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Keep Growing with Chris Robinson | Episode #395 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your Life Count.
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I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international leadership expert and trusted
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advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make your Life Count. I'm so delighted
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that you joined me today. I have a very special guest on our show
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today. His name is Chris Robinson. Chris A is executive vice president of
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Maxwell on Entrepreneur Solutions. He's also the founder of R three Coaching, a
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company dedicated to helping individuals and businesses achieve their personal and business growth goals through
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speaking, group training, and one on one coaching. Chris is a founding
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partner of the John Maxwell team, and as the executive vice president of Maxwell
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Entrepreneur Solutions, he is a product of the product. He leads a global
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team of over thirty thousand speakers, coaches, and trainers. Chris has dedicated
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his life to enhancing others by speaking and teaching on leadership and personal and professional
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development. More importantly, he is the father of eleven year old triplets,
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a seven year old and four year old twin girls. Today's topic is being
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a topic that is near and dear to my heart and I can't think of
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a better person, a better leader, a better human being to address this
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topic than Chris Robinson. Now. I met Chris in twoenty twelve. We
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were both attending an international John Maxwell team conference in Florida at a beautiful place
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in Orlando. And when I met him and heard him speak so passionately about
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his life, he was on fire. So I can't wait to host my
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friend, mentor and colleague, Chris Robinson. Before I bring Chris in,
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I want to take just a minute, just a moment, to connect the
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dots between today's topic on being and legacy living. Now, there are many
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many ways that being connects to legacy living, which you'll hear more about later
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in the show. For now, let me say that legacy living is a
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way of being and a way of living in the world, so that we
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make the conscious choice to be the difference we want to see in the world.
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We make the conscious choice now today, not in some distant future.
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We make that conscious choice day in and day out, three sixty five,
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twenty four seven. All right, more about that later. Let me bring
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in my friend, mentor and colleague, Chris Robinson. So, Chris Robinson,
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I just want to welcome you today, and thank you so much for
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being my guest. Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad to
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be here with you today. Thank you, Thank you so Chris. I
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know you have an amazing story and I would love for you to tell our
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listeners, you know, just a little bit about your background and how did
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you get to where you are today? Oh wow, you know, well,
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it's been a phenomenal journey and personal growth journey for me to get where
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I am today. You know, today I serve as the executive vice president
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for the Job Actual Team, which is the largest speaker coaching training certification program
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on the planet now with the number one leadership ruler of the world. And
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to think that I would be sitting here in the role of leading that organization
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today was really a long stretch of a vision. And I tell you what,
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I what I'm doing today is because of personal growth and development. And
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you know, it was because of a dream and desire to simply help people.
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You know, I started out, you know, really diving into personal
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growth and development about sixteen years ago when I was working for organization as a
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salesperson. So here I was a salesperson inside of this organization, going how
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can I grow and become a manager inside this organization. Now, on paper,
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I knew that all things were equal, but I had to stand out.
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You know, I could sell just again as the next person, But
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how can I get myself to stand out? Well, I decided I was
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going to take some courses at a local church at that time, and they
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were offered, of course by John Maxwell, the twenty one loss Leadership on
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VHS, so the big two TV and VHS. And I decided I was
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going to take that course, and I began to listen to John Maxwell.
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I began to apply the principles inside the workplace, and then I took every
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single course that they offered by John that year because this personal growth stuff was
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really working, and I decided to you know, I was implementing things inside
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the workplace, I was getting promoted on the job. The organization I was
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working with was growing really fast, and I just truly fell in love with
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personal growth and development. Well, a year later, they had decided to
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ask me if I wanted to facilitate those courses by John Maxwell. Now this
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was a big step, Glory, this is a big step, they said,
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you know, Chris, and so I asked them. I said,
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well, what does this consist of? You know, I've taken all the
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classes, but what do I need to do? They said, well,
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Chris, when you come inside the classroom, press play on the VHS and
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when you're done, turn off the lights. Now, I think it was
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that big of a job, but pressing play is the stepping stone to be
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standing here in front of you today. So I would go back inside those
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classrooms, I would press play, I would turn out the lights, I
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would fill out the workbook and I was hearing those teachings again for the second
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time, and I was applying them at a higher level in my life.
