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Stop Playing Small · Revolution of Purpose Podcast

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What if the biggest thing standing between you and an extraordinary life is
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not your circumstances? What if it's that you've never
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allowed yourself to dream big enough?
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Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast. I'm your host,
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John Streit, and each week we bring you conversations with thought leaders,
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entrepreneurs, and individuals who have aligned their life
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with purpose and created extraordinary results. So I'm going to live through it and accept
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it radically with grace and hope and love. I mean,
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I would be proud to be in this household It was an honor. I had
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so much fun. Tune in every Monday for the Revolution of Purpose solo show and
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every Thursday for Revolution of Purpose Conversations.
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Welcome back to another episode of Revolution of Purpose. This week
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was a pretty special week for me because something I've been envisioning
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and creating finally came to life. I launched a
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brand new coaching experience. It's the first live Apex
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experience that I've had. And Apex is really built around a
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question that I have been obsessed with lately. What becomes possible
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when we stop allowing our current identity to determine
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the size of our future? Because here's what I've noticed: most people don't
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actually dream from the limitless possibilities of what their life could
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become. We dream from what we already know. We look at
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our current income or our current career, our current business and education.
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We look at our relationships the way they are right now, our our past successes
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and failures. We look at what we've accomplished before, and then we
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ask, okay, based on all of that that's happened so
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far, what is realistic for me next?
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But what if that's the wrong question? Because all of these
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things can tell you where you are today, and they can tell you where
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you were yesterday, but they cannot tell you who
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you are capable of becoming. One of my favorite moments from
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our first Apex session this week happened while I was listening to
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someone who is already a very successful entrepreneur, or at least
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very successful by most people's matrix. You know, this person
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is doing very well. And this isn't someone saying, my life is falling
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apart, how do I fix it? It's actually quite the opposite.
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And that's what made the moment so powerful to me. I could see this
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realization happening that there was so much more
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available. They knew that they had bigger dreams. They knew they
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had bigger possibilities. And also they knew that limiting beliefs
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had gone unchallenged because the current level of success that
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they found themselves was evidence of what they thought was possible.
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Think about that. Sometimes the greatest limitation in
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our life is not failure. It's actually the level of success that we're
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currently at. Because you create something successful and then eventually that level
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becomes your new normal. You know, you begin identifying
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with it. This is who I am. This is what I earn. This is the
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size of the business that I run. This is the level that I operate.
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And without realizing it, yesterday's accomplishments becomes
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today's ceiling. That's one of the things that I love about the
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group going through Apex right now. There are business owners,
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there are entrepreneurs, real estate investors, real estate brokers,
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people from different backgrounds who are already creating things with
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their lives. They're not coming together because they've decided that they're
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failures. They're coming together because they've decided,
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I'm not finished. I'm not done creating. There is more in
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me. There's more that I can become. There is more that I can contribute.
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And I don't want what I've already accomplished to determine what
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I believe I can accomplish next. And there's something else that's
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happening that I think is incredibly important. They're getting in a room
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with other people who think that same way. I believe that the
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rooms we put ourselves in matter because if you're constantly
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surrounded by conversations about why something won't work or
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why it's unrealistic or why you should be satisfied or
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why you shouldn't take the risk, eventually that becomes
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your new normal. But something changes when you get into a room
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where people are asking different questions. What if it
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is possible? What would you create if you weren't afraid?
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What limiting belief would you have to release? Who would
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you have to become? What would you dream if you stopped
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worrying about how you were going to accomplish it? Suddenly that
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energy shifts. Possibility becomes normal. Growth becomes
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normal. Dreaming bigger becomes normal. And sometimes
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you need to borrow the belief of the room until you develop enough belief
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of your own. There was another realization during our first Apex
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session that I haven't stopped thinking about. There was someone else who realized that
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maybe the reason they weren't growing wasn't because they weren't capable of
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more. They just hadn't awakened to, to it even
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being possible to grow. Like, that's a huge distinction when you think about
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it. You, you can't intentionally create a reality that you don't yet
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believe exists for you. That you don't believe is even possible,
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if your identity says, this is who I am, then your mind
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begins filtering possibility through that identity.
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That's why the first stage of something that I've developed called the Law of Identity
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Transformation is awaken. You know, this full Law of Identity Transformation,
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you definitely need to check out. There's an episode where I talk just about this,
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but that process is this: it's awaken,
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become, align, and create. And I'm
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not going to teach the entire framework today because I have talked about it before,
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but I want you to understand why awaken comes first in
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this law. Before you can become something greater, you first
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have to awaken to the possibility that something greater exists. And I believe
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that we are tapped into something so much bigger than the limitations we've
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created in our own minds. We are tapped into limitless
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consciousness, limitless abundance, limitless possibility.
