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Podcaster Audley Stephenson Releases Living Your Best Audacious Life · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: your exploration.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. This must be Arrow.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is. This must be you. Do you feel
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Speaker 1: it in the atmosphere? Is it you?
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Speaker 2: It has to be. It has to be. Who else
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Speaker 2: is left?
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Speaker 1: That's so true.
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Speaker 2: Everyone else will take it, right? So it's got to
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Speaker 2: be me.
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Speaker 1: How is everything going with you? I mean, because you're
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Speaker 1: releasing a brand new book. That one journey that you've
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Speaker 1: put your whole entire life into is now out here
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Speaker 1: for us. Do you feel like that you're having to
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Speaker 1: relinquish it? Because how do you still own a book
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Speaker 1: like this when really it kind of belongs to us now?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a fabulous question. I'll tell you, Errol, the
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Speaker 2: book writing process, it is an absolute journey. And I
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Speaker 2: was just reflecting on this morning because there still are
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Speaker 2: periods of doubt, right? There's been many times that... I've
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Speaker 2: contacted my publisher and said.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I've got another idea.
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Speaker 2: Hey, I've got another thought. Hey, and I really had
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Speaker 2: to kind of get out of my head and say, look,
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Speaker 2: be confident in what you've done. Because first and foremost,
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Speaker 2: if I didn't believe in the message, if I didn't
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Speaker 2: believe in what I was doing, I wouldn't have sat
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Speaker 2: down and did the work to bring it to life.
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Speaker 2: So I literally had to stop myself and fall back
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Speaker 2: on the message and my belief in the message and
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Speaker 2: the hours I poured into it. That kind of threw
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Speaker 2: myself off the ledge. But yeah, it is a process
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Speaker 2: for sure, one that I'm learning a lot about myself.
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Speaker 1: So when you jump into a journey like that, and
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Speaker 1: I call that discipline, then what happens though when the
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Speaker 1: disciplined one wants to argue with the one that wants
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Speaker 1: to toy around? Because creative people are just kids inside.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. So the irony in all of this,
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Speaker 2: I take it back. I talked about the message. This
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Speaker 2: message is encouraging audacity. It's encouraging everyone to take that
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Speaker 2: step forward. And so I've got to practice what I'm
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Speaker 2: preaching here. I absolutely have to. And here's the thing.
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Speaker 2: The doubts will always be there. The fears, the uncertainty,
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Speaker 2: the suspicions. That's just part of the process. And so
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Speaker 2: once you've come to terms with that, yes, the voice
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Speaker 2: in the back of your head that goes, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: this isn't right, you're going to get hurt, it's not
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Speaker 2: good for you, it's going to be there. And the
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Speaker 2: sooner you get accustomed and understand that that's part of
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Speaker 2: the journey, the sooner you can accept everything that comes
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Speaker 2: along our path.
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Speaker 1: See, a lot of the listeners as well as readers
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Speaker 1: don't understand that you and I, we live this. That's
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Speaker 1: the reason why we write about it. And yes, it
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Speaker 1: does entail some research. But how did you accept that
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Speaker 1: personal experience to step into this book and realize that,
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Speaker 1: oh my God, you're going to be talking about audacious
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Speaker 1: lives here?
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Speaker 2: So I'll tell you a little bit about the background,
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Speaker 2: kind of give some perspective on this. And so several
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Speaker 2: years ago, I knew that I wanted to write a book.
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Speaker 2: I had some sort of personal stories that I thought
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Speaker 2: that I had kind of gone through and learned some
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Speaker 2: really neat lessons. For example, growing up without a father,
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Speaker 2: and having to navigate that and reconnecting with him years
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Speaker 2: later and coming to terms with, oh wow, this man
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Speaker 2: who I share a name with is my father. I've
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Speaker 2: never known him before. And so, things like that I
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Speaker 2: kind of experienced and I thought, you know, they're really
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Speaker 2: good to capture. Now, the problem was, at least when
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Speaker 2: I started capturing these stories, I didn't really have a framework.
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Speaker 2: I didn't really have a key message a key insight
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Speaker 2: or a core theme I wanted to leave with people.
