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Flex Forward | Episode #515 · 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, Dr. 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 want to give a great big
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  Speaker 1: thank you and shout out to all of you listening
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  Speaker 1: today all around the world. I'm delighted and so grateful
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  Speaker 1: that you joined me. Now, I want to let you
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  Speaker 1: know that I have made a few changes to my podcast.
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  Speaker 1: The first change is that I want you to know
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about me and why you can
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  Speaker 1: now find my podcasts under the heading of management on
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  Speaker 1: some of our listening platforms. That's right. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: this won't be news to my regular listeners, but if
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  Speaker 1: you're just finding me and tuning in for the very
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  Speaker 1: first time, I want to let you know that I
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  Speaker 1: am a leader and an entrepreneur and an artist. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I have founded or co-founded not one, not two, but
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  Speaker 1: three successful businesses. Woo-hoo! In fact, I've been an entrepreneur
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  Speaker 1: for over 25 years. Before that, I worked in corporate America.
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  Speaker 1: I also worked in higher education as an administrator and
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  Speaker 1: as a professor. In fact, I still do a little
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  Speaker 1: professing every now and then. I'm also a founding partner
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  Speaker 1: with the John Maxwell team, and I'm one of their
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  Speaker 1: faculty members as well. So if you need a dynamic
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  Speaker 1: speaker to open or close a conference or another kind
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  Speaker 1: of event, or if you need a caring and experienced coach,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps you need a trusted advisor, a thought partner
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  Speaker 1: to walk alongside you to help you with your strategic
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  Speaker 1: work or to develop the leaders in your organization, then
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  Speaker 1: drop me a note and let's talk about how I
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  Speaker 1: can serve you and add value to you and your team.
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  Speaker 1: You can connect with me via email, and that email
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  Speaker 1: address is info, I-N-F-O, at GloriaBurgess.com. That's right, info at GloriaBurgess.com.
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  Speaker 1: Or you can connect with me via LinkedIn or on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: Now on LinkedIn, you just look me up. I'm Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gloria J. Burgess. And later on in this podcast, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you how to easily find me on Facebook. All right? Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm delighted and so grateful that you joined me today.
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  Speaker 1: I sure hope you're enjoying a fabulous day and that
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  Speaker 1: you're having a fantastic week. Because you know what? In
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  Speaker 1: the grand song of the universe, life is very short.
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  Speaker 1: It's short and sweet and very, very precious. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope you're making a difference in your own life. Because
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  Speaker 1: you know what? When you do, you also make a
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  Speaker 1: difference in someone else's life. Now, a lot of folks
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  Speaker 1: really want to make their life count for something, but
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  Speaker 1: they don't know how, or it just seems so big
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  Speaker 1: and overwhelming, they just don't know how or where to begin.
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  Speaker 1: So they ask me, Dr. Gloria, how do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you make your life count? Well, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you. It is very simple. Very, very simple. You
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  Speaker 1: make your life count. day by day, step by step,
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  Speaker 1: smile by smile, every single day, 365, 24-7. You make
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  Speaker 1: your life count by being there for someone who needs you,
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  Speaker 1: by being an encourager, an inspirer, an uplifter, by reaching
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  Speaker 1: out to someone on your team or someone in your organization,
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  Speaker 1: in your community, or when you're at home, you can
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  Speaker 1: reach out to a neighbor or even closer to home.
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  Speaker 1: You can call your mom or your dad, right? Or
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  Speaker 1: your sister or brother and simply tell them, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I am calling you today, not because I want to
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  Speaker 1: have a lengthy conversation necessarily, but I am calling simply
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  Speaker 1: to say, I love you. Or you can turn off
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  Speaker 1: your digital media, your social media for a while. And
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  Speaker 1: use that time to write someone a thoughtful card or note.
