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Speaker 4: N the Dot. Yes, welcome, It's September tenth, and yesterday
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was nine nine nine portal. If you're into numbers, you
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know twenty twenty five totals to nine, So it was
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nine nine nine. How was it for Unia?
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Speaker 6: It was good, very very productive day for me.
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Speaker 4: Uh huh. They say that nine nine nine is the
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port for endings and closings, soul contracts, not a posna
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or over extended no longer identities or belief systems taposna
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get rid of them, taposia agreements posna say goodbye. You know,
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so it's been very intense for me. Let's ask our
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guest who is a returney an alumna of on the DNA.
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Would you like to introduce her again for those who
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don't know her.
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Speaker 5: Yes, our guest studied Certificate of Architectural Drafting at the
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University of the Philippines in Dilemann and studied architecture with
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emphasis in Urban and Regional planning at the University of
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Southern California and is a principal consultant at FLG. Rubio
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and Associates and the former president of the University of
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the Philippines Alumni Association of Greater Los Angeles and the
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former Member of Services Manager at Royal Instute Charted Severe
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And our friend, miss ethel Rubio, welcome to.
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Speaker 6: Welcome back, Thank you, thank you for having me, thank
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you back.
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Speaker 4: Thank you power in night Power mentioned delayed and asking video.
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I'm a co founder of sun Girls Prints. So miss
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night Power Ethel. How was N nine nine for you?
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me back. I miss
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you both. Miss you. Yeah, it's been a real oil.
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So how is my year so far?
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Speaker 4: How was your yesterday?
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Speaker 6: Your my nine nine nine yesterday? Okay, So yesterday was
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so eventful. I actually went on a reception for the
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USC Donor Recognition event. So, as you know, I'm an
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alumni of USC School of Architecture and I got to
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meet you know, it was a it was an event
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for donors and you know, active alumni to meet with
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the current students. And guess who I met. I met
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four amazing Filipino American students who are studying architecture. So excited.
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So I'm going to actually put that on my LinkedIn
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later as well so you'll know more about it. But yeah,
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I mean it was really very nice to see that.
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You know, we are thriving globally, right so not just
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in the Philippines but everywhere we go. And yeah, I'm
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just so excited to have that experience yesterday.
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Speaker 4: So that's how that's I feel like for.
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Speaker 6: Every moment that I have, I just always want to
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make sure that I engage outside of our community. And
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I think I get a lot of satisfaction on doing that.
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So what else did I do? Yeah? Pretty much. You know,
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my day to day work is composed of just getting
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making sure that I get my call, that my work
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done on sustainability, preparing for my trainings, and also making
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sure that I have project management opportunities that's coming my way.
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Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 4: Very nice, galinge, very productive power. Yes, And I want
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to recognize Adele Ordinario, she's here, she's watching right now.
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Adele and T shirt top in Night Power. It's just
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message us, okay, and we're going to post the key
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or code in the comments section after the show because
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you know, it's very it's very engaging. The shirt itself,
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is it garners a lot of attention, Miyah Noah alan shirt.
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Speaker 6: I do remember when we started this, it was during
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the pandemic, so I think slimmer, Yeah, you're ordering a
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size Yeah, in a long It's a good journey. Even
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now we get you know, reacts and possive you know,
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reactions from them for other people seeing the shirt right right.
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Speaker 4: So I thought before we continue our conversation, we usually
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have cards here in the show. We probably didn't do
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that during our time before during the pandemic. So I'd
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like you to choose if you are open to this.
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These are just wisdom cards. One is Soul's Journey, or
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you can have the town detail every Day Miracles.
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Speaker 6: Oh I love that one.
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Speaker 4: We love this one, okay. So I'll have you choose.
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Just pick a number that you want and I'll do that.
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Here are the cards, okay, So any card or how
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do I say it? Just give me a number from what?
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Speaker 6: From one? From one to fifty four if one figure okay,
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well one to fifty, one to fifty worse, number twenty
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seven because October twenty seven is my birthday.
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Speaker 4: Okay. Do you want from the top or from the bottom.
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Speaker 6: Let's do it from the top.
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Speaker 4: From the top, okay.
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Speaker 5: So a memorable nine nine nine because you know before
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the Philippines number nine. It's a telephone nine nine nine
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nine five zero, so you memorize before changing longer numbers.
