The Cost of Surrounding Yourself with Negative People (Episode 3)

Nov 21, 2018

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Today’s episode is titled “The Cost of Surrounding Yourself with Negative People.” It interacts with one of the key and concerning statements from one of 2018’s most popular books.

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