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Season 4 - Episode 21 - An update from the road · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the Coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from my hotel room.
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  Yes, I am in cold Ohio where it is so cold they're cancelling
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  school. It's cold, my friends, it's cold
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  and I'm inside and I'm still cold.
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  So, you know, I'm not a fan of it.
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  But anyway, today I am getting ready to go speak and I could
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  not be more excited about it that I get to go do a training
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  today and tomorrow for amazing group of people and super
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  excited. So today I'm actually in
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  Columbus and then I move over to Cincinnati tomorrow.
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  So it's going to be a fun couple of days.
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  Now what are we talking about today?
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  Well, we're talking about stretching yourself because for
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  me, getting up and leaving the farm is the stretch.
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  Now some of you might be thinking, OK, she's going to go
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  speak and that's the stretch. But that's not the stretch for
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  me. The stretch is leaving the
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  stretch releasing, leaving the animals, leaving my son, my
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  husband, leaving behind my, my daughter and my while she's
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  pregnant. And even though she has a
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  husband and he takes care of her, it's my certainty girl who
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  has all of these challenges. And I, I can tell you it was
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  when I, when I thought about going and doing this, I was
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  like, when I got invited, I was like, Oh yes, this is, this is a
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  great idea. And then immediately my
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  certainty girl kicked into gear and was like, but it's going to
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  be January and why would you go? And, you know, it's going to be
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  cold And and and and and and and and gave me an entire list of
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  reasons why I should probably say no.
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  And this is one of those things where it's an emotional stretch
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  for me to leave the stuff that I care for behind.
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  Like already wondering. I wonder last night I said, oh,
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  I wonder if the dogs were taking care of the right way.
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  Oh, did someone change the bowl? Because Lucy doesn't drink water
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  after Buford's drank it. And somebody needs to change the
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  bowl and all the little tiny things that I do that make it
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  special for all of them, they are not doing.
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  And then I panic because no one's doing it.
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  But here's the thing that I thought about.
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  And I really had to get in my in the right headspace about this.
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  Well, of course they're not going to do them.
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  They're not me. And I have to let them be them.
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  And in the few days that I'm gone, it's highly unlikely that
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  there's going to be a disaster with water or there's going to
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  be a disaster with food, or that the chickens won't be taken care
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  of the right way, or that somebody miscounted because
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  I've. I'm I have to trust that they
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  are going to show up in some way, shape or form to take care
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  of this. And that's where my certainty
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  girl always has work to do. I can guarantee you she always
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  has work to do on this because letting go and just saying, OK,
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  I'm releasing this. This is one of those things for
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  her is just an arduous process. She's already thinking about
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  checking in for the flight to go home.
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  Is it going to be bad weather? Am I going to be able to get
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  out? How late will I be me?
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  I have to do work on Thursday. I mean, the list goes on and on
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  with her always. So the reason I'm telling you
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  all this is because, you know, I like to keep it real and I don't
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  want you to think I'm perfect because I couldn't be further
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  from perfect. Can hear the coffee pot in the
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  background. I bet I'm trying to make hot
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  water for tea and it's the noisiest little thing I've ever
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  seen. So it's Needless to say, the
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  point of this whole conversation today is us being able to be
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  real about the fact that we have to control those thoughts.
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  We have to control those emotions.
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  We have to control those reactions and make sure that
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  we're not allowing them to take over and and ruin the day.
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  So I have to be very present when I go out there today.
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  I'm speaking to 250 people. I have to be very present.
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  I have to be in the moment. I can't allow myself myself to
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  be obsessing on it, so I switch the emotion.
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  I'm constantly telling my certainty, girl, this is fine.
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  You have to surrender and you have to trust.
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  If you say what you say is true and you believe in what you
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  believe, then you must allow this process to take place and
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  trust the results. And that's what I'm doing.
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  And but I have to keep reminding myself of that.
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  I have to keep switching my driver to that place, that
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  spiritual driver in me that can come up and be very peaceful.
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  And I just keep saying this has got to be my hippie chick Zen
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  girl. This has got to be the one
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  that's just like, it's cool, it's OK, it's going to be fine
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  and do it and not allow myself to get stuck it deep within my
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  head. So I'm telling you this because
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  I want you to realize we all have it, even me.
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  Even on a day when I'm going out to do something like this and
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  talk to people about mindset and emotions and everything else, it
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  happens. And just understanding that
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  sometimes it's a relief just knowing that someone else is
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  going through the same thing. It helps.
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  So I hope it helps you today and send me good vibes because I'm
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  freezing. Anyway, I hope you all have a
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.