CEUs at Sea: Cruising and Professional Development with Dr. Jennifer Dozier

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Welcome to the Continuing Education

for Mental Health Professionals podcast.

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I'm your host, Natasha Moharter,

a licensed counselor, OCD

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Today I'm joined by our

very special guest, Dr.

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Jennifer Dozier.

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She's a licensed professional counselor

and mental health service provider

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with a PhD in psychology, and she's

dedicated to helping individuals

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and families navigate life's

challenges with evidence-based care.

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Dr.

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Dozier is also an approved CE

provider and the founder of

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Continuing Education at Sea, where

she provides continuing education

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opportunities aboard cruise ships.

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She designed this innovative experience to

give therapists a fresh way to earn their

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continuing education hours, combining

meaningful learning with the benefits

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of travel, relaxation, and connection.

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Her workshops cover timely topics

like trauma-informed care, ethics,

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and new advances in therapy, all with

a focus on enhancing skills while

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also supporting clinician wellbeing.

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Through her work in advocacy,

research and community outreach, Dr.

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Dozier continues to equip both clients

and professionals with the tools to foster

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emotional health and lasting growth.

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Welcome Dr.

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Dozier.

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It's such a pleasure

to have you here today.

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Jennifer Dozier: Thank you for having me.

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That, um, makes me sound amazing.

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Natasha Moharter: You are amazing

such an honor to have you.

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So can you tell us a little bit about

yourself and what got you started

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in the continuing education world?

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Jennifer Dozier: So you know, we have

to have hours to keep our license.

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And about two years ago I was sitting in

this conference room, there was 500 people

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in there and I watched Netflix the entire

time because I was bored outta my brain.

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And I started to look around

the room and I was like.

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Nobody is paying attention, like

nobody was paying attention.

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And so it made me really, really sad.

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Now, the speaker was great.

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There was nothing wrong with the speaker,

but it was a topic, we as clinicians, if

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we've been in the field for an extended

period of time, we had learned about it.

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We've talked about it at least 900 times.

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And so people just kind of zoned out.

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And I thought, Hmm, I'm

away from my practice.

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I'm away from my family.

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I'm in this conference room.

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I'm not paying attention,

I'm not making connections.

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Hmm, I'm really here just for the hours.

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And then it kind of hit

me, this is not good.

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We need to do something else.

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So at that point, I started coming up

with the idea where could we do this?

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How could we do this how can we

connect on a different level?

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Because we need to be

with like-minded people.

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We have to be with other clinicians.

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We are only one brain.

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When you go and you talk to

somebody else, you're like, oh, I

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didn't think about that that way.

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That's huge.

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And so that's kind of where the baby came

and that's how kind of where it started.

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Natasha Moharter: Our time is valuable.

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Jennifer Dozier: And we as clinicians,

a lot of us, when we're away from

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the office, we don't get paid.

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Natasha Moharter: Yes.

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Jennifer Dozier: So if we're gonna

be away from the office, let's do it

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a place where we can make a memory.

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Natasha Moharter: Absolutely.

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So that's what inspired you to

create Continuing Education at Sea,

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your continuing education business.

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And offering CEUs on a cruise

is such a unique concept.

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: What made you

decide to say, what about a cruise?

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Jennifer Dozier: So remember in the

olden days when people were sick,

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they sent them to the sea to heal.

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So they sent 'em to the water.

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If you're an ocean person, when you

go to the ocean, you're like, there's

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just something magical about that.

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The waves and the sand and the air and the

salt and the clouds and the palm trees.

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You're just like, okay, I can do this.

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I could live here.

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Natasha Moharter: I wanna be there now.

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Jennifer Dozier: Absolutely.

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And so I thought, okay,

I could rent a big house.

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And then I thought, well

wait, I rent this big house.

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Then just the clinicians come,

they're still away from their family

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and basically we're doing it in

a big house with a pretty scene.

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Like, I get to look at pretty things,

but I'm still away from my family.

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So then I thought, Hmm, okay, how

about I rent a boutique hotel so

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they could bring their families?

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Then I thought, Hmm, then

I'm gonna have to staff that.

