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Chase Your Dream | Episode #520 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Dr. Gloria, Gloria Burgess, international
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  Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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  Speaker 1: Your Life Count. I'm so delighted that you joined me today.
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  Speaker 1: I have a very special guest on our episode for today.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Desi Payne. Desi is a humorous, motivational speaker, trainer,
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  Speaker 1: and the stress-less coach. I love that. She loves to
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  Speaker 1: inspire leaders and their employees to adjust their attitudes so
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  Speaker 1: they will work in a positive environment. As a stress-less coach,
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  Speaker 1: she helps people let go of the stress that is
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  Speaker 1: robbing them of their joy so they can enjoy life.
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  Speaker 1: I just love that. I love the idea of it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Desi instills joy and laughter into all of her programs.
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  Speaker 1: She is also a John Maxwell team member, traveling internationally
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  Speaker 1: to coach people to be better leaders. She also teaches
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  Speaker 1: YouthMax in schools, helping youth become great leaders. Today's topic
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  Speaker 1: is all about letting go, a topic that is near
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  Speaker 1: and dear to my heart. And I can't think of
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  Speaker 1: a better person, a better leader, a better human being
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  Speaker 1: to address this topic than Desi Payne. Now, I met
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  Speaker 1: Desi a few years ago. We're both part of the
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  Speaker 1: John Maxwell team. And I met Desi as part of
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  Speaker 1: a mentoring series for leaders. In fact, I met her
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  Speaker 1: because she had been selected from a pool of about 20,000
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  Speaker 1: or so leaders. That's a lot of folks. She had
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  Speaker 1: been selected to be interviewed for the impact that she
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  Speaker 1: was making on the world. And when I met Desi,
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  Speaker 1: and heard her speak about her passion, she was just
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  Speaker 1: on fire about it. So I can't wait to host
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  Speaker 1: my friend and fabulous colleague, Desi Payne. Now before I
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  Speaker 1: bring Desi in, I want to just take a moment
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  Speaker 1: to connect the dots between today's topic, Letting Go, and
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  Speaker 1: legacy living. Now there are many ways that letting go
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  Speaker 1: connects to legacy living, which you'll hear more about later
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  Speaker 1: in the show. For now, let me just say that
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  Speaker 1: legacy living is a way of being and a way
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  Speaker 1: of living in the world so that we make the
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  Speaker 1: conscious choice to be the difference we want to see
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  Speaker 1: in the world. We make the conscious choice now, not
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  Speaker 1: in some distant future. We make that choice day in
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  Speaker 1: and day out, 365 24-7. Okay. Again, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: more about that later. Let me bring in my friend
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  Speaker 1: and colleague, Desi Payne.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Desi, I want to welcome you to this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I am so grateful.
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  Speaker 3: To have you as my very special guest today.
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  Speaker 2: And I would love to talk with you about what's
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  Speaker 2: happening with you right now.
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  Speaker 3: I know that we're both dreamers, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: focus today on never giving up on your dreams.
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  Speaker 2: So I just, again, want to welcome you, and would
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  Speaker 2: you just tell us a little bit about you, Desi,
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  Speaker 2: and why never giving up on your.
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  Speaker 3: Dreams is important to you?
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Well, thank you, Gloria, for having me. And I
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  Speaker 4: would probably have to say I am a big dreamer.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, sometimes my husband just shakes his head when
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  Speaker 4: I throw out one of the things or two things
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  Speaker 4: or a dozen things that I'm going to be planning
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  Speaker 4: on doing. And he just, again, shakes his head thinking,
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  Speaker 4: I just can't believe you. And I think I've always
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  Speaker 4: been that way. Maybe because, you know, on the on
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  Speaker 4: the discharge, I'm a high D. But yeah, I am
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  Speaker 4: a big dreamer. I love achieving things and adventure and
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  Speaker 4: being creative. I think being creative is one of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite things to do. If you say, why don't you
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  Speaker 4: come up with something new with whatever it is, then
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  Speaker 4: I'll just run with it. So yeah, I love dreaming
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  Speaker 4: big dreams and And the thing is, through the course
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  Speaker 4: of my life, I've had to learn not to give
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  Speaker 4: up on those dreams because you know what, we both
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  Speaker 4: face and those are obstacles.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely. So Desi, would you tell us about, I.
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  Speaker 2: Know you're a writer, you're a speaker and you have
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  Speaker 2: a fairly recent book out called, Do You Work With
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  Speaker 2: The Living Dead?
