Rock Your Mic Right
Karly Nimmo
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Explore how you can maximise your podcast success by playing to your human design.
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Dec 24, 2020
Seasons Greetings
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is just taking a few minutes to wish us happy holidays, while she also shares her plans with us and letting us know that Frequency is now open for applications.
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Dec 16, 2020
Reflecting on Podcasting In 2020 and what is coming
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is reflecting on podcasting in 2020 and what is coming. She is informing us that she is planning on taking a break to focus on other things that are currently going on, but she is also telling us everything about the new client sessions that she will be doing.
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Dec 9, 2020
The Role Model Sixth Line Profile In Human Design
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about the 6th line in Human Design. She explains everything about the three phases of life that role models experience. She talks about why knowing about the 3rd line is important for your first phase while she also explains why the second phase is not as bad as 6th lines tend to think.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Dec 2, 2020
The Heretic Exploring The Fifth Line Profile In Human Design
In today's episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is exploring the 5th line in human design. She explains what the projection field is and why you can often feel misunderstood due to this. She also explains why it is especially important for the 5th lines to follow their strategy and authority.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Nov 25, 2020
The Opportunist The Fourth Line Profile In Human Design For Podcasters
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about the fourth profile line in Human Design. She says that if you're The Opportunist, it is all about your network, the people around you, because this is where your opportunities in life come from. She also explains why being a fourth line is great if you are a podcaster.
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Nov 18, 2020
The Martyr exploring the third line profile of human design
In today's episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is exploring the third line profile of Human Design. She explains that the third line is here to experiment and test theories. She also talks about how when it comes to podcasting you should embrace experimentation, try different formats and strategies and see what works for you and what doesn't.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Nov 11, 2020
The Hermit Exploring the Second Line Profile in Human Design
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is exploring the second line profile in Human Design. She digs more deeply into what it means to be the Hermit and she explains that you are naturally talented for so many different things and that your purpose is natural to who you are.
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Nov 5, 2020
The Investigator - Exploring the First Line Profile in Human Design
In today's episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about the first line in Human Design and why the first line makes great podcasters. As the investigator herself, Karly explains all the advantages of the first line while also warning us about the flaws that are connected to it.
Connect with Karly in her free private facebook group, Show Up Speak Up, on instagram, or at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 29, 2020
An Overview of The Human Design Profile Lines
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking profile lines in Human Design. She is giving us a brief introduction into the profile lines and before diving deeper into explaining everything about profile lines, she explains the basics of how it works and what every profile line represents.
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Oct 22, 2020
Manifesting Generator Human Design Strategies For Podcasters
In today's episod of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about manifesting generator Human Design strategies for podcasters. She explains why podcast is a perfect medium for manifesting generators, while she also talks about how you are here to follow whatever is lighting you up. However, manifesting generators are primarily a generator and that means that you are here to respond.
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Oct 15, 2020
Manifestor Strategies For Podcasting Success In Human Design
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about manifestor strategies for podcasting success in Human Design. She explains basics about being a manifestor and tells us more on how manifestors are here to inform and initiate and how they can use these skills to be successful in podcasting world.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 8, 2020
Generator: Podcast Strategies For Generators
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about podcast strategies for generators. She explains what does it mean to respond and she shares a couple of ideas on how to make your show playing to your design. She encourages generators to think if they are in response to things.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 1, 2020
The Experience Of Being A Projector Podcaster
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about her experiences as a Projector. She explains in more details what being a Projector is all about and how is being a Projector working for her. She talks about Projector's strategy and why „waiting for the invitation“ is not as bad as it can sound when we first find out about it.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynim
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Sep 24, 2020
Human Design Type - Strategy and Success Signature
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about strategy and success signature for different types in Human Design. She is introducing us to our types and our strategies in more details while also explaining basics of Human Design and how can we find and understand our chart.
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Sep 17, 2020
Why Human Design matters as a podcaster
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about why Human Design matters as a podcaster. She shares her thoughts on why it is important for us to be playing to our strategy when it comes to podcasting and how Human Design can help us to understand ourselves better. She also explains basics about different types in Human Design.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Sep 10, 2020
Exploring how your human design can maximise the impact of your podcasts success
In today's episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly introduces her own experience with Human Design and announces what we can expect in future episodes of Rock Your Mic Right. She explains her idea of how she can help us to maximize the impact of our podcasts through Human Design.
