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20. (S1E20) She Put An “H” On Her Chest And Handled It with Sparkle Lindsay · FINE is a 4-Letter Word

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Welcome to fine is a four letter word. I am so honored to
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have sparkle Lindsey as my guest today, because she is sharing
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such a personal story, and I really am so grateful for you
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for being willing to come and share this... Thank you so much for
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having me, Lori. I appreciate it. I was so excited when you were
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like, Hey, you wanna hook up? I'm like, Oh yeah, of course.
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Yeah, so we are going to talk about
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so many different topics. We're gonna keep it to our normal format,
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but I know that we could talk forever, but some of the things
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that I want to make sure that we do cover is talking about
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progress over perfection, and those stories that we make up, that we tell
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ourselves that are just made up and how we... Wanting to fix everything
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for everyone else, but really we only have control of our own stuff,
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so let's start out by having you share
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some of the beliefs that were instilled in you as a child that
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then affected you as you grew up and things that... Beliefs that you
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carried with you that may or may not have served you...
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Well, you know, I grew up... The oldest of five, I was my
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father. My mother, I was the right hand man, the right hand woman,
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the one that made sure all my brothers and sisters were taking care
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of for the most part, not really like I took the mother and
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father role 'cause we had wonderful parents, but more so the big sister
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role, like I should I... Sister role also was Sparkle, to take care
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of it. Role, go ask your sister. And for me, I got so
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used to being that sparkle knows it, that I took that on throughout
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my life, now, little did I know that that piece of my life
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would maybe cripple me in my addiction, I'm three months sober as of
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August 4. So in my eyes, in my addiction, I took on what
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they call the fix it role, and I took on the strong black
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woman role, the strong woman role, even at work as an HR manager
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at the time, now being 36 and no longer working for big box
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companies anymore, I took on the Spark will fix it role once again,
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call Sparkle, she knows what to do. And I got so used to
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that that I really didn't have any time to fix me,
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I didn't even know that this... Or I didn't even know that existed.
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And a big portion of that, I suppressed a lot of my issues,
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a lot of my problems, or a lot of things that were bothering
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me, because I felt like I had to be that super woman that
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fix it person, that person that had to have the answers,
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and being a recovery coach now, I can really look at the difference
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between how I am now and being able to allow people to fix
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their own issues, to walk alongside them, but let them know that it's
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theirs to hold... Not mine to keep. Yes, yeah. So let's take a
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step back to getting into corporate or getting into...
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As you were growing up, you moved away from your family,
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I went to school and became this corporate superstar. Really? Yeah,
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there's a part in my life there where I also played college basketball,
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so it started where I was paving the way for my brothers and
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sisters, I was showing them how it's supposed to be done,
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you know that American dream, where you go to school, you get a
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degree. You play a sport, if you can try to get a scholarship
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or an academic scholarship, and I received academic scholarship, I received
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a vocal Scholarship and I also received a basketball scholarship, so through
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all of those, I chose basketball. That was my sport. I also battled
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for autoimmune conditions, and the first autoimmune hit me in the middle
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of my college basketball season, where I dropped from 140 to 107 in
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a week and a half... Oh my gosh. And. I was told I'd
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never walk again. And that I would be in a wheelchair.
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Gosh, that scared me. You know, it scared me to meet...
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I never cried. To me, it was, I can fix it,
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I'm gonna walk again. I mean, I went into fight or flight mode.
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There was no such thing that, this is not going to happen.
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But little did I know later on in life,
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because I did, I suppressed all of that and didn't cry about it,
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it came back later and it got me... I was gonna say,
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did you go through any counseling, you know. I did not,
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and that is the reason why I harp so much on recovery coaching
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and getting those legs to your table and getting the help you need,
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and raising your hand to say, I need help and I need to
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talk to someone. Mental health and being able to speak up in the
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African American community, but also just period in people is to put the
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H on your chest and handle it, there's nothing... What we do,
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you can deal with it. You don't need to cry. What you're crying
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for? All of those kids that we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves this
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too, like, are I got it. It's fine, right?
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Why aren't you gonna cry today, you know, like, come on,
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but we weren't taught that in our society, we were not taught to
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allow ourselves and give ourselves permission to feel and to cry and to
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know that we're human and that we have to start with ourselves first.
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Right, right. Okay, so you did get yourself to walk again...
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Oh yeah. So I re taught myself to walk...
