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Keep On Keepin' On | Episode #471 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international
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Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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Speaker 1: your Life Count. I'm so delighted that you join me today.
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Speaker 1: I have a very special guest on our episode for today.
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Speaker 1: Her name is Desi Payne. Desi is a humorous motivational speaker, trainer,
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Speaker 1: and the stress Less Coach. I love that she loves
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Speaker 1: to inspire leaders and their employees to adjust their attitudes
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Speaker 1: so they will work in a positive environment. As a
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Speaker 1: stress less coach, she helps people let go of the
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Speaker 1: stress that is robbing them of their joy so they
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Speaker 1: can enjoy life. I just love that. I love the
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Speaker 1: idea of it now. Daisy instills joy and laughter into
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Speaker 1: all of her programs. She is also a John Maxwell
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Speaker 1: team member, traveling internationally to coach people to be better leaders.
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Speaker 1: She also teaches Youth Max in schools, helping youth become
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Speaker 1: great leaders. Today's topic is all about letting go, a
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Speaker 1: topic that is near and dear to my heart and
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Speaker 1: I can't think of a better person, a better leader,
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Speaker 1: a better human being to address this topic than Desi
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Speaker 1: Pain Now. I met Desi a few years ago. We're
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Speaker 1: both part of the John Maxwell team, and I met
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Speaker 1: Desi as part of a mentoring series for leaders. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I met her because she had been selected from a
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Speaker 1: pool of about twenty thousand or so leaders. That's a
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Speaker 1: lot of folks. She had been selected to be interviewed
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Speaker 1: for the impact that she was making on the world.
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Speaker 1: And when I met Desi and heard her speak about
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Speaker 1: her passion, she was just on fire about it. So
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to host my friend and fabulous colleague,
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Speaker 1: Desi Pain. Now, before I bring Desi in, I want
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Speaker 1: to just take a moment to connect the dots between
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Speaker 1: today's topic, letting go and legacy living. Now, there are
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Speaker 1: many ways that letting go connects to legacy living, which
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Speaker 1: you'll hear more about later in the show. For now,
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Speaker 1: let me just say that legacy living is a way
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Speaker 1: of being and a way of living in the world,
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Speaker 1: so that we make the conscious choice to be the
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Speaker 1: difference we want to see in the world. We make
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Speaker 1: the conscious choice now, not in some distant future. We
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Speaker 1: make that choice day in and day out, three sixty five,
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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, Okay, again. I'll tell you more
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Speaker 1: about that later. Let me bring in my friend and colleague,
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Speaker 1: Desi pain.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: I want to.
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Speaker 3: Welcome you to this podcast. I am so grateful to
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Speaker 3: have you as my very special guest today and I
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Speaker 3: would love to talk with you about what's happening with
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Speaker 3: you right now. I know that we're both dreamers and
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Speaker 3: we're going to focus today on never giving up on
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Speaker 3: your dreams.
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Speaker 2: So I just again want to welcome you, and would
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Speaker 2: you just tell us a little.
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Speaker 3: Bit about you, Desi and why never giving up on
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Speaker 3: your dreams is important to you.
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Speaker 2: Sure well, thank you Gloria for having me. And I
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Speaker 2: would probably have to say I am a big dreamer.
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Speaker 2: In fact, sometimes my husband just shakes his head when
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Speaker 2: I throw out one of the things or two of
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Speaker 2: the things are a dozen things that I'm going to
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Speaker 2: be planning on doing, and he just again shakes his head,
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Speaker 2: thinking I just can't believe you. And I think I've
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Speaker 2: always been that way, maybe because you know, on the
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Speaker 2: on the dischart on a ID, but but yeah, I
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Speaker 2: am a big dreamer. I love achieving things and adventure
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Speaker 2: and being creative. I think being creative is one of
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Speaker 2: my favorite things to do. If you say, why don't
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Speaker 2: you come up with something new with whatever it is,
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Speaker 2: then you know I'll just run with it. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: I love dreaming big dreams. And the thing is, through
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Speaker 2: the course of my life, I've had to learn not
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Speaker 2: to give up on those dreams because you know what
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Speaker 2: we both face and those are obstacles.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, Sojisie, would you tell us about I know
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Speaker 3: you're a writer and you're a seeker, and you have
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Speaker 3: a fairly recent book out called Do.
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Speaker 2: You Work with the Living Dead?
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Speaker 3: I love that title, So can you tell us a
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Speaker 3: little bit about the book?