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The question isn't simply, what can I accomplish from where I am?
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A much more powerful question is this: what could become possible
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if I stopped using who I've been as the measuring stick
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for who I can become? And this brings me to something that we've
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talked about during Apex, and I want to share this teaching with you as well.
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It's the concept of A, B, and C-level
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goals. And I want to specifically give credit here to Bob Proctor, the great
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mindset coach, because this is a concept that I learned
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through Bob teachings. I recently completed the Bob Proctor Legacy Blueprint,
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which was a year-long deep dive into his work. And this particular teaching
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has really impacted the way that I think about goals.
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Bob taught that there are essentially 3 levels of
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goals. There's an A-level goal, and this is something
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that you already know how to do. Like you have accomplished this goal before.
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Maybe you sold $500,000 in business last
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year. And so your goal is to do $500,000 again. That's a
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goal, but it doesn't require you to become someone different.
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You already know how to do that goal. Please pardon
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this interruption to your podcast episode. This will not take but a minute. Before we
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continue, I want to ask you something. Do you know that you're capable of more,
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but your life right now just isn't fully reflecting the person
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you know you can become? Then I want to personally invite you to
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schedule a Shift Mindset call with me. This Shift Mindset
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experience is something that I created to help you identify
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one decision that you can make that will shift your life.
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And when I say that this is a call with me, I mean exactly that.
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This is a live one-on-one personal call between
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you and I. This is not prerecorded. This is not a member of my team.
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It is you and I having a real coaching conversation about your life,
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and it does not cost you any money. It is a 45-minute
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exchange of time. I'll give you 30 minutes of my best mindset coaching
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to help you identify a decision that will create a real shift in
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your life. And in exchange, I just ask that you give me about 15 minutes
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to show you the coaching experiences that I offer. There's no obligation,
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but there is an opportunity to create a meaningful shift
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in your life just from this call. You can schedule yours today at
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johnstreet.org. Just click on the button that says schedule
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your shift call. And also, if this podcast is helping you,
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please subscribe. Please like and please share it. Every time
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you do that, every time you engage, you are helping to spread this message
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and inspire someone else to create their best life through also
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living their own revolution of purpose. Now let's get you back
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to the Revolution of Purpose podcast. A B-level goal,
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however, is something that you've not necessarily done yet, but you
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can see how it's possible. You can see yourself accomplishing it.
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If I do this, then this, then this, I will get there.
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It stretches you, but you can basically see the roadmap.
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And then there's the C-level goal. The C-level
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goal. This is one that I really love because a C-level
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goal is something that you genuinely want, but you don't
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know how you're going to accomplish yet. It excites you. It may
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scare you a little. It may scare you a lot. And if you tell the
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wrong person about it, they may even tell you that you're crazy. But here's what
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I think is so powerful about C-level goals. If you already knew
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exactly how to achieve it, it wouldn't require you to become someone new.
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It wouldn't require that identity transformation that we talk
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about. And that's how I want to connect this idea with the work
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that we've been talking on this podcast about identity. Your C-level goal
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isn't only asking you to accomplish something bigger, it's asking
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you to become someone bigger. So let me practice
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what I preach, and I'm going to tell you one of my C-level goals.
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I know this is going to sound big, but it's meant to.
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One of my C-level goals is for John Street Global, my umbrella
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company that's over everything from speaking, the podcast,
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books, and coaching, all of it. I want John
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Street Global to become a truly worldwide recognized
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brand. I'm fortunate that I've gotten to speak on stages
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already that are in other countries, and I have some coaching clients in other countries
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outside of the United States where I'm based, but I want it to truly be
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a worldwide recognized brand.
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And recently something happened that helped me see that vision differently.
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Here in Birmingham, Alabama, we have an arena downtown.
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It's a sports arena and it's called the Legacy Arena. I saw
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an article about the naming rights for the arena and something
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in my mind just went, hmm, what if someday that
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was named The John Street Global Arena.
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Right now it's named for Legacy Credit Union, a local credit union,
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and I think they pay around $500,000 a year for the
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naming rights from what I read. But listen to this: I don't currently
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have a plan sitting on my desk that shows me exactly how John Street
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Global buys the naming rights to a major arena,
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and that's kind of the point. So I let myself go there.
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I even went into ChatGPT and created an image of the arena
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with John Street Global as the name across And seeing
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that image just did something for me. It helped it become real because
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suddenly I realized this arena wasn't really the dream,
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but it was a symbol of the dream. It represented the scale.
