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Amanda Hietter: CEO of Across the Horizon Travel – Crafting Experiences, Creating Connections

For Amanda Hietter, the founder and CEO of Across the Horizon Travel, travel is more than a career—it’s a calling. Amanda’s journey into the world of travel didn’t start with a traditional path; it began with a dream rooted in passion, purpose, and a deep love for exploring new places. Today, she specializes in international group travel, romance travel, and curating retreats while helping her clients dream big and travel even bigger.

The Early Vision

Amanda’s vision for Across the Horizon Travel was inspired by her own love for adventure and her desire to share the magic of travel with others. While working in a demanding corporate role, Amanda felt a strong pull towards something more fulfilling—a career that would allow her to make a real impact in people’s lives. Travel had always been a source of joy, healing, and connection for her, and she realized it could be the same for others. She envisioned a business that would take the stress out of travel planning and create personalized, transformative experiences for clients.

Defining Her “Why”

At the core of Amanda’s work is her “why”: the belief that travel has the power to change lives. It’s not just about visiting new destinations; it’s about creating memories, building relationships, and experiencing the world in a meaningful way. Amanda’s mission is to help her clients see the world through fresh eyes and return home with a new perspective. Whether it’s a jungle retreat in Costa Rica or a spiritual journey through the Holy Land, Amanda’s goal is to curate trips that go beyond the surface and leave a lasting impact.

A Leap of Faith

In April 2024, Amanda faced a defining moment that would change the course of her career. After years of balancing her corporate job with her growing travel business, she made the courageous decision to leave her stable paralegal position and go full-time with Across the Horizon Travel. It was a leap of faith that required trust in her vision, her skills, and the relationships she had built. This decision marked a turning point, allowing her to dedicate herself fully to her passion and serve her clients with the energy and focus they deserved.

Quitting the corporate world wasn’t easy, but it was necessary. Amanda realized she had reached a crossroads: either stay in a job that felt comfortable but unfulfilling, or pursue the dream that had been calling her for years. By choosing the latter, she embraced the uncertainty of entrepreneurship and opened herself up to a world of new possibilities. This pivotal moment set her on a path she never expected, leading to incredible growth, new connections, and a sense of purpose that fueled her forward.

Growing the Dream in 2024

Since taking the leap, Amanda has seen her vision expand in ways she never imagined. 2024 has been a transformative year for Across the Horizon Travel, marked by new partnerships, exciting projects, and a stronger presence in the travel industry. Amanda has collaborated with life coaches and inspirational speakers, offering unique retreats that combine travel with personal development. These experiences have resonated with clients seeking not just a vacation, but a journey of self-discovery and growth.

Amanda also focused on building relationships with financial advisors and corporate clients, showing them how travel can be a tool for wellness, relaxation, and connection. By curating specialized travel packages that cater to the needs of high-net-worth individuals, business executives, and family groups, Amanda has expanded her client base and solidified her reputation as a trusted travel advisor.

Learning and Perseverance

The road to success hasn’t been without its challenges. Amanda has navigated obstacles with perseverance, constantly learning and adapting to meet the needs of her clients. She discovered that the key to overcoming setbacks is a combination of resilience and a willingness to pivot. When faced with unexpected changes in the travel landscape, she embraced innovative solutions and found creative ways to deliver exceptional experiences for her clients.

One of the most valuable lessons Amanda has learned is the importance of community. Her network of mentors, peers, and fellow entrepreneurs has been instrumental in her growth. She actively participates in a masterminding group called Business Leaders Network, where she finds inspiration and support from other ambitious entrepreneurs. The encouragement of the BLN community provided her with a platform to share her story, make new connections, and collaborate with like-minded professionals.

The Power of Connection

Amanda’s success is rooted in her ability to connect with people. Whether she’s building relationships with clients, collaborating with partners, or networking with industry leaders, Amanda’s genuine care and interest in others set her apart. She believes that the best travel experiences are those that are deeply personal and tailored to the individual. By taking the time to understand her clients’ desires, she’s able to create customized itineraries that exceed expectations.

