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Our World Needs Your Voice | Episode #421 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international
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Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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Speaker 1: Your Life Count. I'm so delighted that you joined me today.
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Speaker 1: I have a very special guest on our show. Her
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Speaker 1: name is Stacy Johnston. I know you will enjoy meeting her,
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Speaker 1: and I just know you'll be inspired our conversation today.
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Speaker 1: Stacy Johnston is the owner and operator of enlighten Up.
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Speaker 1: I just love the name of her business, don't you.
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Speaker 1: Enlighten Up is a personal consulting firm based in Texas.
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Speaker 1: Her focus is to illuminate the magic of you. Stacy
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Speaker 1: is joining us today from Texas, where she lives with
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Speaker 1: her husband of thirty seven years. She is a mom
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Speaker 1: to three beautiful children and grandmother to six. Stacy is
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Speaker 1: an internationally certified personal development coach, consultant, speaker, and trainer.
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Speaker 1: She works with individuals, families, companies, and communities to recognize
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Speaker 1: the power of their influence and the importance of the
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Speaker 1: legacy they create in their lives.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Stacy grew up in a dance studio family and In
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Speaker 1: her own words, she says, I was blessed to enjoy
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Speaker 1: the beautiful world of the arts all my life. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Stacy owned and operated Applause School of Dance for thirty years.
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Speaker 1: Then she took a pivot and served in the adolescent
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Speaker 1: and adult substance abuse and mental health profession as a
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Speaker 1: family services specialist. She served there for eleven years. Her
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Speaker 1: new joy is co hosting two podcasts, Uncaped Heroes and
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Speaker 1: Midweek Mind Candy. Today's topic is Enlightened Up, a topic
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Speaker 1: that is near and dear to my heart, and I
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Speaker 1: can't think of a better person, a better leader, a
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Speaker 1: better human being to address this topic than Stacy. I
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Speaker 1: met Stacy several years ago when I was attending an
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Speaker 1: International Maxwell Certification conference in Orlando, Florida. When I met her,
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Speaker 1: I just knew there was something extra special about Stacy,
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Speaker 1: And whenever I had an opportunity to have a simple
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Speaker 1: conversation with her, she spoke so passionately about the people
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Speaker 1: she worked with as a family services specialist. Stacy rarely
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Speaker 1: said anything about herself, but I could tell she was
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Speaker 1: serving from her core. In fact, she was standing in
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Speaker 1: the fire of her purpose. So I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: host this very special, amazing and lovely human being, my friend,
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Speaker 1: colleague and mentor, Stacy Johnston. Now, before I bring her on,
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Speaker 1: I just want to take a minute, just a moment,
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Speaker 1: to connect the dots between today's topic on Enlighten Up
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Speaker 1: and legacy Living. There are many ways that Enlighten Up
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Speaker 1: connects to legacy living, which you will hear more about later,
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Speaker 1: But for now, let me just say that legacy living
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Speaker 1: is a way of being. It's a way of living
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Speaker 1: and moving through the world so that we make the
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Speaker 1: conscious choice to be the difference we want to see
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Speaker 1: in the world. And we make that conscious choice right
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Speaker 1: here and right now, not way off in some distant future.
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Speaker 1: We make that conscious choice day in and day out,
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Speaker 1: three sixty five, twenty four to seven. Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: more about that later. Now let me introduce you to
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Speaker 1: my friend and colleague and mentor, Stacy.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Stacy. I want to welcome you as a guest
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Speaker 3: to my podcast. This is just such a blessing to
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Speaker 3: have you on and I would love to introduce you
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Speaker 3: to my listeners.
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Speaker 4: Well, welcome. Hello. I am Stacy Johnson, and I am
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Speaker 4: so very glad to be here sharing this space with
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Speaker 4: you today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Stacy. So I know that you
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Speaker 3: have done so much in your life and in your work,
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Speaker 3: and I would really like to talk with you today
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Speaker 3: about your I'm gonna call it a ministry about enlighten Up.
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Speaker 3: So can you talk to us a little bit, Stacy
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Speaker 3: about is what is.
