In this juicy AF episode, I sit down with the absolute gem of a human, Andrea Tessier – IFS practitioner, master coach, intuitive powerhouse, and the woman who helps people trust themselves for a living.
We go deep into Internal Family Systems (IFS) – what it is, how it works, and why your so-called “problem parts” are actually the ones loving the hardest on you.
This conversation is equal parts practical, magical, identity-shifting, and business-changing.
If you’ve ever wondered why you’re doing “all the right things” and still feel stuck, this one's for you.
What We Dive Into
- What IFS actually is (spoiler: there are NO bad parts)
- Why certain patterns in business feel like sabotage… but aren’t
- The truth about striver parts, perfectionists, procrastinators, rebels, people-pleasers, over-responsibility, and other familiar inner characters
- What “Self with a capital S” feels like – and why it’s the ONLY place you can sustainably run a business from
- How “parts running your business” creates burnout, codependency, resentment, or confusion
- How manager parts + firefighter parts work (and why your binge-eating, dissociation, scrolling, or burnout patterns aren’t moral failures)
- The difference between fear-driven business and freedom-driven business
- Why traditional coaching often becomes “manager-to-manager” instead of soul-to-soul
- Why so much online marketing feels icky – and the IFS lens that explains it perfectly
- How to make business decisions, marketing, sales, and boundaries from Self-energy
- A big conversation about AI, urgency marketing, and integrity in the current coaching industry
Andrea Tessier, M.Ed. is a Master Life Coach and a trained Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner who helps visionary leaders and entrepreneurs cultivate deep self-trust and lead from within. Through her signature blend of psychology, spirituality, and embodied leadership, Andrea guides clients to move beyond perfectionism, over-responsibility, and self-doubt—so they can create lives and businesses rooted in freedom, purpose, and wholeness. Her work bridges the inner and outer worlds, helping people reconnect with their calm, wise Self and lead their lives with clarity, courage, and confidence.
Resources mentioned:
IFS Parts Work & Self-Trust Starter Kit - Andrea’s Free IFS Starter Kit - This is the freebie she mentioned inside the episode – and it’s SO GOOD.
What’s Inside
- Why self-trust feels hard (hint: it’s never willpower)
- The 3-step IFS process: Notice → Acknowledge → Befriend
- Journaling prompts to help you hear your inner wisdom
- A guided practice to meet your parts with compassion instead of shame
- A totally new way to understand the “personal problems” showing up in your business
Watch Andrea on YouTube @IFS & Spirituality with Andrea
Her channel is full of processes, teachings, and guided IFS meditations:
Connect With Andrea
- Website: https://www.andreatessier.com
- Instagram: @andrea.tessier.coaching
- Work with her 1:1: High-touch IFS-based coaching for self-trust, clarity, and internal freedom.
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Andrea Tessier: [00:00:00] Everybody just wants to be seen and heard and understood and seen for how good they are. Yeah. And the same is true inside.
Andrea Tessier: Yeah.
Andrea Tessier: Yeah. And so when we can bring that level of like love and understanding to our parts, that's actually how we get the balance that people are always seeking and craving.
Kylie Patchett: Welcome to Wild and finally fucking Free the show for disruptors, rebels, and revolutionaries who know they're here to change the damn world. I'm Kylie Patchett, your voice and visibility catalyst, and here we dive into unapologetic truth, magnetic messaging and visibility. That actually feels good. In your body, your bones, and your business.
Kylie Patchett: We share the stories of the out of the box, neuro sparkly, creative, witchy, wild ones, rewriting how we live, love, learn, and lead. This isn't about being louder, it's about being rooted, [00:01:00] resonant, and regulated, so you can be real raw and ready to raw. If you're done, contorting yourself to fit the mold and you're ready to own your voice, your power, and your place in the revolution, welcome home.
Kylie Patchett: Let's dive in.
Kylie Patchett: Starting this podcast with the Happy Dancer. Hello. Hello everybody. Welcome to the show. I have my beautiful friend, Andrea Tessier, all the way over in Canada on the flip side at four 30 in the afternoon, and it's dark already. And here I am at seven 30 in the morning and it's bright and it's gonna be hot.
Kylie Patchett: So welcome Andrea. How are you,
Andrea Tessier: Kylie? Hi everybody. Thanks for having me.