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  Speaker 1: I know I just love getting handwritten notes. There's such
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful sight in your mailbox, right? In the middle
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  Speaker 1: of that stack of bills or right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of those folds of junk mail. Wow, you have this
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  Speaker 1: handwritten note card. You can send somebody a beautiful image
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  Speaker 1: or a photo or a link to a beautiful song.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're like me, you can go out into
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  Speaker 1: your deck or yard and pick a handful of herbs
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  Speaker 1: or flowers, right? And you know what? You write that
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  Speaker 1: note or card, you pick that bunch of herbs or flowers,
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  Speaker 1: not because it's a special occasion like a birthday or anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: You simply hold someone's hand or share your smile or
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  Speaker 1: write that thank you note, okay? You can give someone
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of flowers just because. That's right, just because. Now,
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  Speaker 1: those just because moments are the ones that I love
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  Speaker 1: the most. Can I just tell you something? Those simple,
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  Speaker 1: loving acts of kindness and caring and compassion and generosity
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  Speaker 1: make a huge difference in my life. You can make
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  Speaker 1: a difference too. You can make a difference simply by
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  Speaker 1: being grateful. Grateful for who you are grateful for whose
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  Speaker 1: you are, and by being grateful that when you know
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  Speaker 1: whose you are, you can lead. That's right. You can
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  Speaker 1: lead with steadiness, with courage, with confidence. You can lead
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  Speaker 1: with mastery through any situation. Now, let me just stop
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  Speaker 1: right there for a moment, okay? Some of you I
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  Speaker 1: know may not even think of yourself as a leader,
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  Speaker 1: but can I just tell you something? Maybe you are
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  Speaker 1: a teacher or a nurse or a doctor. Maybe you're
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  Speaker 1: like me, you're an entrepreneur and an artist or you're
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  Speaker 1: a student in college or high school and you have
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  Speaker 1: no idea of what you want to be or who
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  Speaker 1: you want to be or what you want to do
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  Speaker 1: after you graduate. Well, it doesn't matter what you do
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  Speaker 1: in your professional life and it doesn't matter what life
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  Speaker 1: stage you're in. You are a leader. How can I
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  Speaker 1: say that with such boldness and assurance and confidence? Here's how.
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  Speaker 1: If you are alive and participating in this great adventure
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  Speaker 1: we call life, if you have a pulse, if you
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  Speaker 1: have breath in your body, then you are a leader. Now,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're the only person you're leading at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: but somebody has to be in charge of you, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that's you. You are in charge now. of yourself, right?
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  Speaker 1: So you can make a difference in your own life
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  Speaker 1: and you can also make a difference in someone else's life.
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  Speaker 1: When you know how to lead yourself, you could actually
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  Speaker 1: transfer that knowledge. You can transfer those skills so that
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  Speaker 1: you could lead in any circumstance. Now today we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about how to do just that. Specifically, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about leading with perseverance. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: can do that, if you can lead with perseverance, then
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  Speaker 1: you will be equipped to lead yourself and others in
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  Speaker 1: any other situation that comes up in your life. Now remember,
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  Speaker 1: you've heard me say this many, many times, how you
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  Speaker 1: live is how you lead, right? So what you're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear about today is You can also apply it
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  Speaker 1: in your daily life as well. What I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: share with you today is a wonderful example of what
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  Speaker 1: Legacy Living Make Your Life Count is all about. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before I delve into today's podcast, let me remind you,
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  Speaker 1: you can learn more about Legacy Living Make Your Life
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  Speaker 1: Count by visiting the Gloria Burgess website. That's G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria.org. Burgess,
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  Speaker 1: B as in boy, URGESS.com, the Gloria Burgess website. And,
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  Speaker 1: as I've mentioned before, if you love to be inspired,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually subscribe to my inspirations right on my website.
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  Speaker 1: Just scroll down a little bit, look on the right
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  Speaker 1: sidebar until you see the place to add your email
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  Speaker 1: address to subscribe to my weekly inspirations. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: Each week, you get a lovely photograph and a short
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  Speaker 1: quotation that inspires you. Or by visiting Facebook. And that's facebook.com
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  Speaker 1: forward slash drgloriaburgessphd forward slash. Okay? And doctor is abbreviated there,
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  Speaker 1: so it's D.R., my name, D.R. Gloria Burgess, Ph.D., forward slash. Now,
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  Speaker 1: more about leading with perseverance. Now, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: say that we are in the process of creating a
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  Speaker 1: new narrative, a new story, okay? Okay? And that narrative
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  Speaker 1: is about leading with perseverance. More than that, it's about
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  Speaker 1: leading with creativity, leading with creative perseverance. Now, I'm so
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  Speaker 1: excited and delighted to share this with you today because
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a mashup of several topics that are
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  Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart. Leading, creativity, and perseverance. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these topics are near and dear, And they're also key
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  Speaker 1: chapters for me in my own journey as a leader,
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  Speaker 1: as an artist, as a parent, as a daughter, as
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  Speaker 1: a wife, as an entrepreneur, as a community servant. This
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  Speaker 1: new story, this new narrative that we're creating is pressing
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  Speaker 1: because finally, finally, more of us know that to lead
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  Speaker 1: well in the 21st century, You need to be equipped,
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  Speaker 1: consciously equipped, as co-creators of whatever is coming next. So
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  Speaker 1: this new story, this new narrative, puts leadership, creativity, art,
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  Speaker 1: and artistry back where they belong. Not on the margins, right?
