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Finding Peace · Business Roundtable

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All right, well, welcome back everybody to the Business Roundtable podcast. I'm
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one of your hosts here, David Carr Steward your Business, where I help
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business owners and their teams focus on overall engagement in organizational health. So we're
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gonna be talking about a topic of health, particularly peace today. But before
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we get into the specific topic, I'll let everyone else introduce themselves. I'll
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start with Bill Hatch. Go ahead, Bill, introduce yourself to the audience.
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Hi. My name is Bill Hatch. I am a leadership guide and
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podcaster. I host the weekly show Not Quite After Midnight, and I co
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host a couple of other podcasts each week and just having some fun. Yeah,
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we're great to have you back. Bill. We have Stacy Kinoshida back
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this week, which is awesome. Stacy, would you introduce yourself? Of
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course? Thank you, Stacy Kinoshida. I am a business resource specialist and
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what I do is work with business owners on strategies to address their workforce concerns,
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their company culture, as well as their cash flow through different programs,
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so the tax incentive programs and other ways of infusing cash back into their business.
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Thank you. Oh that's great, and I know you're gonna have a
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lot of great comments based on that for our topic of peace tonight, and
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then we're going to have our Charlie Chen, our facilitator tonight on this topic
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Intronace himself and take on take over the show. So go for it,
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Charlie. Awesome, thank you, Thank you again for putting this together,
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David. So always a pleasure and privilege to be a part of this roundtable
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and bring value to our audience here. So my name is Charlie Chen,
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the cybersecurity specialists of the group here and what I do is I work as
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a Chief Experience Officer Foreign tell Us is where our focus is delivering a world
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class client experience and most importantly that peace of mind. So this is a
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perfect topick, uh during this time the holiday seasons, bringing peace on earth.
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And so I actually we you know, as part of this roundtable,
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what we'd like to do is bring valuable resources to empower you to measure because
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because what's measured and and and tract is how we're gonna know if we're gonna
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if we're actually growing. So there's something cool, yeah, absolutely, So
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there's something cool when it comes to peace, Like you know, are you
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at peace? That's that's very vague and subjective, right. So there's actually
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a cool resource that we're going to dive into the high points. It's called
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the Peace Index Assessment. And so the piece index essentially talks about five different
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key areas in your UH to to be able to help you assess, you
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know, whether you're you're at peace, where you stand with UH. So
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i'd like to bring you up, David, what what would you say if
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you could share with the audience those five areas are in terms of what the
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Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I'm excited to be able to share this with
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with you guys, this piece assessment of which everyone will actually be able to
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take. But really it's a framework of understanding and this kind of five areas
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like you just talked about, Charlie, oftentimes like our purpose, UH,
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where where we're at, what we're what we're here to do, our place,
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our physical environment, where do we find ourselves living and working daily,
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our provision, how do we provide for ourselves, for our family, the
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people around us, in our personal health. So there's five p's in there.
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If you can remember that, well, we'll go back and touch on
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that. Each one of us look God at the comment on it. But
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yes, and just what you're saying, Charlie, we're here going at the
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end of the end of the years time and this and I find that there's
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a lot of hustle and bustle which we really want to find peace, but
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oftentimes it's it's a little bit of chaotic. So I'm excited to listen and
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learn from each of you, like where have you guys found peace along this
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this this journey. So thanks, thanks Charlie for the opportunity to share that.
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Yeah, my pleasure. Yeah, So don't worry about trying to take
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notes and jot down everything because we're actually going to share the link to the
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assess the free assessment, so you'll you'll be able to dive into the five
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areas for for the piece index. And so I like to start with you,
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Stacy, So, uh, just to share with the audience, you
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know, how fulfilled are you in your purpose right now? And what is
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if you don't mind sharing, what is your purpose? Oh my goodness,
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that's a that's a big question there, and so let's let's unpack that.
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So I know I was created to serve, I was created to my purpose
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is to basically serve serve others in helping here's, here's, here's. I'm
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struggling to articulate myself, but I believe that I find the greatest fulfillment in
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helping others fulfill their their visions and dreams. And when I see and and
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also when I see myself in going in the direction that I feel God has
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called me to go, I feel that that, you know, that is
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my biggest purpose is to serve and also to to build that relationship with with
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my Lord and Savior. I believe we were we were created to not just
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survive this world, but to thrive. And the way to do that is
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through the relationships that we create here on earth as well as with our relationship
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with God or whoever you want to call the universe or whatnot. But I
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think without without that, there is no purpose. But I think when people
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talk about their purpose, it also it has to be grounded in something.
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You know, a lot of people talk about, you know, my purpose
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is this and that. But I feel like there's where's that source of that
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purpose And mine is in my own biblical beliefs. That's where I find my
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sense of purpose and so so ultimately that's that that you know, and your
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question was what is my purpose? And then what your second question was about
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related to values and passion and aspirations. Everything I do think your data you
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you're the most healthy person, is related to my values and my passions and
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my aspirations. I feel like life is dull without following your passions and your
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aspirations. People who go through life with just mundane steps and just have no
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sense of where they're going are the most miserable souls on on earth. And
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as long as I align myself with my values and I feel that everything that
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I do is align with my purpose and I'm moving in that direction, then
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uh, then I feel like I'm living in my purpose. So putting there,
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Yeah, some comments, I'm on my own assessment. I was typing
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in the little chat our comments between each other here, but just I know
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I'm agreeing with you, Stacey. It is like being in alignment. But
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oftentimes sometimes I mean, here's the reality though, I think where we get
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out of piece for me is we get we get disconnected from our values or
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our passion and we do things that are not in alignment with those things.
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We lose our aspiration or we lose our motivation or inspiration, and then our
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piece goes down in my experience. But sometimes we don't realize that because we're
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just like, oh, do the work, do the work. I'm in
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the thing with the grind, yeah, And before you know it, you're
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like, oh, man, why do I feel off? Like you're saying,
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Stacy, that's where I like, that's a big question. You're absolutely
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right, But I guld that was that was like, you know, how
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do we get paying attention to those things when we're out of alignment? Right?