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So when they asked me, what's your phone number?
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Speaker 6: Nine nine and nine five zero, Madel, Yeah, So I
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love that number.
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Speaker 4: Nine nine nine nine five zero. Yeah, that's it. But
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it's really just among the mistakes and the esoteric people
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is really very very powerful opening. And the other thing
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is when when we close our past, you know, when
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we close certain things, new things open. Ethel you close
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certain aspects, you know, certain chapters of your life, and
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other chapters opened up for you. The bam, Yeah, So
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what are the openings Buheim Ethel that you know they
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call you a trail blazing leader, not they, you know
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everybody whoever. That is the world of a climate conscious
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consulting firm. So how is that for you? And how
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is it opening new arenas for you?
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Speaker 6: So you know, life is about adaptability right. Recently I
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got interviewed for a virtual digital magazine for Filipino American
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Chamber of Commerce in Greater Los Angeles and they ask me,
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what's the one Filipino virtue that you believe in or
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you you actually live with? And I said, adaptability Because
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adaptability is actually being able to pivot yourself when you
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need to be. You don't feel stuck, right, you cannot
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feel stuck because there's always opportunity outside of it. And
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thinking about you know, closing doors and open up opportunities
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numerous times that's happened to me already, and it's not like,
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you know, I mean I can really like, I can
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name so many things, but just one thing that comes
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to mind right now is the opportunity to actually be
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part of an organization. And I know what I can do, right,
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I know what impact that and make. And so for
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them to turn me down on a role that they
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said I'm not ready for and then I got the
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you know, I got the opportunity to lead a Filipino
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American organization for architects and engineers. So those are the
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things that happened to you when when things don't really work.
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And also during the pandemic, when I said like, okay,
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I'm gonna uh do project management, construction management, and and
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the outreach strategic outreache. Those were my three uh three
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prong of services originally, and then I pivoted to sustainability
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because I was really what do you call that? I
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was really interested in how sustainability is affecting our world
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in general and not just the buildings. So when I
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came across the Envision Framework, which is part of the
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which is a program that's provided by the Institute for
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sustainable infrastructure. I got excited about it, you know, I
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learned about it, and once I learned about it, it's like, yeah,
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this is the right path that I want to do.
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And since then, in addition to the other services that provide,
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I also do now training training other people, other professionals
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to learn about how it is to think about sustainability
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not just in their profession, but you know, in all
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aspects of their lives. So then I pivoted, and then
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that's how I got to think about like, yeah, like
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whatever I was doing before, it's kind of related to
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being sustainable, right and all that. So it's kind of
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like it's just all fitting it together. You did not
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have any words for it before, and then now like
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when it came together, like yeah, I mean that's what
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I've been actually doing. So it's pretty exciting.
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Speaker 4: Interesting to see your card is really a match to
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what you're talking about.
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Speaker 6: Really, oh my god, if.
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Speaker 4: If is ready to post it to to bring it,
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we can, we can. It's uh, it's really fantastic how
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these cards plugging swash.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to see it.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I'll just wait for let's just wait for
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it to lose meanwhile, go ahead, meanwhile, let me look
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at that. Can you read that at all?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? The past is over. It cannot touch me now, no, it.
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Speaker 4: Can, it can touch me. Not, it can't touch me. Yeah, yeah,
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that was my Yeah, there's a flip to it. Flip side.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, what's the flip side?
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Speaker 8: The flip side is all your past except its beauty
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is gone and nothing is left but a blessing.
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Speaker 4: That's what you were talking about. That's what you were
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talking about. When I mean, at least that's what I'm
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listening to. That's what I'm hearing.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 4: You know, something closed and then's something opened.
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Speaker 6: And whatever is even in work? Right? I mean like
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people say, okay, so I got laid off from the
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American Red Cross. I got laid so I got laid
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of American Red Cross. But then another door opened to
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me because one of my longtime friends from my architecture
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profession just approach me and say, hey, I think you're
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going to be good for this project, this work, Like,
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why don't you do it? And that's how I became
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a Member Services Manager for the Global Royal Institute of
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Chartered Survey years and so then that opened me back
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to being back in the built environment, which actually coaxed
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me to go back to construction. My you know, my
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original desire and my you know, like my passion. It's
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in construction, in buildings, in you know, and just making
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the world a better place by creating a sustainable place living.