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Speaker 4: That I would love to talk to you about? Enlighten Up.
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Speaker 4: Enlighten Up is the business that I run. I am
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Speaker 4: a personal development business development coach, speaker, teacher, trainer. Whatever
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Speaker 4: your need might be, I'll see where I can't find
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Speaker 4: a place to feel that shoe for you in anyway.
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Speaker 4: And enlighten Up really comes the concept of all of
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Speaker 4: it comes from my experience as a dancer. It's where
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Speaker 4: a lot of it comes from, and so much that
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Speaker 4: I learned there kind of opened that door. Over the
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Speaker 4: past thirty years, many times the word light has come
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Speaker 4: into what I'm doing and a name of something I have.
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Speaker 4: So it was only natural that that be my path.
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Speaker 4: So and enlighten Up. My job is to illuminate your magic.
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Speaker 4: I think that you were God looked down one day
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Speaker 4: and decided the world needed one of you. And there's
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Speaker 4: an amazing reason why. And when you believe that, and
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Speaker 4: you turn that light on that you have inside girl,
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Speaker 4: the light that shines is beautiful, and then you believe
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Speaker 4: in the magic of you, and then it's unstoppable. The
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Speaker 4: world is your stage, right.
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Speaker 3: Well, I love that, And I did not know that
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Speaker 3: you had a background a dance and I would. I'm
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Speaker 3: just curious about that if you could tell our listeners
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Speaker 3: a little bit more about your foundation.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I grew up as a dancer. My mother was
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Speaker 4: a dance teacher. My father was a dance lover, so
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Speaker 4: I grew up in the dance household. We were all
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Speaker 4: about dance recitals and costumes and props and rehearsals and
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Speaker 4: competitions and lots and lots of music, Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 4: And we had a wonderful time. My dad was a
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Speaker 4: relature and so we had great time. And we did
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Speaker 4: it all as a family. And like when the country
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Speaker 4: in western craze hit an Urban Cowboy came out, I
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Speaker 4: bet my mom and dad taught two thousand people how
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Speaker 4: to do the two step.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that's amazing.
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Speaker 4: And so it was fun. And Urban Cowboy had its
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Speaker 4: own disco crazy ride than we did the disco. So
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Speaker 4: I grew up as a dancer, danced professionally for several years,
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Speaker 4: and then spent about thirty five years as a dance
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Speaker 4: instructor and coach.
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Speaker 3: So what kind of dance did you focus on?
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Speaker 4: Or you know, ballet is the basis of all of it, right,
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Speaker 4: everything comes from ballet. You're poised, your grace, your center
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Speaker 4: of balance. But I my friend and my tap dancer
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Speaker 4: at heart, my love of the rhythm. It's a song
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Speaker 4: all by itself with no music. It's right, yes, And
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Speaker 4: life is a rhythm. Write it, and life has a
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Speaker 4: song to sing, and we are life, so we have
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Speaker 4: a rhythm. So I love it. I had one after
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Speaker 4: I retired. I saw a lady one day and she said,
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Speaker 4: at the time, I was working for the State of
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Speaker 4: New Mexico as a family services specialist working with adolescent
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Speaker 4: and adult behavioral health and substance abuse. And she said, oh,
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Speaker 4: are you not sad that your aunt's still dancing? And
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Speaker 4: I said, you know, I am dancing because everybody's life
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Speaker 4: has a song. And so I go over here and
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Speaker 4: I dance to the song over here, and then I
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Speaker 4: come out shake it off. And then I go over
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Speaker 4: here and I get to dance to the song that
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Speaker 4: these people play. So I'm still dancing, I just have
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Speaker 4: a different stage.
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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, I love that. So, Stacey, I want to
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Speaker 3: circle back to something you said earlier, and you talked
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Speaker 3: about how each one of us has that magic within us,
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Speaker 3: and can you say a little bit more about that.
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Speaker 3: What does that mean to you?
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Speaker 4: That means, Gloria, that I do believe you have something
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Speaker 4: only you were put here to do, and everything that
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Speaker 4: you learn, everything that you experience, leads you to that place,
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Speaker 4: to that thing that you were supposed to do, and
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Speaker 4: so that whatever that is. And some people find it
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Speaker 4: when they're ten and some people find it when they're
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Speaker 4: seventy five. And it's about the journey, it's not a destination.
