Starting Over Again

Starting Over Again

Holistic Therapist and Motivational Speaker for women in the Portuguese community Julia Do Santos chats to Scotland's Women about how she had the courage and strength to start a new life in the Scottish Highlands. Alone and not knowing the English language and with only £65 pounds in her pocket, Julia knew she could only count on herself.


With never knowing how to be cared for, Julia allowed herself to be vulnerable and accepted the help from others and thats where the doors opened for her. Julia chats about her Scottish Highland journey and no matter how many times things in her life didn't work out, she was never fearful of Starting Over Again.


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[00:00:00] is back. We all have a story where we've come from, how we've progressed, faced, fought successes, we've had, the women support another women and there are no reasons things have happened.

[00:00:13] There's been this expectation that a woman's got to fit into so many categories that we never spend enough time maybe focusing on.

[00:00:20] Or have you mentioned whatever it would be and whatever kind of makes me happy? You've got an intuition, it's intriguing and it's telling you something,

[00:00:28] it's all something is all because the worst thing about to get to the nasty computers and emotional abuse, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, it's a call,

[00:00:36] a student of all abuse, listen to your board and lead you for help. Why do you feel that it's important for women to keep fighting and keep fighting for the right?

[00:00:46] I think if we don't fight for a race, we can be taken away, it better for us to be proactive, rather than waiting till we end up in a situation that a lot of people in America are in just nervous

[00:00:57] and there's somebody who's that accessing and they're trying to cut back. I learned from Li that I need it myself more than I need it anybody else.

[00:01:08] And he's still my mindset today, we were more of anything that doesn't support the woman I own becoming.

[00:01:16] Scotland's women, our lives, our stories, now let's get on with the show.

[00:01:36] Thanks so much, Julia, from an onto Scotland's women. Welcome. How are you doing?

[00:01:42] Thank you very much for having me in your platform, I'm learning very good is a very sunny day in the Highlands.

[00:01:48] So is a bonus.

[00:01:50] I was really excited to have you on a painful and your Instagram profile while and when we spoke your story, just really inspired me.

[00:02:00] Starting over again. Julia, could you tell us about first coming to Scotland?

[00:02:07] Oh my god, that was, I think that was the craziest thing I've ever done in my life. Imagine moving to Scotland to the north of Scotland without knowing the place.

[00:02:21] How are you speaking any English?

[00:02:23] Well, the identified bounce in my book and that my brother learning to me was not even my money.

[00:02:32] What will eventually come to an?

[00:02:35] So I believe that at that time, I made a commitment with myself to find myself.

[00:02:42] I didn't have the whole idea what was going on, but my soul knew I was lost.

[00:02:52] So when I decided to, so I've got one of my best friends lives in London and she said you can come and stay with me and then I said,

[00:03:00] I don't know, what's the point of me going to London? Stay with you. You speak my language. I will never learn English and at that time I wanted to come to UK because I absolutely love speaking English language.

[00:03:11] And it was one of my dreams to speak fluently while to manage to master the language in all aspects of it.

[00:03:18] So when I said, what's the point of moving to UK and then leaving with you?

[00:03:22] I'm never learning English. I need to go somewhere and I'd select myself and then learn properly.

[00:03:28] And then I decided to apply for one agency in Portugal, that's in students abroad because I was living in Portugal at that time.

[00:03:35] And then just said they said you cannot choose which part of the UK you were to go. You can't end up in any of the four countries.

[00:03:41] And I said, I don't really care. I just want to go to UK, isolate myself, be with the locals and then learn properly.

[00:03:51] And then when I feel confident that I can go to my friend in London, which my plans was to be stay here for one year and is nearly at their kid now.

[00:04:00] So I went out and applied for this agency to stay that sense students abroad and they sent me the email that I was coming to the north of Scotland.

[00:04:09] I found my best understanding London. Who lent me the money to pay for the agency?

[00:04:13] I go her, I don't think I'm going. What I'm going to do in the middle of nowhere?

[00:04:18] I don't even know where is not for Scotland when I went to look in the map. I got to fright.

[00:04:23] But she said, yeah, she said, Julia, remember things happened for a reason. I do believe that.

[00:04:31] So maybe that's why she said that.

[00:04:32] And in bite be a little too many. That's why it's going for three months and see what's happening. You know, you get always come to me in London.

[00:04:39] I was living in Portugal at that time. And then I said, okay.

[00:04:44] We decided to come and said, well, I've spent all my money now even the money she left me now. I have to go.

