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A Leader's Legacy | Episode #512 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international
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Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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Speaker 1: your Life Count. I'm so delighted that you joined me today.
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Speaker 1: I have a very special guest on our show today.
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Speaker 1: His name is Chris Robinson. Chris A is executive vice
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Speaker 1: president of Maxwell on Entrepreneur Solutions. He's also the founder
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Speaker 1: of R three Coaching, a company dedicated to helping individuals
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Speaker 1: and businesses achieve their personal and business growth goals through speaking,
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Speaker 1: group training, and one on one coaching. Chris is a
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Speaker 1: founding partner of the John Maxwell team, and as the
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Speaker 1: executive vice president of Maxwell Entrepreneur Solutions, he is a
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Speaker 1: product of the product. He leads a global team of
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Speaker 1: over thirty thousand speakers, coaches, and trainers. Chris has dedicated
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Speaker 1: his life to enhancing others by speaking and teaching on
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Speaker 1: leadership and personal and professional development. More importantly, he is
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Speaker 1: the father of eleven year old triplets, a seven year
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Speaker 1: old and four year old twin girls. Today's topic is
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Speaker 1: being a topic that is near and dear to my
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Speaker 1: heart and I can't think of a better person, a
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Speaker 1: better leader, a better human being to address this topic
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Speaker 1: than Chris Robinson.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I met Chris in twoenty twelve. We were both attending
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Speaker 1: an international John Maxwell team conference in Florida at a
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Speaker 1: beautiful place in Orlando. And when I met him and
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Speaker 1: heard him speak so passionately about his life, he was
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Speaker 1: on fire. So I can't wait to host my friend,
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Speaker 1: mentor and colleague, Chris Robinson. Before I bring Chris in,
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Speaker 1: I want to take just a minute, just a moment,
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Speaker 1: to connect the dots between today's topic on being and
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Speaker 1: legacy living. Now, there are many many ways that being
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Speaker 1: connects to legacy living, which you'll hear more about later
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Speaker 1: in the show. For now, let me say that legacy
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Speaker 1: living is a way of being and a way of
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Speaker 1: living in the world, so that we make the conscious
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Speaker 1: choice to be the difference we want to see in
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Speaker 1: the world.
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Speaker 2: We make the.
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Speaker 1: Conscious choice now today, not in some distant future. We
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Speaker 1: make that conscious choice day in and day out, three
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Speaker 1: sixty five, twenty four seven. All right, more about that later.
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Speaker 1: Let me bring in my friend, mentor and colleague, Chris Robinson. So,
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Speaker 1: Chris Robinson, I just want to welcome you today, and
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being my guest.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad to
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Speaker 3: be here with you today.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you so Chris.
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Speaker 1: I know you have an amazing story and I would
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Speaker 1: love for you to tell our listeners, you know, just
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Speaker 1: a little bit about your background and how did you
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Speaker 1: get to where you are today?
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Speaker 3: Oh wow, you know, well, it's been a phenomenal journey
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Speaker 3: and personal growth journey for me to get where I
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Speaker 3: am today. You know, today I serve as the executive
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Speaker 3: vice president for the Job Actual Team, which is the
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Speaker 3: largest speaker coaching training certification program on the planet now
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Speaker 3: with the number one leadership ruler of the world.
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Speaker 5: And to think that I would be sitting here in
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Speaker 5: the role of leading that.
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Speaker 3: Organization today was really a long stretch of a vision.
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Speaker 3: And I tell you what, I what I'm doing today
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Speaker 3: is because of personal growth and development. And you know,
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Speaker 3: it was because of a dream and desire to simply
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Speaker 3: help people. You know, I started out, you know, really
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Speaker 3: diving into personal growth and development about sixteen years ago
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Speaker 3: when I was working for organization as a salesperson.
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Speaker 4: So here I was a.
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Speaker 3: Salesperson inside of this organization, going how can I grow
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Speaker 3: and become a manager inside this organization. Now, on paper,
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Speaker 3: I knew that all things were equal.
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Speaker 5: But I had to stand out.
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Speaker 3: You know, I could sell just again as the next person,
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Speaker 3: But how can I get myself to stand out? Well,
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Speaker 3: I decided I was going to take some courses at
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Speaker 3: a local church at that time, and they were offered,
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Speaker 3: of course by John Maxwell, the twenty one loss Leadership
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Speaker 3: on VHS, so the big two TV and VHS. And
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Speaker 3: I decided I was going to take that course, and
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Speaker 3: I began to listen to John Maxwell. I began to
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Speaker 3: apply the principles inside the workplace, and then I took
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Speaker 3: every single course that they offered by John that year
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Speaker 3: because this personal growth stuff was really working, and I
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Speaker 3: decided to you know, I was implementing things inside the workplace,
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Speaker 3: I was getting promoted on the job. The organization I
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Speaker 3: was working with was growing really fast, and I just
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Speaker 3: truly fell in love with personal growth and development. Well,
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Speaker 3: a year later, they had decided to ask me if
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Speaker 3: I wanted to facilitate those courses by John Maxwell.
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Speaker 5: Now this was a big step, Glory, this.
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Speaker 3: Is a big step, they said, you know, Chris, and
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Speaker 3: so I asked them. I said, well, what does this
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Speaker 3: consist of? You know, I've taken all the classes, but
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Speaker 3: what do I need to do? They said, well, Chris,
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Speaker 3: when you come inside the classroom, press play on the
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Speaker 3: VHS and when you're done, turn off the lights. Now,
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Speaker 3: I think it was that big of a job, but
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Speaker 3: pressing play is the stepping stone to be standing here
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Speaker 3: in front of you today. So I would go back
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Speaker 3: inside those classrooms, I would press play, I would turn
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Speaker 3: out the lights, I would fill out the workbook and
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Speaker 3: I was hearing those teachings again for the second time,
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Speaker 3: and I was applying them at a higher level in
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Speaker 3: my life. So what it allowed for me to learn
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Speaker 3: was to stay away from the most dangerous words on
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Speaker 3: this planet.
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Speaker 5: Most dangerous words on this plan are I've heard that before.
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Speaker 3: Now I would go back in and people would say, hey,
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Speaker 3: I've heard that those are the most dangerous words in
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Speaker 3: the world. And so when you catch yourself asking, you know,
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Speaker 3: or saying those phrase I've heard that before, you need
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Speaker 3: to shift that to a question and ask yourself, how
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Speaker 3: well do I do that?