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Speaker 4: And right I think everything, everything I know right up
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Speaker 4: to this moment has got me ready for the next
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Speaker 4: moment I'm going to face.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Absolutely, So we have a special genius inside of
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Speaker 3: us is one of the ways that I talk about it.
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Speaker 3: And it sounds like you're talking about the same thing
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Speaker 3: I am.
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Speaker 4: You have this, you have this person inside of you,
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Speaker 4: that's your rhythm, that's that's what makes your song sing. Yes,
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Speaker 4: And if you understand that, then you know how you
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Speaker 4: like your eggs, and what your favorite cartoon is, and
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Speaker 4: how you feel about love and respect and failure and success.
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Speaker 4: And nobody gets to take that from you because those
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Speaker 4: are that's you, that's who you are. And I think
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Speaker 4: the biggest challenge that we face in the world today
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Speaker 4: is deciding who is Gloria. What kind of wife are
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Speaker 4: you going to be? What kind of mother are you,
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Speaker 4: what kind of friend are you? What kind of mentor
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Speaker 4: are you? And then being able to maintain that in
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Speaker 4: spite of what the world would have you be.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, because the world wants to tug us in
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Speaker 3: all different directions. And yeah, we're made for We're made
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Speaker 3: for other things.
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Speaker 4: We are. And you know, we as a people, Gloria,
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Speaker 4: we gravitate toward like whatever it is. They're the parties
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Speaker 4: over there, the lots are on over there. Even our
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Speaker 4: advertising is we'll leave the lot on for you, right,
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Speaker 4: And so just as a society we gravitate toward. And
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Speaker 4: as people we do the same thing. And we feel
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Speaker 4: this energy or this lot coming from an individual or
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Speaker 4: a or a teaching or a thought or a platform,
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Speaker 4: and we gravitate toward that energy and we feed on
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Speaker 4: that we're like, yes, I get to love this lot,
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Speaker 4: and then they turn their lot off and we get
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Speaker 4: insulted and we go, no, wait a minute, I was
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Speaker 4: faking on, lie. What do you think you're doing? Right?
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Speaker 4: And so we own that disappointment and then we just
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Speaker 4: seek out another light. And so the magic of you
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Speaker 4: is recognizing that the light that you are searching for
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Speaker 4: is inside you. And when you can turn that light on,
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Speaker 4: then everything you need draws to you like fish to
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Speaker 4: a not globe, loss of the flames, they would say,
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Speaker 4: and then you can attract that, but you have to
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Speaker 4: believe in that light first.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah, thank you, Thank you, Stacey. So I want
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Speaker 3: to just pivot a little bit here and talk a
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Speaker 3: little bit about your broadcast ministry. And I know that
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Speaker 3: you have two things going on right now, at least two.
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Speaker 3: Could you talk with us a little bit about your
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Speaker 3: Uncaped Heroes podcast.
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Speaker 4: I would love to talk about that. Un Caped Heroes
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Speaker 4: is right now. It's currently my favorite thing to do
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Speaker 4: in my time. That's what I love doing. It's magic
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Speaker 4: for me. I started the podcast about it year ago
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Speaker 4: with a gentleman named Boyd Hamlin. He came on as
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Speaker 4: my co host Boyd wrote a beautiful program for youth development,
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Speaker 4: character and integrity for children in any way you can
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Speaker 4: possibly use it. And so he called me one day
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Speaker 4: and he said, let's do a podcast and turn this
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Speaker 4: into grown ups because the kids got to see the
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Speaker 4: grown ups live it. And I said, let's do it.
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Speaker 4: So we decided to do this podcast called The Hero Builder.
