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Season 4 - Episode 121 - Teaching my son about living with INTENTION · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  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 truck.
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  So you might be wondering why the heck is she in her truck?
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  Well, I have the privilege this morning of dropping my son off
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  at a new program that he's involved with that is an
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  apprenticeship to become a plumber.
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  He decided that he wanted to become a plumber and he's 16
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  years old, made this decision and is extremely excited about
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  it. So the path to getting him there
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  was a little bit different than one might think.
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  And how are we doing this at 16 years old?
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  And this is all about intentional living.
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  So I want to explain to you a little bit about what happened
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  because he's, he's part of an, we homeschool him and he's part
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  of an online program that he can, you know, he's getting an
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  official diploma, which is wonderful.
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  And so this program had an A class in it that had him watch
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  career exploration. Now, since he was little, he has
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  always been mechanically inclined.
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  This child, he can put IKEA furniture together by looking at
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  it. He can understand the
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  instructions, my friends, which is, you know, way beyond my
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  skill set. I look at them and I like, ah,
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  no way, but he gets it. So what's what was funny was he
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  took this class because the online school actually asked
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  him, you know, participate in it.
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  And he saw an HVAC, you know, running, fixing heating and
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  cooling. And he thought that that was
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  very cool and he thought that that would be fun to do.
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  So locally, we have a technical school that offers programs to
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  juniors and seniors in high school to start their training
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  ahead of time. And then by the time they're out
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  of high school, they will actually have a job with a
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  company, which was incredible. So we attended an event that
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  they had to see what it was all about.
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  And what what he learned was that, you know, there's a
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  limitation to that. Once you do a track, you you do
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  a track. So he started, you know, the
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  class had talked about the class he took from the online school,
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  talked about doing plumbing and everywhere he went inside that,
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  that presentation day and he talked to companies about it.
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  They said, oh, well, we don't have a plumbing program because
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  you have to work directly with a plumber.
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  You have to be trained there. There there is online training,
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  but you really have to be an apprentice with someone
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  specific. And there was no, no companies
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  participating in the technical schools program.
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  So he kind of got defeated and was like, I guess I'm just going
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  to have to do HVAC. And I said, do you really want
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  to do plumbing? And he said, yes.
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  And I said, OK, let's make it happen.
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  So through the process of getting everything ready for the
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  technical school application, we had to put together a resume.
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  He had to get recommendations from the job he currently has,
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  where he's worked since he was 14 years old at a mulch market.
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  And they have taught him amazing things, sales, they've taught
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  him, you know, the discipline of being able to run the yard.
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  He's learned to drive heavy equipment because it's a private
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  property. So he can.
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  And I'm talking big JC BS. I mean, they've really, it's
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  really helped him so much doing this job.
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  So we put together everything and I said to him, we're going
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  to reach out to companies directly and see if someone will
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  take you on as an apprentice. And he said outside the
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  technical program. And I said, yeah.
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  He said, can we do that? And I said, you know, you have
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  to learn and you really have to be intentional right now.
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  Do you want to be a plumber? Yes.
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  OK, then we're going to find you the place that's going to help
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  you. So of course, me being me, I
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  started, you know, my process of looking and saying, OK, what
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  looks like a good company. And I'm thinking about this
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  non-stop. And the next morning I wake up
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  and I click the television on to watch the weather and there's a
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  commercial from a HVAC company that does HVAC and plumbing and
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  heating and all kinds of other things.
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  And the commercial with the gentleman that owned the company
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  just was so genuine. And so the way he was talking
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  about how he started the company and he was, it was built on
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  simple principles of just, you know, saying please and thank
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  you and giving handshakes and doing a good job and showing up
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  on time and how they work to have five star reviews, that's
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  what they focus on. And I thought, well, I might as
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  well reach out to them first because I was intentionally
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  thinking of this and all of a sudden it showed up.
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  Right on the. Right on the screen right in
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  front of me. So I was like OK this is a
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  message. So I called and I got spoke to
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  the dispatcher and she said let me get you in touch with the
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  right person. And I left a message for the
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  person. And lo and behold within 20
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  minutes I get a call back and this girl and I start having a
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  conversation. I tell her everything and she
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  says well let me get in touch with the person who's runs
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  everybody and see if they'd be willing to do it.
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  We have done one before, but he was a son of someone who was
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  already a plumber. But let me just check and see.
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  And she said in the meantime, do you have anything you can send
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  over to us about him? So I said yes and I told her
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  about the Trident stuff that I had prepared and she said great,
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  send it on over. So I sent it over.
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  No joke. 30 minutes later, I get a call back that they would like
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  to meet him. And I took him down about a
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  month and a half ago. He sat down with everybody and
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  by the end of the interview in this boardroom with these
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  people, they hired him and they are paying him to train him.
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  And he is absolutely elated. He's beyond elated.
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  So excited. Yesterday happened, you know, to
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  be the first time it kind of sunk in that this was all
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  happening and he is on cloud 9, on cloud 9.
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  So about intentional living, about intended energy going in a
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  direction, my friends, not only does it work, but when you do
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  this and you use it with your skills along to help other
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  people, just like I did, just like teaching him this, he is so
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  focused. He's like, I am going to be a
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  master plumber by the time I'm 20.
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  I'm focused on that. I am going to study, I'm going
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  to take the test, I'm going to work with them.
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  And he could not be more excited.
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  So today I want you to think about the fact that all of this
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  happened because I wasn't, you know, intimidated to reach out.
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  I wasn't intimidated to ask for what we wanted.
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  I had intention. He had intention.
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  We were focused on it, even though he was wonky and a little
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  like uncertain if you could. I was like, Nope, we focus on
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  it. We will make it happen.
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  And we did. So remember that.
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  Take that forward and work that for yourself.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.