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Speaker 5: Because if it keeps.
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Speaker 3: Coming back up, and you keep hearing it again and again,
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Speaker 3: you've got to measure how well do I do that?
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Speaker 3: And is there room for improvement? Who it needs to
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Speaker 3: be the question? But I was going back inside that classroom.
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Speaker 3: I was pressing play, I was turning out the lights.
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Speaker 3: I was applying the workplace. I continue to get from
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Speaker 3: all the job And then you know, I had the
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Speaker 3: opportunity to attend my very first conference. Now, I know
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Speaker 3: most of the listeners were probably confidence junkies and the
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Speaker 3: person growth junkies, and you all remember your first conference
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Speaker 3: that you went to. My first confidence that I actually
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Speaker 3: paid to go to TJ's very first megafest.
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Speaker 5: So this was in Atlanta, Georgia. I lived in Saint
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Speaker 5: Louis and.
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Speaker 3: I went down to the Atlanta Dome and this place
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Speaker 3: was filled with people, thousands of people, and you know,
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Speaker 3: there was a life altering moment. An entire weekend, I
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Speaker 3: watched the stage of speakers. I went to breakout sessions.
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Speaker 3: But there was a breakout session that changed me forever.
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Speaker 3: There was a vendor booth that was happening inside the
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Speaker 3: vendor hall. There was a speaker showcase. Now, for those
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Speaker 3: that are listening to, a speaker showcase is really like
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Speaker 3: a fashion show for speakers that you get three to
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Speaker 3: five minutes, come out and give you very best on
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Speaker 3: the stage.
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Speaker 5: You're off the stage, and.
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Speaker 3: You know, these people were well dressed, they were well spoken.
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Speaker 3: But then at the end of it, they said the
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Speaker 3: magic words going They said, these people get paid to speak.
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Speaker 3: I said, oh my, I like the sound of that,
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Speaker 3: and said, if you like to find out more about
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Speaker 3: giving paid to speak, come on to the back of
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Speaker 3: the room and we'd love to tell you all about it.
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Speaker 5: So I ran back.
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Speaker 3: There as fast as I could and I said, I'd
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Speaker 3: like to find out more about getting paid to speak.
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Speaker 5: They said, we love to tell you.
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Speaker 3: We got a three day boot camp for nine hundred
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Speaker 3: and ninety seven dollars. Now, this was the first time
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Speaker 3: that that had ever entered my ears, was to prepay
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Speaker 3: for training on something that was outside of traditional schooling. So,
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Speaker 3: like any person that hears something like that for the
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Speaker 3: first time, I believe, I said, absolutely not nine hundred
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Speaker 3: and ninety seven dollars.
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Speaker 5: For a free day weekend.
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Speaker 3: There's no guarantee, there's no job one of my I
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Speaker 3: didn't get it because upme to that point I was
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Speaker 3: okay to spend money on myself, but not investing in
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Speaker 3: myself outside of traditional schooling, which I didn't do very
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Speaker 3: well at and so, but at least I'd heard it.
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Speaker 3: And then now I had this vision of, hey, you
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Speaker 3: can actually get paid to speak. So I begin to
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Speaker 3: go back and take my job a little bit more
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Speaker 3: seriously in the ten percent of what I got to do.
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Speaker 3: You know, our friends Cherry Roles says that, hey, what
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Speaker 3: if you could spend one hundred percent of your life
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Speaker 3: doing the ten percent of what you love to do.
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Speaker 5: And I did that.
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Speaker 3: I went back to the office and now I begin
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Speaker 3: to take sales trainings more seriously.
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Speaker 5: I began to participate in toast matters.
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Speaker 3: I began to you know, look for other speakers to
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Speaker 3: get around, and I really began to work on the art.
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Speaker 5: And craft of speaking.
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Speaker 3: Whereas most people think I get up, I speak from
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Speaker 3: my heart and I motivate the people.
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Speaker 2: That's not.
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Speaker 4: That's not.
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Speaker 3: But I began to work on the craft. Lauria, I
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Speaker 3: fell in love with the journey of personal growth and development.
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Speaker 3: I fell in love with developing people and becoming the
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Speaker 3: best sales manager in developing people. Not being the best
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Speaker 3: sales manager that could put the most numbers. But my
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Speaker 3: goal became could I be the manager that produces the
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Speaker 3: most managers? And I love that and that served me
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Speaker 3: very well because I was a producer of people, not
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Speaker 3: just a producer of sales.
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Speaker 5: And I came into and I found out about the
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Speaker 5: John Maxwell team.
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Speaker 3: In March of twenty eleven, I joined the very first.
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Speaker 5: Group of people be certified by John Maxwell.
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Speaker 3: You know, it was one of those circumstances where I
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Speaker 3: was in a bad situation. I was one hundred and
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Speaker 3: eight thousand dollars in debt. I just came out of
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Speaker 3: a failed business, and I was trying to figure out
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Speaker 3: how to pay for this certification and knew I needed
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Speaker 3: this particular program, and so joined the team.
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Speaker 5: I plugged in.
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Speaker 3: I knew that it was the path for me to
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Speaker 3: really grow in personal growth and development. And I haven't
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Speaker 3: looked back since. An incredible ride, but I've come a
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Speaker 3: long way from pressing play.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, sir, that's an amazing story and amazing journey.
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Speaker 4: Chris. So can you say again about that ten percent,
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Speaker 4: because that's really I got right there.
