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The Purpose and Progress Podcast with Dr. Jim Price · The Purpose and Progress Podcast Show

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Believe in what you're doing, and you're doing positive things
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to try to get there, things some usually work out because the
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universe say you get what you put out. So a lot of times, if
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you're putting out the positive in the universe, and you really
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die hard about working on, maybe it's a new business, maybe it's
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a new podcast show, maybe it's writing books, or whatever it
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might be, sports or whatever, when you put things in a
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positive framework and you look at it from that way and have a
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self-conscious consciousness of understanding, awareness of
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being positive, then you can overcome the obstacles and stuff
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you need to reach that goal.
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Hello, I'm Dr. Jim Price, and welcome to The Purpose and
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Progress Podcast. This is the place where we explore how
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purpose can guide our actions and how growth can become a part
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of our everyday lives. On the show, I talk with amazing guests
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from educators and creators, to everyday people with
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extraordinary stories about the challenges they face, the
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lessons they've learned, and how to keep moving forward. My goal
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is to share conversations that inspire you to live
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intentionally, embrace growth, and take meaningful steps to
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your own purpose. Let's get started.
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Hello, I am award-winning author Dr. Jim Price, and welcome to
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The Purpose and Progress Podcast where purpose becomes action,
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and growth never stops. I'm your host of The Purpose and Progress
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Podcast show, and I just want to touch upon a little bit about
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what this podcast is going to be, consisting of what it's
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going to be about, and then shared a little bit about myself
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as well.
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So of course, I'm a Children's Award-Winning Book Author, and
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my progress has been quite the journey in terms of a lot of
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things that are happening and stuff like that with me. But on
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the show, we're definitely going to be sharing a lot of guests.
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Having a lot of guests that are going to be sharing their
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journey, sharing their progress of how they became to where
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they're at now, have their success and things that they do,
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like how did they get to where they're at? How do they steer
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that advice, tips and points that they would give for other
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folks that are trying to go on same track as them? So a lot of
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times, we see, even myself, a lot of my journey kind of
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started off when the pandemic was going on and everybody was
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locked inside and had to stay home and stuff like that.
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During the pandemic, I was home and was thinking to myself, I
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like to do maybe a social skill book. Because at that time, I
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still do counseling, but I've been in counseling for a long
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time. I was thinking, you know what? I want to do something
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around social skill building, maybe do a book. At least one
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book. I only had the idea of doing one book at the time. I
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start putting together a framework for the first book,
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the award-winning book, A Trip to the Park, The adventures of
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Harold from the Hood: A Trip to the Park. I worked on the
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framework for that. And eventually, got to the point
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where I felt it was ready and everything. And once it was
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ready, I was fortunate enough to get it published and everything
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like that. And then at that time, I had no idea about
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marketing and promotion or anything, I didn't know anything
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about it. It's like, I have a book now, what's the next step?
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What do I do?
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Those are a lot of things. I had to learn about the process of
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marketing and promotion, and how that is so important in terms of
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what you do. How you can spread your message. Of course, my
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message is inspiring the youth to be the best version of
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themselves through self love, understand their self worth,
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understand their self care is important too. So at that time,
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I was very much trying to figure things out in terms of the
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marketing, promotion of the books and stuff like that.
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Fast forward, I start to get opportunities to do media in
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terms of promotion and marketing. And I think even in
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college when I first got out of high school, my grades in high
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school were horrible. And when I went to college, I didn't have
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really too much of any study skill so I had a difficult time.
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But one of the things that was going on, we had to still do
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powerpoint presentations for things, and I was one who didn't
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really like to be in front of a lot of people. But then you
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think about the progress or how that helped me moving forward.
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After that, I kind of learned to be in front of people and learn
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to be okay speaking in front of people. So once I got to the
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books, dropped the first book and everything like that, I
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started to get on media opportunities. I was in a better
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place because I was prepared for that. Doing presentations in
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college, that helped tremendously. Having that
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opportunity to be doing presentations in college, and
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then have Metcare over to the media opportunities as I have
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now so I wasn't nervous to be in front of campuses and stuff like
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that. A lot of people there.
