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- 0:01Welcome to authentic living with Roxanne, a place where we have as conversations about
- 0:08things that really matter in our lives.
- 0:11And now here's your host, Roxanne Derhodge.
- 0:37I will be the moderator, for us today.
- 0:41And it's a great pleasure to be with all of you, and I'm very excited that we will be
- 0:45celebrating and, digging a little bit deeply into the Roxanne this is all return on our
- 1:00relationships.
- 1:01But before we start, I would like us to take a little note of our housekeeping rules as well.
- 1:08I'd like everybody to keep their sound off, but keep your video on if you can.
- 1:13We decided it's fun to see your faces.
- 1:15And also, we will put the speakers in pin when the slide is not on, so we'll see you.
- 1:21But otherwise, please feel free to have your slide on.
- 1:25And the sound off.
- 1:26And, also, we will start by having an interview, or or first, we'll have, a video
- 1:32that will have an interview with and then a panel.
- 1:35And all through the interview, you can ask questions and answers in the little chat box
- 1:40and after at the dedicated time, we'll give to that.
- 1:43And the same goes for the panel as well.
- 1:46So keep that in mind and write when you have it or save it for the dedicated time.
- 1:52And we will also have some fun little, giveaways as we move forward into this, session
- 2:00with, with the books and signatures and some surprises at the very end.
- 2:05So please stay with us as we move forward.
- 2:09So I think we should start now with the dedication that Roxanne Son has, made, to the
- 2:17grandfather And, here's the panel.
- 2:22We would share more of the panel as we move forward.
- 2:25Yeah.
- 2:27So let's go.
- 2:28Yeah.
- 2:29Here is one of the giveaways will get us.
- 2:32We will move forward, both signed copies of the ROR book, package of 3 books, coaching cards,
- 2:39and coaching sessions are also gonna be in the goodie bag, so to speak to our then.
- 2:45So thank you.
- 2:47A prince in the making, a diamond in the run, never quit or back down when things got cut.
- 2:54Never look for handouts, kickbacks, or charity of any kind.
- 2:58His mental tenacity meant that he would be wouldn't be left behind.
- 3:03Stood head and shoulders above his peers.
- 3:05As he showed it to the village with the swagger of a pecan, he shared tales of his rich
- 3:10narrative.
- 3:12Plus with the gift of the Gap, handsome, and ever so charming, quick witted with a razor
- 3:17sharp mind and a smile so disarmament.
- 3:20Focus on his strengths and successes, learn from his follies and flaws.
- 3:25I'll be really mixed about leftist competitors, gaspy and grasping at straws, climb the
- 3:31corporate ladder with a leadership style of his own, a prince in the making with the hair to
- 3:37the hair to the throne, an inspirational, an inspirational leader with a work ethic art to
- 3:42match.
- 3:43Started a quality company that he built from scratch.
- 3:47A personal touch guarantee, a customer's lifelong loyalty, a man of the people, he made
- 3:53them feel like royalties.
- 3:55Turned a Mazda to into a Maserati, a lancer into a Lamborghini, Sold the dream that
- 4:01afforded a store was a good was as good as a Ferrari.
- 4:05A prince in the meeting, a family member in the past, loss, love, broken hearts, relationships
- 4:12that did not last.
- 4:14Victory for forgiveness from those he heard the most, sought redemption, rounds up, found
- 4:20salvation from every past and present ghost.
- 4:24He paid a price of a princely sum.
- 4:27It's time for him to bask in his glory, a prince in the May games, the hero of his story,
- 4:32of his story.
- 4:34And that's the poem.
- 4:36That was wonderful.
- 4:37Thank you so.
- 4:40Beautiful.
- 4:42Thank you for sharing that.
- 4:44Yeah.
- 4:44These are relationships and, generational relationships at Tucson.
- 4:50And, You wrote a book on return on relationships.
- 4:56And, I know it's typically meant for or consultants and the business, but it's so
- 5:03beautiful that you're sharing also this generational relationships from the home's fair
- 5:09because whenever we are, we are, who we are, the people we bring videos everywhere.
- 5:15And I'm so happy to introduce you here to today and, certainly you are authentic sharing with
- 5:22us, your family, on the screen right now and the beauty, And, Roxanne is a registered
- 5:29psychotherapist.
- 5:30She's a corporate consultant, a keynote speaker.
- 5:33She's trainer and author.
- 5:34And she has more than 30 years of experience.
- 5:37She works with senior leadership to enhance their resilience and to assist companies with
- 5:42their corporate mental health strategies.
- 5:45She's presented at many many conferences and companies and associations on mental health and
- 5:51wellness, and she's a B book leader.
- 5:54And Roo Roxanne is also a member of the Forbes Business Coast Council.
- 5:58She's a share of women's Forbes Women's Executive Business Council and also an Amazon
- 6:04best selling author.
- 6:06She's a specialist on authentic leadership, I will say, and, and that is a very important
- 6:12topic these days.
- 6:13Authentic also hard leadership.
- 6:16So, it looks so Excited to hear from you also a little bit of background for how you came about
- 6:24writing, the ROR book, What is your dream for it?
- 6:29What's the objective around the the book?
- 6:32Would you like to start sharing some of that and also some some intentions with it, please?
- 6:38Well, I I wrote the book because, you know, I started off, obviously, as a psychotherapist
- 6:44and and I saw every possibility of the human condition from, you know, the front line when,
- 6:53you're meeting somebody in their time, so wrong trauma all the way up to being a boardrooms.
- 7:00And what I recognized was that you know, the human condition is we all want the same.
- 7:06We all wanna feel good.
- 7:07We want that peace of mind.
- 7:09And when I kind of did my tenure with corporate, I didn't fit believe it or not
- 7:15because I wanted to be really, really collaborative.
- 7:18Like, I wanted to involve everybody the same, And I often got told that's not the way you do
- 7:24it Roxanne.
- 7:24You know, you treat the people that report to you in a certain way.
- 7:28You treat the people on your level at a competitive level competitively.
- 7:33And then, of course, you know, of people above you, you you give respect And it it it just
- 7:39didn't sit very well with me.
- 7:41And that's what I thought.
- 7:42And seeing it across sectors, I thought, this is something that people need to nice, that
- 7:46shoulder to shoulder, even back then, made the most sense to me.
- 7:51And I think a lot of that comes from my beginnings and culture, like growing up in a
- 7:56little village in Trinidad, even to the little city that I live here in Chippewa, I needed
- 8:04connection.
- 8:04So I thought, why not write something that would expose people to what I thought based on
- 8:09my kind of foray into the corporate world and how I live my life.
- 8:15Oh, this is really interesting.
- 8:18And I was thinking also when you said that, oh, you didn't really fit exactly.
