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The Why Not Today? Podcast - Season 4 - Episode 1, 3rd Anniversary Episode - Belinda Jackson Farrier interviewing Leslie · Why Not Today? with Leslie Kane

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  Welcome to the Why Not Today podcast where we celebrate courage, determination, and the
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  power of saying, Why Not Today?
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  I'm your host, Leslie Kane, and in each episode we dive into inspiring stories of individuals
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  who have taken bold steps, face their fears, and embrace the possibility of today.
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  From entrepreneurs to artists, dreamers to doers, we explore the moments when you say,
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  enough waiting, why not today?
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  Let me as we uncover the heartwarming, the audacious, and the transformative, whether
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  it's pursuing a lifelong passion, overcoming obstacles, or simply choosing joy.
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  Our guests share their journeys and inspire us all.
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  I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Kane, who often said, Why Not Today?
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  And remember, you're just one decision away from changing your life.
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  And today we're doing something kind of different.
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  So my guest is Belinda Jackson-Farrier, and she has been a guest on the podcast before,
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  and she is the host of the Leadership Tea podcast.
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  And I met Belinda at a networking million cups event and immediately connected, and
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  we have gotten together several times and seen you at different things, and so admire
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  you and what you're doing with your podcast.
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  And so with the third anniversary, I was trying to think outside the box, and somebody had
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  recommended this, and I was like, Belinda is a perfect person, to have somebody interview
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  me.
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  So the episode, if you listened to the prior episode, I talked about the journey of the
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  podcast, where we started, the story behind it, where we're going, and not only the podcast,
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  but the Why Not Today movement and everything else I'm doing.
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  And so Belinda, I have given her free reign to ask me questions and interview me, and
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  probably going to make me uncomfortable because she's also a coach, so she's going to coach
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  me through this.
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  So who knows what's going to happen, and as you know, we do not edit the Why Not Today
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  podcast, so you're going to get this raw and real time.
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  And so Belinda, I'm so grateful for you doing this, and I know your world is rocking right
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  now with everything.
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  I know you've been in the government space, and so lots going on, so I appreciate your
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  time and taking the time and helping me with this.
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  And let's start with what courage means to you, and then, or maybe just a little bit
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  of who you are, because I always like to do that, and what courage means to you.
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  Yeah, I'm happy to reintroduce myself to your audience.
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  Like I said, my name is Belinda, and I am a former US diplomat.
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  I'm a former executive in the tech space, and now I'm an entrepreneur who is really
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  committed to helping people find clarity on their career and leadership journey.
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  You know, I'm also a resident of Northern Virginia.
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  I'm a mom, I'm a wife, and I'm a person who's really committed to helping my community.
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  In response to your question about empathy, or rather courage, I would offer that, for
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  me courage right now is empathy.
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  It is this idea that it takes a lot of bravery to be kind and to put yourself in someone
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  else's place.
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  There's a lot out there in social media, or just in the culture in general, that really
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  makes it seem exciting and interesting and different to be tough on people, and to be
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  judgmental and mean.
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  And so I think that it takes courage to stand up and see yourself in someone else's shoes.
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  Yeah, and you know, often say that, you know, people are doing the best they can, and who
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  knows where their beliefs came from and where they came from, and that's what they believe.
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  And so who is it for us to judge and not be kind?
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  Because there's a lot of unkindness going on.
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  I agree.
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  Well, look, why don't we dive right in?
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  Okay.
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  I'm ready.
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  I'm really excited to learn more about the Why Not Today movement and where you hope
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  to see the movement go.
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  So I think my first question is, when you think about where, you know, it's December
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  31st, 2025.
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  Where do you see the Why Not Today movement at that moment?
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  Good question.
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  So ultimately, you know, my thoughts and my intention with the movement is to be able to
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  give people courage to one, live your life.
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  Like we are not promised tomorrow, and I'm forever hearing stories of losing people and
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  life happening, and we don't know what's going to happen, to be courageous and to pursue
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  those dreams.
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  And so if I'm going to bed New Year's Eve on 2025, I really hope that I've impacted
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  lots of people and made a difference in people's lives and that people are telling me stories
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  of, oh, when we talked and you gave me that push to do this or help me grow, that I've
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  impacted people's lives and their stories.
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  And this has nothing to do about pursuing a dream.
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  That one of my guests at one of my luncheons wanted to get a tattoo, and she's wanted to
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  get one for a long time.
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  And she is Jewish and with everything going on in the world, it's very upsetting to her.
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  And so her tattoo wanted to be something to symbolize that.