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Speaker 2: Sure? Well, I started writing that actually a couple of
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Speaker 2: years ago because I started teaching workshops on attitude and
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Speaker 2: workplace and one night I walked through my living room
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Speaker 2: and one of those zombie shows were on. And I
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Speaker 2: don't get into zombies at all, but my husband and
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Speaker 2: my daughter were watching on. I just kind of shook
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Speaker 2: my head, like, oh, I don't believe this. But then
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Speaker 2: the more I thought about it, every time I walked
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Speaker 2: through the room, it just reminded me of people that
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Speaker 2: drag theirselves through the lots through life and have negative,
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Speaker 2: bad attitudes. It was a springboard for even expanding on
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Speaker 2: the workshop that I did, and so I wrote the
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Speaker 2: book and it's pretty much how to survive among lifeless
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Speaker 2: and negative people in the workplace. But then what's interesting
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Speaker 2: is not only is do I give strategies on how
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Speaker 2: to how to, you know, work with these what I
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Speaker 2: call workplace zombies. The book is also about what to
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Speaker 2: do with you get infected. And that's one of the
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Speaker 2: things a lot of people will even approach me with
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Speaker 2: after they've read the book. They say, you know, I've
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Speaker 2: this book because of these people I work with. But
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Speaker 2: then they say this, they say, you know what, when
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Speaker 2: I was reading the book, I came to the realization
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Speaker 2: that I needed to look at myself and I thought, wow,
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Speaker 2: that it was even you know I seen on the
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Speaker 2: cake for me once it was done. But I guess
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Speaker 2: when you go back to dreams, I would say, probably oh,
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Speaker 2: twenty five years ago, if I were to walk into
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Speaker 2: Barnes and Noble bookstore, I would say out loud to
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Speaker 2: anyone that was with me, someday I'm going to have
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Speaker 2: books in the Barnes and Noble bookstore. I and I
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Speaker 2: said that out loud two people for years and years
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Speaker 2: and years and years. So It was actually especially a
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Speaker 2: thrill for me last October when it was published and
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Speaker 2: I was in Cincinnati and I was at the world's
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Speaker 2: largest I mean it's the world's largest Barnes and Noble
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Speaker 2: book sighting. I think there were like twenty six authors
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Speaker 2: there and I forgot to take part of that. Congratulations,
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Speaker 2: thank you. So so that was a huge win for
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Speaker 2: me to, you know, to pug the book published and
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Speaker 2: go through that process. And onyn't you publish one book,
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Speaker 2: you get the bugs to write another and so yes,
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Speaker 2: so I ended up writing book two. Well, good for you.
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Speaker 3: And I know that in your notes you talked about
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Speaker 3: this book being a finalist a top ten.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so at the probably in the spring, I
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Speaker 2: found out that my book was in a category, a
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Speaker 2: business category to win an award. So it's in like
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Speaker 2: the top ten finalists to win award with the publisher,
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Speaker 2: which is huge if your book wins an award.
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Speaker 3: So tell us more about this, because you know, we
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Speaker 3: all run into people who have negative attitude sometimes, like
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Speaker 3: you said, you know about us, So why did you
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Speaker 3: write this particular book.
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Speaker 2: You know, I am from a family of very negative
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Speaker 2: people and holidays when you know everybody's going to be
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Speaker 2: coming over. It's almost like you put your guard up
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Speaker 2: because you know, you know conversations are going to turn
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Speaker 2: maybe negative or critical. And so that was probably the
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Speaker 2: main reason, you know, secretly writing this book to give
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Speaker 2: to all my different family members. But but you know,
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Speaker 2: it expanded so that you know, it would be able
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Speaker 2: to help people in the workplace. And and it's been
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Speaker 2: awesome because after I've even taught the Workshoper, people have
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Speaker 2: read the book. It's been so nice for people again
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Speaker 2: to say, you know, when I was reading this book,
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Speaker 2: I saw this person and this person and this person,
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Speaker 2: and so people were really able to relate with it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the st ategies I give, you know,
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Speaker 2: a lot of them are pretty practical. For example, a
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Speaker 2: couple of them are don't descend to another person's level
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Speaker 2: or go to their grave is what I call it.
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Speaker 2: Is because a negative person doesn't want to be the
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Speaker 2: only one negative or griping or complaining. You know, they
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Speaker 2: want to drag other people into it. And just like
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Speaker 2: their secondhand smoke, I believe there's secondhand negativity and if
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Speaker 2: you're around it, you can be sucked into that. And
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Speaker 2: so it's really important to do different things. If you
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Speaker 2: work those kinds of people, or if you see those
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Speaker 2: people in the grocery store, to distance yourself. But then
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Speaker 2: if you can't distance yourself from those people, especially if
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Speaker 2: you work with them, you know. I give some different strategies,
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Speaker 2: but the one I say is probably the most important
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Speaker 2: is to infect them with your own positive attitude. Let
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Speaker 2: you be the one that infects them versus them infecting you.
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Speaker 3: Oh that I love that. And you talk about getting CPR,
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Speaker 3: So what do.
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Speaker 2: You mean by that? Yes, you know, if you were
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Speaker 2: to take your pulse right now, you know, I would
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Speaker 2: hope you'd have your pulse. But you know what, I
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Speaker 2: think it's important that we take our attitude pulse. And
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Speaker 2: if we find that we're we're among the ungrateful dead,
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Speaker 2: or we're acting like any of these negative people, then
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Speaker 2: we need CPR. And that CPR is number one. C
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Speaker 2: stands for choice. It's always your choice on how you're
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Speaker 2: going to act. And it's interesting, you know, when I
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Speaker 2: wrote this book, I got this nickname the Attitude Adjuster.
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Speaker 2: And I was in the grocery store one time and
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Speaker 2: it was one of those days when the line for
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Speaker 2: one only one aisle one checkout was open when I
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Speaker 2: was in a hurry and the line was so long,
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Speaker 2: and there was a part of me that just wanted
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Speaker 2: to glare or you know, act like, you know, what
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Speaker 2: is the problem here? And because I knew I had
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Speaker 2: this nickname the attitude adjuster, I thought, you know, you
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Speaker 2: never know who's watching you, and so I thought, you
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Speaker 2: know what, I am going to be cool, calm and collected.