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Speaker 3: So you know, it's really getting clear on what you
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Speaker 3: want to do and do well. So it's the question
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Speaker 3: that Sherry Rally had posed to me years ago from
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Speaker 3: my book Exponential Living, is what if you can spend
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Speaker 3: one hundred percent of your time on the ten percent
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Speaker 3: that you love to do, or the ten percent best
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Speaker 3: of you, or the ten percent of your gift, Well,
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Speaker 3: maybe you just spend one hundred percent of time doing
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Speaker 3: what you are absolutely gifted at. And I didn't realize
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Speaker 3: that at that time that that was really the shift
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Speaker 3: for me. Is you know what I loved about my
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Speaker 3: job as a sales manager of this foreign company was
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Speaker 3: purely people development. All the other stuff I could do without,
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Speaker 3: but what I fell in love with was training and
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Speaker 3: developed through people who become better leaders and better individuals.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you, Chris, So tell tell us
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Speaker 1: why you know finding that ten percent was so important
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Speaker 1: for you and the difference the impact that it made
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Speaker 1: in your life.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's accidental. I think a lot of
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Speaker 3: people would pick their ten percent. Uh, and I think
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Speaker 3: that you should. But I think the ten percent was
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Speaker 3: discovered as a result of how I was impacted. Was
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Speaker 3: I a naturally gifted speaker? Absolutely not. You know, it
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Speaker 3: was funny I spoke with hard to believe you're so good. No,
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Speaker 3: it's not natural. In fact, you know, I've got a
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Speaker 3: client now that saw me speak at one of my
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Speaker 3: very first events, and when our very first meet several
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Speaker 3: years later, eight years later, he goes, you know, I
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Speaker 3: have to confess with the Chris. I saw you speak
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Speaker 3: at one of your very first events, and I said
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Speaker 3: to myself, this guy isn't gonna make it. And I said, oh, man,
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Speaker 3: I said, that's the best news I've heard.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, Because when people.
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Speaker 3: Hear you speak after you've been speaking for a long time,
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Speaker 3: they think that it's this natural skill set and this
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Speaker 3: has been developed over time. So for me, that ten
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Speaker 3: percent was a discovery. It's about discovering it. It's about
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Speaker 3: identify it. It's about picking that that thing that you're
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Speaker 3: going to go after where you actually have some type
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Speaker 3: of gifting towards that. So it's like, my true two
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Speaker 3: percent would be I would love to go play golf,
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Speaker 3: you know, full time quility, but that's not my gifting. Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's not my gift. So that gifting that ten percent
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Speaker 3: of what you say that you want to do one
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Speaker 3: hundred percent of the time, that has to come from
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Speaker 3: you discovering what your strengths are and what you're really
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Speaker 3: capable of doing what that potential is.
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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you. I know that our mutual mentor John C.
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Speaker 1: Maxwell, talks about being in your strength zone, being in
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Speaker 1: your gifts.
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Speaker 4: Sound so that's what it's all about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So Chris, you know, I know that everybody
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Speaker 1: has a story and a journey and everybody kind of
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Speaker 1: has a backstory as well. So for you, what flip
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Speaker 1: the switch for you?
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Speaker 3: What flipped the switch for me? Oh my goodness, there
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Speaker 3: was a couple of questions. My wife played a critical
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Speaker 3: role in a switch for me. And this goes back
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Speaker 3: beyond before you know, I got into personal growth and
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Speaker 3: development and before you.
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Speaker 5: Know, things shifted for me.
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Speaker 3: It was it was twofold because you know, growing up
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Speaker 3: I was I was a pretty wild child, you know,
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Speaker 3: and I was going to be one of two things.
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Speaker 3: I was either going to be dead or in jail.
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Speaker 3: Either to be dead or in jail. And that's why
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Speaker 3: I just I just smiled today, going Holy Monkside. I
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Speaker 3: run this large organization and like literally I was going
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Speaker 3: to be dead or jail by age twenty one.
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Speaker 5: I had two d.
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Speaker 3: Wis at that point in time, and I you know,
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Speaker 3: at that point in time, I decided to make a
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Speaker 3: single twice one of the best choices I ever made, said, Hey, I'm.
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Speaker 5: Not drinking anymore. All I haven't had a drink since
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Speaker 5: the age of twenty two.
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Speaker 3: I'm forty years old now, so it's been eighteen plus
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Speaker 3: years since I sip of alcohol. So that was one twitch.
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Speaker 3: Second choice was that, you know, for me, I'm a
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Speaker 3: person faith, and so it was you know, getting given
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Speaker 3: my life to Christ and then you know, really becoming
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Speaker 3: you know, a student of faith. And that was two
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Speaker 3: of the biggest changes. But again that was as a
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Speaker 3: result of my life. And promptly asked me a question
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Speaker 3: one night, and a drunken stupid she said, Chris, could
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Speaker 3: you imagine what your life could be like without alcohol?
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Speaker 3: And in this clear moment, Gloria, in this clear moment,
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Speaker 3: I was drunk as I could possibly be. In this
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Speaker 3: clear moment, I saw with clarity from that single question,
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Speaker 3: what could life be like about alcohol?
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Speaker 5: And I saw a vision of it, and there was
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Speaker 5: a peace, There was a piece that came over me.
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Speaker 5: In this drunken stupid I said, I want that.
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Speaker 3: And you know I stopped drinking at that time, and
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Speaker 3: I said, I haven't had a single drink of alcohol.
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Speaker 5: Since then, and so that was a great, great time
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Speaker 5: point for me.
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Speaker 4: So, Chris, that's an amazing story.
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Speaker 1: And what a wonderful, beautiful wife you have and for
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Speaker 1: her to ask you that question. You know, I'm a
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Speaker 1: person of faith too, and what you saw, I mean,
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Speaker 1: that was a prophecy for your life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: So I've heard you talk about this part of your
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Speaker 1: life before, and I'm wondering if you would be willing
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Speaker 1: to share. You know, you were in court, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you were you know, so tell us about that part,
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Speaker 1: if you would.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was another you know, a
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Speaker 3: judge there was very critical and this is probably one
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Speaker 3: of the best full circle stories that I experienced.
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Speaker 5: And you know, I remember going in. It was Judge Pelican.
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Speaker 3: Judge Pelican Saint Charles County Court, and Judge Pelican was
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Speaker 3: you know, he was a tough judge. And you know
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Speaker 3: at that time I was also I was a licensed
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Speaker 3: stockbroker at the age of nineteen, and you know, so
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Speaker 3: I had this potential, I had this capacity. This judge
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Speaker 3: saw this capacity. He said, Chris, goes, You're either going
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Speaker 3: to be dead or in jail. And so when I
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Speaker 3: say those words earlier. It's as a result of him
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Speaker 3: saying those words to me, you know, because he had
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Speaker 3: the ability to place me in jail at that time.
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Speaker 3: He says, Chris goes, you got licensed at the age
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Speaker 3: of nineteen as a stockbroker because you got a Series
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Speaker 3: seven sixty three and a sixty five. The average person
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Speaker 3: just does passed a Series seven license exam. It was like,
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Speaker 3: you have potential, He says, I'm gonna give you everything
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Speaker 3: that I can possibly give you without sending you to jail.