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It's like a car. You drive a car right, if it's out
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of alignment, it starts to drift right. It doesn't stay because something's happened,
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it's got off kilter. I think that's where we lose our piece,
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is can we pay attention to that? And sometimes it's not a huge like,
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it's not like it's just okay, just got to move it back a
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little bit, right, Stacy, Right. And I mean, I don't
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want to dominate the conversation, but I do want to add to you know,
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a lot of times we look at this sense of purposes. Here's the
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purpose. But again, if you've got to look at the different areas of
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your life, and I think the assessment also breaks that down is is what
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is your purpose with your with your family? What is your purpose with in
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the different areas of your life? And I think when you don't focus on
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the specifics the smaller picture, the big picture looks chaotic. So, for
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example, if your purpose is to serve others or to help uh, you
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know, others fulfill their dreams and you're living a life where you're eating junk
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food and you're not exercising and you're not doing anything, you you cannot fulfill
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your purpose. If you've got a body that's broken down, or or if
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your mindset is always negative and you always and you're constantly depressed and you know
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so uh, and you don't work on those different areas of your life,
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or how you view yourself and how you your self esteem is low and you're
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all of those things. You know, we don't look at that as that
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is all part of the bigger the smaller pieces that make up the bigger picture.
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And you've got to pay attention to all those different little areas because that
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ultimately is going to give you that sense of fulfillment that you are actually living
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in your purpose. And so I think that's where we fail and when when
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life starts to get chaotic, when we're we think, okay, I'm here
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to serve I mean I'm not people who they believe that they're they're here on
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earth to serve God, and all they do is go to church, go
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to church, go to church. But there's no balance in their life with
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their family. They don't spend enough time with connecting with their loved ones,
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their health has deteriorated. There's you know, and so it's easy to to
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it looks like a glorified friend. Oh we're living in my purpose. But
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really, when you break it down to all the specifics, are you really
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in alignment in all those different areas of your life or at least close to
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being alignment? So that and I think that that's where people actually feel the
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most fulfillment and the most peace in their life because they know that they're moving
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in alignment with their purpose and their values and whatnot. So I'm gonna list
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somebody else, Thakbely we're getting excited. Thank you for sharing, Stacey.
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And there's a reason I started with purpose. It's definitely in the north star
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that we want to align all the different areas and different aspects of our lives
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too, and so thank you for touching on those different areas and and and
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and just not looking at just a purpose only, but how that all ties
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in together because the win in one area is a win in all areas and
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so and yeah, and so I love to Bill, bring Bill in because,
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uh, your your leadership guide and and I I'd love to hear the
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journey of how you uncovered that purpose of being a leadership guide and and how
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you help others, other leaders to uncover their purpose. Well really, uh,
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it started back in the nineties, a million years ago. And when
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I had I had moved back to southern California because I wanted to work on
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cal Poly's Rose Parade float. And so I went to uh went to cal
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Poly and Amona the good cal Caling and and joined up with the Rose Parade
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committee. And I led that group for for two years and we won banners
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each year, and that really started my journey there. Then in the in
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the late two thousands, I went back to school to finish up my bachelor's
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ended up getting Bachelors of Business Administration and Marketing and Management. I had I
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found I had particular strengths in leadership. And so when when one of my
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professors asked me to help him develop a program for leadership that the State of
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California had had hired him to do, I jumped at the opportunity. And
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yeah, I've been doing it off and on since then. And then when
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I decided to go back to school to get my master's degree, the school
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wanted to make sure I knew how to write at a graduate level, and
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so they made me take a class and in that class, they they had
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me study a chapter from this book that one of their professors had written on
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leadership and it it it caught me off guard, you know, and uh
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and it really it really presented this attractive style of leadership and uh and I've
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been working on that ever since. In fact, I've started working on a
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book on the subject and hope to have a Mastermind started hopefully this next year.
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Depends on when the book gets finished. It takes a long It can
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take a long time to write a book. Yeah, what's the name of
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the book, But well, it doesn't really have a name yet, but
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right now, the working title was leading with Purpose Love it? How perfect
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is that? But but yeah, yeah, and leading with Purpose that does
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kind of fit in with tonight's conversation. But yeah, and uh yeah,
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so I've really I've really found a purpose in doing this. Yep, as
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soon as I finish it, Yeah, exactly, very cool. Well,
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the next piece, so there's five piece. The second p is actually people,
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so we'll go the other way around. So, David, how healthy?
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How does you know just having healthy relationships or like with those that are
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in your life? How does that? Why does that matter? Like,
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I mean, it's that's it's it's really critical. I mean, so I've
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been I've been married for eighteen years, have to learn to live with another
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person and how to navigate that. It's not always a better roses, right,
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there's challenges, but people are different, and so part of this piece
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is really knowing who you are, uniquely designed and created, and then how
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do you fit with others around you in a way that's more in harmony than
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in conflict. And this is actually really kind of we talk about purpose.
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My purpose or my wife is bringing people together to accomplish great things. It
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is finding that and melding them together. However, there it takes time,
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maturity takes understanding oneself to appreciate the differences that are out there, and oftentimes
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we've talked about like your leadership voice in the past, for example, certain
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voices or certain ways of being can be irritating. It could be frustrating to
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others on the team, and you're like, why they keep showing up that,
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why why are they doing it this way? I don't get it.
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I'm frustrated to understand it. So what happens I found, Charlie, is
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that we allow other's people to rob us of our peace, if you will,
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we choose that. Honestly, if you think about we're actually choosing that,
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we're allowing that to happen. And so this idea of who are in
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your life, who are you allowing into your life? Who are you you
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know, being a part of what are you opening yourself up to? I
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think is really really important. And some of it we have we have we
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always have a choice of how we can respond. That's absolutely some of the
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things we don't have choice of. You know, our brothers and sisters are
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certain family, there's certain things we just have a part of our life.