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So what it allowed for me to learn was to stay away from the most
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dangerous words on this planet. Most dangerous words on this plan are I've heard
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that before. Now I would go back in and people would say, hey,
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I've heard that those are the most dangerous words in the world. And
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so when you catch yourself asking, you know, or saying those phrase I've
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heard that before, you need to shift that to a question and ask yourself,
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how well do I do that? Because if it keeps coming back up,
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and you keep hearing it again and again, you've got to measure how
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well do I do that? And is there room for improvement? Who it
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needs to be the question? But I was going back inside that classroom.
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I was pressing play, I was turning out the lights. I was applying
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the workplace. I continue to get from all the job And then you know,
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I had the opportunity to attend my very first conference. Now, I
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know most of the listeners were probably confidence junkies and the person growth junkies,
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and you all remember your first conference that you went to. My first confidence
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that I actually paid to go to TJ's very first megafest. So this was
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in Atlanta, Georgia. I lived in Saint Louis and I went down to
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the Atlanta Dome and this place was filled with people, thousands of people,
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and you know, there was a life altering moment. An entire weekend,
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I watched the stage of speakers. I went to breakout sessions. But there
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was a breakout session that changed me forever. There was a vendor booth that
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was happening inside the vendor hall. There was a speaker showcase. Now,
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for those that are listening to the speaker showcase is really like a fashion show
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for speakers that you get three to five minutes, come out and give you
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very best on the stage. You're off the stage, and you know,
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these people were well dressed, they were well spoken. But then at the
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end of it, they said the magic words going. They said, these
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people get paid to speak. I said, oh my, I like the
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sound of that. They said, if you like to find out more about
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giving paid to speak, come on to the back of the room and we'd
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love to tell you all about it. So I ran back there as fast
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as I could and I said, I'd like to find out more about getting
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paid to speak. They said, we love to tell you. We got
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a three day boot camp for nine hundred and ninety seven dollars. Now,
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this was the first time that that had ever entered my ears, was to
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prepay for training on something that was outside of traditional schooling. So, like
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any person that hears something like that for the first time, I believe,
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I said, absolutely not nine hundred and ninety seven dollars for a three day
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weekend. There's no guarantee, there's no job one, am my. I
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didn't get it because upme to that point I was okay to spend money on
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myself, but not investing in myself outside of traditional schooling, which I didn't
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do very well at and so, but at least I had heard it.
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And then now I had this vision of, hey, you can actually get
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paid to speak. So I begin to go back and take my job a
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little bit more seriously in the ten percent of what I got to do.
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You know, our friends Cherry Roles says that, hey, what if you
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could spend one hundred percent of your life doing the ten percent of what you
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love to do. And I did that. I went back to the office
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and now I begin to take sales trainings more seriously. I began to participate
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in toast matters. I began to you know, look for other speakers to
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get around, and I really began to work on the art and craft of
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speaking. Whereas most people think I get up, I speak from my heart
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and I motivate the people. That's not. That's not. But I began
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to work on the craft. Lauria, I fell in love with the journey
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of personal growth and development. I fell in love with developing people and becoming
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the best sales manager in developing people. Not being the best sales manager that
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could put up the most numbers, but my goal became could I be the
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manager that produces the most managers? And I love it that and that served
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me very well because I was a producer of people, not just a producer
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of sales. And I came into and I found out about the John Maxwell
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team. In March of twenty eleven, I joined the very first group of
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people be certified by John Maxwell. You know, it was one of those
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circumstances where I was in a bad situation. I was one hundred and eight
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thousand dollars in debt. I just came out of a failed business, and
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I was trying to figure out how to pay for this certification and knew I
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needed this particular program, and so joined the team. I plugged in.
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I knew that it was the path for me to really grow in personal growth
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and development. And I haven't looked back since. An incredible ride, but
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I've come a long way from pressing play. Yes, yes, sir,
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that's an amazing story and amazing journey, Chris. So can you say again
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about that ten percent, because that's really I got right there. So you
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know, it's really getting clear on what you want to do and do well.