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I played another two years of college ball
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at like... Not only did you relearn to walk, you went back and
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played ball again... Oh. Yeah, I went back and I said,
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It's on... We're doing this. I then went on to try out for
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the MBA, but I realized I was gonna sign and I realized how
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exhausted I was and I need to turn it down, I had just
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been through quite a bit, and I went on a head...
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Got my degree, got a double major in a minor, and
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went on ahead to jump right into a manager and training role for
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coals, and that is where I was taking everything I learned from basketball,
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from the determination, from the motivation, the strong female that was
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looked up to repaired by a lot of other young girls and young
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men, and I'm like, I'm doing it, getting ready to come out making
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60000 a year, I'm 24 years old. Let's do this. I was on
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this mission of in my head, I don't think I'm good enough,
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so let's keep going. Later on it turned, came back to get me
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because that type of thought throw me into
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perfection, which is an illusion because there is no such thing as we
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know... Yeah. But to me... We were gonna get it done.
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I am the fixer. This is what I do, we will take care
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of it. We will take care of it. All of these words that
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are stuck in my head, we will do this, I got you.
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Don't worry, we'll take care of it. All along, I wasn't taking care
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of me, I just didn't recognize it, I was on autopilot.
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As a lot of us are even, I don't wanna say advanced agents,
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that makes it sound like we're in our 90s, but now
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even farther and down the road, people who are older than...
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You were saying you were 24, 25, many years later, 10,
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20, 30 years later. A lot of us are still saying that same
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thing... Yes, a lot of us are still saying that because we're leaders,
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we are leaders that feel like we have to keep moving,
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and for me, being a leader, I was an athlete, I was an
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executive for three biggest box companies, I leave. Now, as a spiritual
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leader and into my spiritual realm, I am a healer, and that's still
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a leader role where we have to still let ourselves now,
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okay, we're still human and we still gotta work on us.
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We go, hits you and you're like, I'm the fixer so I can
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handle it. I'm okay. Yeah, exactly. So at what point did you...
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I mean, you came from being an athlete, elite athlete into the corporate
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world, and then... How did you manage that? Is that why you turn
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to the substance abuse that you did, was it to help you manage
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the overwhelming task of trying to be perfect and manage everybody...
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Well, I think for me, I was never a big drinker.
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My drugs of choice where cocaine, Molly and alcohol, but cocaine was introduced
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to me around 26, and that made it where I could drink more.
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At the time, I was partying. For me, I had a degree,
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I'm making 68, 60, 70000 a year. I run in teams of 300
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to 400 people running remodels, I honestly... Just living the life of a
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26 year 26 year old, right? That's a lot of responsibility for a
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26 year old. It is, and a lot of that stress that I
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was holding on to, I was festering. And then when I get off,
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I'd say, Oh. Like everybody else says, I just need to drink.
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Let me just click some take a drink everything the TV and the
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media and people do on a regular... I was doing... Now,
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I'm just relaxing. They make it seem like you gotta wax with a
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drink, that's how you relax. Yeah, our societies are messed up in that
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regard, that... And. Kick your feet up. I'm like, Well, can't we just
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have tea or a. Footloose... We're having to... You over here.
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You did have it. Come in a good conversation. You know?
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Yeah, but that's what I was used to. But instead it was,
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Get off working party. Get out, work. Where are we going next?
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I traveled a lot, I partied a lot, I had a lot of
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fun, but that little bit of drink and stuff and all of that
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was creeping up on me slowly it was creeping up on me,
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the stresses were starting to get me, and I was maintaining it I
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had many accolades, I was doing great, but I secretly was still drinking,
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and I had people around me that were drinking, all of us were
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drinking to get through or reward ourselves for like our long 13 and
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14 hour days that we had no boundaries to set for ourself,
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and say, I'm on my nine hours and going home, but not us,
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we had to take it to the limit, right, we had to fix
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everything and then work ourselves to that 14 hours and be on auto
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pilot and then go home and drink and party before it became a
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cycle, and I hope you're not hung over 'cause you know you're gonna
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have to run a whole team of people calling you, but you'll make
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it... You know... Yeah, so how long did that go on for?
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Oh. That went on for a minute for me, it went on for
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about, I wanna say probably 13 years of my life there too,
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I just was chasing my high, the cocaine got more...
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I was like having a hard time waking up, but I was still
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getting there, I was still focused, I could still do everything,
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but that's because of my autopilot brain, I was so used to what
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I was doing that it was just second nature for me and my
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body, it needed the substance, it wanted it, it needed it,
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and that's what it was going to get regardless.