- 8:22You wanted to build connections and When we're talking about fitting, we talk also about being
- 8:27authentic.
- 8:28We talk about, you know, and you've written a lot about that.
- 8:32Can you also share with us a bit What what do
- 8:35you mean by that?
- 8:36Authentic?
- 8:37What does it mean for you?
- 8:38And particularly authentic and even harsh leadership, in an authentic way?
- 8:44Well, I think the incongruence of I don't have to be the same depending on where I am didn't
- 8:50fit.
- 8:51Right?
- 8:51So I often say if if I'm if you're my boss or I'm your boss and or you're my peer or you're
- 8:58someone that I'm gonna see at the hockey rink, stunning typically Canadian or someone at at my
- 9:03church, why should I be different?
- 9:06Why shouldn't anyone be different?
- 9:08So I really wanted people to experience that.
- 9:11Like, you know, if you are truly and I truly believe that's this is a skill that any of us
- 9:15can achieve.
- 9:16So often say I talk a little bit about, you know, the Dalai Lama and and Oprah in the book
- 9:21and things like that.
- 9:22What we wanna do is to just maximize our capacity to connect on a human level.
- 9:27And that's what I believe as a, you know, an authentic heart leadership if you resonate with
- 9:32yourself and really get into awareness with who you are, what you value, what you believe, I
- 9:37truly believe I call it concentric circles of intimacy.
- 9:40That you can actually project that out to others around you.
- 9:43And in turn, you're not you may be hitting from your family, you know, to your friends, to your
- 9:50community and globally, when you're presenting to people that may see you, doing your work
- 9:57whether you're on stage, whether you're training, or whether you're coaching on.
- 10:01Yeah.
- 10:01So you speak about self awareness in the book and and and this is very interesting.
- 10:07So how do you, I know you talk about this concentric circles.
- 10:12Can you share with us some of something else you write in the book about how we can become
- 10:17more self aware as well.
- 10:20Well, you know, I talk about one of the leaders in the book, and he owned a Canadian company.
- 10:24And he talked a little bit about being a CEO very, very young.
- 10:28And along with that came the accolades of attaining, you know, that seat, I believe, in
- 10:34his late twenties, and he talked about being a peacock and he, you know, he sat up basically
- 10:40on his throne.
- 10:41And what started to happen was that eventually he went through things in his life that kind of
- 10:46put him in a spot where he then he had to be vulnerable.
- 10:50And then at that point, he started to share a little bit about what he did.
- 10:54He he actually, like, opened his doors as the CEO, like figuratively speaking and physically
- 11:00speaking, where people can actually kinda get to know him.
- 11:03And he actually went out into the community and started to, you know, be on boards that were
- 11:09profit, you know, for profits and and so people could get an idea of who he was.
- 11:13So I think with authentic leadership, what happens is, unfortunately, it takes a critical
- 11:18situation for people to, I'm gonna say come to their knees to be able to connect.
- 11:23And I think it doesn't need to it it doesn't need to be something critical.
- 11:26That we all can be an awareness on on an ongoing basis so that we can kind of
- 11:32circumvent, anything critical happening we can make these changes and be in alignment to lead
- 11:38based on how we value.
- 11:40Yeah.
- 11:41This is a very hopeful message as you're saying.
- 11:43We don't lead our crisis or something critical to happen to us, but we can be in alignment, to
- 11:50to that emerging, let's say.
- 11:53You also talk about, one of the topics you talk about is also this balance processes in your
- 11:58book.
- 11:58Can you share with us little insight into what that is all about also.
- 12:04Now it's processing as a fancy word for moral alignment with your decision making.
- 12:08Yeah.
- 12:09So an example that I use in the book is when I was in Toronto and it was a SARS epidemic, not
- 12:14to date myself, anybody that remembers a SARS epidemic, but I was a I was a insective at that
- 12:19point.
- 12:20So we were going into the hospitals at that point.
- 12:23Now I got told as a senior executive that I didn't have to go in but my assistant had to.
- 12:31And she had her sons were, basically a year or year to 14 months.
- 12:37So there was a 2 month difference.
- 12:39And I said, you know, I can't send her in.
- 12:43So I went, to my superiors to say, okay.
- 12:47My son's importance, but so is her son.
- 12:50And she equally has the responsibility to her family as well.
- 12:55And we're not sure because our babies, they could be immunocompromised.
- 12:59So I in in that perspective, I demonstrated that I couldn't I wouldn't be able to live with
- 13:05myself if she went in because we were at the same stage.
- 13:09So Yeah.
- 13:10Last processing is just saying when I'm making decisions, is it an alignment with what I would
- 13:16expect people, to do around me.
- 13:19So don't be one way with yourself and then ultimately park those morals and beliefs and
- 13:24assumptions for everybody else.
- 13:26It should be, basically, a clean slate and transparency where you're projecting out the
- 13:31things that are important for you to the people around you.
- 13:35And then in turn, your teams or your culture, they should they should know what you're all
- 13:40about and know what you're gonna be like regardless of whether it's a critical situation
- 13:45over the day to day kind of, decision that you need to make.
- 13:49Yeah.
- 13:49This makes sense.
- 13:50That's having this integrity and applying that at all and and having that be a return on your
- 13:56relationship and people knowing what you were all about.
- 14:00And what you're all about.
- 14:01You also mentioned this thing with transparency to relational transparency.
- 14:05And how can we learn to be more transparent in our relationship?
- 14:09Tips.
- 14:10Would you like to share anything about that?
- 14:12Well, I think, you know, what's important with relational transparency is that I think the
- 14:17best teachers sometimes are the people that we bump up against.
- 14:21Right?
- 14:21Because I think they sometimes are your most natural teachers.
- 14:25So if you're a pretty good communicator generally, I think you go with the flow, but
- 14:30sometimes the people that are maybe not completely diametrically opposed, but people in
- 14:35your life might have little signs that says, hey, Roxanne.
- 14:39I haven't spent time with you or, hey, we haven't discussed X YOC.
- 14:43So I think instead of going, what now?
- 14:47Just say to yourself, what is it?
- 14:49What's what's the need that that person is identifying whether it's a team, whether it's
- 14:54in your family, whether it's in your community, and saying, what am I not understanding or
- 15:01coming in contact with me within myself?
- 15:03And sometimes it's not about you, but it's about creating the space and holding the space
- 15:08with that individual.
- 15:09But sometimes it is about us.
- 15:10Like, if I'm stressed and I'm I can be, you know, pretty down the middle, then I have, you
- 15:15know, oftentimes it's my son that says, hey, mom.
- 15:19You need a little bit too, direct with too many, like, I've just gotten 5 kind of
- 15:25directions in about 3 minutes, then that stops So I I think that relational transparency is to
- 15:31look reflect inside and say, what am I good at?