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  So after the luncheon, there was a tattoo parlor right walking distance, and she walked over
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  to make an appointment.
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  And he's like, well, I could do it now.
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  And she's like, you know, why not today?
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  So you know, so giving people, I really hope that I make a difference.
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  And it's the ripple effect that I'm making difference in people's lives to, to do the
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  courageous things and to start the business.
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  So the nonprofits are, you know, some people, why not today often say is getting out of bed.
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  Somebody else that I know bought some why not today merchandise to give to her daughter
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  who's in college and really struggling with depression and anxiety, just to give her the
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  encouragement, you know, to have a t-shirt and a cup to encourage her every morning to
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  keep going.
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  Wow.
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  It's really powerful.
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  As you think about where the movement takes people and how you get them there, what's something
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  that you feel like you need to change to kind of continue to have this momentum and, and
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  get people where they need to be through the why not today movement?
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  Yeah, I think really what I need to change is my, my why not today courage, you know,
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  to go back, you know, the shoemaker son doesn't have shoes.
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  I'm really good about encouraging other people, but for me, if I'm going to be vulnerable and
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  honest here, it's sharing what I can offer to help people that I do have strengths and
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  skills and superpowers in helping, not even helping.
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  I don't like that word supporting people to make the next step to give them some tactics
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  and tools.
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  Also, I have helped with some courses last year on helping people with systems and so
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  many things that I have learned in a 30 year Mary Kay career that I can then pass on, you
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  know, to put some systems in to get rid of some chaos in their life.
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  So, and to connect with the people that they need to, I think those are some of my superpowers
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  of being able to help people connect and teach people how to do that and the systems.
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  Um, because it just takes one person that can change everything.
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  And we're so worried about what other people are going to think that, but what if you could
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  make a difference?
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  No, that's, that's really passionate.
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  Like, so you have all of these superpowers, right?
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  And you are such a force in the community.
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  But I think it's hard for many of us to see that you too struggle to, you know, live the
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  very ethos of the movement.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm curious, what are you afraid of?
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  It's interesting.
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  You say that I had a discussion with somebody else and I brought this up.
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  She's like, you're not 100% confident.
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  I'm like, no, I think my fear is, it's just new and sharing.
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  And I think selling me as opposed to I have a career in selling tangible items, you know,
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  here's a lipstick that's $20.
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  So how do you put a value on what your strengths are?
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  And so being able to get the word out, it's so much easier to sell a t-shirt, sell, get
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  somebody to come to event, to gather people, to help other people that way.
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  And like helping other people's businesses is something I'm passionate about.
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  So my friend's restaurant, you know, help support her and to take a step back and like,
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  okay, what am I doing on a daily basis to really share the message?
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  And you know, people following me, they know I do an event, maybe they know I do a podcast,
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  hopefully, that I've been a Mary cake and something, but do they know all the other
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  things?
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  And it's interesting, there was one person I did coach last year and came to my course
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  and the reason what she came to my luncheon and I've known her and she knows my mom and
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  my family and she says she'd watch my career and listen to my mother brag about me and
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  knew my success.
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  She's like, if you can have success in this, you can help me.
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  Yes.
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  So yeah, I think it's the putting those things first instead of I say the low hanging fruit.
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  You know, it's easy to do all the little things and make it perfect, which is so against the
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  why not today message to instead of making the phone call, calling the person, reaching
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  out, sharing more content about what I can provide and help.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  No, definitely.
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  What are building on that?
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  What are two or three things that you hope your listeners get out of the why not today
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  movement as they kind of build towards taking action on their truth and their that thing
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  that they're afraid of?
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  What's what are two or three takeaways that they should get from why not?
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  Well, I would say when people listen to podcasts, if they get hope and permission and maybe
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  a me too, you know, that they listen to somebody else's story and, you know, from everything
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  from starting businesses to I've had a couple of people that I have addiction issues, you
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  know, like listening to somebody and say, you know what, if they can do it, I can do
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  it.
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  And so giving people that hope and permission that they can do it too, that it's one, you
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  know, and, you know, I've got a successful business, you know, three years of podcasts
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  and I'm still doing things scared.
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  And I don't know about you.
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  You left a whole different career and you're probably doing things daily scared every day,
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  every day.
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  And so, you know, we're all doing it scared.
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  We don't all come perfectly figuring this out.
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  And, you know, it took me a long time to figure out how to do this podcast.
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  It was one, one week at a time.
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  And originally it was every other week.
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  So I'm like, okay, if I can master one little thing every couple of weeks.
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  I didn't even get a microphone till almost two years in.