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So it's the question that Sherry Rally had posed to me years ago from
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a book Exponential Living, is, what if you can spend one hundred percent
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of your time on the ten percent that you love to do, or the
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ten percent best of you, or the ten percent of your gift, Well,
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maybe you just spend one hundred percent of the time doing what you are
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absolutely gifted at. And I didn't realize that at that time that that was
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really the shift for me. Is you know what I loved about my job
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as a sales manager of this foreign company was purely people development. All the
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other stuff I could do without, but what I fell in love with was
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training and developed through people who become better leaders and better individuals. All right,
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well, thank you, Chris, So tell tell us why you know
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finding that ten percent was so important for you and the difference the impact that
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it made in your life. Yeah. Well, I think it's accidental.
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I think a lot of people would pick their ten percent, uh, and
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I think that you should. But I think the ten percent was discovered as
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a result of how I was impacted. Was I a naturally gifted speaker?
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Absolutely not. You know, it was funny I spoke with that hard to
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believe you're so good no, it's not natural. In fact, you know,
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I've got a client now that saw me speak at one of my very
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first events, and when our very first meet several years later, eight years
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later, he goes, you know, I have to confess with the Chris.
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I saw you speak at one of your very first events, and I
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said to myself, this guy isn't gonna make it. And I said,
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oh, man, I said, that's the best news I've heard. Yeah.
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Yeah, because when people hear you speak after you've been speaking for a
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long time, they think that it's this natural skill set and this has been
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developed over time. So for me, that ten percent was a discovery.
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It's about discovering it. It's about identifying it. It's about picking that that
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thing that you're going to go after where you actually have some type of gifting
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towards that. So it's like, my true two percent would be I would
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love to go play golf, you know, full time quility, but that's
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not my gifting. Okay, that's not my gift. So that gifting that
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ten percent of what you say that you want to do one hundred percent of
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the time, that has to come from you discovering what your strengths are and
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what you're really capable of doing, what that potential is. Yes, thank
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you. I know that our mutual mentor John C. Maxwell, talks about
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being in your strength zone, being in your gifts. Sound so that's what
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it's all about. Yeah, right, So Chris, you know, I
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know that everybody has a story and a journey and everybody kind of has a
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backstory as well. So for you, what flip the switch for you?
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What flipped the switch for me? Oh my goodness, there was a couple
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of questions. My wife played a critical role in a switch for me.
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And this goes back beyond before you know, I got into personal growth and
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development and before you know, things shifted for me. It was it was
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twofold because you know, growing up I was I was a pretty wild child,
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you know, and I was going to be one of two things.
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I was either going to be dead or in jail. Either be dead or
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in jail. And that's why I just I just smiled today, going Holy
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Monkside. I run this large organization and like literally I was going to be
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dead or jail by age twenty one. I had two d wis at that
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point in time, and I you know, at that point in time,
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I decided to make a single choice, one of the best choices I ever
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made, said, hey, I'm not drinking anymore. All I haven't had
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a drink since the age of twenty two. I'm forty years old now,
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so it's been eighteen plus years since I sip of alcohol. So that was
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one choice. Second choice was that, you know, for me, I'm
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a person faith, and so it was you know, getting given my life
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to Christ and then you know, really becoming you know, a student of
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faith. And that was two of the biggest changes. But again that was
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as a result of my wife and promptly asked me a question one night and
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a drunken stupid She said, Chris, could you imagine what your life could
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be like without alcohol? And in this clear moment, Gloria, in this
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clear moment, I was drunk as I could possibly be. In this clear
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moment, I saw with clarity from that single question, what could life be
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like about alcohol? And I saw a vision of it and there was a
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piece, there was a piece that came over me. In this drunken stupid
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I said, I want that. And you know I stopped drinking at that
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time, and I said, I haven't had a single drink of alcohol since
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then, and so that was a great, great time point for me.
