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Season 3 - Episode 334 - Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So talking about the claymation show Rudolph the Red Nosed
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  Reindeer today. Why the heck is she talking
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  about this? Well, because first of all, it
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  used to be one of my favorite things when I was a kid to wait
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  all year long and see Rudolph come on and sit there and watch
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  it. And I was always enamored with
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  it, how they did it. I couldn't get over how mean
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  everyone was to him and I could not get over that the adults
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  were just as mean as the kids. And you know, last two, two
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  nights ago, three nights ago, we watched it.
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  My son and I watched it and you know, it's an unedited version.
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  It has lots of things in there that we in today's world could
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  sit there and say is offensive. And when you really pick at it,
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  you can find quite a few of them.
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  Quite honestly. However, the crux of why we're
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  talking about this today is the fact that Rudolph, for all his,
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  you know, great history, we all love the story of Rudolph the
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  Red Nosed Reindeer. We think he's, he's the star,
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  you know, he's the, he's the hero of Christmas when you know
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  the story. But when you really go back and
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  you look at how he became the hero, it truly is the hero's
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  journey. It is him having this horrible
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  experience as a child, leaving because he felt like he was so
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  different meeting up with, you know, Hermie, who wanted to be
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  the the dentist and the two of them taking off to into the
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  Bumble and Cornelius and all of these other, you know,
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  characters that take them on this journey and they have to go
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  off. And then his father finally
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  figures out, you know, he was wrong.
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  He's got to go find his son. And then his mom and Clarice
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  take off looking for him and he comes back and he discovers that
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  they're in danger and he has to go look for them.
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  And then he truly becomes the hero.
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  It is quite the epic journey and it really does define a hero,
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  his journey. And as I was watching it and I
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  was thinking about, my goodness, if this isn't a hero's journey,
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  I don't know what is. This is this is stunningly right
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  along that line. One of the things that cat that
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  really caught my attention was how much he grew through that
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  journey and how much he was not going to diminish his light, no
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  pun intended. But really it's such a great 1.
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  He would not diminish his light anymore to make somebody else
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  feel comfortable or to put them at ease because he was
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  different. He was willing to shine as
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  brightly as he could, as different as he was.
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  And I sat there and I said to my son, who's almost 16, as we were
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  watching it, I said, you know what's really funny about this?
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  I mean, think about it. Think about how this works when
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  somebody's different and they try to fit in.
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  I mean, why try to fit in? Why?
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  What's the purpose of trying to fit in and what's the reason
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  that we do it? Why are we so terrified to not
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  fit in in some way, shape or form?
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  Now, what's interesting to me about this is even when you are
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  strange and you have when your own mind, a strange version of
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  yourself, that's where I'm talking about.
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  It is a strange version of yourself.
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  You're still trying to look typically for other people that
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  are strange like you. Like I spent a lot of time
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  looking for people that were strange like me, my kind of
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  strange. Because inherently as human
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  beings, we all want to be part of a group and we all want to be
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  part of something. And sometimes we morph into
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  things to be part of something. They're maybe not exactly who we
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  are, but we can morph into it. So I know as a child, I did not
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  hang around with other people who wanted to farm and grow
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  vegetables and plants and all of that.
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  Yet that was just part of what I loved.
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  I learned it from my dad and my uncles and I just was like, OK,
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  this is me. I love this.
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  But I didn't, I, I didn't like, I couldn't find people that
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  wanted to do that and I was terrified to go off and do it on
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  my own. So I let that part diminish.
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  My light went very dim for a very long time.
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  And once I was able to get it, once I was able to see what was
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  happening and I was able to bring it back out, it didn't
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  matter if I had people or not. It still doesn't matter if I
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  have people or not. I'm going to shine that light no
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  matter what. Hence doing this podcast from a
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  chicken coop. So my point of bringing it up is
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  whatever your strangeness is, whatever your weirdness is,
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  wherever you are, just embrace it.
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  And we don't always have to find the group.
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  We just have to recognize like Rudolph did.
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  Doesn't matter. He's.
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  The only one that's got a Red Nose?
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  Guess what? He's the only one in the story
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  that's got a Red Nose. And he didn't.
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  Care at the end he was like, all right, I got it.
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  I'm owning this Red Nose and I'm saving Christmas because I'm
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  going to be the bad ass reindeer who saves Christmas.
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  And I know it's a story people. So please, if you're going to
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  message me, I know it's a story, but it's a good story because he
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  was able to be his original version of himself and it's so
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  awesome that he did. All right my friends, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and shine on and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.