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  Speaker 3: I love that title. So can you tell us a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about the book?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, well, I started writing that actually a couple of
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  Speaker 4: years ago because I started teaching workshops on attitude in
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  Speaker 4: the workplace. And one night I walked through my living
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  Speaker 4: room and, um, And one of those zombie shows were on.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't get into zombies at all. But my
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  Speaker 4: husband and my daughter were watching one. I just kind
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  Speaker 4: of shook my head like, oh, I don't believe this.
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  Speaker 4: But then the more I thought about it, every time
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  Speaker 4: I walked through the room, it just reminded me of
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  Speaker 4: people that drag themselves through life and have negative.
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  Speaker 3: Bad attitudes.
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  Speaker 4: And it was a springboard. for even expanding on the
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  Speaker 4: workshop that I did. And so I wrote the book
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  Speaker 4: and it's pretty much how to survive among lifeless and
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  Speaker 4: negative people in the workplace. But then what's interesting is
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  Speaker 4: not only do I give strategies on how to work
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  Speaker 4: with these, what I call workplace zombies, the book is
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  Speaker 4: also about what to do if you get infected. And
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  Speaker 4: that's one of the things a lot of people will
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  Speaker 4: even approach me with after they've read the book, they say,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I got this book because of these people
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  Speaker 4: I work with. But then they say this, they say,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, when I was reading the book, I
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  Speaker 4: came to the realization that I needed to look at myself.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought, wow, that was even, you know, icing
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  Speaker 4: on the cake for me once it was done. But,
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  Speaker 4: but I guess when you go back to dreams, I
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  Speaker 4: would say probably, oh, 25 years ago, I If I
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  Speaker 4: were to walk into Barnes & Noble bookstore, I would
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  Speaker 4: say out loud to anyone that was with me, someday
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to have books in the Barnes & Noble bookstore.
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  Speaker 4: And I said that out loud to people for years
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  Speaker 4: and years and years and years. So it was actually
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  Speaker 4: especially a thrill for me last October when it was published.
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  Speaker 4: And I was in Cincinnati and I was at the
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  Speaker 4: world's largest. I mean, it's the world's largest Barnes and
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  Speaker 4: Noble book signing. I think there were like 26 authors there.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to take part in that.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. So that was a huge win for me to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to have the book published and go through
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  Speaker 4: that process. And once you publish one book, you get
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  Speaker 4: the bug to write another. Yeah. So yes, so I
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  Speaker 4: ended up writing book two.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good for you.
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  Speaker 5: And I know that in your notes, you talked about
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  Speaker 5: this book being a finalist, a top 10 finalist.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes. So probably in the spring, I found out
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  Speaker 4: that my book was in a category, a business category,
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  Speaker 4: to win an award. So it's in like the top
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  Speaker 4: 10 finalists to win an award with a publisher, which
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  Speaker 4: is huge if your book wins an award.
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  Speaker 3: So tell us.
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  Speaker 6: More about this because, you know, we all run into
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  Speaker 6: people who.
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  Speaker 3: Have negative attitudes. Sometimes, like you said, you know, that's us.
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  Speaker 3: So why did you write this particular book?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I am from a family of very negative people.