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Speaker 3: He goes, but if you don't turn around from here,
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Speaker 3: you're either gonna be one or two places dead or
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Speaker 3: in jail.
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Speaker 5: And so he gave me everything.
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Speaker 3: I had probation I had, say time I had to
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Speaker 3: go to AA, I had to have a blow tube
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Speaker 3: in my car before the car would start. And I
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Speaker 3: went through that process of the court system, and uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, that process helped me. I was rehabilitated through
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Speaker 3: that process. But I think primarily to my faith is
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Speaker 3: how I was redeemed of that. But I'm not gonna
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Speaker 3: p preach you today, but that part was definitely a
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Speaker 3: part of the process. And it was so great because
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Speaker 3: I remember and I've lived was two thousand and fourteen
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Speaker 3: or fifteen. I was speaking at the event in the
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Speaker 3: same city of Judge Pelican and I sat down at
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Speaker 3: the table.
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Speaker 5: I'm a keynote speaker for this event.
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Speaker 3: Probably three hundred people in the room and I sit
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Speaker 3: down and it is Judge Pelican sitting next to me.
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Speaker 5: Now at that moment, Gloria, I.
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Speaker 3: Am dripping in sweat because I'm like, I know him,
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Speaker 3: but he doesn't know me. And I'm going back and forth.
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Speaker 3: Do I say anything? Do I not say anything? And
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Speaker 3: I turned to him when I say, Judge Pelican, you
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Speaker 3: probably don't remember me because you've seen, you know, thousands
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Speaker 3: of people in the court. But I want you to
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Speaker 3: know that my life was changed because of the chance
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Speaker 3: that you gave me. And today i'm your keynote speaker.
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Speaker 3: And I mean the smile on his face, the conversation
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Speaker 3: and dialogue that they had, and the people that have
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Speaker 3: been impacted because of the choices that he's made.
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Speaker 5: Can I just can't explain it. It's incredible. It's incredible
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Speaker 5: what I get to do.
21:07
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, well, thank you so much for sharing your heart.
21:12
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Chris, I know that you are
21:15
Speaker 1: speaking life into our listeners, and I know that you
21:20
Speaker 1: know your story is a mirror for somebody else, So
21:24
Speaker 1: thank you again for sharing it.
21:25
Speaker 4: Being open and vulnerable and real. Yeah.
21:31
Speaker 1: So you you mentioned a word when you talked about
21:34
Speaker 1: your you know, the what switch for you, and the
21:38
Speaker 1: word was process.
21:39
Speaker 4: And so I want to just kind of pivot a little.
21:41
Speaker 1: Bit and and ask you about the John Maxwell team
21:45
Speaker 1: and what does it mean. I mean, we use this
21:47
Speaker 1: term there, you know, being a product of the product, right,
21:51
Speaker 1: so can you give us a little context and then
21:53
Speaker 1: talk about yeah.
21:55
Speaker 3: That Yeah, you know, we're talking about a phrase being
21:57
Speaker 3: the product of a product.
21:59
Speaker 5: It's one thing to.
22:01
Speaker 3: Sell something, it's another thing to actually be something.
22:05
Speaker 5: You know.
22:05
Speaker 3: One of the preferences I've had, you know, in this
22:09
Speaker 3: industry is I've had a chance to meet a lot
22:12
Speaker 3: of big.
22:13
Speaker 5: Name speakers, a lot of big.
22:15
Speaker 6: You know, writers and authors, and you know, what I've
22:18
Speaker 6: come to find out is, you know, I meet some
22:21
Speaker 6: of these people that I've read their great books and
22:23
Speaker 6: I meet them in person, and then I realized that I.
22:27
Speaker 3: Love their books. There's a there is a difference in
22:33
Speaker 3: the person than what they write, and they're not a
22:37
Speaker 3: product of the products. So we talked about being a
22:39
Speaker 3: product of the Park and John Maxwell team. It's about
22:42
Speaker 3: living what we're teaching. And so why I'm so transparent
22:47
Speaker 3: on every single cause because I don't want there to
22:50
Speaker 3: be this perceived gap of, oh, this is Chris Robinson,
22:53
Speaker 3: He's the long title whatever it is, you know, longer
23:00
Speaker 3: while longer. Chris is a human that was in pursuit
23:04
Speaker 3: of a dream. And my dream looks just like everyone
23:08
Speaker 3: else's that's out there. It's no different. It's a three
23:11
Speaker 3: part story, just like nor It's just like mine. It's dream, struggle, success.
23:17
Speaker 3: But the difference is is that the people that can
23:20
Speaker 3: hold on to the struggle long enough reach the success.
23:24
Speaker 3: And so when we talk about being a part of
23:26
Speaker 3: the product and you know, enjoying that journey, it's understanding
23:30
Speaker 3: that I'm going to live what I teach and never
23:33
Speaker 3: teach what I don't live, you know, And then I'm
23:37
Speaker 3: going to understand that there's a there's there's time. There's
23:42
Speaker 3: time in order for me to become who it is
23:45
Speaker 3: that I want to become. I'm going to do everything
23:47
Speaker 3: I can along the way to make sure that things
23:49
Speaker 3: line up with that.
23:51
Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, and I love you know, you
23:54
Speaker 1: talked about the dreams, struggled and success and a lot
23:57
Speaker 1: of people want success first here, right, So so thank
24:06
Speaker 1: you for that. So what are some of the other ways, Chris,
24:09
Speaker 1: that you have found, uh to serve others? And why
24:14
Speaker 1: are these you know, why are these ways that you
24:16
Speaker 1: serve so important to you?
24:19
Speaker 5: Yeah?
24:20
Speaker 3: When you say other ways to serve others, I really
24:23
Speaker 3: think that there's one way, you know, to serve people
24:26
Speaker 3: and getting to know people and.
24:28
Speaker 5: Find out how I can help them as an individual.
24:32
Speaker 3: Okay, not just as a leadership coach, but as a human.
24:36
Speaker 5: How can I help you?
24:37
Speaker 3: So when I work with companies and organizations and I
24:40
Speaker 3: go into work with a manager, yeah, we're going to
24:43
Speaker 3: talk about the business the leadership stuff, but we're going
24:47
Speaker 3: to talk about the personal stuff as well too, Because
24:50
Speaker 3: I don't believe that there's a line of Hey, I'm
24:52
Speaker 3: just here to help you with your with your leadership.