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Speaker 2: In fact, when I get up to the checkout gal,
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to talk to her and ask her
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Speaker 2: how her day's going. And you know, she went on
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Speaker 2: to tell me that they had several people that called
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Speaker 2: up sick. You know, she had no control over that.
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Speaker 2: And so it taught me a lesson that day that
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Speaker 2: you really do have the ability to take control in
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Speaker 2: a situation where your attitude is concerned. So ceased. In CPR,
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Speaker 2: C stands for choice and P stands for perspective. It's
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Speaker 2: so important to always have the right perspective. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I've had the wonderful privilege about a year ago to
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Speaker 2: speak with Nick Voichich at an event in Texas, you know,
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Speaker 2: to fifteen thousand youth. And every time I see Nick,
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Speaker 2: I always think I have so much to be grateful for.
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Speaker 2: I mean, here's Nick kloicha to man without arms and legs. Yes,
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Speaker 2: And and we lose perspective very easily when we get
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Speaker 2: up in the morning not thinking how grateful we should
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Speaker 2: be for every single thing that we have. And if
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Speaker 2: you are grateful, if you have the right perspective, it's
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Speaker 2: going to affect your attitude. And then r in CPR
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Speaker 2: stands for reboot your brain. And uh so, for example,
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Speaker 2: you if your computer is not acting right or it's stuck,
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Speaker 2: you get aggravated with it, and so you have to
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Speaker 2: reboot it. So you have to hit control, alt and delete. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's what you have to do with your you your attitude.
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Speaker 2: You have to reboot your brain. You have to control
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Speaker 2: what you're thinking about, alternate those thoughts with good thoughts
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Speaker 2: and you have and then that that will delete those
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Speaker 2: negative thoughts. So that's a part of rebooting your brain.
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Speaker 2: And then another part of rebooting your brain is humor
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Speaker 2: and laughter, you know, incorporating more humor and laughter into
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Speaker 2: your life, because anytime you laugh, it really does reboot
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Speaker 2: your brain because your brain chemistry change. So so that's
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Speaker 2: essentially CPR for your attitude. H. Well, I love that.
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Speaker 3: And so someone gave you the name of the attitude adjuster.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was the H was called the attitude adjuster.
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Speaker 2: So I kind of just span with that for a while.
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Speaker 2: And so so it's on my website, you know, and
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Speaker 2: the attitude adjuster. So yeah, and then it keeps me
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Speaker 2: in line.
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Speaker 3: That's so important as a And I love the CPR approach.
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Speaker 3: Could you go through the C and the P and
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Speaker 3: the R again because I know that there are people
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Speaker 3: out there taking taking notes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, sure, m C stands for choice. It's always your
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Speaker 2: choice on what kind of attitude you're going to have.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you choose that attitude no matter what is
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Speaker 2: happening around you. P stands for perspective and a lot
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Speaker 2: of that has to do with gratitude. Then then OUR
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Speaker 2: stands for reboot your brain. And I think there's two
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Speaker 2: ways to reboot your brain. One is to control what
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Speaker 2: you're thinking about in your thoughts. And the other way
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Speaker 2: to reboot your brain is with laughter, because when you
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Speaker 2: do laugh, it does change your attitude, let alone change
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Speaker 2: the chemistry of your brain to make you feel better.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so thank you, And I know you know, when
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Speaker 3: I think about perspective. This little thought runs through my mind.
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Speaker 3: You know, when we change our perspective or hardly look
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Speaker 3: at things, then the things around us actually begin to change.
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Speaker 2: That's so true, That is right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I hadn't planned out asking you this question.
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Speaker 3: So if you don't want to answer it, just tell
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Speaker 3: me that I love how you talk about, you know,
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Speaker 3: rebooting your brain and you humor right, and you and
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Speaker 3: I had you know, we talked a while ago and
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Speaker 3: another another interview and you talked about your town.
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Speaker 2: Sure sure, sure, sure. So Actually, you know that has
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Speaker 2: a lot to do with the dreams in my life.
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Speaker 2: You know, after I graduated from college, I got a
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Speaker 2: job at a hospital and I did not like it
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Speaker 2: at all. I mean, it was very stressful, but I
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Speaker 2: ended up staying in that job for a very long time.
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Speaker 2: And then after that job, the door opened to another job,
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Speaker 2: which was which is funny, I was the complaint department.
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Speaker 2: But I actually loved that job and it was always challenging.
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Speaker 2: But had I left, had I left that job, I
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Speaker 2: would not have had the opportunity for my life to
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Speaker 2: change because that door opened up to a whole new
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Speaker 2: life for me. Because while I was working at the hospital.
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Speaker 2: There was a professional clown and when I would get
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Speaker 2: complaints from patients, I would, you know, call Hm out
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Speaker 2: and say, I mean he was on staff. I'd say, hey,
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Speaker 2: I need to go see this this patient because they're
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Speaker 2: really grumpy. And he would go in do his magic
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Speaker 2: and it was amazing. Well, one night he was at
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Speaker 2: a banquet where I was actually performing as the entertainer
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Speaker 2: and I was a mine and I did my mind
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Speaker 2: skit and he came up to me. I mean he
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Speaker 2: made a beeline write up to me afterwards, and he
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Speaker 2: asked me, who taught you how to do that? And
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Speaker 2: I said to do what He said, well, what you
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Speaker 2: did on the stage. And I said, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just I don't know. I taught myself. I did it.