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But I find that there's ways that we can then be more proactive and how
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we show up. I think Curtis had mentioned this maybe a couple of episodes
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of that. We talked about boundaries like right boundaries or or fenses, if
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you will. Those are good things that you can find to create true piece
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actually at times. But with the whole concept of people, what you're saying,
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Charlie is did you even account for that because you might not think about
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how your piece is being thrown off by the people that you have in your
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life. So yeah, absolutely, mhm, no, there's there's definitely value
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in making sure that I think the boundaries is a good place to start,
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because if if there's no clear concept of it and respect of it and being
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able to communicate and enforce your boundaries, it's hard to find peace. So
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it's quite interesting that it's actually boundaries that set you free, which is kind
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of a paradox, right, like a oxymoron almost, And so because without
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boundaries, you don't know ever where you stand and and and then you just
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feel like at a constant state of chaos. And so one agree with that,
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yeah, Bill, So in terms of just other ways, like you
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know, being the leadership guide that you are, like how do you develop
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you know, how do you coach leaders into in terms of how to manage
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those interpersonal relationships, how to enhance that, how to how to identify,
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you know, different breakdowns and and work through. Right, because conflict resolution
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is not something that we grow up learning about in school, and so we
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typically, you know, just allow our physical wiring, like our our our
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archaic wiring as human beings of fight, flight or freeze. And so how
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do we transition from that? Right, that primal reactive tendency too, you
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know, a actual response, a wise response. Right, how how do
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you make that transition? Well, you have to remember that it's really hard
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to affect the person on the other side of the fence. So you need
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to be careful about where you what you place boundaries around. You know,
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you can't you can't isolate yourself out from from everybody because you know, part
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of our purpose is to affect people, hopefully for the positive. But but
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yeah, and uh, and conflict isn't always bad. You know, there's
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there's certainly unconstructive conflict. But you know, usually we refer to competition as
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as good, but that is in essence a type of conflict. But uh,
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you know, we need to we need to manage these things in order
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to have positive relationships with other people, you know, and uh, and
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you know, not just have these angry you know, knock down, drag
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out fights. Uh and and call that conflict and good because it's not.
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But on the other hand, we can't just we can't just kick all the
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people who are who are not positive out of our lives entirely. One.
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It's not good for them because they need a positive influence. But but also
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for us, where are we going to grow? How are we going to
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grow? You know, I often use find myself using this as a as
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an example. But when one goes to the gym, you know, to
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to grow muscles, you have to have resistance and and uh and if you
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don't have conflict, then you can't grow those muscles either. And so you
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know, so you need to uh, you need to care, but you
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need to be careful about it. You don't wanna you don't want to overblow,
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you know, you don't want to put the thousand pounds start out with
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a thousand pound weight. But but you don't want to go in with an
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empty barbell either, you know. So, uh, you're just not going
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to get anywhere then awesome, Yeah, no, that's a great point.
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And great, great reframing of conflict, because uh, it's the challenges that
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that one indicate that there's you know, people actually care about, you know,
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what's at stake here, and and it's the breakdowns that that are access
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to break that gives you access to breakthroughs. And so I love to hear
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Stacey, do you mind sharing an example of a time when you know you
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had like a challenge, right that seemingly frustrating situation with relationships where that actually
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led to a breakthrough. I would love to. I think David has a
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question for me. I had a question for Bill on this and maybe in
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for you to Stacy, because I find you know whether there's that conflict and
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built tell me what your thoughts on Stacy. In in the leadership side is
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when people are not clear on their role or responsibility and then there's like,
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Okay, well what am I supposed to doing here? So again not there's
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a lack of peace because I don't know clearly what my role or responsibility is,
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and then there's going to be conflict well I'm supposed to do this or
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I'm I'm not going to do this, and it causes disruption in the organization.
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Just but I want to just build maybe your thoughts and then Stacy,
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when you share your thoughts on that great, great question. I belonged to
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a team and I'm one of the team leaders, and I just want to
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share an experience. So there's someone on my team, you know, we
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talked about the different types of personalities and whatnot and and understanding my leadership style.
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I had to there's someone that I had to really I don't want to
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say come to Jesus moment, but I had to just really just try to
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understand what my person I'm a very direct person. Let people probably figure that
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out right now. And the and the person that I'm working with is more
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of a h Ai nurture avoiding, avoid, avoid, avoider. Yes,
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now not a nurture, but avoid and and I can lose my patience with
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people who just, you know, just avoid things because I want to,
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like, let's just knock this out and get it over with. And so
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there was a time when this person actually in front of the team, the
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team accused me. What was that person there's on the the the leaderships actually
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accused me of being dishonest. And this is this is not even this is
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in front of me, three or four people on my team. And what
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I said was, and I'll call this person joke. I will tell you
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if it's male female. And I said, and and so we're talking about
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conflict and boundaries. Okay, So I said, you know, Joe,
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if you and this was something that this person had been resent resentful of,
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some kind of action that I'm thinking it's resolved. We had this conversation and
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I said, if you've got an issue with me, then you need to
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pull me aside and address that personally, not bring that to in front of
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the team. And and so so what ended up happening is and both of
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us are professing believers, So I brought in some of the Biblical values and
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I said, look, you know we're we're on the same team. We're
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on the have the same purpose and the goal, so let's work together.
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But if there's a conflict, let me tell you where I'm coming from.
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From one believer to another. Bible says, if you have a conflict with
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someone, then you go to them directly and you address it. Now.