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Speaker 4: And then he made a pivot in his life and
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Speaker 4: he met some amazing people and the Hero Builder has
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Speaker 4: begun to breathe and live over here. So we separated
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Speaker 4: from the Hero Builder and became the Everyday Heroes so
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Speaker 4: the Hero Builder could have its life, and as it
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Speaker 4: is progressed, it is going to continue to eat up
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Speaker 4: more and more of his lovely time. All his prayers
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Speaker 4: are coming through. It's the funnest thing to watch. And
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Speaker 4: so as he's done that, we're going to rebrand again
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Speaker 4: June one and we're going to become Uncaked he Roes.
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Speaker 4: And my daughter is going to become a new podcast
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Speaker 4: co host. Oh good, and that's such a joy for me. Yes,
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Speaker 4: and Boyd is going to continue on with with Hero
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Speaker 4: Builder and blessed children all around the world. So the
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Speaker 4: premise of Unk Heroes when we decided to do the
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Speaker 4: podcast Glory. We decided there were one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 4: six thousand podcasts the day we looked at it, and
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Speaker 4: we thought, okay, now, what's going to set us apart
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Speaker 4: from one hundred and twenty six thousand other people. So
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Speaker 4: we started listening and what we found is that a
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Speaker 4: lot of them. There's beautiful information out there, lots of
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Speaker 4: people have lots of beautiful wisdom to share, but so
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Speaker 4: many of them have either a specific theme, a tractor
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Speaker 4: on they're a way to assail there's something else, or
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Speaker 4: you don't want to talk about that, And so where
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Speaker 4: was that gap? And what we saw, we said, what's
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Speaker 4: wrappening in the world right now? So we saw the
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Speaker 4: gap being in a clear understanding of character and integrity.
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Speaker 4: And so that was the premise of let's let's find
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Speaker 4: people from all over the world and let's find out
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Speaker 4: what was their journey, who inspired them, what did they learn,
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Speaker 4: what is their wisdom and how can we share that?
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Speaker 4: And so that's what we do. We have had the
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Speaker 4: privilege of traveling all over the world, from Israel to Egypt,
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Speaker 4: to Australia to the UK to Texas, and we've talked
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Speaker 4: to the most beautiful people. They do the most beautiful
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Speaker 4: things for mankind, and they're giving people permission to get better,
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Speaker 4: to have a space to go. You know, I understand that,
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Speaker 4: and it seems like right now people need permission to
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Speaker 4: do a lot of things. And so there's a lot
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Speaker 4: of people out there open in that space, and so
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Speaker 4: we're sharing that space. We're letting you know who's out
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Speaker 4: there to make your life better and who inspired them,
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Speaker 4: and what's the wisdom from your grandparents.
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Speaker 3: M Well, thank you for doing that work with BOYD
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Speaker 3: and eventually with your daughter. It sounds like very soon
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Speaker 3: she's going to be in the same same seat. You know,
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Speaker 3: so many people are hurting and suffering, not only during
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Speaker 3: this pandemic, but before before we had the pandemic, and
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Speaker 3: so having that place of end inspiration and light is
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Speaker 3: so so necessary right now.
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Speaker 4: Well, hope is universal. Wisdom is universal. It doesn't have
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Speaker 4: a gender or a color, or a location or a community.
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Speaker 4: It is. And we're all just walking each other home.
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Speaker 4: Shouldn't we do it hand in hand?
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Speaker 3: M oh, I love that, Stacy, Thank you hand in
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Speaker 3: hand talking each other home.
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Speaker 4: Agen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I know that you have another podcast and
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Speaker 3: could you tell us about midweek mind candy? Oh?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely so. Mind candy is a phrase that we
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Speaker 4: use for something for you to think about for a minute,
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Speaker 4: like a good piece of hard candy or and all
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Speaker 4: day sucker takes a minute to digest that. And so
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Speaker 4: that's what this information is. And we do it on Wednesday,
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Speaker 4: and we take an individual word that is an attribute
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Speaker 4: of character and integrity and legacy and we banter that word.
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Speaker 4: How do you model that word? How do you verb
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Speaker 4: that so that people see that, because that's your legacy,
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Speaker 4: that's the story that you leave behind. And if we
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Speaker 4: don't model And so we've had the most wonderful conversations
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Speaker 4: with people about words, and we're learning how many ways
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Speaker 4: one word can be defined. Yes, right, And it's very
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Speaker 4: important how we use those words and when we're communicating
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Speaker 4: with people because just how you say it has a
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Speaker 4: very different meaning. Sometimes the wisdom is beautiful.