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I got nervous and stuff like that to be in those kind of
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situations. But for me, I kind of embrace those things. So by
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the time the first book came out, I was already thinking
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about a second book. And not too long after that, my second book
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came out, which is The Adventures of Harold from the
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Hood: Friends Like Different Things, and that was based on
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making friends, keeping friends, playing with others. In that
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way, that was the social lessons within that book. Then by the
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time the third book came out, The Adventures of Harold from
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the Hood: Fun Time Lunch Time, that was based on my experience
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of, I, being a school counselor and seen my experiences during
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recess, kids and stuff like that. Because you go out the
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recess, it'd be a nice day, like today, Sunday, nice day, and the
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So even in the story with Fun Time Lunch Time, Harold has to
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kids were out there playing soccer, they were playing
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volleyball, they're playing tag and chase, basketball. We had
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advocate for himself in terms of what he wants to eat. He might
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all these activities for the kids. Today, it was such a
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want French fries, but they have some big choices about those
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beautiful day. They were all enjoying the sun, and I was out
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there enjoying the sun too. But a lot of times, I will see some
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things. Then he's eating with one of the best friends, Andy's
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of the interactions that the kids will have and stuff like
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that outside, and that kind of became the part element where
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aunt, and he's understanding and doing that social interacting
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Fun Time Lunch Time came about.
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thing that we see the kids do at recess. We're seeing them do it
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real time and stuff like that. And then, of course, they go
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outside and they're playing games. So now, they have to
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learn how to take turns, share all that things, coping skills,
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waiting. You have a plethora of social skills that happen just
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within that dynamic framework where kids are at recess and
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doing those kind of things. That was primarily what the third
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book, Fun Time Lunch Time, was about.
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Then the newest book in the series, which is Adventures of
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Harold From The Hood: When I Feel So Annoyed is about
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understanding how to deal with frustration and anger in a
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healthy way. I always tell the students that in school, being
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angry and upset is okay. It's the choices you make when you're
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angry and upset that causes the issues. So if you're able to
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problem solve and utilize coping skills and things within your
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A lot of times, I would say people, families, anybody get so
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wrapped up in the circle of just paying bills and doing this, and
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toolbox, you're able to do those things, then it makes it more
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all the responsibilities and stuff like that, that we also
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forget to take care of ourselves through self-care. I always make
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a pretty much point to make sure, however my day goes, so at
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likely that you'll work through that problem and get back to
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least take like 15 minutes just to do something that I enjoy
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myself, for me. We get caught up a lot of times helping so many
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other people, helping others that we forget about ourselves.
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where you need to be, focus and on task, whatever it is that
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It's hard to give you the best of yourself if you're not where
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it needs to be, or your mental is not where it needs to be,
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things like that. That's what I mean, that's why I always feel
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you're working on prior to that, and you're learning
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so important to go through those elements of self care.
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Sometime, I would want to pick brain and see how they would do
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And even doing something for yourself that makes you feel
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good. Because of course, when you're doing things that feel
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problem-solving skills with other people. A lot of that
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good, that lifts up your positive spirits and makes you
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feel better about yourself, makes you feel a level of
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things. When I was trying to learn about marketing, promotion
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confidence and self esteem building, and all those things
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stuff became connected to my purpose in terms of not just
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that happen. I mean, that could just be aspects of just
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exercising. I go to the gym. Some people go to the gym, and
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and all those things, I would want to pick brain of somebody
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that's how they get their therapeutic process. And in
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being a school counselor, counseling kids and stuff like
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terms of self-care and stuff, making sure they take care of
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their bodies, and eating right too, being able to eat right. A
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who's been there, somebody who has experience, somebody who's
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lot of these parts are what's included with that, and all that
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that, but also having the kids' books be a part of inspiring
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is kind of connected to my purpose and my progress. And
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been through those trenches. I would want to pick their brain
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even being able to network and meet so many different people in
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youth and families to be the best version of themselves. And
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so many parts of different parts of the country and the world.
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And the awesome community is always so wonderful, grateful
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to ask some questions about how do I go through that process in
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and graceful in terms of helping and being okay with giving
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also to understand their self-worth, have a consciousness
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answers.