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  You know, exactly, right?
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  You have to take that first step.
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  You have to learn.
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  You have to, I was just telling someone today that it's the importance of being a C student
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  versus an A student, right?
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  A student wants to please people, knows the rules and never really fails and doesn't really
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  develop that resilience.
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  To see student learn so they can take risks and sometimes they get an A and sometimes
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  they get an F.
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  But they're still loved by their community.
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  They can still move forward and it will all be all right at the end.
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  So I'm trying to have that kind of mentality.
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  So I told them.
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  And I think two were more attracted to the story of the adversity.
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  The person that starts here and ends there and has nothing go wrong.
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  Yeah.
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  Can't relate.
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  And I was actually listening to another podcast of some of this very successful and she interviews
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  really high powered top people and she does, I don't know how often, maybe once a month,
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  a coaching call with somebody just starting, which I can relate to her.
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  And I often say, you know, back to the Mary Kay world, you know, I've been doing this
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  30 years and had great success, but a lot of people starting, they can't see from starting
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  to me, but they can see, okay, if one, you know, if somebody, they hear a story of somebody
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  that's been in for a year and had success or a month.
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  And so I think, you know, we got to fail to success and learn those lessons and keep trying
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  and don't quit.
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  Like somebody the other day said something about, you know, how many people in a small
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  business quit.
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  And that is not even a thought in my head that I would ever quit.
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  I may quit doing one part of it, you know, pivot a little better, adjust it, but, you
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  know, not, no, we're not going to quit.
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  We're going to keep trying and learning.
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  I like that C student analogy that's, yeah, and they're not failures, right?
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  They're opportunities.
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  So learning.
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  So in, within the movement, I know that you're doing a lot in terms of you are coaching people
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  individually, you're offering courses.
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  Like, what do you see as a future of helping people to create their new reality through
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  the why not today movement?
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  What will the future of this movement look like?
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  I think it's more group synergies and group work than the individual one to one coaching
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  because that's just a dialogue between two people.
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  And yes, I can bring things out and how, you know, we can help support the coaching, but
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  really I see the magic in a group, people supporting each other and helping.
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  I've started doing events called why not stay connect and sip and it is at a tea shop.
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  So you definitely need to come with your leadership tea.
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  And it's a small group and it's been six to eight people and we have tea and everybody
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  introduces themselves and what they could use support in and we just have a conversation
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  and it's so interesting.
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  The synergies like last month, everybody was around either having a business or having
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  a kid that as a friend of mine calls it complex kiddos that have either autism or, you know,
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  some learning disability.
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  I don't know what all the correct words are, but everybody kind of swam in that world last
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  month this month, which we just held today.
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  It was the healthcare.
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  You know, there was a functional nurse practitioner, somebody that is doing holistic financial planning,
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  somebody else is an exercise specialist.
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  You know, so it's just, it was just powerful just to see the conversations, the connections,
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  the support of each other.
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  So if I can do that and be able to touch many lives and see how the magic unfolds.
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  And I think that's one of the things the luncheon has done.
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  You know, watching the relationships grow out of that.
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  And like one month we had somebody who was an artist that had a local art show going
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  on in right near there and they all left a bunch of women left together and they went
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  and bought chocolate at the chocolate shop and then they went to watch the artist or went
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  to see her paintings.
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  Last month everybody left the luncheon and they all went and bought teas.
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  So to just see these relationships growing, I think is so powerful.
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  It's really interesting what I hear you saying is you're really harnessing the power of community.
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  Absolutely.
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  That is one of my...
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  And that's so necessary right now.
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  And I just keep hearing things about how people are so lonely.
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  And that's why I started the luncheon and that's why I do a lot of what I do, although I keep
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  saying I don't want to be an event planner, but I love gathering people.
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  I even did, had some friends come over for dinner last night.
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  We did it last year.
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  We were going to do it monthly and it ended up being annual.
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  We did it once last year.
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  But we just got together and everybody brought something and they got ready to leave and
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  it was 10 o'clock and I'm like, how did that happen?
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  And when we talked about, you know, everything and just filling each other's cups.
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  And I think that is something that I'm just passionate about is the community, the connections.
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  So figuring out how to support people with that and, you know, have a business that can
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  support me because it's really easy to give away all these services, which you're probably
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  figuring out as well.
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  No, but I think that's something that can be scaled and should be scaled.
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  Yes.
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  Right?
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  And building these micro communities where people really are there to help each other
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  with their resilience and their learning and their growth.
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  I mean, that's, like you said, something that we're all looking for right now.
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  So and it's something that really makes why not today really special.