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  Speaker 1: But at the center, at the very core of our spiritual, social, cultural, political,
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  Speaker 1: and economic lives. In fact, this story joins creativity, art,
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  Speaker 1: and artistry with leadership because that's precisely what it will
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  Speaker 1: take to lead well, to lead with empathy, to lead
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  Speaker 1: with humility, with hospitality, with courage, and sustainability, and imagination
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  Speaker 1: in the 21st century and beyond. Now, many years ago,
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  Speaker 1: one of my mentors shared with me, she said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the Appalachian Hill country in the United States, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lovely way that some people, especially some of the
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  Speaker 1: older people, there's a lovely way they still convey and
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  Speaker 1: welcome you when they greet you at their door. Rather
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  Speaker 1: than say, hello, how are you, Maya or Sammy? Rather
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  Speaker 1: than saying, Welcome, Michael or Lauren. They'll greet you by saying,
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  Speaker 1: what's working ya? That's right. What's working ya? So today,
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  Speaker 1: I want to share with you that in my journey
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  Speaker 1: as a leader, entrepreneur, and artist, I have been working
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  Speaker 1: at the intersection of leadership, creativity, artistry, and spirituality for
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  Speaker 1: 30 plus years. So this really feels like home to me, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I want to share with you as a way
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  Speaker 1: to consider leadership and artistry as a way of being, thinking,
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  Speaker 1: and moving through the world, a way that has helped
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  Speaker 1: me as a creative, as an artist, and as a leader.
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  Speaker 1: It's something I've written about in all of my books
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  Speaker 1: and something I continue to write about. Now, one of
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  Speaker 1: those books is called Dare to wear your soul on
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  Speaker 1: the outside. Live your legacy now. In this book, I
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  Speaker 1: write about what's working me, right? I write about the
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  Speaker 1: art of persevering. And I specifically write about the art
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  Speaker 1: of persevering with whatever it is that's working you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what's been working me for the past 25 years or
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  Speaker 1: so is not only perseverance, but it's been working me
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  Speaker 1: in my life as a leader, consultant, coach, professor, entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: as well as in my more artistic life, my writing life,
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  Speaker 1: my singing life, my making music life, my parenting life.
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  Speaker 1: What's been working me is this invisible matrix, this invisible
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  Speaker 1: armature that rules our lives as human beings. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: mean rules our lives. I'm going to share a bit
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  Speaker 1: about this resource with you, this armature. Because when you
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  Speaker 1: understand how powerful it is, you can actually harness that
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  Speaker 1: power and use it to make your life and work
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  Speaker 1: better and help others do exactly the same. So, before
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  Speaker 1: I delve into that armature... I want to make one
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  Speaker 1: thing perfectly clear. We are all, we are all creative.
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  Speaker 1: If you have breath in your body, if you still
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  Speaker 1: have a pulse, right? If you're participating in life, you're
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  Speaker 1: a leader and you're also creative. Now let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: making that invisible framework, that invisible armature visible. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I want to focus on with you today. I want
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  Speaker 1: to shine the light right there so you can easily
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  Speaker 1: recognize and more readily amplify the power of this incredible
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  Speaker 1: framework in your own life and in your own leadership. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are seven pieces, there are seven dimensions, seven aspects
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  Speaker 1: to this armature. I'm going to have time to really
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  Speaker 1: talk with you about one of them today, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to name them all, so this would be a
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  Speaker 1: good time If you want to take notes, to grab
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  Speaker 1: a piece of paper, grab your iPad, grab your phone, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and take some notes. So some of these dimensions will
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  Speaker 1: sound familiar to you, especially if you're a writer, a painter,
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  Speaker 1: a professor, a doctor, a gardener, a dancer, a student,
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  Speaker 1: a college administrator, a plumber, a firefighter, police officer, a
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  Speaker 1: community servant. Now that covers a lot of ground, doesn't it? Right?