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Speaker 2: I just wanted to tell these stories. And so the
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Speaker 2: book kind of sat on the shelf or, you know,
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Speaker 2: in the digital space, it sat on my hard drive
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Speaker 2: and kind of sat there while I figured out what
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Speaker 2: I wanted it to do or what I wanted it
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Speaker 2: to look like. And then, you know, and then fast forward,
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Speaker 2: this thing comes along called COVID. And I mean, you know,
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Speaker 2: we all were impacted. We all know the story where
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Speaker 2: we lost the things that we love. We, you know, sudden,
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Speaker 2: you know, lockdown indoors, all that kind of stuff. And
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Speaker 2: I remember at the time, it caused me, and I'm
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Speaker 2: sure others experienced as well, I literally went through this
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Speaker 2: state of depression. And the impression became, actually back at
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Speaker 2: that time, I was a commissioner of a basketball league
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Speaker 2: here in Canada. And I loved the game of basketball.
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Speaker 2: And so to be around the sport and be involved
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Speaker 2: in that capacity was just an absolute thrill to me.
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Speaker 2: You know, we were about to enter our playoffs, which
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Speaker 2: is the most exciting time of the year, and all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden the rug gets pulled from underneath me.
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Speaker 2: And I don't have that thing. And it took me
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Speaker 2: a while to sort of figure out why I was
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Speaker 2: feeling the way I did. And I literally remember where
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Speaker 2: I was in a conversation with a friend of mine,
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Speaker 2: and I said, ever since I lost basketball, And the
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Speaker 2: moment I said that, I'm like, oh, that's it. Like,
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Speaker 2: I don't have this game that I love, and that's
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Speaker 2: why I feel the.
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Speaker 1: Way I do.
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Speaker 2: And it was at that point I started the journey.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, fine. So now I understand what the
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Speaker 2: problem is, because you can't fix the problems. You know
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Speaker 2: what the problem is. So I knew what the problem was,
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Speaker 2: and I said, okay, it's just a matter of replacing it. Now,
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Speaker 2: the other thing I'll tell you about myself is I've
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Speaker 2: got a long history in the podcasting space. My very, very,
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Speaker 2: very first podcast started in 2008. Me and a buddy
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Speaker 2: of mine wanted to talk about NBA basketball in Toronto, Canada.
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Speaker 2: At that time, hockey was the main thing, but we
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Speaker 2: felt that basketball deserved equal footing, if you will, and
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Speaker 2: deserved equal attention and shine. And so we started an
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Speaker 2: NBA podcast. It was really, really cool because eventually that
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Speaker 2: led us to getting inside the NBA locker room. We
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Speaker 2: interviewed Colby, interviewed LeBron, interviewed great players, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett.
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Speaker 2: We were just giddy as two kids in a candy shop.
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Speaker 2: It was a great thrill. I'm going through this state
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Speaker 2: of I want to do something. Well, let me fall
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Speaker 2: back into podcasting. There's nothing new to me. It's like
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Speaker 2: riding a bike. But this time I said I wanted
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Speaker 2: to do something that really, really mattered to me. I
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Speaker 2: didn't want to talk about basketball again or some of
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Speaker 2: the other things I talked about. And it was at
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Speaker 2: that point I looked back and I literally did an
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Speaker 2: analysis of my life, if you will, this reflection period.
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Speaker 2: and every milestone, every victory, everything. I looked at everything,
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Speaker 2: and the one common theme that stood out to me
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Speaker 2: as strong as strong could be was this red thread
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Speaker 2: of audacity. Every time I took a step, every time
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Speaker 2: I took a leap, every time I went into this
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Speaker 2: place of uncertainty, this happened. And all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: I could see where God connected. Our lives, when we
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Speaker 2: live them forward, it's what they are for, because in
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Speaker 2: the moment we're kind of guessing and going with intuition,
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Speaker 2: when we stop and look back, It's a science. And
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Speaker 2: I could see where all the dots connected. And that
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Speaker 2: common thread, red thread, was audacity. And so that's what
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Speaker 2: got me to... said, I want to write this, I
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Speaker 2: want to do this podcast. And I started, that was
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Speaker 2: back at the end of 2020, 700 episodes later, I'm going, wow,
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Speaker 2: I've gathered a lot of really cool insights. And you
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Speaker 2: would know this too, right? Every guest that leaves you,
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Speaker 2: that you finish with, or you interview with, they leave
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Speaker 2: a piece of themselves behind.
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Speaker 1: They do.
