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Be the Light | Episode #522 · 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'm so delighted that you joined me today.
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  Speaker 1: I have a very special guest on our show. Her
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  Speaker 1: name is Stacey Johnston. I know you will enjoy meeting her,
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  Speaker 1: and I just know you'll be inspired by our conversation today.
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  Speaker 1: Stacey Johnston is the owner and operator of Enlighten Up.
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  Speaker 1: I just love the name of her business, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: Enlighten Up is a personal consulting firm based in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Her focus is to illuminate the magic of you. Stacey
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  Speaker 1: is joining us today from Texas where she lives with
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  Speaker 1: her husband of 37 years. She is a mom to
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  Speaker 1: three beautiful children and grandmother to six. Stacey is an
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  Speaker 1: internationally certified personal development coach, consultant, speaker, and trainer. She
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  Speaker 1: works with individuals, organizations, families, companies, and communities to recognize
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  Speaker 1: the power of their influence and the importance of the
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  Speaker 1: legacy they create in their lives. Now Stacey grew up
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  Speaker 1: in a dance studio family and in her own words
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  Speaker 1: she says, I was blessed to enjoy the beautiful world
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  Speaker 1: of the arts all my life. In fact, Stacey owned
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  Speaker 1: and operated Applause School of Dance for 30 years. Then
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  Speaker 1: she took a pivot and served in the adolescent and
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  Speaker 1: adult substance abuse and mental health profession as a family
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  Speaker 1: services specialist. She served there for 11 years. Her new
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  Speaker 1: joy is co-hosting two podcasts, Uncaped Heroes and Midweek Mind Candy.
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  Speaker 1: Today's topic is Enlighten Up, a topic that is near
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  Speaker 1: and dear to my heart, and I can't think of
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  Speaker 1: a better person, a better leader, a better human being
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  Speaker 1: to address this topic than Stacey. I met Stacey several
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  Speaker 1: years ago when I was attending an international Maxwell certification
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  Speaker 1: conference in Orlando, Florida. When I met her, I just
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  Speaker 1: knew there was something special extra special about Stacey. And
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  Speaker 1: whenever I had an opportunity to have a simple conversation
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  Speaker 1: with her, she spoke so passionately about the people she
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  Speaker 1: worked with as a family services specialist. Stacey rarely said
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  Speaker 1: anything about herself, but I could tell she was serving
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  Speaker 1: from her core. In fact, she was standing in the
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  Speaker 1: fire of her purpose. So I can't wait to host
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  Speaker 1: this very special amazing and lovely human being, my friend, colleague,
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  Speaker 1: and mentor, Stacey Johnston. Now before I bring her on,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to take a minute, just a moment
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  Speaker 1: to connect the dots between today's topic on Enlighten Up
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  Speaker 1: and Legacy Living. There are many ways that Enlighten Up
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  Speaker 1: connects to Legacy Living. which you will hear more about later.
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  Speaker 1: But for now, let me just say that legacy living
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  Speaker 1: is a way of being. It's a way of living
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  Speaker 1: and moving through the world so that we make the
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  Speaker 1: conscious choice to be the difference we want to see
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And we make that conscious choice right
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  Speaker 1: here and right now, not way off in some distant future.
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  Speaker 1: We make that conscious choice day in and day out. 365, 24-7. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: All right. More about that later. Now, let me introduce
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  Speaker 1: you to my friend and colleague and mentor, Stacey. Hello, Stacey.
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  Speaker 1: I want to welcome you as a guest to my podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This is just such a blessing to have you on.
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  Speaker 1: And I would love to introduce you to my listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Well, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, I'm Stacey Johnson, and I am so very glad
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  Speaker 3: to be here sharing this space with you today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you, Stacey. So I know that you
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  Speaker 1: have done so much in your life and in your work,
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  Speaker 1: and I would really like to talk with you today
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  Speaker 1: about your, I'm going to call it a ministry, about
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  Speaker 1: Enlighten Up. So can you talk to us a little bit, Stacey,
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  Speaker 1: about what is that?