Connect with Karly in her free private facebook group, Show Up Speak Up, on instagram, or at karlynimmo.com
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Mar 5, 2020
An announcement and honouring your creative muse
In today's episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about honouring your creative muse. She talks about inspiration and consistency, and she is also announcing that she will not be posting Rock Your Mic Right episodes every week.
00:54 – „Consistency is no longer a question. Commitment is not longer a question“
03:12 – There is a difference between hard work and hard slog
04:56 – Three pillars of podcasting
05:31 – An announcement about Rock Your Mic Right
07:35 – Consistency doesn't need to look any certain way
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Feb 27, 2020
Monetizing a podcast - its a business
In today's episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about podcast monetizing. She talks about the ways to make money from podcasting, but also about the ways that podcasting is good for us.
01:45 – Monetizing a podcast is building a business
03:05 – Unless you're working as a podcast proffesional, you're making money in indirect ways
05:20 – Why do you want to start a podcast and what's in it for you?
09:01 – Podcasting is here as a tool for storytelling
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Feb 20, 2020
Podcast Guest Onboarding
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about podcast guest onboarding. She gives us tips on how to work with our guest by sharing the examples of the way she is doing it.
01:11 – Get yourself into a scheduling system
02:58 – Don't ask for answers to the questions that you will be asking on a show
05:52 – Set the tone and let them know the details
10:45 – The worst feeling is not knowing where the show is gonna happen
11:41 – You want to make sure that they have what they need
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Feb 13, 2020
Podcasters magical thinking
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about podcasters magical thinking. She explains that a successful podcast requires a lot of work and that we should know our expectations if our show is simple.
01:41 – If you want to monetize your podcast, it is a business and business requires you to work
03:10 – What does it take to create an externally successful podcast?
05:32 – If you got a simple show expect it to take a little longer to grow
07:08 – Podcasting is a great tool for expression
08:53 – We have to reframe the way we see downloads
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Feb 6, 2020
How do I record and structure a solo podcast episode
In today's episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about how to record and structure a solo podcast episode. She is explaining us why solo podcast is a good idea and she gives us a lot of tips while telling us her way of doing it.
01:33 – We do what we have to do as podcasters to get our content out there
03:18 – Injecting a little bit more you into your show can be a really great way for people to connect with you
04:55 – Don't let yourself be turned off by thinking that you don't have enough to say
06:12 – How do I do this often batching?
08:24 – What comes next is some kind of structure
10:57 – Having some kind of way to end really helps you be able to end rather than just go on
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Jan 30, 2020
Experiments in Podcasting - exploring the Netflix style binge release
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about experiments in podcasting and exploring the Netflix style binge experiment that she has done. She shares her opinion and her experience, while also explaining us how there is only one style of podcasting that can work with Netflix style binge.
00:44 – The Netflix binge experiment
01:36 – „I thought that's how people consume because we know that podcast listeners are binge listening to our shows“
04:05 – „I didn't get the downloads that I anticipated“
04:52 – It needs to be really good content in order for you to make it binge worthy
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Jan 23, 2020
The wonderful side effects of podcasting
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is doing a self promotion. She is talking about Frequency and the wonderful side effects of podcasting. She shares stories of three students who joined Frequency last round for the startup group.
01:25 – When you actually go live it is life changing
02:35 – Karly is sharing three of the students who joined Frequency
04:29 – „Having the ongoing support has been a really huge deal“
06:31 – „Karly helped me over last six months to find my voice and to refine my message“
09:55 – „This experience has been very powerful to me“
12:47 – Karly is talking about Frequency and what is included in the program
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Jan 16, 2020
Lazy Podcast Practices
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about lazy podcast practices. She is highlighting the area that could be worth exploring for improvement and she is giving us some tips on how to improve our interview skills.
00:16 – The beginning and the end of the show can be quite awkward
02:36 – We should consider not reading the bio
05:11 – We should find ways to make our interviews start smooth and transition easily
10:11 – Come up with a line to end with and come up with a different way to start
11:10 – What can you do to make people wanna stick around?