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Speaker 2: Right? There's a piece, they go, oh, wow. And so
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Speaker 2: what I essentially thought to myself, is you know what?
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Speaker 2: I'm going to collect all these pieces, right, of all
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Speaker 2: these different guests, and put them together, And then what
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Speaker 2: I'll do, those personal stories I left on my digital
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Speaker 2: hard drive, I'm going to bring those back out again.
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Speaker 2: And it was a combination of that. So the book
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Speaker 2: is made in three pillars, essentially. It's all these pieces
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Speaker 2: of all these guests that I've collected, those personal stories
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Speaker 2: I told you about off the bat, and then some
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Speaker 2: frameworks I developed to help kind of tie everything together.
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Speaker 2: And so that's what the book is consisted of. And
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Speaker 2: so the idea, it came together very naturally, organically. And
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Speaker 2: it may have taken some time, but I think it
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Speaker 2: came about the right way.
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Speaker 1: Please do not move. Audley Stevenson is coming back. The
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Speaker 1: name of the book, Living Your Best Audacious Life Ever.
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Speaker 1: We are back with podcaster Audley Stevenson. This fascinates me
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Speaker 1: because back in 2008 when you started, the people that
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Speaker 1: were doing podcasts were not the rock stars, were not
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Speaker 1: the actors. It was the authors, and the authors are
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Speaker 1: the ones that just wanted to get their words out there.
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Speaker 1: So to see you with a book, I am not
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Speaker 1: shocked because I knew that it was coming because when
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Speaker 1: you listen to your podcast, I'm going, why the hell
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Speaker 1: can't I find a book about this guy? And so
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Speaker 1: now that we've got one here and you're doing it
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Speaker 1: in a motivational way because, I mean, one of the
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Speaker 1: things that we've learned over the years through watching Shark
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Speaker 1: Tank is– Take the chance. You got to break the rules.
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Speaker 1: You got to go out there. But yet you say
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Speaker 1: the boldest lives aren't built on reckless leaps. And I'm going,
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Speaker 1: this man, he is on target.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one that resonates with so many people because
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Speaker 2: there's some myths about audacity. Some people think that if
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Speaker 2: I'm not jumping out of a plane or I'm not
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Speaker 2: cross-country or cross-the-country on my bike or wrestling alligators in
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Speaker 2: a Florida swamp, I'm not being audacious. And while those
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Speaker 2: things are— there' s no question those are audacious, huge acts— I'm
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Speaker 2: also here to say that those small, quiet confidence, those
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Speaker 2: moments where you need the courage to speak up, those
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Speaker 2: moments where you maybe need to set boundaries with your
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Speaker 2: personal family or friend, those are audacious acts because it
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Speaker 2: requires you to step outside of your comfort zone. And so, yeah,
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Speaker 2: those small, courageous acts, they absolutely are audacious and they
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Speaker 2: do matter because it takes an act of courage.
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Speaker 1: Where I really relate with you and boy, oh boy,
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Speaker 1: if this is not my life, every time I try
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Speaker 1: to play it safe and not be a rule breaker.
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Speaker 1: I swear to God, I get in more trouble. It's
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Speaker 1: almost like I'm putting myself out there as a risky
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Speaker 1: person and I'm trying to be safe and I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to play by the rules. I'm zoinking out, dude.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. You know what it is? I
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Speaker 2: think at the end of the day, we should spend
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Speaker 2: less time by other people's standards or rules or what
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Speaker 2: they would do. Because that oftentimes is a pitfall for
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Speaker 2: many of us. We all have those, whether a close
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Speaker 2: friend or family member, where you say, Hey, I've got
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Speaker 2: this great idea. I'm going to try this. And because
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Speaker 2: of a past failure or something that didn't work out
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Speaker 2: for them, they discourage you. Oh, I wouldn't do that because, oh, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: And so sometimes you've got to say, you know, I
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Speaker 2: love you. Thank you very much. But I'm proceeding anyways.
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Speaker 2: And that's how it has to be. And here's the thing.
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Speaker 2: And this is the best part about it, right? Like,
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Speaker 2: when you start something brand new, there's one of two options.
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Speaker 2: You're going to pass, you're going to fail, right? And
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Speaker 2: if you pass, great, you know, you're one of those
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Speaker 2: high achievers that, you know, those elite individuals get, you know,
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Speaker 2: just naturally good at everything. But the rest of us,
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Speaker 2: you know, we need a few reps under our belt.