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  Speaker 3: I would love to talk to you about Enlighten Up.
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  Speaker 3: Enlighten Up is the business that I run. I am
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  Speaker 3: a personal development, business development coach, speaker, teacher, trainer, whatever
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  Speaker 3: your need might be.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see where I can't find a place to fill
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  Speaker 2: that shoe for you in any way.
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  Speaker 3: And Enlighten Up really comes, the concept of all of
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  Speaker 3: it comes from my experience as a dancer, right? It's
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  Speaker 3: where a lot of it comes from. And so much
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  Speaker 3: that I learned there kind of opened that door. Over
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  Speaker 3: the past 30 years, many times the word light has
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  Speaker 3: come into what I'm doing and a name of something
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  Speaker 3: I have. So it was only natural that that be
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  Speaker 3: my path. So at Enlighten Up, my job is to
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  Speaker 3: illuminate your magic. I think that you were, God looked
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  Speaker 3: down one day and decided the world needed one of you.
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  Speaker 3: And there's an amazing reason why. And when you believe
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  Speaker 3: that and you turn that light on that you have inside, girl,
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  Speaker 3: the light that shines is beautiful. And then you believe
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  Speaker 3: in the magic of you. And then it's unstoppable. The
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  Speaker 3: world is your stage, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love that. And I did not know that
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  Speaker 1: you had a background in dance. And I would, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just curious about that. If you could tell our listeners
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about your foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up as a dancer. My mother was a
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  Speaker 3: dance teacher. My father was a dance lover. So I
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  Speaker 3: grew up in a dance household. We were all about
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  Speaker 3: dance recitals and costumes and props and rehearsals and competitions
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  Speaker 3: and lots.
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  Speaker 2: And lots of music.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: And we had a wonderful time. My dad was a realtor.
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  Speaker 3: And so we had great time and we did it
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  Speaker 3: all as a family. And like when the country and
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  Speaker 3: Western craze hit and Urban Cowboy came out, I bet
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  Speaker 3: my mom and dad.
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  Speaker 2: Taught 2000 people how to do the two step.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And so it was fun. And Urban Cowboy had its
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  Speaker 3: own disco craze, right?
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  Speaker 2: Then we did the disco. So I grew up as
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  Speaker 2: a dancer.
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  Speaker 3: I danced professionally for several years and then spent about
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  Speaker 3: 35 years as a dance instructor and coach.
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  Speaker 1: So what kind of dance did you focus.
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  Speaker 3: On or love to do, Stacey? Ballet is the basis
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  Speaker 3: of all of it, right? Everything comes from ballet. Your poise,
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  Speaker 3: your grace, your center of balance. But I, my friend,
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  Speaker 3: and my tap dancer at heart, I love the rhythm.
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  Speaker 3: It's a song all by itself with no music if
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  Speaker 3: it's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Life is a rhythm, right? And life has a song
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  Speaker 3: to sing, and we are life. So we have a rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: So I love it. I had one after I retired.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a lady one day and she said, at
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  Speaker 3: the time I was working for the state of New
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  Speaker 3: Mexico as a family services specialist, working with adolescent and
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  Speaker 3: adult behavioral health and substance abuse. And she said, oh,
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  Speaker 3: are you not sad that you're not still dancing? And
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  Speaker 3: I said, you know, I am dancing because everybody's life
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  Speaker 3: has a song. And so I go over here and
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  Speaker 3: I dance to the song over here. And then I
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  Speaker 3: come out, shake it off. And then I go over
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  Speaker 3: here and I get to dance to the song that
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  Speaker 3: these people play. So I'm still dancing. I just have
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  Speaker 3: a different stage.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. I love that. So Stacey, I want to
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  Speaker 1: circle back to something you said earlier. And you talked
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  Speaker 1: about how each one of us has that magic within us.
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  Speaker 1: And can you say a little bit more about that?