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  So we've had a few minutes to chat and connect.
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  But before I lose you in this conversation, I want to make sure that I've covered everything.
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  Is there anything that you wish we had talked about today, something you wish I'd asked
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  you?
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  Good question.
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  Maybe a question for you.
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  How do I, how do I reach more people outside my circle?
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  I think that's, I do have a big circle of influence and my luncheon probably for the
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  first six months, there was not one person that walked in that I did not know.
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  And we had over 200 people come to the luncheon last year.
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  And so that's, I think, one of my new, my new opportunity is figuring out how to get
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  rid, how to get out of go beyond my circle.
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  Yeah.
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  That makes sense.
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  I think that that's something that I'm also still learning.
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  I have found that, like you said, building these micro communities through organizations
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  and things has been helpful.
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  I've also found that speaking, it's slow and steady wins the race in terms of building
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  this community, right?
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  Like that.
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  It's about quality and that quantity.
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  People who are really committed will, will join and they will bring others.
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  When you are earnestly providing quality, providing what people want, they're going
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  to bring in their friends, like they're going to bring in their associates.
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  But another kind of tactical piece I have found to be useful is to find, to think about
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  where my ideal client, so to speak, right, or listener is likely kind of hanging out.
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  And so in one case for me, that's, that's LinkedIn is, is a space where my ideal listener
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  is, is at.
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  And so putting out my relevant, honest truth, especially as we kind of move through turbulent
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  times and things moving quickly to say, like, here are my views on how to lead your team
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  during, you know, change and turbulence or here's how to manage through layoffs or whatever,
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  because these things are happening now.
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  It's organically growing community.
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  So I think it's, it's really sitting back and it's taken me a while to find out where
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  my ideal client is hanging out, but it's finding that space and then meeting people where they
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  are.
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  Yeah.
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  And I haven't played as much in LinkedIn and that's probably a good place for me to be
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  as well.
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  I've kind of played in the Facebook world just because that's what I've known.
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  But I think LinkedIn is probably a good place.
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  The other thing that's kind of my background's finance.
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  So in my back and my head, I'm like, I am not a writer.
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  I, you know, when I see people put all these blogs and articles and stuff, I'm like, I
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  could never do that.
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  And I've been playing with AI more and I've got the thoughts and ideas and somebody said
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  the other day, it helps them get started.
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  And so somebody asked me to do a blog post and I was like, I don't want to do a blog.
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  She's like, put your course because I've got the outline of the course, which by the way,
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  when I put together the courses I have and put together materials and the handouts and
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  the, all the videos to go with it, it was so much fun and so easy for me.
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  And so I need to take the content of my courses and then put them into an AI to help generate
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  some ideas and then be able to, I think, find some kind of consistent with some things,
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  easy stuff like I do an inspirational post today, which I've done for years.
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  And I've got that figured out.
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  So it's figuring out the cadence of content.
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  Yeah, I agree.
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  There's a lot of noise out there.
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  There is and it's like shiny objects and it's like, okay, how can I most easily be able
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  to take this content and figure out a cadence and a schedule?
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  And I think for me to get out my message, my show my superpowers, because people are watching
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  and constantly have people say things like you're doing so much good, good things and
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  I see what you're doing and people are like, you got to know Leslie and people referring
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  to me all the referring people to me all the time, which I can't keep up with honestly.
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  But then it's taking it, I think.
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  So maybe it's building a team.
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  Say more.
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  What do you mean?
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  Maybe you need someone who can do the analytics on where your audience is and develop a strategy
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  or even outline some of the content, 30 days worth of content for you at a time.
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  Using something like Fiverr or a site like that, you can probably find someone at a relatively
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  reasonable rate to kind of help you with that.
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  And or it's as your people are being referred to you, it's maybe partnering with other people
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  within your movement, maybe doing kind of a train the trainer, training some other folks
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  in the why not today methodology and bringing them on board as I don't know, contractors,
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  employees, something so that it's not just you, right?
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  Yeah.
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  And others can carry the message as well.
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  Interesting thought.
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  I have talked to a couple of people and I had a call with two women that are not in this
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  area that love the idea of my luncheon.
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  They're like, can you teach us how to do it?
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  Because I've had other people ask about doing it.
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  But again, I don't want to be an event planner and I don't want to be running around the
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  world doing events.
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  So if I can teach people fractional event planner.
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  Yeah, kind of like social collectives.
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  Interesting.
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  Lots of ideas.
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  So I'm I'm going to have to have to listen to this podcast again with paper and pen and
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  take notes and and that's one of my superpowers and kryptonite is all my ideas.