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If they refuse to hear you, then you bring somebody else in then you
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Okay, So I said, are you are you willing to abide by by
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that at least, you know, we're both saying we're professor believers. And
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she said no, and I said, okay, So I'm thinking, okay,
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now I got to redirectly, where are these boundaries going to go right
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now? Thinking that we have the same values, we're both coming from a
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biblical perspective, and she's actually saying no. So I said, okay,
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so continue to do, you know, do business with her. And then
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there was another explosion. So I said, you know what, I've got
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to figure out where these boundaries are. She's definitely not going to communicate with
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me directly, and every time I do, there's drama. I don't like
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drama. So I brought in. I brought in the head broker and I
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said, look, this is what's going on. And so he stepped in
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and had a call for both of us. And now I'm still following.
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I tried to go to her directly. Now we're bringing in somebody else.
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And this person said, look, you guys are on the same team,
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you're moving in the same direction, and you have the same purpose. Why
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don't you work together? I mean, basically, you're being foolish creating this
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drama. He didn't say that, but that's my trip. Dat, You're
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being foolish creating all this drama and this relationship. And the whole time I'm
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thinking, Okay, where are the boundaries run my expectations as a leader?
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How am I going to do this? So finally I called and I said,
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you know, look, I said, I apologize if I offended you.
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I said, but we need let's set some guidelines as to how we're
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going to communicate with each other because we obviously there's miscommunication. And I said,
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so if you have X, Y and Z issues or you need to
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communicate, then because what happened was when I call, it was just constant
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fussing and I just say, you know, I don't need this drama.
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And I hung up on her and she was offended by the hang up,
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And so I established the boundary. I say, okay, so when we
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have this issue, then this is how we're going to resolve it. That
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was my way of re establishing boundaries of how we were going to to deal
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with any type of conflict between the two of us. But I tell you,
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sometimes, you know, I got to have a come to Jesus moment
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with myself because some of these people I want to straggle, and so I've
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got to look at myself as a leader and how to be effective. I've
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got to But in setting boundaries relationships, how we grow. I will not
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allow this person into my personal space because she's very adversarial as far as wanting
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to attack me. But I feel that if she's on my team, if
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the goal is for us to win, then I'm going to do whatever it
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takes for us to win and for her to win. But that doesn't mean
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that I have to allow her in my personal space and do Kumbaya moments and
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have You know, there's some there's some boundaries there and with her the fence
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might be a little bit wider, but but there's definitely a fence for me
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to be able to keep my peace because you know, some people just can
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disrupt your peace if you allow them and if you don't set those boundaries.
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So that's my example of how I put into action what we are talking about.
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Amen, all right, so are you at peace with that person?
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Now? I'm in at peace. I'm at peace because I've had I have
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those boundaries in place. I don't Yeah, I know, I you know,
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I don't some people hold in a lot of conflict or whatnot. Once
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I have those boundaries established, I'm at peace. Like I don't. I
28:42
don't hold it in and she did this to me. I would rather use
28:47
my time in being proactive than retroactive. And so so as long as I
28:52
know what the expectations are for me as a as a leader, and what
28:56
her she understands her expectations, then I'm fine. But I have to be
29:02
careful because some personality types like the little jab and so when when people start
29:07
jabbing is when I have to put myself in check and say, no,
29:10
let's you know, I'm not going to react to this. I need to
29:12
understand what my role is. Again. I like how we're tying all this
29:15
in in a real life, you know, situation. But I still put
29:22
myself in check with certain people because I know that I could I can go
29:26
off on somebody they start acting crazy and you know, well, yeah,
29:33
you talked about Stacey your piece, and then how do we affect other people's
29:37
piece too? So yeah, that's a great I thank you for sharing that
29:40
story because that's real world, you know, how do you handle it?
29:45
There is another side of boundaries, as well, is focusing on our internal
29:53
focus of control. So I'm sure Bill you've heard that term before, So
30:00
can you all elaborate more about that and if Obviously, basically my understanding of
30:07
it is basically focusing on what we can control within ourselves as opposed to focusing
30:15
on how we feel and determining how we feel based on what's happening outside of
30:21
us, which we don't have control over. That's the other the flip side
30:25
of boundaries as well. So Bill, do you mind sharing a little bit
30:27
about that? Sure, Well, you know, we have we do have
30:34
to know what we actually have control over. You know. There in the
30:40
end, it turns out we have very little control over a lot of things,
30:45
and uh, and trying to control those things is just going to lead
30:48
to frustration, a lack of peace. And you know, uh, how's
30:56
the how's the old the old prayer, Go Lord grant the uh oh shoot,
31:04
how the peace the wisdom to uh to know yeah, to know what?
31:10
But yeah, right right and uh and uh you know, so we
31:17
definitely need to h to work on that. But but yeah, you know,
31:25
the the focus of control really we we need to control ourselves because we're
31:32
really the only the only thing that we can control our behavior is our responses,
31:40
you know, and uh, and how we how we act toward others,
31:45
you know. You know, States certainly brought up a lot of a
31:48
lot of biblical so I'll go ahead and uh and bring up a little more.
31:52
Paul said, Uh, inasmuch as it is up to you be at
31:56
peace with everyone, it's not U as much as it's up to them.
32:04
It's as much as it's up to you. And uh, you know.
32:09
So, so, yeah, the focus of control really needs to be inside,
32:14
I think, because trying to control others is a losing battle. Yeah.
32:21
Well, you know, and you can't just elaborate on that. You
32:23
know, when you have a type a personality, there's some controlagis trust me
32:30
and so and you know, I want things done and I want it done
32:35
right, I want it done now. And what I've learned is that,
32:37
you know, Uh, the challenge I have is that if everything rises and
32:42
falls on leadership, and so if it goes wrong, it is the leader's
32:45
fault. If it goes right, the leader's fault everything. So you know,
32:50
there's a point in time where you realize, you know, I've got
32:52
to take responsibility for it, but you understand that you really there's some things
32:55
that are out of your control. And when you realize I've done everything in
33:00
my power to at that time and made the decisions based on what was best,
33:06
Uh, there's a time to let go and just say, you know,
33:09
and be at peace at because I did what was right or made the
33:14
best decision at that time. Did it create some chaos? Probably? You
33:19
know, was it was it the absolute best decision for the company? Maybe
33:23
not, But at that time when I made that decision, I had to
33:28
make it, make that decision and be at peace at it. So sometimes
33:30
just letting go of control and just understanding that you do all you can do.