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Speaker 3: And so are you working and talking with people from
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Speaker 3: around the world on this podcast as well?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely so. Yeah, it's fun there. Every time we
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Speaker 4: talk to somebody about being on the podcast, we go,
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Speaker 4: so do you want to play another way? We have
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Speaker 4: another one. So it's a lot of fun to hear
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Speaker 4: the conversations. And I've really enjoyed the conversations we have
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Speaker 4: between the generations. We bantered the word grace with a
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Speaker 4: young man that was thirty and to hear his concept
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Speaker 4: of grace as one of those people so many people
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Speaker 4: are afraid of, right, thought, Oh my gosh, the awful millennials.
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Speaker 4: And they're so beautiful, right, they have so much information,
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Speaker 4: and I think we're scared of them, is what I think. Right,
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Speaker 4: that's it. They have so much information that we didn't
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Speaker 4: even understand, but they need our wisdom. And so when
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Speaker 4: we bantered the word grace and we heard this beautiful
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Speaker 4: concept of this thirty five year old concept of grace,
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Speaker 4: we came to the conclusion that it's the third step
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Speaker 4: in forgiveness. There's accepting an apology, and then there's forgiveness,
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Speaker 4: and then there's grace. And grace is what we all want, right,
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Speaker 4: And it's hard to offer to other people complete and
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Speaker 4: it's very hard to offer.
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Speaker 3: To ourselves, yes, absolutely right.
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Speaker 4: Until you can offer yourself grace, it's almost impossible to
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Speaker 4: offer to anyone else within a clear understanding, right. And
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Speaker 4: so those are the conversations that we get to have.
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Speaker 4: So if you would like to banter a word with us,
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Speaker 4: with Gloria, we would love to have you.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know I love words, so I would be
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Speaker 3: happy to do that. And I think about how we
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Speaker 3: use the word mentor, for example, there's another word for you,
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Speaker 3: and oftentimes you think about somebody older than us. But
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Speaker 3: the young people have something to offer everyone as well,
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Speaker 3: and so I like to think of mentors as people
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Speaker 3: of all ages, all generations, all walks of life. We
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Speaker 3: can all learn something from everyone.
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Speaker 4: Right, I agree? Yeah, And you know, just like you
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Speaker 4: and I both have learned for a mentor that we
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Speaker 4: both share. Leadership is influence. It's not who you are,
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Speaker 4: how much money you make, right, it's your ability to
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Speaker 4: influence those around you. That's the five year old or
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Speaker 4: the eighty year old or somebody in between.
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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, yeah, all right, Well I love your ministries
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Speaker 3: and thank you for sharing about your podcasts. Stacy. I
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Speaker 3: know that you have written a part of a book,
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Speaker 3: and I want you to tell our listeners about that.
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Speaker 3: What is Kate No More?
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Speaker 4: Wow? Cage No More is a very new and exciting journey.
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Speaker 4: But I was invited to join. I got an email
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Speaker 4: from a lady one day and she said, please don't
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Speaker 4: take this as creepy, but I've been scoping you out
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Speaker 4: on Facebook. I really love your energy and you and
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Speaker 4: I should have a conversation. And so she called and
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Speaker 4: we had a conversation about this book she wanted to write,
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Speaker 4: and her goal was sixteen to twenty women to co
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Speaker 4: author a book about the moment they recognized the magic
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Speaker 4: in themselves, right the moment they became uncaged from the
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Speaker 4: constraints of society or trauma or fear or whatever it
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Speaker 4: was that was holding them back, that moment they broke free.