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Jan 9, 2020
The 3 Pillars of Podcast - Part 3 - Hone Your Craft
Today’s episode of Rock Your Mic Right is about the last pillar of podcasts – hone your craft. In this episode, Karly is giving us tips on how to hone the craft and how to improve our skills and make our podcasts better.
02:01 – If the show is good enough, the word will spread
04:57 – It's all about plate spinning
06:18 – Start learning some skills
07:43 – Hone your craft is all about taking what you have and making it better
09:17 – The only way we get it right is by getting it wrong
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Jan 2, 2020
The 3 Pillars of Podcast - Part 2 - Honour The Medium
Second episode of Rock Your Mic Right in which Karly is talking about the 3 pillars of podcast is all about honouring the medium. She is explaining why podcast is such a powerful medium while also giving us tips on how to improve.
00:37 – Knowing podcast listener behavior
02:37 – Podcast is such a powerful medium because people are not having to disconnect from what they are doing
04:42 – Audio is all we have so our audio needs to be decent
06:17 – Recording environment is the first thing we have to fix
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Dec 26, 2019
The 3 Pillars of Podcasting - Part 1 - Honour Yourself
In today’s episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about the 3 pillars of podcasting. Today, she is explaining what the 3 pillars of podcasting are and she is sharing the first one with us – honour yourself.
02:36 – Karly is explaining the 3 pillars of podcasting
04:37 – Know the way you work and honor the way you work best
05:54 – Honour your schedule and be committed to whatever schedule you chose
08:50 – Honouring your flow or your creativity
12:53 – Honour your truth and be brave enough to put your thoughts into the world
14:45 – Know what you want
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Dec 19, 2019
Growing Your Audience By Being A Podcast Advocate
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is talking about growing your audience by being a podcast advocate. She encourages us to talk with people who are not podcast listeners and try to convert them into podcast listeners.
01:23 – Karly shares stats about how many people are familiar with podcasting and how many people listen to podcasts
03:50 – If people say that they never listened to a podcast, we should ask why and try to help
04:45 – Karly shares reasons why non listeners don't listen to podcast
06:35 – We don't have to create time to listen to podcasts, we can use the time we already have
08:50 – We should spend a little time on converting those who aren't already podcast listeners into podcast listeners
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Dec 12, 2019
Cultivating a better relationship with creativity
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about cultivating a better relationship with creativity. She talks about consistency and lack of inspiration and she is also giving us advices on how to deal with these problems.
02:00 – We need to almost train creativity in the way that we work best
04:25 – There is always something more that we can create
05:00 – Sometimes we avoid the things that we know that we love
07:07 – We have to create the conditions that allow flow to find us
11:02 – See where inspiration takes you and have more open relationship with creativity
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Dec 5, 2019
5 Lessons from 250 episodes of Karlosophies
In today’s episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly shares 5 lessons from 250 episodes of Karlosophies. After 5 years of consistency, she shares the most important lessons that she learned about podcasting.
02:42 – We all start somewhere and we don't need to have our shit together
04:53 – We never know where speaking our truth is going to lead us
06:10 – Trust is more important than marketing
07:00 – We are all looking for clever tactics and we are not considering podcast behavior
08:10 – You never know who is listening
11:09 – Growth is rarely comfortable
14:09 – Podcasting requires us to be committed
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Nov 28, 2019
Leveraging your content
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about leveraging your content. She shares her opinion and her views about this topic, while also providing us some useful tips and advices.
01:55 – We can specialize in the areas where we like to show up most
03:47 – Open honest, transparent communication with your audience
05:05 – A youtube video needs to have a visual aspect beyond just two faces talking at the screen
06:21 – We need to honor the mediums that we’re in for what they are
08:50 – The way people consume written word is different to the way they are consuming a podcast
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Nov 21, 2019
Podcast Artwork - What makes good artwork
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about what makes good artwork. She is explaining the importance of artwork when it comes to the success of your podcast and she is also giving us a lot of tips on how to make good artwork and what mistakes are a lot of podcasters making.
