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The Why Not Today? Podcast - Season 2 - Episode 12 with Dorian Watson, Owner and Lead Consultant, D.M. Watson Consulting, LLC · Why Not Today? with Leslie Kane

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  Hello, this is Leslie and I am the host of the Why Not Today podcast.
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  This is a podcast to celebrate people who have been courageous and said, why not today?
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  I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Kane, who often just say, why not
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  today?
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  I'm based in Reston, Virginia, a planned community right outside of Washington, D.C. and thanks
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  for joining us today.
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  So I'm excited about my guest, Dorian Watson.
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  I don't know Dorian very well.
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  We met a couple months ago, no maybe a month ago, and she's going to share kind of her
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  journey of courage.
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  But before we get to know her, I always like to share connections where I matter.
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  So I went to a chamber, smells not like chamber because I'm involved in that event a couple
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  months ago and met this woman, Jen.
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  She had a practice, I don't know exactly, a psychologist, psychiatrist, counseling, and
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  then decided to go into coaching.
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  And not only did she go into coaching, but she started coaching group in Lynchburg,
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  Virginia and invited me to it.
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  And I ended up going and it was one of those things that wasn't convenient at all whatsoever,
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  but I made it work and I met Dorian and so grateful to hear her story and got to know
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  her.
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  So I'm excited to have you share about you and your journey and your faith and just,
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  you don't have your hope wall behind you today.
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  Not really.
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  When we were on the other day, you had hope behind you.
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  So Dorian, go ahead and introduce yourself to us a little about you and us.
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  Fun fact.
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  My name is Dorian Watson.
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  I'm a native of Lynchburg, Virginia.
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  I have been in business for myself for the past five years.
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  I run a consultancy called DM Watson Consulting.
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  I'm still niching down to my very specific expertise area, but right now I'm blended
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  on organizational management.
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  So my goal is to help small business owners to be more efficient with their organizational
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  management and to be able to.
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  I'll make that, don't we?
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  Yeah, for sure.
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  So to help them be able to plan and organize and lead and control their businesses better
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  in a way that makes them more profitable and helps just make their lives a little bit
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  easier.
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  So that's me as a professional.
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  I'm a Christian and I've served in law for over 20 years.
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  I'd like to teach the Bible and have the opportunity.
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  And yeah, fun fact about me.
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  I have a blog.
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  It's called The Pearl of Priesttown.
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  And the blog is named after my mom and dad.
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  My mom's name is Peggy, which is, can have a nickname of Pearl.
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  And my dad's name is Preston.
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  And Preston means priest town.
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  So my blog is The Pearl of Priesttown.
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  I did not know that.
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  Okay.
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  I'm going to learn something about you.
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  I have to check it out.
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  So I admire people who can do a blog.
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  My background's in numbers and finance them.
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  Yeah.
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  Do you want a blog sound scary?
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  Everybody keeps saying, you should write a book.
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  I'm like, oh, that's a little scary.
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  Yeah, it's always consistent, but I do it when I'm inspired.
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  Oh, good.
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  Well, I met you and the organization skills are amazing.
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  You are very instrumental in running the group that Jenna started.
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  And when we talked the other day and kind of got to know you, and I love your journey
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  from you were in Northern Virginia and the corporate world, and then decided to take
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  a turn and follow your heart and follow your calling.
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  And so before we kind of hear all about your story, what does courage mean to you?
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  Yeah, I thought about this when I saw the question.
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  And it's funny how you don't really define words sometimes, you know, you really just
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  kind of have an idea of what they mean.
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  And so I looked it up and one of the definitions was Darienne Mobley .
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  And so that really resonated with me.
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  So I'd say courage is the ability to do hard things.
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  And just, yeah, just being the spot of the situation and just being able to work through
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  it regardless of, you know, how difficult it is, just being able to get to the end of
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  it or get through it.
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  And generally you're better on the other side of it or you come to a place where you're
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  able to move forward.