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: That means, Gloria, that I do believe you have something
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  Speaker 3: only you were put here to do. And everything that
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  Speaker 3: you learn, everything that you experience leads you to that place,
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  Speaker 3: to that thing that you were supposed to do. And
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  Speaker 3: so that whatever that is, and some people find it
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  Speaker 3: when they're 10 and some people find it when they're 75.
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  Speaker 2: And it's about the journey. It's not a destination.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. And I think everything I know right up
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  Speaker 3: to this moment has got me ready for the next
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  Speaker 3: moment I'm going to face.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. So we have a special genius inside of
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  Speaker 1: us is one of the ways that I talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: And it sounds like you're talking about the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 3: You have this person inside of you that's your rhythm.
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  Speaker 3: That's what makes your song sing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And if you understand that, then you know how you
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  Speaker 3: like your eggs and what your favorite cartoon is and
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  Speaker 3: how you feel about love and respect and failure and success.
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  Speaker 3: And nobody gets to take that from you because that's you,
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  Speaker 3: that's who you are. And I think the biggest challenge
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  Speaker 3: that we face in the world today is deciding who
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  Speaker 3: is Gloria. What kind of wife are you going to be?
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  Speaker 3: What kind of mother are you? What kind of friend
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  Speaker 3: are you? What kind of mentor are you? And then
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  Speaker 3: being able to maintain that in spite of what the
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  Speaker 3: world would have you be. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Because the world wants to tug us in all different
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  Speaker 1: directions and Yeah, we're made for other things.
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  Speaker 2: We are.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, we as a people, Gloria, we gravitate
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  Speaker 3: toward light, whatever it is. The party's over there. The
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  Speaker 3: lights are on over there. Even our advertising is we'll
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  Speaker 3: leave the light on for you, right? And so just
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  Speaker 3: as a society, we gravitate toward. And as people, we
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  Speaker 3: do the same thing. And we feel this energy or
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  Speaker 3: this light coming from an individual or a teaching or
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  Speaker 3: a thought or a platform. And we gravitate toward that energy.
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  Speaker 3: And we feed on it. We're like, yes, I love
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  Speaker 3: this light. And then they turn their light off.
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  Speaker 2: And we get insulted. And we go, no, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I was feeding on that light. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: you're doing? And so we own that disappointment. And then
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  Speaker 2: we just seek out another light.
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  Speaker 3: And so the magic of you is recognizing that the
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  Speaker 3: light that you are searching for is inside you. And
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  Speaker 3: when you can turn that light on, then everything you
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  Speaker 3: need draws to you like fish to a night globe,
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  Speaker 3: like moss to the flame, as they would say.
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  Speaker 2: And then you can attract that. But you have to
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  Speaker 2: believe in that light first.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Stacey. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to just pivot a little bit here and talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about your broadcast ministry. And I know that
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  Speaker 1: you have two things going on right now, at least two.
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  Speaker 1: Could you talk with us a little bit about your
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  Speaker 1: Uncaped Heroes podcast?
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  Speaker 2: I would love to talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: Uncaped Heroes is right now, it's currently my favorite thing
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  Speaker 3: to do in my time.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I love doing. It's magic for me.
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  Speaker 3: I started the podcast about a year ago with a
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  Speaker 3: gentleman named Boyd Hamlin.
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  Speaker 2: He came on as my co-host.
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  Speaker 3: Boyd wrote a beautiful program for youth development, character and
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  Speaker 3: integrity for children in any way you can possibly use it.
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  Speaker 3: And so he called me one day and he said,
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  Speaker 3: let's do a podcast and turn this into grownups because
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  Speaker 3: the kids got to see the grownups live it.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, let's do it. So we decided to
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  Speaker 2: do this podcast called the hero builder.
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  Speaker 3: And then he made a pivot in his life and
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  Speaker 3: he met some amazing people and a hero builder has
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  Speaker 3: began to breathe and live over here. So we separated
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  Speaker 3: from the hero builder and became the everyday heroes. So
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  Speaker 3: the hero builder could have its life. And as it
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  Speaker 3: is progressed, it is going to continue to eat up
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  Speaker 3: more and more of his lovely time.