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  Speaker 4: And holidays, when you know everybody's going to be coming over,
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  Speaker 4: it's almost like you put your guard up because you
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  Speaker 4: know you know, conversations are going to turn maybe negative
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  Speaker 4: or critical. And so, so that was probably the main reason,
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  Speaker 4: you know, secretly writing this book to give to all
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  Speaker 4: my different family members, but, but, but, you know, it
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  Speaker 4: expanded so that, you know, it would be able to
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  Speaker 4: help people in the workplace and, and been awesome because
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  Speaker 4: after I've even, taught the workshop where people have read
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  Speaker 4: the book. It's been so nice for people again to say,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when I was reading this book, I saw
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  Speaker 4: this person and this person and this person. And so
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  Speaker 4: people were really able to relate with it. And, and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the strategies I give, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of them are pretty practical. For example, a couple of
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  Speaker 4: them are don't descend to another person's level or go
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  Speaker 4: to their grave is what I call it is because
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  Speaker 4: a negative person doesn't want to be the only one
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  Speaker 4: negative or griping or complaining because you know, they want
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  Speaker 4: to drag other people into it. And just like there's
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  Speaker 4: secondhand smoke, I believe there's secondhand negativity. And if you're
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  Speaker 4: around it, you can be sucked into that. And so
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  Speaker 4: it's really important to do different things. If you work
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  Speaker 4: those kinds of people, or if you see those people
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  Speaker 4: in the grocery store to distance yourself, but then if
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  Speaker 4: you can't distance yourself from those people, especially if you
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  Speaker 4: work with them, You know, I give some different strategies,
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  Speaker 4: but the one I say is probably the most important
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  Speaker 4: is to infect them with your own positive attitude. Let
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  Speaker 4: you be the one that infects them versus them infecting you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I love that. I love that. And you talk
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  Speaker 3: about getting CPR. So what do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. You know, if you were to take your pulse
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  Speaker 4: right now, you know, I would hope you'd have your pulse,
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  Speaker 4: but you know what? I think it's important that we
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  Speaker 4: take our attitude pulse. And if we find that we're
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  Speaker 4: among the ungrateful dead or we're acting like any of
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  Speaker 4: these negative people, then we need CPR. And that CPR
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  Speaker 4: is number one, C stands for choice. It's always your
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  Speaker 4: choice on how you're going to act. And it's interesting,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when I wrote this book, I got this nickname,
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  Speaker 4: the attitude adjuster. And I was in the grocery store
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  Speaker 4: one time and it was one of those days when
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  Speaker 4: the line for only one aisle, one checkout was open.
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  Speaker 4: And I was in a hurry and the line was
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  Speaker 4: so long and there was a part of me that
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  Speaker 4: just wanted to glare or act like, what is the
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  Speaker 4: problem here? And because I knew I had this nickname,
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  Speaker 4: the attitude adjuster, I thought, you never know who's watching you.
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  Speaker 4: And so I thought, you know what, I am going
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  Speaker 4: to be cool, calm and collected. In fact, when I
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  Speaker 4: get up to the checkout gal, I'm just going to
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  Speaker 4: talk to her and ask her how her day's going. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, she went on to tell me that they
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  Speaker 4: had several people that called off sick. You know, she
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  Speaker 4: had no control over that. And so it taught me
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  Speaker 4: a lesson that day that you really do have the
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  Speaker 4: ability to take control in a situation where your attitude
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  Speaker 4: is So C in CPR, C stands for choice and
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  Speaker 4: P stands for perspective. It's so important to always have
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  Speaker 4: the right perspective. And, you know, I've had the wonderful
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  Speaker 4: privilege about a year ago to speak with Nick Vujicic
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  Speaker 4: at an event in Texas, you know, to 15,000 youth.
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  Speaker 4: And every time I see Nick, I always think, I
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  Speaker 4: have so much to be grateful for. I mean, here's
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  Speaker 4: Nick Vujicic, a man without arms and legs.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And we lose perspective very easily when we get up
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  Speaker 4: in the morning, not thinking how grateful we should be
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  Speaker 4: for every single thing that we have. And if you
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  Speaker 4: are grateful, if you have the right perspective, it's going
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  Speaker 4: to affect your attitude. And then R in CPR stands
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  Speaker 4: for reboot your brain. Yeah. And so, for example, if
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  Speaker 4: your computer is not acting right or it's stuck, you
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  Speaker 4: get aggravated with it, and so you have to reboot it.
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  Speaker 4: So you have to hit control, alt, and delete. Well,
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  Speaker 4: that's what you have to do with your attitude. You
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  Speaker 4: have to reboot your brain. You have to control what
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  Speaker 4: you're thinking about, alternate those thoughts with good thoughts, and
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  Speaker 4: then that will delete those negative thoughts. Right. That's a
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  Speaker 4: part of rebooting your brain. And then another part of
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  Speaker 4: rebooting your brain is humor and laughter, incorporating more humor
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  Speaker 4: and laughter into your life because anytime you laugh, it
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  Speaker 4: really does reboot your brain because your brain chemistry changes.
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  Speaker 4: So that's essentially CPR for your attitude.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I love that. So someone gave you the name
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  Speaker 3: of the attitude adjuster.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was that was called the attitude adjuster. So
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  Speaker 4: I kind of just been with that for a while.
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  Speaker 4: And so, so it's on my website, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: the attitude adjuster. So yeah, and then it keeps me
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  Speaker 4: in line.
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  Speaker 6: That's so important, Desi. And I love the CPR approach.