24:55
Speaker 3: If I can help you personally, it's going to help
24:56
Speaker 3: you professionally. If I help you professionally, help you personally.
25:00
Speaker 3: And so there's a whole being in place. And so
25:02
Speaker 3: when we're looking to serve others, it's about serving beyond
25:05
Speaker 3: the scope of what we think that we can best
25:08
Speaker 3: serve them with and so, well, that's me helping a
25:11
Speaker 3: coaching client get a new house, a new car, patch up.
25:14
Speaker 5: Their relationship, help them get sober.
25:18
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm there's a Lucia person, but I want to
25:20
Speaker 3: add value beyond what I'm paid to advise them to do.
25:25
Speaker 1: Mm hmm okay, absolutely, So can you unpack this just
25:31
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You talked about, you know, you
25:33
Speaker 1: can sell something, you could probably sell anything.
25:36
Speaker 4: I'm just saying everything.
25:43
Speaker 1: Oh my, but you also talked about, you know, not
25:47
Speaker 1: just selling something but being something, and I understand, you know,
25:51
Speaker 1: I understand that because that's you know, that's my that's my.
25:53
Speaker 4: World as well.
25:54
Speaker 1: But can you just kind of unpack that a little
25:56
Speaker 1: bit in terms of what it means for you and
25:59
Speaker 1: again for our listeners who are all over the world,
26:02
Speaker 1: they may not really fully understand what you're talking about.
26:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
26:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, So when I talk about you know, living into
26:08
Speaker 3: you know, being more or being what it.
26:11
Speaker 5: Is that you're selling. You know, you hear the phrase
26:13
Speaker 5: fake it till you make it.
26:15
Speaker 3: Okay, Now, I don't believe in that phrase fake it
26:19
Speaker 3: till you make it. Like, look, it's okay to not
26:23
Speaker 3: be it during the process, but as long as you're
26:25
Speaker 3: in pursuit of it, that's not faking it all right.
26:29
Speaker 3: But when we say, you know, when we try to
26:30
Speaker 3: behave a certain way, model a certain way that we're not,
26:34
Speaker 3: there's a gap and people can pick that up. And
26:36
Speaker 3: so I never want to give off the impression that
26:40
Speaker 3: I'm someone that I'm not, because you know, it's happened
26:43
Speaker 3: to me where I've seen that mismatch of Hey, the
26:46
Speaker 3: book says that you're this, but then when I meet you,
26:48
Speaker 3: it says that you're this. I never want there to
26:50
Speaker 3: be a gap. So it's living into what is that
26:53
Speaker 3: you're saying that you do. So it's about becoming the person.
26:57
Speaker 3: So when I look in the mirror, I look in
26:59
Speaker 3: the mirror and I say that, how do I become
27:03
Speaker 3: Chris Robinson? How do I become Chris Robinson? Because the
27:07
Speaker 3: Chris Robinson I am today isn't the Chris Robinson I
27:10
Speaker 3: was ten years ago.
27:12
Speaker 5: I had to become Chris Robinson today.
27:14
Speaker 3: So as you're looking for at what you want to be,
27:17
Speaker 3: do and have, you've got to say, hey, what do
27:20
Speaker 3: I need to do to become the person worthy of
27:23
Speaker 3: the person that it gets to be do and have
27:26
Speaker 3: those things. I get to run the largest leadership training
27:30
Speaker 3: company on the planet because I became that person. I
27:34
Speaker 3: wasn't that person five years ago. I wasn't that person
27:37
Speaker 3: ten years ago. I had to become who I am today,
27:40
Speaker 3: and I now have to become Chris Robinson at age
27:44
Speaker 3: fifty that I'm not now. So it's being in pursuit
27:47
Speaker 3: of knowing Chris Robinson hasn't arrived yet. Chris Robinson has
27:50
Speaker 3: yet to be built.
27:52
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And so what I'm hearing you say is
27:55
Speaker 1: that it's always an act of becoming. It's like you
27:58
Speaker 1: don't just get to be Chris Robinson stop right, because
28:03
Speaker 1: there's more.
28:04
Speaker 4: There's more ahead, you know.
28:05
Speaker 1: I know pal Bert Well he talks about you know here,
28:08
Speaker 1: the journey from here to there, and I've used that
28:10
Speaker 1: phrase forever as well.
28:11
Speaker 4: And people think that, you know, once you arrived there,
28:14
Speaker 4: that's it, Like I'm done, right. If you ever think
28:17
Speaker 4: you're done, you're in trouble.
28:20
Speaker 5: Yeah you are.
28:21
Speaker 3: And when I look at today, a lot of people
28:23
Speaker 3: would would think that, hey, I've reached a pinnacle, you know,
28:27
Speaker 3: because I get.
28:28
Speaker 5: To leave this organization.
28:30
Speaker 3: But with every fiber in my body, with every fiber
28:33
Speaker 3: in my body. This is my stepping stone. Yes, this
28:37
Speaker 3: this is not my pinnacle. And I'm just getting started.
28:41
Speaker 3: I'm just learning, I'm just growing, and I'm not Chris
28:45
Speaker 3: Robinson yet.
28:47
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely gotcha. Okay, thank you, thank you.
28:51
Speaker 1: So, I know we've been on a few trips together
28:54
Speaker 1: with the DHN Maxwell team, and one that really, you know,
29:00
Speaker 1: sticks with me is the trip to Paraguay, and I'm
29:04
Speaker 1: wondering if you could talk a little bit about, you know,
29:07
Speaker 1: your trips you serve and what those trips have meant
29:12
Speaker 1: to you.
29:13
Speaker 4: Chris.
29:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, those trips have been incredible in so many different ways.
29:18
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's just so humbling because on these trips,
29:24
Speaker 3: for those that are listening, we do these what we
29:26
Speaker 3: call transformational trips and user trips. Were invited into the
29:30
Speaker 3: country by the president of that country, and we're asked
29:35
Speaker 3: to come in and train at the highest level for
29:37
Speaker 3: the president's cabinet all.
29:39
Speaker 5: The way down to school children.
29:41
Speaker 3: We train tens of thousands of people in a period
29:43
Speaker 3: of time in order for them to go out and
29:45
Speaker 3: train people over a period of time so that they
29:48
Speaker 3: can transform the values inside the country. And you know,
29:53
Speaker 3: they're humbling because the fact that I'm able to step
29:57
Speaker 3: into an opportunity to.