Kylie Patchett: Oh, now we've been. Each other for a year now or over a year? Over a year. We were, um, both part of a mastermind last year and I got to know you and I love, um, you know, when you're in a mastermind and you're walking alongside of each other when you're going through these wild, like [00:02:00] expansive times in business and as we are going to talk about often our parts can come out and play.
Kylie Patchett: But um, for those of you that out there that don't already know, Andrea, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do in the world?
Andrea Tessier: Yeah, so like you said, I am Andrea Tessier. I live in Toronto, Canada, and I have the privilege of, for a living. I help people trust themselves. That's what I get to do and it's so fun and it's so exciting.
Andrea Tessier: I primarily use internal family systems or IFS is one of the core modalities, but at the same time, I've trained as a master coach in over, I don't know, 20 different modalities but also bring in a lot of my intuitive gifts and spiritual coaching to my work as well. But outside of my work I was a teacher before I was a coach, and so that's a big part of my journey as well.
Andrea Tessier: And you know, because I am in good [00:03:00] company here, I'm an emotional generator, three five profiles. And I'm also a Virgo, sun areas rising, my Moon and Taurus. So you can expect like. Grounded practicality, but also this like a fiery passion for transformation and consciousness as well.
Kylie Patchett: It's so cool. I just, um, like I, you know, as I say, I've, I've known you as a friend and colleague and peer, um, for quite some time.
Kylie Patchett: Uh, I got the chance to actually be a fly on the wall and a participant actually, because you just came into my Raw Revolution group and ran a masterclass for us because. We had been talking about this, like when our parts are driving the business bus and when our authentic self is not in the driver's seat, things can go a little bit pear-shaped, and you came and helped us to understand this specific part, which was the striver part, which I hard relate to, like in my.
Kylie Patchett: Terminology. That's like the over preneur part of me. Like a very, you know, driven, driven, [00:04:00] driven, driven, driven, like overworking, overdelivering, overdoing everything. And um, it was so cool. Like I love seeing people in their genius zone and I was just sitting back and like, I was participating as well, but there was a part of me, I have to use parts language.
Kylie Patchett: Like just sitting back, marinating in, seeing you in your genius and seeing all of the beautiful revolution ladies just being like. Oh, like, you know, those chiropractic adjustment moments where they're like, well, you've just rearranged my identity of myself here. And I think the coolest thing about that whole experience for me was just reading my, being re reminded, if that's a word.
Kylie Patchett: How, and I know we weren't we weren't working on like a deep, deep pattern or any particular trauma or anything, but just how readily the parts of us. Want to actually interact and want to actually be like, here's what I'm here for. This is what I'm trying to protect you from. And that's one of the biggest things that we got as feedback [00:05:00] too.
Kylie Patchett: It's like I can't believe that like this part that I see almost as sometimes like the enemy or a problem or something that needs to be shoved down or somehow like push through or whatever is actually like really wanting a dialogue and a relationship. So is that, um. Yeah. How was your experience of that?
Kylie Patchett: The great, it's so
Andrea Tessier: funny, like I've, I've jumped into loads of groups and offered Yes, you know, little workshops into, into parts. Whether it's like in our entrepreneurial journey, whether it's in relationship, like, you know, there's so many different ways we can work with our parts and I love going into people's groups 'cause it's already like a really lovely because safe place where people like each other and are connected in some way.
Andrea Tessier: And, you know, at first I would be like, oh, I hope I can, you know, I can guide hundreds of like. People one-on-one, no problem. But at first I was like, can I actually do this in a group? Yeah. Will people feel something, will they actually connect and turns out Yes. Yes. That's [00:06:00] and, and always amazing to me how ready these parts are ready and willing to, to talk to us.
Andrea Tessier: And it is like a very woowoo thing, like a people who. Have had trouble, like really grasping it and understanding it. As soon as they're really guided and dropped into it, like even the most skeptical people are like, whoa, I don't know what just happened.
Kylie Patchett: But do you know what, I think you said something really important before grounded practicality, right?
Kylie Patchett: Like what you are doing is hugely transformational and is quite. Almost nebulous of like, I'm taking this system inside of me and I'm pulling them out and I'm having a chat and whatever. But because you have such a grounded, like, I don't know, you are so anchored and so it just makes everyone, it I've it that grounded practicality is something that's very key in your magic.
