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Biggest Lie · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for our American mama's. Dear mama's
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  Speaker 1: what's the biggest lie you heard growing up that you
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  Speaker 1: found out was a lie?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our Americ and mama's Mama Mama.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now are American mama's Terry Ediville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlison. What's the biggest lie you heard growing up
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  Speaker 1: that you found out was a lie? And it has
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  Speaker 1: can't be about misdoubt fire, so it's.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta be Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think the news is neutral. That's a big
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  Speaker 3: old lie. I think if you work hard, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be financially secure. Job loyalty does not exist. If
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  Speaker 3: you get a degree, college degree your set for life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's probably a really good one because we
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  Speaker 1: did have an entire generation that was told and it's
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  Speaker 1: been multiple generations that looked the key to financial success
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  Speaker 1: is a college degree, and a lot of people went
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  Speaker 1: and got college degrees that are albatross's around their necks
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  Speaker 1: because they got into debt to get the college degree
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't a marketable skill.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just a box to check off. I
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  Speaker 3: really don't think that your degree unless it's something specific,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a law degree, a doctor, you know, but
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just a check off a box.
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  Speaker 1: My first degree was that. So my first degree is
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  Speaker 1: a marketing degree from the University of Texas, and that
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  Speaker 1: actually allowed me. It opened it kept doors open. So
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  Speaker 1: when I got into journalism, I was able to get
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  Speaker 1: a job in TV news because I had a college degree.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't really care what it was. Because there was
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  Speaker 1: a business degree. They gave me a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: business stories. When I went into meteorology, they wanted the
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  Speaker 1: meteorology degree, so that was a specific degree that I
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  Speaker 1: had to go back and get. And so, yeah, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: there are some that were just checkboxes. There were some
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  Speaker 1: that were specific.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they even got rid of vocational schools, and now
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing where you're vocational skills are the ones making
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  Speaker 3: so much money.
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  Speaker 2: Micro is pushing that the vocation. How to get that
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  Speaker 2: back into high schools. The good thing about college, I
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  Speaker 2: will say, is a networking You do get into this
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  Speaker 2: amazing networking group in a college where it'll help you
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  Speaker 2: in business if you if you lean on those, you know,
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  Speaker 2: those connections. I would say, I think Wendy said before
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  Speaker 2: you can be anything you want to be. You can't
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  Speaker 2: be anything you want to be. You can be the
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  Speaker 2: best at whatever you are, but you can't become a squirrel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, and you can't. You know, if you're five three,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably not going to be an NBA, you know,
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  Speaker 2: basketball star. I think that probably one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that was said that it's sad, but it's the truth
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  Speaker 2: is life is not fair. That is true. But you're
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  Speaker 2: told that if you do the right thing and you work,
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  Speaker 2: and you take these steps, you're going to find success
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  Speaker 2: wherever that leads. What I've discovered instead is it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it's who you know. So you might have
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  Speaker 2: done everything right and went through the proper protocol, the
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  Speaker 2: proper steps. Then this other person comes in probably didn't
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  Speaker 2: you know, doesn't maybe didn't have the same grades that
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  Speaker 2: you had, didn't have the same list of accomplishments from
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  Speaker 2: your school, you know, resume or whatever. Yet their father
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  Speaker 2: went to college with the boss thirty years ago. Who's
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  Speaker 2: going to get that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that that networking that you talked.
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  Speaker 2: About, that does it comes into play and you see that,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not all the time. It's not just if
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  Speaker 2: you do this, this, this you're going to be this,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not so much that it's a lie that
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  Speaker 1: I was told growing up, but I think it's it's
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  Speaker 1: an omission. It's something that I wish I had learned earlier,
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  Speaker 1: which was what zig Ziggler said. He said, I hold
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  Speaker 1: that you can get anything in life you want as
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  Speaker 1: long as you help enough other people get what they
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  Speaker 1: want in life. That if you go into life with
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  Speaker 1: a service mindset, not just a works mindset. Yes, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta work, you gotta have that work ethic. That's that's intentional,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's important. But if you aren't applying the
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  Speaker 1: work to something that is of value to someone else,
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  Speaker 1: then it doesn't matter that you're working hard. You can
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  Speaker 1: work really hard at drawing crayons on your walls at home.
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  Speaker 1: You can be the you can be the most diligent
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  Speaker 1: home crayon waller on the planet, but if that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: help anybody, then it's not helping you either.
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying that that was told you, you don't
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  Speaker 2: think that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't hear that concept until later. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not it's not that there's a lie growing up. There's
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  Speaker 1: an omission. I missed that until I was until I
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  Speaker 1: was much older, And once I heard it, I was like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what we were taught. You know. Are
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  Speaker 2: the the book that Kimberly and I finished, AD's story, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the story that he started, A DreamCatcher.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a great book, by the way, Love, thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, and in it he does say that, like he was,
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  Speaker 2: he caught a dream from his best friend. And then
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  Speaker 2: he made the point throughout his story that when you
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  Speaker 2: bring others up along for the ride to success, it's
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  Speaker 2: more enjoyable and it's definitely something that you can rely
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  Speaker 2: on God to show you away when you've got more
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  Speaker 2: people on board.
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  Speaker 3: A contagious.
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  Speaker 2: I loved that use of that word.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. One other that that you can be anything you
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  Speaker 1: want to be. I wish we had been told you
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  Speaker 1: should want to be the thing you were created.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to ask for American Mama's question, go
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  Speaker 1: to our website America got ready dot com slash Mama's
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  Speaker 1: and click on the ask of the Mama's button. Tearing
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  Speaker 1: out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you