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How am I gonna do that?

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And then I was like, you know, where

do we like to go to make memories?

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Cruising.

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I have my chef, I have my concierge,

I have my housekeeping, I have my

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entertainment, I have my conference rooms.

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We encourage people to

bring their families.

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We want you to come have respite,

make a memory with your family.

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Go, and we did Greece last year.

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Go into Greece and see all

the stuff you wanna see.

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And then we would eat dinner

at night and we'd do our

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conferences on the days at sea.

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And it was amazing.

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Amazing.

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Natasha Moharter: I was so curious

about how you planned that.

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You said they are, uh, days at sea.

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: And that's

when the, when the training

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typically happens, it sounds like.

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Because we don't wanna

disrupt your time in port.

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If you're traveling and you're paying

to go on this cruise to go see Greece

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in this example, you know, I want you

to spend every minute you have in port.

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And when you go to Europe, you get

to go a few days early to acclimate.

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So you, it's almost like a vacation

in a vacation because you get

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to go a few days early to see

wherever the the port is, you know?

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When we went to Greece, we

went 10 days early, and a lot

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of people went 10 days early.

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Some people saw people telehealth

during those first 10 days.

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They just budgeted the timeframe.

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You know, so I saw patients

when I was over there.

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Obviously you need to check your

licensure and the state and statutes

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and all that, make sure you can do that.

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And then what we're gonna do is we're

gonna try to put a hotel in the night

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before to where we can do a meet and

greet before we even get on the boat.

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Natasha Moharter: That is cool.

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So when you offer the cruises and they

leave from Europe, people will fly

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out to Europe and meet you all there.

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And maybe even have some time

ahead of time to get acclimated.

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And also, uh, if you're a business owner,

this could become a tax write off as well.

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Jennifer Dozier: It's

absolutely a tax write off.

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You know, a lot of employers

pay for continuing education.

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So if your employer's going to pay

for your continuing education and

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you get to go pick anywhere you

wanna go, or they give you a set

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amount, you can use it on this.

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Natasha Moharter: Absolutely.

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Jennifer Dozier: I've had a

lot of people that do that.

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I have a group practice that wants to send

their entire group practice for the week.

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They're just gonna shut the

office down for the week.

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I'm like, that's a really smart idea.

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They're using it as incentives.

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I thought that was a great idea cause I

you know, being a, a sole practitioner,

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I didn't know big companies pay

for continuing education, but big

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companies do and they pay big money.

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So if a company's gonna give

you a thousand dollars a year

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for your CE credits, why would

you not do it on a cruise ship?

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Natasha Moharter: I love

the business aspect of this.

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When we put on live events, we

do have to think about the staff

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and the overhead, but I could see

where this kind of streamlines and

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systematizes some stuff for you as well.

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Jennifer Dozier: It is amazing.

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So how we do it typically is

we find intentional cruises

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that have a few days at sea.

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That's important.

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They have conference rooms with all the

AV equipment and everything we need.

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The first night we go down to the

conference room and kind of do a meet

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and greet and get to know each other.

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Typically we get ethics outta the

way 'cause you know, that's not fun.

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And then we disperse and we go back

to our families and we have dinner

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and do the fun stuff on the ship.

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And we might be in ports

the next couple of days.

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Just depends how it falls out.

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You have breakfast with your family.

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You do morning workshop, break,

morning workshop, lunch with your

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family or whomever, workshop,

workshop, dinner with your family.

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So you know how they do the Newlywed

Game where, you know, the couples go

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up there, it's the old school and they

ask you questions and they see how

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well you know your spouse and they

pick someone that's like maybe newly

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married, go down the line 50 years

and all the way back to honeymoon.

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And so we had talked in a workshop that

day about different communication styles.

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And so that happened to be

on the agenda that night.

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So we went as a group to watch it,

to see the different communication.

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And then we went back down

to the conference room and

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discussed the different things.

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Natasha Moharter: That is so neat.

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Jennifer Dozier: So much fun.

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Natasha Moharter: Not Netflix.

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Jennifer Dozier: It was so much fun.