Kylie Patchett: I feel like it's just like, because there's an, there's an automatic safety, and I get what you're saying, like coming into someone else's group, there's already. No, like trust [00:07:00] community, you know, it's a, it's a safe environment, but still what you're asking us to do can, could be like edgy for people or feel very scary.
Kylie Patchett: Yeah. Yeah, it was like even, you know, even some of the ladies that, you know, had expressed like, oh, I'm not sure if I, you know, I don't know, I don't really understand parts work, which we'll get to in a second. But just totally relaxed and was like, oh, okay, we're having an experience and I'm safe. And yeah, it was very cool.
Kylie Patchett: Let's zoom out though, because we're talking about parts work and we're talking about parts of us, and I feel like there needs to be like a broad brush stroke. What the heck are we talking about? Yeah, so Parts Work inter Internal Family Systems is based on the work of Dr. Richard Schwartz. And the idea is that we're all made up of this like intricate system of parts.
Andrea Tessier: And I love the model personally because, well, it's evidence-based. There's actually research to say that it works. Mm-hmm. But [00:08:00] also it's like really, really compassionate. Like it takes like this, you are the expert on you kind of lens. Yes, and it doesn't make me the expert on you. It allows you truly to tap into your highest self, your self leadership.
Andrea Tessier: And you know, I think there's a lot of models out there that you can, can pathologize. Person. Mm-hmm. And I think IS quite does quite the opposite. It actually empowers Yeah. And that's why I love it so much. Um, but these parts are technically like these sub minds, sub personalities that each have their own perspective and feelings and motivations.
Andrea Tessier: And, you know, we're familiar with some key players in our. Like the perfectionist part or the inner critic or the people pleaser or the procrastinator, like those are classic parts. And you know, a lot of people, until they develop the awareness suite, they think, oh, I am just a people pleaser. Or, yes, [00:09:00] I'm just a procrastinator.
Andrea Tessier: And they take on that identity. But what we actually do in internal family systems is we give space to say, okay, a part of me. Definitely is, but not all of me. Mm-hmm. But I guarantee there are circumstances in your life where you don't perfect everything. You know, I would, for years, I would've considered myself a perfectionist, but like, no, when it came to like cooking, like you're like, no big deal, tastes like crap, whatever.
Andrea Tessier: Ever. Like Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But like not always. And so that's actually what we get to do in internal family systems. And you know, people kind of think like, oh, this is just me thinking.
Kylie Patchett: Mm-hmm. But
Andrea Tessier: actually what we come to see is like, no, that's actually, you blended with a part. Yes. It feels like you, I get that.
Andrea Tessier: And it's not you. Yeah. And. When people start to have space and we call that like unblending [00:10:00] from a part, they do get to connect with their like true self, like their highest essence, and they aren't as compelled or overwhelmed by some of these patterns in the way that they used to be, which. Is an absolute game changer in every aspect of our life, but especially like in entrepreneurship.
Kylie Patchett: Yeah, absolutely. I just, uh, to me, when I came across parts work, it was this completely new lens because I used to have this kind of
Kylie Patchett: inner tension, I wanna say, and we, and we would call it polarization in parts work language, but this I would say like, I have two sides of me, like Jekyll and Hyde, one that craves freedom, one that craves security. Right? And I was totally blended with both of them. Like it at any different, moment I could be rebelling and saying fuck the world.
Kylie Patchett: And then, but, but also wanting to be like, everything is safe and everything [00:11:00] is predictable and everything is routine right? And totally part of me that says that's kind of autism and a DH adhd. But anyway. But when I came across s
Andrea Tessier: work also just human design sometimes. Yes, exactly. Like I experienced those because I have such a wide split in my human design.
Andrea Tessier: So
Kylie Patchett: actually yeah, that's very good point because my split is between head NA and the rest of my, yeah, very good point. Um, but yeah, when I came across internal family systems, it gave me a way of understanding that I could take a step back from either of those. Ways of being in my mind and actually find this much more quiet.