33:36
I think was it Genro and uh, all you can do is all
33:39
you can do, and all you can do is enough. And sometimes you
33:43
have to accept the fact that all you know, it has to be enough
33:45
because that's all I that's all I have to get, even though there's chaos.
33:50
So you know, and I think that that's part of being at peace
33:54
with yourself as a as a leader, is just doing all you can and
33:58
being at peace with that decision. So yeah, yeah, absolutely, I
34:01
mean people is I mean, people are complicated, right, including ourselves,
34:06
and so we we we we are difficult and so are other people. And
34:10
understanding the differences is what's going to help us give that give us that peace.
34:16
And so the other side, the next pe I'd like to dive into.
34:21
So we have purpose people now we got placed. So David, I
34:25
think you're the perfect person for me to start with on this. How does
34:30
the environment right, having the right environment increase or decrease your sense of peace
34:36
and balance? Yeah, this is a this is a great one. Well
34:38
for those of you that don't know. Before I started the steward your business,
34:43
like we actually worked in the environment as a biologist for over twenty years.
34:49
Uh, and so I'm big on the natural world and our and our
34:52
human world and oftentimes actually you think about that, why do people go to
34:59
the mountains? I live in the mountains now, But why do people go
35:01
outdoors? Right? Because they need some quiet, they need some peace?
35:07
Right, you heard about like go to the mountaintop or go out and walk
35:10
in the garden. There is actual physically, there's scientific evidence actually that supports
35:16
this about how our minds and our bodies recharge. And so I really get
35:24
excited about this part of Charlie, because this is one that we can be
35:30
very intentional about. Wherever we're at, we can, you know, we
35:37
can look for ways where we can make an ideal environment that helps us be
35:42
more successful. This could be in our office, our physical space, the
35:45
things around us, and it literally puts us in our mindset of each of
35:53
these things can can contribute or detract from our peace. And for the particularly
36:00
living you know, work from home, it can be challenging because you're living
36:06
and working in the same space, just particularly now today's age, So you
36:10
have to be very intentional. If you're not intentional, literally people are working
36:14
out of their bedroom. Lets you just use that example, working out of
36:16
your bedroom, which should be a sacred safe place to relax and decompress.
36:22
Right, but you're stressing out and you're doing all this work. You're telling
36:27
you you're missing your mind up. Your mind is saying learning to me,
36:30
getting different messages. So if you're not even thinking about that intentionally, like
36:36
you're not realizing how much you need to have a transition and be able to
36:38
create that space. So I think this is such a good importance. And
36:45
now we're in this season of Christmas too, right, look at the environment
36:47
around us. People love Christmas decorations, all these things around us because it
36:52
creates a certain feel and environment. Right, and this has gone. It's
36:55
a different experience, right, You're like, well, this is different,
37:00
looks different. This I'm giving an extreme example because we don't have that most
37:02
of the rest of the time of the year. But that is just so
37:07
fundamental to me to understanding your place and your physical surrounding and the way you
37:13
live. Excuse me, is if you're not you're not finding harmony in that
37:19
or not. So I would love to hear from you guys, all of
37:22
you on like what has that been for you at work or home? Hybrid
37:28
world. Absolutely, yeah, it looks like Stacey's got a nice, very
37:35
peaceful, very virtual background there, you believe it or not. That's why
37:44
I sometimes use virtual backgrounds to create a piece of feeling of piece and srendity.
37:49
But I'm very sensitive to my environment and I understand that about myself,
37:53
and I might be I don't want to say extreme, but even like my
37:58
closet, I'm a a I don't know if you guys know, but but
38:00
my closet, like I have to be able to walk in my closet and
38:04
know where all the black shirts are a short sleeve, long sleeve, and
38:07
where the blue shirts, and I know where everything is. The people think
38:13
that that's crazy that I have to be so organized, but I can walk
38:15
in there and feel a sense of peace when I get dressed in the morning.
38:19
I know where all my stuff is. I don't have to stress.
38:22
But I could be extreme too. If I have a drawer for scissors,
38:25
and when I was married and had kids at home, and somebody moved the
38:29
scissors and be like where the scissors, Like this was being this drawer and
38:31
you know. But so that's where you give up control and you learn,
38:36
Okay, it's just a pair of scissors. We can live with the scissors
38:38
being moved. But I do things throughout every area of my environment or add
38:45
in other elements to be able to create that environment. So in my office,
38:50
I actually have a infuser, so I put scents in there. I
38:54
have my Google Hub, so when I could feel myself stressed, I will
39:00
detached from my work and then ask Google have to play some music for me,
39:02
so I could just break away from that. And that's what I find
39:06
is that I have to create different situations and spaces for me to be able.
39:10
And then even the way I decorate my office that brings me a sense
39:14
of joy to just looking at like beautiful environments at home too. I mean,
39:20
someone when I moved into this apartment said, well, why don't you
39:22
put your TV in your bedroom? Like, I don't want a TV in
39:24
my bedroom. I want my bedroom to be a bedroom, and so I
39:29
don't want a TV. I don't want anything other to start. I want
39:31
to go in there and just feel this sense of peace. Decorating my home
39:36
that brings me peace but sense. And I'm very central in the sense that
39:39
I look at the five senses and how I can utilize that to create a
39:45
a you know, enhance my environment to bring that sense of peace. But
39:49
it also could be you know, like a lot of noise if I'm around
39:52
a lot of people and there's a lot of drama, just removing myself from
39:57
that that drama and just finding a quiet place where I can just calm my
40:00
mind, and that again puts me in a commerce state of peace. So
40:07
for me, it is, you know, working with my five senses in
40:10
my environment. Yeah, I mean, even though we can't control, you
40:17
know, what other people do, but we can control what environment we put
40:22
around ourselves or we put ourselves in. So now, David had mentioned about
40:29
how we're all working from home now and so well a lot of us are
40:34
at least, and so like, I'd love to hear Bill, how how
40:38
have you been able to separate because you obviously have a different podcast, you
40:42
have different projects, you're writing the book, you know, you have obviously
40:47
your personal life as well, like and then we're always just living those yeah,
40:54
exactly, So how do we how do we keep that like peace among
41:00
like all the different areas of our life because they're also intertwined and intermingled.