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Speaker 4: So in this book will be sixteen stories of coming
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Speaker 4: out right of that uncage. I believe we launched July
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Speaker 4: to thirtieth, and it is sixteen amazing women from all
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Speaker 4: around the world. And so it has been quite an experience, right,
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Speaker 4: so nervously that day when they hit that button had
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Speaker 4: to turn into my chapter. I was like, Oh, there's
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Speaker 4: no going back. Let's it hit the button.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, telling your story is so powerful
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Speaker 3: not only for you, but for all the people whose
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Speaker 3: lives you're going to impact.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Amen, And I think we never know who might
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Speaker 4: hear our story that needs to hear it that day
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Speaker 4: or whose life it might touch or treat.
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Speaker 3: That's right. And you know, I always say it's not
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Speaker 3: our business to know. Our business is to show up
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Speaker 3: and to tell our stories and to shine the light.
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Speaker 3: Somebody out there needs that. They need that light, they
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Speaker 3: need those life affirming words.
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Speaker 4: They do, they do, so may they fall upon the
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Speaker 4: ears that need them.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely well, I wish you well with your book. I'm
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Speaker 3: not going to wish you luck because you don't need
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Speaker 3: luck very much. I can't wait to get my hands
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Speaker 3: on a copy of it.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. It'll be super fun. And though
20:54
Speaker 4: I think all the proceeds are going to charity, and
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Speaker 4: which makes it even better, it's going to be fun
20:59
Speaker 4: to watch it bless other people all around anyway.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Now, you mentioned the word gap a little bit earlier, Stacey,
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Speaker 3: and I I'm going to ask you just fill us
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Speaker 3: in a little bit more about what you're thinking in
21:11
Speaker 3: terms of where our culture is today, society is today.
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Speaker 3: Where do you see the gap and what's what's missing
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Speaker 3: or muted for you?
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Speaker 4: You know, I think I asked this question all the
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Speaker 4: time right on my interviews. It's one of the questions
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Speaker 4: that we ask is where people see the gap? And
21:33
Speaker 4: I love the answers that we get, but I think
21:36
Speaker 4: I think for me it's in. It's in the wisdom
21:40
Speaker 4: of my grandparents. Right, Where did that stop getting moved along? Right?
21:47
Speaker 4: We all had these people in our lives that had
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Speaker 4: this moral line, this character, this ethic, this right and wrong,
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Speaker 4: this good and bad, this total line earned you to keep.
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Speaker 4: We had that, and we grew up with that, and
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Speaker 4: we honored that, and we believed in that. And when
22:04
Speaker 4: we do these interviews, ninety four percent of the time,
22:07
Speaker 4: that's who these people, that's who their heroes are. It's
22:10
Speaker 4: my grandma, it's my mom, it's my uncle John, it's
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Speaker 4: my third grade Sunday school teacher. Right, these ordinary people
22:16
Speaker 4: that do extraordinary things for them. And so I think
22:20
Speaker 4: that's what's missing in all this information that we got
22:23
Speaker 4: out there. Right, there's so much chatter, and so I
22:29
Speaker 4: think the gap is in. The gap is in I
22:32
Speaker 4: think probably the other thing I've talked about, what's underneath
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Speaker 4: the music. Yes, that's the gap for me? Yes, And
22:42
Speaker 4: where did that wisdom go? As I watched my grandchildren?
22:45
Speaker 4: I got six grand babies now, love God, Yay, congratulations
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Speaker 4: thank you. They're so beautiful. But they're all under the
22:52
Speaker 4: age of six, and so as I watched them grow up,
22:56
Speaker 4: and they are fascinated by life, sponges of energy. They
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Speaker 4: want to know, They want to learn, how does that work,
23:04
Speaker 4: what does it do? Like that? Where that starts come from?
23:06
Speaker 4: Why does that frog squeeze on my finger? Everything fascinates them.
23:10
Speaker 4: And then as I work with junior high kids and
23:13
Speaker 4: I work with high school kids, we're teaching them how
23:16
Speaker 4: to ask questions again. We're teaching to dream again and
23:20
Speaker 4: to believe in that again, and to have an imagination.