Kylie Patchett: You know what we would say, you know, self with the capital S so we say self with the capital S which I call my wild woman. That's like, oh, so this part of me is actually very quiet and intuitive and there's no gripping or grasping or fighting against, or fighting for or like, [00:12:00] any of that like, like binary, kind of like if I don't have routine, I'm not safe, kind of thing. Like if, if this, then that, it's like, oh no, I'm safe because I'm here in my wild woman and those are parts. But that little bit of separation was what I needed. Yeah. 'cause up until then I didn't, I, I always thought there was almost like a personality flaw or a, like a, you know, something about myself that I really.
Kylie Patchett: Who didn't like actually, because it felt a little bit chaotic, right. Swinging from one to the other. But now that I understand that actually underneath all of that noise, but also of course, like integration. Well, one thing I wanted to ask you when we are talking about business and like we talked about the striving part, right?
Kylie Patchett: I have a striving part and then a rebel that if I, if the striving plays the game too long, then the rebel comes online, right? Which is. Pretty much the pattern that we just talked about. Yeah. Um, how do you, like, when you talk about parts in entrepreneurship, how do you like wrap this entrepreneurial [00:13:00] rollercoaster that we are on, which is like self-development on crack.
Kylie Patchett: Um, how do you wrap like parts work understanding, um, through that? Whole game.
Andrea Tessier: Yeah. People don't really have business problems. They have personal problems disguised as business problems. Correct. Right. That is like, that is a good, who is running my business today? Is it the one that doubts things?
Andrea Tessier: Mm-hmm. Right. Is it the one that outsources things, right? Right. Is the, is it the rule follower? Is it the imposter? Is it the procrastinator? Mm-hmm. Who is running my business today? Okay. Well, none of those parts are me. Yes. And the, that is the emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship is, you know. One part has having this big vision and the excitement to move forward and the other parts that are just like, oh hell no.
Andrea Tessier: That is absolutely terrifying. 'cause we remember that time that that happened in the third grade and we were absolutely humiliated. Mm-hmm. We're never, yeah. Exactly, and we can intellectualize [00:14:00] all day around it, but until we actually go and understand and witness those parts, they're going to run our business.
Kylie Patchett: Mm-hmm.
Andrea Tessier: Hmm. They're going to. And the thing about that is like that's, it's not sustainable, right? If we have these manager parts or these protector parts that are trying to do this like visionary work for us, we don't have access to that core of us that we need because what we are creating in the world that we're creating in.
Andrea Tessier: Our parts don't understand that and they couldn't ever. Mm-hmm. But self-energy can lead you through that. Yeah. Because it's clear and it's connected and it's courageous as fuck. Yeah. Yes. So we need to be connected to self-energy in order to actually do this version of entrepreneurship that we're being asked to do right now.
Andrea Tessier: Mm-hmm. Because there isn't a model for this, right? Yeah. Most of us aren't out there selling a product. We're not going door to door and selling vacuums, right? [00:15:00] Yep. We're selling like transformational work and there isn't a model for this, and it so much requires your own embodiment and authenticity.
Andrea Tessier: And if your pars are trying to run your decision making or if they're trying to run your marketing systems or mm-hmm. Your sales or even your client work, if you work with clients, it's just not gonna work for the long term. Yeah. And so. Being able to support people with the parts that come up while they're running their businesses and their practices is what makes it like fully aligned.
Kylie Patchett: Yes. Yeah. I think that, uh, as you're talking, like I'm going back to my first iteration of entrepreneurship, like the first six years I was in business before I took a break. 'cause I was like, this is completely unsustainable. And something happened in my personal life that was, made it very hard to stay as a coach.
Kylie Patchett: But, and I look back and I'm like. My, like what I would call over preneur, but striver part. Mm-hmm. [00:16:00] Was running the show like she was driving the bus 24 7. I wasn't aware that there was any self energy underneath it. And I just look back, I think we've had this conversation just recently, um, when we were chatting as well, like look back at even the way that I held space for people and coach, there was so much like.
Kylie Patchett: I'm overly responsible for your outcome and over delivery and boundary pushing and not pushing, stepping over boundaries and everything. And because that part of me needed that feedback, right? But it was absolutely unsustainable, exhausting as fuck, and was never ever, like I, you know, had such a big. Like my identity, when I, when I, I basically picked up my Batten ball, had a dummy spit, sent an email and said, I'm closing my business down and left, pretty much.