[00:04:50] Julia, like, yeah, you're a man that said, you don't scare her.

[00:04:54] Remember, who were you so another country without speaking the language? Without knowing the place with 65 pounds in her pocket?

[00:05:01] Of course she's not with. Yeah, you know? But I've been in life to rely on myself in media couples, family members and friends.

[00:05:12] But I know I got myself. That's something I've always learned from my own life experience. Julia, you only have yourself.

[00:05:20] And if you're the only one, you will have another couple of people around you.

[00:05:23] So I think my determination came from this is the only option I have now because I exhausted everything else.

[00:05:32] But I just saw it as an opportunity to build a life, as an opportunity to actually lean because until then I've been so biobie.

[00:05:41] And the most host, host time where you can possibly think, but now when I look back and I say, my God, what's the most I do?

[00:05:51] You know, it's scary. But I'm still the fear at that time. Like I'm feeling now when I think about the time.

[00:06:01] Yeah, you know? So yeah, but fear can be a motivation.

[00:06:06] Yeah, but you said you were just surviving. I was feeling that frustrated to be honest with you. Where frustrated with first of all, of course, my family then I came out feeling angry for everything, for the whole world.

[00:06:21] Well, I knew that I couldn't stay in that state of mind anymore. So for me, the reason I applied for these agents in particular is because the job would give you the love me to leave in the hotel and then they would take parts of my wages. They would pay for the accommodation.

[00:06:39] The food was included as well. I think that's why I started to get my feet. I don't think I could have done it any other way. Do you always have a plan?

[00:06:48] I never had a plan. That's the problem. I never had a plan. My plan was to survive one day in time.

[00:06:57] And when I moved to the first school, I stayed there for three months because what I realized is I was working too much and I didn't have time to learn.

[00:07:05] And I said to myself, I didn't come here just for the money for me, you know, earning a lot of money. Then not the early language. So I can even power myself as it's not what I want to do.

[00:07:16] But for me, I think when you move to another country, you need to make an effort to learn the language properly to communicate properly because life is about communication.

[00:07:25] You know, so for me I was focused on learning English. But because I wasn't living in the countryside was summertime.

[00:07:34] There was not much I could do but I wasn't, I didn't want to say an echo tell for a long.

[00:07:40] So I friend of mine told me about another job and another hotel and then I went there and I speak so highly well.

[00:07:47] I have to speak highly about both because, you know, the first one gave me the opportunity without knowing me.

[00:07:53] But the second one was so far the best of my life. I was doing the same thing housekeeping and for service.

[00:07:59] But I failed. It was a small team. And so this couple that was managing the hotel. They made the effort to get me to this, often the roles like we come to an asshole, come to an ass.

[00:08:11] They didn't hostile. Okay. And then going back the next day they would pick me up from the train station.

[00:08:17] I think for the first time I failed care for.

[00:08:22] And I could feel the path of something.

[00:08:26] So I stayed there for three months. I was the best, as until today the bed jaw of my life hasn't been we.

[00:08:33] And when I decided to leave that job, it was only because I got a place in an escalage to study English.

[00:08:42] And I needed. So at first I started coming to an awareness because they made an adjustment to my schedule.

[00:08:51] So I could come to the events up to three days in hostile and then go to college.

[00:08:56] I know. And then go back to the hotel to work over the weekends.

[00:09:00] So but after a few weeks I realized that was not, it was not profitable.

[00:09:05] It was spending all my money.

[00:09:07] And it was very tiring and I said, yeah, I need to move because I was living in about one hour from in Rene.

[00:09:13] Like three. So I said, no, I need to move to the number nice to be closer to the college.

[00:09:18] And then I moved to the number nice and September after getting a job here in the the racist history.

[00:09:25] He said that you that was the first time you'd ever fell here for and you know, and looked after of you always had that in your life like goes here for yourself.

[00:09:37] Yes, unfortunately I think I when I don't think I 100% sure I found for a very dysfunctional and abusive family.

[00:09:45] And I think that's the reason why I didn't Scott it gets when I move I think I was running away from it.

[00:09:52] While now I know as not something I want to be part of.

[00:10:00] So now it's very conscious.

[00:10:02] You know, it's more than now there's more about boundaries than running away from.

[00:10:07] Yeah. So yeah, and so when you come from an dysfunctional and abusive family, you don't develop the sense of belonging.

[00:10:13] You don't know who you are.

[00:10:15] You don't know what your needs or you don't know how to carefully yourself with it is nobody care.