23:23
Speaker 4: Where does the wonder go? I want to know? So
23:27
Speaker 4: I'm watching mine and I'm like, don't you dare take
23:29
Speaker 4: the wonder from those grand babies. Let them ask the questions,
23:32
Speaker 4: because I want to know who takes that away? Because
23:35
Speaker 4: I think that's where the gap starts. We start telling them,
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Speaker 4: sit down, pay attention, conform, memorize the answer, get the grade,
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Speaker 4: go to school, fit in the box, and that creates
23:47
Speaker 4: the gap right there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they're not fishing, and they're not hunting and
23:52
Speaker 4: cannon and looking at birds and watching the stars and
23:54
Speaker 4: changing the tire and learning about life.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So we actually what you're saying, I think is
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Speaker 3: we contribute to that that gap one no or one
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Speaker 3: TV commercial or one do it this way and not.
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Speaker 4: That way, exactly one one just a minute, don't ask,
24:15
Speaker 4: you'll learn, right, one just a minute. I'm busy. I
24:19
Speaker 4: can't just a minute. I can't talk right now. And
24:21
Speaker 4: then they just quit asking.
24:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a blessing. I mean, you have six grand
24:27
Speaker 3: babies under the age of six, and I can only imagine,
24:31
Speaker 3: I imagine you just pouring and pouring and pouring blessing
24:34
Speaker 3: into these young young souls. You know.
24:38
Speaker 4: I think that's what they're doing to me, right, They're
24:41
Speaker 4: they're doing that to me. But I think that's the
24:42
Speaker 4: joy of being a grandparent, because when we're When I
24:45
Speaker 4: was a mom, I was so busy trying to be
24:47
Speaker 4: a good mom. Right, I wanted all my eyes tartted,
24:50
Speaker 4: my te's crossed in the dentist appointment, and a's and
24:52
Speaker 4: science and good science projects and those in their hair. Right,
24:56
Speaker 4: I wanted. I wanted to be a perfect mom. And
24:58
Speaker 4: I think I missed the wonder. And I think that's
25:01
Speaker 4: what grandmothers get. I think we get the wonder. Yes,
25:04
Speaker 4: because I'm not responsible anymore, for none of that is mine.
25:09
Speaker 4: And so I get the wonder. So I get tents
25:11
Speaker 4: and the living room, the cupcakes at breakfast and where
25:13
Speaker 4: does cinnamon come from? And we get to find out
25:16
Speaker 4: I love it.
25:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, And like my mom says, you know, I can
25:19
Speaker 3: always send them.
25:20
Speaker 4: Home absolutely spoiled. Yeah, little sugar maybe, but we're sending
25:26
Speaker 4: them home.
25:28
Speaker 3: Oh my, So, Stacey, is there anything that you would
25:32
Speaker 3: like to comment on further, or anything that you wished
25:35
Speaker 3: i'd asked you that I did not.
25:38
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, I love to have conversations with you,
25:41
Speaker 4: my friend. I could just talk to you all day. Right,
25:44
Speaker 4: So here's how about I lay out a challenge, not
25:47
Speaker 4: necessarily a challenge, but a little mind candy for your audience.
25:52
Speaker 4: I would like to challenge them to see if they
25:55
Speaker 4: can take a moment and step back and find out
25:59
Speaker 4: what's underneath the music for them. When you learn to
26:05
Speaker 4: tap dance, you learn that you can't dance to the
26:08
Speaker 4: music because the music changes, It goes up, it goes down,
26:12
Speaker 4: it fades, it speeds up. But underneath there's this one
26:16
Speaker 4: sound that never changes and that keeps everything else in rhythm,
26:21
Speaker 4: and that's your dance partner. So who's your dance partner
26:26
Speaker 4: underneath all this music that's going on right now? Do
26:30
Speaker 4: you know? Who are you with no hat on? Who
26:33
Speaker 4: are you not in someone else's costume that they'd laid
26:36
Speaker 4: out for you for the day? But who are you
26:41
Speaker 4: underneath the music?
26:43
Speaker 3: Wow? And how do you keep the steps going when
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Speaker 3: the music changes?
26:48
Speaker 2: I love you?
26:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
26:50
Speaker 4: Well, you have to know the dance right. Okay. Have
26:53
Speaker 4: you ever been driving down the highway listening to your
26:55
Speaker 4: favorite song on the radio, music's turned up? You're a
26:59
Speaker 4: one man conserpt, best singer on the planet, right rocking out? Yes,
27:04
Speaker 4: and you hit that moment of white noise and you
27:06
Speaker 4: go oh, and you have a choice to make break in.