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  Speaker 6: Could you go through the C and the P and
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  Speaker 6: the R again, because I.
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  Speaker 3: Know that there are people out there taking, taking notes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Sure. C stands for choice. It's always your choice
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  Speaker 4: on what kind of attitude you're going to have. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you choose that attitude no matter what is happening around you.
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  Speaker 4: P stands for perspective. And a lot of that has
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  Speaker 4: to do with gratitude. And then R stands for reboot
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  Speaker 4: your brain. And I think there's two ways to reboot
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  Speaker 4: your brain. One is to control what you're thinking about
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  Speaker 4: in your thoughts. And the other way to reboot your
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  Speaker 4: brain is with laughter, because when you do laugh, it
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  Speaker 4: does change your attitude, let alone change the chemistry of
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  Speaker 4: your brain to make you feel better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so thank you.
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  Speaker 7: And I know, you know, when I think about perspective,
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  Speaker 7: this little thought runs through my mind, you know, when
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  Speaker 7: we change our perspective or how we look at things,
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  Speaker 7: then the things around us actually begin to change.
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  Speaker 4: That's so true. That is right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So I hadn't planned on asking you this question. So
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  Speaker 6: if you don't want to answer it, just tell me.
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  Speaker 3: I love how you talk about, you know, we food
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  Speaker 3: in your brain and using humor. Right.
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  Speaker 8: And you and I had, you know, we talked a
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  Speaker 8: while ago in another, another interview.
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  Speaker 3: And you talked about your background as being a clown.
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Sure, sure, sure. So actually I, You know, that
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  Speaker 4: has a lot to do with the dreams in my life.
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  Speaker 4: You know, after I graduated from college, I got a
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  Speaker 4: job at a hospital and I did not like it
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  Speaker 4: at all. It was very stressful, but I ended up
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  Speaker 4: staying in that job for a very long time. And
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  Speaker 4: then after that job, the door opened to another job,
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  Speaker 4: which is funny. I was the complaint department. But I
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  Speaker 4: actually love that job. And it was always challenging. But
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  Speaker 4: had I left, had I left that job, I would
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  Speaker 4: not have had the opportunity for my life to change
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  Speaker 4: because that door opened up to a whole new life
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  Speaker 4: for me. Because while I was working at the hospital,
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  Speaker 4: there was a professional clown. And when I would get
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  Speaker 4: complaints from patients, I would, you know, call him up
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  Speaker 4: and say, I mean, he was on staff. I'd say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I need you to go see this patient because they're
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  Speaker 4: really grumpy. And he would go in, do his magic,
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  Speaker 4: and it was amazing. Well, one night he was at
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  Speaker 4: a banquet where I was. actually performing as the entertainer.
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  Speaker 4: And I was a mime. And I did my mime skit.
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  Speaker 4: And he came up to me. I mean, he made
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  Speaker 4: a beeline right up to me afterwards. And he asked me,
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  Speaker 4: who taught you how to do that? And I said,
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  Speaker 4: to do what? And he said, well, what you did
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  Speaker 4: on the stage. And I said, I don't know. I just,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, taught myself. I did it. And he said,
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  Speaker 4: have you ever thought about going to clown college? And
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  Speaker 4: I thought, oh my goodness, that is the dumbest thing
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  Speaker 4: I've ever heard. And my husband said, My husband hates clowns.
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  Speaker 4: That is crazy. Oh, he kind of kept at me.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, one day he throws a brochure on my
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  Speaker 4: desk and he says, the University of Wisconsin is going
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  Speaker 4: to have a clown college experience up in Des Moines, Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: I'm about an hour and a half from there. And
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  Speaker 4: he said, why don't you go? And I thought, oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: I'll just go. I'm sure I can learn how to
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  Speaker 4: do a balloon animal for my Sunday school. Well, little
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  Speaker 4: did I know, going to that Clown College experience, which
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  Speaker 4: was for Clown College, it changed my life. And to
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  Speaker 4: make a long story short, I went to Clown School,
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  Speaker 4: and I was able to be trained by professional coaches.