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Although I'm not exactly doing the actual designs of it,
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I mean I actually am part. I'm a piece. I'm
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a little piece of the puzzle that makes it work.
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But even though if you're a little piece of the puzzle,
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the puzzle won't work and it's not complete without you.
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Speaker 4: Right correct. Yeah, that's so true.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's and so when I go just going further
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on this, when I mentor a student or young professional,
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I always say, don't feel sad or feel bad if
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you get fired or laid off or whatever, because something
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else is going to happen for you and you just
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need to adapt to whatever that would be.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so perfect. How does it work for you?
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Mia and card.
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Speaker 5: It's sinking and you were talking about the portal earlier,
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the bar that leads to the part of ethel also
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about you know, leaving the past behind and moving forward.
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Speaker 6: If it all relates together, you have personal right personal
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professional laht.
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Speaker 4: And what struck me as well you were talking about
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about your architecture thing at you mentioned make the world
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better place. So Mia has a project with her friends
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and I'm not gonna say what it is, but part
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of it is heal the world.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I like this yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Also, how uh there's in my real estate world. You know,
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there's a real lem deal, the lemma about commissions. You're
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not you know, we're having problems with with commissions, with
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people are getting less uh instead of three percent. Yesterday,
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I was able to get a deal that's giving five
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percent and that happened yesterday. So you know, you just
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have to look at the brighter side. And medicals do happen. Yeah, yeah,
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for sure, for sure.
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Speaker 4: And I really like that part of the car that
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says all your past except its beauty. Yeah, it's beauty
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is gone except it's beauty, and then nothing is left
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but a blessing. So the challenge is for us to
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look for the beauty and the blessing as that door
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closes and then the cloa goodbye. So doors closing a
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coaching I mean the coaches would announce, you know, outside
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coach would say doors closing, like announciation and Dania and
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everybody will have to run inside, you know, go to
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their seats because it takes only like sixty seconds for
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the for the door to the doors to remain open,
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and all participants will have to be in it within
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sixty seconds. But on my announcement doors closing, then you
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have to make a decision. You have to run, you
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have to go to your seats. Not the thing about that.
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Sometimes life doesn't announced that the door is closing.
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Speaker 6: No, just it just exactly it just it takes you.
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It just takes you from behind right like just steps
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you on the shoulder quickly and then it's gotte. And
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then the main thing is how they respond to that
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correct correct ye on your response, like what will we do? Right?
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And then sometimes it also clouds you if a door
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closes and then an opportunity comes in. Sometimes you dwell
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so much in that door closing that you don't see
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one of you. So I think once the door closes,
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you just let it go, right, let it go, and
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you know, and so you can accept.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and there are many other doors that are open. Yeah,
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so Madame windows, Madame portal open.
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Speaker 6: Emergency exit, the emergency exit.
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Speaker 5: Bottom a construction balag in my emergency exit.
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Speaker 6: Always as it is always part of the construction become me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, dad, contractor and my mom's an architect.
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Speaker 10: Woe, oh wow, that's amazing, amazing, and it's really I'm
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having a hard moment on when she said the exit mandatory.
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Speaker 4: The exit is really part of it. I tell you
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that my exit plants over exit or inject button.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what my dad always says. When we enter
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a room or anywhere, look for the exit.
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Speaker 6: Right away, exactly. And even in events, right when you
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have a meeting events, they always say, like in the beginning,
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where the exit is, because you never know. You always
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want to plan for it, but you also want to
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plan for being spontaneous about it right, like being on
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top of your shoe, you know, toes and see where
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when it happens. Without knowing when it happens, you're able
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to pivot right away.
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Speaker 4: And sometimes we are the ones closing the doors on
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some things, on a lot of things. It's not just
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that life closes the doors on us sometimes or me
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at least, you know, there are many instances when we
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just have to say no and close the door on something.
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Have you ever experienced that you just have to step up.
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I'm closing the door on this. You've done thata? Oh yes, yeah,
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have you done that?