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  Speaker 1: So again, I just want to underscore whoever you are
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  Speaker 1: and whatever you do, you're going to recognize the pieces
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  Speaker 1: of this armature. You will recognize them as creative principles
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  Speaker 1: or creative tenets. And some of you will recognize them
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  Speaker 1: within the framework of creativity, but maybe, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of you learned about what I'm going to talk about elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: So you may put what I'm talking about in an
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  Speaker 1: entirely different context, and that's okay. Here's what I've learned
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  Speaker 1: and chronicled in my own life. In fact, this is
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  Speaker 1: what my research is about in my professing life, right?
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  Speaker 1: I call the seven dimensions or the seven aspect, I
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  Speaker 1: call them Seven promises. Why? Because they're actually, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say, covenants that we make to ourselves, to one another,
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  Speaker 1: and to God. So when I talk about the armature,
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  Speaker 1: I'm referring to these seven principles, these seven promises. And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be more aware of them so
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  Speaker 1: that you can harness their power. So here they are.
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  Speaker 1: The seven promises are gratitude, faith, love, vision, integrity, creative action,
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  Speaker 1: and legacy. I'm going to say those again. Gratitude, faith, love, vision, integrity,
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  Speaker 1: creative action, and legacy. Now, today we'll have time to
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  Speaker 1: focus on one of these promises. So I want to
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  Speaker 1: shine the light on visions. And before I talk about vision,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know that all of the promises
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  Speaker 1: work together. Just as we have a band or an
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  Speaker 1: orchestra with lots of different musicians, lots of different instruments, right?
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  Speaker 1: They all work together to form an ensemble. They all
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  Speaker 1: work together, and the promises are exactly the same way.
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  Speaker 1: They are resources that work together to support us in
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  Speaker 1: our leadership, to support our creativity, and to support us
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  Speaker 1: as we keep on keeping on, as we persevere, right?
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  Speaker 1: They are ever-present resources. We can tap into, we can
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  Speaker 1: draw on them in our day-to-day living and in our
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  Speaker 1: day-to-day moment-to-moment lives as leaders. This is the invisible matrix,
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  Speaker 1: that I talked about earlier. So how do we make
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  Speaker 1: them visible? Let's make vision visible. So what do we
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  Speaker 1: mean by vision? Well, vision is the big idea of
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  Speaker 1: what you want to do with your team, your organization,
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  Speaker 1: your community, or maybe even yourself, right? So it's the
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  Speaker 1: big idea, not the little baby ideas, but the grand idea.
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  Speaker 1: And vision is not only about what you want to accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: It's also about how do you want to go about it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a process as well. All right. So we
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  Speaker 1: talk about vision as what and how, but it's more
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  Speaker 1: than that as well. Okay. Vision also includes who. So
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  Speaker 1: when you're casting or sharing a vision, good questions to
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  Speaker 1: ask are, Who will go with me? Who will go
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  Speaker 1: with me on this journey, right? And who will I
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  Speaker 1: encounter along the way? Who will I partner with? Who
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  Speaker 1: will I collaborate with out there? There's a lovely African
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  Speaker 1: wisdom saying that goes, if you want to go fast,
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  Speaker 1: go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, right? If you want to go fast,
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  Speaker 1: go all by yourself, go alone. But if you want
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  Speaker 1: to go far, go together. And I'm saying that anything
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  Speaker 1: worth doing is worth doing together. Now, here's the really
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  Speaker 1: cool thing about vision. You don't have to see the
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  Speaker 1: whole shebang. You don't have to see the whole vision
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  Speaker 1: all at once, right? Here's what I know. Your vision
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  Speaker 1: will evolve as you move into it, as you move
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  Speaker 1: towards it. So naturally, it will morph and shapeshift along
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  Speaker 1: the way. So be open to what is revealed to
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  Speaker 1: you along that journey. Don't get stuck on the vision
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  Speaker 1: that you happen to begin with, right? Why? Because that vision,
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  Speaker 1: the one you begin with, the one you start with,
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  Speaker 1: may no longer be relevant tomorrow or next week or
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  Speaker 1: next month or next year. And this is true whether
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  Speaker 1: we're leading in a time of difficulty or not. So remember,
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  Speaker 1: you can have your vision. But always keep your knees
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  Speaker 1: bent as you breathe and live into it. And another
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  Speaker 1: thing to remember is this. Don't get attached to the
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  Speaker 1: particular way your vision will manifest. Be open to outcome.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, keep your knees bent. Now one of
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  Speaker 1: the many lessons I've learned from being an educator is
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  Speaker 1: that you have to be a guide on the side.