00:28 - A few of a common mistakes when it comes to artwork
03:07 - Putting yourself in the artwork
05:35 - Don't have a photo of you unless it tells more of the story
06:00 - The artwork must tell the part of the story
06:48 - The image and the font can play a big part in successful artwork
09:07 - Artwork is having an impact
10:55 - Get rid of the word "podcast" from your artwork and from your show title
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Nov 14, 2019
How to be a better interviewer
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about a way to be a better interviewer. She shares her stories and her experiences while also giving us a lot of tips and advices in how to improve the interviews.
00:15 – What makes a good interviewer
01:28 – What makes a really great interview
04:05 – The message is the main thing
05:51 – Our willingness to sit in the uncomfortable silence can be a gift to our audience
07:14 – The major part of a good interview happens before the interview even starts
13:59 – The main thing is to be prepared or be present
16:58 – Start with a powerful question
Connect with Karly in her free private facebook group, Show Up Speak Up, on instagram, or at karlynimmo.com
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Nov 7, 2019
Elevating Womens Voices
In today’s episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about elevating women’s voices. She is trying to encourage more women into starting a podcast while she is also showing us some stats and sharing her own opinions about this topic.
00:15 – Elevating women’s voices
02:34 – Why are we elevating American voices above our own?
03:52 – Stats about podcast listeners
06:19 – We can change the world by listening to more women and seeing them as the leaders that they are
07:30 – Check your podcast app and look objectively at the shows that you are consuming
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 31, 2019
How to read a script and not sound like you are reading a script
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about how to read a script and not sound like you are reading the script. She shares her story on how she got her skills and became a voiceover artist, and she gives us some useful tips like writing the same way as we speak, listening to ourselves, reading out loud and many other ways to improve our skills.
00:15 – To script or not to script and how to read and sound like you are not reading
02:45 – Honor your style and think about how you best work
06:58 – Karly talks about radio and how she got the skills that she is still using today
09:09 – When you’re writing a radio ad copy, you are writing it for speech
11:44 – How to read without sounding like you are reading
15:20 – Make sure to became aware of speech patterns
17:00 – We need to have energy while we are reading
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 24, 2019
A marketing your podcast magic bullet
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about how there is no quick path to success. She is asking us not to think about rapid growth, but instead to try and focus on quality of our content. She is reminding us that getting people to listen to our podcast is not important as making those people stick around.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 17, 2019
How to make money from a podcast
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about making money from podcasting. She explains that making money through sponsors is almost impossible for an average podcaster as the amount of money that sponsors are offering is ridiculous. However, she shares some of her tips on how we can indirectly make money from podcasting, like selling products and services, promoting events and many other useful tips.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 10, 2019
Why podcasting is like investing in the stockmarket
Today in Rock Your Mic Right, Karly explains why podcasting is similar to investing in stockmarket. She says that even a small number of downloads is not so small if we remember that those numbers are actual people that have listened to our podcast. She focuses on explaining why we should choose long term game, not short term wins.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Oct 3, 2019
To podcast season or not to podcast season
In this episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly is answering a question that people are asking all the time - should we do podcast seasons? She takes Karlosophies as an example and she tells us that most important thing for us is to stay motivated and not overwhelm the audience when choosing if we should create podcast seasons.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Sep 26, 2019
Why climbing the podcast charts is not the be all and end all
In today’s episode of Rock Your Mic Right, Karly talks about how podcast charts are not as important as most podcasters think. She says that not a lot of listeners are finding podcasts in podcast charts as she challenges us to think about our methods of finding podcasts.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Sep 19, 2019
Why most podcasters are totally missing the mark when it comes to marketing
Today, Karly Nimmo explores the reasons why podcasters need to forget the rules they've learned about promoting a podcast and moving people around your digital assets / ecosystem.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Sep 19, 2019
Why start a podcast?
Second episode of Rock Your Mic Right is all about the reasons why to start a podcast, beyond the demographics. Karly talks about why podcast is such a powerful medium and explains the difference between podcast and social media, blogs, vlogs and other mediums. She gives us some very useful advice while reminding us that everyone has a story to tell.
To connect with Karly follow her on instagram, or drop her a line with your topic ideas and questions at karlynimmo.com
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Sep 19, 2019
Setting the scene for Rock Your Mic Right - a podcast about podcasting
Today, on Rock Your Mic Right, Karly shares her backstory and gives you an idea of what you can expect from this show.
To connect with Karly head to karlynimmo.com or follow her on instagram @karlosophies
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