- 15:34And at times, what am I not good at?
- 15:37Based on the times that may be most critical for me when I'm maybe too busy or, juggling too
- 15:43many things or, maybe transitioning a lot of executive transition from being on, you know,
- 15:50at work and they come home and they're depleted.
- 15:53So how are you shifting so that you can create that seamless transition.
- 15:58Yeah.
- 15:58This is very interesting.
- 15:59How are we shifting?
- 16:00And also sometimes I'm thinking about how do we build connections when we are when you're busy,
- 16:05we also talk in the world a lot now about diversity, embracing inclusion.
- 16:10And and sometimes people are very different from us or hopes very work where where it needs
- 16:15a bit of time as well.
- 16:16Can you talk about craving good, authentic connections?
- 16:20Can I use an example of what happened with you and I in Rome?
- 16:23So Yeah.
- 16:24I was a speaker at the Wynn Conference in Rome and, Kristen is the head of of Wynn.
- 16:31And how many women, 4, 500 women, and, you know, I'm getting miked up to go on and so is
- 16:38she.
- 16:39And then go over and she stops everything.
- 16:43Like, she's in the middle of everything.
- 16:45And I I said to her a second, It's amazing how you channel attention amidst all this chaos.
- 16:53I don't even remember me saying that, but what she did is She stopped.
- 16:58You acknowledged it was how many speakers that were going on that day.
- 17:01And I felt completely like I was the only person in that room for that less than a
- 17:07minute, which grounded me further before I went on stage.
- 17:10So that's what I mean.
- 17:12It's that Yeah.
- 17:13You know, it's something that's simple, but amidst everything else.
- 17:16But I felt special importance.
- 17:19And then it it, you know, my level of, whatever I was feeling my state prior to getting on
- 17:25stage just you it was like having a more fuzzy blanket that you gave me, and then I went up
- 17:29and I was on stage.
- 17:31Thank you.
- 17:32And thank you for recognizing that.
- 17:34And having seen that, I think that feels also important.
- 17:37Right?
- 17:38And,
- 17:40it looks, and I'm sure you have seen many times inauthentic relationships also.
- 17:47Could you share some examples of that perhaps?
- 17:51Well, I use an example in the book and, It's something that I think will stay with me for a
- 17:56very, very long time.
- 17:58And when I was an executive, I managed a board several boards in my portfolio, but this
- 18:04particular one, it was, you know, it's like anything else.
- 18:07There was contention, and there was always service issues, but and those types of things.
- 18:11So my particular senior VP was not available that day.
- 18:14It was a pretty big renewal.
- 18:16It was a multi, year contract and we were going into pivotal, contracting in Toronto for the
- 18:22company that I worked with.
- 18:24High level can't lose this because it's not gonna go down very well.
- 18:28And, so I took another VP who happened to be female.
- 18:33In that board room, I was redressed.
- 18:38I was what happened is, automatically, the board was bringing up concerns, which Now I'd
- 18:44had tenure with this board for about 6 to 7 years at this point.
- 18:48Well, what happened is this female executive took me inadvertently took over the meeting
- 18:54she, I would say fired, but maybe not maybe not as directly, but she inadvertently said that
- 19:01she could replace the executive on the account in my presence on that board meeting.
- 19:07So needless to say, I'm trying to, like, keep things going.
- 19:11I'm try I mean, I'm dysregulated.
- 19:13I'm I'm, you know, long no longer present.
- 19:15I keep it together.
- 19:16I know these ten people very well.
- 19:19And what happened is as I left that meeting and went back to core corporate, the head of the
- 19:25board called me, and she said, whoever that woman was, Please ensure that she never is on
- 19:31our premises again because this business will be lost if she answers, our company again.
- 19:39And, you know, for me, of course, I was having a tough time and the feedback from the board
- 19:44was very, very positive.
- 19:46They acknowledge that there were things that we need to do different, but I had a connection
- 19:49with each one of them.
- 19:51So here is someone that was inauthentic, didn't really think to connect with what was
- 19:56happening, In that moment, yes, it was an important piece of business, but ultimately,
- 20:03you know, she she basically railroaded the entire I had to bring back, a cleanup crew if
- 20:09you wanna call it like that.
- 20:12Yeah.
- 20:12With, another, my senior VP when he was available, and we were able to save the
- 20:17business.
- 20:18So that was that was one of those things that I really it was very humbling for me, but also
- 20:23very telling about what it was like to be, you know, on the other end of somebody that really
- 20:29wasn't connected to me in any way or could read the room and if you're thinking what I talk
- 20:35about in the ROR, I'm talking about reading what's happening internally.
- 20:39Yeah.
- 20:39And then adjusting your behavior accordingly regardless of what's coming at you.
- 20:44And, clearly, she, you know, was the opposite of that.
- 20:48Yeah.
- 20:48So that's so interesting.
- 20:49Reading what's going on in inside the room and then also being able to read it outside,
- 20:56connecting those pieces.
- 20:58And the cost of not doing that, and this is also important.
- 21:02And I think now it is connecting with the humans.
- 21:06It's also incredibly important in this time.
- 21:09With all the automation and AIs and so on happening also.
- 21:14Roxanne, as we are coming to the close of the interview, I also know from you.
- 21:19What what is the dream that would happen?
- 21:22I mean, what would be the best that can happen now with the world reading your book?
- 21:27What would be the absolutely most amazing thing for you that can happen?
- 21:32Well, to touch as many lives, about people getting connected to themselves in the five
- 21:38areas that I talk about in the book.
- 21:40Like, to really recognize that it starts with you as in whatever capacity you're needing,
- 21:46whether you're in a company, a home, a community, a church, wherever you are, that you
- 21:52don't have to wait to make changes and awareness is something that, we're so scared,
- 21:58you know, scaring around in our days that we don't stop, don't wait.
- 22:03So my hopes is that the ROR plus program will you know, enter a realm on an international
- 22:10level where people would say, yeah.
- 22:12That makes so much sense.
- 22:13It's basic.
- 22:15But that, companies or communities are able to recognize that by resonating or connecting with
- 22:21your heart and starting with you as a leader, you can make change.
- 22:25Yeah.
- 22:26And you also have this test you can do, you know, authentic quotation for leadership.
- 22:31Maybe last little thing, can you share the Sure.
- 22:33That's it, please.
- 22:34In the book, there's an assessment called the, AQL, which is the authenticity, quotient for
- 22:39leaders.
- 22:40And in working with companies, what the leadership or leaders would do is they would do
- 22:45the assessment, but their teams would also do the same.
- 22:48And it's in the 5 areas, obviously, awareness recognition, balance processing, connection,
- 22:54and recognition.
- 22:55And then the leader is able to see oh, I'm pretty good here here.