41:05
Like, how do you for going back to that concept of boundaries, right,
41:09
how do you create boundaries with like your work and your personal life?
41:15
Stacy? Yeah, Stacy actually touched on on a little bit of that,
41:22
and that's that's for me. When I was living in southern California, still
41:30
my uh, my, my cousin and I were using uh, we're using
41:35
a one bedroom apartment and uh and basically the bedroom, as David said,
41:42
is also was also my workspace, was also where the TV was, where
41:49
there was there was all sorts of all sorts of overlap. There there were
41:53
no boundaries between between the different things. The podcast wrong done there, the
42:00
everything, and you know, but now the house that we're in has three
42:07
bedrooms, and I have a separate office, so I've got my own bedroom.
42:14
I have a TV in my bedroom, but mostly I just use it
42:17
for music. But and but I have a separate office, which is in
42:25
a separate part of the house. It's not even it's not even like a
42:29
converted bedroom. It's in a completely different area of the house. And so
42:34
whatever is going on and the rest of it, I really can't hear,
42:37
you know, what's going on. So you know, so there's there's the
42:42
ability to and really as far as things like you know, like like meetings
42:46
and podcasts and and things of that nature, you know, I really just
42:52
have to bounce, you know. I I set that off by schedule so
42:57
that it's like, okay, from twelve to one, and that's what's happening
43:01
at this time and nothing else right, And you know, it's funny,
43:07
even even while here on vacation with my parents, there's kind of been some
43:10
of that. You know, it's like, okay, at twelve o'clock on
43:14
Thursday, is podcasts and you know, and and things like that, even
43:20
though I don't have the ability to really separate out from the rest of the
43:24
of the condo here for a decent workspace. But but yeah, as far
43:31
as at home, you know, I've got an office. There are office
43:36
things in the office and not other things, and so you know, it
43:43
really puts me in the in the mentality to work. You know, my
43:46
chair is comfortable. I've got one of those desks that can adjust height so
43:51
I can stand up at it if I get uncomfortable, and you know,
43:55
and stay healthy in that workspace, and you know, just keep it,
44:01
keep work separate from the rest of the rest of life, because you know,
44:07
we do need to have a rest of life. You know, I
44:10
may a joke about not having a personal life, but it doesn't mean I
44:13
don't want one. Yeah, the balance between resting and working is definitely a
44:22
real thing that would contribute to our peace or lack thereof. That's why human
44:28
beings were designed to require eight hours of sleep ideally, right, So that's
44:34
a third of our life. Now, if if we think about, oh,
44:38
wouldn't we be so much more productive if we didn't need to sleep so
44:43
much or we didn't need to sleep at all. That's not how it works,
44:46
right, It's like we're designed to have that cycle of working and resting
44:52
so that way we can have peace and then we can come back more energized.
44:57
And so I love that you know both of you have that separation,
45:01
and and and David for bringing the awareness of having those separations and making sure
45:07
that we honor those different areas without allowing them to cross over each other.
45:15
And so the next area I want to go into speaking of work is provision.
45:20
So that's the fourth P. And so provision is your ability to bring
45:24
an income or different resources that add value to your life. And so I
45:31
guess we'll go back the other way. So, so Bill, in terms
45:36
of provisions, right, like, how does how does financial provision or or
45:43
lack there of, how does that impact or affect your peace? H oh
45:52
wow? It as the as the the roller coaster of of of the tide
46:00
of financial success ebbs and flows. It has certainly affected my piece. You
46:09
know, uh, you know, money can't buy happiness, but it can
46:12
certainly rent it. No, seriously, though it's not having money is stressful
46:24
because where's the next payment XT coming from? You know? Am I going
46:30
to have electricity next month? Am I going to have a roof over my
46:34
head? Or food on my table? You know? And and while money
46:38
really can't buy happiness, you know it can certainly it can certainly having it
46:44
can certainly alleviate a lot of those stresses in life and allow you to focus
46:47
on the things that are truly important. Yeah, absolutely, Okay, you
46:54
know is that the money money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy
46:58
you a big boat. And you can say right up there, right right
47:02
and and Stacy, I know that you know obviously one of the there's a
47:07
lot of things that you do too, uh, to stand for for and
47:14
to different ways that you different platforms that you use to serve people, you
47:19
know, to fulfill your purpose observing. And so one of the ways that
47:22
I know of is is helping people with financial literacy. And so this fits
47:28
in really well with you know, this fourth p of provision. So why
47:32
is it that you chose that you know, the folk that as a as
47:38
a vehicle for you to fulfill your past, your purpose? And you know,
47:45
why is that such a big thing that impacts our our piece, our
47:51
piece? That is a great question I want to put in a comment.
47:57
You know, entrepreneurs are are people who serve. We're here to solve problems
48:04
for people, and that's a great way that we serve humanity, serve our
48:07
families, serve in many ways. I was a business owner. I owned
48:13
a learning center, and that was one way that I served in providing employment
48:17
opportunities and helping people achieve their educational goals. I chose this particular platform I'm
48:25
gonna talk in two super ways. One is just as a business model.