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  Speaker 4: entertainers from around the world who understood the art of clowning,
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  Speaker 4: not just throwing on makeup and going out and being goofy,
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  Speaker 4: but actually the art of a clown. So, so I
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  Speaker 4: became a professional clown and he actually wanted to mentor
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  Speaker 4: me to take his place at the hospital, which I
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  Speaker 4: ended up doing for 22 years, actually retired from the
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  Speaker 4: hospital and I was from a professional clown last December,
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  Speaker 4: but I saw cancer patients, kids. I've worked in the
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  Speaker 4: emergency room, ICU. I worked all over that hospital as
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  Speaker 4: a professional clown. And then little did I know, doors
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  Speaker 4: were going to open. I ended up being a guest
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  Speaker 4: performer with Ringling Brothers. Really? worked on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines,
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  Speaker 4: and I was in high demand for schools to come
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  Speaker 4: and teach kids about character, anti-bullying. And so, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I worked literally full time, a lot of times, five
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  Speaker 4: and six days a week in clown makeup. And I
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  Speaker 4: did that. I mean, it was a very, very rewarding,
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  Speaker 4: rewarding occupation. And with all that said, I learned the
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  Speaker 4: power of laughter. I learned the power of humor and
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  Speaker 4: what it does to a person when you make somebody
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  Speaker 4: else smile and make somebody else laugh. So my background
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  Speaker 4: has a lot to do with helping people laugh and smile,
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  Speaker 4: and so thankfully, that has come into my speaking world
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  Speaker 4: and my career, and that has actually helped me a
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  Speaker 4: great deal on being very busy as a speaker.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you just never know, right?
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  Speaker 4: You never know, and you know what? It's interesting. One morning,
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  Speaker 4: I was watching Good Morning America, and Jay Leno was on,
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  Speaker 4: and And it was one of those feel-good shows where
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  Speaker 4: he was giving away one of his mini cars to
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  Speaker 4: a veteran. You know, you had the tears in your eyes.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: But he said something that caught my attention. And he
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: said this. He said, if I have not gone through
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: a day without making somebody smile or laugh, I have
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: not done my job. And I thought, what a great
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: philosophy to adapt into your own life. I mean, to
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: be intentional about every day helping somebody else smile or laugh.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: And I tell you, if you have that philosophy, it will,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: it will change your attitude about life. It will change
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: your attitude in a day. If that is your goal
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: to help other people. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. Well, thank you. Thank you for sharing that.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: And you talked earlier about sharing the stage with Nick Voyachick.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: And could you say a little bit more about that?
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: And, you know, I know that your big theme again
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: is to never give up on your dreams. So if
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: you could tell us about Nick and maybe give us
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: a few more examples.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Of that as well. Sure. Well, you know, so I
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: just told you that I told you that my husband
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: couldn't stand clowns and here I'm going to become a
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: professional clowns. Well, he did eventually like one and that
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: was me. But, you know, I'll never forget the night
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: that I told him, you know what, I'm going to
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: join the John Maxwell team. I'm going to become a
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: motivational speaker. And he looked at me and he said,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: oh my goodness, I can't stand motivational speakers. And I
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: just was thrown for a loop. And I thought, oh
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: my goodness. But you know, in one respect, I thought, huh,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: you didn't like clowns, but you did end up liking me.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I'm going to have to prove myself to you. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: then when I started weaning out of that profession and
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: in town, you know, was talking to different business people
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: about becoming a motivational speaker. It was interesting that I
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: actually had business people that said, you will never make
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: it in this town as a motivational speaker. And I
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: was like, oh my, I mean, really it was kind
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: of heartbreaking. And they said, because you're known as this
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: professional clown in town. And so that was kind of
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: in the back of my head. for a long time. Thankfully,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: now I'm also well known as a speaker and been
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: hired many, many times in this town, but it was
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: in the back of my mind. Well, when I became
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: a John Maxwell team member, as you know, when you
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: go to Orlando and you go through the three-day certification,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: that first day was you see like 10 different John
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Maxwell team members go up on the stage and they
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: get to do their three minute speech. And it's like,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: you know, it's like pretty, it's a wow thing. And I,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: I remember thinking, well, when I come back in six months,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: when they do this again, I want to get up there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I want to get on the stage. So that was
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: my dream. Well, I didn't realize that it was going
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: to be a grueling process to go through the interview
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: process with We both know Roddy Galbraith. And you have
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: to submit your videos. And he wants the highest quality
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: in speeches. I mean, if you want to share the
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: stage of John Maxwell, it's got to be good. And
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I remember speech after speech after speech that I submitted.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: And he would just say, you know what? You need
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: to go back and do this again. And I was like, ah, ah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: But finally, I remember the day when he said, you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: I think this is going to be great. And so
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I made it through stage one of or round one
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: is probably what I should say. And then so if
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: you make it through round one, when you get to Orlando,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: you audition in front of other people. And I remember
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: walking into that room and my plane was late. So
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I actually got in on the last 10 minutes of
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: being able to get into that room and And I
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: rushed in the room and I sat down and he
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: walked over to me. I mean, within seconds and he