- 22:59I think I'm good in this area, but then their team has, incongruent, data that says, well, in
- 23:05fact, you're not so you're not so good.
- 23:07Around recognition.
- 23:08You're not so good around balance processing and then based on that, plans are developed so
- 23:14that we can work through what the leadership teams or individual leaders need to do to
- 23:19ultimately accentuate the parts that the teams are thinking that they're lacking out.
- 23:24And checking on it as we, go through the training and coaching with the company.
- 23:29Well, this is super useful.
- 23:31We I'm I'm sure that will be very useful for many people.
- 23:35I want to know, does any of you have any questions for Roxanne Maybe you already put
- 23:40some in the textbooks.
- 23:42But if there is anything you want to also even raise your hand right now and say, any
- 23:48questions for her, that will be also quite appreciated.
- 23:53Let's see if I see any hands.
- 23:56I'll mute yourself.
- 23:57I'm also gonna see in the textbook in the text box if there was anything here.
- 24:07I have
- 24:07a question.
- 24:08Yes.
- 24:09Greg, please, please.
- 24:11Roxanne, how do you see the focus on return on relationships as being able to help solve our
- 24:17turnover issue in the age of the employee experience.
- 24:21Well, I think it's it can start us as soon as the the recruitment process.
- 24:28Right?
- 24:28Because I think what you should be looking at is what is the fit that you're looking for,
- 24:35based on wherever, what what job you're looking for or the sector as well.
- 24:40And thinking what qualities are you wanting that person to embody in order to increase
- 24:45retention.
- 24:46Right?
- 24:46So let's say you're not gonna put somebody like me in in IT because I'm not probably not gonna
- 24:51go do very well because I like to connect with people.
- 24:53But I think, you know, starting as early as thinking, who do I want to attract in my
- 24:57company and then ultimately make ensuring that your leadership maximizes the capacity to, join
- 25:05with the individuals that, you're recruiting.
- 25:11Thank you.
- 25:12Do we have any other questions?
- 25:15I don't just umute yourself and ask.
- 25:21Yes.
- 25:21Hi, Roxanne again.
- 25:24I'd love Well, talking about return on relationship.
- 25:28I have one here, who I hope benefits your and take everything into account.
- 25:35What you wrote on a personal level.
- 25:38But I was wondering, I haven't read the book yet.
- 25:43But I was thinking as well, we speak a lot about history as well and antiquity.
- 25:50And I was thinking It was, amongst others, Aristotle said you need in every community
- 25:58where there's leadership, whether it's a company or or community.
- 26:03You need to treat each other as, friends, and he called it it's a different kind of friends
- 26:10with benefits, but he meant you have to have a relationship with each other that's that in
- 26:18which you exchange things.
- 26:20And that that might be, material, but that's mainly in how you care for one another.
- 26:28And it it just reminds me when I hear you speak about what you wrote, it reminds me of what he
- 26:35says about you have to treat your community either, and that applies as well to a com a
- 26:43company as a special type of friendship It's not your best friend, but you have a different
- 26:50kind of friendship for citizens or people who you work with.
- 26:55And it sounds almost like you are expanding on that sort of train train of thought.
- 27:02From what I I say now in my own words, do you think that might apply or be a good connection
- 27:09or Absolutely.
- 27:11I think we talk a lot more about love in the workplace, and I I know, there there's if we
- 27:17actually embody that space of reciprocity.
- 27:22Yeah.
- 27:23At work, Wendellin.
- 27:25And Wendellin is speaks, on, she's a ruined historian and speaks a lot about female
- 27:30leadership.
- 27:32Absolutely.
- 27:33Because if you can resonate at work, and and someone can feel your space, ultimately,
- 27:40they're gonna they're gonna work really, really hard.
- 27:41And I think of, the best leader that I ever worked for Oftentimes, I would do anything that
- 27:48he wanted, sort of being criminal, because he was so phenomenal because he cared for me as a
- 27:54person.
- 27:55So I think, absolutely, Aristotle was right.
- 27:58Yeah.
- 28:00Yeah.
- 28:00Thank you.
- 28:01That's very good.
- 28:03Yeah.
- 28:04Oh, this is so beautiful.
- 28:05Everything I think it also feels so good, Rook salmon.
- 28:08I'm thinking sometimes now with AI and all the robots coming, and I was thinking, like, Oh,
- 28:13it's so nice to hear that the whole area of authentic heart leadership and the human
- 28:18relationships, and it's probably just gonna be more and more important that that's so unique
- 28:23this.
- 28:24And I guess that's for another discussion, but it's still important I feel to keep in mind.
- 28:29So thank you.
- 28:31Any other questions 4.
- 28:32It looks on here this today.
- 28:35Anyone?
- 28:36Yeah.
- 28:37Roxanne, I like what you wrote.
- 28:40When you said that trust is not like a light bulb.
- 28:45And so, you know, we work with leaders to help them build skills and sometimes that occurs.
- 28:50After they've lost trust with the team.
- 28:53So where does that leader trying to change?
- 28:57Rebuild the trust because it's not like lab coat.
- 29:01Mhmm.
- 29:03Yeah.
- 29:03And once you've you know, I and I often say you know, if you read the book on Office and you're
- 29:08having scarred relationships, you're not gonna go all hands on deck and gonna go, try to apply
- 29:13these things.
- 29:13You have to sit with what's not gone well.
- 29:17You have to address it and create the one down scenario which says, you know, I recognize that
- 29:23I have not been doing this very, very well.
- 29:26And so vulnerability is needed.
- 29:28So that being said, the old autocratic relationship promoted that like I talked about
- 29:33when I was in corporate.
- 29:35But if you're wanting to reestablish trust, you have to own what you have not done well and ask
- 29:40for assistance from the people saying that you wanna enhance the scale.
- 29:45So, you know, and I'm not sure who was speaking.
- 29:47Who was it that asked the question?
- 29:51Hi, Susie.
- 29:53Thank you.
- 29:54You're welcome.
- 29:56Hey.
- 29:56Any other questions, or maybe it's completed now?
- 30:01Okay.
- 30:01Then thank you, Roxanne.
- 30:03We will then move over to the panel.
- 30:05So, Monica, can I have the slide of our panel list?
- 30:09Is that possible?
- 30:10The one with all of them in the one one that would be so awesome would be very helpful.
- 30:14And we will hear more from Roxanne in the little while again.
- 30:18But we're just gonna have a little have a panel with some other experts that here we go.
- 30:26So we will hear from, this, I was about to say evening.
- 30:31I'm sitting in the evening, but you are in the middle of the day.
- 30:33Most of you We're gonna hear from Pete.
- 30:36He's an expert in the field of human connection.
- 30:39He's also the founder of the Genwell project, a Canadian organization that's dedicated to
- 30:44making the world a healthier and happier place.