27:10
Speaker 4: You either change the station or you keep singing your song.
27:14
Speaker 4: And in a minute, the white noise goes away and
27:16
Speaker 4: you're right on time and that concert continues. Yes, because
27:20
Speaker 4: you know your song. But white noise conflict in your life.
27:25
Speaker 4: It's just white noise in your song. And if you
27:28
Speaker 4: just keep singing, believe it, Just keep singing your song.
27:31
Speaker 4: In a minute, the white noise goes away and that
27:34
Speaker 4: song is right, we're're supposed to be.
27:36
Speaker 3: I love it, Thank you, Thank you, and you know,
27:42
Speaker 3: I obviously didn't get to see you tap dance. I
27:44
Speaker 3: didn't get to see you teach or as a professional dancer.
27:48
Speaker 3: But I feel like I've gotten a little bit of
27:51
Speaker 3: the dancer in you and the musician in you, because
27:54
Speaker 3: to be a tap dancer, you've got to be a
27:56
Speaker 3: really good musician. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Thank you so much, Stacy.
28:01
Speaker 3: And so for our listeners, I know they're going to
28:04
Speaker 3: want to get in touch with you. What's the best
28:07
Speaker 3: way to do that.
28:09
Speaker 4: Stacy, Well, I'm always on social media, right I'm Stacy
28:14
Speaker 4: Owen Johnston on social media. I'm on LinkedIn as well.
28:19
Speaker 4: But I don't have a website. This whole internet world
28:22
Speaker 4: is a huge pivot for me. I didn't even want
28:24
Speaker 4: a debit card. But so I'm working on it. I
28:27
Speaker 4: got a group phones and I'm making a website right now.
28:30
Speaker 4: I'm working on it. But I do have an email
28:32
Speaker 4: and they can always reach me at enlighten Up dot
28:36
Speaker 4: stacyj no E just s t A c y Jay
28:41
Speaker 4: at gmail dot com and that is my enlighten Up
28:45
Speaker 4: and they if you want to talk on our podcast,
28:48
Speaker 4: if you want to share your journey, if you have
28:49
Speaker 4: a hero that we need to know. If you want
28:51
Speaker 4: to banter a word, reach out to us at hero
28:54
Speaker 4: Builder twenty twenty at gmail dot com and let's chat.
28:59
Speaker 3: Right excellent. Thank you so much, Stacy, and again, thank
29:03
Speaker 3: you for being here with us today and for enlightening
29:06
Speaker 3: us and enlightening up the world.
29:10
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
29:12
Speaker 3: Bless you.
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Speaker 1: So inspiring. I love all of Stacy's pearls of wisdom. Clearly,
29:22
Speaker 1: Stacy Johnston is a leader's leader. She makes a difference
29:26
Speaker 1: in her own life and in the lives of so
29:29
Speaker 1: many others in her family and throughout the world through
29:33
Speaker 1: her podcasts and as an internationally certified personal coach, consultant, speaker,
29:40
Speaker 1: and trainer. To learn more about Stacy's work, you can
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Speaker 1: connect with her on Facebook and that's Facebook dot com
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Speaker 1: forward slash STACYO dot Johnston and Johnston is j O
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Speaker 1: H N st so that's Facebook dot com forward slash
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Speaker 1: Stacy S T A C Y staceyo dot Johnston. You
30:12
Speaker 1: can also send her an email at Enlighten Up dot
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Speaker 1: Stacy J at gmail dot com. Now remember to look
30:22
Speaker 1: for her podcasts Midweekmindcandy and also Uncaped Heroes and you
30:28
Speaker 1: know what. I was a guest on both of those podcasts,
30:32
Speaker 1: So I just love that Stacy's book, Caged No More,
30:36
Speaker 1: will be published very soon, so be sure to look
30:40
Speaker 1: for that as well.
30:42
Speaker 2: And that's Caged No More. All right, good stuff.
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