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: handed me that microphone and I was like, Oh, it's
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: my turn. And I went up there and I froze,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: literally froze. And he was kind enough that, you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: asked me if I wanted to start over or no,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I asked him if I could start over and he said, yes. And,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: And I froze again. I mean, I just stared at
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: everybody like a deer in headlights. And, you know, everybody
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: was so gracious. Hey, we love you.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: You can do this.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: And, you know, I look back and I, the third
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: time around, I don't know what I said, but I
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: remember going back to my seat, wanting to hide underneath
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: the table. Of course, didn't pass, didn't make it to
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: this big old stage time. But I thought, you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Six months later, when I come back, I'll do it again.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: And went through the whole grueling process of submitting video
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: after video after video. And then, you know, I made
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: it through the process. And so when I got there again,
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: you know, I felt more confident. But when I get
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: up on the stage about halfway through, I noticed that
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: my legs were shaking so bad that it tripped me up.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: And I.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: And I just stared out at everybody again because I
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: totally couldn't remember what I had just said. I mean,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: it freaked me out. And I remember walking out and thinking,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: this is not for me. I'll never do this again.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I'll never come back again. And I, I mean, I
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: went up, called my family and I was just devastated.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: And I have, I mean, as an entertainer, I've been
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: in front of thousands of people been on stages. And
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: for me, to not be able to say a three
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: minute speech was so tough. And so a couple months later,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I am actually speaking at a college to new college
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: students and I'm speaking to them ironically about the dreams
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: in their life and how they should never give up
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: on their dreams. And literally while I am speaking to them,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I'm having this conversation in my brain And I'm saying
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to myself, how can you talk to these kids about
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: never giving up on a dream when you gave up
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: on your own dream? You're a hypocrite. And I mean,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I'm talking to these kids and thinking all these things.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: And while I'm talking to them, I ended up talking
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: to myself and saying, you're not going to give up
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: on your dream. You're going to get back up on
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: that stage.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, good for you.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: And I remember when I went through the process again,
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: submitting video after video, video, and finally, you know, one
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: was accepted. I remember putting my head on my desk
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: and literally making the decision, are you going to go
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: for it or not? And I decided I was going to,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, I was so determined. I was like, I
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: was like Rocky. nothing nothing was going to stop me
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: yes and when i got on the plane to fly
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: to orlando it was an hour and a half flight
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: and i shut my eyes and i said that three
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: minute speech every three minutes until i got to orlando
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: and then when i got to the hotel and i
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: got settled i i went into the halls of the
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Marriott down in the conference center and I looked for
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: people and I asked them can I do my speech
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: for you and you know what I didn't want to
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: in fact I had stayed with my sister and I
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: did it for her and she says to me well
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: when you do it you might have a little bit
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: more enthusiasm I thought this is not a good start
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: and uh so um I found some people and I
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: did it and I messed up just a little bit,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: but I thought I did it. And so I ended
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: up probably went around about 10 different people. And I say,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: can I do my speech for you? I mean, I
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: was so determined. And then on the day, you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: it's like on that day, you don't know if your
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: name's going to be called or not. They called, they
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: called 10 people up. So I sat there and I
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: wrote out my speech. Okay. all day long and you
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: know what when Ronnie got up there and announced the
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: 10th person guess what my name wasn't called and I
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: was and I just I my heart sunk but you
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: know what a couple minutes later he said you know
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: what I have somebody else that I want to come
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: up on the stage and he announced my name oh
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: wow and I was in the very back and I
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: just was like I mean, I just was like, wow.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: And all the way up to the stage, I was
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: saying my speech. So, you know, it's, thank goodness it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: recorded because I mean, anybody can go to my YouTube
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: channel and they can watch me do the speech that
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I did because my speech was about messing up the
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: first two times. And so, you know, that was a
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: huge dream for me. And because I didn't give up,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: you have no idea the amount of confidence that was
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: built on the inside of me for doing that and
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: speaking in front of 3,000 people. Yes. So, yeah, it
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: was huge to be able to do that. And so
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: it prepared me for six months later when I was
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: going to be speaking before Nick Vujicic in an arena
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: to 15,000 kids. And so I truly believe what you're
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: doing today is always preparing you for what you're going
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: to do tomorrow. Absolutely. Don't give up on your dreams,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: no matter how small or how big they are.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: I was just writing, as you were talking, like not once,
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: not twice, but three times, self-talk and just getting up
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: there and having the courage to present yourself.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Again and again and again. And I do know what
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: that process is like. I'm reliving it with you. Congratulations.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: I love the image of Rocky because at the end,
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: I'm just imagining your hand just up in.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: That big V that he does, right?
