To boldly #FindyourPrerna (Prerna = inspiration) with uplifting sentiments, real stories from real people doing extraordinary things, or just asking the questions that need to be asked to ignite your enthusiasm to go beyond your own limitations.If you like what you hear on the episodes, be sure to rate them and write a review. And of course, share!Share your comments on the episodes, it will be great to hear from you! Connect with or follow Arthi and her company, Prerna Advisory on Facebook, ...
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The Swan Effect - Creating and Sustaining Your Financial Wellbeing
Arthi Rabikrisson and Malika Petersen
Money makes the world go round, and if this is true, do you struggle to understand the complex workings of finance, money and investments? Join us, Host Arthi Rabikrisson and co-host on Season 2 Malika Petersen, both women in finance, as we delve into simplifying the complexities that come with managing your finances and investments. The theory of Black Swan Events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often rationalized after the fact wit ...
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Send us a text In this powerful episode, co-hosts Arthi and Malika delve into how innovation becomes a catalyst for wealth creation, revealing that you don't need to be in Silicon Valley or launch a tech startup to harness its potential. They challenge conventional thinking by redefining innovation as the art of finding creative solutions to everyd…
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S4 E3 The Resilient Reset - building your financial bounce-back muscles
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23:44Send us a text In this episode, co-hosts Malika and Arthi underscore how resilience forms the invisible backbone of wealth creation, that few discuss openly. During this transformative episode, they decode how the ability to adapt, persist, and evolve through financial challenges ultimately determines your long-term success more than any investment…
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S4 E3 In conversation with Monika Malan: Perspective creates progress
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26:09Send us a text Host Arthi is joined by guest Monika Malan, who discusses how different perspectives can lead to personal progress. Monika vulnerably shares a tragedy she experienced at a young age, in the loss of her sibling unexpectedly, and the impact this had on her. It was only when a colleague provided her feedback that she realized the full e…
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Send us a text Marching into Episode 2 of Season 4 of The Swan Effect Podcast, Arthi and Malika discuss the steps needed to start cultivating the Wealth Mindset addressed in Episode 1. Arthi provides details of the key characteristics that define a wealth mindset, including resilience, innovation, resourcefulness, discipline, and generosity. In a p…
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Send us a text Welcome to Season 4 of The Swan Effect Podcast, with your hosts Arthi Rabikrisson and Malika Peterson! It is the year they are officially calling "2020-Thrive"! This new season will focus on how we can become our own financial superheroes inspired by fictional characters Kicking off the season, episode 1 explores the importance of a …
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Send us a text Unlock the secrets of wealth management and personal growth as Arthi and Malika take a look back at 2024, a year filled with "aha" moments that have shaped both their lives and listeners’ too. As they recount their journey and set the stage for ambitious goals in 2025, expect insights that will empower you to reflect on your own fina…
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S4 E2 In conversation with Susi Astengo: Need is the mother of invention
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35:30Send us a text In this episode, Arthi is joined by Susi Astengo, Founder of CoachMatching. Susi gives us insight into her personal life and how key life changes necessitated her pivoting her career towards starting her own business. Sixteen years later, through navigating being a single mum (to a son she loves dearly and is so proud of), undergoing…
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Send us a text November = waiting for Black Friday deals for many people. This is the focus of Episode 10 in Season 3 where Arthi & Malika take a different look at Black Friday and how to strategise your spend. As you know, this season's theme has been the advent calendar of investments. Thus this episode offer a Black Friday 2 for 1 sweetener, as …
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Send us a text In Season 3 episode 9 Arthi & Malika continue the journey into the advent calendar of financial knowledge. October is Mental Health Awareness Month and the hosts share insights in this episode that mental health equals wealth, both in the figurative and literal sense. Malika shares some alarming statistics about how people currently …
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Send us a text In Season 3 episode 8 Arthi & Malika are joined by special guest Tiaan Herselman, to discuss the new two pot retirement legislation that came into effect on 1 September 2024 in South Africa. It was designed to assist in the current retirement crisis that retirees are experiencing, where they do not have enough financial resources to …
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Send us a text In Season 3 episode 7, it is Women's Month and co-hosts Arthi & Malika discuss the role of women in financial empowerment of their households and communities. Malika provides surprising statistics about women in finance relating to their earnings, roles and knowledge. Arthi explains how women are essential in driving the economic gro…