[00:10:21] So yeah, I think that's why the person I'm in my life I've felt here for the courage to keep moving on and start and over again and picking yourself up when things go work out.

[00:10:33] Well, Bruce come forward.

[00:10:35] Is that I'm coming from and I am a great believer that we don't come to this earth without something being written for before.

[00:10:48] I'm a very spiritual person and I think this spirituality gives me until today gives me the power I need to move on because my life is nothing but a music every time I go down because I do hold down.

[00:11:01] I wouldn't have time again.

[00:11:03] Uh, I hope it's only stable because it has a good basic.

[00:11:07] So when you don't have that, it's really a walking on air.

[00:11:12] So you know you will fall anytime so I do feel that.

[00:11:15] So for me.

[00:11:18] For me is understanding how much neglect they had for my family how much they feel me, you know my family feel need be.

[00:11:31] So I have to learn from, so I'm getting emotional now.

[00:11:38] So I learned from like.

[00:11:42] Okay.

[00:11:44] Yeah, I learned from like that I needed myself more than I needed anybody else.

[00:11:53] And still my mindset today.

[00:11:56] I will remove anything that doesn't support the woman I own becoming because yes, I'm still building myself and I'm an adjorn yourself empowerment.

[00:12:07] But when you come from such a broken and this function and a music, went ground either you learn to stand that for yourself.

[00:12:20] Or you don't who I chose to stand that for myself.

[00:12:25] What should I say for people listen, they're starting over again and again.

[00:12:31] My advice for people don't be afraid of starting over because if you feel it is because you're in deep eswork, you know and staying there.

[00:12:44] It's not the solution.

[00:12:46] So think will go even worse but at some point it would be off.

[00:12:52] So if you want in deep eswork, pick yourself up and keep moving restarting as many times as you need to because staying there is already bad.

[00:13:03] So why would you stay in a bad situation? Why don't you take that child?

[00:13:07] Because I only saw chances in my journey is all about chances.

[00:13:12] So pick up that one chance that you have and see what happens.

[00:13:17] Don't get me wrong. I felt sorry for myself. I lost.

[00:13:21] And I didn't take me anywhere. And as I said, what keeps me going, I believe is spirituality.

[00:13:32] I am an animation. There is no chance on earth that we are just bodies.

[00:13:39] There is no chance because what you are seeing in me it might so is the strength of my soul and these will never die.

[00:13:49] And I don't believe I came to the family that I came in the time that I came.

[00:13:55] I don't believe I am even the city that I need.

[00:13:57] I don't believe I'm talking to you out of coincidence.

[00:14:01] I do not believe that.

[00:14:02] I believe I have three missions in it like I am very happy and I completely that I achieve.

[00:14:10] Which first of all was healing myself to the point that I can have a conversation like this with you.

[00:14:18] Yes, second is to break the generation of a karma in my family.

[00:14:23] And as my mother to leave the set, she wanted to change the world, go home and love her family.

[00:14:29] So for me, my idea of love is to break and rethink, like it's not like they are both in land and land.

[00:14:38] So this I have done in my family.

[00:14:41] And I think I think my family can everything.

[00:14:45] But I was supposed to give them until now to open up the space to the next generation, now it's up to them.

[00:14:52] So now it's time to leave my old life because I have the third mission to accomplish, which we'll take me forever.

[00:14:59] And it's not something that I believe I can do on May 1.

[00:15:03] Which is empowering other people to look for life, to live in love, to live in love,

[00:15:11] and it's not something that you're all so currently.

[00:15:13] And I know I can do it on my dear one.

[00:15:19] You've got such straight and cut it in your voice and it's really realistic, they're first.

[00:15:25] But you also mentor women? How did that come about?

[00:15:31] Well, I'm Sarah long to burn air, so I'll never happen with just one thing.