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  Speaker 2: All his prayers are coming true. It's the funnest thing
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  Speaker 2: to watch.
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  Speaker 3: And so as he's done that, we're going to rebrand
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  Speaker 3: again June 1.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to become Uncaped Heroes.
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  Speaker 3: And my daughter is going to become my new podcast co-host.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good. And that's such a joy for me. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And Boyd is going to continue on with Hero Builder
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  Speaker 3: and bless children all around the world. Mm-hmm. So the
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  Speaker 3: premise of Uncaped Heroes, when we decided to do the podcast, Lori,
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  Speaker 3: we decided there were 126,000 podcasts the day we looked
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  Speaker 3: at it. And we thought, okay, now what's going to
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  Speaker 3: set us apart from 126,000 other people? So we started listening.
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  Speaker 3: And what we found is that a lot of them,
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  Speaker 3: there's beautiful information out there. Lots of people have lots
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  Speaker 3: of beautiful wisdom to share, but so many of them
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  Speaker 3: have either a specific theme, a track they're on, they're
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  Speaker 3: a way to a sale, there's something else, or you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to talk about that. And so where was
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  Speaker 3: that gap? And what we saw, we said, what's happening
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  Speaker 3: in the world right now? So we saw the gap
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  Speaker 3: being in a clear understanding of character and integrity. And
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  Speaker 3: so that was the premise of this. Let's find people
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  Speaker 3: from all over the world and let's find out what
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  Speaker 3: was their journey? Who inspired them? What did they learn?
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  Speaker 3: What is their wisdom? And how can we share that?
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  Speaker 3: And so that's what we do. We have had the
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  Speaker 3: privilege of traveling all over the world from Israel to Egypt,
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  Speaker 3: to Australia, to the UK, to Texas. And we've talked
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  Speaker 3: to the most beautiful people that do the most beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Things for mankind.
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  Speaker 3: And they're giving people permission to get better, to have
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  Speaker 3: a space to go, you know, I understand that. And
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  Speaker 3: it seems like right now people need permission to do
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things. And so there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people out there open in that space. And so we're
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  Speaker 3: sharing that space. We're letting you know who's out there
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  Speaker 3: to make your life better and who inspired them.
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  Speaker 2: And what's the wisdom from your grandparents? Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for doing that work with Boyd and
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  Speaker 1: eventually with your daughter. It sounds like very soon she's
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  Speaker 1: going to be in the same seat. You know, so
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  Speaker 1: many people are hurting and suffering, not only during this pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: but before we even had the pandemic. And so having
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  Speaker 1: that place of inspiration and light is so, so necessary
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hope is universal.
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  Speaker 3: Wisdom is universal it doesn't have a gender or a
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  Speaker 3: color or a location or a community it is it's
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  Speaker 3: and we're all just walking each other home shouldn't we
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  Speaker 3: do it hand in hand oh.
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  Speaker 1: I love that stacy thank you hand in hand walking
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  Speaker 1: each other home yeah so i know that you have
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  Speaker 1: uh another podcast and uh could you tell us about
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  Speaker 1: uh Midweek mind candy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: So mind candy is a phrase that we use for
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  Speaker 3: something for you to think about for a minute, like
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  Speaker 3: a good piece of hard candy or an all day sucker.
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  Speaker 3: Takes a minute to digest that. And so that's what
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  Speaker 3: this information is. And we do it on Wednesday and
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  Speaker 3: we take an individual word. that is an attribute of
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  Speaker 3: character and integrity and legacy.
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  Speaker 2: And we banter that word. How do you model that word?
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  Speaker 3: How do you verb that so that people see that
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  Speaker 3: because that's your legacy.
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  Speaker 2: That's the story that you leave behind. And if we don't,
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  Speaker 2: if we don't model.