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Send us a text We are already half way through 2024! In Season 3 episode 6 co-hosts Arthi & Malika discuss the most important asset yet and one that requires your biggest and deepest investment...YOU! In this episode they share practical ways towards holistic well-being. Arthi recaps the advent calendar of investments that's been discussed thus far…
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S4 E1 Enhancing our ability to work with expertise - with Dr Elizabeth Crosse
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32:00Send us a text Welcome to SEASON 4!! It's great to be back and yes, we have returned this season in style with a fabulous guest to kick off! In this first episode, Arthi is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Crosse to discuss enhancing our ability to work with expertise. Elizabeth shares her passion about lifelong learning & explains how she navigated through…
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Send us a text In Season 3 episode 5 it is all about the youth! Arthi & Malika have dedicated this episode to providing the youth with tips on how to take action and have a better understanding about managing finances and investments, that can pave the way for a very prosperous future. Arthi splits the focus in 3 main categories, the first being ch…
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Send us a text In Season 3 Episode 4 Arthi & Malika introduce the concept of Ubuntu in investments. Ubuntu, by way of a simplified meaning, underscores the idea that I am what I am because of who we all are. You may be curious as to how do investments & Ubuntu align, and it does through what is typically known as crowdfunding. Arthi and Malika shar…
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Send us a text Easter break is behind us and so April Fool's Day. While you may have been pranked or been creating the pranks yourself this 3rd episode of the Swan Effect podcast Season 3 is not one of those pranks. Arthi and Malika are joined by guest Jermaine Fourie, to help you decrypt cryptocurrencies, as they continue to unbox interesting inve…
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Send us a text In Season 3 episode 2 Arthi & Malika continue with the advent calendar of investments discussing real estate as an investment. They explore some of the most common ways to make money through property investment, the first being buying a physical property. Arthi lists a few of the ways in which you can influence your decision when pur…
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Send us a text Welcome to 2024 and Season 3 everyone! Co-hosts Arthi Rabikrisson and Malika Petersen are excited to be back to continue the journey of exploring the path to financial freedom together! This season they will dig a little bit deeper into the investment side of things and thereby expand the moneyverse opportunity set, almost like an ad…
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Send us a text Can you believe this is the final episode of the year 2023? In episode 16 of season 2 Arthi & Malika discuss the importance of setting aside time to set ourselves up for a successful 2024. The first step with any goal is to define your goal correctly and accurately. Once you have a clear goal, in order to not overwhelm yourself Arthi…
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Send us a text It's Episode 15 of Season 2 and with the end of the year fast approaching, Arthi and Malika prompt you to remember all the advice shared ahead of the festive or 'silly' season. In a fun twist, analogies from the cartoon comic Asterix and Obelix form the underlying basis of this episode (can you believe there was a Roman legionary cal…
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Send us a text With only three months left of the year, Arthi & Malika use episode 14 in Season 2 of the Swan Effect podcast, to discuss how your moneyverse makes you feel and how a positive mindset is really key to achieving wealth. Arthi associates the brains’ prefrontal cortex as being your internal financial advisor further explaining how integ…
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Send us a text In episode 13 Arthi and Malika change things up a little, by discussing how you can spend your way to wealth. Yes, you read that right. This episode is about what you do with your money that can truly pave the way to financial abundance. In essence its about shifting the mindset from focusing on income to focusing on how you spend in…
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S3 E13 Tasha Ten Spotlight: David McMurtry - Partnerships & Marriage
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34:06Send us a text In episode 13 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member David McMurtry with a heart warming discussion about partnerships & marriage. David's greatest accomplishment in life is his marriage to his beautiful wife Allison. He shares how he and his wife met, started dating shortly thereafter, married, and have been living …
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S3 E12 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Gifford Pinchot- Finding Your Mojo
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42:25Send us a text In episode 12 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Gifford Pinchot III. Gifford was the obvious choice to discuss the topic " finding your mojo" because of the number of times he has tried something, failed, pivoted, exited, yet still bounced back. Gifford has had an extremely varied background through his different stages of life, from b…
