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Dominique Blake: Winning is Just an Attitude · RiseUp - Live Joy Your Way

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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, let's start the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rise up, live enjoy your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: From emotional intelligence through cognitive distortions, certified life and wellness coach Comedy Wood is on a mission to help people see the magnificence of their own unique human spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Through these small bites of self-visualization and self-confidence, you can have healthy relationships, success in business and career, and live the life you want to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rise up, live joy your way.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to another episode of Rise Up, Live Joy Your Way, whether it's morning, afternoon, or evening.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for taking some time out of your day to spend here with me.
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  SPEAKER_02: And today I have a very special guest.
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  SPEAKER_02: I am here with Dominique Blake, a standout athlete.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dominique has written her goals, stuck to her game plan of success, and committed herself to become the very best she can be at every facet of life.
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  SPEAKER_02: Her mission has always been to motivate others to understand that we can be, do, and have anything we desire.
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  SPEAKER_02: Being a professional athlete, international motivational speaker, and multimedia expert has given Dominique the platform to touch hearts and minds far and wide.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome, Dominique Blake.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for having me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm so excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: We get to talk about all the things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And hello to all the people that are watching and listening wherever you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much again for having me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dominique, first, can you start off by just giving us a little backstory on, you know, how you started out, how you got into the athletic world and where it's taken you post-the athletic world?
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  SPEAKER_01: Beautiful question to kick things off.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love always, always, always to give people an idea about who I am, where I come from, and you know, just to let them know I didn't get here by accident, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So none of us, uh none of our stories are a coincidence.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, I was born in New York, raised in Kingston, Jamaica.
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  SPEAKER_01: My parents are, you know, just some really happy-go, lucky, wacky entrepreneurs uh that took everything that they were passionate about and turned them into streams of income.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again, it's not a coincidence how I became the little monster that I am today in all the industries that I'm in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and you know, their message to me was just always to uh give 100% to whatever it is that you find um, you know, exhilarating or whatever excites you about life, whether that be a sport, um, you know, a hobby, just make sure that you invest all your time into it to get everything out of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're you don't walk away disappointed from anything in life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So one of my biggest things today as an adult is not having regrets about anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I get all the goodie out of every part of my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's very important.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, being raised in uh Kingston, Jamaica, um, moved back to New York because I was born there right after to start high school.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was just the mix-up of culture really drastically affected um my views on culture in different spaces, culture with men and women and sexuality and religion on all different areas.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'm very open-minded and I really accept people um in a non-judgmental way because of that, you know?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's why people always say, whatever you do, go travel.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a reason why people encourage you to travel because you won't be so closed-minded, um, you know, that versus staying in the town that you were born in and never leaving.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'll understand human beings in a different way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, I went to Penn State, uh, graduated uh with a degree in communication and marketing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I've been running track and feel my entire life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was the one or is the one the thing that is constant throughout life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh sports.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, uh graduated there uh with my degree in communications and marketing, um, decided to go professional immediately out of college.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I've been an Adidas athlete my entire career.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um 2012 uh was the London Olympics.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had the opportunity to be a part of the most amazing, I'm gonna say it was the most amazing Olympic team ever in history.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, shout out to all the greats, Jesse Owens, all the people that have been a part of all the teams in all the countries years before.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna tell you why.
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  SPEAKER_01: The London Olympic Games had Michael Phelps, Gabby Douglas, Usain Bolt, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Vanessa, or excuse me, Venus and Serena Williams.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen, it was just all of these superhumans jam-packed in an Olympic village.
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  SPEAKER_01: And honestly, every single day I woke up, it was almost like a movie and a dream come true.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um that's my experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm still pinching myself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, the love and the support was so unreal.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, all of these uh superhumans in this one space, supporting each other.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, when your sport got done, you'd hop over to that sport and go cheer them on in a different, you know, for a different country.
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  SPEAKER_01: It didn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just being able to witness all of that um really shaped who I became uh post-sports.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a year and a half, almost two years into um my post-sport life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I get to eat fruit snacks and fried chicken.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am I'm absolutely loving it because I feel like a kid in the candy store, I have the freedom to do all that I want to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, I moved to Northwest Arkansas.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm in middle America.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I've been here since 2016.