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  So but yeah, definitely that ability to do hard things with you.
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  Yeah, I love that.
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  Yeah, I've got a friend that I think the name of Facebook group is we can do hard things.
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  And you know, courage, it is doing the hard things.
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  And if people think, oh, when you're courageous and brave, you just do it.
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  I'm like, no, you don't, you have to work through it.
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  And once you get on the other side, we're always so much better than them.
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  So no fun for me through this podcast to hear everybody's definitions and what they've done.
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  So let's talk about your career path, your switch you want to seminary, which is, you
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  know, a brave move.
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  So let's talk about where you started and where you've become.
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  And now you've got your own business.
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  But let's talk about kind of in between and the courageous steps that took and yes, God
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  led you.
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  Yeah.
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  So when I was younger, I didn't really have a huge plan for my life career wise, you know,
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  just kind of going with the flow and, you know, I had an older sister, so I'd like to
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  follow her lead.
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  So she said she wanted to be something I wanted to be that too.
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  So I'm going to be a lawyer and a teacher and that kind of thing.
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  So sure, I want to be a lawyer.
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  I want to be a teacher.
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  But that's not really what I was designed for.
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  When I got to high school, I kind of thought I might want to own my own business, but didn't
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  really have an idea of what kind of a business or how that would go along or whatever.
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  And so senior year was kind of like, all right, well, what would I want to major in when I
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  go to college, you know, go to college.
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  What would I do?
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  So landed on business because, hey, regardless of what business you go into, you can get
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  a job with a business degree.
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  So that was my thought process going into college.
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  So went to college and majored in business, chose management because every business needs
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  a manager pretty much.
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  So I was like, no matter what, I should be solid with a business management degree.
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  So got to school and the Lord really took a hold of my life my freshman year.
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  So was leaning in the direction of, okay, God, like, what are you doing in my life,
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  getting to know him better?
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  And was able to just really connect with the Lord on a deeper level than I had before.
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  And my junior year, I went to Longwood and that's a public school here in Virginia in
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  Central Virginia, about 45 minutes from where I was living.
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  I was wondering what's your faith in school at that level and delivery?
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  Yeah.
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  So when I was younger, I didn't really understand what Liberty was all about.
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  When you live really close to something, you know, sometimes you don't really appreciate
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  it.
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  Like Jordan Mason here, I'm like, who would ever go there?
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  Yeah, you know, you're like, it's right.
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  There's a school next door.
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  That's too close to home, basically.
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  So I was like, no, I don't want to really go there.
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  As a matter of fact, I told my dad asked me, you know, about Liberty and I was like, I
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  never want to go there.
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  We'll get to that in a minute.
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  Yeah.
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  Funny how we, what we say, we'll never do that we do.
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  Oh, yeah, for sure.
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  For sure.
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  So, uh, was it about junior year and the Lord really let me know, like, you cannot do business
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  in the way that you're thinking you're going to do business.
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  Like that is not in alignment with me and my will because, you know, the 90s, I went
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  to school in the 90s and, you know, the 90s were all about power, you know, power trips
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  and, you know, the power executive and especially women empowered executives and, you know, she's
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  got the red high heels and, you know, she's going to step on everybody to get to the top.
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  And that's what it is.
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  What is that making the devil wear his product?
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  Yeah, basically that's, that's kind of the idea that I had, right?
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  When I was a young, a young 19, 20 year old, the Lord said, no, that's not going to be
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  you.
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  And I was like, okay, God, then what am I doing?
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  And so didn't really know what that was going to be a senior year.
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  A lot of my friends were going to be going to seminary after that, but I knew that I
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  wasn't ready for seminary and that wasn't the timing of that.
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  But the Lord really laid it on my heart, you know, seminary is going to be for you.
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  And I was like, okay, God, you know, whenever you want me to go, you let me know when you
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  let me know where you let me know what I'm going to study.