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Send us a text We're celebrating Woman's month in August in South Africa and so this episode 12 in Season 2 of The Swan Effect Podcast is dedicated to female power (FemPower)! Arthi and Malika discuss the power of women have and the importance of women becoming financially literate and confident. This is key for a number of driving factors: women e…
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S3 E11 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Al Dea - Speak Up For Yourself
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34:10Send us a text In episode 11 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Al Dea, one of the newest Tasha10 members. Arthi and Al discuss finding your voice and learning how to use it to speak up for yourself. Al shares how early in his career he received a surprisingly less-than-positive performance review, even though he thought he was excelling. It was only …
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S3 E10 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Susanne Mus - Developing Your Support Ecosystem
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34:01Send us a text In Season 3 episode 10, Arthi is joined by Susanne Mus, co-founder and CEO of Awareyess talking about developing support ecosystems. Susanne provides brief insight into her childhood and tells us how the divorce of her parents and subsequently moving to a new neighbourhood was the start of who she became as an adult and the approach …
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Send us a text In Season 2 episode 11, Arthi & Malika take your moneyverse to the next level by discussing how to create your infinity legacy. This really is about taking those steps to ensure that the wealth that we create is able to stand the test of time and allow future generations to build on it. Using the example of a 23 year old who's enteri…
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S3 E9 In conversation with Lara Augusta: Undoing Complicated Narratives
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35:03Send us a text In Season 3 episode 9, Arthi is joined by fellow Forbes Coaches Council member Lara Augusta, founder of Embracing Potentiality, talking about undoing complicated narratives. Lara opens up about her family & childhood where experiences led her to create a narrative in her mind of being an inconvenience and not belonging. This mindset …
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S3 E8 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Stefaan van Hooydonk - Launching Your Curiosity Mindset
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37:40Send us a text On episode 8 of Season 3 Arthi is joined by Stefaan van Hooydonk, one of the newer members of the Tasha Ten and founder of the Global Curiosity Institute, based in Belgium, talking about launching your curiosity mindset. Stefaan gives us insight into his family and his world travels which include living in China, Finland, Saudi Arabi…
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Send us a text It's episode 10 of Season 2 and we are already in June, feeling that the end of the year is fast approaching. Arthi and Malika thought it was the perfect time to discuss what is in your best INTEREST,especially since in South Africa, we are experiencing an increase in interest rates which is impacting our budgets and quality of life.…
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S3 E7 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Nobantu Mpotulo - Humanizing Leadership Through Ubuntu
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30:28Send us a text On Episode 7 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Nobantu Mpotulo, a fellow South African and Tasha10 member. Nobantu is an extremely humble, patient and thoughtful person and this is evident in the quality of the coaching she provides in the space of Ubuntu coaching, where she coaches leaders and teams to, simply put, be better humans th…
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S3 E6 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Matt Stone - There Is No Such Thing As Win-Lose
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36:36Send us a text On Episode 6 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by one of the newest Tasha Ten members, Matt Stone. Matt shares his perspectives on why the concept of win-lose is a fallacy. Matt shares this through his experiences as a family law attorney which led him to understand that instead of win-lose as the options we are familiar with in any situa…
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S3 E5 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Dr Siraya Kongsompong - Developing Your Mindset Shift
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31:18Send us a text On Episode 5 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member Dr Siraya Kongsompong, also known as Kay. The duo have a beautiful conversation about developing your mindset and the steps that one can take to make that shift happen. Kay explains how she is a lifelong learner and that being in a learner mindset can help one get o…
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Send us a text On episode 9 of Season 2 of the Swan Effect podcast, Arthi and Malika continue the journey into understanding and simplifying financial investments, by introducing and explaining the fundamental building blocks available to grow one's moneyverse: assets. In coining the terms 'assetify', which is meant to describe making one's portfol…
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S3 E4 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Jamelle Lindo - Transformation Through Self Awareness.