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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm learning to say no now. So definitely before
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I'm like yes to everything that's out there. But then
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now you learn to pre qualify it, right, And because
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you you give so much to the world that sometimes
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I always think about, like, oh I give If I
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actually earn a dollar for every referral I make, then
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I would be a milile right now. So it's like
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for me, it's like, okay, time to like step back
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and see what we can really do there, how would
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benefit me as well? Right, So it's different when you're
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doing it pro bono, you're doing it right out of
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your own, you know way volunteering and giving yourself up
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by giving back to the community or giving back to
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your school or giving back to the professions. So there
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are limits, right, but you know, if you are passionate
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about something, then it's okay. But to a certain extent,
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right like uh, just giving too much?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I agree with you at the part of
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our pin I power. And even if you're not pinite,
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even if you're you know, whatever, you're a woman or whatever,
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your child. You're a man. Part of your power is
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learning how to say how and when to say no.
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And yes, you know, I used to be metro man,
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not so okay with putting up boundaries, because say, my
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idea was life is so big, you know are no,
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life is limitless? No, why should I put up boundaries?
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And then I learned that boundaries is not necessarily keeping
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people out, but it could also mean engaging or accepting
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a connector, but it's also a boundary that you know,
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that's just as far as we can go. We can't
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share the whole room with the world right and viewing
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and adding on camera. So in the same way that
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we're doing what you said at a you know, volunteering
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giving to the world. Yeah, now I recognize the importance
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of the boundary.
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Speaker 6: And really the bottom line is about self care, right,
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self care, putting yourself first, because you cannot give to
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the world what you don't have that you keep on giving,
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you know, right, you have to make sure that you
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care for yourself first so that you have the strength
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to give more to others.
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Speaker 6: Yes. Yeah, in Dylan Zoom, it's like a virtual experience.
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You immerse yourself in the actual virtual thing. So I
32:41
think a lot of our attendees really enjoyed that very much.
32:45
There's so much offering, right, We had like videos, presentations,
32:51
and we had a president of the university being there
32:54
as well, so that was really fun.
32:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fun. And now troll is a very
33:00
big thing, virtual gaming and all that. So the pandemic
33:05
closed many doors on us, so we pivoted. We opened
33:09
another door, the portal. Yes, we adopted, yeah, adapted.
33:14
Speaker 6: And we actually had global attendees too. Oh, yes, people
33:20
from of course the Philippines, Europe, you know, Australia. That
33:24
was really very good that we did that power.
33:29
Speaker 4: Yes, se night Power is born of the pandemic. And
33:35
before we talked, we asked you to talk about the
33:39
five K that you're doing. L I just wanted to
33:42
say hello to roads Stepa.
33:44
Speaker 6: Do you know her, Yes, she's a very good friend
33:47
of mine. Also fellow PINNI power.
33:49
Speaker 4: Yes, Hi, Yes, and she's listening and see Doc Flora
33:55
Saison she's watching and of course Adele says, it's a
33:59
nice t shirt. Order Kana five Knadan tell us about
34:08
the five K title, uh pin to the sixtieth power
34:15
and tell us more ethel.
34:17
Speaker 6: So, I really appreciate that that that you actually gave
34:22
me a platform to share about my my five K
34:27
passion right now. So in the past, you know, I
34:33
started doing a five K in the early two thousand
34:38
and with the Revlon Walk and then you know, I
34:43
earned my first medal. You know, it was nothing really like.
34:47
So then over the years I kind of started like, oh,
34:51
maybe I'll just do it once a year, you know,
34:54
and I'm happy, like, oh I did my yearly five k.
34:58
And then the next thing, you know, I was like, oh, well,
35:00
what if I do it, like, you know, more often
35:06
than one year. And there was a time I made
35:08
a go to like, Okay, let's do it once a
35:11
month over one year. And then at one point, I
35:15
think during my birthday month a couple of years ago,
35:18
I said, okay, I'll do it once every week during
35:21
my birthday month. So I did that, and then by
35:25
the time I got my thirtieth medal, I said, okay,
35:31
I have thirty medals. Now what I'm gonna do next?
35:35
And I was thirty sixty and I said, okay, you
35:39
know something clicking me. It's like, why don't I make
35:42
my sixty five k's before I turned sixty. So that's
35:48
where the sixty by sixty goal that I had early
35:52
this year in twenty twenty five, when I made the
35:56
decision on that, because at first, you know, like how
35:59
you would do milestone birthday things, right, like you would
36:04
you know I did? You know, I did the air
36:09
you know, the balloon, hot air balloon when I turned forty.
36:13
And then I don't know what I did when I
36:15
was fifty, but I did something also unforgettable, didn't.