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  And you know, I'll just, you know, I'll trust you with that.
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  So that was back in 2001.
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  Fast forward 10 years later, I was living in Northern Virginia was in a job in security
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  of the account representative for a security firm and was miserable and was really looking
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  for, you know, the next thing like Lord, all right, like this job is not it.
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  I'm really unhappy.
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  I really hated at this place, you know, but I had my career was really in the dumps, but
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  my personal life was pretty good.
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  Like I really had a great faith community.
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  I bought lots of good friends, really enjoyed where I lived, love the city I was in.
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  And you know, was thriving in that regard, but the job was really just taking its toll.
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  So I was like, okay, God, gotta get, you know, gotta do something.
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  And so over a period of a couple of months, the Lord was speaking to me through all kinds
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  of various venues and that was a really neat time.
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  And one of the tools that he used to help me was actually the Chronicles of Narnia.
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  I had never read that as a child, I've seen the movies and things, but had never, you
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  know, never read the books and the books go a little more in depth with some of the spiritual
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  aspects with the analogies that CS Lewis makes.
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  And the Lord just really spoke to me through that series.
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  And so I was just in a time of brokenness and repentance.
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  Eustace's character was really resonating with me in that season where I had a lot of
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  pride and a lot of different other things I need to shed.
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  Like he shed that lion skin, that dragon skin in the voice of the dawn.
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  I read it as a kid and I have not read it as an adult.
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  I need to go back.
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  It's a great story.
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  And that's a whole different read.
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  Oh yeah, it totally will be.
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  It's so great.
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  And it's when you can really apply it to, you know, aspects of yourself and of your faith
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  and of your life and just of your humanity.
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  So I'm like, oh, you know, this is really, it's really, it gets deeper than you think
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  it should for a children's book.
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  And so it's like, okay, all right, Lord, like I'm in this place of brokenness.
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  I'm in this place of where you're going to heal me and you're going to, you know, get
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  me out of this attitude that I'm in.
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  Because, you know, when you're in a place that's hard, you tend to get bitter and resentful
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  and that can really mess you up from a faith perspective because then you're not looking
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  to act out of love and compassion like God wants us to.
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  And not where we just let people walk all over us or abuse us in any way, but there's
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  a holy way to respond to adversity.
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  And I was not in that holy way.
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  It's responding to adversity.
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  But God was so gracious to me in that time.
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  He gave me those books.
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  He told me I wasn't going to get fired from my job.
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  That's how bad it was, right?
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  Like they really could have fired me if they wanted to.
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  And not because I was doing things that was, you know, blatantly, you know, wrong or bad
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  or whatever, but my attitude was just so terrible, you know, just coming in with, you know, all
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  that kind of stuff.
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  And it was just like, okay.
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  Well, Corporate America, it's, and this is something I'm passionate about and I share
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  because I left my corporate job 24 years ago.
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  And, you know, it was scary, but I think one of the breaking points, I was already in Mary
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  Kay, so I saw better worlds.
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  But one of the breaking points is when I was at work one day, left work and tears, thinking
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  I could never get another job.
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  I just finished my MBA.
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  I have never looked for a job in my life with connections and things.
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  I'm a super hard worker, but I think Corporate America's job and a lot of instances just
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  beat you down.
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  And people, and, but the sad part is you got out, I got out, but somebody's feel they're
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  staying there because they're scared.
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  Yeah, if I can encourage anybody through these podcasts is just live your life and live and
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  joy and do the things that give you joy.
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  It is.
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  It's super important.
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  Like it really will, it changes you as a person to be in that kind of environment.
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  And I didn't like who I was then.
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  And that's why those, those words that I was reading were so powerful for me because it
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  was like, you know, you become this person, you know, and in the book, if you're not familiar
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  with the voyage of the Dawn Treader, it's the little boy puts on this bracelet and he
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  becomes a dragon.