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So, Chris, that's an amazing story. And what a wonderful, beautiful
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wife you have and for her to ask you that question. You know,
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I'm a person of faith too, and what you saw, I mean,
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that was a prophecy for your life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So I've heard you talk about this part of your life before, and
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I'm wondering if you would be willing to share. You know, you were
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in court, I mean, you were you know, so tell us about
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that part if you would. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was another
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you know, a judge there was very critical and this is probably one of
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the best full circle stories that I experienced. And you know, I remember
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going in. It was Judge Pelican. Judge Pelican Saint Charles County Court,
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and Judge Pelican was you know, he was a tough judge. And you
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know at that time I was also I was a licensed stockbroker at the age
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of nineteen, and you know, so I had this potential, I had
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this capacity. This judge saw this capacity. He said, Chris, goes,
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you're either going to be dead or in jail. And so when I
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say those words earlier, it's as a result of him saying those words to
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me, you know, because he had the ability to place me in jail
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at that time. He says, Chris goes, you got licensed at the
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age of nineteen as a stockbroker because you got a Series seven sixty three and
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a sixty five. The average person just does passed a Series seven license exam.
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He was like, you have potential. He says, I'm gonna give
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you everything that I can possibly give you without sending you to jail. He
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goes, but if you don't turn around from here, you're either gonna be
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one or two places dead or in jail. And so he gave me everything.
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I had, probation, I had, save time, I had to
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go to AA, I had to have a blow tube in my car before
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the car would start. And I went through that process of the court system,
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and uh, you know, that process helped me. I was rehabilitated
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through that process. But I think primarily to my faith is how I was
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redeemed of that. But I'm not gonna preach you today, but that part
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was definitely a part of the process. And it was so great because I
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remember and I've lived was two thousand and fourteen or fifteen. I was speaking
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at the event in the same city of Judge Pelican and I sat down at
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the table. I'm a keynote speaker for this event. Probably three hundred people
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in the room and I sit down and it is Judge Pelican sitting next to
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me. Now at that moment, Gloria, I am dripping in sweat because
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I'm like, I know him, but he doesn't know me. And I'm
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going back and forth. Do I say anything? Do I not say anything?
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And I turned to him when I say, Judge Pelican, you probably
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don't remember me because you've seen, you know, thousands of people in the
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court. But I want you to know that my wife was changed because of
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the chance that you gave me. And today i'm your keynote speaker. And
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I mean the smile on his face, the conversation, the dialogue that they
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had, and the people that have been impacted because the choices that he's made.
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Can I just can't explain it. It's been incredible. It's incredible what
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I get to do. Yes, yes, well, thank you so much
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for sharing your heart. And uh, you know, Chris, I know
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that you are speaking life into our listeners. And I know that you know
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your story is a mirror for somebody else, So thank you again for sharing
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it being open and vulnerable and real. Yeah. So you you mentioned a
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word when you talked about your you know, the what switch for you,
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and the word was process. And so I want to just kind of pivot
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a little bit and and ask you about the John Maxwell team and what does
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it mean. I mean, we use this term there, you know,
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being a product of the product, right, so can you give us a
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little context and then talk about yeah that Yeah, you know, we're talking
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about a friend being the product of a product. It's one thing to sell
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something, it's another thing to actually be something. You know. One of
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the preferences I've had, you know, in this industry is I've had a
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chance to meet a lot of big name speakers, a lot of big you
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know, writers and authors, and you know, what I've come to find
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out is, you know, I meet some of these people that I've read
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their great books and I meet them in person, and then I realized that
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I love their books. There's a there is a difference in the person than
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what they write, and they're not a product of the products. So we
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talked about being a product of the Park and John Maxwell team. It's about
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living what we're teaching. And so why I'm so transparent on every single cause
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because I don't want there to be this perceived gap of, oh, this
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is Chris Robinson, He's the long title whatever it is. You know,
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Chris is no longer while longer Chris is a human that was in pursuit of
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a dream. And my dream looks just like everyone else's that's out there.