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Speaker 2: We need to drop the ball and figure it out
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Speaker 2: and pick up the lessons and learn and, you know,
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Speaker 2: all the way on that pathway to success. James Dyson
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Speaker 2: is credited with making the bagless vacuum cleaner. He had 5,127
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Speaker 2: attempts in a four-year span before he got it right. So, hey,
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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to make vacuum cleaners here. That's what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. But the idea is we do need the
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Speaker 2: reps to figure it out. But that's okay because there's
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Speaker 2: evidence in that data.
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Speaker 1: I talked to the guy that invented the Roby, you know,
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Speaker 1: that vacuum cleaner that walks around and cleans things up
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Speaker 1: and it's all programmed by the human being. And it's
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Speaker 1: so funny. The reason why he even created that was
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Speaker 1: so that his wife would get off his back about vacuuming.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I love that. I mean, that's a right there, man.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that, that is what really brings it forward
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Speaker 1: because you take a chance, go for it and just
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Speaker 1: bring it to the people.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly, and that's what it actually, I mean, necessity
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Speaker 2: is the mother of invention, that they say, right? But
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, beyond that is exactly, you know,
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Speaker 2: no one who's ever created anything brand new did it
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Speaker 2: following the path of everyone else, right? You look at
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Speaker 2: the most revolutionary invention, they weren't because a thousand people
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Speaker 2: did it ahead of me, and I did the same
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Speaker 2: exact thing. It was someone who went off the beaten path,
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Speaker 2: they disrupted the norm, if you will. And they created
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Speaker 2: and created and created or figured it out or figured
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Speaker 2: it out or tried and tried and tried until they
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Speaker 2: actually had success. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Now, we got to talk about Joe Bear because Joe
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Speaker 1: Bear's got a hot thing going on with that rearview mirror.
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Speaker 1: And I see the rearview mirror as being where we
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Speaker 1: once were in the past. I live in the present
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Speaker 1: place of now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. It's a really interesting concept that I will
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Speaker 2: tell you. I sat down with him, and he has
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Speaker 2: a whole book on the Janus Plan. It's his book,
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Speaker 2: and it talks about looking back at where you were
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Speaker 2: with the intent of getting data and evidence to move forward.
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Speaker 2: And where you have to, and so I think there's
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Speaker 2: certainly merit in that philosophy and in that approach. I
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Speaker 2: absolutely do agree with learning from, it's like learning from
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Speaker 2: past mistakes, right? So it's that concept. But where we
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Speaker 2: have to be careful, and you sort of alluded to it,
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Speaker 2: is that we get stuck in the path and we
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Speaker 2: lose sight of what's in front of us. And so
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Speaker 2: I think it can be done, but you've got to
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Speaker 2: be very deliberate and very intentional about the way you
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 1: So do you find yourself getting in positions of constant
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Speaker 1: judgment when it comes to this urgency thing? Because so
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Speaker 1: many people make urgent answers or they try to get
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Speaker 1: to urgent conclusions. And that's like most recently there was
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Speaker 1: something that was going down that was wrong. And I
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Speaker 1: stood there in peace and I looked at my wife
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Speaker 1: and I said, we'll figure it out. OK, we have
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Speaker 1: no answers now. What we've got is assumption and we've
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Speaker 1: got chat GPT. I don't like either one of them.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, don't don't you think we need to
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Speaker 1: put the brakes on urgency?
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Speaker 2: I think there's a place for everything. I mean, urgency, yeah,
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Speaker 2: but you want to rush decisions. You want to make
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Speaker 2: sound decisions the best you possibly can, and you do
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Speaker 2: that with factual data, right? And I also think, too,
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Speaker 2: is that we control our own pace. You know, if someone,
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Speaker 2: and we're rushing because we're allowing other people to rush us.
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Speaker 2: So if I don't want to speed, if I'm driving and,
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Speaker 2: you know, down the highway and I want to do
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Speaker 2: a certain speed limit, I'm doing that limit, no one
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Speaker 2: can make me go faster. They can come up behind
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Speaker 2: me and ride my bumper all they want, but if
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying and that's where I'm going, that's
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Speaker 2: what it will be. And so we have to remember,
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Speaker 2: I think that urgency thing, it's a matter of taking
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Speaker 2: control of our own lives and remembering that, that, you know,
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Speaker 2: our lives belong to us, not other people.