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  Speaker 3: And so we've had the most wonderful conversations with people
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  Speaker 3: about words and we are learning how many ways one
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  Speaker 3: word can be defined.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it's very important how we use.
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  Speaker 3: Those words and when we're communicating with people, because just
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  Speaker 3: how you say it has a very different meaning sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: So the wisdom is beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And so are you working and talking with people from
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  Speaker 1: around the world on this podcast as well?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: Every time we talk to somebody being on the podcast,
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  Speaker 3: we go, so you want to play another way? We
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  Speaker 3: have another one. So that's a lot of fun to
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  Speaker 3: hear the conversations. And I've really enjoyed the conversations we
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  Speaker 3: have between the generations. We bantered the word grace with
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  Speaker 3: a young man that was 30. And to hear his
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  Speaker 3: concept of grace as one of those people so many
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  Speaker 3: people are afraid of, right? The, oh my gosh, the
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  Speaker 3: awful millennials. And they're so beautiful, right? They have so
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  Speaker 3: much information. And I think we're scared of them is.
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  Speaker 2: What I think, right? That's it.
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  Speaker 3: They have so much information that we didn't even understand.
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  Speaker 2: But they need our wisdom. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And so when we bantered the word grace and we
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  Speaker 3: heard this beautiful concept of this 35-year-old's concept of grace,
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  Speaker 3: we came to the conclusion that it's the third step
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  Speaker 3: in forgiveness. there's accepting an apology and then there's forgiveness
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  Speaker 3: and then there's grace and grace is what we all
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  Speaker 3: want right and it's hard to offer to other people
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  Speaker 3: complete and it's very hard to offer to ourselves yes absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Until you can offer yourself grace it's almost impossible to
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  Speaker 2: offer it to anyone else with any clear understanding.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And so those are the conversations that we get to have.
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  Speaker 3: So if you would like to banter a word with us,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Gloria, we would love to have you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I love words. I would be happy
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And I think about how we use
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  Speaker 1: the word mentor, for example. There's another word for you.
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  Speaker 1: And oftentimes you think about somebody older than us, but
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  Speaker 1: young people have something to offer everyone as well. And
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  Speaker 1: so I like to think of mentors as people of
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  Speaker 1: all ages, all generations, all walks of life. We can
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  Speaker 1: all learn something from everyone. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, just like you and I both have
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  Speaker 3: learned from a mentor that we both share, leadership is influence.
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  Speaker 3: It's not who you are. It's not how much money
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: you make, right? It's your ability to influence those around you.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: So that's the five-year-old or the 80-year-old or somebody in between.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I love your ministries and thank you
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: for sharing about your podcasts, Stacey. I know that you
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: have written a part of a book and I want
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you to tell our listeners about that. What is Caged
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: No More?
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Cage No More is a very new and exciting journey
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  Speaker 3: that I was invited to join.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I got an.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Email from a lady one day and she said, please
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: don't take this as creepy, but I've been scoping you
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: out on Facebook. I really love your energy and you
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: and I should have a conversation. And so she called
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: and we had a conversation about this book she wanted
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: to write. And her goal was 16 to 20 women
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: to co-author a book about the moment they recognize.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: The magic in themselves, right?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: The moment they became uncaged from the constraints of society
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: or trauma or fear or whatever it was that was
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: holding them back, that moment they broke free.