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  Speaker 1: not a stage on the stage, right? A guide on
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  Speaker 1: the side, not a sage on the stage. You have
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  Speaker 1: to see your students, okay? Whether they're grade school, middle school,
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  Speaker 1: high school, okay? Doesn't matter. I work with adults, right?
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  Speaker 1: And you have to see these students as highly capable
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  Speaker 1: human beings. highly capable learners, capable individuals who can share
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  Speaker 1: their knowledge and experience and other resources with you and others.
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  Speaker 1: You also have to see your students as highly capable
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  Speaker 1: ambassadors who can take their learning and take their expertise
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  Speaker 1: and apply it in the real world, in real time,
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  Speaker 1: in their teams, in their organizations, and in their communities.
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  Speaker 1: I often apply these lessons when I work with my
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  Speaker 1: clients as well, right? So even though many of them
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  Speaker 1: say they want me to work with them because I'm
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  Speaker 1: an expert in this or that, what they really want
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  Speaker 1: and what they really value is when I help them
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  Speaker 1: discover their own solutions. When I help them unpack their
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  Speaker 1: own knowledge and when I help them tap into their
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  Speaker 1: own resourcefulness. it all boils down to helping them find
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  Speaker 1: their own path to their own vision of what's possible.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit more about vision. Vision
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  Speaker 1: has all kinds of dimensions to it that we need
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to. Now, from a cultural perspective, we
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  Speaker 1: tend to talk about vision as if we can literally
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  Speaker 1: see something, right? See something with our anatomical eyes. But
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  Speaker 1: in reality... What you usually see is a fog, right?
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't, you should be seeing fog. Because
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  Speaker 1: if what you see is really clear to you, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a vision. It's not a dream. Hey, it's a goal, right?
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  Speaker 1: Vision has many different aspects, many dimensions. And some of
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  Speaker 1: the aspects I just want to say a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about right now. So vision consists of perception. okay, how
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  Speaker 1: we take things in. Vision consists of insight and foresight
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  Speaker 1: and hindsight and reflection and revelation and so much more, including,
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  Speaker 1: now listen to this, respect. Respect. Respect. That means actually
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  Speaker 1: to look again, to re-see, right? To see with new
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  Speaker 1: eyes and to see with a fresh perspective. So, I
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  Speaker 1: invite you to think about the various aspects of vision
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  Speaker 1: and to think about not only what's working you with
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  Speaker 1: regard to vision, but also pay attention to what's working
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  Speaker 1: the people around you, nearby or far away. Because the
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  Speaker 1: world really is at our fingertips these days, right? The
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  Speaker 1: world is just a click away. So pay attention to
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  Speaker 1: what's showing up for other people. Because Those people are
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  Speaker 1: your potential collaborators. They're your potential amplifiers. They're people who
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  Speaker 1: potentially can be of service to you. Or maybe, just maybe,
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  Speaker 1: these are the people you can be of service to
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  Speaker 1: as well. Right? Who knows? But pay attention. And know
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  Speaker 1: that if you have this creative fire that's working you,
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  Speaker 1: know that when we are made, okay, we're made not
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  Speaker 1: to walk alone, but we're made to walk together. We're
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  Speaker 1: social beings. We're made to be in relationships. So pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to people who you can just link elbows with
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even partner with along the way. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: don't try to take a vision and do it all
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  Speaker 1: by yourself, right? I mean, that's a recipe for failure,
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  Speaker 1: a recipe for disaster. been there, done that, got the hood.
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  Speaker 1: And so you need to ask yourself, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: that's you, you want to go out by yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: need to ask yourself, how's that working for me? Right?
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  Speaker 1: You know what? Vision also includes night dreams. In the workplace,
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  Speaker 1: we don't often talk about that. But this is really huge.