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Speaker 2: And he said, have you ever thought about going to
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Speaker 2: clown college? And I thought, oh, my goodness, that is
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Speaker 2: the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And my husband, my
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Speaker 2: husband hates clowns. That is crazy. Well, he kind of
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Speaker 2: kept at me and finally one day he throws a
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Speaker 2: sure on my desk and he says, the University of
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin is going to have a clown college experience up
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Speaker 2: in Des Moines. Iowa. I'm about an hour and a
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Speaker 2: half from there, and he said, why don't you go,
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Speaker 2: And I thought, oh, now, I'll just go. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: I can learn how to do a blue animal for
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Speaker 2: my Sunday school class. Well, little did I know going
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Speaker 2: to that clown college experience, which was for clown college,
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Speaker 2: it changed my life and I to make a long
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Speaker 2: story short, I went to clown school and I was
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Speaker 2: able to be trained by professional entertainers from around the
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Speaker 2: world who understood the art of clowning, not just throwing
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Speaker 2: on makeup and going out and being goofy, but actually
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Speaker 2: the art of a clown. So I became a professional
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Speaker 2: clown and he actually wanted to mentor me to take
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Speaker 2: his place at the hospital, which I ended up doing
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Speaker 2: for twenty two years. Actually retired from the hospital as
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Speaker 2: from a professional last December. But you know, I saw
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Speaker 2: cancer patients kids, I've worked in the emergency room. I see.
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Speaker 2: I worked all over that hospital as a as a
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Speaker 2: professional clown, and then little did I know, doors were
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Speaker 2: going to open. I ended up being a guest performer
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Speaker 2: with Ringling Brothers. I worked on Royal Career bringing cruise
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Speaker 2: lines and I was in high demand for schools to
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Speaker 2: come and teach kids about character anti bullying. And so
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Speaker 2: I mean I worked literally full time, a lot of
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Speaker 2: times fight and six days a week in clown makeup,
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Speaker 2: and I did that. I mean it was a very,
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Speaker 2: very rewarding, rewarding occupation. And with all that said, I
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Speaker 2: learned the power of laughter. I learned the power of
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Speaker 2: humor and what it does to a person when you
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Speaker 2: make somebody else smile and make somebody else laugh. So
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Speaker 2: my background has a lot to do with helping people
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Speaker 2: laugh and smile, and so thankfully that has come into
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Speaker 2: my speaking world and my career, and that has actually
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Speaker 2: helped me a great deal on being very busy as
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Speaker 2: the speakers.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you just never know, right, You never know.
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Speaker 2: And you know what, it's interesting. One morning I was
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Speaker 2: watching Good Morning in America and Jay Leno was on,
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Speaker 2: and it was one of those feel good shows where
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Speaker 2: he was giving away one of his mini cars to
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Speaker 2: a veteran. You know, you had the tears in your eyes.
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Speaker 2: But he said something that caught my attention, and he
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Speaker 2: said this. He said, if I have not gone through
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Speaker 2: a day without making somebody smile or laugh, I have
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Speaker 2: not done my job. And I thought, what a great
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Speaker 2: philosophy to adapt into your own life. I mean, to
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Speaker 2: be intentional about every day helping somebody else smile or laugh.
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Speaker 2: And I tell you, if you have that philosophy, it
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Speaker 2: will it will change your attitude about life. If you
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Speaker 2: will change your attitude in a day, if that is
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Speaker 2: your goal to help other people's.
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Speaker 3: Ye, yes, I love that. Well, thank you, thank you
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Speaker 3: for sharing that. And you talked earlier about sharing the
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Speaker 3: stage with Nick Voye Chase, and could you say a
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Speaker 3: little bit more about that? And you know, I know
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Speaker 3: that your big team again is to never get up
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Speaker 3: on your dream. So if you could tell us about
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Speaker 3: Nick and maybe give us a few more examples of
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Speaker 3: that as well.
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Speaker 2: Sure. Well you know so I just told you that
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Speaker 2: I told you that my husband couldn't stand clowns, and
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Speaker 2: here I'm going to become a professional clowns. Well he
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Speaker 2: did eventually like one, and that was me. But you
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Speaker 2: know I I'll never forget the night that I told him.
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Speaker 2: You know what, I want to join the John Maxwell team.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to become a motivational speaker. And he looked
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Speaker 2: at me and he said, oh my goodness, I can't
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Speaker 2: stand motivational speakers, and I just was thrown for a
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Speaker 2: loop and I thought, oh my goodness. But you know what,
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Speaker 2: I one to respect. I thought, huh, you didn't like clowns,
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Speaker 2: but you did end up liking me. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: have to prove myself to you. And then when I
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Speaker 2: started leaning out of that profession and in town was
22:13
Speaker 2: talking to different business people about becoming a motivational it
22:17
Speaker 2: was interesting that I actually had business people that said,
22:21
Speaker 2: you will never make it in this town as a
22:24
Speaker 2: motivational speaker. And I was like, oh my, I mean really,
22:28
Speaker 2: it was kind of heartbreaking. And they said, because you're
22:32
Speaker 2: known as this professional clown in town. And so that
22:37
Speaker 2: was kind of in the back of my head for
22:39
Speaker 2: a long time. Thankfully, now I'm also well known as
22:43
Speaker 2: a speaker and been hired many many times in this town.