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So that was, that was a neat one.

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We had another night we just

ran into everybody at karaoke.

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So you see people on the ship.

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Some people buy the drink package.

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Some people don't wanna

buy the drink package.

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Some people buy every

excursion known to man.

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Some people are like, Nope, I just wanna

wander around in the cities and get a cab

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and I want you to have those memories.

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It's so much more than checking

a box, but it's fun because, so

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now we're walking around the ship.

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And we're like, Hey, what did

you guys do today in Port?

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Did you have fun?

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Oh, I'll see you later at whatever.

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You know?

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So it's not like you're just a family

of four walking around the ship.

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You are a community

walking around the ship.

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Natasha Moharter: How neat.

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That sense of belonging, that sense

of like, okay, there's a lot of people

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here, but there's some familiar faces.

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And that camaraderie

that can come with that.

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Yeah, my guess is it takes some

courage to say, this is a new idea.

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I'm gonna go do this.

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What was the process like

to kind of figure this out?

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Jennifer Dozier: So we have to be

credentialed, to be able to offer

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these hours you have to go through

the different governing bodies.

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So we're currently approved by NBCC,

which covers Licensed Professional

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Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family

Therapists, Licensed Pastoral Counselors.

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But it also covers LCSWs

in, in several states.

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We have that list on the website, but we

also are ASWB for all the social workers.

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It's a lot of legwork and they

have to approve everything, and

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they have to approve you and they

approve all your speakers, and

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you have to be up on the topics.

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Natasha Moharter: How do you

pick your speakers and the

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topics that they present on?

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Jennifer Dozier: So that

comes from the feedback.

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A lot of people wanna know about

ADHD, and a lot of people wanna know

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about different assessment writing.

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Maybe they need to know more about grief.

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Natasha Moharter: So, coming back to kinda

how you structure your trainings on board.

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: Cruises can be

both relaxing and full of activity.

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How do you design the CE experience to fit

into that environment while you're still

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meeting those professional standards?

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Jennifer Dozier: So we have to meet the

time requirements governed by the boards.

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The NBCC, ASWB.

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The first night we tried to get

ethics, like I said, out of the way.

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If we can fit it in.

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We do morning and afternoon

workshops on days at sea.

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And then we also have a day

in there kind of as a backup

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plan, just in case we need it.

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And then we do the surveys,

give out the certificates.

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You have to write when you come

in and clock when you leave 'cause

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we have to do it by the boards.

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We always do three hours of ethics

because everybody has to have that.

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Yeah, Cultural diversity.

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ADHD is a big topic right now.

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So we have a lot of speakers

coming and talking about ADHD.

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Couples are a big topic.

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So we have different speakers coming

and talking about different assessments

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you could use with couples or well, have

you tried this modality with a couple?

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Maybe you need to learn an assessment

you can use with a couple that

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maybe you've never used before.

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So we can train you on an assessment.

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Maybe you're working with

some trauma and you've never

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thought about a PTSD assessment.

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Maybe you don't ever use inventories,

you know, but when you leave our

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workshops, I want you to go, I can

do that in my practice the moment I

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get back, not I got a certificate.

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Natasha Moharter: I think that's so

important when we're creating continuing

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education trainings to say like, what is

it that we want them to walk away with

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and be able to implement immediately?

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If they had a client right after

this what would they be able to use?

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Jennifer Dozier: You know, the logistics

beforehand is a lot because we have

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to make sure we have the speakers

that are experts in their field.

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They're in good standing

with their license.

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Maybe they've never presented on a cruise

ship, but they presented somewhere.

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That they know their material.

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You know, that they bring

something to the table.

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Natasha Moharter: So you really

are vetting the speakers,

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you're vetting the material.

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And so when these people sign up for

the cruises that you offer it really

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is useful, time with their family, tax

write offs, all kinds of cool benefits.

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Jennifer Dozier: That, I mean,

that's enough for me right there.

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Time with my family and a tax write

off and I'm on a boat in an ocean.

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I'm done.

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We're about to launch our 2026 conference,

which is gonna be in Spain next year.

