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Ep153. Embracing Your Inner Wisdom: Filtering Knowledge for Authentic Growth. · The Inner Wealth Podcast

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Do you ever wake up feeling like there's something missing in your life?
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Do you ever feel the need to escape your business?
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  Speaker 1: Are you running your life or is your life running you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mike Kitko and I'll help you design and create a life so authentic and aligned with who you really are you'll get excited just to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: I'll help you create real wealth, success and freedom from the inside out.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: I read a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I read a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I attend a lot of workshops and seminars.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: I learn a lot.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: I uh I listened to a lot of audio books.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Um, in our, in our inner wealth mastermind, we have a book study and we're always reading a book together and people are sharing their insights and unpacking that idea together.
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  Speaker 1: And there's another, uh, in a.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: There's another group that you know.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: I kind of recommended seven books to them to read and they're reading them together.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: They're seven of my favorite books and they're reading them together.
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  Speaker 1: And every once in a while, I pop in and show up in that group.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm always investing in my own growth and in my own learning and I'm teaching what I know, and this has been an ongoing process since 2016.
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  Speaker 1: I've become a massive consumer of new stuff, of new content, of new wisdom and new knowledge, and that goes not just I read a lot of nonfiction books, just on the personal development side, but I also.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: There's a group of a system, a group of like I guess you can call it a group of systems called the soul sciences, and what that is is, if you look at, if you've ever dove into or researched human design and the gene keys and soul contracts, the life you were born to live.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: There's an app called the Pattern, and I don't I'm not an affiliate for any of them, so this is not I'm not in it for me with what I'm suggesting and recommending, what I'm suggesting and recommending, but these are all.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: I guess you can call them personality, genetic, purpose-based systems that help you understand yourself at a deeper level, help you understand your path, your purpose, and help you understand, make sense of life, your life and these systems are woo-woo as fuck, and what I mean by that is they're based on astrology and Soul Contracts is based on your name at birth, your legal name.
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  Speaker 1: It's like these systems.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time in my life where I would have said that they were absolute garbage.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a time where I did say they were garbage until I got to know them a little deeper, until I got to study them and I got to understand them and I got to unpack them and I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt right now that the soul science is real and I can see in the gene keys and the human design and the life you were born to live and soul contracts.
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  Speaker 1: I can see the purpose of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I can see the talents that I possess.
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  Speaker 1: I can see why I make certain choices.
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten to understand myself at such a deep, deep level.
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  Speaker 1: Life just makes much more sense Now, every once in a while in there I come across something that just doesn't click.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: For me it just doesn't click.
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  Speaker 1: And an old coach of mine, when he said this the first time and I really appreciate it he said you know, with any of this stuff, eat the fruit and spit out the seeds.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: And that single line made more sense than probably any line when it comes to learning, any line that you know.
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  Speaker 1: Ever and ever since I heard that eat the fruit and spit out the seeds all I can say is I not only am a consumer, but I am also a filter for what I lean into and what I don't.
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  Speaker 1: And I can say, with some books, with some personality systems, with some soul sciences, and we also have a soul science call in the Inner Wealth Mastermind too.
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  Speaker 1: So not only do I am I a student of it, I'm a teacher of it and I teach these things, but I also teach my students eat the fruit and spit out the seeds.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: Now I probably recommended hundreds, if not thousands, of books to people and I love awesome nonfiction books that move the needle on life, and I'll share with you.
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  Speaker 1: Not one of them for me, connects 100%.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: There's always a nugget, multiple nuggets, maybe a section, maybe a chapter.
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  Speaker 1: There's typically something in there that it's not like off-putting and it doesn't harm the rest of the book.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't connect with my soul and it just doesn't resonate.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't feel true for me.
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  Speaker 1: Now there could be a 10-chapter book and one chapter just feels.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel in alignment with my soul's knowing, with my inner knower, with my inner wisdom, and there just feels like there's something a little off.
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  Speaker 1: Now what?
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  Speaker 1: Eat the fruit and spit out the seeds means don't throw away the nine chapters that you really connected with because of one chapter that doesn't grab the insights, the knowledge, the wisdom that feel true for you, that feel useful for you.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: Grab them, implement them, harvest them and benefit from them.
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  Speaker 1: But you don't need to accept, embrace and surrender to all of anything in this world.
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  Speaker 1: So some of this I wish I would have known back in my youth, when I was sitting in religious education classes and it felt like so much garbage was being spewed at me that, you know, as a kid I didn't have a filter to be able to keep some of this stuff out and let you know others, other stuff that felt more in alignment to let it in.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: I embraced all of it, and I did this for the entire, almost the entirety of my life up until age 43.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I looked for all the answers outside of me and when something that was being taught to me outside of me was in conflict with something that was inside, I would often opt to choose to see truth in something that felt like falsehood, because I didn't feel valuable, I didn't feel worthy, I didn't feel deserving to make my own choice.
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: So when someone was teaching something that felt like it, just it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't feel like truth to me.