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  Speaker 2: So in this book.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Will be 16 stories of of coming out right of
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: that of that uncaged week I believe we launched July
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: the 30th and it is 16 amazing women from all
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: around the world and so it has been quite an
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: experience right so nervous the other day when I hit
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: that button had to turn into my chapter I was
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: like oh there's no going back once I hit the
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  Speaker 3: button Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, telling your story is so powerful, not only
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  Speaker 1: for you, but for all the people whose lives you're
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: going to impact.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, amen.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we never know who might hear
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: our story that needs to hear it that day or
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: whose life it might touch or change.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. And, you know, I always say it's not
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: our business to know. Our business is to show up
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and to tell our stories and to shine the light.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Somebody out there needs that. They need that light. They
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: need those life-affirming words.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: They do. They do. So may they fall upon the
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: ears that need them.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, I wish you well with your book. I'm
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: not going to wish you luck because you don't need luck.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to get my hands on a copy
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. It'll be super fun. And I
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: think all the proceeds are going to charity, which makes
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: it even better. It's going to be fun to watch it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Bless other people all around in many ways.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, you mentioned the word gap. A little bit earlier,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Stacey and I, I'm going to ask you to just
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: fill us in a little bit more about what you're thinking.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: In terms of where our culture is today, society is today,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: where do you see the gap? And what's missing or
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: muted for you?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think. Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: I ask this question all the time right on my interviews.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: It's one of the questions that we ask is where
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: people see the gap. And I love the answers that
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: we get. But I think I think for me, it's in.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: It's in the wisdom of my grandparents. Right.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Where did that stop getting moved along?
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: But we all had these people in our lives that
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: had this moral line, this character, this ethic, this right
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: and wrong, this good and bad, this total line, earn
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: your keep. We had that and we grew up with
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: that and we honored that and we believed in that.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: And when we do these.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Interviews, 94% of the time, that's who these people, that's
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: who their heroes are. It's my grandma, it's my mom,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: it's my uncle John, it's my third grade Sunday school teacher, right?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: These ordinary people that do extraordinary things for them. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: so I think that's what's missing in all this information
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: that we got out there, right?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: There's so much chatter, right? And so I think the
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: gap is in, the.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Gap is in, I think probably the other thing to
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: talk about what's underneath the music. Yes.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: That's, that's the gap for me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: And where, where did that wisdom go? As I watched
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: my grandchildren, I got six grandbabies now, love God.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yay. Thank you. They're so beautiful, but they're all under
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the age of six.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: And so as I watched them grow up and they are,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: fascinated by life sponges of energy they want to know
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: they want to learn how does that work what does
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: it do like that where that star come from right
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: why does that frog squeeze on my finger everything fascinates
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: them and then as i work with junior high kids
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and i work with high school kids we're teaching them
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: how to ask questions again we're teaching them to dream
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: again and to believe in that again and to have
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: an imagination where does the wonder go I want to know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I'm watching my, and I'm like, don't you dare take
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: the wonder from those grandbabies. Let them ask the question.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Because I want to know who takes that away. Because
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I think that's where the gap starts. We start telling them,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: sit down, pay attention, conform, memorize the answer, get the grade,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: go to school, fit in the box.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And that creates the gap right there. Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Because they're not fishing and they're not hunting and canning
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and looking at birds and watching the stars and changing
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: the tire.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And learning about life. Yeah.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: So we, we actually, what you're saying, I think is
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: we contribute to that, that gap one, no, or one
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: TV commercial or one, do it this way and not
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: that way. Exactly.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: One, one, just a minute. Don't ask. You'll learn.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: One, just a minute. I'm busy. I can't just a minute.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I can't talk right now. And then they just quit asking.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: What a blessing. I mean, you have six grandbabies under
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the age of six. And I can only imagine, I
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: imagine you just pouring and pouring and pouring blessing into
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: these young souls.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I think that's what they're doing to me. Right?
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: They're doing that to me. But I think that's the
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: joy of being a grandparent. Because when I was a mom,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I was so busy trying to be a good mom.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I wanted all my I's dotted, my T's crossed, and
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: a dentist appointment, and A's in science, and good science projects,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: and bows in their hair.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I wanted to be a perfect mom. And I think
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I missed the wonder. And I think that's what grandmothers get.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I think we get the wonder.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Because I'm not responsible anymore for the algebra test.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: None of that is mine. And so I get the wonder.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: So I get tents in the living room and cupcakes
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: at breakfast. And where does cinnamon come from? And we
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: get to find out.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. And like my mom said, you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I can always send them home.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Spoiled.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Little sugar, maybe, but we're sending them home.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, my. So, Stacey, is there anything that you would
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: like to comment on further or anything that you wished
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I'd asked you that I did not?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I love to have conversations with you, my friend. I
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: could just talk to you all day. How about I
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: lay out a challenge? Not necessarily a challenge, but a
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: little mind candy for your audience. I would like to
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: challenge them to see if they can take a moment
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: and step back and find out what's underneath the music
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: for them. When you learn to tap dance, you learn
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: that You can't dance to the music because the music changes.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: It goes up, it goes down, it fades, it speeds up.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: But underneath, there's this one sound that never changes. And
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: that keeps everything else in rhythm. And that's your dance partner.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: So who's your dance partner underneath all this music that's
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: going on right now?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Do you know? Who are you with no hat on?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Who are you.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Not in someone else's costume that they've laid out for
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: you for the day? but who are you underneath the music?