48:30
I chose it because I believed that I could make a great and one is
48:34
that I had a successful business model that I could use to be able to
48:38
rebuild my life. I closed my learning center and started this business, so
48:43
one was again, the choice was the business model. But the reason why
48:46
I'm passionate about the crusade of financial literacy is because I do believe that there's
48:52
an injustice in our country, that there is a lack of financial education,
48:59
and that the final industry really takes advantage of our ignorance. And when I
49:02
see so many people and so many families impacted by that, it takes me
49:07
off. I could say a few other words, but you know what I
49:10
mean. It takes me off. And so you know, my background wasn't
49:15
in education, and so I think people say knowledge is power, but knowledge
49:20
is nothing without without without applying. You've got to be able to apply that
49:27
knowledge. And one of the reasons why I feel I make a great impact
49:31
and serving is because I believe in educating people, not just selling them a
49:37
product or not, but educating people so that they can make educated decisions on
49:40
where they want, what they want to do to create generational wealth or impact
49:46
the next generation. I feel like when I do impacts not just the current
49:51
generation, but generation after generation. If I can change the mindset or get
49:54
or inspire this current generation to uh to start saving and look out for the
50:00
next generation, now we can create more Rockefellers. Not that everybody's going to
50:04
be that, but you know what I'm saying. They the reason why the
50:07
Rockefeller family is as well off as they are is because generations past looked out
50:10
for future generations and they educated the future generations or setups away for the next
50:19
generation to benefit from their heart labor. And I feel like a lot of
50:22
us work so hard to support our families, provide for our families, but
50:27
I think there's something bigger in setting your family up for generation after generation.
50:32
And that's what I do is empower people to be able to do that.
50:37
But it's got to start with one family at a time. So I chose
50:40
that because I feel like that where we are in our country pretty much we
50:46
are just lost when it comes to money. We're the wealthiest country in the
50:52
world, and yet probably eighty five ninety five percent of us don't know principles
50:55
about money or how money works. So we're just been really like suckers,
51:00
people who just you know, and that that has to stop. That has
51:04
to stop. So that's why I'm passionate about what I do. Oh we
51:08
lose, you'll be right back, okay. So that's why you know,
51:13
I'm passionate about what I do, and I believe it does. It not
51:16
just serves the individual, but it serves families, it serves generations, and
51:21
it serves our society as a whole. So absolutely, absolutely no, I
51:27
absolutely think it's definitely the gap right between the wealthy and and everybody else is
51:35
just so huge, and it starts with the mindset. It starts with that
51:39
vision of thinking long term rather than just the immediate now. Exactly exactly,
51:46
absolutely well, I wanted to bring you in, David as well on this
51:52
before we dive into the last pe is is the provision part? Because I
51:57
don't believe provision is just about like the Finance show, because oftentimes we're so
52:01
hammered by society and our upbringing that the only two areas to focus on is
52:07
your career and your finances, and and so there's like ten other areas,
52:13
uh that lead to a balance and peaceful life. Uh in the north Star
52:17
being the purpose of course, and so uh in terms of provision, I've
52:23
I've tried to live by this. I don't know who said it, but
52:27
there's never a shortage of money. There's there's only a shortage of ideas.
52:31
And so the amount of money that that that you earned is is in direct
52:37
proportion to the value that you bring to the marketplace. So you know,
52:40
with that context, like how how would you say, you know, our
52:46
audience can tap into some peace of mind or just find peace in terms of
52:52
provision when they're like like I'm up to debt my eyeballs, you know,
52:55
with all these payroll, all the expenses of running a business, like it's
53:00
just a real gut check. That's how many business owners would call it.
53:06
So, so how would you say, how can we shift that right?
53:10
Like when we're in the in the weeds, in the trenches of building our
53:15
business, how do we find that piece from a mindset downpoint? Well,
53:19
so, okay, so if we're in just putting ourselves in that in that
53:23
place, like you said of stress, loss of peace, Charlie, I'll
53:29
use another driving analogy your story. You guys are ever driving and I'm up
53:32
in the mountains where we get the snow gets covers the road and you see
53:37
a pothole. What happens? Do you drive toward the pothole and crash into
53:40
the pole? Oftentimes people put eyes in the pothole, right, and they
53:44
go damn because they're like, oh my goodness. So what it takes,
53:49
Charlie, is there are potholes. It's inevitable, right, they're gonna come.
53:53
It's not it's not if they are. The real reality is if you're
53:58
in in in the pit, if you know is you've got to go.
54:01
I think Winston Churchill said this, if you're in hell, keep going.
54:06
You know you've got to get through it. Right, So, but what
54:09
are you focusing on? That's really the question. What is what's your desired
54:15
story or your vision for the future. And from what I found you talked
54:20
about mindset. Charlie. You said this idea that there's enough money to go
54:23
around, which I believe there is. We as business owners leaders, we
54:30
have to come from a place of abundance, not a deficit. Right,
54:37
even if you know we're not there. We have to know where do we
54:39
want to go? What do we envision the best? You know you hear
54:45
about sports analogies. The people that can visualize winning when they're down, they
54:50
can see they've already in their mind see how they can win. The moves
54:53
they need to make further down the line. They know, they believe that
54:58
and they're going to achieve that. So it really starts in your mind.
55:04
And since we're just throwing out quotes, another quote that kind of to mind
55:06
as you were talking about this idea, I love zig zigglers an amazing man.
55:09
You talked about this idea. If you are able to help others get
55:12
what you need, they need, you'll get what you need, absolutely right.