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terms of promotion and stuff like that. Even with the
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about understanding their self-worth, understanding what
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networking aspect of it, you go through those rigors of everything.
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it means to involve themselves in self care.
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I remember when I got put out of college and everything and my
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dad was like, okay, now you gotta have to figure out what
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you gotta do. Either gonna go to college or the junior college
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around the way, not far away, but around the way. Or you're
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gonna get a job. And I chose to work at that time. Now, during
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that time, of course, I was very relatively young, and everything
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still. There was a lot of odd jobs that were dead-end and
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stuff like that. I remember a particular job that really was
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difficult work and everything. I used to have to run these big
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machines and stuff, all that stuff. And the machines could
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never shut down. You had to keep them running. So if I had to use
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a bathroom, I had to call on the walkie to get somebody to come,
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and then wait for them to come so they could keep the machine
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running, and I could go to the bathroom.
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I remember right before that, one of the supervisor guys came
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over. He was a better. He came over and he was like, oh, yeah.
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I asked him where one of our other buddies were, and he's
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like, he stopped working here. He decided he was going to go
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back to school. He got his degree and everything, and now
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he's working over somewhere else. And I was thinking when he
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said that, I was like, that's a pretty good idea. That's
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probably something I should look into. But I kept working that
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machine. Then I guess I had hit my wall that day because it was
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tedious work. I remember that day like it was yesterday. I
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need to use the bathroom, making the calls, nobody was coming.
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Nobody was coming at all. Making the call, nobody was coming. So
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then I figured, okay. well, I really need to use the bathroom.
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I can't wait too much longer so I stopped the whole machine, and
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then went to the bathroom. I go to the bathroom thinking, they
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don't really pay me enough to really be doing all this. What
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am I doing with myself? This is not leading me to anything. So
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that day while I was in the bathroom, I decided that I've
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had my fill. I was in my early 20s. I said. I had my fill. I
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took my goggles, put them on top of the urinal, and walked out
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the door. I was done. I quit. I walked out.
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It was interesting because at that time, I was using my dad's
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car to get back and forth to work. My cousins are working
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there too. And so when I left, I didn't say anything to anybody.
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I just kind of just put out my goggles and left. And so not too
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long after that, because I had stopped a machine, so now they
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had to get all that going, I don't know what happened after I
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left. I guess they were calling me to the main office. Price to
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the main office. Price to the main office, and I wasn't
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replying or responding. And so they went to my cousin to ask
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him, hey, what happened. What's going on? He's not answering.
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What did you do to him? They're like, oh, we don't know. And so
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they pulled up the footage from the cameras outside, and they
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caught me walking off to my car real hard. I was walking real
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hard back to the car. I was done with that. And not too long
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after that, that's when I was like, okay, well, I'm going to
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I always did enough to play basketball, but I wasn't really
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roll back in school. So then I started at community college
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level and enrolled, and my grades were horrendous in high
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school and stuff.
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pouring my all into the grades and stuff. I would always do the
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bare minimum just to play basketball to be on the high
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school basketball team, got a state championship and
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When you're prepared and you're really hungry and ready for
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something, you will make way to make those things happen. And
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everything like that, helped get state championship spring for
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ironically, even after that, I was named to the National Dean's
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List publication. Who would ever have imagined that. Considering
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how my grades were in high school, and I would be in
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college getting A's and B's, and on the National Deans of
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Central High and stuff like that. I just did the bare
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Publication. They took my picture, it was a wonderful
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thing. I had a little bio of me in there and stuff like that. It
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really boosted my self-esteem and confidence. Okay, I'm seeing
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my progress, experiencing it, and seeing it happen real time.
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minimum. So now, I have to worked all these odd jobs and
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And from there, of course, I went on to work on my master's
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at Springfield college where I was thinking about working in
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the public school systems at that time. I was primarily just
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working as a clinical therapist, psychotherapist for adults and
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work this job, and it made me really see that that's not what
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children, going through the rigors of doing sessions, doing
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diagnosis and things like that. I always thought diagnosis is
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definitely a different kind of animal because you're studying
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and making sure that you're going through all these
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I wanted to do so I ended up going back to school and
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diagnoses to get it right. And having a clear understanding
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that when you sign the paperwork, that person is going
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to have that label with them for the rest of their life.. So it's
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such a tedious process when you're trying to go through the
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starting a community on college track. I was running, I was
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idea of diagnosing someone, giving someone diagnosis, and
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then dealing with the insurance companies. It was a lot. I
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definitely learned a lot through that process, and I think a lot
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of that prepared me moving forward to do the things, a lot
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of things I do now even after that experience.