[00:15:35] I believe my mission in life without a partnership. I have no doubt about it. I was, I believe

[00:15:41] I was very influenced by my broad mother. I would say a very successful entrepreneur in her

[00:15:47] time so she had a show and I believed she was one of the person first introduced me to

[00:15:54] the entrepreneur she had been for me she was my role she was and she will always be one of my role

[00:15:59] model. So when I was a teenager, I started my first business. It was making a whole

[00:16:10] mid-Jum with coconut milk and the funny thing is I was so comfortable this is anality of my

[00:16:18] ramen materials that I would variate the type of jams that I would do. So we had somebody who

[00:16:28] then done some coconut to our whole form of a sale. But I didn't think anybody's buying this coconut

[00:16:36] how why did they make them a jalan start selling them? So of course I was terrible at selling so

[00:16:43] I was great at making but terrible at selling but for me I didn't even make a much profit with it

[00:16:51] but for me the satisfaction of doing it because I really liked doing it. I come from a family

[00:16:57] or farmers so one of the thing we had in the house was milk so it would buy milk from mom and then

[00:17:04] making my jams and then sell and then pay back the raw materials and then when we didn't have coconut

[00:17:10] or milk and it was the day said then I would go with go to the field to collect the day

[00:17:17] and then bring them home wash them thoroughly, cook them and then start making the jams and that

[00:17:22] was my most profitable business because I had no cost of raw material. I would have a lot of quantity.

[00:17:29] So for me and that was my I knew where and there's still what pretty the relative was back there.

[00:17:34] In 2019 after I dropped out of nursing for not being able to deal with stress,

[00:17:41] I decided to set up as the massage cannabis and the reason why and because I will

[00:17:46] listen to my colleagues complain about bad way about stress that's the reason I dropped out of

[00:17:52] the amount of stress and how demand did it this physically I wouldn't be for me. A few

[00:17:58] months or years before I went for a massage and I said oh my god is that how people feel

[00:18:03] if they're in a such, right? Well, it's been a big deal to be in. But it took me a few

[00:18:09] few months, few years I would say, few years so have the courage to go for it. I don't have a

[00:18:13] holistic approach to what I do, so I'm actually truly great key for the flexibility and then

[00:18:19] doing life coaching and mentoring. Now for the Portuguese speaking community because I want to

[00:18:23] explain my business, I want to serve them much bigger audience. I do have a reflective practice

[00:18:29] what I can do better for the next time. What I did role that I couldn't improve. And then

[00:18:35] because I have a very good self care, my self care practice I sell. I sometimes learn from going

[00:18:41] to other therapists as well. So definitely what I do is care. And as I say, I always try to

[00:18:47] force on what I do and with my own journey of empowering my own self, I've learned so much.

[00:18:56] But the holistic therapist that it's so much I can do and so much I can impact people

[00:19:02] because I want to serve my community to be honest with you, community that I come from,

[00:19:08] the proportion of the community. I think we did this idea of bringing this service to

[00:19:13] because again, there is a lot of women who reach out to me for help, for support, for guidance

[00:19:19] over the years. But if you're in trouble, you can come to me. I think that's something in

[00:19:25] me that does make people approach. I think I'm the very approachable person. That's for sure.

[00:19:30] But I also, there is a lot of people who knows the my story when I wasn't

[00:19:36] white on now. They see what I've done with my life and I know they want to do that job as well.

[00:19:45] And because I talk very openly and social media about my own struggles and things that I

[00:19:49] just do in power or myself, people reach out and I've got a lot of people reaching out.

[00:19:54] I'm always timely over when things. So there is a lot of women who come to me for advice on changing

[00:20:00] careers. I want to do these. What I think is the best course for me to do. I don't want to do

[00:20:05] I don't have much money. I don't want to do this much time. So I tried to give them some guidance.

[00:20:10] Is there a need for women starting over again in different aspects of their life that they need help?

[00:20:16] Yes, why notice is women over 30? I think that it's something on earth's women.

[00:20:23] When we reach out, we start to look back and alive and then see, that really what I want to do.

[00:20:29] And then there is a few of them who are reaching out your 40 as well.

[00:20:33] That's something to have that life grants. And it will give them a chance. So they're going to

[00:20:36] I think we, I have my age of 30 31. So I'm not to provide the people who are reaching out for

[00:20:42] that. At that time on their lives. But just to let you know, my mentor and service is based in

[00:20:49] your life. Okay? And the reason you're going to work with me is because I learned to love myself.

[00:20:58] So if I'm going to reaching out to you, if because you gave me permission to it and I know what

[00:21:04] you need. Okay? You're going to run your grid that. But I'm doing it on a love basis, not an

[00:21:11] critical way. Remember what you said you wanted to do. Remember where you want to go. You know,

[00:21:17] I'm here as a sounding board. I can remind you of what you want to do. So it's basically something

[00:21:24] based in your life where I'm holding your hand to help you walk back. It's starting to

[00:21:31] again, okay? You see it's a failure? No absolutely not. Absolutely not. I'm big that

[00:21:44] is the privilege that I get to start over. He might not have many people who can't start over.