29:59
Speaker 5: Be able to be a part of something that big.
30:02
Speaker 3: You know, it's here, I am trying to help a company,
30:05
Speaker 3: and then I get invited to go help a country.
30:08
Speaker 5: You know, there's there's.
30:09
Speaker 3: A stretching that happens there if you don't go back
30:12
Speaker 3: the same, you know, and now it's like, oh my no,
30:14
Speaker 3: this is this is this company is little, and you know,
30:17
Speaker 3: I was just trying to help a country grow. But
30:20
Speaker 3: one of the most humbly moments was, you know, each time.
30:24
Speaker 3: You know, We've been in several presidential palaces, and I
30:27
Speaker 3: remember standing in uh I think with Guatemala the first
30:31
Speaker 3: time we entered the presidential palace and I'm just looking around, going,
30:36
Speaker 3: how in the world did I end up here? You know,
30:40
Speaker 3: here's a guy that should have been dead, should have
30:42
Speaker 3: been in jail, and I'm standing in a president's palace.
30:45
Speaker 3: You know, when the word says that you know your
30:48
Speaker 3: gifts will bring before a brave man, and it was
30:51
Speaker 3: because of a pursuit of my gifting. It's open up
30:55
Speaker 3: doors that I simply cannot open on my own. And
30:59
Speaker 3: I'm no them you know, there by appointment, and so
31:03
Speaker 3: for me those.
31:03
Speaker 5: Trips are amazing, humbling.
31:05
Speaker 3: I was in the room when John signed into a
31:10
Speaker 3: bill in Paraguay and this curriculum to go into you know,
31:14
Speaker 3: all the school system. Again, there's a very small group
31:17
Speaker 3: of people in this room, eighteen people, so the President's
31:20
Speaker 3: cabinet and.
31:20
Speaker 5: I'm in the room. It just doesn't make sense.
31:24
Speaker 3: And just just truly truly humbling to be a part
31:27
Speaker 3: of the experiences.
31:30
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
31:31
Speaker 1: So I'm just thinking about the trajectory of you know,
31:34
Speaker 1: that first conference from T. D. Jake's to John Maxwell
31:39
Speaker 1: to the presidential palace in Paraly.
31:42
Speaker 4: I mean that's pretty amazing.
31:44
Speaker 1: And to your point, you know, you're not at the
31:46
Speaker 1: pinnacle yet, Okay, So there's more, right, there's more that
31:50
Speaker 1: there were you all right.
31:53
Speaker 4: Sos Can I ask you a little bit about your family.
31:56
Speaker 4: I know that.
31:59
Speaker 1: You know, all of the things that we've been talking
32:01
Speaker 1: about in terms of your work and you know, being
32:04
Speaker 1: at the helm of this incredible organization are hugely important
32:08
Speaker 1: to you. And I just wonder about you know, your
32:11
Speaker 1: family and how you find time for them, and you
32:13
Speaker 1: know what your family means to you as well.
32:17
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, well, it's not finding time for the family.
32:19
Speaker 3: There's too many of them. You have to find time.
32:22
Speaker 3: I've got six kids. I've got eleven year old triplets.
32:26
Speaker 5: A seven year old and a four year old.
32:29
Speaker 3: Twin girls, and so there's no finding time. You know,
32:33
Speaker 3: it starts with them, you know, as the foundation. And
32:36
Speaker 3: I think that's another big misconception that people have, is
32:39
Speaker 3: that you have to forsake your family, you know, in
32:43
Speaker 3: order to be in pursuit of business. And I can
32:45
Speaker 3: say that my experience has been quite contrary to that.
32:49
Speaker 3: Everything that I've done with my business, I've built my
32:53
Speaker 3: business around my lifestyle and my.
32:55
Speaker 5: Family versus being opposite.
32:58
Speaker 3: And then now everything's focused around the business and then
33:01
Speaker 3: it's my family. So I think putting them first, uh
33:06
Speaker 3: has really been critical.
33:07
Speaker 5: And I said, I.
33:08
Speaker 3: Don't really feel like I had a choice to not
33:11
Speaker 3: put them first, just because of the sheer size of
33:13
Speaker 3: our family. But I've always built built the business around
33:17
Speaker 3: my lifestyle, not my lifestyle around the business.
33:21
Speaker 1: Good advice, good advice, love it, thank you, thank you.
33:26
Speaker 1: So I know that there's so many, uh, you know,
33:28
Speaker 1: things that you could devote your life force energy to
33:31
Speaker 1: that you could give your gifting to lots of things
33:34
Speaker 1: to choose from, and you know there are a lot
33:38
Speaker 1: of good causes out there as well, Chris, So how
33:40
Speaker 1: do you find the right one and how do you know, uh,
33:45
Speaker 1: you know, where to start to make a difference?
33:48
Speaker 5: Right?
33:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I mean there's a lot of great causes,
33:52
Speaker 3: but I think part of it is is feeling that
33:55
Speaker 3: calling towards that you know, for me personally, I'm you know,
33:59
Speaker 3: I don't feel like I'm family committed to a cause
34:02
Speaker 3: right now. It's exploratory. You know, there's a lot of
34:06
Speaker 3: things that I support and I get behind. But I
34:09
Speaker 3: think when we talk about getting behind calls is typically
34:12
Speaker 3: you know, something personal that has impacted us that will
34:16
Speaker 3: intrigued us to go all out for some particular type
34:19
Speaker 3: of cause is because of our experience. And I can't
34:22
Speaker 3: say that I've had you know, I've.
34:24
Speaker 5: Had some significant experiences in.
34:26
Speaker 3: Life that gets me behind things, but I still have
34:29
Speaker 3: not yet experienced that thing that just goes this is
34:33
Speaker 3: my cause, as I know right now, my calling not
34:36
Speaker 3: my cause. I know my calling is to impact and
34:39
Speaker 3: developing people. But to say that, hey, I'm one hundred
34:43
Speaker 3: percent behind a cause and I'm dedicating my life to that.
34:46
Speaker 5: I'm still in search for that.
34:47
Speaker 3: You know, I can talk about a you know, a
34:50
Speaker 3: recent if we want to go a little bit non
34:53
Speaker 3: every ring incident that occurred with a recent incident that's
34:57
Speaker 3: in the news with the young gentleman that was killed
35:01
Speaker 3: in in the Georgia area of mynors and you know
35:06
Speaker 3: that one. You know, I stay away from, you know,
35:09
Speaker 3: political and racial things. But watching that and seeing the
35:14
Speaker 3: video live you know, social media and that happened. You know,
35:18
Speaker 3: that's something that triggered something from me, going man, you know.