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Speaker 1: All right, from one creative podcaster to another here. Now
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Speaker 1: that you've released the book, is the inner voice of
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Speaker 1: the podcaster going, I want to talk that much. Why
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Speaker 1: did you let the writer talk a full book? I
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Speaker 1: don't get that kind of time in the podcast. Look,
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Speaker 1: you're not being nice to me.
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Speaker 2: You know, we have an internal battle all the time.
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Speaker 2: It's all love because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: we're all pointing to the same message. We want the
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Speaker 2: same thing and it's really to help individuals live their best,
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Speaker 2: audacious lives ever. And so I stay true to that message.
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Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, I believe in it wholeheartedly and
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Speaker 2: I do my best every day possible to live it.
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Speaker 2: Even though as a human being, I still go through
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Speaker 2: my periods of uncertainty and doubt and suspicion. Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 2: what did I do? But I still step forth anyways.
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Speaker 1: Well, the part that tripped me up a couple years
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Speaker 1: ago was when somebody said that procrastination is actually one
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Speaker 1: of the greatest tools we have. And I'll tell you what,
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Speaker 1: you put a lot of interest in something here that
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Speaker 1: really got my attention. That was trading stuff off. Does
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Speaker 1: that qualify as procrastination?
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Speaker 2: I've never looked at it that way, and I have
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Speaker 2: to think about that. My initial gut would say no,
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Speaker 2: I think. Everything, like, you know, there's trade-offs and costs
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Speaker 2: in life and everything that we do, right? And that's
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Speaker 2: just a natural thing. So it's almost like if I
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Speaker 2: say no to this thing, I'm saying yes to something
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Speaker 2: else or vice versa. And so, you know, I kind
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Speaker 2: of think that there are two different things. Maybe there's
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Speaker 2: a correlation, but off the top, my first initial answer
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Speaker 2: is no, they're two entirely different things. And I think
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Speaker 2: there's an interesting point about procrastination in general, I would say, too,
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Speaker 2: because it does, so you go back to your questionable urgency, right?
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Speaker 2: Procrastination allows us to avoid rushing into things we don't
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Speaker 2: have to.
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Speaker 1: I love where your heart is. Where can people go
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Speaker 1: to find out more about you? Because I'm going to
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Speaker 1: use your words on you right now. Your light isn't accidental.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, your light isn't accidental. You really do
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Speaker 1: have something here that is very, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: say magical. It's very connected. And that's where people need
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Speaker 1: to jump in.
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Speaker 2: No, thank you. I really do appreciate that. You know,
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Speaker 2: this was a deliberate process. You know, like I said,
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Speaker 2: I started the book writing process several years ago, but
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Speaker 2: it wasn't right. That wasn't the total message. And, you know,
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Speaker 2: I needed to go through COVID and 700 episodes to
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Speaker 2: understand what the true message is. And I think it's
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Speaker 2: being able to deliver in a manner that's relatable. We're
17:04
Speaker 2: all going through this experience of being human beings on
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Speaker 2: this planet. We are working exactly as different as we
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Speaker 2: might think we are and as distant as we might
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Speaker 2: think we are. There are miles between us. We're actually
17:14
Speaker 2: a lot closer than that. And so the experiences that
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Speaker 2: resonate with you, we've all gone through. So for example,
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Speaker 2: if someone is going through, and we've all gone through
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Speaker 2: maybe a very difficult or challenging moment, And it's hard.
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Speaker 2: And it's like, I don't know how I'm going to
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Speaker 2: get through it. I agonize. I lose sleep. And then
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, someone casually walks by and goes, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that thing. Oh, man, that was last week. And you
17:38
Speaker 2: know what? You do this and do this. And all
17:40
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I mean, first off, it's incredibly empowering, right?
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Speaker 2: But all of a sudden, this thing that was the
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Speaker 2: worst thing on the planet no longer matters. That happens
17:48
Speaker 2: as a role of sharing our stories and sharing our
17:50
Speaker 2: insights and opening up our our past wounds, maybe, but
17:53
Speaker 2: also showing our victories and looking, here's what I learned,
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Speaker 2: because I think there are lessons in both, not just
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Speaker 2: in losses or we're not just in wins. And so,
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Speaker 2: but we have to have a willingness to open up
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Speaker 2: and a willingness to share. And that was kind of
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Speaker 2: the process I had to go through to get to
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Speaker 2: this point now. And so to answer your real question.