[00:21:51] Can you imagine the amount of people you might have some close friends who can't start over?

[00:21:57] Good morning. Good morning all the time about the same thing, you're coming your walls.

[00:22:02] But I think it's a privilege that very few people haven't. It's hard to

[00:22:08] it. That's why I always, I am somebody who is always talking about courage and a lot of

[00:22:15] many of courage. You know, if anything else about my journey that I want you to know is

[00:22:26] I was a very courageous first. Okay? You need courage because it's not easy. It was very

[00:22:34] easy for me to see it in rock bottom with my family. It was very easy for me to go to mom

[00:22:40] home. I don't know for what, though. I could have chosen the easy path but I decided not to

[00:22:51] because I knew that I wouldn't lead me to what I want to go. What would have been the easiest

[00:22:57] path for you? I've seen asking myself his question when when some friends say,

[00:23:03] my God, they're always choosing the hard things. I said, what do you think is easier for me?

[00:23:10] I just don't know what can eat for me. So so far, the easiest thing for me is to fight

[00:23:15] and I have been no illusion that my signs are in the finish because I can feel it.

[00:23:22] I can't, I can feel it in line, bone. Love the fights isn't finished. Listen back. So

[00:23:31] you wouldn't go to hotel and then burn air. So what happens from there, your story, you decided

[00:23:38] to stop working on this hell and working at Nursonville type? So when I decided to move

[00:23:46] down for next again, this couple in that hotel was so kind. It just helped me the way they could.

[00:23:53] So I found a job. I live in job again in and for next. Then I started going to college,

[00:23:59] well time and then I've been one of the most empowering tools in my journey has been education

[00:24:08] because when I put my folding to that college, the door so much which is open. So I was very

[00:24:15] lucky that the person who had to give me first to my drive. So she opened up all the doors

[00:24:21] and then from there and I just kept studying studies. And then I realized that it's an opportunity

[00:24:26] for me to become a nurse and everything get open from there. So I just went for it. You have such

[00:24:37] enough disconnect from my childhood. Now with ears of therapy, I understand that reason I like

[00:24:45] to help people to take care of people because I wish somebody would take care of me when I was a child.

[00:24:54] When how did you start your own business? Well that's a very unartisquerous story. In the

[00:25:01] beginning of the night, I decided to drop out of nursing because realizing I'm sensitive and

[00:25:05] I said to myself, oh my god, can't believe I'm gonna start over. Part of it over again! I'm

[00:25:13] really a bit. But so decided to carry on working in the hospital like I was doing and then tried

[00:25:19] to save some money, bought my first blood and then we do a remaining money off the deposit and I said,

[00:25:26] I'm not going to buy a fund for a nature. I'm going to go in training as a massage now because

[00:25:31] now is the time. It's now or never because I was chemvenically and I said, it's not our never house

[00:25:38] in an even profession. So I'd say that I was not sure if it's in Iowa but my business was straight

[00:25:43] after. I was finally going to be a massage therapist so I can't believe I'm leaving the dream

[00:25:50] until COVID hit three months after. I know stopping all. Where does your motivation come from Julia?

[00:25:57] You've, I can't believe that many times you have started over. I don't think I took the strain.

[00:26:04] I know I know and I appreciate that. I look at things I work with motivation. I don't

[00:26:08] think me, my life is a bottom motivation because nothing that I told you is motivating.

[00:26:15] I abuse the family, climbing to a place with, you know, nothing that I told you is motivating.

[00:26:22] What?

[00:26:25] What? As I said, I know I was an animation. I think that's spirituality but on the other hand,

[00:26:36] I know, you know, the generational carnival that I bring with me. But remember, my answer

[00:26:43] is to didn't get me to destroy all of them. They didn't give me just throw on. I'm a descendant of people

[00:26:51] who are enslaved. So my strength is in me for centuries. So my strength is in me, it's in my genes.