- 30:47We are gonna also hear from Daryl Woon, and he's the founder and the CEO of or Orient.
- 30:53I hope I got that right.
- 30:54He's passionate about improving population health.
- 30:57By changing population behavior one person at a time.
- 31:01Barbara Vieder, is an award bidding expert in the field of mental Health, including most
- 31:07recently recognized as one of Digital Health Canada's 2020, women leaders in Digital Health.
- 31:14And then we have Linda Fitsk, and Linda is a multi award winning leader.
- 31:19Keynote speaker author, university professor dedicating to amplifying and extending the
- 31:24success of other high caliber business leaders.
- 31:27And she is the founder and CEO of the leader her ship global.
- 31:31And all of our speakers on this panel have done extensive work in the field of wellness, mental
- 31:38health, authenticity, and worked a lot with people and helped many, many people.
- 31:43So this is gonna be very exciting, and we're gonna have a conversation a lot around
- 31:48authentic leadership.
- 31:49So perhaps we can take the slide off now and have the pin the speakers as many of you as
- 31:55possible Monica, can you help us with that?
- 31:58I don't know if you can pin so many, all all of us at the same time.
- 32:02Is that possible?
- 32:04Could be possible.
- 32:05Here we go.
- 32:06Hi, Barbara.
- 32:08There is Pete.
- 32:10Good to see you.
- 32:11Oh, you have in your teacher or, you know, human connection, Kathleen's on your sweater.
- 32:16That's all.
- 32:17Yeah.
- 32:17I'd love a I'd love a copy of that, so I'd love that.
- 32:24People are trying
- 32:24to that happen, Roxanne.
- 32:27Okay.
- 32:28Even on your hat, it says, believe.
- 32:31Wow.
- 32:31So I know you worked a lot of this field, and, it's great to have other experts here alongside
- 32:38the Roxanne.
- 32:39And I'd like to ask you, How does oh, first of all, maybe what does an authentic, heart,
- 32:47authentic heart leadership mean for you if I can hear some of you, what it means, and then
- 32:51we can see how that can contribute also to our our organizations.
- 32:55But Linda, could I ask you what does What does it mean for you?
- 32:59Authentic Hart Leadership?
- 33:02Oh, I don't think you're still there.
- 33:05Yeah.
- 33:05It's about making long lasting, positive, and meaningful contributions to the organization
- 33:13and communities that we serve.
- 33:15And in the lives of people that we need, I think you have to combine your mind and your
- 33:22heart to lead and to achieve sustainable goals that the lasting impact by genuinely and
- 33:30generously influencing people to believe, to trust, to join you in your mission.
- 33:36It's an invitation.
- 33:37It's not an order.
- 33:38And what might be some of the strengths that we take for granted as women can help lead in high
- 33:46stakes situations specifically.
- 33:48I think that in organizations, we have to recognize and apply the strengths that each of
- 33:55us her individually to everyday leadership challenges.
- 34:00And I think that, in leadership level, we think a lot of that, how women can help shape the
- 34:05corporate environment now so that they can continue to thrive.
- 34:11But I think what something that Roxanne said is so powerful.
- 34:14It's about establishing a unique leadership style based on your own values based on your
- 34:20character traits based on your talents And if you're able to serve with your mind and with
- 34:26your heart, incorporating an attitude of service to genuinely connect with the people in
- 34:32your life, to earn their loyalty, in my mind, that is definitely authentic leadership.
- 34:39Yeah.
- 34:40Thank you.
- 34:40I was also interested in how you say this, that It's an invitation.
- 34:45It's not an order.
- 34:47Right?
- 34:48So that's very interesting.
- 34:49Can we hear from, you mentioned the women.
- 34:51I would like to hear now from some of the guys, Pete.
- 34:54What does authentic heart leadership mean for you and how can that contribute to creating a
- 34:59culture of trust and authenticity within organizations?
- 35:03Well, it certainly is everything that Linda just mentioned, so fully aligned with all those
- 35:09comments.
- 35:09And I do believe it's the long game.
- 35:11You know, we we have a society that's never been educated on the importance of human
- 35:16connection to our health, our happiness, our longevity, or to the betterment of society.
- 35:21So we have you know, graduates from the highest, academic institutions who were never
- 35:28educated on this.
- 35:29And this is why I think Roxanne's book and and the message that she's been sharing for a long
- 35:34time is so critically important because we are educating leaders at all levels of
- 35:39organizations of how human connection and and investing in getting to know people first as
- 35:46human beings before we think of them as employees is so critically important.
- 35:52So I'm excited to hear this conversation because at the end of the day, I'm sure
- 35:57everybody on this panel is know, a line that it is it's not a short game.
- 36:01It's a long game.
- 36:02It's about authenticity each and every day, and it's about caring about people first as human
- 36:07beings, you know, McKinsey at the start of the global pandemic with the great resignation said
- 36:12the three reasons why people left organizations My boss doesn't care.
- 36:17My company doesn't care, and I don't feel like I belong.
- 36:20Well, those were 3, you know, leading indicators would suggest that most of us
- 36:26weren't making the time to connect with people on an authentic level.
- 36:30So and it didn't just happen in the pandemic.
- 36:32It happened long before the pandemic.
- 36:35It just took a pandemic to wake us up to it.
- 36:37So, this is just a great conversation, and I think it really is a leading conversation that
- 36:43people are waking up to at the end of the global pandemic.
- 36:47Well, then I'd like to jump on I'd like to jump on what he just said because I think he says
- 36:52and both Linda says some important things.
- 36:53I I'm a big fan of servant leadership.
- 36:57Yeah.
- 36:57And I'm also a a fanatic about continuous quality improvement.
- 37:02Who's the customer?
- 37:03How do you really wow the customer?
- 37:06And then how do you monitor to see if you're wowing the customer?
- 37:09Well, We think of our customer often, first step is to find your customer as the people who
- 37:15buy our product or service.
- 37:17But the companies that have really figured it out have understood that perhaps your primary
- 37:22customer is your own employees.
- 37:24And imagine having a Net Promoter Score or 5 stars on how your employees feel about the
- 37:32culture of your company and your leadership.
- 37:35Those are the kinds of things we should be monitoring.
- 37:38I think that into health care.
- 37:40And when we think of health care, it all too often is transactional.
- 37:45It's very unrerelationship based, and yet the very most effective health care systems in the
- 37:51world that have conquered price, quality, and access are built on relationships.
- 38:01Where relationships are more important than the treatment plan.
- 38:06Because if someone's not gonna follow through with the treatment plan, what good is the
- 38:09perfect treatment plan?
- 38:11So the best health care systems have figured out that relationship isn't just a part of
- 38:16leadership.
- 38:17It's also a part of the way we do health care.
- 38:21Yeah.