In 2024, Amanda made valuable new connections, including a pastor from her church for the Footsteps of Jesus Tour and a relationship coach for personalized marriage retreats. These collaborations have not only enriched her business but have also expanded the impact of her travel services. Working with partners who share her commitment to creating meaningful experiences has been a rewarding part of her journey.

Words of Wisdom

For those aspiring to follow their dreams, Amanda’s advice is clear: “Don’t wait for the perfect moment; create it. If you have a vision that sets your soul on fire, pursue it with everything you have. Surround yourself with people who believe in your potential and are willing to support your journey. Be open to learning, embrace challenges as opportunities, and remember that every setback is a setup for a comeback.”

Amanda’s journey with Across the Horizon Travel is a testament to the power of dreaming big and taking bold steps toward your passion. Her story is one of perseverance, growth, and the belief that the world is full of possibilities waiting to be explored.

Looking Ahead

As Amanda looks to the future, she’s excited about continuing to grow her business and help more clients create unforgettable memories. With her deep knowledge of the travel industry, a strong network of collaborators, and a passion that drives her every day, Amanda is ready to take Across the Horizon Travel to new heights. She invites you to join her on this journey, to dream big, and to discover the joy and wonder of exploring the world.

Let Amanda and her team at Across the Horizon Travel help you plan your next adventure, whether it’s a romantic escape, a family vacation, or a transformative retreat. Contact Amanda today and get ready to dream big and travel bigger!

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Selected Speaker Topics:

• Motivating and Communicating Across Generations:  Key strategies to effectively lead every generation in your workplace at the same time.  Great for managers, business owners, and other leaders who are challenged by generational differences.  Attendees leave with proven solutions that they can use right away.
• Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Top Talent from Every Generation: Great talent is in short supply.  It’s expensive to recruit and train new employees only to have them quit in the first few weeks.  Some new hires don’t even show up on the first day!  This keynote provides insight and solutions for HR Professionals, Business Owners, and Managers that are frustrated with recruiting turnover, and a lack of engagement.   Attendees leave with solutions for building multi-generational teams that are enthusiastic about coming to work every day.
• Building High-Functioning Multi-generational Teams:  Each generation has different expectations that they bring to work based on the world they grew up in.  When these differences collide, there is lower productivity and morale suffers.   However, research shows that multi-generational teams are more innovative, collaborative, and better at solving problems!   It’s all about team building based on understanding each other’s perspectives and values.   This understanding leads to an appreciation of what everyone contributes.  Those who attend this keynote leave with a better understanding of generational and individual differences as well as ways to find common ground to build on.

Shawn Johnson is the “Strategist for Generational Inclusion”.  She is an infectious Speaker and Trainer whose passion is working with leaders to encourage inclusive collaboration between various generations.  Shawn shares solutions for attracting and developing inspiring leaders at every level, motivating, and engaging a generational inclusive workforce, and communicating effectively using a common vocabulary. She is a member of the John Maxwell Team, a Certified DISC Behavioral Analysis Consultant, Next Gen Facilitator, and has completed courses in Positive Psychology.

She and her husband, Ronnie, live in the Ft Worth area and have two millennial children who challenge her every day to be open-minded at all times!

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Selected Speaker’s Topics:

• Permission to Prosper in Questionable Economic Times
• 5 A’s in the Law of Attraction
• Master the Art of Networking
• Transitioning From an Employee to Entrepreneur Mindset
• ABC’s to Being a Successful Entrepreneur

Robert Butwin grew up in a family of successful businesspeople and self-made millionaires.  Early in his business life he made a crucial decision to leave behind all the “Country Club Smart” ways of his business upbringing and pursue the more personally satisfying financially secure profession of Network Marketing.  He entered the network marketing field on a part-time basis 35 years ago. After recognizing its potential and learning the ropes, he became a full-time network marketer. He is psychologically unemployable and has not worked a job since September 7, 1990.

Robert’s successful career has earned him the respect and admiration of colleagues throughout the profession.  He has been associated with several MLM firms and each time became one of their top income earners.