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hungry, I was ready to do the thing. I was ready. So by the
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I did go in the private sector for a little bit. I was working
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with kids, behavioral kids in an alternative school and stuff
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like that. A lot of those kids had struggles dealing with
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poverty, deal with dysfunction in the family and things of that
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time those first grades came out, I had all these B's. My mom
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nature. So you were seeing all that manifest itself within the
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classroom and school settings and stuff. I was always one to
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try to be one that would listen. Because a lot of times, the kids
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just want to be heard. They felt like they're not being listened
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to or anything like that - they're not being heard. And
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and dad were like, you got all of A's and B's. What's up with
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sometimes, that would cause them to have more outbreaks and
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stuff. I have that experience at the private school. That's
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actually where the idea of Harold From The Hood came from.
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I was doing social skill groups with elementary kids. They
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behave all too, and their attention span is not too great
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that? I was hungry, I was ready.
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so I ended up bringing in a like a snail puppet. It was like a
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little cloth stale puppet, or a navy hero from the hood.
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And so once we got through the social lesson, I would bring out
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the snail and have them talk to the snail. I also have them just
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use the puppet to have them understand social cues. I've
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used the puppet to model social appropriate behaviors and stuff
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like that in terms of social interactions and stuff. The
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puppet became an entertainment thing for the kids, but it also
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helped me to get them through understanding the social skill
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lessons better and stuff like that. Sometimes, you have to do
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it like that. I just never imagined back then that that
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idea would become a children's book series, social book series,
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Harold From The Hood. I never imagined that. But now, I'm
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here.
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You meet so many wonderful people, and you network around.
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And all of a sudden, one person knows this person, this person
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knows that person. And all of a sudden, you're presented with
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the opportunity to do cartoon material. I've been learning the
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framework and the aspects of how that all works because people
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think that they watch the final product of having even a snippet
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of a cartoon and it's processed. Because you have to go through
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having a script produce, think about breaking down the scenes,
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how the scenes are going to play out, the lines of the characters
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and all that stuff. There's so much more to it before putting
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together the animated part of it. I'm definitely been blessed
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to go through the process of learning all the stuff as I go
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along growing my kids channel. Kids YouTube channel that's
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based on social skills.
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Looking for books that spark imagination, and teach valuable
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lessons. The Adventures of Harold From The Hood has four
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wonderful titles: A Trip to the Park, Friends Like Different
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Things, Fun Time Lunch Time, and When I Feel So Annoyed. Kids can
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enjoy animated videos, fun coloring pages, and interactive
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activity books that make learning about empathy,
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friendship, and social skills exciting. All books are
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available on every platform. Dive in today at
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jimpricebooks.education. jimpricebooks.education. Stay blessed.
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People often want to rush to quick success and everything.
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You have instant grits, and everybody want quick
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gratification, quick validation, fast, fast, fast. And a lot of
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times, they say the tortoise and the hare. When they have the
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race, the tortoise won. But it's not always about the fast, quick
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movement. It's about being consistent, knowing that you
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know you take your time, and you're trying to do things the
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right way. And at the same time, being able to overcome obstacles
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and challenges in your life that may seem challenging. But you
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actually can grow stronger from those challenges in facing
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adversity, because now you will show and prove to yourself that
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you can get through those opportunities, those situations,
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and come out with a positive part to it.
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A lot of times, we do forget that even though you go through
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a lot of struggle, or whatever the case might be, even myself,
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I've gone through my struggles and stuff like that, but I
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always try to keep a positive mindset and understand that
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sometimes, things will always go the way we want them to. But
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sometimes, things just happen in their divine timing. Sometimes,
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it's just not the right time. When I first got out of high
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school, went to college, it wasn't the right time,
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obviously, because I didn't do too much anything. My grades are
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horrible, and they end up saying bye bye. I learned from that
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experience. And then when I was really ready and really set,
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ready and hungry, when I went back, I just rolled up my
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sleeves and went to work.