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And then I had something pretty shocking happened to me,
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I went in to work one day and I was pretty...
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I was pretty hungover and I had a client, not a client,
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but an associate who he was missing for a few days,
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and I knew that he didn't have anywhere to live, so I had
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put in a lot of proposal proposals for him to get housing from
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us and finally, it came through. So I was really excited for him
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to come to work. I was hoping he came to work that day,
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we couldn't get a hold of him, and sure enough he showed up
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and... So I had the conversation with him when he walked in and
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I said, I got some good news for you, and he had this
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feeling that I was just like, Oh yeah, okay, well, I gotta go
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to the bathroom. So he kinda walks by me, goes to the bathroom,
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and I never really paid attention to my intuition or...
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But then I got a real pit in my stomach feeling,
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so I said, You know what, I'm just gonna make his day a
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little bit better, and when he comes out the bathroom, I'm gonna give
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him the paper and then he'll be good to go, so I got
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closer to the bathroom, and these feelings, I just had this really anxious
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feeling that I've never really felt before, and I walked to the bathroom,
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I waited for about two, three minutes, and I opened the door and
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he shot himself... Oh my God. And I fainted.
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Yeah. Wow. And I think is, right then and there,
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I tanith. Else, what else could you do.
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It? I don't even have words like right now, I can't imagine what
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it would have been like for you or anyone to walk in on
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that, I cried... I didn't cry. Actually, excuse me, I did not cry.
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I went through a series of classes that helped me get through it,
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or supposedly helped me get through it, all the rest of the trauma
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that I had that I have not addressed, it just piled up.
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Right, so remember, we just put the H on our chest and we
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handle it, but in our reality, I was having nightmares as well,
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and my body was hurting, so my body started hurting again and I
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didn't know what was going on. Six months after that, I was diagnosed
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with lupus, which was my fourth autoimmune condition, so I had to immediately
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jump on what they call methotrexate form of chemo and try to get
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it under control. So now I'm having nightmares, my body's hurting,
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I'm drinking and drugging to try to get through the day to try
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to numb the pain and the hurt, 'cause I haven't cried about this
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by killing himself or me being sick, and I'm still going to work
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and working 13 hour days, and now I'm having panic attacks if I
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walk in the store because the bathroom and the blackness that was going
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on in the nightmares, and I'm like, Oh my God, I got a
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drink to do this, I got... I was slowly but surely,
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Laurie, slight, and I was taking and I was holding up.
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But I was getting to that point where I'm in a deeper BIS
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and I don't know when I'm gonna hit the ground. Everything was starting
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to crumble around me, and I didn't know how to ask for help,
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I'm the fixer, I'm not the person to a supposed to be...
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You're the one people come to... Not somebody. Yeah. Not the a spark,
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a lock to handle this, you know what I mean? But inside,
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I was crying, I was hurting, I just could not find it in
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myself to ask for help before you know it, after I finally realized
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I was just... I was starting to get real, real sick and I've
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dropped weight again, and thanks, all of these dictates auto immune,
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they started attacking me, my body just couldn't make it, I remember being
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called into the corporate office... I remember thinking, I'm probably gonna
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get fired. I have in quite a bit now, I think the gigs
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up here... They're catching on. Yeah, they are catching on. 'cause Sparkle
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is not looking too good. And I got in there and they asked
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me, they said, Hey, so, you're doing such a great job.
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I would like to promote you how... I thought the ground,
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I said, Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, no. I'm sorry, but I've got to
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save my life today, I appreciate it, but I'm gonna have to say
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No, this is my exit interview, and I got to get myself help,
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and at that point, I walked off, I remember
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I couldn't find which door to leave, I. Like you wanna make a
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grand exit, but you can't find the rights are... You're like,
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Oh, that's the closet. Never mind. How do I...
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I said, Oh great, you know. You're like, Yeah, I'm noble.
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Oh, how do I get out of here?
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So I didn't even look back on... I didn't wanna look back and
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they'd be like, I grill, look at her. So it's a US...
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As I kept going, I got in the car, I called my mom
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and I said, I left from a job... You know, I left my
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job and. I'm gonna go get him. And everybody's like, Yeah,
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and I called my aunt and she's like, Alright, so we're gonna make
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arrangements, and we were trying to do all of that, and then I
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decided to go with my ex fiance up to Black Hawk for one
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last hurrah. Of course, one. Just do everything.
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Got up there. We got into a big fight. I drank one last
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tequila shot and I ended up in jail. Wow.