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  Speaker 1: So listen up, it's very important. Because in visioning, there's
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  Speaker 1: a big element of receptivity. That's right. Of being on
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  Speaker 1: the receiving side of vision. Now in the Northern hemisphere,
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  Speaker 1: Western cultures, we typically think about vision as something that's
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  Speaker 1: outward flowing, right? Vision is something that pushes out and
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  Speaker 1: is really kind of external to who you are. We
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  Speaker 1: talk about vision as being very penetrating, being very active,
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  Speaker 1: which is a very masculine kind of energetic, right? But
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: another core quality that we sometimes miss is that vision
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  Speaker 1: can also flow towards us. It can flow inwardly. So
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  Speaker 1: vision is also about receiving. And if you're receiving, you
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  Speaker 1: are a receptor, a gatherer, a collector, right? Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: this is not about outputting the vision, but about being still.
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  Speaker 1: and being that receptor, okay, which is a more feminine energetic.
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  Speaker 1: It's an energetic that's probably more in tune with people
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  Speaker 1: who are very sensitive, very sensate, okay, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: how they move through the world, in terms of how
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  Speaker 1: they understand the world, and how they make sense of
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  Speaker 1: things in the world. This receiving energetic helps us tap
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  Speaker 1: into yet another aspect of vision, which is revelation. Now
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned that earlier. But this is information. These are images.
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  Speaker 1: These are sensations that are being revealed to us. So
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  Speaker 1: flowing inwardly towards us. Now here's some really good news.
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  Speaker 1: The archetype of the 21st century leader is guess what?
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  Speaker 1: It is the archetype of the visionary. Other names for
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  Speaker 1: this archetype is artist and creative. Now this archetype has
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  Speaker 1: been around since human beings have been on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: And in times of great change or upheaval or transition
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  Speaker 1: or disruption or transformation, humanity can actually tap into this pattern,
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  Speaker 1: this archetype, to shift the way in which we do things,
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  Speaker 1: to actually shift how we show up as human beings.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we can choose to show up as human
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  Speaker 1: beings rather than doing humans, right? That is so good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say that one again. We can choose
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  Speaker 1: to show up as human beings rather than as doing humans.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I just got off a call where we
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  Speaker 1: talked about that, you know, where you have to just
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  Speaker 1: kind of slow down enough to realize that being, okay,
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  Speaker 1: is just as important, if not more important, than doing, right?
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  Speaker 1: So during times of great change, great transition, we have
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  Speaker 1: this pattern in human behavior that we can tap into,
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  Speaker 1: and that pattern is the pattern or the archetype of
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  Speaker 1: the visionary or or the artist or the creative. And
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  Speaker 1: the really good news is that that archetype is now
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  Speaker 1: available to more people and available to more leaders who
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  Speaker 1: are now more open and more receptive, right? Because they're
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  Speaker 1: more conscious of this amazing archetype. What's working me today
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  Speaker 1: is creative perseverance. Specifically leading with creative perseverance in our
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary times. These are surely VUCA times. That's right, I
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  Speaker 1: said VUCA, V-U-C-A. Now, for those of you who might
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  Speaker 1: be new to that term, VUCA simply means volatility, uncertainty, chaos,
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  Speaker 1: and ambiguity. Times where, again, we experience these wave after
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  Speaker 1: wave after wave of disruptive change, okay? And wave after
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  Speaker 1: wave after wave of what we know, of what we're
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  Speaker 1: familiar with, right, just gets stripped away, just falls away,
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  Speaker 1: falls apart. So in this kind of a world, what
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  Speaker 1: we know for sure is that volatility, uncertainty, chaos, and ambiguity, VUCA,
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  Speaker 1: will continue to be the norm. What we don't know
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  Speaker 1: is what form or what shape it will take. And
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you something else. This is not new.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, VUCA is not new, right? It's happened numerous
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  Speaker 1: times in the history of humankind. And it has happened
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  Speaker 1: throughout the history of the world. What our world needs
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  Speaker 1: now to respond to this VUCA environment is visionaries. What
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  Speaker 1: the world needs now is artists. Now more than ever.
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  Speaker 1: The world needs our artistry, our imagination, our creativity at
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  Speaker 1: the center of our individual, corporate, and public lives. Artists
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  Speaker 1: are informants. They know stuff, right? And usually they know
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  Speaker 1: stuff way ahead of the masses. Art is an informant.