22:46
Speaker 2: But it was in the back of my mind. Well,
22:49
Speaker 2: when I became a John Exell team members. You know,
22:51
Speaker 2: when you go to Orlando and you go through the
22:53
Speaker 2: three day certification. That first day you see ten different
23:01
Speaker 2: John Maxwell team members go up on the stage and
23:03
Speaker 2: they get to do their three minute speech and it's like,
23:06
Speaker 2: you know, it's like pretty it's a wow thing. And
23:09
Speaker 2: I remember thinking, well, when I come back in six months,
23:14
Speaker 2: when they do this again, I want to get up there.
23:16
Speaker 2: I want to get on the stage. So that was
23:20
Speaker 2: my dream. Well, I didn't realize that it was going
23:24
Speaker 2: to be a grougling process to go through the interview
23:27
Speaker 2: process with We both know Roddy Gaalbroth, and you have
23:32
Speaker 2: to submit your videos and he wants the highest quality
23:37
Speaker 2: in speeches. If you, I mean, if you want to
23:40
Speaker 2: share the stage of John Maxwell, it's got to be good.
23:42
Speaker 2: And I remember speech after speech after speech that I
23:46
Speaker 2: suaid it and he would just say, you know what,
23:48
Speaker 2: you need to go back and do this again, and
23:50
Speaker 2: I was like, ah ah. But finally I remember the
23:55
Speaker 2: day when he said, you know, I think this is
23:57
Speaker 2: going to be great. And so I made it through
24:00
Speaker 2: stage the stage one of around when is probably what
24:04
Speaker 2: I should say. And then so if you make it
24:07
Speaker 2: through round one, when you get to Orlando, you audition
24:10
Speaker 2: in front of other people. And I remember walking into
24:14
Speaker 2: that room and my plane was late, so I actually
24:17
Speaker 2: got in on the last ten minutes of being able
24:20
Speaker 2: to get into that room, and I rushed in the
24:23
Speaker 2: room and I sat down and he walked over to me,
24:26
Speaker 2: I mean within seconds, and he handed me that microphone
24:29
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, oh, it's my turn. And
24:33
Speaker 2: I went up there and I froze, literally froze, and
24:41
Speaker 2: he was kind enough to, you know, asked me if
24:44
Speaker 2: I wanted to start over or no. I asked him
24:46
Speaker 2: if I could start over, and he said yes, and
24:49
Speaker 2: I froze again. I mean I just stared at everybody
24:51
Speaker 2: like a deer in headlights, and you know, everybody was
24:55
Speaker 2: so gracious, Hey, we love you, you can do this,
24:58
Speaker 2: and you know, I look back and I the third
25:00
Speaker 2: time round. I don't know what I said, but I
25:03
Speaker 2: remember going back to my seat wanting to hide underneath
25:05
Speaker 2: the take out. Of course, didn't pass, didn't make it
25:09
Speaker 2: to this big old stage time. But I thought, you know,
25:13
Speaker 2: six months later, when I come back, I'll do it again.
25:15
Speaker 2: And went through the whole grueling process of submitting video
25:20
Speaker 2: after video after video, and then you know, I made
25:24
Speaker 2: it through the process, and so when I got there again,
25:28
Speaker 2: you know, I felt more confident. But when I get
25:30
Speaker 2: up on the stage about halfway through, I noticed that
25:33
Speaker 2: my legs were shaking so bad that it tripped me
25:39
Speaker 2: up and I just stared out at everybody again because
25:45
Speaker 2: I totally couldn't remember what I had just said. I mean,
25:47
Speaker 2: it freaked me out, and I remember walking out and
25:53
Speaker 2: thinking this is not for me. I'll never do this again,
25:57
Speaker 2: I'll never come back again. And I I mean, I
26:00
Speaker 2: went up called my family and I was just devastated,
26:03
Speaker 2: and I have I mean, as an entertainer, I've been
26:06
Speaker 2: in front of thousands of people, been on stages, and
26:09
Speaker 2: for me to not be able to say a three
26:12
Speaker 2: minute speech was so tough. And so a couple months later,
26:19
Speaker 2: I am actually speaking out of college to new college students,
26:23
Speaker 2: and I'm speaking to them ironically about their dreams and
26:29
Speaker 2: their life and how they should never give up on
26:31
Speaker 2: their dreams. And literally, while I am speaking to them,
26:35
Speaker 2: I'm having this conversation in my brain and I'm saying
26:39
Speaker 2: to myself, how can you talk to these kids about
26:43
Speaker 2: never giving up on a dream when you gave up
26:46
Speaker 2: on your own dream, You're a hypocrite. And I mean,
26:52
Speaker 2: I'm talking to these kids and thinking all these things,
26:55
Speaker 2: and while I'm talking to them, I ended up talking
26:58
Speaker 2: to myself and saying, you're not going to give up
27:01
Speaker 2: on your dream. You're gonna you're gonna get back up
27:03
Speaker 2: on that stage. And I remember when I went through
27:09
Speaker 2: the process again, submitting video after video video, and finally,
27:13
Speaker 2: you know, one was accepted. I remember putting my head
27:17
Speaker 2: on my desk and literally making the decision are you
27:22
Speaker 2: going to go for it or not? And I decided
27:26
Speaker 2: I was gonna. I mean, HI was so determined. I
27:30
Speaker 2: was like, I was like Rocky Nothing, nothing was going
27:34
Speaker 2: to stop me. And when I got on the plane
27:39
Speaker 2: to fly to Orlando, it was an hour and a
27:42
Speaker 2: half flight, and I shut my eyes and I said
27:45
Speaker 2: that three minute speech every three minutes until I got
27:50
Speaker 2: to Orlando. And then when I got to the hotel
27:54
Speaker 2: and I got settled, I went into the halls of
27:58
Speaker 2: the Marriotte down in the conference center, and I looked
28:01
Speaker 2: for people and I asked them, can I do my
28:04
Speaker 2: speech for you? And you know what, I didn't want to.
