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The Surprising Truth About Personal Growth | Episode #416 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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