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  And that's kind of how it becomes where you've, you've got this outer shell that's not yourself
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  and you're stuck in there and all you can present is dragon, you know, and it's not your
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  good sweet self, you know, it's right.
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  This bitter, scaly, you know, monster kind of a thing.
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  And this is like, who, how did I become this?
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  And so, you know, to be delivered from now was really, it was so amazing just how God
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  orchestrated all of that.
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  And I love that you listened and you're paying attention instead of so many people that ignore
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  the signs.
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  I'm very big at, you know, I see the signs, hear the signs, paying attention to things
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  that so many people just ignore.
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  Yeah.
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  And it's really easy to just go along with what somebody tells you to do, particularly
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  your boss or your upper management.
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  If they're telling you to do things that are not in alignment with your values or just
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  aren't good and they're not just, they're just not good business practices.
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  Right.
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  You know, and if you're looking around and paying attention to how your business and
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  organization is functioning, you know, you can see where it's going to be a problem,
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  you know, not just for you, but for your clients or your customers.
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  And if you don't value your clients and customers, you know, well, that's, you need to check
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  that anyway, if you're not valuing them.
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  But if your organization isn't set up to really give them the best experience, you really
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  need to do that.
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  You can find a different organization or figure out something else to do so that you can,
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  you know, make money.
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  And I understand that that's a very difficult thing to do when you're, you know, trying
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  to pay rent, you're trying to pay your bills, you're trying to, you know, you may have medical
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  bills that are in the background debt from student loans or other things, you know, I
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  understand all that kind of struggle.
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  So I know it's not, it seems like it's not easy and no, it isn't easy, but it's not
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  impossible to figure out something.
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  You just gotta trust it.
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  Yeah.
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  And let it go.
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  It's what I've found in my life.
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  And I think that's, that's, we're really important lesson I learned with my first job
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  out of college was you can leave.
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  It's your choice and you have that, you have permission to leave it because a lot of people
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  will tell you in your jobs, you know, your manager might tell you or your colleagues
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  might tell you or even your bank account kind of might tell you, you know, Hey, you can't
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  leave this job.
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  You can't leave.
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  And that was one lie that I had to squash real quick because it was like, no, you cannot
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  stay in places that are really sucking your soul away, you know, unless you've been given
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  a supernatural grace to stay there, you know, or a particular instruction, you know, for
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  me, I'm following the Lord's instructions.
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  And if he doesn't tell me to stay somewhere, I'm not staying.
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  Yeah.
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  And now when I put my job, people are like, what are you going to do?
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  How are you going to live?
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  I literally looked and like, okay, I knew I could sell enough products to live.
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  And I'm like, I might have to eat at my mom's and stick, skip Starbucks and not go shopping
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  or, you know, pick out all that.
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  But, you know, we can, we live, we can live better, you know, and when they do, we really
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  can, we really can.
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  So it all came to a head.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It all came to a head at one point and it was just like, Lord, like really, I was literally
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  on my face on the floor praying like God, like you got to really intervene here.
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  I really got to get out of here.
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  So he told me I wasn't going to get fired.
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  And one Saturday morning, I was just at home and got up and the Lord said, apply to Liberty
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  today because he had been talking to me about seminary that whole 10 year period.
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  I've been, you know, keeping my eyes open, looking at schools and programs and, you know,
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  cities and things and just trying to figure out, you know, where to go or whatever.
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  He had opened a door through my church that I was attending at the time and they had started
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  a satellite program with Dallas Theological Seminary and they had a class offering.
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  So I was like, oh, well, maybe this is what the Lord wants me to do to take, to go through
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  the satellite campus and go through Dallas Theological.
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  So I took that class and it was an amazing class, really loved it and wanted to pray
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  through the next semester.
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  And so that was all, so I took the class in the fall and the spring I was praying through
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  the semester to see, okay.
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  Lord, do you want me to do this satellite program or do you have something else in mind?