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Well, what's funny is after the speech, I did jump
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: up and down. And then Roddy says, finally. So yeah,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: you'll have to go on YouTube and watch my John
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Maxwell stage speech.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Congratulations.
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: I know that that story is such a powerful story
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: because so.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Many times we have a dream and a lot of
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: us don't get started, right?
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: But those who do, it's not like an overnight instant thing.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: You have to really, really work hard and stay in
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: there and stay committed. So congratulations, Desi.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you. And you know, from the first time
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: that I went, Until I finally did it, I think
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: it was a total of four years. Oh, my.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: But as you said, you know, that was equipping you,
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: unbeknownst to you at the time. But that was equipping
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: you for an even bigger audience and bigger platform. And,
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: you know, how cool is it to talk to 15,000
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: kids with Nick Voyager, right?
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Right. Yeah. Right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's just astounding.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: So tell me, I know that you have done so
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: many very cool things in your career as an entertainer.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: As a speaker, as a clown. And how has.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: This pandemic shaped or influenced or impacted your career?
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Well, it's actually impacted it in a huge way because
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: my last speaking event was March 6th. In March and
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: April through the summer, I had a record number of
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: speaking events. I mean, I was blown away by how
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: many I was booked. And it was like overnight. I mean,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: it seemed like overnight they were all canceled. And I
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: started getting the calls, getting the emails to the point
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: where literally everything was canceled. And until... I think this
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: week will be my first speaking event that I will
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: be live, which I'm so excited. They have no idea
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: the amount of energy that I'm going to be bringing
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: to them. But yeah, and so, you know, it gave
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: me a huge perspective because of the way I'm paid
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: through my corporation, I was not able to get even unemployment.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: And so it gave me a different perspective on what
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: happens when you have no money coming in. and my
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: husband and I also own a business in the in
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: one in our local mall and for two months the
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: mall was closed but we still had to pay a
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: huge rent internet insurance and all that and and there
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: was a couple times I literally got in my car
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: to take it to the car dealership and say I
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: have to give my car back and um so it
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: was so I have I have a a new perspective
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: on being on the on the side of having really
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: serious financial needs and how you're going to adapt and
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: deal with that. And so a couple of the things
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: that I did, because I hate to waste time, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: especially since I wasn't working, I spent a lot of time,
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: my YouTube channel was stress busters. So I did a
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: lot of those. And then I wrote my second book.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: which is ironically about stress. So it's called Give Me
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Some Chocolate, I'm Stressed. And it's from a faith perspective.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: So it's faith-filled strategies on how to refuel, recharge, and
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: reduce stress. So it'll be published in January. But I
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: also had an opportunity because I needed to work. My mother,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: bless her heart, I had the opportunity to help her
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: fulfill one of her dreams. And at 79 years old,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: my mother decides to open a restaurant during COVID. So
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: I just decided I was going to go all in
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: and help her and get this going. And it opened
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: and it's going well. And now with speaking of events
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: that are going to be starting actually this week, I'll
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: be winning myself out of that. But I've been able
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: to spend time with my mom, be a blessing to her.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's been a very interesting year for all
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: of us.