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It's no different. It's a three part story, just like nor its just
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like mine. It's dream struggle success. But the difference is is that the
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people that can hold on to the struggle long enough reach the success. And
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so when we talk about being a part of the product and you know,
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enjoying that journey, it's understanding that I'm going to live what I teach and
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never teach what I don't live, you know, And then I'm going to
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understand that there's a there's there's time. There's time in order for me to
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become who it is that I want to become. I'm going to do everything
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I can along the way to make sure that things line up with that,
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all right, Thank you, and I love you. Know, you talked
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about the dreams, struggled and success and a lot of people want success first
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here, right right, So so thank you for that. So what are
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some of the other ways, Chris, that you have found, uh to
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serve others? And why are these you know, why are these ways that
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you serve so important to you? Yeah? When you say other ways to
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serve others, I really think that there's one way, you know, to
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serve people and getting to know people and find out how I can help them
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as an individual. Okay, not just as a leadership coach, but as
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a human. How can I help you? So when I work with companies
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and organizations and I go into work with a manager, yeah, we're going
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to talk about the business the leadership stuff, but we're going to talk about
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the personal stuff as well too, Because I don't believe that there's a line
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of Hey, I'm just here to help you with your with your leadership.
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If I can help you personally, it's going to help you professionally. If
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I help you professionally, help you personally. And so there's a whole being
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in place. And so when we're looking to serve others, it's about serving
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beyond the scope of what we think that we can best serve them with.
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And so, well, that's me helping a coaching client get a new house,
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a new car, patch up their relationship, help them get sober.
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Yes, I'm there's a Lucia person, but I want to add value beyond
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what I'm paid to advise them to do. Mm hmm okay, absolutely,
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So can you unpack this just a little bit more. You talked about,
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you know, you can sell something, you could probably sell anything. I'm
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just saying everything. Oh my, but you also talked about, you know,
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not just selling something, but being something, and I understand, you
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know, I understand that because that's you know, that's my that's my world
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as well. But can you just kind of unpack that a little bit in
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terms of what it means for you and again for our listeners who are all
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over the world, they may not really fully understand what you're talking about.
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Yeah. Yeah, So when I talk about you know, living into you
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know, being more or being what it is that you're selling. You know,
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you hear the phrase fake it till you make it. Okay, Now,
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I don't believe in that phrase fake it till you make it. Like,
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look, it's okay to not be it during the process, but as
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long as you're in pursuit of it, that's not faking it all right.
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But when we say, you know, when we try to behave a certain
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way, model a certain way that we're not, there's a gap and people
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can pick that up. And so I never want to give off the impression
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that I'm someone that I'm not, because you know, it's happened to me
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where I've seen that mismatch of Hey, the book says that you're this,
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but then when I meet you, it says that you're this. I never
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want there to be a gap. So it's living into what is that you're
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saying that you do. So it's about becoming the person. So when I
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look in the mirror, I look in the mirror and I say that,
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how do I become Chris Robinson? How do I become Chris Robinson? Because
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the Chris Robinson I am today isn't the Chris Robinson I was ten years ago.
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I had to become Chris Robinson today. So as you're looking for at
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what you want to be, do and have, you've got to say,
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hey, what do I need to do to become the person worthy of the
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person that it gets to be do and have those things. I get to
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run the largest leadership training company on the planet because I became that person.
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But I wasn't that person five years ago. I wasn't that person ten years
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ago. I had to become who I am today, and I now have
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to become Chris Robinson at age fifty that I'm not now. So it's being
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in pursuit of knowing Chris Robinson hasn't arrived yet. Chris Robinson has yet to
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be built. Yes, yes, And so what I'm hearing you say is
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that it's always an act of becoming. It's like, you don't just get
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to be Chris Robinson stop right, because there's more. There's more ahead,
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you know. I know Paul Bert well he talks about, you know here,
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the journey from here to there, and I've used that phrase forever as
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well. And people think that, you know, once you arrived there,
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that's it, like I'm done. Right. If you ever think you're done,
28:18
you're in trouble. Yeah you are. And when I look at today,
28:22
a lot of people would would think that, hey, I've reached a
28:26
pinnacle, you know, because I get to leave this organization, but it
28:30
with every fiber in my body, with every fiber in my body, this
28:34
is my stepping stone. Yes, this this is not my pinnacle. And
28:40
I'm just getting started. I'm just learning, I'm just growing and I'm not
28:45
Chris Robinson yet. Yes, absolutely gotcha. Okay, thank you, thank
28:51
you. So, I know we've been on a few trips together with the
28:55
Dry Maxwell team and one that really, you know, sticks with me is
29:02
the trip to Paraguay, and I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit
29:06
about, you know, your trips you serve and what those trips have meant
29:11
to you. Chris. Yeah, those trips have been incredible in so many
29:17
different ways. You know, it's it's just so humbling because on these trips,
29:23
for those that are listening, we do these what we call transformational trips
29:27
and theser trips were invited into the country by the president of that country and
29:33
we're asked to come in and train at the highest level for the president's cabinet
29:38
all the way down to school children, and we trained tens of thousands of
29:41
people in a period of time in order for them to go out and train
29:45
people over a period of time so that they can transform the values inside the
29:49
country. And you know, they're humbling because the fact that I'm able to
29:56
step into an opportunity to be able to be a part of something that big.