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  SPEAKER_01: I moved here just to focus on being all that I can be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, my my college coach, Chris Johnson, is now uh actually going to be the first uh black and youngest head coach of the University of Arkansas.
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  SPEAKER_01: So congratulations to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's making his congratulations to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, congratulations to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh this is the track and feel capital of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we they're the most winningest NCAA program.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I wanted to be someplace where uh winning was just an attitude and um what people do, you know what what you do is just what you do, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: When it's something and you you're putting your mindset uh into that kind of form, it doesn't become a hassle because it's just expected, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you if you win consecutively or you win a race, it's just like, yeah, you you have the best facility and the best coach is dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what you did.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I just I wanted to really put myself in an environment that allowed excellence to be normal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and I did that and I got the most out of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, you know, what really made me understand in in talking to you today, we'll touch on a couple things uh in terms of my serial entrepreneurship and what made me the psycho serial entrepreneur I am today, uh is really uh after 20 after the London Olympics, I hit a bit of adversity.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I will say that is really honestly what allowed me to become um the passionate, uh super successful person.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not just saying this because I want to toot my own horn, but to see it on paper, to see it written in the history books, to hear it from other people.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can say I can blame my success on um, you know, my Federation letting me know, hey, by the way, you tested positive for something in the same category as coffee and Red Bull.
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  SPEAKER_01: But nonetheless, we're still we still gotta suspend you because as a pro athlete, you're a hundred percent responsible for whatever goes into your body, whether you know, knowingly or not.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, thank God I've never uh ingested anything, no illegal substances, knowing or unknowingly.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, something in the same category as a Red Bull.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you drink uh Nyquil, that is you're testing positive for ephedrin, or a poppy sea bagel, um, that's heroin.
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  SPEAKER_01: What?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's insane.
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  SPEAKER_01: So once other athletes started to be educated, and I then I took that as my job to go out and teach athletes, hey, this can happen if you do this and if you're not careful of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I said, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, if I have to sit out for any amount of time, um, and I have to really uh sacrifice my stream of income, how I survive, how I pay my bills, and take care of people around me, I have to make sure that this thing never happens to me again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it really gave me, I call it positive PTSD because it worked in such a way where I created so many other streams of income to make sure that that could never ever happen to me again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I just looked out into the world and I said, all right, Dom, you know, what brings you joy?
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  SPEAKER_01: What makes you really excited that if you never made a dollar from it, what could you continue to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I really just turned all those things into um all those streams of services into streams of income.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, yeah, fast forward.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm now in my studio.
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  SPEAKER_01: This uh I'm sitting in Diamond Training, where the number one personal training company, um, not by me, by Google.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's from the people telling the truth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yes, uh, five stars on Google.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm super excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're virtual, local, and mobile.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what we offer, nobody else offers.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're just a boutique uh uh company, boutique studio where everything's all inclusive and we take everything off of your plate, off of your stressors, um, where you don't have to think about anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: You just show up and we completely take it from there and get you in the best shape of your life mentally and physically.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I love it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Dominique, I have to say that what I just heard you share is taking obstacles and turning them into opportunity, um, which I absolutely can align with and what I talk to all of my clients about.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you know, when we first chatted a a little bit ago, one of the things that you and I really aligned on was the fact that that mental health is such an important part and just mental awareness, mental health, emotional health.
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  SPEAKER_02: And when I'm working with my clients, all a lot of the times we talk about how our belief system can hold us back.