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: And how do you keep the steps going when the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: music changes? I love that. Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Well, you have to know the dance, right? Okay, have
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: you ever been driving down the highway listening to your
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: favorite song on the radio? Music's turned up, you're a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: one-man concert, best singer on the planet, right?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Rocking out. Yes. And you hit that moment of white
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: noise and you go, oh, and you have a choice to.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Make right then. You either change the station or you
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: keep singing your song. And in a minute, the white
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: noise goes away and you're right on time and that
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: concert continues, yes?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Because you know your song.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: But white noise, conflict in your life, it's just white
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: noise in your song.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: And if you just keep singing, believe in it, just
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: keep singing your song. In a minute, the white noise
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: goes away and that song is right where it's supposed
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: to be.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you. Thank you. And I obviously
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: didn't get to see you tap dance. I didn't get
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to see you teach or as a professional dancer, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like I've gotten a little bit of the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: dancer in you and the musician in you, because to
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: be a tap dancer, you've got to be a really
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: good musician. Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Stacey. And so for our listeners,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I know they're going to want to get in touch
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: with you. What's the best way to do that, Stacey?
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm always on social media, right? I'm Stacey Owen
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Johnston on social media. I'm on LinkedIn as well, but
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I don't have a website. This whole internet world is
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: a huge pivot for me.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't even want a debit card, but I'm working
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: on it. I got a group of phones and I'm
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: making a website right now.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I'm working on it, but I do have an email
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: and they can always reach me at enlightenup.staceyj, no E,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: just S-T-A-C-Y. Jay at gmail.com and that's my enlighten up.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: And they, if you want to talk on our podcast,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: if you want to share your journey, if you have
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: a hero that we need to know, if you want
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: to banter a word, reach out to us at hero builder,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: 2020 at gmail.com and let's chat.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Excellent. Thank you so much, Stacy. And again, thank you
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: for being here with us today and for enlightening us
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and enlightening.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Up the world. Thank you.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Bless you. So inspiring. I love all of Stacey's pearls
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of wisdom. Clearly, Stacey Johnston is a leader's leader. She
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: makes a difference in her own life and in the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: lives of so many others in her family and throughout
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the world through her podcasts and as an internationally certified
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: personal coach, consultant speaker, and and trainer. To learn more
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: about Stacey's work, you can connect with her on Facebook.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And that's facebook.com forward slash Stacey O dot Johnston. And
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Johnston is J-O-H-N S-T-O-N. So that's facebook.com forward slash Stacey, S-T-A-C-Y,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Stacey O. Johnston. You can also send her an email
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: at enlightenup.staceyj at gmail.com. Now remember to look for her podcasts,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Midweek Mind Candy, and also Uncaped Heroes. And you know what?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I was a guest on both of those podcasts, so
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I just love that. Stacey's book, Caged No More, will
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: be published very soon, so be sure to look for
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that as well. And that's Caged No More. All right.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Now, if you're just joining us, I'm Dr. Gloria,
• 30:52
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• 30:57
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• 31:04
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• 31:07
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• 31:35
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• 31:41
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• 31:47
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• 31:51
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• 31:55
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• 31:59
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• 32:03
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• 32:07
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• 32:11
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• 32:14
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