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Season 4 - Episode 41 - Lessons from career fair · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. So over the weekend I had the
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  privilege of taking my son to a technical school to to talk
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  about what's next when he finishes high school.
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  Now my son, many of you may or may not know is 16 and he is a
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  sophomore and he is homeschooled, quasi
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  homeschooled. I say that that way because he
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  attends a full blown Academy that is online, but he manages
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  his day. He chooses very differently than
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  most kids do. It's a very out-of-the-box way
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  to go through high school. However, this is what he wanted
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  and this is what we're doing. So he he has this opportunity
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  with a college that's local, it's a tech school and they had
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  an open house fair where you could come and you could see all
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  the possibilities. Now why am I telling you all
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  this? Because it was amazing to me how
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  when we got there, there were so many kids in there and so many,
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  you could feel how incredibly nervous a lot of the kids were,
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  but more so the parents. So the parents are walking
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  around and all these parents, you can pick up on it now.
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  I mean, I can obviously this is what I do for a living.
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  So I'm observing while I'm watching my son who's taking
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  care of himself. And so it's it's, it was kind of
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  like if you, if you've ever been to a trade show, it was set up
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  like a trade show. So all these local companies
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  that want people that want to go into trades, come in and meet
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  kids and see, you know, how tell them all about the jobs, see
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  what the job would look like. And then you have to go through
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  an application process and whatnot.
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  And then I amazingly you get to have this big pull.
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  It's kind of like an interview night.
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  So let's say my son wants to go into plumbing.
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  There are about 11 plumbers that are looking for apprentices and
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  for two years while he's in high school he will be able to
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  apprentice with a company that they pick him and he picks them.
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  So if he gets picked by multiple companies, then he can choose
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  and then basically he would spend 2 years doing at least two
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  days a week on the job, which it's a, it's a phenomenal way.
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  And you get college credits at the same time you're getting
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  high school credits. And his high school is like
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  completely thrilled that we have this option to do this.
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  And the, and the college is completely thrilled.
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  It's, it's just a very out-of-the-box way of thinking.
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  And we're so blessed to have this be an option for him
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  because my son is incredibly mechanically inclined.
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  Like he puts IKEA furniture together without instructions,
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  gives you an idea of how his brain works.
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  So anyway, back to the story. We're inside this place and I, I
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  had talked to my son about this ahead of time.
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  He knows that not everybody is going to know exactly what they
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  want to do because he hears me talk about this all the time,
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  how it's OK to change your your trajectory.
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  It's OK to change the direction you're moving if it's not
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  filling you up and it and it's truly not making you happy.
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  So we have talked a lot about setting him up for winning and
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  he's very confident about this. We've also given him a lot of
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  opportunity to practice what he does.
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  Like he builds things all the time.
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  He's working on motors. He has a job now two days a week
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  where he gets to go and work full like machinery, loading,
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  doing all kinds of different things, working on motors, and
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  that's his skill set. So when he went in there, he was
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  incredibly confident. And afterwards we were having
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  lunch talking about how the experience was.
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  And he said, I, I don't understand how so many people
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  are in there and they're just roaming and they don't know what
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  they want. And I thought that was so
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  telling because he's 16 and he knows what he wants.
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  Like he knows what he wants, but so many of us don't.
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  And partly you have to imagine the difference of growing up in
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  an environment where you grow up with parents who are completely
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  unattached and just have your best interest at heart.
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  The only thing that we're attached to is what is going to
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  be right for him. I don't need him to go to
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  Harvard. I want him to be feeling like
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  he's using his skills, using his greatness.
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  But how many of us have ever really had that?
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  So it got me thinking about how how right now in our world, we
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  are either raising children and we are so attached to the result
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  because we have a vision of it as opposed to them.
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  Now, I can tell you after spending that time in there and
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  watching my son confidently go up to tables, shake hands with
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  people, talk to them about things.
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  And the strangest part of the whole thing was he met a woman
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  who was from a plumbing company and she was talking to him.
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  And when we walked away, I felt like this woman was very
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  uncomfortable talking to him because he was asking very
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  specific questions. And he said to me, she doesn't
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  have confidence in what she's doing.
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  I wouldn't want to work for that company.
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  And I said, you wouldn't tell me why.
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  And he said, well, they put her out there to sell their company
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  and she unsold me. That was what he said.
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  She unsold me and I just sat there and I thought, one, I'm
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  blessed because he's learned so much from just being in my
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  world. And two, I'm so blessed that he
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  knows what he wants to do and he is focused on being happy with
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  it. And the point of today is if you
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  are in a position where, one, you're cultivating someone,
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  consider these thoughts because you want your person, whoever
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  you're cultivating to be happy. You don't want to push them into
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  a way where they spend time so unhappy that they grow up to be
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  unhappy adults. And two, if you are one of those
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  unhappy adults and you need to relook at what's going on in
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  your world to find a way to get to happy and to find a way that
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  you, you know you, you know you want to rewrite, remember, you
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  can be happy along the way, every step of the way when
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  you're aligned to a part of yourself.
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  So if you need to realign parts of yourself, look at that
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  because it is so valuable to your overall growth and your
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  overall happiness of your soul. If there's nothing worse than
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  being stuck on a trajectory that does not allow you to be
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  yourself. So I hope you guys enjoyed my
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  little story today about my weekend and I will see you all
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  tomorrow. Have a blessed day, bye.