- 38:21So this is so interesting what you're saying.
- 38:23So it's not leadership is part of what we are doing, health care, but all other other forms
- 38:29of serving.
- 38:33Barbara, what's your take on all of this and authentic leadership?
- 38:39I think, just to add to the conversation, I think the concept of being intentional is is
- 38:44key.
- 38:44And and certainly Roxanne talks about that, but you can be direct and kind.
- 38:49And in fact, if you delay feedback, it can make that space even more difficult and people and
- 38:56you delay learning.
- 38:58What you're trying to do in being kind is actually bring up the best in the organization
- 39:03and the people you work with, but also recognize it brings out the best of you in you.
- 39:08So, I think creating safety, if you create a safe, psychologically safe environment, people
- 39:15can take risk, And if you have that happening, then you have more potential.
- 39:20People can grow farther and do things more more, impactfully.
- 39:27I think the other thing is the collaboration.
- 39:31You know, obviously leaders are often in a position of power but how do you work together?
- 39:37What is the impact that everybody has?
- 39:40And how do you isolate everybody's individual impact?
- 39:45And the value of working collectively together.
- 39:48So, I think, you know, lifting people up and recognizing the small and important as well as
- 39:57the big things they do every day if you can isolate how they're contributing, put it into
- 40:04the context of what you're trying to achieve, it allows people to connect to the importance
- 40:10of the of the overall goal.
- 40:12And I think that that relates to being kind and it it allows people to to grow.
- 40:20This is, a very interesting Barbara.
- 40:22You mentioned also how to be direct and kind at the same time.
- 40:26And it is very interesting, though, in in building relationships, how to how to cultivate
- 40:31empathy and compassion.
- 40:33Daryl, you mentioned high quality.
- 40:35And I'm wondering, can we talk also about how to be have to have good quality relationship
- 40:41where we are?
- 40:42Clear and then we have clarity, but also heart, empathy, compassion.
- 40:49Who would like to share something on that?
- 40:52Pete?
- 40:54Yeah.
- 40:54I think, you know, and I'll I just wanna build on on Barbara's comments is, you know,
- 40:59oftentimes we wait until the crisis before we start interacting with people.
- 41:04You know, everybody coming together, we got a crisis.
- 41:07Let's go solve it.
- 41:08Instead of early and often, building these connections on an ongoing basis so that we
- 41:14don't get to the crisis so that we have radical candor.
- 41:17Somebody put a Linda.
- 41:19I think you put in there.
- 41:20You know, totally agree.
- 41:22We have a we have a society that oftentimes shies away from the tough conversations and
- 41:28yet, when we have the frequency, when we built the relationship, I I use the example of my own
- 41:33neighborhood, you know, because we have a great relationship with our neighbors, if something
- 41:38goes sideways like, you know, a tree falls down and takes out the fence.
- 41:42We're not gonna start by having, catastrophic conversation where it's like, well, you did,
- 41:49you know, it's gonna start off with, hey, Pete, you know, hey, when we get together week for a
- 41:54beer or a coffee, you know, we're gonna be able to get through this and we'll figure out how to
- 41:59get to the end.
- 41:59I think what we need to recognize is, you know, we as a society need to recognize both in the
- 42:06workplace and externally in all the relationships that we have when we don't invest
- 42:11the time, it ends up causing greater grief down the road.
- 42:16And now we know the research shows us a single greatest contributor to happiness is human
- 42:20connection and the relationships.
- 42:22We know that it increases productivity, optimism, trust, loyalty, collaboration,
- 42:28retention, all the business measures are there, and the human measures are there.
- 42:34And now because most of us were never thought we're never educated on it.
- 42:39Oftentimes, we start with the word culture.
- 42:42And I think culture is a word that people don't quite understand because made up of a whole
- 42:47bunch of things.
- 42:48Whereas if we focus on what is it that we're talking about here, it starts with connecting
- 42:54as human beings.
- 42:55And once we actually create that empathy and compassion for one another, the world truly is
- 43:00our oyster, but if we don't start by actually engaging as human beings, I think it creates
- 43:06challenges all the way along.
- 43:08So it's interesting that you mentioned also taking the time to do so, you know, and that
- 43:12that that can even also elaborate her a little bit sometimes in in corporate pressure or even
- 43:17as as small entrepreneurs or a lot of entrepreneurs, there's a pressure on producing
- 43:21and being fast and getting output and and consultants are paid by the hour and so on and
- 43:27so forth.
- 43:28Anyone here who has some strategies, maybe I can ask Daryl strategies on what can you do to
- 43:33take that time to build that empathy factor into it?
- 43:37I'd love to jump in.
- 43:38I you know, we my company or Ryan coaches people, and it's about building relationships
- 43:45with trust for people.
- 43:46We'll open up and you know, explain what their challenges are.
- 43:49And the most significant barrier to people thriving And one of the greatest contributors
- 43:58of downstream mental health problems is the work environment that people work in.
- 44:03And when we wanna address both health, productivity, well-being, nothing could be
- 44:08better than creating relationships in leadership and in the company.
- 44:12And treating employees as a customer.
- 44:15Yeah.
- 44:16Yeah.
- 44:17It's interesting.
- 44:17It's the barrier itself.
- 44:19It's the workplace.
- 44:22You know,
- 44:25being able to nurture a team environment where empathy, humility, self knowledge are rewarded.
- 44:36Those character trace those attributes, those ways of behaving are actually rewarded, whether
- 44:43that's just simply praise or there's some sort of monetary, incentive for ensuring that, you
- 44:50know, those are the keys that we acknowledge help excel in leadership.
- 44:56And so we are going to build the way that we interact with each other, the way that we
- 45:04really reward leadership based on those principles of, you know, ensuring that we are
- 45:11being that we have a sense of self knowledge that we are humble, and we're humble enough to
- 45:16continue to learn.
- 45:18And I think often the leader has the responsibility of modeling that.
- 45:23I think as leaders, we have to have an authentic communication and leadership style,
- 45:27and I added into the the chat that I think we have to really model what it is to navigate
- 45:35through uncomfortable conversations We have to navigate through really difficult negotiations.
- 45:42We have to acknowledge our own impostor syndrome we have to be able to give and receive
- 45:48actionable feedback in a fair, equitable way that really honors the relationship And I think
- 45:54we always have to, you know, model this idea of setting and reasserting boundaries too.
- 46:02Because by doing that, we're giving permission for those people that we do lead to set
- 46:07boundaries as well.
- 46:08We're giving them permission to set and a certain boundaries between their personal life
- 46:14and their professional life.
- 46:16So, in my mind, I think that, you know, Absolutely.