Kylie Patchett: But I remember sending that email and just having this huge sense of relief in my [00:17:00] body because it was completely unsustainable for that to happen. And it's like, now if I notice that a part is very strong, I'm pausing. To make peace with or make friends with or listen to or resource myself or not work at all that day.
Kylie Patchett: Like I've definitely done that lately. 'cause life is laughing and, um, yeah, there's just I've kind of been reflecting on the last year. There's so much more, what's the word? Anchored is the word. Like just, life can be laughing and shit can be going on and whatever, but, the sense of being anchored and compared to my last iteration of business, I just think, whoa.
Kylie Patchett: Like, you know, I mean, I still definitely have parts come out and play and still that striver part is, you know, the big one for me. But, um, I also as, as you are talking, like, can you help us understand like why do these parts form [00:18:00] and what is their purpose? Because I think there's a real. A really big, mistaken belief that these parts are trying to.
Kylie Patchett: Fuck with us. Sabotage or screw out, you know? Yeah. Sabotage. Yes. That's always sabotage. You don't have a sabotage
Andrea Tessier: or like, number one, it's not true. But yeah, they make up who we are and they're those different voices or aspects of our personality. But I mean, from a neuroscience perspective, they're activated Neuropath.
Andrea Tessier: Ways. Yes. They're not actually little like beings
Kylie Patchett: although I do
Andrea Tessier: give
Kylie Patchett: mine full personalities in contact. Oh yeah.
Andrea Tessier: And they do have them, but it's like these neural pathways have been activated so many times throughout life. Yeah. They're just like very easy to access and go down that road.
Andrea Tessier: Mm-hmm. But they develop at certain points in our life to sometimes help us. Survive or cope with Big T or little T Trauma. Yes. And they might show up to help protect us from harm or discomfort. They [00:19:00] might just get things done like our striver parts. Right. Yeah. They might motivate us to do our best.
Andrea Tessier: Sometimes that's aggressively like our interview. Yeah. They also bring us pleasure or relief, which. It can be really nice part that's like, oh, hey, you do need a break, or You do deserve a treat today. But it's also sometimes addiction. Yes. And extreme right? Yes, yes. Or they're there to distract us from painful feelings, memories, experiences, like those can be our, mm-hmm.
Andrea Tessier: Dissociative parts or when we suddenly are working on a project and we feel like we have to sleep, like parts that are just, you know, trying to distract us from feeling uncomfortable because they think that we can't handle it.
Kylie Patchett: Mm-hmm. And so
Andrea Tessier: lots of good reasons for them to develop. Often developed in our younger.
Andrea Tessier: Years. Yes. And you know, we develop a whole protective system to make sure that we are okay. And then underneath that protective system, [00:20:00] whether they are. Manager parts or firefighter parts, we can go into both of that, but underneath them are like really tender ones. Sometimes people call it the inner child or exile.
Andrea Tessier: If you use IFS language and these are the ones that were hurt or harmed or humiliated in some way and the system has been suppressing or repressing it and are afraid of like what might happen if this part comes out. Yes. Yeah. And so we develop these like really, wise ways of coping
Kylie Patchett: Yeah.
Kylie Patchett: That
Andrea Tessier: work for a time until they don't. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And, and when they're not working anymore is when people usually start going, okay, I don't wanna do this pattern anymore. I don't wanna act like this anymore, but I can't seem to stop because they're blended with it. Yeah.
Kylie Patchett: I, as you're talking, I feel like, um.
Kylie Patchett: Like the [00:21:00] whole concept. And I do wanna go into like firefighters and managers as well, because it will make this, this other question that I'm just about to ask, like. A fully formed understanding for people when I understood that the system like any, any system, like even a family system, like actually, kids and parents, right?
Kylie Patchett: There is parts that we play, roles that we play, and it's to keep the system in balance. So, you know, never been so true when you have two daughters completely different. So you know one very much anyway, I won't go into my family dynamics probably. I'm just thinking these are adult children now.
Kylie Patchett: We probably don't need to say that now anyway. But you know, there's roles that. Balance each other. So if you have someone in an extreme state of whatever, then there's often someone that does the opposite to keep the system. Well,
Andrea Tessier: even in your story, right, where you were talking about, you know, Kylie Patchett Business 1.0 was like Striver.
Andrea Tessier: Yes. And to balance out the striver was that firefighter that just came online and was like, burn that [00:22:00] shit down. Today we're done.