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  So this was in March and that Saturday morning, the Lord told me apply to Liberty University
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  today.
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  So it wasn't just apply to Liberty.
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  No, today.
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  You need to apply today.
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  So I applied that day.
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  I got accepted.
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  And so in May, I moved out and moved from Northern Virginia back to Lynchburg.
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  Like I said, I'm from Lynchburg originally.
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  I talked to my parents about it.
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  My dad had always said, you can always come back home.
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  You know, whenever you want, you know, because, you know, your dad just wants to come back
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  home.
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  I'm on back home if you want to, you know, that's fine.
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  And so came back home, didn't have a job, just moved back in with my mom and dad and
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  didn't know what I was going to be doing exactly.
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  Hadn't figured out what the major was going to be, but had been accepted, moved back home
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  and was like, okay, guys, like what are we doing?
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  And so the Lord provided for my tuition and my expenses and everything told me I wasn't
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  going to get a job because I was looking for a job, you know, because, you know, school
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  is not cheap, even if you have tuition or whatever, you still have other things you
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  need to get and whatnot.
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  And the Lord provided opportunities and money just out of nowhere, like literally out of
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  nowhere just would get money for thousands.
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  So it was just such an amazing time of trust and dependency on him.
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  And he really taught me, you know, trust me, I've got you, you know, and you really can
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  do that.
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  So, and just had the best time in seminary.
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  It was a two-year program that I was in and got my masters in theological studies.
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  And then moved on into a position after that, where I worked for Liberty University for
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  a season and what's helping on the student population there.
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  So really, it was a really amazing time just of just how he was moving things and providing
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  and just getting me to be able to trust him more.
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  And that takes so much courage.
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  And I can pinpoint many, many times in my life that, you know, we try so hard to plan
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  differently, different than my plan, and, you know, he's got it.
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  He's got my back.
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  And, you know, he always does that.
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  Got a courage.
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  Seems like my internet's going in and out.
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  Are we disappearing or am I?
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  Do you see that?
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  You were freezing just a little bit, but you're back.
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  Hopefully we're okay.
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  Looks like it's not so strong.
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  But that's okay.
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  This is not perfect.
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  Beauty of wine, I'd say.
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  All right.
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  So seminary, which I love the trust and you did that.
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  And the God provided, like the same thing with me.
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  And I share this on the podcast where I quit my job November of 99.
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  And it was really not, it was a date of just arbitrary date based on something silly.
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  Going shopping with a friend.
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  I don't even like to shop.
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  But I quit my job and I stepped out in space.
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  And, you know, God had another plan.
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  My dad had a major stroke that next April.
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  And I was able to be there with my family.
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  I was able to take off.
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  I didn't have to take, ask permission to take time off.
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  And you know, if I had not stepped on on faith and had that courage to say, you know, why
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  not today?
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  It was kind of like, you know, your decision to go to seminary, like God told you today,
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  like, you know, we need to listen to those and not argue.
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  And what a different path your world has taken because of that.
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  It really has.
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  And what you just said really resonates with me too.
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  I had a lot of family things that came up when I moved back, when I moved back home.
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  And had I not been living with my family at that time, I would have had to travel, you
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  know, three and a half hours or so, or I would have been certain things.
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  And you know, yet trying to figure out how to take time off and to be there.
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  And with as many things that happened, like, I don't know if I would have had enough time
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  to take off, you know, to be able to do the things that I needed to do, you know, my sister
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  was, yeah.
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  And the flexibility and the line of your life with your values of what's important, you
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  know, so crucial.
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  And, you know, I've been full time Mary Kay with the flexibility for 24 years.
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  So that's just the life I live.
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  But unfortunately, I had unexpected death of a friend last week.
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  And it was not a family member.
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  And if I was working for somebody else, I couldn't have said on Sunday, when I found
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  out I'm leaving tomorrow and I'm gone for a week.
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  And it's been, you know, it was a week ago Sunday and I really haven't gotten all the
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  way back into work yet.