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And fast forward, you get into the doctorate program, and
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you're figuring out, wow, the time went by so fast. You're
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going through the dissertation defense, and you got the panel
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looking at you, and you're going through your presentation, all
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the material, the data, and all that stuff, and then you get to
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the end and you're like, oh, my goodness. You feel the pressure.
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You gonna ask the panel, ask you all these questions, and you're
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hoping that you answer these questions in the way that makes
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things be good for your for yourself. And it was just such a
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great thing to hear the panel say, and now henceforth your day
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will be Dr. Price. I was like, oh, my goodness. I've crashed
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that finish line. Now I was so glad to get there.
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By the end of the program, I had hit the wall. I was pretty much
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ready to be done. I was very emotional that day. I was
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thinking about how my dad struggled in the South for me
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coming here. My dad and mom, they experiences in the South
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the civil rights movement, and I've had to move up here because
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things were turbulent down there. I think about how their
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life experiences and the challenges are, the stuff that I
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faced and the obstacles that I overcome to do a lot of things I
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do outside of the books just to get into the field my purpose of
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counseling the kids, giving them guidance, helping them
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understand about self-care, self-worth, boosting
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self-esteem, all those things that are important and critical
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for kids in their development. So when they be adults, they can
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be very productive citizens in the community that they are at.
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My purpose is all about inspiring youth worldwide to be
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the best person they can be while inspiring themselves to
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understand that they can grow, they can nurture themselves, and
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they can help others around the way. A lot of times, people will
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see your story and they'll be inspired. Because maybe they
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were going through a similar thing, and now you know they see
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your story and they're able to make it through and overcome
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obstacles in their lives that have similar connotations.This
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podcast show will be having a lot of guests that will be
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sharing their story, sharing their journey, sharing how they
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got to where they're at in terms of things, and being able to
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give the audience tips and pointers of what is their
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journey. How did they get there? What do they consider their
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purpose? What do they consider being part of the progress for them?
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We're going to be having a lot of amazing guest on the show,
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and I'm happy to definitely be your guest on the show and bring
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awareness and more understanding about unconsciousness, about
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self-awareness, understanding that we can overcome obstacles.
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And if you really put your dreams and stuff where you
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believe in what you're doing, and you're doing positive things
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to try to get there, things usually work out because the
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universe always get what you put out.
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A lot of times, if you're putting out the positive in the
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universe and you really die hard about working on, maybe it's a
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new business, maybe it's a new podcast show, maybe it's writing
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books, or whatever it might be, sports or whatever, when you put
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things in a positive framework and you look at it from that
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way, and have a self-conscious, consciousness of understanding
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awareness of being positive, then you can overcome the
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obstacles and stuff you need to reach that goal. You start with
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one small goal and another small goal, and all of a sudden, you
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reach a big goal. The doctorate program was kind of like that. I
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took on small steps, small steps, small steps. And then all
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of a sudden, I got to the big steps.
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There's going to be a lot of exciting guests we're going to
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be having sharing their story, sharing their journey, sharing
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how they got to where they're at on their journey to purpose and
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progress with our show here, so I appreciate the audience tuning
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in. We're going to be having exciting guests. And of course,
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if you want to check out my material and stuff like that,
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you can go to my website, jimpricebooks.education. That's
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jimpricebooks.education where you see all my cartoon material,
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all my social skill books for Pre-K through 5th grade. I also
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have activity books that are educational that supplement the
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books and stuff like that. So for school teachers, counselors,
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families, a lot of that material can help you in terms of your
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child nurturing and growing their social skills, which is
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part of my purpose as well. Thank you for joining us, and
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we'll see you next time. We'll have a fabulous guest to share
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their story on The Purpose in Progress Podcast with Dr. Jim
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Price. Thank you for joining us, and have a blessed, wonderful day.
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Thank you for joining me on this episode of The Purpose in
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Progress Podcast. I hope today's conversation gave you insight,
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inspiration, or a fresh perspective to help you move
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Remember, your purpose is waiting, and progress never
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stops. I'll see you next time.