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And that was when I knew they had me breathe and I
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had the breathalyzer, I had had many breathalyzer, but this one was pretty
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big, it was a 04, it was a 04, and I was like,
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How are you even still alive? Right. With all the medications and everything
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else, but then it was a 04, Laurie and I was talking like
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this. Like how we are talking, right? It did amazing. And they were
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like, I was like, Actually, I have a plan for you to be
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able to organize your little faster to get me in to jail.
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To help you with your organization. Here, you cannot turn off.
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Or the corporate and. Autopilot. Right, so I knew then
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it's time to get help. I was scared,
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but I went on ahead and I made the transition. After I got
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out of jail, I took off or I took a... Helena was in
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jail for about three days because they had to make sure that my
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levels came down, the levels were not... They were up there for a
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long time, so I was in about the stand, then he went straight
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to a program... Well then, yeah, I got home. I still
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drink more about three to three or four days after that,
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and then I was like, I am just getting sick,
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I gotta get some help, so I remember clearing everything out of my
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truck and threw it down on the yard.
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I was like, I gotta go to treatment. And got to my grandparents
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house and my grandparents took me to treatment, the funny thing is,
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is that I was in the back seat with them,
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and they put the Child lock on 'cause they thought I might be
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or whatever the youths... So they put the Child lock on and we
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finally get to Parker Valley Hope, that was where I went first,
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I went to two treatment centers, but Parker value, hope we get there,
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and when they go to get out, they don't know how to turn
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the child lock off. Okay, so they're like, Well, Spark, can you let
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yourself out? I said, Well, I can't get it. They said,
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Well, we put the Child lock on, Can you help us get it
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off. So I helped them get up, I got out, ended up in
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treatment, I blew a 03 6 going into treatment as well,
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and then I started my journey of recovery, and I have...
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I have not looked back. And it has been an amazing journey for
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me. But I had to do it for me. Gosh, I was...
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A good point of me was worried about what my family was gonna
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think, I was worried about what work would think, like a lot of
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people are like, We don't even think this girl was drinking at all...
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Shouldn't even look like it. We didn't even notice it. Even now,
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when I do podcasts like this, a lot of times people are like,
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I did not know you were living that life,
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and I was living that life... That's incredible.
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That you were able to keep it under wraps. So well,
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that people you were closest to didn't even know... Yeah. And I think,
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you know, like my father, my father is really close to me,
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my brothers, they started to really get it. They started to get it.
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I was very combative, I was in denial, I don't have a problem.
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I know my stuff, I fix everything. I was in executive mode,
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autopilot mode, which a lot of us are in, we don't want to
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feel like we were defeated or like we fall, although sometimes these types
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of things are not failures at all, they are just lessons and they're
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great experiences, and they're not good or bad, they just are what they
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are, and they are part of our union, they're part of our due
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and getting out of the shame and the guilt is the hardest part.
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You're supposed to be sparkle, you're supposed to be able to handle this.
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And being able to raise your hand and say,
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I don't got this. It's a scary feeling at first, but
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you into yourself and you start to realize that you gotta learn more
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and more about yourself every day to understand where you're going...
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Yeah, and be vulnerable enough to allow people
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to say, This is where I am and
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I need... Yes. And let it go relinquish, control,
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find and follow those layers of surrender, there's layers of surrender.
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And each part of your heart, the blockages we create in the walls
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we put up, when we are doing things that are not right,
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it is just amazing when those block or just start to come down
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due to the layers of your surrender that you say, I'm ready to
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do this for me, and it just pains your whole way of thinking
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because it's not about what others think, it's about how you feel about
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you and what you're gonna do to change it for you,
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changing your narrative and believing in you, changes those layers of surrender
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and it takes it real deep for you and it helps you find
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those kinds of happiness, you know? Yeah, it's like I'm peeling an onion.
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Yes, the layers and layers and layers. And
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when you are focused on un peeling and revealing who you are and
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doing the work on yourself, it changes your relationships with those around
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you... Oh yes. And the action, your action to you
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helps other thing around you evolve. I tell a lot of my
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break down the serenity prayer and what it means to you,
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and having the courage to change the things you can, and the wisdom
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to know when it's not yours to keep is one of the greatest
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blessings anybody could ever follow through for themselves, because if you're
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not focusing on you, how are you gonna help anybody else?
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You know. We have the thoughts that if we go and we give
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everybody this advice and where the fixer and we do, this will be
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good, but then where are we at? We just stand, we stay stagnant,
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we just sit still, but that's unrealistic for us to find out where
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we fit and to find our gifts and find things that...