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What would John Street Global have to become for something
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like that to even become possible? How many people would be
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impacted? How many countries would I be reaching? What if we
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were coaching people around the world to bust through limiting beliefs and
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achieve their dreams that they once thought were impossible?
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What if I were speaking to audiences around the world about purpose and
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identity and possibility? And then the vision
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started to get bigger. It started to grow on its own. And I started thinking,
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what if that success helped create and fund
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a John Street Global Foundation? What if we could take
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these mindset tools to people who may never have access
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to coaching? What if we could work alongside organizations that are already
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serving people who are struggling? What if we could help connect people
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with those resources? What if we could financially support agencies
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already doing extraordinary work in cities and communities
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around the world? Now we're not just talking about an arena.
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We're talking about an impact. We're talking about people's lives.
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We're talking about myself living my dharma and letting
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that light grow and grow and grow until it is worldwide.
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Impacting families, impacting communities, impacting generations.
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And do I know exactly how all this is going to happen?
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Absolutely not. And that's why it is a C-level
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goal, because this is something that I really want you to hear.
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Dreaming bigger isn't only about what you get.
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It's about what your expansion allows you to give.
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Sometimes I think we make dreaming big sound selfish.
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Well, I don't need that much and I should just be grateful
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for what I have. Or why do I need a bigger business? Why would I
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need more money? Why do I need more influence? And yes, gratitude,
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incredibly important. And you know me, I teach gratitude,
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but gratitude and expansion are not opposite things.
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You can be profoundly grateful for where you are and
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still believe that there is more for you to become.
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Because what if your expansion isn't just about you?
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My friends, what happens to your family when you expand? What opportunities
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can you create for your children? Who can your business
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employ? Who can your resources help? What organizations
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could you support as you expand? Whose life
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could be different because you stopped apologizing
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for dreaming big? What if playing small is not
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humility at all? What if the fullest expression of your purpose
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actually requires you to expand. So here's what I
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want you to do after this episode. I want you to ask yourself,
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what dream have I talked myself out of because
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I couldn't figure out how? Don't start with the how, start with the
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dream. If you knew that you couldn't fail, what would you
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create? If money weren't the limitation, what would you do?
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If your past was not allowed to vote on your future,
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What would you choose? If nobody was going to laugh at your dream or tell
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you it was unrealistic, how big would you allow yourself
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to think? And probably the most important question, who would
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you have to become to create that reality where
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that dream is tangible and you're living it every day?
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Because your inability to see the entire path is not the evidence
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that that dream is impossible. It might be the evidence that you finally found
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a dream big enough to require your transformation.
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And if something about today's episode is stirring something inside
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of you, something about wanting to transform, transform,
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if you're thinking, John, I know there's more for me,
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I just don't know exactly what more looks like yet, then I want
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to personally invite you to take the next step. I know earlier in
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the broadcast you heard me talk about the complimentary Shift Coaching Experience,
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unless you skipped the ad, and I don't blame you if you do. I skip
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ads when I listen to podcasts as well. But I want you to take me
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up on this. So this Shift coaching experience that I offer you
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is not just an opportunity for me to tell you about coaching. I am actually
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going to coach you. We get together on a Zoom call and we
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look at where you are, where you really want to go, and what may
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need to shift in your thinking to begin moving toward that bigger
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dream. And now there's another reason that I, I want you to schedule your Shift,
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because if you've listened today and you're thinking, I want to experience something like
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Apex. I'll also tell you about the next Apex experience
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that I'm putting together and how you may become a part of it if that's
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what you feel led to do. So reach out to me. You can reach out
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to me on social media, of course, on Instagram @johnstreetofficial,
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TikTok @johnstreetofficial. You can email directly at john@johnstreet.org
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and just say, John, I want to shift, and then I'll take it
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from there. We'll get you that shift call scheduled. This is a complimentary coaching
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call. All I ask is that in exchange for me coaching you,
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let me tell you about this amazing Apex Coaching experience that I've
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launched. Because there may be a version of you that you haven't even
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allowed yourself to imagine yet. Don't let the success that you've
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already created become the ceiling for the success that's still
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waiting to be created. Awaken to what's possible,
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my friends. Give yourself permission to dream at a level
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where you don't know all the answers. Start becoming
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the person who is capable of creating dreams like
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that. That is what transformation is, and it's where it begins.
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And that is what it means to live at the apex of what
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is possible for your life. Thank you as always for joining me here on
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another episode of the Revolution of Purpose podcast. And until next
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time, keep living your own revolution of purpose.
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Thank you so much for spending this time with me today. If this
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live purpose and clarity call with me.
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Until next time, remember, your purpose is not something you find.
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It is something you awaken to, and then you choose
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to live it. Go make today another step in your own revolution
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of purpose.