Kylie Patchett: Also before that firefighter came out, my go-to firefighter for my entire life formed very clearly. Like in my mind, I can remember the first time I did this at four years old, binge eating, like, you know, yes, perfect fire, fire behavior.
Kylie Patchett: Like this is too scary. I'm just gonna get some relief temporarily, obviously. Yes. So yeah, I think that also anyway, my point was the system loves to be in balance, and so understanding that sometimes we can feel like the, there's like this internal war and it's like, no, it's, it's actually seeking harmony overall, like the system.
Kylie Patchett: And how cool is it that our system understands how to do that? Isn't that wild? Like yes, okay, maybe it's not healthy or it's not something that we can wanna continue as adults, but how cool is it that our system somehow knew how to. Form parts to protect us. Otherwise we may not have survived, like, quite literally in some cases.
Kylie Patchett: So wild. Anyway, [00:23:00] let go back to managers and firefighters because I always find this funny 'cause you know, two of my family members are actual firefighters. Um, so. It's like, yeah,
Andrea Tessier: I think start with firefighters, because firefighters are the, usually the patterns and the parts of ourselves we love to hate.
Andrea Tessier: Mm-hmm. And they got a whole ton of slack in our system. Right. Like, if we have a binge eating part, like how much do you hate yourself for, you know, after a binge. Mm-hmm. Like I know what that's like. Yep. Or you, you know, have too many glasses of wine. Like how many of us like hate ourselves after we do that?
Andrea Tessier: Yeah. It's so easy to hate our firefighter parts. Without realizing that they play such a critical role in our system to bring balance. Yeah. 'cause if you do have managers that are more proactive, their job is literally to get ahead and prevent any bad things from happening ever. Yes. That's their job.
Kylie Patchett: That's my over preneur. The clipboard carrying over preneur [00:24:00] that ticks things off and makes sure that everything gets done before you can have fun. Right? Yes.
Andrea Tessier: Yep. And they work. So darn hard for us. And listen, like we love our manager parts. Like our manager parts are the ones that help us get here on time and make sure the tech is working and make sure that we're organized like we love them.
Andrea Tessier: Yeah. And when they're over functioning in a system like your Overpr thriving part, or our perfectionist parts, or our people pleasers that are trying to yes, manage our relationships and how we're viewed in relationship. They're working. Absolutely. Over time, it's like we can't rest. Like I can't do anything until the to-do list is done.
Andrea Tessier: Mm-hmm. It's like I'm trying to manage your perception of me, which is an impossible task because I can't control that. That ties to anyway. Right? Yeah. Because I'm safe with you, approve of me, and there's belonging here. And so these parts are running on overdrive. It's absolutely exhausting. Mm-hmm. And [00:25:00] so we need our firefighters to hop in and bring balance to the system.
Andrea Tessier: Yeah. But the way that they do it is a lot more like, just like all systems down, like down, like the both of them are trying to protect. The exile, the tender one underneath. Mm-hmm. Different ways of doing it. One's trying to get ahead and one's like, oh, we're too close to the exile. We're just shutting things down right now.
Kylie Patchett: Yeah, I always, um, I think about the firefighters being like the pressure cooker valve, like, like when the, you know, literally when you are using a pressure cooker and it's like the pressure of the system is getting too high, it's not sustainable, so I need to circuit break. And yeah, for me, like alcohol's never been my thing, but food far out, man.
Kylie Patchett: And now, like I say, I can remember that behavior starting at like four years old.
Andrea Tessier: But for other people it's like rage or extreme anger. Yes. Or even like. Extreme, you know, like adrenal adrenaline junkie kind of [00:26:00] behavior, right? Mm-hmm. It's like where can I just create balance in this way? How, where can I kind of depressurize?
Andrea Tessier: And I mean, some of those things can be fun. Like none of these things are, are bad in, moderation, but. Depending on what the come from is, if the sense of urgency is there to like really protect
Kylie Patchett: Yeah.
Andrea Tessier: Then we wanna bring some balance to that and can we bring some protection for those little ones inside so that these ones don't have to work so hard.
Andrea Tessier: Yes. Energy can work, can
Kylie Patchett: comes in, right? .
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Kylie Patchett: Until next time, stay wild, stay unapologetic, and stay [00:27:00] fucking free.
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