Robert is active in leadership roles with several organizations, including the Social Networking Association which is the industry’s professional organization.  In 2009 he was honored by being inducted into the MLMIA Hall of Fame.  He has been a contributing writer for many professional trade journals, is the author of the best-selling book Street Smart Networking and has produced many CD’s.  He has traveled to Europe and Asia many times sharing his insights and wisdom to help entrepreneurs accelerate their success.

Robert and his wife Bonnie live in the beautiful wine country of Northern California.  He walks his talk, living an incredible lifestyle that includes playing basketball most weekdays from 11 – 2 and spending time with his two grandsons.

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Selected Speaker Topics:

• Double Your Productivity Using Proven Brain-Based Learning Strategies – Imagine completing your required reading in hours instead of works. Imagine being able to spice up your existing presentations with new information that makes them irresistible. Now Imagine, increasing productivity, increasing profits, and having more time to do the things you love. You Can Have All That. The World’s Fastest Reader will reveal his super-fast learning strategies for zipping through information at blazing fast speed so you can accomplish this and much, much more.
• Maximum Power Reading: The Speed Reading And Accelerated Learning Secrets of the World’s Fastest Reader – Each day the decisions you make are only as good as the information you base them upon. Let the world’s fastest reader share his reading and learning strategies with you! Howard describes a more visual method for reading and guarantees your total satisfaction with how his techniques help your reading needs.
• The Super Writing Secrets™ of The World’s Fastest Reader – Howard shows how to output text in record time by overcoming writer’s block. Put this problem in the past as he shows the audience, among other things, How to organize their thoughts so their complex writing assignments can be completed quickly and efficiently, How to sustain writing under the pressure of a deadline so the job gets completed on time, and How to juggle multiple writing tasks to achieve peak efficiency.

Howard Berg helps professionals, associations, companies, colleges and universities, students, and baby boomers maximize their ability to learn faster, comprehend better, and retain more in this information-rich world. For the past 30 years, he has been teaching people how to increase their reading speed, but more importantly how to develop a total learning solution in their lives. 
His work has been featured on over 1,100 radio and television programs. You might have seen him with Justin Timberlake and Peyton Manning as SONY’s E-Reader spokesperson, or reading the 1,500-page Health Care Bill on Cavuto in just 50 minutes, and then performing a complete analysis. 

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Dora Islamovic Speaks on These Topics:

• Operations Happens Whether I Like It Or Not – Too many business owners get lost in the weeds and the daily tasks. Success only comes with thinking outside of the box and expanding your business by implementing automated systems and putting procedures in place. Dora draws from her deep experience to offer tools attendees can use right away to exponentially improve their businesses.
• Did You Start A Company or Just Buy A Job? – Dora has seen time and time again business owners working harder than ever in their new business without actually running their operations. The Entrepreneurial Spirit is about building something, not being buried in tasks. This talk is all about the advantages of reaching that vision of a successful future.
• Business Operations: The 7 Differences Between Working ON Your Business and IN Your Business – The old cliché about not seeing the forest for the trees happens every day to business owners and managers. It’s easy to get bogged down by to-do lists and putting out fires and pushing crucial plans to another day. In this talk, Dora helps create benchmarks and strategies to make sure businesspeople manage growth instead of staying buried in minutia.
• 12 Ways to Increase Revenue without Losing Your Staff or Your Mind – When growing a business, we discover we can’t be all things to all people. So we learn to delegate and outsource. Dora empowers business owners and management with real world tools that help manage staff and operations and build leaders and teams.
• We Only Live Once: 7 Methods To Make it Count; Taking the Risk to Be Your Best – In life and in business, those that succeed make it a habit of sticking their necks out; standing out from the crowd by being different. Dora teaches the benefits of smart, strategic risk taking. She shares ways to take calculated risks with a stronger outcome when implemented.
• Splitting Yourself Up: The 7 Necessary COO Personalities – There’s a reason successful businesses have a Chief Operating Officer. Different COO’s are required for different situations. Sometimes we have to take on more than one of these personalities to foster success. Dora talks about the 7 key roles you or your COO may have to take on to benefit your organization.