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  And that's okay.
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  You know, I'm not getting fired and I have that flexibility.
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  There was no question.
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  But if I would have been working for somebody else, it would not have happened like that.
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  And that's, you know, that for me, that is just invaluable to have that flexibility
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  with family and or friends and do the things that mean something to us.
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  Absolutely.
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  Absolutely.
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  So then you left, so you worked in a church, you worked at Liberty and they started your
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  own business and kind of a different, so I'm sure whatever you learned in seminary and
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  the church and all that, you apply to what you do now, but kind of a different trajectory.
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  So how'd you get there?
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  I love hearing people's stories in their past.
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  Yeah.
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  So I was working for a church.
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  I was working in their administrative office and I felt like I needed a shift, you know,
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  working for the Lord, it's awesome, but it's a really different environment, especially
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  when you're a business mind.
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  And as much as I love ministry, I love ministry as a non-business entity.
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  And so the two areas can converge more often than one would think.
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  And the way that they converge is it can get really complicated.
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  And so I was having some frustrations with the way those two things were converging,
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  particularly with the demands of ministry.
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  And ministry is more 24-7 than 9-5.
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  And so I was finding things that I needed to be doing for my position were falling outside
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  of my work hours and it was just kind of like, okay, I can't keep going over these crossover
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  with the particular structure that we had at that time.
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  So it's just like, this isn't really a good fit for me anymore.
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  And I thought, you know, I would really like to help people with these kinds of things,
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  but I'd like to keep my faith ministry separate from that.
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  So it's like, let me separate these two things.
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  I'd like to be able to come to church and worship on Sunday and not, you know, get pulled
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  into something work-related.
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  Exactly.
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  So chose to make that separation and decided to go into administration.
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  Administration is one of my favorite areas of business to focus on.
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  And so all the behind the scenes organizational things, that's all the things that I'd love
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  to get into.
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  So decided to become a consultant, I talked with a coach as I was trying to make the transition
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  because I didn't want to leave my church in the lurch, you know, nobody to come take
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  my place.
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  So I was going to train my replacement and all that.
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  So I worked all that out.
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  And so, and I didn't want to go into business blind because I'd never run my own business
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  before and I'd never done what I wanted to do as a business before.
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  So I had some test clients first, just to see if that was something I liked doing and,
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  you know, kind of figure out the trajectory of where I went to take my business.
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  What a great idea to have a client.
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  I'm a chronic planner, chronic planner.
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  And so, I have learned recently, especially I am a planner and yeah, he's really worked
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  with me on that.
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  And so everything is a fluid plan now.
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  So I can't get an idea of a plan that I have.
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  God, you know, if it's going to ship, that's fine.
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  You know, so whatever you want to do with my plan, you can go ahead and do that.
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  So, but just had some test clients first and talk to a coach.
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  We'll figure out that I want to be a consultant versus mainly a coach or mentor or something
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  else.
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  So he helped me get those ideas and alignment.
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  And so, DM Watson Consulting was founded in 2018 and I've been on the journey, the entrepreneurial
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  journey ever since.
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  I'm still figuring out who I am as a business owner and as a business person, but like you
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  said, I love the flexibility of it.
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  It allows me to be able to help people, but it also allows me to focus on other things
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  that I need to be doing.
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  My ministry is a part of that.
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  And so, some of that really just is being available to people whenever they need to talk about
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  things or, you know, they seem to meet up for something.
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  And so that gives me that flexibility to do that.
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  So that's awesome.
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  And I love that you're in the coaching world as part of the administrative, you know, helping
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  coaches with their, you know, business.
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  And, you know, that's important.
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  You know, we all have creative ideas for businesses, but you got to have the business
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  part behind it.
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  And people have asked me like, what are you doing as a Mary Kay consultant?
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  You have an MBA in business.
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  I'm like, I'm a smart business woman.
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  I'm running my own business.