35:21
Speaker 7: That that could be me just jogging through the neighborhood
35:25
Speaker 7: and and you know, being misidentified, and so that has
35:31
Speaker 7: a little bit of tugging on me.
35:32
Speaker 5: You know, I don't use social media a lot. Uh.
35:36
Speaker 3: You know I changed my profile pick to his uh
35:39
Speaker 3: during that time and uh and I never I don't
35:43
Speaker 3: change my profile for anything. I post, you know, maybe
35:46
Speaker 3: four or five times a year. But that triggered something
35:49
Speaker 3: inside that true and true would have an impact on me,
35:52
Speaker 3: our and our justice system.
35:55
Speaker 5: MH.
35:56
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for sharing that. And you know that
35:59
Speaker 1: takes me back to Judge Pelican. H. You know, you
36:04
Speaker 1: could be dead or you could be in jail, and
36:07
Speaker 1: and the truth is, unfortunately, at this time in our history,
36:12
Speaker 1: that is so true for a lot of you know,
36:14
Speaker 1: people of color, especially men of color. So thank you
36:18
Speaker 1: for bringing that into the conversation.
36:19
Speaker 4: Chris. That's keeping it real, keeping it real.
36:23
Speaker 1: So I am you know that you know, my focus
36:31
Speaker 1: is making a difference, you know, being the difference.
36:34
Speaker 4: Uh.
36:34
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter if it's like you know, written
36:36
Speaker 1: across the sky. It could be something that just makes
36:39
Speaker 1: a difference in one person's life, and that person.
36:42
Speaker 4: Could be you, right.
36:44
Speaker 1: And so my own belief is that we create our footprint,
36:48
Speaker 1: we leave a you know, we leave a trace of
36:50
Speaker 1: ourselves wherever we go.
36:52
Speaker 4: I call that legacy.
36:55
Speaker 1: And so I know that this is a huge question,
36:58
Speaker 1: but I'm just wondering for you, Uh, what what trace
37:02
Speaker 1: do you try to leave with people when you are
37:05
Speaker 1: with him?
37:06
Speaker 4: What? You know, what's the fragrance you want to leave behind?
37:10
Speaker 3: You know, if you had to say a sentence at
37:13
Speaker 3: my funeral, it would be this, Chris impacted my life
37:17
Speaker 3: by the lessons that he talked and the life that
37:19
Speaker 3: he lived.
37:20
Speaker 1: You know.
37:20
Speaker 5: So again going back to being a product of the product,
37:23
Speaker 5: you know, I.
37:24
Speaker 3: Want people to know or to be able to say,
37:27
Speaker 3: hey that Chris taught this, but he also lived this.
37:31
Speaker 3: He wasn't just a speaker of this, but he was
37:34
Speaker 3: a model of this. And so for me, you know,
37:37
Speaker 3: that's what I want to leave behind people is say, look,
37:40
Speaker 3: he is part of the product and he's a doer
37:43
Speaker 3: of what he teaches. Nothing can be more significant to me.
37:47
Speaker 4: All right, thank you, you walk your talk, you do.
37:52
Speaker 1: Chris, are you working on anything right now, major project
37:57
Speaker 1: that you can talk about that you'd like to share
37:58
Speaker 1: with our listeners.
38:01
Speaker 5: That's true that I.
38:02
Speaker 3: Can talk about currently right now, nothing that I can
38:07
Speaker 3: talk about at this moment.
38:09
Speaker 5: But more importantly, you know, it's.
38:11
Speaker 3: The growing in development of the John Maxwell team is
38:14
Speaker 3: so so important to me and my number one focus,
38:18
Speaker 3: you know, is I want to continue to create a
38:20
Speaker 3: space to help people grow and develop in speaking, coaching
38:25
Speaker 3: and training. And so right now I've got a ton
38:27
Speaker 3: of stuff in the words for John Maxwell teams to
38:30
Speaker 3: continue to grow and develop. The tools and resource available
38:34
Speaker 3: for all our members are excellent.
38:36
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
38:38
Speaker 1: And Chris, I know that we didn't plan to talk
38:41
Speaker 1: about this particular element, but I know you can talk
38:44
Speaker 1: about it easily.
38:45
Speaker 4: So could you just tell our listeners.
38:47
Speaker 1: You know, I talk about the John Maxwell team on
38:50
Speaker 1: this podcast, but I would love to hear from your words.
38:53
Speaker 1: You know what it means to you? What you know,
38:56
Speaker 1: put a face on us thirty thousand people?
38:57
Speaker 4: What does that? What does that mean?
39:00
Speaker 5: Yeah?
39:00
Speaker 3: You know, for me, what it meant was it provided
39:03
Speaker 3: a community of life minded people that were going in
39:06
Speaker 3: the direction I wanted to go.
39:08
Speaker 5: You know. Being a part of the John Maxwell team,
39:11
Speaker 5: you certify speakers, coaches, and trainers, and we truly helped
39:15
Speaker 5: people with personal goals and development.
39:17
Speaker 3: And when I got engaged inside the community, I found
39:22
Speaker 3: my people like these were people that wanted to learn.
39:25
Speaker 5: These were people that wanted to grow.
39:27
Speaker 3: These were people that didn't think it was crazy to
39:29
Speaker 3: get paid to speak, you know, they believe that they
39:34
Speaker 3: couldn't too. And it provided me the tools, the resources,
39:38
Speaker 3: and the people that allowed me to grow to who
39:42
Speaker 3: I am today. You know, So I'm here today as
39:44
Speaker 3: a result of you and your example, your impact.
39:47
Speaker 5: I'm here today as a result of so many of.
39:49
Speaker 3: The team members that I was able to meet with,
39:52
Speaker 3: connect with, and grow, you know, outside of my home
39:56
Speaker 3: because a lot of people sitting at home right now,
39:58
Speaker 3: there're a circle of influence is really faltering them.
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Speaker 5: Forgetting what they want to do. You not have for
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Speaker 5: the spouse, you may not have support the family. So
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Speaker 5: what does that mean.
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Speaker 3: You've got to get around people that are going to
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Speaker 3: encourage you, build you and believe your dream. And for me,
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Speaker 3: that was the job Nashville team. So you guys are
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Speaker 3: looking for a community and.