- 46:20We have an opportunity to nurture the kind of qualities and attributes and characteristics
- 46:25that we want to nurture and flourish in the team environment, and then we have an
- 46:31opportunity as a leader to actually demonstrate and model what authentic communication
- 46:36leadership style looks like.
- 46:39Thank you.
- 46:39It's interesting how you talk about rewards, getting awards for the qualities that her exam
- 46:45is elaborating in her book Barbara.
- 46:48I'd like to hear also.
- 46:49Maybe share something about what comes in the way for or compassionate and authentic
- 46:56leadership.
- 46:57Well, I think we've talked about modeling, but within that modeling, it's acknowledging your
- 47:01vulnerability that you are not perfect and that, you want people to feel that they don't
- 47:07have to be perfect and and being you know, vulnerable allows for more openness.
- 47:12I think as leaders, and I think we this is really key is you have to spend time with
- 47:16everybody in in the best way you can.
- 47:19And I think it's very important on how you will be evaluated.
- 47:23It's easy to be at the front of the parade as we say, and download a lot of information, but
- 47:28you have to put yourself in the back row.
- 47:32You have to listen and hear the feedback because the back row, the people who are at the
- 47:38operational level that are gonna give you the true sense of whether you are authentic and if
- 47:43you are connecting.
- 47:45They will grade you, and that's maybe not the best way to say that, but they will evaluate
- 47:49your performance, and you have to be reflective.
- 47:52And I I like the the tool that, Roxanne gives on authentically reflecting on every
- 47:59opportunity that you can.
- 48:01That is your place to grow to listen to the feedback, but also be reflective of your own
- 48:07performance.
- 48:09Oh, thank you Barbara.
- 48:10I wanna know if there's any quest if there are any questions in the larger zoom room, If you
- 48:17have questions, just unmute yourself, say your name, ask a question.
- 48:21And if there's anyone particular you have a question, you want to ask
- 48:27The one thing that I wanted to add about what was said is that when leaders actually look at
- 48:33their adult attachment styles and work through it, Then, you know, there's a growth that you
- 48:39can come from.
- 48:40Right?
- 48:40And in the book, I talk about a leadership.
- 48:42What is your leadership legacy?
- 48:44So, you know, why is it that I'm triggered?
- 48:47You know, everybody can get a maybe 95% of people can get along with me, but there's gonna
- 48:52be 5% or maybe even higher that's not gonna get along with me, and how does that impact my
- 48:58ability to to lead?
- 48:59And that's where I think a lot of the reflecting comes into play because it's about
- 49:03our responsibility to say, what is it that I need to shift as a leader?
- 49:08And in coaching leaders, it's really about saying, Wow.
- 49:11I didn't like the way Linda spoke to me there.
- 49:14Linda's bringing up some things that I already don't feel comfortable with.
- 49:17So the human instinct is to cut it off.
- 49:21Or when you kind of spend time in reflection or awareness, then you understand how that
- 49:26impacted you as a leader.
- 49:27And why you had such a mean that a visceral reaction to, in interaction, and that's where I
- 49:33think a lot of growth comes, and you get better.
- 49:35We're human at the end of the day.
- 49:37And we're we're leading others.
- 49:40I love that, Roxanne, and you said he's staying with legacy.
- 49:43We are on a growth journey.
- 49:44I mean, we are on the journey of of of growing as humans, constant please.
- 49:47So this is such an opportunity.
- 49:50Self reflection.
- 49:53I see Trina has a question.
- 49:56Yeah.
- 49:56I do, and I I apologize for coming late.
- 49:59But I love where I just jumped into with that empathetic reflection and how, I guess, Roxanne
- 50:06and for everybody else who was kind of sharing, how does that authentic reflection play a role,
- 50:12or what does that look like when we're talking about trauma informed or creating psychological
- 50:18health and safe workplaces?
- 50:21I'll jump in if I can because I think, psychological safety for me allows you to speak
- 50:26up and to be yourself.
- 50:28That is sort of a very high level.
- 50:30Definition.
- 50:31I hope that works for you, Trina.
- 50:33I've been on a journey of late just to reflect on my career.
- 50:36I'm I'm, you know, was at the same workplace for years years years.
- 50:41I won't tell you how many, but a heck of a long time.
- 50:44And what I did as part of my closure And this was very important was to go backwards in time
- 50:50and and really examine the relationships that I valued and go back appreciate people.
- 50:56I think appreciation, an authentic appreciation, pays forward a legacy, but it
- 51:02also encourages a momentum for others to do that.
- 51:06And it was so powerful to go through that I actually did 3 a day for an entire month
- 51:10because I had the time.
- 51:12And, and 3 a day is a lot, but you go back and specifically isolate the impact people had on
- 51:20you.
- 51:21And how much you value them, regardless of their role in the organization, the feedback
- 51:26and the opportunity you get to hear back from people is amazing.
- 51:31I was trying to thank people and sort of isolate what they've done for me, and what they
- 51:36gave me in return was overwhelming and generous.
- 51:39And I think that that ability to do that more and more creates this the psychological safety.
- 51:46I hope that's helpful.
- 51:48Yeah.
- 51:48No.
- 51:48I love that.
- 51:49Very good.
- 51:50Yeah.
- 51:51Yeah.
- 51:52If if I can jump in, you know, what I what I build on Barbara's, you know, the Genwell, the
- 51:56Genwell project is Canada's human connection movement.
- 51:59And and our effort is to build a national movement that's actually recognizing just how
- 52:04much we need each other and how powerful human connection is our happiness and our health.
- 52:10You know, the goal in creating, stronger social health and social connections in our lives
- 52:17inside and outside of work because let's remember we don't isolate our lives outside of
- 52:22work or inside of work.
- 52:23They are interconnected in how they impact each other.
- 52:27And so our goal is, in educating all Canadians, 40,000,000 of us about just how much we need
- 52:34each other so that we make it psychologically safe.
- 52:37There's no question that there's going to be trauma to Barbara's, comments but let's hope we
- 52:42can come into an office from day 1 and start building those connections where people feel
- 52:48that psychological safety.
- 52:49I think the challenge that we're all addressing here is the fact that so many organizations
- 52:55were absolutely atrocious at creating those healthy, safe workplaces where people felt
- 53:02comfortable to work and and come to each and every day that's part of the reason why I think
- 53:06so many people don't want to go back is because they didn't feel safe.
- 53:11They didn't feel welcome.
- 53:12They didn't feel a sense of belonging.
- 53:14And so, you know, our goal is Canada's human connection movement is to educate people about
- 53:19this in all parts of their life so that we can take it into the workplace and do it
- 53:24proactively instead of, you know, having to rack react often times, in response to an
- 53:31unfortunate incident or to somebody having a a a bad experience?
- 53:36I would just wanna add one other point, and this is a call out to leaders in particular,
- 53:42but to peers as well.