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  No, it's good.
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  It's you know, but it's having all the ideas and I listened to a good podcast the other
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  day and talked about income streams and I need to listen to that again and pen and paper
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  and just get everything on in paper and like, OK, where are all the places?
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  Because ultimately the why not today movement, my big, harry audacious goal in I just feel
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  in the every ounce of my being that it's there is that why not today is a message similar
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  to life is good.
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  People are wearing the shirts and they're encouraging each other.
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  I mean, people are always quoting it back to me.
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  You know, why not today or I'm getting texts or people comment on social media stuff is
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  that we've got a movement that literally a movement that we're encouraging people to
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  try the scary thing like when they say, you know, it takes five seconds of courage to
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  do something.
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  Yeah, I would offer, you know, don't don't suppress the ideas, right?
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  Like, even if you're just carrying a small notebook around with you, that's just called
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  ideas, let them out and review them once a while and see if they can be integrated and
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  your overall strategic plan or like, you know, when and where it's so necessary because I
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  think if I were to reflect on where I am now versus where I thought I would be different,
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  right?
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  I've stayed agile, I've stayed adaptable, right?
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  I've absorbed some new ideas, but in a way that's very, I think intentional so that it's
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  not overwhelming.
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  I have, I also have a tendency to just be like shiny things, let's do it.
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  Yeah, I can have a leadership style that, you know, I kind of put my foot on the gas.
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  So I have to be very intentional about, okay, let me slow down.
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  Let me think.
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  Let me set this aside.
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  Let me stay rooted in the end vision of what I want.
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  Is this going to get me to that end vision?
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  Yeah.
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  Am I still reverse engineering?
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  Am I still rooted and what am I trying to solve for?
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  Right, that's a question we keep asking ourselves and everything.
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  All the time.
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  So look, it's really been an honor connecting with you today and celebrating, you know, the
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  anniversary of this podcast and its impact that it's had on so many people.
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  Yeah.
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  And who would have ever thought when I started is this crazy idea.
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  So the one question I usually ask people before we wrap this up is how would you encourage
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  somebody else to do something?
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  So I'm going to flip this on you.
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  How would you encourage me with my next steps or to reach my December 31st vision or goal?
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  I think your magic line to put on me.
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  Yes.
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  I think that there is power in writing down a vision.
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  There's a study I would have to go look it up that I learned about many years ago that
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  I think it was a Harvard Business School study where they had graduates write down their
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  goal for themselves 10 years in the future and then some didn't.
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  And everyone who wrote it down, almost all of them achieved it.
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  Right?
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  When I was working in Peru, there was someone I worked with who carried her goals in her
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  wallet.
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  And I would sometimes see her like standing in line for coffee at like a cafeteria, you
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  know, and she would, while she's standing in line, literally be looking in her wallet,
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  looking at her goals for the year.
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  Love that.
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  And so that's what I would offer to you is write down that vision of what December 31st
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  looks like and put in your wallet.
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  And when you're like...
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  Have you heard the Jim Carrey story?
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  Yeah.
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  With the check?
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  Do you know the Jim Carrey?
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  I think it's Jim Carrey.
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  Oh.
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  Yeah.
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  Pretty sure it's Jim Carrey.
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  But he wrote himself a check for $100,000 million, I don't know what it was, and kept
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  in his wallet with the date and like almost to the date of it, he got a contract for a
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  movie for that amount.
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  Look at that.
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  I'm going to do that tonight.
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  Yeah.
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  I used to do that with checks for Mary Kaye, top people's checks.
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  Just we'd write out their name and put our name in there.
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  Yeah.
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  I think those are things, you know, and what it keeps coming back to is all the things,
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  and when I presented it at Million Cups, a suggestion, all the things that I know and
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  I've taught people to do for 30 years, I just need to do myself with this business.
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  Do it.
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  Why not today?
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  Why not today?
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  So, well, thank you, Belinda, for doing this.
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  This was fun.
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  And as I said, I'm going to go back and take notes and yeah, put some things in place.
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  And thank you, everybody, for joining us today.
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  And thank you for joining us for three years.
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  It's crazy.
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  Over 100 episodes in three years, and we're starting this is episode one of season four.
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  So I'm excited for that.
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  So check out everything on Why Not Today on our new website, whynottodaymovement.com.
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  Feel free or please like, share, review the podcast, get some merch.
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  Let's share this message.
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  And remember, say why not today?
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  Just never know how your life is going to change.
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  So thanks, Belinda.
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  Thank you.
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  Congratulations.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.