36:19
Speaker 4: You didn't you go to stonehengeh. When was that?
36:23
Speaker 6: That was a couple of years ago? Okaya, very recent,
36:27
but you know, of course I do something, right. But
36:30
then I said, for the sixty well, this is like
36:33
about ten years ago, so ago, when I turned sixty,
36:35
I'll do sky diving, and that seem right, Well, I'm
36:42
not anymore because I'm doing what I'm fifty by sixty, right,
36:46
But when I said, I was going to try to say, like,
36:49
the sky diving will only last you a couple of minutes, right,
36:54
and I know it's going to be exhilarating my daughter
36:57
and my daughter did it already to a pandemic. But
37:00
I'm thinking, like, well, I wanted to make it a journey,
37:04
our journey, so that the sixty eight will be will
37:08
make the most impact. And so that's what I did,
37:11
because it's a big you know, can you imagine on
37:14
the by the end of the twenty of twenty twenty four.
37:17
I was, I think at twenty nine, and then I
37:19
did something on in January of this year and that
37:24
put me on my thirtieth and it was like, oh,
37:27
I just mapped it out. I said, Okay, how many
37:30
how many can I really do? Can I really do thirty?
37:34
Until October? So I've been keeping on mapping out, mapping out,
37:38
and I said, it's doable, it's do well, we will
37:40
It's do able. And so along the way I've been encouraging.
37:46
What's great about this is along the way I've been
37:49
encouraging other people or other you know, women to walk
37:53
with me. Is not just a Pini or you know
37:57
our pin I grew, but actually my colleagues in the industry,
38:01
especially my other my other uh you know, other friends
38:07
in my network. I mean, they're just so excited to
38:10
have me. So even though they're like put they are
38:13
you know, like black or you know, Hispanic, they actually
38:19
you know, get excited about getting their pin EI power
38:22
shirt and and be part of that pin I Power
38:26
five K movement that kind of like just started. So
38:31
I'm really inspired what it has taken, what it has
38:35
actually how it has actually impacted others. Can I give
38:40
an example. So, uh, one of my friends, she's actually
38:46
a fellow USA alum, she had never done a five
38:51
k in her life because she has health problems so
38:55
well a hip problem, right, So then so she's been
38:59
kind to my five k walks just to be a cheerleader.
39:03
She doesn't, you know, do the five k. She would
39:06
just like, you know, start with us on the finish
39:09
start line and then welcome us back and cheer us
39:12
on at the finish line. And she got her pin
39:15
Eye Power shirt as well to be part of that excitement.
39:19
And then came like months later, she had her hip surgery,
39:27
and guess what is she doing now? She did her
39:30
first five k in February of this year and she
39:35
did it in less than one hour. It's actually like
39:40
so amazing because she's never done it before. And then
39:43
after her hip replacement she actually did it, and it's
39:47
just so amazing how she's so motival, she was so
39:50
motivited to do it that that she just keeps on
39:54
doing it now with me too. So that's that's kind
39:58
of like the impact that I'm I'm so overwhelmingly grateful
40:03
that I can do that for others with that with
40:07
just me doing my own passion, right, like, you know,
40:09
I'm doing this and other gets inspired to do it
40:12
with me. So the thrill of having that and then
40:19
reach your sixtieth by doing that and having other people
40:23
join you and like cheer you on, and I that
40:26
that makes it more of a greater milestone for me
40:30
than doing a skydiving desolutely.
40:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember when you did your five k run
40:39
here under Safeness?
40:42
Speaker 6: Was that Las Vegas? What year was that? Yeah? You
40:45
want in twenty twenty three. We had a very nice
40:51
group photo, but it's like I couldn't find it and
40:55
I wanted to share that here.
40:57
Speaker 4: You can find it either. I'm looking.
40:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, I actually, oh you have my interview over there.