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Find our clarity. In order for us to find the clarity,
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you've gotta know where we're going and what we want, but if we
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don't take the time with ourselves and figure out who we are and
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learn more and more about ourselves every day, What are we doing...
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You know, what are we doing? Right, exactly. Yeah, that's
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a lot of the purpose in the program that I run,
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the F being fine experience is helping people get that clarity around
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what do they want, and who are they getting that quiet to hear...
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You talked about your intuition getting quite enough to hear that inner
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voice and then finding the courage to follow it... Yes, and not only
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that, but finding the courage to actually walk through the emotions that
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you've probably been suppressing that you don't even realize pressing because
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you're on autopilot and you're so used to it, right, that it just
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becomes a part of you where you just suppress your emotions,
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and then you just walk around them, you never address them,
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suppress it on them is not even acknowledged. Yeah, how do you suppress
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them, you suppress them by fixing other things for other people,
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you suppress them by your addictions... Right. And then what it does,
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it bogs your clarity, there is no clarity there, when you don't walk
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through what's actually bothering you, figure out your why,
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research what is bothering you, so that you can move forward,
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relinquish that control and free your mind, your heart and your spirit and
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become one well oil machine for yourself, because
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you know that your emotions were temporary, not permanent, but you know
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what it feels like, and you're okay with sitting in it,
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these are not eaten. Although you say you know that your emotions are
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temporary, I think that a lot of people don't necessarily know that
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they feel emotions and they feel like I'm going to be here forever,
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and the truth is, if you allow yourself to feel them,
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that's how you move through them, exactly. And you gain that resistance
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because then you know the next emotion is coming where it becomes a
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part of you... It just becomes a part of you where you're like,
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Oh, how do I feel now? Or what is that? Anger or feeling
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like, Oh, that hurt my feelings. Talk to yourself. You know what I
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mean? Be curious to watch yourself, I say it all the time,
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because as you find that these things about yourself that you're like,
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Wow, that really set me off, that's a trigger,
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or a word or a song, or waking up in the morning.
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It's just really not my thing. Maybe, right, but now it
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out and then be able to tell people what you want.
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Know it and then honor it, exactly. Honoring and step into your power
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while you do it, when you honor it, now you can manifest the
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belief in it, now you're setting... That's a totally different level,
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manifesting your beliefs and who you are because you've honored what you've
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been through and you respect it, and once you do that,
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your demeanor changes the way you walk, the way you talk,
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the way you look, just your glow. You're walking through it.
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And you're doing it for you, and that's what makes you special.
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Everybody's journey is different. So how are you gonna do it?
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What's gonna make you a little different than everybody else, 'cause we
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are different... Right, exactly, yes. And owning and walking in your own
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power. The gift of stepping into my power, I think I've had so
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many different elements with... And that's why I was compelled to write
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my book being a better me for me, because all of the simple
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basic tips and tricks I do daily have helped me step into a
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power that is... I am so deserving of now, I mean,
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using word like deserving and capable and entitled to... Those are a totally
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different realm for what I used to use,
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using words like, I will walk on my own, but I will walk
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with you as you figure out what you're doing... Changes are part of
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our conversation where I saying, We are in this together. We got this
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because honestly, your journey is your journey, and it's for you,
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I can support you, I can't keep it for me, or take it
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with me, Right together, we can walk together in our journeys and help
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support each other as we grow and step into our power and move
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forward in a positive manner. It as individuals and
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as support for each other, nobody's here alone, but like you said,
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we're all walking our own journey... Yeah. It's kind of an odd juxtaposition
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of, we're not alone, but it's our own journey, so you don't have
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to do it alone, but you're still... You're not, you're not...
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How do we describe this? You're not doing it alone, but it is
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your own thing, nobody else is on that same journey as you are...
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Exactly. So I am a recovery coach who helps leaders, help themselves be
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the best version of them, that means that I walk alongside them,
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but I do not make decisions for them because that's not mine to
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make or to hold, but it is important for me as a coach,
29:08
and to me, into the individual to hold space while they figure it
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out, and that is inspiring because when someone has time to think,
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they have time to actually know themselves and they have someone to consult
29:23
with every so often, watching someone take their life back is so amazing.
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And you can see people saying, I'm owning this because I deserve this,
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and they start to change the verbiage, they start to change how they
29:38
feel, and they start to realize the differences between being strong and
29:44
being strong, and that is being to work on you. And strong enough
29:50
to say, I need help. How can I fix this with me holding
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myself accountable for my actions in my own self reflection and realizing
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how did I play a part in where I'm at today?
