Each week we’ll bring you a new episode with an EXCEPTIONAL entrepreneur, author, thought leader, speaker or leader in their field. The goal of The Next Level Podcast is to inspire and educate by extracting key lessons from those who have already been there. My special guest will lay out their story or what brought them do what they do in the world and give you the strategy they use to keep them going to the next level along with a quote they guide their life by.
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Deep Takes Not Fakes is focused on emerging technologies and their impact on businesses. With the speed at which technology is advancing, it can be challenging to distinguish hype from reality. That's where we come in. Join your hosts, Adam Granoff and Dave Castellani, as they take you on a thrilling journey through the fast-paced world of tech and business. Featuring insightful discussions with top business leaders and technology experts, each episode is packed with timely topics that will ...
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The State of Online Security with Bruce Schneier
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As technology evolves at blinding speeds, so too does the world of cybersecurity. But is online security keeping up with the demands of this digital age? Today we are joined by Bruce Schneier, a public-interest technologist working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. Known as the “security guru”, Bruce has written over twelve b…
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The Future of Generative AI and the Evolution of Business with Roxane Googin
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Are you prepared for the sweeping changes AI will bring to your organization? In this episode, we welcome back Roxane Googin to unpack the ins and outs of generative AI and how organizations need to prepare for the inevitable grip of the technology. Roxane is a renowned authority on macroeconomic technology trends and the Chief Futurist at Group 11…
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The Future of Technological Innovation with Darryl Agostinelli
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Advances in AI, machine learning, and other technologies have dramatically accelerated the pace of change. In recent years, the convergence of technology and healthcare has led to groundbreaking advancements, especially in supporting children with autism. In today's episode, you'll hear from Darryl Agostinelli, Chief Technology Officer at The New E…
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Deeper Takes 3 with Nishit Sadhwani: Perspectives on Driving Innovation for CIOs and Entrepreneurs
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How can we integrate AI into an organization’s overall strategy to maximize its benefits? In this episode, we continue our deeper takes conversations with guest host Nishit Sadhwani, Corporate Vice President at New York Life Insurance Company, to discuss how the rapid development of generative AI is impacting businesses and the role of CIOs and ent…
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Tech Investing, AI, and Crypto with Maria Palma
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Ever wondered what it takes to navigate the dynamic world of tech investing? In this episode, we sit down with Maria Palma to unpack tech investing, AI, and crypto. Maria is a seasoned investor and business leader with a diverse background spanning venture capital, entrepreneurship, and engineering. As a General Partner at Kindred Capital, Maria pl…
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Data and AI with John Sapone from Snowflake
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As we continue to explore the aftermath of the tidal wave that is AI, we are reminded of the challenges that can be found in the wake of the generative AI and large language model explosion. But there are also countless opportunities for innovation and growth, and that is where today’s guest comes in. John Sapone is the Senior Vice President of Sal…
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The State of Generative AI with Dan Giannone from Microsoft
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Large language models, generative AI – all of it is moving at such blinding speed that it’s difficult to stay on top of the latest developments. As such, we’ve decided that regular check-ins on the state of generative AI is now a necessity rather than a preference so today, we’ve invited Dan Giannone back onto the show to walk us through the curren…
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Deeper Takes 2 with Nishit Sadhwani: Unlocking the Power of Data
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Unlocking the potential of data for AI is akin to discovering the hidden keys to a treasure trove of knowledge. Data serves as the foundation on which AI thrives and evolves. However, not just any data will do. It is the quality of this information that holds the real power. In this episode, we follow on from our deeper takes episode with guest hos…
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Fintech Trends with Jeff Kauflin of Forbes
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During this episode, Jeff Kauflin, journalist at Forbes, joins us to share his perspective on the areas he covers. Tuning in, you’ll hear Jeff define the basic concepts of bitcoin and ethereum, along with his predictions on how each will continue to evolve. We explore how Jeff chooses which companies to highlight and some of the metrics he uses to …
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Deeper Takes 1 with Nishit Sadhwani: Balancing Innovation and Risk
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It seems like AI is breaking new ground every other day. And while it can be tempting to pursue and implement all these innovations, it’s important to balance this impulse with considered risk management. This is the perspective of Nishit Sadhwani, Corporate Vice President at New York Life Insurance Company. Nishit joins us today to investigate the…
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AI and Its Impact on Business with John de Havilland
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The impact of AI on business is multifaceted, with the potential for both positive and negative consequences. Successful integration of AI technologies requires careful planning, investment, and ongoing evaluation to ensure that AI aligns with a company's goals and values while delivering tangible benefits. John de Havilland, General Manager of Dig…
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Roxane Googin Predicts the Future of AI (and How to Maximize It Now)