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  Speaker 1: I made myself wrong in the process, self-wrong in the process, and what eat the fruit and spit out the seeds means?
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: It means you don't need to be a massive consumer of everything and accept everything and embrace everything and make yourself wrong.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: Now, on this podcast, I have talked about how your current beliefs have gotten you here.
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  Speaker 1: So look for that next level belief, that higher level belief, and I do believe that I do absolutely believe and embrace that, that next level belief, that next level perspective, that next level thought, that next level idea.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to help you level up.
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  Speaker 1: It creates more freedom in your life.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't limit you.
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  Speaker 1: It creates more freedom.
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  Speaker 1: It creates more inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: It actually elevates your life and your inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't take away.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: So always be on the lookout for those beliefs that are riding at a higher level, that create more wealth, that create more success, that create more freedom, that create more happiness, that create more love.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: Look for those things always, and when you find them and when you embrace them, they will raise the quality of your circumstances.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: But when you're going through the world, you do not need to absorb, accept and embrace everything that everyone says, even this podcast, this podcast.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: When you're listening to the Inner Wealth Podcast, what I want for you is to listen to the core message of each episode, because there is typically a core message in each episode.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: Listen for it, try it on for yourself, think about it as a pair of pants and try them on for yourself.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Does that message fit for you?
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  Speaker 1: Does it feel truthful for you?
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  Speaker 1: Does it feel like it has a place in your life?
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: And I never, ever want you to try to fit yourself into a concept that I share, that you are making yourself wrong, when you don't really fully, maybe, understand it, you haven't embraced it, you can't see the truth in it, you can't see it clearly, but yet you try to force yourself into that idea, into that concept.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: And what I want for you with this podcast is I want you to dive into the wisdom of the episodes, reflect on your life and see where it might be of value, see where it might not be of value.
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  Speaker 1: Eat the fruit and spit out the seeds.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Value, see where it might not be a value.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Eat the fruit and spit out the seeds.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: I do not believe I have all eternal wisdom on lockdown and the most liberating day of my life is when I realized that I knew nothing.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is if I look back at what I know now compared to what I know 10 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: 10 years ago, I would have told you that I knew stuff, and right now, most of what I know is in direct conflict with what I thought was truth 10 years ago.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: And I've evolved and I've grown and I've matured and I've experienced more and I've harvested more from life, and I have a greater sense of a higher level truth now than I did 10 years ago.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: But 10 years ago I would have fought you to the death because my ego was even stronger.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: But 10 years ago I would have fought you to death, thinking that I was right and you were wrong, if our beliefs were in conflict.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: And now I don't believe what I believed either.
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  Speaker 1: So in 10 years, I would expect for a lot of what I'm sharing right now, for me to have grown beyond it, for me to have evolved past it, for me to have shed it in order to see life at a higher level.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: And maybe you're listening to this 10 years after I recorded it, but it still has value for you.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's still useful for you, maybe it's still useful for you and maybe I've evolved beyond it, but this is the exact message that you need at this time.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Lately I've been thinking about the books that I write, and there's this little dilemma that I face when writing books, and I've published two books the Impostor in Charge and the Prosperity Principles and there's this dilemma that I face in my book writing, and my authorship is that I've probably written seven books, not including the two that I've actually published and when I'm finished writing the book, whatever book I've written, by the time I'm finished with it, I've kind of outgrown it and I'm kind of not inspired by it and I'm not excited about it.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: And what I'll do at that moment is I'll go in and I'll have a new concept of a new book that I want to write and I go in and I grab some of the content that's useful, the most useful content, the most valuable content and I'll pull it forward into the new book and and then I'll start all over again and I'll I'll finish that book and I'll get to the end, and I won't be inspired by that one either, because I've outgrown that one too.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: And then I'll do the same thing over again, and I've done that about seven times on rinse and repeat, no-transcript.
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  Speaker 1: Now I believe we are always evolving, we are always growing, we are always shedding old layers and seeing life at a different level.
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  Speaker 1: Now I think our soul, I believe our soul wants to do that, but sometimes our ego gets in the way and we hold on for dear life trying to maintain the same exact personality, the same exact character, the same exact perspectives, the same exact ideology.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the ego at play, trying to protect what it knows, when the soul wants to evolve and shed everything that it knows so that it can reach higher levels of wisdom and knowledge and experience.
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  Speaker 1: So if that's the case, then the wisdom that I'm sharing now in 10 years will be useful for someone, but maybe not people that have grown beyond it.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that the content isn't useful.
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  Speaker 1: Eat the fruit, spit out the seeds.
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  Speaker 1: Eat the fruit, spit out the seeds.
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  Speaker 1: Understand what feels right, useful, valuable, impactful, helpful for you and consume it.