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How did I do that? Those questions are hard to ask yourself,
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especially if you're in addiction, or if you're in denial, right.
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But when you immediately tab the strength to ask yourself those questions,
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it takes you to a totally different power in a totally different level,
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you never thought ever ceased to be there, and it shows you that
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you just... You're like, Wow, I haven't been seeing... I haven't been looking
30:31
at myself, I've been watching why everybody else is the reason why I
30:35
can't do... And so finally, we do start realizing I'm the reason why
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I can't do it. I was doing, you know?
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Yeah, and now a lot of people are not willing to take that
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responsibility. But until you are... That's when things really start changing.
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And you said something about deserving, and I think a lot of times
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we've been taught that to say I deserve
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means that you are somehow especially entitled in a negative, bad way,
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and that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about just because
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you are... However you wanna describe it, child of God, you are of
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this universe, you are deserving, you are knowing or starting to understand
31:23
your work. See, a lot of times we downplay our work because we
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don't know that we haven't explored ourselves enough to know just how strong
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this temple is, this body is, when you start to embrace every piece
31:38
of it and you look at it, you examine it and you realize
31:41
it you're able to say, Yeah, no, I'm worthy of so much more,
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I can do so much more. I know that because I know myself,
31:50
and because I trust my body, I trust in myself to know that
31:55
I can get there, and I'm gonna need some help along the way.
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Definitely, but okay, I'm Sally and I know I'm grounded and I'm ready
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to take things by storm, and that right there is a strong way
32:10
to be, but it's a wonderful filling in its whole, it makes you
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home, makes you congruent and complete with your shadow side, and your regular
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side, right? 'cause you got in both. That is where...
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So much power in that. So much power.
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Yeah, you are definitely on a mission, I'm so
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grateful, like I said, to have had you on here to talk about
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your journey, and before we go first, what is your hype song?
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The song that you listen to that gets you
32:46
pumped up, energized, enthusiastic, more than you already are, 'cause clearly
32:51
you are already very enthusiastic person, you know what is the song that
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takes it to the next notch up, so. The next level.
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Okay, so I remember that I was having a not a great day,
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and I remember having to sit any motions and be like,
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Oh, I gotta take the good with the bad, it just is what
33:09
it is, and I gotta just sit in it and let the day
33:12
come to me when I'm in the car. And out of nowhere,
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Maurice make it happen. Comes on. And ever since then,
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I've always, I've always heard it, I've always loved it. But I heard
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those words and they spoke to me, and ever since then,
33:30
when I'm getting ready to do a speech, when I'm getting ready to
33:34
even write a book or whatever, I just think of those words to
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make it happen piece, and I say, I'm gonna make happen and I
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get pumped up, like I'm get ready to play a basketball game and
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it's a championship. Such a good song. Yes, abalone it.
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Alright, so if someone wants to get in touch with you and
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learn, have a conversation with you, tell us how people can reach you
34:01
and then also how they can get your book. So if you do
34:05
wanna get a hold to me first thing as far as if there
34:07
are any emergencies or whatever, there is a crisis line that you can
34:10
call, whether it's suicide, mental health, substance use, whatever that
34:15
is, make sure you make those calls to take care of yourself.
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My website is sparkle Linz dot com. I do have a promo right
34:23
now that's going on, that if you buy my book
34:26
on Amazon and take a selfie with it and send it to
34:31
the particular link that was given, you will receive 30 quotes in 30
34:36
videos for me free of charge. So the book is a wonderful tool,
34:42
a wonderful element, but the website alone talks about if you would like
34:46
to be a recovery coach, it talks about If you're looking for recovery
34:50
coaching, there's also a panel on there if you wanna wear your sparkle
34:54
shirts or hats. So there's just a lot going on on that website
34:58
and it just came out, so sparkle Lindsey dot com will give you
35:01
everything that you need to get a hold of me. Fantastic,
35:05
we'll have a link in the show notes to the website as well
35:09
as to the link that you just talked about, so that people could
35:12
get that Special download after they buy the book, so... Cool,
35:16
wonderful, thank you so much for joining me today. Parklands on fine is
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a four letter word. Man, thank you for having me and I just
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wanna say it's an honor. It's always good to speak with you,
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love watching your stuff on LinkedIn, so I always watch your thing,
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so I'll be crazy excited to keep it going. Okay, yeah.
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Well, thank you.