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Just a decade ago, artificial intelligence seemed like something straight out of a science fiction film. Now, we use it in our everyday lives without even realizing it. What does the next 10 years of AI innovation look like? And how can we maximize it in the present? To answer these questions, we sit down with world-renowned futurist Roxane Googin,…
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Bill White On Destiny Data & Its Impacts on Business and Technology Strategy
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Companies are managing more digital data than ever before. And organizing that data effectively is critical for a range of functions, like improving data retrieval efficiency, supporting analytics, enhancing overall data quality, and much more. So how should business leaders be approaching this? And what is the best way to incorporate data organiza…
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Navigating the Metaverse and AI with Yoav Shapira
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Join Dave Castellani and Adam Granoff in an exhilarating episode as they journey into the awe-inspiring realms of the metaverse and artificial intelligence. With the brilliant Yoav Shapira from Meta as their guide, they unravel the future of interconnected virtual universes and the groundbreaking role of AI. Yoav is a serial entrepreneur, advisor, …
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Unveiling the AI Landscape with Dave Castellani and Adam Granoff
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Welcome to the debut episode of Deep Takes, Not Fakes Podcast with your hosts, Dave Castellani and Adam Granoff. In this thought-provoking episode, Dave and Adam kickstart their journey into the world of emerging technology by exploring the fundamentals and dispelling common misconceptions of artificial intelligence (AI). Dave and Adam are technolo…
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Have you ever felt like you've tried it all but just can't seem to grow in one particular area of your life or business? If you’re into growth but you find yourself still stuck in the same situation or just not growing in the way that you want to in any area of life or business this is for you. In this episode you'll learn why you feel like you're …
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196: Why Learning And Growth Is Slowing You Down And What To Do Instead
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Do you value learning and growth, but sense that it could actually be getting in your way more than it's helping you? While learning and growth are two values that absolutely make you the amazing coach and entrepreneur that you are, they can also have their down side. In this episode you'll learn how we have different levels of doing and learning, …
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195: How to Manage Expectations, Exercising Trust, and Removing Resistance
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Coaches and Entrepreneurs, Have you ever felt like everything you do should have some kind of return? This episode talks about what happens when we think from the mindset of instant gratification, where it comes from, and what to do about it.By Jeff Agostinelli
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194: Why You Multitask, Why It’s Diluting Your Focus, and What To Do Instead
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One really bad habit of most coaches and creative entrepreneurs I know is the tendency to multitask which usually leads to dropping the ball somewhere AND making mistakes. You definitely want to be able to really look under the hood and see why you’re spreading yourself too thin, but here’s what you can do to start creating the right structures so …
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193: How to Channel Emotions and Embracing Anxiety with Karla McLaren
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With the state of the world right now it's more important than ever to understand how to be with heightened emotions, how to truly understand them, and what to do with them. In this episode you'll learn how there are 2 different ways people respond to anxiety and how they show up in people, why kids are often trying to operate against their natural…
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192: How Your Future Can Define Your Personality More Than Your Past with Benjamin Hardy
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Today I sit down with Dr. Benjamin Hardy to talk about his new book Personality Isn't Permanent. Today you'll learn why Ben got deeper into writing about and getting into the conversation around trauma, what he found most surprising about personality, how people describe themselves and why that's blocking change, why we have come into more of a tes…
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191: The #1 Thing That Keeps Coaches From Leading
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There is one thing that keeps coming to the top of my list of what keeps coaches from fully leading themselves and their clients. It's actually a mix of a few things, but they have one thing in common. Our inability to when needed take our own medicine and continue growing. Too may of us think that we need to have it all figured out before we can h…
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In today's episode I unpack why we tend to make things harder than they have to be and what you can do to bring more ease into your life and work. This episode is for you if you are realizing or starting to see that you put too much effort into work. That you have to put in a lot of effort in order to get a very small return. My hope with this is t…
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189: What I Do With Anger and Why It’s Showing Up Right Now
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All emotions serve a purpose. I know it’s hard to see that at times. Believe me, I still get taken out by intense emotions too. But when I can receive the message and surrender to the action (or inaction) that get’s to happen, that emotion moves. In today's show I talk about why anger is showing up a lot right now in the current pandemic and what t…
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[Best Of] 188: Reorganizational Healing and Accessing Higher Levels of Intelligence with Dr. Brian T. Lumb
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Dr. Brian currently owns and operates Nourish and Flourish which provides an integrated environment for you to discover and experience a wealth of modalities, wisdom, and products to live your most outstanding life possible. From the highest level of Network Care to enlivening workshops and programs, organic juice and tea, to a carefully curated se…