Born in the Deep South and raised in California, Dora grew up around, and learned from, a plethora of leaders. Throughout High School, College, and Graduate School she surrounded herself with scholars and mentors.

For four years, she was the Chief Operating Officer for twelve of the fastest growing healthcare and franchise companies in the Mississippi Delta, where she was responsible for the company’s daily operations and growth throughout the Southern states.

Dora has often been referred to as the Motivator in Stealth Mode for her Consulting skills that bring out the best in people. She’s also been lauded for her practical street-savvy style. Her ability to fuse real-life testimonials along with her conversational and approachable demeanor connect with clients and audiences on an intimate, intense, and individual level. She revels in challenging the status quo, asking business professionals, “Would you do business with yourself?”

She has logged an innumerable amount of business hours coaching, speaking, and wading knee-deep in the trenches with applicable business experiences. Her view is radically different. Dora candidly shares with listeners that business leadership is a moment-to-moment choice and not about job title or possessions.

Dora excels in focusing on business operations, leadership, success strategies, and leaving a legacy.

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Selected Topics:

• Improv for Business
• Confidence Breeds Success
• Your Story is Your Greatest Asset
• A Culture of “Yes, and… ” in Business and Life
• Who’s Afraid of Public Speaking? Not ME!

I partner with Entrepreneurs and Businesses to Grow their profits by Empowering, Leveraging and Maximizing Individuals and Teams through Leadership and Creative Technologies.

When I was 9 years old, a troupe of touring Actors came into my middle school in Phoenix, AZ and transported me to a world of Make Believe- sets, costumes, music, characters and transformed my school gymnasium into a whole world of possibilities! That day I declared, “I wanna do THAT when I grow up!” Twelve years later, I worked for THAT company and toured with them for 5 seasons bringing theater arts into the lives and minds of youth all over the Southwest! I saw the tangible power that confidence, clear vision, creativity, and unlocking the imagination of my inner child could have in my life! When do we stop allowing that inner child to create worlds on our behalf? My vision is to inspire people to DREAM and PLAY again- specifically by putting practical tools into their hands, hearts and minds that connect them directly to their most creative inner Self. How I do that is through Improv Technology.

Created by Julie:

Improv Against Normality

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Jonathan Peters speaks on these topics:

• Introducing Don’t Change Who They Are, Change Where They Are: Recruiting and Motivating the New Workforce – What motivates you, probably doesn’t motivate them. And no matter how hard you try to put the right person in the right job, or get them to be successful in the job they have, you feel like they aren’t hearing you. It all comes down to 16 Motivators. Once you understand the 16 Motivators, you’ll be able to work with people and predict their behavior. Better yet, you won’t be wasting your breath.
• Cavemen Can’t Market: WOO Customers Instead of EWing Them – In the old days, companies pounded their message over their prospects heads. And those methods no longer work. In this presentation, Jonathan not only exposes why Cavemen don’t fit into the current business and consumer environment, but he also maps a three-stage process to WOO our prospects, develop loyal customers, and lead your team to apply the latest in marketing approaches.
• WOO Selling – Imagine prospects wanting your product… They’re coming to you, instead of you doggedly chasing after them. Imagine learning techniques that not only make you attractive to prospects, but that also convert them into long-term and loyal customers. Perhaps now is the time to commit to change, and begin to enjoy the rewards of top salespeople. It’s easy to implement a few key strategies, apply simple persuasion techniques,  to attract customers into a conversation that evolves naturally into a significant relationships.
• Present, Persuade, Profit – Whether speaking to clients, presenting before potential clients, or simply sharing a message that needs to be heard, your team must understand the principles of persuasive presentations. Learn to compel audiences to take action and make changes. How will you construct your presentation so that audience not only listen, but take action? What few simple things can you do visually and physically to cause the to listen and applaud?
• Be Read: Copywriting that Attracts, Connects, and Get’s Results – Do the words in your marketing collateral grab your readers and guide them to take the actions you’re wanting? You might think that writing is a talent you’re born with, but don’t buy into the myth. Writing clear, compelling copy is a skill that can be taught and learned. In this seminar you’ll learn, step by step, how to shape your message and organize your words. Forget about what you were taught in school; this program shares the secrets of the most successful copywriters. Learn to write the way they write, and witness the results.
• Be Correct: Mistake Free Grammar and Proofreading! – One typo can destroy a message, ruin a reputation, or cause a loss of opportunity. Misunderstanding and not knowing a grammatical rule can make us look silly, stupid, or incompetent. The good news is you don’t have to sit through a boring grammar class to refresh your grammatical knowledge or learn how language has changed since high-school. A workshop that makes proofreading and grammar fun? You bet. This program is based on the latest research on how adults learn. It’s fast-moving, so you stay interested. It’s engaging, so you learn by doing. And it’s fun, so you happily give it your all.
• Be Read: Advanced Business Writing – What you learned in high school doesn’t apply to the real world. When was the last time your wrote a five-paragraph essay on what you did for summer vacation? If you write the way you were taught, you’ll confuse your team, lose customers, and bore potential customers. We used to focus on grammar and proper structure, but writing is a visual form of communication with music in the background. Literally, how we write it is more important than the message we want to convey.
• Unlearn what you were taught in school to create copy that your boss, team, customers, and potential customers will read. This full-day seminar give tricks, tips, and techniques you didn’t learn in school. There are ways to get people to read what you write. Learn them.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Booked – When you are an author, you are THE authority. This seminar helps you become the obvious expert with your own book. Few things establish authority more easily and cheaply than a book. Participants in this seminar learn writing techniques and promotion tips to make sure you are the recognized authority in your field.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Books as a self-publisher – This seminar may be incorporated in the first Book 2B Booked seminar, or it may be offered as a separate educational experience for those who have a manuscript ready and a clear marketing plan. Once the realm of people who could not make it in the real publishing world, self-publishing is now the most profitable method of producing your book.
• Be Heard: Make Sure Your Prospects are Listening – This half-day, full-day, or two-day seminar explains the fundamentals of presenting ourselves visually to our customers and potential customers. Learn the secrets of room position and the hand motions that keep your audience involved in what your are saying. The two-day seminar gives participants the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned and receive immediate feedback from their audience.
• Be Heard in the Office – This seminar gives supervisors and mid-level managers insights into what motivates and de-motivates their team. More than a basic management seminar, participants learn how to use their position in the room, body language, tone, even wording techniques to get their teams to not only perform, but to also want to perform.
• Be Heard by Your Customers – Much of customer service is perception. This seminar instructs front-line and customer service professionals on the art of finessing customers, especially in moments of crisis and complains. Participants learn skills to avoid caving to customer demands; even better, they learn how to get customers to agree to a compromise and feel good about it. Your goal is to keep the customers you have, and to intensify their loyalty to your organization.

Jonathan Peters, Ph.D. is a recognized trainer and writer with an emphasis in business communications. If it involves words, it involves him.

He has trained thousands of people across the country. His audiences have learned better presentation skills, improved their business communications, beefed-up their writing and document designs, boosted their management skills, even increased their reading rates and memory retention.

As a writer, Dr. Peters has written everything from a fourth-grade history textbook to the technical manual for the command-and-control system for a nuclear weapons plant that may or may not exist. He has been involved in a variety of writing projects, including marketing copy, web content, and book summaries. Dr. Peters has authored 5 books under his name and ghostwritten 16 others.

As a writing instructor, Dr. Peters has worked with corporations as well as universities. He has given corporate training in business writing, consulted with companies on marketing copy and documentation processes, and teaches senior-level business writing courses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
During his doctoral studies, Dr. Peters became interested in how the new sciences influence our culture. He is now excited about what the emerging science of networks says about how we conduct our social lives and our businesses.

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Selected Speaker Topics:

• Overcoming Shiny Object Syndrome

Consuela Munoz is a Speaker, Focus Strengths Coach, Founder of Impact Makers Playground. Author of H.E.R. Story – The Day She Stopped. For over 12 years she has worked with leaders, corporate teams, and business owners to ignite powerful leaders generating unexpected results. Today, she works with entrepreneurs and executives to defeat shiny object syndrome by increasing focus through the Get Into Gear program.