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  But it does take the systems behind it to make it successful.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  And everybody has a system whether they recognize it as one or not.
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  It could be a bad system.
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  That's right.
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  It's where it all could be.
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  Yeah.
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  So what would you say to encourage somebody else?
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  And I love the word encourage because it's like, give somebody courage.
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  Yes, for sure.
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  It's really just kind of just do it in a way.
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  You know, a lot of times we have a lot of doubt behind things.
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  And I've gone through a season where I doubted myself after going through some different life
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  experiences.
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  I had lost some of the confidence that I had because a lot of my confidence previously
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  was based in pride.
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  And so it's really difficult to just trust yourself.
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  But I would really encourage people to trust yourself.
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  You know what your values are.
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  You know what you are trying to accomplish.
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  And if you're a Christian, you know that God has a plan for you and you're probably seeking
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  that out.
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  Trust God has a plan for you and trust that you are capable of following the plan that
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  he's got lined up for you.
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  And have faith that you can really do it.
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  Believe that you can do it.
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  Have faith that you can do it and trust yourself that you're able to execute it.
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  Even if you don't have all the tools right this second, right?
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  Most things are a process where you're learning about it and you're getting information.
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  Trust that you can give the information.
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  Trust that you can learn it.
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  Just have that.
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  Try to trust yourself to do those things that you need to do.
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  And you can gain that ability to do that hard thing.
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  It'll be less and less hard as you go along.
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  Now, some things really do just slap you in the face, right?
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  Unexpected family losses or health incidents and those kinds of things.
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  Those are tough to navigate.
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  They really are.
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  But trust that if you're still alive, there's something that you can do.
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  And I thought my dad always said after he had several strokes, he had a long journey
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  of it.
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  But he's like, you know what, God's not done with me yet.
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  And he knew he still had a purpose.
• 26:47
  And people say, how are you?
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  And he's like, I'm on the silograph.
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  It's just always a good thing.
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  Yeah, I love that.
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  And I think the whole theme of what we talked about today is trust.
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  And I love doing these podcasts because I get to hear people's stories.
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  But so often more than anything, I'm doing these podcasts because it's a message I exactly
• 27:07
  need to hear today.
• 27:08
  And it's like, OK, God put me, you and my past a month ago, who knew that I needed you
• 27:14
  today, in my life recently, and just the trust factor.
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  And yeah, just got to trust.
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  So where can people find you?
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  And I know we're going to share all your contact in the show notes.
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  But if someone's looking for some business administrative, do you do virtual or do they
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  have to be in Lynchburg?
• 27:34
  No, I can do virtual or I can do, I'm in person.
• 27:38
  If you're in the general area of Central Virginia, I can get there.
• 27:43
  If we play it accordingly, I can get pretty much anywhere.
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  So I'm available both virtually and in person.
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  You can reach me at dmwatsonconsulting.com for all your organizational management needs.
• 27:56
  All right.
• 27:57
  And I know you're with at LinkedIn.
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  You're going to teach me how to do that because that's not something I've figured out.
• 28:04
  So why not today podcast?
• 28:06
  You can find on every channel.
• 28:08
  We have a website, why not today podcast?
• 28:10
  We have swag, if you want a t-shirt, a cup, a vinyl, we're looking at some other things
• 28:15
  that we're going to add.
• 28:17
  And just share it with a friend if it's encouraged you today, the podcast.
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  Share it, review it like it.
• 28:23
  That's how we're going to grow this podcast.
• 28:25
  And Dorian, thank you so much for your story and of courage.
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  And I just love the faith in business combined and just the trust.
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  Thanks so much, Leslie.
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  Thanks so much for having me.
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  Oh, my pleasure.
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  And everybody listening, watching, say why not today?
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  We are not promised tomorrow.
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  I know that more than anything.
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  And enjoy your life and say why not today.
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  So thanks again and say why not today.
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  And I'm going to figure out how to stop it.