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Speaker 1: We're here for you, all right, all right, Well, thanks
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Speaker 1: so much, Chris, and so I just want to thank
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Speaker 1: you again for being my guest.
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Speaker 4: This has been amazing.
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Speaker 1: I'm just humbled and so grateful really to have met you.
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Speaker 1: I remember our first meeting down in West Palm Beach.
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Speaker 1: I was at your table, I was in the room,
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Speaker 1: and just to see where you have taken your your
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Speaker 1: dream and your struggles and now your success and your
40:49
Speaker 1: significance in adding value to.
40:51
Speaker 4: People over and over and over again.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have what one hundred and ninety no,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty country sixte Yeah, yeah, I want
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Speaker 1: to exaggerate because they're only like, you know, two hundred
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Speaker 1: countries in the world.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So, any final thoughts or you know, girls of wisdom
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Speaker 1: you'd like to share with our listeners.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, for all those that are listening with
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Speaker 3: you know, I know your current circumstances may line up
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Speaker 3: with where you desire to be right now, but I
41:26
Speaker 3: want to encourage you that you know, with the right knowledge,
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Speaker 3: with doing something, with that knowledge, with coaching and mentoring,
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Speaker 3: you can be.
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Speaker 5: Do and have what want.
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Speaker 3: And so if I can do it, average old me,
41:41
Speaker 3: anybody can do it. So I want to encourage you
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Speaker 3: get in pursuit of your dream, your passion, your calling.
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Speaker 4: All right, hallelujah.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Chris, Thank you, thank you so inspiring.
41:57
Speaker 1: Thank you again, Chris, this is just solid gold. Clearly,
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Speaker 1: Chris Robinson is a leader's leader. He makes a difference
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Speaker 1: in his own life and in the lives of so
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Speaker 1: many others, in his own family and throughout the world.
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Speaker 1: In his work as the executive vice president of Maxwell
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Speaker 1: entrepreneur Solutions. As I mentioned earlier, Chris leads a worldwide
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Speaker 1: team of over thirty thousand speakers, coaches, and trainers from
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Speaker 1: over one hundred and fifty countries. To learn more about
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Speaker 1: Chris's work with the John Maxwell Enterprise, you can go
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Speaker 1: to this website. It's the John Maxwell Team dot com.
42:45
Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat that the website is the John
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Speaker 1: Maxwell Team dot com. You can also sign up for
42:55
Speaker 1: a Minute with Maxwell to receive daily coaching videos with
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Speaker 1: John Maxwell himself, and you can sign up for those
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Speaker 1: videos on the website that I just gave you. How
43:06
Speaker 1: cool is that if you're just joining us. I'm doctor
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Speaker 1: We just heard from my very special guest, Chris Robinson,
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Speaker 1: executive vice president of the Maxwell Entrepreneurial Solutions. If you
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43:33
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43:37
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Speaker 1: next week. Now, before I close today's show, I just
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Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to all the women,
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Speaker 1: men and our young people all around the world, because
44:10
Speaker 1: you know what we are, the ones, we are the
44:15
Speaker 1: ones we have been waiting for.
44:17
Speaker 2: What do I mean by that?
44:20
Speaker 1: What I mean is, don't wait for someone else to
44:23
Speaker 1: step up. And make things happen, because guess what, they
44:27
Speaker 1: might not step up. In fact, they might not even
44:31
Speaker 1: know you're there waiting for them to do something for you.
44:36
Speaker 1: But you can be the one. In fact, can I
44:40
Speaker 1: just tell you something, You are the one. You are
44:43
Speaker 1: the one who can make a difference in your own
44:45
Speaker 1: life so that you can make a difference in the
44:49
Speaker 1: lives of others. It is truly amazing how much impact
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Speaker 1: we have as leaders in the workplace and even in
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Speaker 1: our own homes, Especially in our own homes. That's where
45:02
Speaker 1: it all begins, doesn't it. Leading begins right where you are,
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Speaker 1: with you, with your spouse, with your children, your grandchildren,
45:13
Speaker 1: right in your own homes. So moms and dads out there,
45:16
Speaker 1: even when it seems like your daughter or son isn't
45:19
Speaker 1: paying any attention at all, let me tell you something,
45:22
Speaker 1: they are. They're listening, They're soaking it in, and more
45:27
Speaker 1: than anything else, they are watching you because, you know what,
45:31
Speaker 1: more than anything else, leadership is caught, not taught.
45:36
Speaker 2: That's right.
45:37
Speaker 1: Leadership is caught, not taught, the same way that our
45:42
Speaker 1: values are caught not taught.
45:45
Speaker 2: Right.
45:46
Speaker 1: Let me be really clear, your kids are scoping you out,
45:51
Speaker 1: They're observing everything you are, everything you say, and everything
45:56
Speaker 1: you do.
45:57
Speaker 2: Most importantly, they.
45:58
Speaker 1: Are watching you to see of what you say and
46:03
Speaker 1: what you do line up our actions. Our choices really
46:08
Speaker 1: do speak much louder than our words. A good friend
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Speaker 1: of mine who's a former CEO always says, as a
46:14
Speaker 1: parent or as a leader in the workplace, in any context,
46:18
Speaker 1: your walk has got to talk louder than your talk talks. Yeah,
46:24
Speaker 1: let me repeat that, your walk has got to talk
46:29
Speaker 1: louder than your talk talks. That's what we mean by
46:32
Speaker 1: being Now.
46:34
Speaker 2: Why is that?
46:36
Speaker 1: Because that's how we build the bridge called trust. That's
46:39
Speaker 1: how we strengthen our bonds with those we love. That's
46:44
Speaker 1: how we deepen our relationships one step at a time,
46:47
Speaker 1: inch by inch, mile by mile, and smile by smile
46:51
Speaker 1: at home, at work, and in every area of our lives,
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Speaker 1: every single day. Three sixty five twenty seven. So how
47:02
Speaker 1: is your walk lining up with your talk? You know what,
47:07
Speaker 1: It's never too late to get your walk and your
47:09
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47:13
Speaker 1: so you can take it on the road and make
47:15
Speaker 1: the difference in someone's life that only you can make.
47:20
Speaker 1: Remember this, how you live, how you live is how
47:26
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47:31
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49:42
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49:55
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50:00
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50:38
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51:33
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