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Speaker 2: If anyone doesn't want to connect with me, my website
18:10
Speaker 2: is the best resource. It's bestaudaciouslife.com. The book is Living
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Speaker 2: Your Best Audacious Life Ever. And for me, the subtitle
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Speaker 2: is Where the True Power Is. It's how unleashing your
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Speaker 2: inner greatness can and change the world. I truly, truly
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Speaker 2: believe that if I step into my individual greatness, my
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Speaker 2: individual power, and Errol, we all have it. Do not
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Speaker 2: let anyone tell you you don't have a light to shine.
18:35
Speaker 2: We all have a light to shine. And when we
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Speaker 2: shine that light, the beautiful thing about the light that
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Speaker 2: we shine, it's not meant for our benefit. It's to
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Speaker 2: help others. And that's how we impact the world and
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Speaker 2: change in a positive way because I'll, just imagine a
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Speaker 2: space where everyone is shining a light and giving back
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Speaker 2: to others and showing kindness and compassion. we're talking about
18:53
Speaker 2: a totally different landscape. And so that's what I'm encouraging
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Speaker 2: and what I want to see more people do.
18:59
Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: I would love to see you live in an auditorium
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Speaker 1: coaching a thousand or 10,000 people. Are you, are you
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Speaker 1: working on that? I mean, is that something that you're
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Speaker 1: putting together? Because I mean, your word, your inflection, your volume,
19:15
Speaker 1: your tone, you've got something here that is very, very,
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Speaker 1: It's Tony Robbins, dude. I mean, I'm feeling something here.
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Speaker 2: What? Well, thank you. And I will tell you, for me, very,
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Speaker 2: very generous and kind words with the man with the
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Speaker 2: golden voice. I thank you for saying all that. But
19:32
Speaker 2: I would also say that the feeling that you're feeling
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Speaker 2: is not just because of words that I put on paper.
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Speaker 2: It's a message that I feel. I'm able to deliver
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Speaker 2: what I'm delivering and say what I'm saying with heart,
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Speaker 2: with passion, with love, with compassion, with intentionality. and very,
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Speaker 2: very deliberate because I absolutely believe everything I've said, everything
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Speaker 2: I've felt, everything I've written, everything I've podcasted. So absolutely.
19:59
Speaker 2: So as far as I do professionally speak, and have
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Speaker 2: been for quite some time, coaching is a new element
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Speaker 2: that I'm incorporating into the work that I'm doing because
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Speaker 2: I really Really what it's about is encouraging those to
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Speaker 2: think beyond their current situation and know that we all
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Speaker 2: have the seed of potential inside of us. And it's
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Speaker 2: waiting for us to grow, but with awareness. And here's
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Speaker 2: the thing. I talk about awareness a lot, right? Awareness.
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Speaker 2: So imagine walking into a standard living room, right? You've
20:29
Speaker 2: got your couch. You've got your television. You've got your
20:32
Speaker 2: coffee table. That's a pretty standard living room. Now, if
20:35
Speaker 2: I turn off the light, you don't see any of
20:37
Speaker 2: those things. Oh, my God. But when I turn them
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Speaker 2: back on, they suddenly appear. That means they always were
20:45
Speaker 2: there the entire time. And that's the greatness I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: We all have it in us. It's always been there.
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Speaker 2: We just need to turn on the lights. Wow.
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Speaker 1: You've got to come back to this show any time
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Speaker 1: in the future. The door is always going to be
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Speaker 1: open for you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. I really, really appreciate that. I'm glad
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Speaker 2: you do a phenomenal job. And even just your message
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Speaker 2: of sharing your story before someone else writes it, I
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Speaker 2: think it's so, so beautiful because that's very much in
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Speaker 2: line with what I'm encouraging people to do because that
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Speaker 2: process of sharing a story, that in itself is an
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Speaker 2: audacious act. It truly, truly is. And so I commend
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Speaker 2: you and your message as well.
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Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today, okay, sir?
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Speaker 2: Okay. You're awesome, Daryl. You're awesome.