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Indeed.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: And it sounds like you are learning a lot. And
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: I'm just praying for you that you will have those
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: seeking engagements that were canceled earlier, just that.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Your calendar just continues to fill for the rest of
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: this year and beyond, Desi.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: And so I just want to thank you again for
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: joining us today. Desi, you are positively amazing. I love
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: just the breadth of your background.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Love your passion. I love that you're a woman of
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: faith and just thank you so much for never, never
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: giving up on your dreams.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Gloria.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you. Thank you.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: So inspiring.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Clearly inspiring. Desi is an amazing leader. She makes a
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: difference in her own life and in the lives of
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: so many others, in her family, her community, and throughout
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the world in her work as the Stress Less Coach.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: To learn more about Desi's work, you can go to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: her website, and that's www.desipayne, and that's D-E-S-I-P-A-Y-N-E, www.desipayne.com. Okay, again,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to spell it for you because I know
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: we have listeners all over the world. And I want
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you to be sure to get this. It's www.desipayne.com. You
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: can also check out Desi's books. And I love these titles.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Do you work for the living dead? Right? And Another
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: title is Give Me Some Chocolate. I'm stressed. Now, be
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: sure to connect with Desi directly as well. You can
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: do that by going to her YouTube channel, which is
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: called Stress Busters. Very, very cool. Okay, if you're just
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: joining us, I'm Dr. Gloria, and this is Legacy Living
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Make Your Life Count. We just heard from my very
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: special guest, Desi Payne, motivational humorous speaker, trainer, leader, author,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and fabulous John Maxwell team member. If you want to
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: make your life count, if you want to be the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: change you seek, be sure to listen to this show
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: again and again. And hey, be sure to tell somebody, right?
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Tell your friends, your family, your co-workers.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: You can find me right here on iTunes, Audible, Alexa, SoundCloud, iHeart, TuneIn, Spreaker.com,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Talk Network Radio, and so many other places. Be sure
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: to tune in again next time. Now, before I close...
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I just want to give a shout out to all
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the women, men, and our young people all around the world.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Because you know what? We are the ones. We are
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the ones we have been waiting for. What do I
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: mean by that? Here's what I mean. Don't wait. Do
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: not wait for somebody else to step up to make
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: things happen in your life. Because you know what? They
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: might not step up. In fact, they might not even
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: know you're waiting for them, right, to do something. But
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: you can be the one. Can I just tell you something?
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: You are the one. You are that person in charge
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: of you. You are the one who could make a
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: difference in your own life so that you can model
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and make a difference in the lives of people in
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: your life, your sister, your brother, your mom, your dad,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: your auntie, your uncle, your teacher, your boss. You are
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the one. You know something? It is truly amazing how
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: much impact we have as leaders in the workplace, in
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: our communities, and today. in our own family, especially in
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: our family. That's where it all begins, right? Leading begins
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: exactly where you are, with you, your spouse, with your
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: own children, right in your own kitchen, around the dinner table,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: helping out with homework, when you go to church, or
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: when you go out shopping. So moms and dads, even
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: when you think that your son or your daughter isn't
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: paying any attention at all, Let me tell you something.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: They are. They are listening. They're soaking it in. And
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: more than anything else, they are watching you. Because you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: know what? More than anything else, we can do. We
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  Speaker 1: can demonstrate our leadership, right? And leadership is caught, not taught.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Leadership is caught, not taught. Now let me
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  Speaker 1: be really clear. Your children are scoping you out. They
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  Speaker 1: observe everything you are and everything you say and everything
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  Speaker 1: you do. Most importantly, know that they are watching you
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  Speaker 1: to see if what you say and what you do
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  Speaker 1: match up. Now our actions really do speak much, much
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  Speaker 1: louder than our words. A good friend of mine, who's
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  Speaker 1: a former CEO, always says, as a parent or as
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  Speaker 1: a leader in any context, your walk has got to
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  Speaker 1: talk louder than your talk talks. Let me repeat that.
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  Speaker 1: She says, your walk has got to talk louder than
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  Speaker 1: your talk talks. Why is that? Because that's how we
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  Speaker 1: build the bridge called trust. That's how we strengthen our
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  Speaker 1: bond with those we love. That's how we deepen our relationships,
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  Speaker 1: one step at a time, inch by inch, mile by mile,
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  Speaker 1: and smile by smile, at home, at work, and in
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  Speaker 1: any area of our life, every single day.
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  Speaker 4: 365-24-7.
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  Speaker 1: So, how is your walk lining up with your talk?
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: It is never too late to get your walk and
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  Speaker 1: your talk synced up, to get your act together, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak, right? So you can take it on the road.
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  Speaker 1: So don't beat yourself up if you kind of had
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  Speaker 1: a misstep here and there, right, with your walk and
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  Speaker 1: your talk, okay? It's never too late to get it
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  Speaker 1: together and put it on the road so that you
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  Speaker 1: can make the difference in someone else's life that only
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  Speaker 1: you can make. Remember this. How you live is how
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  Speaker 6: That's our show today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, don't just count the days in your life.
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  Speaker 3: Here's to you.
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