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  Speaker 1: And if it doesn't, don't force it into your life.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Now I was.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I make a lot of content and I make a tremendous amount of content.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the video podcast, I've got the audio podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I blog once a month on interwealthglobalcom.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I'm constantly writing some kind of a book or some kind of content.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I love writing, I really enjoy writing, but I also create courses, and I've also done the same thing with courses, where I've created a course, then a little bit later and I created a second one and I I throw away the first one and delete it, and then I'll create a third and then I'll throw away the second and and it's an it's an evolutionary process for me and I outgrow the content that I create.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: But I create a lot of content, and one thing that I hear from a lot of marketing experts is to like, right now I'm recording a video of this podcast and I'm going to take the audio and I'm going to put it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and I'm going to take the video and I'm going to put it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and I'm going to take the video, and I'm going to take the video and put it on YouTube.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Then I'm going to send this video to a marketing person and they're going to chop it up into little 60 second, 90 second reels so that we can put them on our social media account and I've been doing this for quite a while and they've reached a lot of people and my reach is increasing and it seems to be working and we seem to be doing a nice job with what we're doing and consistency has paid off doing this for a couple of years creating this content in this way.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast is the audio version.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast has been around since August 2021, I believe.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: So we've been doing this and at this for a long time.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Then we started building our YouTube channel and it grows.
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  Speaker 1: It grows regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Our viewership, our listenership on our podcast.
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  Speaker 1: They grow regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's not as though I think I've mastered this whole content creation realm.
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  Speaker 1: So there's people that create way higher level content, get more reach, have more impact in the world than me.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand that.
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  Speaker 1: But I was at this conference, was at this conference a couple of days ago and one of the guys that one of the speakers and I was I was a speaker on the on the docket, and one of the speakers was a YouTube expert, and this YouTube expert basically said something counter to everything that I've ever heard from anyone else, and what I've heard is to always repurpose your content in as many forms as you possibly can and spread it across different applications.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: And on the speaking stage he said don't repurpose content, rerecord it differently, but never, ever, ever repurpose content.
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  Speaker 1: It's lazy.
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  Speaker 1: And I've probably in my life heard 50 people, 50 marketers, talking about how to repurpose content and this one fella comes up there and says something exactly opposite.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And in that instant I got the opportunity to look and reflect on the work that I do in the social media space, in the YouTube channel, in the podcast.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I got to take a look at what I'm doing and the steady progress that we've made with it, and I got to reflect and I got to choose and decide whether I wanted to agree with that new person and do something different or if I wanted to continue to plot the course that I've been on for years.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: And I chose in that moment to disregard what that speaker was saying.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: There might be some truth to it, there might be some validity to it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: If I got on a one-on-one call with him and I walked through that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: He probably has a really good reason for why he teaches that.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't fit with the life, it doesn't fit with the choices that I've made and the choices that I'm making.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: It doesn't fit with the patterns and the programs that I've been running in terms of creating content.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe at some point in the future somebody else will say it differently and I'll hear it differently and it'll make sense, but at this moment it didn't, and that's when I realized that in this life, no matter what anyone teaches, there's someone out there teaching the exact opposite.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: No matter what someone believes, there's someone who believes different.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: No matter what someone values, there's someone who values different, there's someone who values different.
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  Speaker 1: And no two people have the same perspective, the same preferences, the same beliefs, have the same experience.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: And if we compared everything that we do, we believe, we have, we execute, we don't execute They'd all be different and every I don't know about everybody, but most of those people would defend the way they do it as the way to do it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And I've learned over the last eight years there's no single way to do anything.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: So if someone says this, no single way to do anything.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So if someone says this is the way to do it, fucking run, because they're manipulating you.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: As you go through this podcast and these episodes, as you read books, as you connect the wisdom, as you connect to education, as you connect the courses, as maybe you do some of the courses that I've created.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor and eat the fruit and spit out the seeds.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: If it feels useful for you, do it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: If it doesn't feel useful for you, don't.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: But please understand, nobody has it all figured out and sometimes, if you've noticed, what works for somebody might not work for another person because of their experience and their talents and their gifts, their ambitions, their desires.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Their ambitions, their desires and we're not all created equally.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: And I encourage you think for yourself, live for yourself and be yourself.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And that includes eating the fruit and spitting out the seeds with what anybody teaches you and with what anyone shares with you and with anyone shares with you.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Always look for that next highest belief that creates freedom and inspiration, but don't force yourself into anyone else's box that doesn't feel beneficial for you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: It took me going to a seminar and seeing one guy say that say something counter to everybody else, to really understand that there is no single universal truth when it comes to any choices or decisions you make, that we're all trying to figure it out, that we're all trying to figure it out together and someone who tells you they have all the answers.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: They're not in it for you, they're in it for themselves and they're just trying to prove to you that you're wrong in some way or that they're an expert in something that they're still evolving into as well.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Hope this is helpful.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Hope this is useful.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Eat the fruit and spit out the seeds constantly.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Always evaluate for yourself, choose for yourself and always step into higher forms of you, because you're one of freaking 8 billion people on the planet.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Just be you.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Everyone else is taken.
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  Speaker 1: If you enjoyed what you heard and you want to learn more, go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcom for more tools and resources.