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  SPEAKER_02: And what I just heard and what you shared was you really actually anchored back into a very strong belief system in self and recognized that you were capable, even in the face of adversity, and you turned it into the next iteration of what you were gonna work on and in and created this the life after sport, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I would love just your take on that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, because as you know, one of the things that I do is I work with athletes and I work with high achievers.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm working with executives as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: And one of the things that we often talk about is how our belief system can hold us back.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so could you just speak a little bit more to that and like your own perspective on that from just your own, either through athletics or through how you grew these businesses, this entrepreneurial spirit of yours, how that has really helped you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I will really honestly attribute a lot of this to my development um as from from childhood.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's really tough to break patterns and habits once you're doing it for uh a decade plus, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I always, always encourage uh people that have children to understand the responsibility that they have to shape that mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, because the latter uh is you literally sending out little narcissists out into the world and or people that are so insecure that they start uh a tidal wave of making other people uncomfortable and not uh not believe in themselves because you're insecure.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's generally what happens.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you think about your friend groups or a family member that didn't get to execute whatever plans they had for themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're never just by design um going to have the best words of encouragement for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it all starts uh with us as human beings from a very vulnerable place and the place uh from which we're most susceptible and uh the place where we we're absorbing the most information as sponges, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's generally through age uh I'd say uh three through 10 to 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you're most impressionable.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so my parents did a wonderful job.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, whether they knew I was gonna be whatever I turned out to be today, they did a darn good job of tricking me through it if that was their plan or if they really saw it for me before I could see it for myself, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So every single day they would tell me, You're a you're beautiful, you're the most amazing girl in the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can be doing half anything that you want.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but not just saying the words, but still uh uh encouraging me to work as hard as possible, be the hardest working person in the room, show up early because when you show up early, that's the only time you're on time, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is when you show up early.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I didn't know anything outside of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when I just I got around other people that were underachieving, it really seemed weird to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what do you mean you're not gonna show up early?
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  SPEAKER_02: That's not I was always taught, I was taught if you show up uh early, you're on time.
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  SPEAKER_02: And if you show up on time, you're late.
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  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just those fundamental principles from those basic things, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So people think that uh to have or achieve massive success, it takes all this work.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, if you can put some basic, a basic system together, basic rules, just human rules.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I, you know, I call them my little laundry list for life or my grocery list for life, where I have a list, uh, you know, a checklist every single day of things that I abide by.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't go outside of uh of that list.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I it's it's been working for me, it has worked for me, and when I deviate from that, I find that there's chaos, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So um creating a list and really just starting from an early age to condition the mind in terms of what success or excellence looks like so that it's not a job or a hassle when I am this age or I'm going through tough times.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can always rely on my success checklist when I'm not motivated because the human beings aren't motivated every day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's just fact.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whenever I'm not motivated, I can at least stay consistent because I'm already in that in that mode.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um I hear you speaking about that all the time, just working with high achievers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be very honest with you right now, moment of vulnerability.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you have sound effects, but now would be a great time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dun dun dun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So I want to be very vulnerable with the with the viewers and the listeners right now to say, uh, as a person that would be considered a high achiever, I often don't fit in or feel comfortable in many of my relationships because I feel as though people can't identify with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I would be lying if I said or I didn't question, hey, is there something wrong with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: If I'm the my uh the minority in this situation, everybody else seems to be basing their perspective um based on the average, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Based on the average, I am Looney Tunes, okay?
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, what yeah, so what does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I can't, so people would then say, I encourage everybody to receive counseling or therapy.
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  SPEAKER_01: That traditional counseling or therapy doesn't work for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when I first realized that, um, I felt a little, I felt away.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna lie to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what I really need is someone like you to hold me to a different mindset, that standard, and really be that kind of accountability that I can't get from a traditional counseling or therapy session because I don't operate um in a normal uh reality, in a normal reality, in an average reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: So without receiving accountability and words of affirmation and um a check-in from an individual like a high performance coach, my life is a little, I don't want to say crazy, but it's a little off.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I can feel the difference.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, one thing I will say, and I fully believe in therapy, but I often will say that therapy tends to be slightly more reactive.
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  SPEAKER_02: And again, fully believe in therapy.
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  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely 100%.
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  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you're right.
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  SPEAKER_02: When we are, when we are high performers, uh, having that accountability and having the ability to set those, we don't get to goals without understanding our values and needs.
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  SPEAKER_02: But once we have those things really understood, we can set those goals.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then of course, it's those actions we take to reach into that reself-affirmation and that ability to continue to build ourselves up.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I love that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, let me ask you this because you are a serial entrepreneur and I know that we're, you know, we try to keep these things, the my podcasts are short and sweet and to the point.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna try.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna try.
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  SPEAKER_02: What advice do you have for other, either entrepreneurs or people who are feeling stuck or that self-doubt is really creeping in?
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  SPEAKER_02: What are your words of advice or wisdom for them?
