. Appreciate you so much. Yes, I I have one. I mean, I I have to be honest. My life is so kind of of balanced and good and growthful and challenging and human
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swellย ยทย 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

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J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisuย ยทย 0:38
Well, first and foremost, Deb, happy, happy birthday. May you have a blessed, rich, prosperous, healthy, healthy, fulfilling, authentic, personal New Year, because it is your very own personal New Year. Also, thank you for being open and sharing this well with us and allowing the small community the opportunity to wish you a happy birthday
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@SeekingPlumb

@DBPardes

Happy birthday, Deb. May this next year be even better than the last
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@filmfaerie
therese blandlastname
@filmfaerieย ยทย 0:32
Deborah. If I may call you Deborah. Hi. I'm just responding back. Happy prebirthday if not birthday itself. I it's still the 12th here, so I'm assuming that it's tomorrow. Happy birthday again. Thank you for being so kind and responding to my birthday. There's a saying I like to say is may your New Year be all the gold and none the brass. So I wish you the best, and I hope that you have an excellent adventure this time, too
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@SistahSoul
Jai Staton
@SistahSoulย ยทย 1:20

#BlessUp

Hey, hey, hey. Blessed Born on Day Deb we are so grateful for your presence in the universe. Thank you so much for sharing those insights and that reflection. It resonated so much with me when you said when the road is blocked, you had your ideas about where you are going and how you are going to get there and you ended up making another choice. What an incredible metaphor for everything we experience every day
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@BasTalk
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalkย ยทย 2:16
I mean, there's always a possibility of that and just not articles. Therese are blogs, and I do a lot of podcasts, and so I get so much of commentary and feedback, but very rarely, and one gets a meaningful thought through comment, which essentially tells you that I appreciate the nonverbal there is. I appreciate what you put in your effort to generate this content, and I'm listening to it
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesย ยทย 1:57

@BasTalk

It's so lovely to put an idea out there and seal reflection back. And this this threat, obviously, is half self indulgent in a way, because I definitely wanted to express just gratitude and then let people know that it comes from a place of appreciation long term, but also in this moment of my birth and hearing your gratitude for me. I am very moving. I was just listening to another swell about purpose and how our purposes shift and change throughout life
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