- 53:45If you are not being kind and if you are behaving in ways that are harmful to others.
- 53:51Don't think it's not noticed.
- 53:53People may not be able to speak out about it, or they may not feel they the culture is safe.
- 53:59But it is noticed and it affects, as you were saying, the culture in the workplace every day.
- 54:05It is a drain, and it is harmful.
- 54:08So I just think there are illusions sometimes within work culture that believes, hey, no one
- 54:13noticed art.
- 54:14It's okay.
- 54:16You're you're being watched as a leader as we were saying earlier and to be a model every
- 54:22day.
- 54:22And if you don't do a good job, you can correct it by acknowledging it and showing
- 54:27vulnerability.
- 54:28So I you can hear the passion of my voice, so I felt I wanted to underscore There is no secret
- 54:34when you behave well and you are kind and authentic and there is no secret if you are not
- 54:39rising to that challenge.
- 54:41Yeah.
- 54:42This is very good point, isn't it?
- 54:44Thank you.
- 54:45It's felt everywhere.
- 54:47Wonderful.
- 54:48Any other questions?
- 54:50Before we go to our surprises, Roxanne, please?
- 54:54Well,
- 54:56I have a couple of questions with some giveaways.
- 55:01So if if anybody gets this first one, that would be a good thing.
- 55:08What was my nickname?
- 55:10And just put up your hand because you can win the 3 prizes that I'm giving away.
- 55:15What was my nickname?
- 55:18As a little girl.
- 55:19Anybody?
- 55:20Because you can do it with 2 boats or a package with, coaching cards and 2 coaching sessions in
- 55:27and a couple of books.
- 55:28Anybody?
- 55:29Trave trouble.
- 55:30Maybe trouble.
- 55:32Well, trouble that I was, because I was not able to help.
- 55:35Right?
- 55:35So the only thing I can do was to get in trouble to get notice.
- 55:38I wasn't the first and I wasn't the golden one.
- 55:40No.
- 55:41Not trouble.
- 55:43Oh, good.
- 55:43The Sean.
- 55:44Pastor box.
- 55:46Yes.
- 55:46That's it.
- 55:47He said that Sean.
- 55:49Sean, you win the prize.
- 55:51And I would say that, she would have read my, my website because I talked a little bit about
- 56:00doing for a living.
- 56:01When I my parents thought they actually are gonna appear to do something.
- 56:05So chatterbox was my was my nickname.
- 56:11Second, trivia question is how many keynotes do I offer to the to, in my business?
- 56:21Anybody, just put up your hand.
- 56:23Make a guess.
- 56:24Linda, 5.
- 56:26No.
- 56:285.
- 56:28I think it will move a lot more work.
- 56:31Loops.
- 56:31No.
- 56:31You have aggression.
- 56:32Loopna.
- 56:33Another question to answer.
- 56:34I I think it's 3.
- 56:36Lubna, we she went to 2nd prize.
- 56:40Thank you so much.
- 56:44And the last trivia question is, what did I go to school?
- 56:48What is my formal designation that I went school for.
- 56:51I went to UFT.
- 56:53I'll give you a hand.
- 56:54I know, and I'm not gonna say it.
- 56:56I'm not gonna
- 57:00anybody else want to take a guess?
- 57:02Psychologists.
- 57:05Psychotherapist.
- 57:06But you know what, Linda?
- 57:07That's that's close enough.
- 57:09Oh, I think
- 57:10the difference between US and Canada perhaps because in the US, we call them psychologists
- 57:16and perhaps in a psychotherapist, but it with parts of PhD.
- 57:20And so I am a I'm a psychologist here in the US and your psychotherapist.
- 57:26Right.
- 57:26Right?
- 57:27Absolutely.
- 57:28And I see Jennifer Spare got psychotherapist.
- 57:30She put psychotherapist in the, in the chat.
- 57:34But, yes, Linda, there is differences in different provinces.
- 57:38We need a PhD.
- 57:39Now with me, I have a a grad, a grad degree.
- 57:44So this has been truly amazing.
- 57:47You know, I'm I am speechless when I, along with my team who has worked awfully hard,
- 57:53Monica and James.
- 57:54I I think it's on there somewhere.
- 57:56Put this together.
- 57:58I often say this is what I do when I have my get togethers at home.
- 58:02Is that put all these amazing people together because I met them all.
- 58:06And in a way, I don't give them a choice.
- 58:09I put them together and say, I get to I bet I hope they're gonna get along.
- 58:13It generally people get along, and I look at all the amazing people that were here today,
- 58:17and I'm so grateful The breadth and depth, that you have brought has made, this day truly
- 58:24amazing.
- 58:24I can say for everyone that's attended Usha, Trina, Usha, is not coming on camera, but this
- 58:32is my youngest friend.
- 58:34I have to tell you a little story before I let you go.
- 58:36So I used to go on stage and sing, in primary school, but I wouldn't go on stage without
- 58:42OSHA.
- 58:43I would sing, and she would be my support.
- 58:46It it I don't know.
- 58:47Is she gonna come on camera?
- 58:49There she is.
- 58:51I would make her be my emotional support when I was eleven years old, and and we used to do the
- 58:57talent show but once a month, I never went up alone.
- 59:00And so I'm so grateful that she could be here again.
- 59:02Thank you love for being here.
- 59:07For everyone else, this has been an amazing time.
- 59:11The book is, doing well.
- 59:13It was launched formally last Saturday, and it is on Amazon.
- 59:17It hits number 5 in a lot of different categories.
- 59:20So if you haven't grabbed a copy, please, you know, we wanna try to get to number 1.
- 59:25It's it's available on Kimball.
- 59:27I would love if you could, if you haven't gotten one to get 1, here's Laurie holding up
- 59:31the book.
- 59:32Here it is.
- 59:32I hope you could see it with my backdrop there.
- 59:35You can't.
- 59:36There we go.
- 59:37And if anybody wants a copy, you know, let me know if we can get that off to you.
- 59:42So again, grateful.
- 59:44Kristen, you've done an amazing job.
- 59:47And Linda, thank you so much for coming, Daryl.
- 59:51Again, thank you so much, Barb.
- 59:54As always, you you always bring it home.
- 59:57And for everyone to be attended, you know, I look forward to connecting with you all.
- 1:00:02And if you're needing anything, for me just to reach out, through my website
- 1:00:06roxannederabad.com.
- 1:00:09Okay.
- 1:00:09Take care, everyone.
- 1:00:10Thank you.
- 1:00:11Thank you.
- 1:00:12Thank you, Eric.
- 1:00:13So that everybody, let's go get the book and give it to friends, buy it for companies and
- 1:00:17everybody.
- 1:00:18Right?
- 1:00:19I've got mine all tived already.
- 1:00:21Thank you Roxanne.
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