30:02
You know, it's here, I am trying to help a company,
30:04
and then I get invited to go help a country. You know, there's
30:08
there's a stretching that happens there if you don't go back the same, you
30:12
know, and now it's like, oh my no, this is this is
30:15
this company is little, and you know, I was just trying to help
30:18
a country grow. But one of the most humbly moments was, you know,
30:22
each time. You know, We've been in several presidential palaces and I
30:26
remember standing in uh I think with Guatemala the first time we entered the presidential
30:32
palace and I'm just looking around, going, how in the world did I
30:37
end up here? You know, here's a guy that should have been dead,
30:41
should have been in jail, and I'm standing in a president's palace.
30:45
You know, when the word says that you know your gifts will bring before
30:48
a brave man, and it was because of a pursuit of my gifting.
30:53
It's open up doors that I simply cannot open on my own, and I'm
30:59
no them, you know, there by appointment, and so for me those
31:03
trips are amazing humbling. I was in the room when the John signed into
31:08
a bill and Paraguay and this curriculum to go into you know, all the
31:14
school system. Again, there's a very small group of people in this room,
31:18
eighteen people, so the President's cabinet and I'm in the room. It
31:22
just doesn't make sense and just just truly truly humbling to be a part of
31:27
experiences. Yes, thank you. So I'm just thinking about the trajectory of
31:33
you know, that first conference from TD Jake's to John Maxwell to the presidential
31:41
palace in Para. I mean that's pretty amazing. And to your point,
31:45
you know, you're not at the pinnacle yet, Okay, so there's more,
31:48
right, there's more that there you all right, sos Can I ask
31:55
you a little bit about your family. I know that you know, all
32:00
of the things that we've been talking about in terms of your work and you
32:02
know, being at the helm of this incredible organization are hugely important to you.
32:08
And I just wonder about you know, your family and how you find
32:12
time for them and you know, what your family means to you as well.
32:16
Right, Yeah, well it's not finding time for the family. There's
32:20
too many of them. You have to find time. I've got six kids.
32:23
I've got eleven year old triplets, a seven year old and a four
32:28
year old, twin girls, and so there's no finding time. You know,
32:32
it starts with them, you know, as the foundation. And I
32:36
think that's another big misconception that people have, is that you have to forsake
32:40
your family, you know, in order to be in pursuit of business.
32:44
And I can say that my experience has been quite contrary to that. Everything
32:49
that I've done with my business, I've built my business around my lifestyle and
32:53
my family versus being opposite. And then now everything's focused around the business and
33:00
then it's my family. So I think putting them first, uh has really
33:07
been critical. And I said, I don't really feel like I had a
33:08
choice to not put them first, just because of the sheer size of our
33:13
family. But I've always built built the business around my lifestyle, not my
33:19
lifestyle, around the business. Good advice, good advice, love it,
33:22
thank you, thank you. So I know that there's so many, uh,
33:28
you know, things that you could devote your life force energy to that
33:31
you could give your gifting to lots of things to choose from. And you
33:37
know there are a lot of good causes out there as well, Chris,
33:38
So how do you find the right one? And how do you know,
33:44
uh, you know where to start to make a difference? Right? Yeah,
33:49
Well, I mean there's a lot of great causes, but I think
33:52
part of it is is feeling that calling towards that you know, for me
33:57
personally, I'm you know, I don't feel like I'm family committed to a
34:01
cause right now. It's exploratory. You know, there's a lot of things
34:06
that I support and I get behind. But I think when we talk about
34:09
getting behind calls is typically you know, something personal that has impacted us that
34:15
will in triggered us to go all out for some particular type of cause is
34:20
because of our experience. And I can't say that I've had you know,
34:23
I've had some significant experiences in life that gets me behind things, but I
34:29
still have not yet experienced that thing that just goes this is my cause,
34:34
as I know right now, my calling not my cause. I know my
34:37
calling is to impact and developing people. But to say that, hey,
34:42
I'm one hundred percent behind a cause and I'm dedicating my life to that.