41:05
Oh yeah, it's I get that interview. That was actually
41:09
a five K that I did at the Lowest Lotus
41:12
Festival and Katie La Channel five was there and they
41:22
were going to cover the five k itself because it
41:25
was the first five K for that particular event, and
41:29
so I was just walking down and I just like, oh, hi,
41:32
and there they have their remcs, you know, just waiting
41:34
for something to happen. There. They're waiting for a story,
41:36
I think, And so I just said like, oh, I'm
41:39
doing my forty fourth. Yeah, I think I'm gonna I'm
41:43
doing my forty fourth or forty fifth five K and
41:47
or forty first five K, and I want to do
41:51
it towards my sixty so and I just passed them
41:55
by and then with the camera woman actually like after me,
42:00
It's like, would you like to do an interview? And
42:03
so that's how I got the interview that you saw
42:06
on the clip earlier, that was shown earlier. So that
42:10
was really fun. So, you know, just the excitement of
42:12
people learning that I'm doing sixty five gays. By the
42:16
time I turned sixty, other people are saying like, oh,
42:19
so that means like two years from now or three
42:21
years from I was like, no, it's in October.
42:24
Speaker 4: This is October October.
42:26
Speaker 6: Yeah.
42:27
Speaker 4: The reason why you couldn't join AMA in October twenty seven. Yeah, yeah,
42:33
twenty seven. So I'm glad firstly about thisl I'm glad
42:38
that you're not hiding your age when you say sixty
42:44
and you want to run sixty five ks. I'm glad
42:47
that you're proud of your age, as are of course,
42:52
you know.
42:53
Speaker 12: Yeah.
42:53
Speaker 4: And number two is that I did my first five
42:56
K with you that that's year that was my first.
43:04
Speaker 6: Was very memorable because that is actually the largest group
43:10
of Pinni power group that we actually did as a team.
43:18
I think there was over fourteen of us.
43:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, fourteen.
43:23
Speaker 6: Yeah. Going back to that Las Vegas and that was
43:26
really good because I went to Las Vegas for a
43:29
up reunion with my Kalaya and dormaids. Oh yeah. Then
43:34
I encouraged them like, oh, let's do a five k
43:37
before we do our reunion, and so everybody was up
43:40
for it. So I was really excited and everybody just
43:45
was on board with that. Yeah.
43:47
Speaker 4: I couldn't find a photo. Then we had lunch.
43:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had lunch.
43:53
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's me. Look for me.
44:00
Speaker 6: One exactly. I'm so glad you have that.
44:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I found one.
44:06
Speaker 6: We had a power photo together like that was like
44:09
we were all on the stage and I was like
44:11
afraid that the stage will fall. There were so many
44:14
of us.
44:17
Speaker 4: I really like doing this. And then after that, Kamini John,
44:21
we would just do a lot of not officially a
44:25
five k in a marathon.
44:26
Speaker 6: Recently did one? Right?
44:29
Speaker 9: One?
44:29
Speaker 6: Recently? You did one recently or whether us vets?
44:34
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, yes, that's that's very inspiring what you're
44:38
doing at them. It's a par I remember that you
44:41
had a knee problem. Oh yes, me, even with her
44:46
knee problem, she would just power through it.
44:49
Speaker 8: Power.
44:51
Speaker 5: I know.
44:52
Speaker 6: That knee problem was I think in twenty twenty three
44:56
or twenty twenty two, just my knee got inflamed and
45:04
I had I was that's the year that was doing
45:07
once a month, and I said, I cannot miss a
45:13
you know, a five k and so I actually did
45:17
it in Canada during that time, and I did it
45:22
in San Diego also during that time, but I powered through.
45:26
The worst was when I was in Canada because my
45:30
knee actually buckled the night before and so I just
45:35
put something on it right like that knee protection kind
45:41
of thing, and then it took me two hours, like
45:46
I literally just had to walk it like not even
45:51
I cannot walk it because I can't even like yeah,
45:54
And then everybody was cheering me on because I was
45:56
the last.
46:00
Speaker 4: I did.
46:00
Speaker 6: Some one of the volunteers also walk with me on
46:03
my last mile, just you know, like because they know that,
46:06
you know, I was injured, you know they I did
46:09
not tell anybody, but they can tell, right because it's
46:11
taking me so long to do it. But you're right
46:15
that I forgot all about that, that I did have
46:19
any search, you know, any problem, and I steal powered
46:23
through Yeah. St yeah, you know just the thing that
46:32
you know, even if you have some obstacles, you don't
46:36
let it stop you. So that's just a proof for
46:39
me that whatever comes your way, you can actually just
46:43
make it happen if you really put your mind into it. Yeah.
46:47
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm so true. I'm very very inspiring, and
46:52
I'm a testament to you know, if you have someday
46:57
when if you're thinking of a high, you can't think
47:02
of benefits, think of me at.