[00:27:00] It's in my bone. It's in my hair. It's everywhere. It's in my soul because I know why I

[00:27:07] am so strategy. They also gave me the strength. The reason did determination because motivation is not

[00:27:16] enough. I know that it comes front on. I know when I don't want to go back to and I know where I'm

[00:27:21] going. Julia, the person you are now looking to the woman who first came to Scotland with

[00:27:28] a sacrifice but not that pocket or you that same girl knew that same woman? No, I think it's the

[00:27:37] exactly girl. I came as a girl. In the 20th and I knew nearly 20 and I was a girl. Now I'm a girl

[00:27:42] not woman. I as a completed different person and some it there but I am a completed different person

[00:27:52] and I'm very proud of the woman I'm becoming. I'm very proud of the woman I am today. Okay,

[00:27:59] and I'm very proud of the woman I am becoming but I'm not going to do with that one. It was the

[00:28:04] biggest lesson that you've learned that you could share with us at Scotland's women. Yeah, I think

[00:28:10] it cannot leave what we're in life in hate. You can't. You cannot keep hating yourself. You

[00:28:20] cannot keep hating your family. You cannot keep hating your neighbor. You cannot keep hating your

[00:28:24] job. You don't move forward and hate. You only move forward in love and light. Why do you think

[00:28:31] that is so forgiveness is quite a hard thing to do sometime? Yeah, but remember, for a given

[00:28:41] it starts with forgiving yourself first. Okay, for many years I didn't forgive myself

[00:28:49] for having to start over. For that kid who failing basically. So what is you learned to forgive yourself?

[00:29:01] You will know that before giving others it's just an extension of it. When you learn to

[00:29:08] yourself, first of all you will learn to love others and sometimes we'll be other days. That's

[00:29:15] okay, they don't need to be part of your life, they need to love. And sometimes

[00:29:21] the love that you do is the thing that they don't want but you know because it's your intention

[00:29:27] is also the way you're on your intention. So as long as you know you are moving and you are doing it

[00:29:33] the best intention. I think that's what's important is anything. And that's something I've actually

[00:29:40] learned from poker for a listen of what we have. I didn't have a regman, but I didn't have

[00:29:46] me in jarring, ruling up a part from a couple of family members who did the best and be good,

[00:29:53] but not not much and a couple of friends. My whole life had been looking for mentoring. So I

[00:30:00] people like all work for example, we share of her so great, but because you know sometimes

[00:30:05] it was her story you kept me alive. It was snowing. My god the woman went to

[00:30:12] very similar, in the five bit, they went. Yeah. And look how she speaks about forgiveers and

[00:30:19] love and light. So this is something that's figured me, you can not need forward in hate. You can

[00:30:26] be moved forward in love and light. Now is what I live for. What's your books for the future? Do

[00:30:35] live in peace with myself because when I show up in peace, yeah, when I show up in peace,

[00:30:46] there's nothing else you can do. You cannot harm me. So I think it's peace and I think this is what

[00:30:51] people are missing in life. We're so worried about the next person, the other person, the next

[00:30:57] situation. How about your own peace? Have you been if all goes on it? When you leave your

[00:31:03] house, we live in peace? When you go to work, you show up in peace with yourself.

[00:31:09] Because I think when you show up to the world in peace, nobody can even accept with you. And

[00:31:15] then tell me, I'm really a whole, the one would give me a break because I'm tired of fighting.

[00:31:22] I'm tired of fighting. I don't know if I can do anything. But I want to break as well, you know?

[00:31:30] I want to enjoy what I've built. I want to enjoy my slot. I want to enjoy a going for a ride.

[00:31:37] I want to enjoy my trip with life friends. The parents you found was that I was able to build

[00:31:42] a healthy relationship with. And I just want to enjoy this thing and do what I know,

[00:31:50] bands, which is taking care of others, helping people, building their own lives, in love,

[00:31:57] and peace. Julia, what would be your advice to Scotland's women? We, you're a move-foot

[00:32:02] patient and you're strength. What would be your advice to them? For women in particular,

[00:32:09] I want to advise them, you don't need to be a mother as you don't feel as you're calling.

[00:32:14] You don't feel ready for it. You have to wait and hear your feet. Wait. Stop letting

[00:32:21] society pressure. You become a mother because you don't need to. If you don't want to.

[00:32:28] So yeah, this is my advice for women in particular, because just because you have a womb,

[00:32:33] doesn't mean you have to have a child. And if you want to, you might be a mother that is

[00:32:43] on Scotland's women, they're a cool, what's yours? I quote for my at Angela,

[00:32:51] which was one of Oprah and Bentoor, which is I can't have one that I stand as tentals.

[00:33:00] So I know who came before me. And I know that one day I would be one of those tentals.

[00:33:07] I know one day I would be uncessible for somebody. So I want to leave that legacy.

[00:33:14] Thanks so much Julia, so much motivation. All of it women support women and

[00:33:20] encourage in the fighting you and just it's given me strength today. Thank you so much Julia.

[00:33:28] Thank you. Thank you. See you later. Bye.

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