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And I tried to explain to the travel

agents that are booking I said, what we

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do is we are looking for something like at

11 o'clock at night, midnight, one o'clock

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in the morning, and for me to go, oh, I

can do a continuing education in Spain

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on a cruise ship and bring my family.

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I just want the clinicians to go book.

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Done.

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I don't want them to have to fill

out a form and wait for a call back

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and do this and do all those things.

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That's very much the old

way we used to do things.

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So Spain is gonna be a new platform

to where literally you can click

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book, it's one price never changes.

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And you can pay on it

on monthly installments.

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Natasha Moharter: I think this

is something that isn't talked

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about a lot when we're talking

about continuing education.

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We're talking about the content and things

like that, but that pay me now button and

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the ease of the checkout process is huge

for any sort of thing that we're selling.

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But you make it easy.

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They've already made the decision.

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Maybe they're kind of on the fence, but

like, now you're gonna make me use a lot

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of executive functioning to find what,

and to tell you what, or to upload what.

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Yeah, no, I'm done.

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I had good intentions.

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I probably still wanna go on the cruise.

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Jennifer Dozier: Absolutely.

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The streamlining of that and for me

to be able to go, oh, it's automated.

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I don't have to think about it.

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Cause I'm like, I, I'm not doing it the

old fashioned way anymore, not doing it.

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We listen to trauma often,

sometimes eight hours a day.

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And so lots of times when we

are decompressing, it might be

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scrolling through our phone,

looking for a continuing ed, looking

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where for where they're going.

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Oh, I can go to Spain and I can

take my kids and I take my parents.

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I can take my parents.

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They're not gonna go to the workshops,

but I get to go to Spain with them.

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So they have to book, you have

to book through us, because we

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have to have the group space.

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But like my parents book through

us and you just put they're

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not going to the conference.

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And then it's just the ease of that at one

o'clock in the morning going boom, done.

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Natasha Moharter: There's a book that's

called Clockwork by uh, Mike Michalowicz.

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And he talks so much about the

importance of finding what he

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calls the Queen Bee Role, which is,

you know, what is it that you do?

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And finding how to protect

the Queen Bee Role.

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But us as owners and founders

aren't always the queen bee, right?

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We're not.

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: We serve it, but

how do we then, like if we wanted

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to take a vacation and not touch

our business, what processes would

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have to be in place for that?

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How would people be able to sign up

without you having to ever touch it?

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: You know,

outside of setting up the platform

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and the systems ahead of time.

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: And I love that

concept because I think it allows

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us to then free up our resource,

our time, our energy, right.

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To be back in that design

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Jennifer Dozier: Yes.

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Natasha Moharter: and development

place rather than like data entry

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and like trying to fix things.

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It leads me to another question what

do you wish that you knew before you

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became a continued education provider?

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Jennifer Dozier: To become

a provider I did not realize

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how difficult it really was.

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We want it regulated and we want

those boundaries and those laws

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in place and that, but I was like.

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Okay, I can do this.

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Because we, we know as

clinicians, we're ethical.

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We know as clinicians, we have integrity.

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We know as clinicians, we're

gonna follow the rules.

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Okay.

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But they don't know us.

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So it's like, okay, I have to

explain this concept again, this way.

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Explain it, the concept again, this way,

and and it's worth it, but it is tedious.

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You know, like I would, if

somebody was upset with something

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I did, I would fix it, you know?

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But they don't know me, they

don't know my character.

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So they're like, well,

what's your grievance policy?

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And I'm like.

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Fix it.

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Now put that on a piece of paper.

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Natasha Moharter: Making sure

everything is covered beforehand.

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How do you navigate the networking

and relationships when you're onboard?

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Jennifer Dozier: So I always say we're

the loud family, probably by the buffet.

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If you ever wanna know where

my family's at, we'll be the

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ones laughing by the food.

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Natasha Moharter: I love it.

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Jennifer Dozier: I want to include people,

you know, so if they see my family sitting

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there and they want to come sit with

us, come on, you're welcome to join us.

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That's fine.

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We have tables together to sit for dinner.

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You don't have to sit with us at dinner.