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Today I felt really compelled to talk about the conversation around pain and how we protect ourselves based on past experiences that caused some level of trauma. In The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer talks about something he calls "removing your inner thorn." He talks about how we build up the conditions in our life to protect the thorn from being…
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186: What Cause And Effect Has To Do With Faith
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Today I want to go beyond the physical and talk about faith. I'll dive into one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Joseph Murphy... “Every thought is the cause. Every Condition is the effect.” And how this is showing up right now in the coronavirus pandemic.By Jeff Agostinelli
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185: Why Focusing On Scale Is Killing Your Business, Your Drive, and Your Confidence
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We've entered a funny time in history where we have more solutions to grow your business than ever before. The challenge that comes along with that is falling into the trap of believing we need something that's too many steps ahead of where we're at. As soon as I realized where I actually was and what I needed to do, things started moving much quic…
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184: Self-Isolation Will Only Bring Up More Of What's Not Healed
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The more we dive into self-isolation and social distancing the more I've had the opportunity to examine what comes up in response to the conditions. In this episode I walk through 4 steps you can take to make peace with what's coming up. Take 100 % responsibility for your actions and emotions, Examine past events that left a mark - In a safe contai…
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183: What to do in times of massive uncertainty
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In today’s show, I wanted to offer a few ways to see the current situation and what you can do to make it through to whatever's next. I outline 9 ways I'm looking at this to stay safe, sane, and forward moving.By Jeff Agostinelli
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If you've been in business for any length of time, you know that there are always competing forces for your attention. From marketing your business, to dropping into your creativity, to producing the assets you need for your business, the list seems to grow more and more by the minute. In this episode you'll learn: How to follow your own internal c…
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181: The Invisible Forces That Stunt Our Growth
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At this point in my coaching journey, I'm pretty convinced that the majority of tension we experience comes from conflicting stories and emotions. For example, if we have the story that... Doing what I want to do will end in failure. And the stories and feelings associated with that belief go largely unexamined, then that belief is calling the shot…
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[Best Of] 180: Ethical Persuasion and Moving People to Action with Erin Gargan
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Today we unpack Erin's story, what it takes to be successful in being heard in outbound marketing and the digital area, and the nitty-gritty of Digital Persuasion. In this episode you'll learn How to translate your offline persona into the online space What the online disinhibition effect tells us about why we behave the way we do online, How to ma…
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[Best Of] 179: Upgrading Your Language to Resolve Conflicts at Home, at Work, and In Your Head with Mark England
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Mark England is the co-founder and lead presenter of Procabulary. He loves to travel, exchange empowering ideas and strategies and practice martial arts. Mark holds a Masters Degree in International Education and was an elementary sports teacher before developing Procabulary. Today we'll do a deep dive and unpack the Procabulary framework and show …
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[Best Of] 178: Navigating The Space Between Stories with Charles Eisenstein
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Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and stints as a college…
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Have you ever heard yourself say that you would never do something but then you ended up doing it and loved it? I was in a client session last week when I heard myself say this it took on a totally different meaning. High resistance equals high return. In today's episode I unpack resistance, why we feel it, and how to use it to our advantage. In th…
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Clarity comes from taking action and sticking with what's working. Clarity does not come from thinking about what to do forever before you actually take the first step. Today I explore what this looks like and how to overcome the doubt and fear that inaction breeds. In this episode you'll learn How there is always a place where you can start, Where…
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175: The Power of Movement to Increase Joy and Build Connection with Kelly McGonigal
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In today's interview I sit down with Kelly McGonigal to talk about her new book The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage. In this episode you’ll learn: How what we call the runners high is actually more of a persistence high that helps us keep going, Why we are wired to persist, endure, and pursue wha…
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I was having a conversation with someone today at a meeting and after chatting with her this became super clear. We were talking about different phases of a business and how the start up phase can be super stressful and even how the success of the business can be measured by our ability to manage and hold that chaos long enough for it to turn into …
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I heard Dr. Joe Dispenza answer a student's question with this statement: "Focus on the effort, not the outcome." At first I thought that sounded a little strange. I always hear the opposite. But the more I practice this the more useful it's proving to be to get out of some of my old ways of being and focus on the task at hand. On today's show I ta…
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172: STOP wishing it was easy. Do this instead.