47:09
Speaker 6: Oh that makes my heart so big right now, part.
47:12
Speaker 4: Of your part of your resume success. No certificate, certificate
47:17
of achievement.
47:20
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, thank you. And that's the priceless.
47:27
You can't put the price tag to that one, right
47:30
like that is like precious. You can't really you know,
47:36
quantify it. I mean as long as somebody says, I go,
47:39
you know what you did inspired me, you know, motivated me.
47:43
That was for me. That's a big thing.
47:47
Speaker 4: Your certificate certificate of achievement. Hello do and see secristy
47:59
Chili shout out to Massey and Vegas, Pinoy Vegas. That's
48:06
a new show. Oh yeah, right, watching right now, see Babababa,
48:14
good evening now. See Adel saying hi to Tita Emma Console.
48:20
See Tita Loose is saying hello Etel. Yeah yeah, Angelina
48:29
Tabuena is saying hello, Po mam athel Rubio, good morning.
48:33
Speaker 6: Good morning to you as well. Thank you for listening
48:37
in and watching.
48:39
Speaker 4: Yes, So anything else that you would like to share
48:43
with us to inspire our listeners.
48:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, so okay. So one of the things that I
48:48
also got excited about when I was doing this journey
48:52
is I would do it wherever my travel takes me.
48:56
So one time I attended a sustainability conference in London
49:01
and I said, okay, let me see if there's a
49:03
five K over there, and two and off there was.
49:08
It was held at the London Zoo area, and so
49:14
I did it. I'm it was my Uh when I arrived,
49:19
I was supposed to arrive two days before the date
49:22
so I can be prepared right, and then guess what
49:24
happens The flight got delayed and so I did my
49:29
five K with less than three hours sleep hardly uh,
49:34
you know, like very tired from the from the trip, right,
49:38
but I did it and I finished it, and so
49:40
things like that, And I told you about Canada and
49:43
you know being another citizens recently when I did UH
49:48
the five K for vets, that was in Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona.
49:54
So that's the exciting part of it, right. And so
49:57
leading up to my five k UH, one of the
50:00
things that I want to share is that my father
50:04
recently passed. He passed in May, and so for me,
50:09
everything was you know, focused on you know, mourning, grieving
50:15
with my family and also preparing for his last Hurrah,
50:19
like his memorial service and everything. So for me made June,
50:24
I went dark. I didn't do any five ks, I
50:28
did not work, so everything was just really down for me.
50:33
As you know, I'm a small business, and a small business,
50:38
if you don't put yourself out, you don't make money,
50:41
right like you know that MIA need the realtor in
50:45
the industry. So unlike if you're employed, even though you
50:49
take a break, you know, you come back and you
50:51
still earning salary. So that was really a big, you know,
50:57
a down moment for me. But you know, when I
51:00
when I started looking back and checking, like you know,
51:03
I asked my dad, you know, like you have this
51:05
thing conversation with yourself and you're putting your your dad
51:08
did that conversations like that, you know, what, what can
51:11
I do? I mean, how can I make this all happen?
51:13
And just like that, a spark came to me. It's like, well,
51:17
let's put you back on the five K trap again.
51:24
And so I did my first five K and after
51:29
that that period of morning evening and I just did it.
51:37
And you know, a friend of mine say like, hey,
51:39
do you want to do a five K with me?
51:40
And that just got me started again. And so then
51:44
from then I said, okay, I think I can still
51:46
do it, right, like, I just need to make sure
51:49
that I do it, like one five K every weekend
51:54
and then and then so now looking towards the goal
52:00
of being sixty, making sixty by the time it turned
52:04
sixty in October, I had to do some back to
52:07
back five K weekends and so that happened, and at
52:12
the back of my mind I was also worried about like,
52:15
oh my god, I hope my knee doesn't my knee
52:19
cooperates with me, it will get inflamed, right, and all
52:22
that so God is with me, my Dad is with me.
52:27
That it's not happening. It's I'm you know, I'm getting fitter,
52:31
much fitter than before, more fit because you know, I'm
52:37
doing it regularly. So for me, it's really a blessing
52:40
that I'm able to do it, you know, continuously now
52:45
and so leading up to the sixtyeth in October will
52:50
really materialize. So I'm on my last ten I shut down.
52:57
Speaker 4: Ten eight, you're on your what.