34:45
I'm still in search for that. You know, I can talk about a
34:49
you know, a recent if we want to go a little bit non every
34:52
ring incident that occurred with a recent incident that's in the news with the young
34:58
gentleman that was killed in in the Georgia area of mynors and you know that
35:06
one you know, I stay away from, you know, political and racial
35:09
things that watching that and seeing the video live, you know, social media
35:15
and that happened. You know, that's something that triggered something for me,
35:19
going man, you know that that could be me just jogging through the neighborhood
35:24
and and you know, being misidentified, and so that has a little bit
35:30
of tugging on me. You know, I don't use social media a lot.
35:36
Uh. You know, I changed my profile pick to his uh during
35:39
that time and uh, and I never I don't change my profile for anything.
35:44
I post, you know, maybe four or five times a year.
35:47
But that triggered something inside that true and true would have an impact on me,
35:52
our and our justice system. M H. Well, thank you for
35:57
sharing that. And you know that takes me back to Judge Pelican Uh,
36:04
you know, you could be dead or you could be in jail. And
36:07
and the truth is, unfortunately, at this time in our history, that
36:12
is so true for a lot of you know, people of color, especially
36:15
men of color. So thank you for bringing that into the conversation. Chris.
36:20
That's keeping it real, keeping it real. So I am you know
36:29
that you know, my focus is making a difference, you know, being
36:32
the difference. Uh. And it doesn't matter if it's like you know,
36:36
written across the sky. It could be something that just makes a difference in
36:39
one person's life, and that person could be you. Right. And so
36:45
my own belief is that we create our footprint, we leave a you know,
36:49
we leave a trace of ourselves wherever we go. I call that legacy.
36:54
And so I know that this is a huge question, but I'm just
36:58
wondering for you, Uh, what what trace do you try to leave with
37:02
people when you are with him? What? You know, what's the fragrance
37:07
you want to leave behind? Well, you know, if you had to
37:10
say a sentence at my funeral, it would be this, Chris impacted my
37:15
life by the lessons that he talked and the like that he lived. You
37:20
know. So again going back to being a project of the product. You
37:23
know, I want people to know or to be able to say, hey,
37:27
that Chris taught this, but he also lived this. He wasn't just
37:31
a speaker of this, but he was a model of this. And so
37:36
for me, you know, that's what I want to leave behind people is
37:38
say, look, he is part of the product and he's a doer of
37:43
what he teaches. Nothing can be more significant to me. All right,
37:46
thank you, you walk your talk, you doc. Chris, Are you
37:52
working on anything right now, major project that you can talk about that you'd
37:58
like to share with our listeners? That's TRUC that I can talk about currently
38:06
right now, nothing that I can talk about at this moment. But more
38:09
importantly, you know, it's the growing in development of the John Maxwell team
38:14
is so so important to me and my number one focus, you know,
38:17
is I want to continue to create a space to help people grow and develop
38:22
in speaking, coaching and training. And so right now I've got a ton
38:27
of stuff in the words for John Maxwell teams to continue to grow and develop.
38:30
The tools and resource available for all our members are excellent. Thank you
38:37
so much. And Chris, I know that we didn't plan to talk about
38:42
this particular element. But I know you can talk about it easily, So
38:45
could you just tell our listeners. You know, I talk about the John
38:47
Maxwell team on this podcast, but I would love to hear from your words.
38:52
You know what it means to you? What you know, put a
38:55
face on those thirty thousand people? What does that? What does that mean?