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I’m just going to come right out and say it... If you’re hoping things would just get easier then you're not cut out to be an entrepreneur. Ok, now that we got that out of the way... The truth is it’s tough. Every day comes with a new set of problems...By Jeff Agostinelli
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I was doing my bi-weekly track workout with a buddy this morning and we were chatting about goals. A couple of years ago I set the intention to let running teach me about goals. MAN what a fricken teacher. Especially when you test the limits in the right way. But you know what one of the biggest lessons has been? Missing an important goal or deadli…
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170: Get Your Business Moving In The Right Direction
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Do you want to know how to get your business moving in the right direction? Stop standing still. While stillness is an essential step in the process of creation, staying in the same place for too long can lead to the all too common problem of paralysis by analysis. Especially for my spiritual folk and heart centered entrepreneurs out there because …
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Want to easily attract the perfect clients… those people who are MEANT to find you… without having to pretend to be confident and successful? Then you've gotta find the NOW version of you. If you fake it till you make it… you’ll never make it. And if you do buy into the myth that you need to be someone else, that you have to have it all figured out…
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168: How To Protect Your Attention Without Moving To An Island
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I know I’m not the only one that’s had dreams of turning all these devices off and moving to some remote tropical island. Although that would be nice for a hot second, it’s definitely not the solution. But finding a way that works for you to reign back your attention is an absolute game changer! You see, in this day and age it can seem like a luxur…
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167: It’s Just Feedback. Don’t Make It Mean More Than That
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So many times we attach a negative meaning to situations, circumstances and feelings. This causes unnecessary suffering and more often than not, being in a standoff with ourselves. Unable to move forward. And it’s not just in that moment. It’s pervasive. That moment of meaning gets transposed on everything and before you know it, you’re doing from …
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Coping is how we adjust to stress in order to make the situation bearable. But when a coping mechanism (healthy or unhealthy) becomes a habit, we’ve missing the message that the situation and resulting emotion is trying to teach us. And when we try to cope our way through we don’t make our way through. Just like physical pain, emotional pain is tel…
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165: When You Focus On Mastery You Foster Depth
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When you focus on mastery you foster depth. Seriously though… if you can’t get into the training zone and practice your craft enough to continue learning, make distinctions, and further refine your craft, then you’re not giving it the time it deserves. You’re not executing with mastery. Yes, there are other things you need to focus on in your busin…
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164: Playing to Not Get Hurt or Playing To Win
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I picked up lacrosse really quick. And after playing from only my sophomore year in high school, I got a scholarship to a Division 1 college my senior year. Up until this point I had never injured anything. And so I had no reason to think that that would happen. And in all fairness, I was overly confident. Some may say I was cocky. It’s true. But a…
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It’s easy to lose steam when you lose sight of why you’re doing what you’re doing. How many times have you done this? How many times have you started a project, a new business, a new offer… and you were off to the races. You hit the ground running with sheer optimism. But over time you start to lose steam because it wasn’t the instant success you h…
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