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  Speaker 1: Art is an armature. And if we're really conscious and intentional,
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  Speaker 1: art and artists can become agents of change, agents of transformation,
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  Speaker 1: agents of innovation, of redemption, of renewal. Now, these artists
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  Speaker 1: that I'm talking about are not running around with paintbrushes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: or dance shoes, right? They're not the ones with the instruments.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we are talking about them, but we're also
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  Speaker 1: talking about artists in the sense of You know, how
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: we show up for our professional lives, right? The doctors
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and the nurses we see, okay? The folks who are
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: there serving us at the grocery store. The folks who
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: serve us at the food bank to ensure that we
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: all have bread on our table, that we all have
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: enough feed to eat. The folks who work at the greenhouses,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: all right? who work on the front lines, the folks
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: who work behind the scenes to make sure that our
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: supply chain works as it's supposed to work. These are
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the folks who deliver blood, come rain or snow or
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: sleet or hail, right? The folks who find a way
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  Speaker 1: when times are normal and when times are difficult or unpredictable.
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  Speaker 1: These are the folks who find a way to keep
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  Speaker 1: on keeping on. The folks who hang in there. The
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  Speaker 1: ones who persevere. The ones who follow the energy of hope.
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  Speaker 1: The ones who follow the energy of yes. These are
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  Speaker 1: the artists I'm talking about. These are the ones who
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: change the word impossible, impossible, to I'm possible. These are
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the folks whose first name is Can and whose last
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: name is Do, right? You know these folks. So as
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you go about your day today, as you prepare for
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the rest of your week, I want you to ask
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  Speaker 1: yourself one question. And here's the question. What's working you?
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  Speaker 1: Because what's working you is exactly what needs to come
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  Speaker 1: into fruition now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next month,
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  Speaker 1: but right now. What's working you is your vision. A
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: vision that if it came to you, it can only
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: come through you. Right? Now remember, how you live is
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: how you lead. If you can lead with perseverance, with
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  Speaker 1: creative perseverance, You will be equipped to lead in any circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Okay. If you learn something today, be sure
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  Speaker 1: to tell somebody. Okay? I want you to share the wealth.
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  Speaker 1: Share it with your friends, your family, coworkers, so they
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  Speaker 1: can be lifted up and inspired and equipped just like you.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest gifts you can give to someone
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  Speaker 1: else is to use your talents, your gifts, your signature
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: presence that exists nowhere else on the planet. Right? And
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I want you to ask yourself, how will I use
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  Speaker 1: my artistry to reimagine my neighborhood, to reimagine my home,
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  Speaker 1: my classroom, or my team, or my pediatric practice, or
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: my Chamber of Commerce? How can I provide a lifeline
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  Speaker 1: to someone else, maybe even someone I may never know?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: And remember, whatever is working you is your invitation to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: step into your vision so that you can make a
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  Speaker 1: difference in your own life and in the lives of others.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: As we continue to celebrate the the marvelous, majestic music
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  Speaker 1: of your life, I also want to celebrate you for
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  Speaker 1: making your life count. Be sure to join me next time. Now,
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• 37:47
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• 38:09
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• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Just type in my name to find me there. Now,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: before I close today, I want to thank each of
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: you for tuning in to today's show, for allowing me
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to share a bit about my journey with what Legacy
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Living is all about. Not just living and learning, but
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: living and learning and serving in so that you make
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: a difference in your own life and in the lives
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of others. It's about being on purpose every single day, 365, 24-7.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Legacy living is a powerful way to make your life count.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Dr. Gloria, Gloria Burgess. Please join me
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  Speaker 1: again next time, right here, for another podcast of Legacy Living,
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  Speaker 1: Make Your Life Count. Don't just count the days in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Make the days in your life count. That's
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: what Legacy Living is all about. Have a fantastic day,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and remember, make the days in your life count. God
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: bless you. That's our show today. I'm your host, Dr. Gloria,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join me again next time.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, don't just count the days in your life.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Make the days in your life count. That's what legacy
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: living is all about. Here's to you. Have a fantastic day.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: And be sure to make it a yes kind of day.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Remember to celebrate the music of your life. Make the
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  Speaker 1: days count. In your life, count.