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37:27Send us a text On Episode 4 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member, Jamelle Lindo where he outlines why self-awareness can be so transformative. Jamelle shares beautiful insights into his upbringing and he tells us how despite growing up in a religious household he had so many unanswered questions. Jamelle explains how his own self…
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S3 E3 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Bilal Sununu - The Art of Battling Difficulties
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34:06Send us a text In Episode 3 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Bilal Sununu, a #TashaTen family member based in Saudi Arabia. Bilal is such a gentleman and a deep thinker, brimming with insights and ideas, and always open to sharing his wisdom and expertise. Bilal was raised in Jordan, in the Arabian Gulf and learned to program computers from his fath…
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S2 E8 Choosing The Right Investment Vehicle For Your Journey
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26:16Send us a text Our moneyverse is shaping up really nicely so in episode 8 of Season 2, Arthi and Malika provide details of the technical aspects of investments to ensure that your moneyverse grows to counteract the negative impact of taxes. To get you into the correct mindset, Arthi imparts some practical ways to take your mind off the stressful el…
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S3 E2 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Dr Nazan Artun - the renaissance woman
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33:47Send us a text In Episode 2 of Season 3, Arthi has a inspiring conversation with guest Dr Nazan Artun about being a renaissance woman, a term give to her by the respected Dorie Clark, who is her mentor, and also Tasha Eurich, who we featured in the previous episode. Nazan has a multitude of interests, experiences and expertise, leading her to being…
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S3 E1 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Tasha Eurich - Owning your journey
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34:42Send us a text Welcome to Season 3 of the Inspire Your Life podcast! Host Arthi Rabikrisson kicks off the season with a spotlight series on the individuals that are part of the Tasha Ten. In this first episode, Arthi has a motivating discussion with the #TashaTen creator Tasha Eurich about owning your journey. How poignant given it is International…
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Send us a text In Episode seven of Season 2 of the Swan Effect podcast, Arthi and Malika talk taxes (yes, that word we love to hate). As part of understanding your moneyverse, which is the theme for the podcast for 2023, one has to become familiar with leakages that disrupt growth of the moneyverse, and still find ways to find opportunities therein…
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Send us a text The New Year heralds in episode 6 of Season 2 of the Swan Effect Podcast with Arthi and Malika, where they introduce the idea of '2020-FREE and 2020-ME'. Simply explained it is about taking back control of our lives, particularly from a financial aspect, and making financial decisions that are truly aligned with our core values. Soun…
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S2 E18 In Conversation with Andrew Tallents: Designing your life
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28:29Send us a text As we round out the year 2022 with Episode 18 Arthi invites guest Andrew Tallents to share his journey of designing his life so that it may inspire your own planning for 2023 and beyond. Having grown up in very modest circumstances, Andrew learned about putting in hard work in order to achieve success. At age 15 he took on the respon…
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Send us a text In our 2022 wrap up episode 5 of Season 2, Arthi and Malika helps you look at a truly wonderful gift that really does keep on giving: your investments. The festive season is upon us and it is very easy to become swept up with wanting to spoil loved ones (and yourself) with treats, especially with all the specials around, pots Black F…
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S2 E17 In conversation with Saba Hasanie: Finding beauty in identity
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35:14Send us a text In Episode 17 of Season 2, Arthi and guest Dr Saba Hasanie explore the richness and beauty to be found in identity, even though it may be a difficult journey at times. Saba lives in Singapore now but was born and grew up in Canada, into what she calls a confusing context because of being unclear on where she belonged. Born to a spiri…
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S2 E4 The PTP: Plan, Track & Plan some more!
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31:58Send us a text In Episode 4 of Season 2, Arthi and Malika dive in a deeper into the third financial superpower that was mentioned in Episode 1, being PTP: Plan Track & Plan some more! In the month of November, it's all about coping: coping with work demands in the wrap up to the year 2022, and coping with the financial demands on our money pot, fro…
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S2 E16 In conversation with Sara Gilbert: Living life to your own rules
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29:26Send us a text In episode 16 of Season 2, Arthi has an inspiring conversation with guest Sara Gilbert about living life to your own rules. Sara shares her fascination about wanting to know what makes someone take action. From a young age she challenged everything that came her way, including her parents beliefs. As a result, she never did “fit into…
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S2 E15 In conversation with Sarah Clark: Overcoming being your worst enemy
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27:56Send us a text In episode 15 of Season 2, Arthi has a lovely conversation with guest Sarah Clark where Sarah shares her own experience of being her own worst enemy when she took up a key leadership role as the Dean and Head of the University Library for La Salle University. Sarah share a bit of her journey that brought her into the field of library…
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Send us a text In Episode 3 of Season 2, Arthi and Malika dive in a deeper into the first financial superpower that was mention in Episode 1, being Know Your Money Pot. As we come to the end of the year and the festive season round the corner, it is very easy to think about the spending that needs to happen and then think about how to pay for it. W…
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S2 E14 In conversation with Kim Neeson: Resilience and forgiveness
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28:26Send us a text In episode 14 of the Inspire your Life podcast, Arthi has an inspired conversation with guest Kim Neeson, about resilience and forgiveness. Kim shares her story about having left the freelance court reporting firm she was employed at after having some really difficult run-ins with the new manager that was appointed, she opted to star…
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