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Finding Purpose · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question from American mama's.
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  Speaker 2: Dear mama's, what do you do if you're in your
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  Speaker 2: late fifties and you feel like you have something to
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  Speaker 2: offer but you don't have a passion.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's ask our American mama's mama, Mama.
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  Speaker 4: She said, and joining us now our American mama's Terry
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  Speaker 4: Ediville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you got stuff to offer, you just don't
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  Speaker 2: know what that is. What do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very interesting thing to be at this age
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  Speaker 5: because you realize always thought that being in your fifties
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  Speaker 5: was old until I got here and I realized, oh
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  Speaker 5: my gosh, I am still so young. But this question
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  Speaker 5: came to me from a friend and her husband's a
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  Speaker 5: colonel in the army. She was fgr family ready, you know,
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  Speaker 5: she's the go between between command and families. Okay, if
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  Speaker 5: something happens. This was during a hard time, you know,
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  Speaker 5: this is when they were losing a lot of soldiers,
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  Speaker 5: and she said that it became her passion to be
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  Speaker 5: that person for families that were fort Hood. She became
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  Speaker 5: that person.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and fort Hood lost lot, lot, a lot.
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  Speaker 5: And so she said that it became a passion for her.
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  Speaker 5: She felt like it was a mission. And she said,
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  Speaker 5: now that it's over and I'm at this age, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know what to do. I feel like I have
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  Speaker 5: so much in me, but I don't know what my
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  Speaker 5: passion is. And so I started thinking and I said,
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  Speaker 5: maybe passion just find you, or maybe you just enjoy
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  Speaker 5: your every day and just she said, fa, my passion
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  Speaker 5: now is my family. But I don't know what I
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  Speaker 5: want to do in life. And I thought the only
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  Speaker 5: time I ever had that full passion passion was with
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  Speaker 5: our nonprofit with military families. I could walk into any door,
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  Speaker 5: I would talk to anyone, I would ask for money,
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  Speaker 5: I would talk to general. I did everything I could
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  Speaker 5: to make that happen because I had so much passion
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  Speaker 5: about it. And the only thing I feel passionate about
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  Speaker 5: now is my children, my family. But I'm like her,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a passion for anything more. I love this.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like this is a blessing. You know, this
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  Speaker 5: is probably your passion.
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? This is one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, quite clearly, this is you know. I wake up
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  Speaker 2: every morning and my thought is, Okay, what are we
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  Speaker 2: talking about today? And how do we get the message
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  Speaker 2: out and yeah, but it's definitely a calling. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what I did not want to do American
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  Speaker 2: Ground Radio. When American Ground Radio started, I did not
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  Speaker 2: want to do it. Lewis had been talking with radio stations.
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  Speaker 1: They'd asked us to do a.
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  Speaker 2: Show, and I was like, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But we started doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Well was the reservation.
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  Speaker 2: I had done a radio show before that went back,
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  Speaker 2: and so I kind of felt like, you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: worried about it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be back in that spot.
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  Speaker 2: Where I was, oh yeah, and we were on you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were creating conservative ground, trying to teach about developing
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  Speaker 2: leadership and inspiring voters, and that's where I thought we
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  Speaker 2: were heading. And then you know, this opportunity comes along
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  Speaker 2: and the door opens and you go, okay, I'll walk
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  Speaker 2: through that door.
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  Speaker 1: Terry, what do you think about this?
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  Speaker 3: Where do you go? I? You know, I've had I
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  Speaker 3: will say seasonal purposes. There's like a purpose will come
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  Speaker 3: into my and to focus, you know, like the children's
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  Speaker 3: hospital and like the baseball team or you know, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Something comes along and then I'm like, I'm all in
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  Speaker 3: but throughout my life as a mom, my purpose in life,
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  Speaker 3: and I always knew this would be. It was to
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  Speaker 3: be a good mom and a good grandmother. So Kevin
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  Speaker 3: and I I was, I remember this like a couple
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  Speaker 3: of months ago. I was watering the flowers in the
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  Speaker 3: backyard and I started crying and Kevin said, he walked,
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  Speaker 3: goes what is wrong? And I said, I said, you
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  Speaker 3: know the kids are all adulting. You know, two of
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  Speaker 3: the three are married. I've got this grandson I absolutely adore,
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  Speaker 3: and my son and daughter in law most likely will
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  Speaker 3: be moving this twelve hours away. Probably yeah, well, resident
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  Speaker 3: say he'll finish med school. And I said, all I've
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  Speaker 3: ever really known is how to be a good mom
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  Speaker 3: and now a good grandmother. And the little one that
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  Speaker 3: makes me a grandmother is about to be gone. They're
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  Speaker 3: about to take him away. And what am I going
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  Speaker 3: to do? What am I going to do? And he said, Terry,
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  Speaker 3: you always find something, something always comes along your path,
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  Speaker 3: and you always jump in, just like you know you've done.
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  Speaker 3: And he listed some things that I did that I'd
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  Speaker 3: forgotten about, and he said, You're just one of those
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  Speaker 3: like it'll strike you. You do your thing, you leave
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  Speaker 3: your mark and then you go to the next thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that that brought me comfort.
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  Speaker 5: One thing it made me think of is what Dad
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  Speaker 5: told us, you know, right before Dad died, when I said,
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  Speaker 5: was it always your dream to play football Terry Bradshaw
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  Speaker 5: to play in the NFL? And he said, no, that
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  Speaker 5: was Terry's dream. Dreams are contagious, and you must follow
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  Speaker 5: whatever you even as someone else dream. It's contagious. Follow it,
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  Speaker 5: do it with them.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where I think you'll end up finding your
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  Speaker 2: passion again, is just go see where there's a need.
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  Speaker 2: Go look and see where something.
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  Speaker 1: That you could do. Is there a hole you can fill?
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  Speaker 2: And you start doing that and maybe it's not your
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  Speaker 2: passion today, but it can become your passion over time.
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  Speaker 2: Your kids weren't always your passion because you didn't always.
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  Speaker 1: Have them right. They couldn't have been your passion.
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  Speaker 2: Because you didn't have them true, And now you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've gone through this and they've grown up and they
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  Speaker 2: have benefited from your passion. If you don't know what
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  Speaker 2: your passion is, my encouragement go figure out where you
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  Speaker 2: can serve. And as long as you find someplace you
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  Speaker 2: can serve you will find your passion well.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say this and not to counter that,
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  Speaker 3: but my personality is not that. My personality is not
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  Speaker 3: to look in the community and who needs to grow
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  Speaker 3: a garden? Who needs the help? It is something that
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  Speaker 3: has to come and a God does this all the time.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it has to be something that comes across
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  Speaker 3: my face, my mind and my heart and I go, wait,
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  Speaker 3: what was that? What are they doing? How does this
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  Speaker 3: help them? Wait, let me know more about this. I'll dive,
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  Speaker 3: you know, dive in there and look at it. So
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  Speaker 3: that's my personality is that it'll strike me. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that happens a lot with people. It just happens
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  Speaker 3: to be their right place, right time.
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  Speaker 1: But you're not stuck at home.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're out doing You're involved, yes, And that's I
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  Speaker 2: think where you run across those opportunities for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Mama's button turned out of a Kimberly Brothers and thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much, thank you