28:06
Speaker 2: In fact, I had stayed with my sister and I
28:10
Speaker 2: did it for her and she says to me, well,
28:13
Speaker 2: when you do it, you might have a little bit
28:15
Speaker 2: more enthusiasm. I thought, this is not a good start.
28:22
Speaker 2: And so I found some people and I did it,
28:27
Speaker 2: and I messed up just a little bit, but I
28:28
Speaker 2: thought I did it, and so I ended up probably
28:32
Speaker 2: went around about ten different people and I say, can
28:35
Speaker 2: I do my speech for you? I mean, I was
28:36
Speaker 2: so determined. And then on the day, you know what
28:40
Speaker 2: it's like on that day, you don't know if your
28:43
Speaker 2: name's going to be called or not. And they called
28:46
Speaker 2: they called ten people up. So I sat there and
28:49
Speaker 2: I wrote out my speech all day long. And you know,
28:54
Speaker 2: when Rodny got up there and announced the person, guess what,
28:57
Speaker 2: my name wasn't called and I was and I just
29:02
Speaker 2: my heart sunk. But you know what, a couple minutes later,
29:07
Speaker 2: he said, you know what, I have somebody else that
29:09
Speaker 2: I want to come up on the stage and he
29:11
Speaker 2: announced my name and I was in the very back
29:16
Speaker 2: and I just was like, I mean, I just was
29:19
Speaker 2: like wow. And all the way up to the stage,
29:22
Speaker 2: I was saying my speech. So you know, it's thank
29:30
Speaker 2: goodness it's recorded, because I mean, anybody can go to
29:33
Speaker 2: my YouTube channel and they can watch me do the
29:36
Speaker 2: speech that I did, because my speech was about messing
29:39
Speaker 2: up the first two times and so so you know,
29:44
Speaker 2: that was that was a huge dream for me. And
29:49
Speaker 2: because I didn't give up. Give up. You have no idea,
29:52
Speaker 2: the amount of confidence that was built on the inside
29:55
Speaker 2: of me for doing that and speaking in front of
29:58
Speaker 2: three thousand people, So yeah, it was it was. It
30:02
Speaker 2: was huge to be able to do that, and so
30:05
Speaker 2: it prepared me for six months later when I was
30:10
Speaker 2: going to be speaking before Nick Voygic in an arena
30:13
Speaker 2: to fifteen thousand kids. And so I truly believe what
30:18
Speaker 2: you're doing today is always preparing you for what you're
30:21
Speaker 2: going to do tomorrow. And absolutely don't give up on
30:25
Speaker 2: your dreams, no matter how small or how big they are.
30:29
Speaker 2: I love that.
30:30
Speaker 3: I was just writing as you were talking, like not once,
30:34
Speaker 3: not twice, but three times. Yeah, self talk and just
30:39
Speaker 3: getting up there and having the courage present yourself.
30:43
Speaker 1: Again and again and again.
30:44
Speaker 3: And I do know what that process is like. So
30:47
Speaker 3: I'm reading it with you. Congratulations. I love the image
30:51
Speaker 3: of rocking because at the end, I'm just imagining your
30:54
Speaker 3: hand just umping that you know, big b that he
30:57
Speaker 3: does right.
30:58
Speaker 2: Well. Well, what's funny is after the speech I did
31:01
Speaker 2: jump up and down so and then Roddy says finally, so, yeah,
31:09
Speaker 2: you'll have to go on YouTube and watch watch my
31:11
Speaker 2: John Maxwell stage speech.
31:14
Speaker 3: Congratulations. I noticed that that story is such a powerful
31:19
Speaker 3: story because so many times we have a dream and
31:23
Speaker 3: a lot of us don't get started, right, but those
31:25
Speaker 3: who do, it's not like an overnight, instant thing. You
31:29
Speaker 3: have to really really work hard and stay in there
31:33
Speaker 3: and you know, stay committed. So congratulations, Deasy, well.
31:37
Speaker 2: Thank you. And you know, from the first time that
31:40
Speaker 2: I went until I finally did it, I think it
31:43
Speaker 2: was a total of four years. Oh my wow.
31:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, But as you said, you know, that was equipping
31:50
Speaker 3: you unbeknownst to you at the time, but that was
31:53
Speaker 3: eclipping you for an even bigger audience and bigger platform.