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You can go to any dining you want

to go to, but the table is there.

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Mm-hmm.

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So, and also, okay, so

you bring your kids.

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My kids are adults, but some

clinicians have little kids, you

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know, and they're like, well, what

are we gonna do with our kids?

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There were so many fun

things for those kids to do.

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We don't wanna be just

parenting in another city.

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Because when you have kids,

sometimes when you're on vacation,

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you're just parenting at the beach.

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You're just parenting in another city.

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The kids have activities.

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You could, if you gamble,

you could go to the casino.

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If you want to go line dancing,

if they wanna stay in and do face

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painting, they could do that.

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There's, you know, age groups on there.

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So you have the younger kids, the

middle kids, the older kids, they could

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come with you to the Broadway plays.

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I can actually relax.

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I can actually shut down my brain and not

worry about all my patients over here,

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or is all the laundry done over here,

or, you know, whatever the case may be.

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And I can go, I'm just gonna look

at what buffet I am going to.

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Natasha Moharter: That's an

important aspect that parents

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are gonna be thinking about.

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So I think even the thoughtfulness

that you've put into what cruise

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liner you're choosing, right?

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: What are

the destinations, what are the

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things that they can do that does

create this whole experience.

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Jennifer Dozier: And the reason

we're choosing next summer is

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'cause kids are outta school.

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I was riding go-karts in the middle

of Alaska, in the middle of the ocean.

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I was like, wow, there's

icebergs around me.

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This is cool, you know?

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And it's amazing.

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And Greece, you know, you're looking

over the ship and I'm looking at

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the whole side of Turkey going.

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I never thought in my life

I'd ever get to Turkey.

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Natasha Moharter: How do you pick

the destinations for the cruises?

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Jennifer Dozier: I listen to what

people say, what other clinicians say,

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and so that's a part of the reason

why we're going to Spain and Italy is

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because people said, I want to go there.

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Natasha Moharter: It sounds

like you're an adventurer.

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Jennifer Dozier: I am.

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I am.

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We have one shot at this life and I wanna

make the memories and I want to make 'em

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with my family, and I want to enjoy life.

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To be there and to be like, I've

only seen the white buildings

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with the blue tops on movies.

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To see the ruins or to see the

Parthenon or to see Split, Croatia.

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I am a cancer survivor 19

years ago, and they were doing

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a run that day through Split.

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It's just, those memories are huge.

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I would encourage you, bring

your family, bring your parents,

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if you like your parents.

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I bring my parents and my kids

and I bring a lot of people.

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Natasha Moharter: You're making

it work for you, something

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that's important to you.

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Gotta bring in income, right?

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Resource helps everything keep going.

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Mm-hmm.

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But you're doing it in a very

creative, fun way and I just

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hear your values come through.

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Jennifer Dozier: Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: And that

you're providing that experience

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for others as well, right?

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Jennifer Dozier: Think about it.

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If we don't have our hours

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Natasha Moharter: Mm-hmm

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Jennifer Dozier: we're

not growing as clinicians.

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You can get these, you can get hours free.

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You can go on whatever site and

get 'em for, you know, $99 a year.

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You don't have to do

something elaborate like this.

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But that work-life balance and that

self-care and that respite and those

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memories that you'll make with your

children, and you get to write it off.

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Do you know the average American only

gets 4,100 weekends in their life.

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You know, so I'd spend every

one of mine on a cruise ship.

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Natasha Moharter: How did you

start getting the word out about

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Continuing Education at Sea?

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Jennifer Dozier: Talking

to other clinicians.

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Natasha Moharter: Yeah.

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Jennifer Dozier: And you know,

I'm in Tennessee, so talking to

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other clinicians in Tennessee.

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And then you, your group.

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That's an amazing Facebook group.

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Natasha Moharter: Thank you so much.

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Jennifer Dozier: Yeah, that's huge.

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But really talking to other clinicians,

going to speaking at other events,

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making sure people know about it.

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Natasha Moharter: What kind of feedback

have you heard from participants and

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in what ways has that influenced how

you shape or evolve this experience?