39:00
Yeah? You know, for me, what it meant was it provided
39:02
a community of life minded people that were going in the direction I wanted to
39:07
go. You know, being a part of the John Maxwell team, you
39:10
certify speakers, coaches, and trainers, and we truly helped people with personal
39:15
goals and development. And when I got engaged inside the community, I found
39:22
my people like these were people that wanted to learn, These were people that
39:25
wanted to grow. These were people that didn't think it was crazy to get
39:30
paid to speak, you know, they believe that they couldn't too. And
39:35
it provided me the tools, the resources and the people that allowed me to
39:40
grow up to who I am today. You know. So I'm here today
39:44
as a result of you and your example, your impact. I'm here today
39:47
as a result of so many of the team members that I was able to
39:51
meet with, connect with, and grow you know, outside of my home,
39:55
because a lot of people sitting at home right now, they're a circle
39:59
of influence is really faltering them forgetting what they want to do. You not
40:02
have for the spouse, you may not have a support the family. So
40:06
what does that mean. You've got to get around people that are going to
40:08
encourage you, build you and believe your dream. And for me, that
40:12
was the job Nashville team. So you guys are looking for a community and
40:16
we're here for you, all right, all right, Well, thanks so
40:20
much, Chris, and so I just want to thank you again for being
40:24
my guest. This has been amazing. I'm just humbled and so grateful really
40:31
to have met you. I remember our first meeting down in West Palm Beach.
40:36
I was at your table, I was in the room, and just
40:40
to see where you have taken your your dream and your struggles and now your
40:46
success and your significance in adding value to people over and over and over again.
40:54
You know, we have what one hundred and ninety no, one hundred
40:59
and fifty country sixty Yeah, yeah, I want to exaggerate because they're only
41:02
like, you know, two hundred countries in the world. Yeah. So
41:09
any any final thoughts or you know, girls of wisdom you'd like to share
41:15
with our listeners. Yeah, you know, for all those that are listening
41:19
with you know, I know your current circumstances may line up with where you
41:22
desire to be right now, but I want to encourage you that you know,
41:28
with the right knowledge, with doing something, with that knowledge, with
41:31
coaching and mentoring, you can be do and have what want. And so
41:37
if I can do it, average old me, anybody can do it.
41:43
So I want to encourage you get in pursuit of your dream, your passion,
41:45
your calling. All right, hallelujah. Thank you so much, Chris,
41:51
Thank you, Thank you so inspiring. Thank you again, Chris.
41:58
This is just solid gold. Clearly, Chris Robinson is a leader's leader.
42:05
He makes a difference in his own life and in the lives of so many
42:09
others, in his own family and throughout the world in his work as the
42:15
executive vice president of Maxwell Entrepreneur Solutions. As I mentioned earlier, Chris leads
42:22
a worldwide team of over thirty thousand speakers, coaches, and trainers from over
42:30
one hundred and fifty countries. To learn more about Chris's work with the John
42:36
Maxwell Enterprise, you can go to this website. It's the John Maxwell Team
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44:08
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44:14
are the ones we have been waiting for. What do I mean by that,
44:20
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44:29
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44:35
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44:39
just tell you something, You are the one. You are the one who
44:44
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44:47
in the lives of others. It is truly amazing how much impact we have
44:54
as leaders in the workplace and even in our own homes, especially in our
45:00
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45:06
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45:12
your grandchildren, right in your own homes. So, moms and dads out
45:15
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45:20
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45:23
they're soaking it in, and more than anything else, they are watching you.
45:30
Because you know what, more than anything else, Leadership is caught,
45:35
not taught. That's right. Leadership is caught, not taught, the same
45:40
way that our values are caught not taught. Right, let me be really
45:46
clear. Your kids are scoping you out. They're observing everything you are,
45:52
everything you say, and everything you do. Most importantly, they are watching
45:59
you to see of what you say and what you do line up our actions.
46:06
Our choices really do speak much louder than our words. A good friend
46:10
of mine who's a former CEO always says, as a parent or as a
46:15
leader in the workplace, in any context, your walk has got to talk
46:21
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46:27
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46:31
being Now. Why is that? Because that's how we build the bridge called
46:37
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46:44
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46:49
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46:52
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