31:57
Speaker 3: And you know, how cool is it to talk to
31:59
Speaker 3: fifteen thousand kids with Nick voyaging.
32:02
Speaker 2: Right right?
32:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, yeah, that's that's that's just astounding. Thank you,
32:08
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you. So tell me, I know that
32:11
Speaker 3: you have done so many very cool things in your
32:15
Speaker 3: in your career as an entertainer, as a seeker, as
32:19
Speaker 3: a clown. And how has this pandemic shaped or influenced
32:26
Speaker 3: or impacted your career.
32:29
Speaker 2: Well, it's some impact, actually impacted it in a huge way.
32:33
Speaker 2: Because my last speaking event was March sixth, and in
32:40
Speaker 2: March and April through the summer, I had a record
32:44
Speaker 2: number of speaking events. I mean I was blown away
32:47
Speaker 2: by how many I was booked. And it was like overnight,
32:51
Speaker 2: I mean it seemed like overnight they were all canceled
32:56
Speaker 2: and I started getting the calls, getting the emails to
32:59
Speaker 2: the point where or literally everything was canceled and until
33:05
Speaker 2: I think this week will be my first speaking event
33:08
Speaker 2: that I will be live, which I'm just so excited.
33:10
Speaker 2: They have no idea the amount of energy that I'm
33:12
Speaker 2: gonna be bringing to them. But but yeah, it and
33:18
Speaker 2: so you know, it gave me a huge perspective because
33:23
Speaker 2: of the way I'm paid through my corporation, I was
33:25
Speaker 2: not able to get even unemployment, and so it gave
33:28
Speaker 2: me a different perspective on what happens when you have
33:32
Speaker 2: no money coming in. And my husband and I also
33:36
Speaker 2: own a business in the in one in our local mall,
33:39
Speaker 2: and for two months the mall was closed, but we
33:42
Speaker 2: still had to pay a huge rent, internet insurance and
33:45
Speaker 2: all that, and and there was a couple of times
33:48
Speaker 2: I literally got in my car to take it to
33:51
Speaker 2: the car dealership and say, I have to give my
33:53
Speaker 2: car back, and so it was so I have I
33:58
Speaker 2: have a new perspective of on being on the side
34:03
Speaker 2: of having really serious financial needs and how you're going
34:10
Speaker 2: to adapt and deal with that. And so with a
34:14
Speaker 2: couple of the things that I did, because I hate
34:16
Speaker 2: to waste time, and especially since I wasn't working, I
34:19
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time. My YouTube channel was stress Busters,
34:23
Speaker 2: so I did a lot of those. And then I
34:25
Speaker 2: wrote my second book, which is ironically about stress. So
34:30
Speaker 2: it's called give Me some Chocolate, I'm Stressed, and it's
34:36
Speaker 2: from a faith perspective, so it's faith filled strategies on
34:40
Speaker 2: how to refuel, recharge, and redo stress. So it'll be
34:42
Speaker 2: published in January. But I also had an opportunity because
34:48
Speaker 2: I needed to work my mother lesser heart, I had
34:52
Speaker 2: the opportunity to help her fulfill one of her dreams.
34:55
Speaker 2: And that's seventy nine years old. My mother decides to
34:58
Speaker 2: open a restaurant COVID. So I just decided I was
35:04
Speaker 2: going to go all in and help her and get
35:06
Speaker 2: this going. And it's it's opened and it's going well.
35:11
Speaker 2: And and now with speaking of events that are going
35:15
Speaker 2: to be starting actually this week, you know, I'll be
35:18
Speaker 2: winning myself out of that. But I've been able to
35:20
Speaker 2: spend time with my mom and be a blessing to her.
35:23
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's been it's been a very interesting year
35:26
Speaker 2: for all of us.
35:28
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am indeed, and it sounds like you are learning
35:32
Speaker 3: a lot. And I'm just praying for you that you
35:36
Speaker 3: will have those seeking engagements that were canceled earlier. Just
35:40
Speaker 3: you know that your cavendar discontinues to fill for the
35:44
Speaker 3: rest of this year and beyond.
35:45
Speaker 2: Desi, thank you, and so.
35:49
Speaker 3: I just want to thank you again for joining us today. Desi,
35:53
Speaker 3: you are positively amazing. I love just the breath of
35:57
Speaker 3: your background, love your passion.
36:00
Speaker 2: I'd love that you're a.
36:01
Speaker 3: Woman of faith, and just thank you so much for
36:05
Speaker 3: never never giving up on your dreams.
36:07
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Gloria, all right, thank.
36:10
Speaker 3: You, thank you.
36:13
Speaker 1: So inspiring. Clearly, Desie is an amazing leader. She makes
36:20
Speaker 1: a difference in her own life and in the lives
36:22
Speaker 1: of so many others in her family, her community, and
36:26
Speaker 1: throughout the world in her work as the stress Less Coach.
36:32
Speaker 1: To learn more about Desi's work, you can go to
36:35
Speaker 1: her website and that's www. Dot Desi Paine and that's
36:41
Speaker 1: d s I p A y n E. Www. Dot
36:48
Speaker 1: Dezi Payne dot com. Okay again, I'm gonna spell it
36:53
Speaker 1: for you because I know we have listeners all over
36:55
Speaker 1: the world and I want you to be sure to
36:57
Speaker 1: get this. It's www dot Desi Paine d E s
37:03
Speaker 1: I p A y n e dot com. You can
37:08
Speaker 1: also check out Desi's books and I love these titles.