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Jennifer Dozier: So the very first

one we did, the feedback was that we

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did not navigate the port days well.

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They were like, we're coming

back too early from port.

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So if Port says we have to be

at the boat at six, there's

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nothing happening before six.

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That was a huge one 'cause I was like,

oh man, you know, I didn't think of that.

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Um, you know and all the other feedback

we have gotten is, this is amazing.

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I love it.

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I love that I get to bring my

family, speakers are amazing.

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I love the experiential.

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So in the Europe one that's coming up

in: 2026

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author that's gonna be on there that

happens to be a psychologist and LPC.

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And so he's going to actually

do a comedy night just for us.

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Natasha Moharter: That sounds so fun.

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Jennifer Dozier: Yeah.

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So that's exciting.

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Mm-hmm.

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Natasha Moharter: And comedy

helps us remember things.

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Jennifer Dozier: Absolutely.

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And we have sponsors on that.

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It's just fun.

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We need to be mindful that this whole

time we're telling other people how to

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reduce anxiety and reduce depression.

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But we need to also sit and

relax and calm our spirit too.

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Natasha Moharter: And

it brings people back.

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Jennifer Dozier: We have repeat

attendees happening this year.

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And I'm like, that made me so happy.

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Natasha Moharter: That's so amazing.

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That is so cool.

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Jennifer Dozier: And some of

our attendees from last year are

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gonna be presenters coming up.

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Natasha Moharter: So

building a community as well.

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Jennifer Dozier: Yes.

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Natasha Moharter: That is so cool.

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And repeat customers.

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It's such an honor.

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Jennifer Dozier: That's

very flattering to me.

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Like, oh, I did something right.

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You know?

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I'm thankful for my speakers.

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I could not do this without the speakers.

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You know, I'm only an

expert in this small window.

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Natasha Moharter: It sounds

like you have a team with you.

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Jennifer Dozier: We do.

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The speakers often help.

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My adult children always help.

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We want you to feel special.

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You know, traveling is expensive.

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That's why streamlining and

automating that payment plan is huge.

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But on top of all that, making sure

you feel special and honored and valued

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and loved and cared for while you're

there and you're learning something and

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you're making memories with your family.

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And that's all that's important.

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Natasha Moharter: Jennifer, I so

appreciate you sharing just all

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of this information with us today.

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So if people are listening

where can they find you?

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Jennifer Dozier: You can find us

at ContinuingEducation atSea.com.

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If anybody ever wants to present,

I would love to talk to 'em.

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If anybody wants to attend,

I would love to have them.

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I just want people to come and learn

and enjoy and realize that they

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deserve some work-life balance too.

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Our time with our children is so short.

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So could you imagine?

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My kids are always gonna

remember going to Alaska.

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They're always gonna

remember going to Greece.

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They're always gonna

remember going to Venice.

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You can go and get your CE

hours for free here, there,

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wherever, throughout the year.

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And you might be half asleep, zone out to

'em, or you might pay attention to 'em and

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really do your due diligence, you know?

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But being on a cruise ship,

taking a holiday with your family,

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making memories, priceless.

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And you get your CE hours?

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And you learn something?

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And you get to bring it

back to your practice.

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That's just win-win,

win all over the place.

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I hope one day we can

sell out the entire ship.

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Could you imagine the whole ship?

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That would be so much fun.

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Natasha Moharter: You are dreaming big.

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And what an incredible way

to make this work for you.

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I just so appreciate all the wisdom

and tips that you've shared today.

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I am sure that so many listeners are going

to say, wait, I can do something that's

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new and fresh and something that I care

about, or I can go on a cruise and bring

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family and also get my CEs taken care of.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I just hope that you

continue to have so much success.

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I look forward to continuing to stay

updated with you and the work that

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you're doing and just see as this

expands, you know, again, I think that

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when we take care of the customers

and the people that are coming to us

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and trusting us, it shows, it matters.

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And I can absolutely hear, even in our

conversation, just how you show up and

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what, how those values come in into play.

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So it's just an honor

to have you here today.

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Jennifer Dozier: Thank you for having me.

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You make me feel like a million bucks.