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Selected Speaker’s Topics:

• The 10 P’s of Marketing Yourself – If you’re trying to figure out how to make money (and not just start a business) by making a difference and doing what you love, Sherry breaks it down in this easily consumable way. These P’s cover everything from the very beginning to how you can promote yourself and make a living doing it!
• Time, Organization, Productivity, and Performance – Practical, innovative strategies for increasing focus, creating structure, and getting things done. Subtopics covered include planning, prioritizing, multitasking, communication, delegation, and procrastination.
• Difficult People Strategies – Through this program, participants will get to know their own tendencies and assess the motivations of others, and then proceed with tact and emotional control.
• Microsoft Excel (All other Office programs also offered)  –All levels from absolute beginner through advanced. Custom programs and shadowing/on-the-spot coaching available.
• Grammar, Proofreading, Business Writing, Technical Writing – Fun, interactive training you can immediately put to use to improve speed, accuracy, clarity, and customer service. Any one or combination of the above topics is available.
• Emotional Control and Self-Discipline – Stay Calm and Focused. Avoid triggering others. Learn the skill of self-discipline in all areas of life and work. A stress-management component is also available.

Sherry Prindle, the Jack of All Trainings, is a professional difference maker. She has delivered over 3,000 corporate training seminars and 400 keynotes in 40 topics over 15 years across all 50 states and 6 countries in 3 languages. A Certified Master Coach Trainer, Sherry conducts Life Coach Certification classes via webinar and within organizations as owner of the Professional Coach Academy. She helps coaches and speakers with her Brand Yourself on Purpose marketing program and budding entrepreneurs with her radio show, Make Money Making a Difference. Author of Life Coach Atlas and Stop Catering to the Slackers and co-author of 15 Winning Ways to Better Living, she has an M.A. in Business and Linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.A. in Communications and International Relations from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. She lived in Fukuoka, Japan for four years and Moscow, Russia for three years successfully working as a multilingual television and radio personality. She conducts energetic, interactive training programs that prompt discovery, motivation, and change.

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Speaker’s Selected Topics:

• Plan to Finish Writing Your Book – Only 3% of all people who want to write a book finish writing their book. The obstacles authors face vary, but with a little planning, you can become part of the 3%. In this talk, Melody Ann will give you the basics of book planning so you start your book project well and don’t get stuck along the way.
• How to Get Unstuck and Finish Your Book – Too many manuscripts are shelved before they are finished. Authors start with good intentions but when they hit that wall, many don’t have access to the resources to move past the wall and finish that first draft. In this talk, Melody Ann will share how she helps authors continue writing even when it gets difficult. The rewards of being a published author are too great to give up.
• How a Book Can Boost Your Business – Rumors abound about whether it is worth writing a book to boost your business. In this talk Melody Ann tells the straight truth, busts the myths, and helps you decide if writing a book for your business is the right choice.
• Book Promotion Strategies – When authors fail in their book promotion strategies and tactics, it’s often because they are missing important elements or have gaps in the plan. Let Melody Ann give you an overview of how you can put strategies together to succeed in your book marketing.

Melody Ann is the founder of Author Nation, a publishing system and community to take professionals from idea to successfully published nonfiction author. She started Author Nation as a response to the confusing and constantly changing world of publishing to give professionals a place to work on their books without having to adhere to one path to publishing. She has worked with both traditionally published and self-published authors, and understands the pros and cons of each publishing path. Melody Ann has worked in almost every aspect of the publishing world from book coaching, structural editing, to sales and marketing with Oxford University Press. She has taught writing at the university and college level both in the Americas and Japan. She is also the producer and host of the weekly show, Author Nation Interviews, where she interviews people in the world of nonfiction.

Melody Ann is also a storyteller. She has studied storytelling from a number of angles including literature, marketing, and the narrative approach. In 2019, she wrote, produced, and performed her solo show, The Devil’s Daughter. She can also been seen on stage in her community telling stories for fun.

When she is not supporting her community of authors, she can often be found wandering in the mountains in the summer, or curled up with a cat and a good book in the winter.

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