37:11
Speaker 1: Do you Work for the Living Dead?
37:14
Speaker 2: Right?
37:15
Speaker 1: And another title is give me some Chocolate I'm stressed. Now.
37:23
Speaker 1: Be sure to connect with Desi directly as well. You
37:26
Speaker 1: can do that by going to her YouTube channel, which
37:29
Speaker 1: is called stress Busters. Very very cool. Okay, if you're
37:37
Speaker 1: just joining us, I'm doctor Gloria and this is Legacy
37:41
Speaker 1: Living Make your Life Count. We just heard from my
37:46
Speaker 1: very special guest, Desie Pain, motivational humor speaker, trainer, leader, author,
37:53
Speaker 1: and fabulous John Maxwell team member. If you want to
38:01
Speaker 1: make your life count, if you want to be the
38:04
Speaker 1: change you seek, be sure to listen to this show
38:08
Speaker 1: again and again. And hey, be sure to tell somebody right,
38:13
Speaker 1: tell your friends, your family, your coworkers. All right. You
38:18
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38:37
Speaker 1: before I close, I just want to give a shout
38:39
Speaker 1: out to all the women, men and our young people
38:43
Speaker 1: all around the world, because you know what, we are
38:47
Speaker 1: the ones. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
38:52
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that? Here's what I mean.
38:55
Speaker 1: Don't wait, Do not wait for somebody else to stay
39:00
Speaker 1: step up to make things happen in your life, because
39:03
Speaker 1: you know what, they might not step up. In fact,
39:07
Speaker 1: they might not even know you're waiting for them right
39:10
Speaker 1: to do something. But you can be the one. Can
39:13
Speaker 1: I just tell you something. You are the one. You
39:17
Speaker 1: are that person in charge of you. You are the
39:20
Speaker 1: one who can make a difference in your own life
39:23
Speaker 1: so that you can model and make a difference in
39:27
Speaker 1: the lives of people in your life. Your sister, your brother,
39:30
Speaker 1: your mom, your dad, your auntie, your uncle, your teacher,
39:34
Speaker 1: your boss. You are the one. You know something. It
39:41
Speaker 1: is truly amazing how much impact we have as leaders
39:45
Speaker 1: in the workplace, in our communities and in our own family,
39:51
Speaker 1: especially in our family. That's where it all begins, right,
39:56
Speaker 1: Leading begins exactly where you are. You your spouse, with your
40:02
Speaker 1: own children, right in your own kitchen, around the dinner table,
40:06
Speaker 1: helping out with homework, when you go to church, or
40:09
Speaker 1: when you go out shopping. So, moms and dads, even
40:13
Speaker 1: when you think that your son or your daughter isn't
40:17
Speaker 1: paying any attention at all, let me tell you something.
40:21
Speaker 1: They are. They are listening, they're soaking it in, and
40:25
Speaker 1: more than anything else, they are watching you. Because, you
40:31
Speaker 1: know what, more than anything else we can do, we
40:37
Speaker 1: can demonstrate our leadership right. And leadership is caught, not taught.
40:43
Speaker 1: That's right, leadership is caught, not taught. Now, let me
40:48
Speaker 1: be really clear. Your children are scoping you out. They
40:53
Speaker 1: observe everything you are, and everything you say and everything
40:59
Speaker 1: you do. Most importantly, know that they are watching you
41:05
Speaker 1: to see if what you say and what you do
41:08
Speaker 1: match up. Now, our actions really do speak much much
41:13
Speaker 1: louder than our words. A good friend of mine who's
41:17
Speaker 1: a former CEO always says, as a parent or as
41:21
Speaker 1: a leader, in any context, your walk has got to
41:26
Speaker 1: talk louder than your talk talks. Let me repeat that.
41:31
Speaker 1: She says, your walk has got to talk louder than
41:35
Speaker 1: your talk talks. Why is that? Because that's how we
41:41
Speaker 1: build the bridge called trust. That's how we strengthen our
41:46
Speaker 1: bond with those we love. That's how we deepen our
41:50
Speaker 1: relationships one step at a time, inch by inch, mile
41:56
Speaker 1: by mile, and smile by smile at home, at work,
42:01
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42:06
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42:10
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42:15
Speaker 1: It is never too late to get your walk and
42:19
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42:22
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42:25
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42:27
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42:29
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42:34
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42:37
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42:41
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42:47
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44:52
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44:54
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44:57
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Speaker 1: Gloria Burgess, and this is Legacy Living. Make your life count.
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Speaker 1: Join me again next time right here for another episode
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Speaker 1: of Legacy Living. Make your life count. Don't just count
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Speaker 1: the days in your life, Make the day in your
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Speaker 1: life count. That's what legacy living is all about. Have
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Speaker 1: a fantastic day and remember, make the days in your
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Speaker 1: life count. God bless you. That's our show today. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join
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Speaker 1: me again next time. Until then, don't just count the
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Speaker 1: days in your life, Make the days in your life count.
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Speaker 1: That's what legacy living is all about. Here's to you
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Speaker 1: have a fantastic day and be sure to make it
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Speaker 1: a yes kind of day. Remember to celebrate the music
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