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  SPEAKER_01: My words and my um words of encouragement is to find your tribe, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, again, human beings aren't always going to, we're not always gonna feel motivated, but if you have a support system and a rock solid group that sees you for truly who you are, and they're also um high, high achievers, uh, it won't be a situation where there'll be um negative information being passed on to encourage you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because let me tell you something, guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and everybody's guilty of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you'll rarely, rarely find somebody that's doing as well as you or better than you, giving you just crappy um words of encouragement or information.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'll I'll give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, when I seek mentorship, obviously it's from people that are doing the things that I'm doing right now, but at a higher level, and I've never once gotten information that would put me in a compromising or a worse position, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, mentors generally can have proof that they have gotten to where they've gotten uh by their track record, their experience, their success.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's, you know, it you can see it on paper, so it's not anything that they've made up.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I don't believe in reinventing the wheel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I success leaves clues.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a major believer in that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I really find my tribe in mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_01: So not only reaching up, but also focusing on reaching across uh in terms of finding the people that look like me, um, not only look like me, but they're also in the same areas that I'm in.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that we have we have something to talk about and our dialogue isn't empty.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I usually come loaded with questions whenever I have the opportunity, you know, because I don't take it for granted whenever I'm in a room or in a situation to uh be around people that uh are doing things that I'm doing, but at a higher level or doing the same exact thing as me.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: We can brainstorm because everybody's brain works completely different.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I might see this way and you can see that way, um, just because of how we're naturally designed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, I uh my my advice would be to find your tribe and to focus on being uh solution oriented.
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  SPEAKER_01: I give myself about five minutes, no more than 24 hours to discuss problems.
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  SPEAKER_01: 24 hours is a stretch, but uh I'd say 30 minutes tops, and then I am in the solution business.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, there's no problem or issue in this world that would make me just continue to talk about just that problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to talk about the solution because that would mean I'm really, really interested in overcoming whatever the problem is.
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  SPEAKER_01: So find your tribe and be in the solution business.
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  SPEAKER_02: I absolutely love that because it's really about what's the next best step, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: We're allowed to feel our feelings.
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  SPEAKER_02: I absolutely believe in feeling your feelings, but then it's also, and now what am I gonna do?
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  SPEAKER_02: What do I choose to do and how am I gonna move forward?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, I want to just say, Dominique, thank you for that because I think a lot of people um don't recognize the value in finding community in terms of you can find community across and up.
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  SPEAKER_02: And a lot of times we're either looking for just the people just like us and we forget that we can actually we can we can challenge ourselves to level up.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, my son used to always tell me he plays lacrosse and he used to say, I like playing up, mom.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I said, Why?
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  SPEAKER_02: And he said, Because they push me to be better, they push me to to myself to the next level.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I will like, I I try, I definitely try with my clients to always challenge what they're saying and thinking.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I say at the very beginning of our sessions when we first start working together, I might offend you with how I challenge you, but it's not about me offending you.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's about what we can get through and learn from the fact that you were offended by it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I love that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And listen, by name, I'm a New Yorker, I'm also Caribbean, and I'm also uh Aquarius, so that's a triple, triple doozy.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to offend somebody, but just know that it's coming from a place of love, and I'm absolutely willing to take every step to um work with you along the way, no matter how long it takes.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm in it for the long haul and I I love my people.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I love it.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: If we can if we can connect, um, you know, I'm I'm here for the long haul.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: You're singing my song.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_02: Well, tell us, tell the listeners where they can catch you.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_02: Because I know you're on the radio and on TV.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: So please just share with the listeners where they can they can see and hear you.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: So Instagram is always a safe place from Instagram.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I have a link tree, I have all the things tagged there so you can find me and on all the other spaces.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: But my Instagram is at Dominique V as in Victor Blake.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: So Dominique V Blake, and um, I am very responsive.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: So if you do slide in my DMs for any reason, I will respond to you.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: I love it, and I will make sure that that's in the show notes.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to Rise Up, Live Joy Your Way.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: For more information, book a chat with comedy at www.chatwithcomedy.com or visit her website at www.comedywood.com.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: You can also find comedy on Facebook or Instagram.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Username it's authentic me.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.