53:04
Speaker 6: Know, I did my fifty yet, so like yeah, so
53:06
ten more to go and I've already like you know,
53:10
Stephen Cobb said, you know, you have to always begin
53:15
with the end in mind, correct, right, So that's what
53:19
I did. I always do that thing I do, but
53:22
like in order for it to materialize what an envision,
53:26
I just put a date. Like I booked my October
53:29
twenty sixth five K that was a Sunday, and I
53:33
paid for it and I said, like, you know, join
53:36
me on this day because it's gonna be my sixtieth.
53:39
So that's how I'm playing all of these things together
53:42
to make it happen, because what you envision will come true.
53:47
Speaker 4: Of course, of course, So are you opening the invitation?
53:52
Speaker 6: To people or what, Yeah, I mean, I actually I'm
53:56
thankfully I have my immediate family and close friends that's
54:00
already signed up. So I think there's gonna be ten
54:02
of us at the at the five k itself. But
54:08
now I got it. You know. The thing sparked me
54:11
when you invited me to your radio show today that well,
54:16
maybe if people cannot join me in person, maybe they
54:22
can sign up on their own five ks in their
54:26
area on the twenty six and then also wear their
54:31
pin Eye Power shirt and then just take photos whatever.
54:35
But also I'm also open to like doing a five
54:39
k in your area, even though it's not the twenty six,
54:43
but just wear it and then post a picture with
54:45
it and then like, you know, hashtag me sixty by sixty,
54:50
hashtag pin Eyepower five k, you know, hashtag Ethle Rubio. Yeah.
54:57
I'm excited if that can happen. I'm like, I just
55:01
thought of it right now. Yeah yeah why not?
55:03
Speaker 4: No, no, you pivot you adapt adaptability. Yeah yeah, yeah,
55:11
very good. Thank you for Bitter Run.
55:21
Speaker 6: Run me.
55:22
Speaker 5: I just walk walk with us.
55:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a three miles eight board and make sure
55:37
you get the finisher medal at the end. So that's
55:41
the goal. So I'm not just doing this. I go,
55:44
I do hiking and do it. My My real goal
55:47
is to collect sixty five Gay medals. So when I
55:54
did my thirtieth, I actually hang them on a Christmas tree.
56:00
My sixty medals. I'm thirty metal. So now I'm thinking,
56:04
when I accomplished my sixty, finish your metals? Will it
56:09
fit on my tree? So you'll see how my Christmas
56:17
tree looks like this?
56:18
Speaker 5: Uh, Christmas sixty, I'll.
56:26
Speaker 6: God be God. But I'm using a fake tree anyway.
56:30
So it's thirt yeer right. The branches are thirt year
56:34
and the twigs at thirty year, so but I probably
56:37
need the taller one this time.
56:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, hey somebody there was there was a greeting,
56:45
Oh my goodness, Noela, Sorry, I can't couldn't find it anymore.
56:50
She said, she's you are her inspiration. I'm sorry I
56:53
couldn't find it anymore. But anyway, we're coming to a close,
56:58
and thank you so much for being here. Discuss mona
57:02
last reaction paper for me. You call me yes from making.
57:09
Speaker 6: Mid life matter.
57:10
Speaker 5: It's about time and you know aging time moves on
57:15
even if you don't.
57:18
Speaker 4: Oh, time moves on. What see you at the reaction paper?
57:26
Speaker 6: Very very good. Yeah, time moves on. Yeah even if
57:31
you don't, So you need to make the most of it. Ryeah, yeah,
57:38
will move with does both? She?
57:45
Speaker 11: Well?
57:45
Speaker 6: You try right, I mean we cannot say that we're
57:48
always on all the time. We have our down moments too,
57:52
but you know, accept it, right, like, don't fight it.
57:56
Accept it when you have your down moments and then
58:00
and then just snap out of it, right like it's
58:02
actually the bounce, your bounce back ability that makes you
58:06
really stronger and defines you. If it takes you a
58:10
year to do it, then you know, you you learn,
58:12
you know, you learn from your experiences. But as you
58:15
go along, anything that happens to you, you know, it's
58:19
just a way for like we said in the beginning,
58:22
it's an open opportunity to open other doors.
58:25
Speaker 4: Yay, perfect alrighty. So with that, thank you so much, Mia,
58:32
Thank you so much, Ebell. Thank you to all our
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