55:17
We've got to look, like Stacey said earlier, how do we serve
55:21
others? How do we get not being so centered about ourselves? Because what
55:25
I find is that's a self fulfilling prophecy and there's never enough, and oh
55:30
my goodness, and we're like grasping at straws and and I'm a man,
55:34
and Stacy, you can comment on this, but I've I'm a man,
55:36
and I've been around with women. If I'm desperate before I was married,
55:38
women can tell like that from a mile away, a desperate man straggling,
55:43
right, Yeah, absolutely, of a deficit I'm going to take. I'm
55:49
going to grab right. It's repelling fact that it is not trusting, right,
55:55
a desperate woman, desperate, anybody doesn't look attracted, so it's not
56:00
attractive when you're living out of desperation. Now there's reality. We have to
56:04
read reality, the facts of our life. While you're talking, Charlie,
56:07
but what I found is if as a business owner, if you can be
56:10
factual, and what I love about each one of you here is the more
56:14
that we live our lives and we talk reality without fear of guilt and shame.
56:19
It's just this is part of a life. You as a business owner,
56:22
You're gonna have trouble making payrolls sometimes. I'm just trying to tell you
56:24
that right now, you're gonna have cash frow problems. But to to minimize
56:30
it or try to put this show of like oh I've got it all together,
56:34
you're just making your piece go further down in the hole, right,
56:37
So you see I mean, I mean, so this idea of provision,
56:43
Charlie is getting in that place and creating, and I go through a whole
56:49
thing in my own coaching program is going through this process with people and breaking
56:52
it down in ways because we don't even know how to process the emotions associated
56:58
with all this stuff. Maybe we'll get that to another another podcast today,
57:02
but that idea of like how do you process this range of emotions that we're
57:09
facing? Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I mean that
57:15
the mindset is where it all starts. So I love that you kind of
57:19
close the loop on that. In terms of our provision is to start with
57:22
mindset, begin with the end in mind and you know, with that,
57:27
like I want to touch on the last P, which is personal health.
57:30
And without this none of the other ones matter because you know, oftentimes we
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sacrifice our health to build our wealth and then when we you know, later
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on, when we have the wealth, we're trying to use that to buy
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back our health. But it's kind of like going, you know, running
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your car, driving it without doing the routine maintenance, and then when it's
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breaking down on you, then spending money to try to fix it. It's
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it's gonna it's too late, right, So we want to have that balance,
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right. So in terms of your personal health, we'll start with you,
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David. How how does you know personal health including emotional because oftentimes we're
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thinking just like our physical health, right and doing emotional mental of course physical
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wellbeing. How does how do those impact your level of peace? Oh?
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I mean it's I've noticed, Billy you talked about earlier about going to the
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gym and working out, right. I know the difference when I do workout
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and I get myself my body, I can feel the difference. I feel
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in power, I feel uncertainty and when I'm ready to take on the day
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and when I don't do it, and I often I can. As one
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that has started a new business in the last year, you pour a lot
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of effort, like you said earlier, in a certain area, but you
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can neglect this portion and you're, like you said, you're doing yourself a
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disservice because your body really is this you know, what's really interesting I've noticed
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too about your body is if some things we can't control, there's things that
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we there's cancer's disease that we can, but we when you can tell the
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difference of the presence of somebody that takes care of themselves physically when they walk
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into a room, and it's just a different dynamic, it's just a different
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dynamic. You have that presence credibility understanding. I mean, number one,
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you're taking care of yourself and people recognize that. And so I find when
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I neglect that portion of my life, it definitely puts me out of power
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and clarity and peace with other areas in my life. Charlie, absolutely,
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So I think it's important to find a way as we're going into the new
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year. So this is very typical people I'm gonna do an exercise thing and
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they never stick with it. So it's finding something like I'm gonna do whatever
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it is. I'm gonna pick something, but you've got to fix something that
1:00:00
really fits in a line with your purpose and who you want to become,
1:00:02
something bigger than yourself. So for me, just to get example, I
1:00:07
turned fifty in November. I wanted to I wanted to look at longevity for
1:00:12
my wife from my children. I'm like, Okay, that motivates me to
1:00:15
go and do exercises and take care of myself. But just to say I'm
1:00:19
going to go to the gym five days a week or something, You've got
1:00:22
to figure out something more than just that. So encouraging people like how do
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you find that personal health? That peace and your personal health to me and
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you know, that's where I'm at and whatever that might be for you.
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Everybody's different. If it's it could be you know, just going walking ten
1:00:40
thousand steps every day because that makes you feel good, you get outdoors.
1:00:44
We talked about that environment. They're linked together. You're walking maybe with your
1:00:47
spouse or significant other. Great, that's people. You can combine these things
1:00:52
together, which is fantastic. If you can, I would encourage you to
1:00:59
and you'll be able to find that piece. But one hundred percent agree with
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you, Charlie. Making sure we take care of our bodies long term is
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super important because it literally affects every part of every other aspect of our life.
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So yeah, thank you for tying that in. Yeah, because Tony
1:01:15
Robbins talks about you know, when it comes to our well being, our
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health. He talks about the triad and that's physiology, that's our physical health.
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There's also your your focus, and your language. And so I'll start
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with focus as the next thing because I think that ties in with the our
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our our mental health in terms of what we focus on. So, Bill,
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I mean being a leadership guide. I'm sure you you you help leaders
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explore you know, in terms of that mental health dynamic, like you know,
1:01:51
how to leverage their focus to be able to navigate their mental health,
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Like how can you share a little bit about that, you know, and
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we're trying to you know, be time sensitive to time as well. So
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like your sixty second version on that, Yeah, yeah, well, uh,
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mental health is an all too often overlooked aspect of one's health. What
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you focus on, you know, and what you are focused on is uh,
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is definitely important because if you, like any other unhealthy part of yourself,
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if your mind is unhealthy, then that's all you're going to be focused
1:02:37
on. You know. Once once that becomes a problem, once it's no
1:02:40
longer manageable, then then you really have to get help. And it's gonna
1:02:46
be it's gonna be too late for a while you know, if you if
1:02:52
you had taken proper precautions, then then I think, uh, I think
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it would have been a lot easier to to maintain, to manage yourself.
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Yeah, the mental health is fricking. It can become your it can become
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your own prison, right, So it's huge. So yeah, that last
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leg of the triad is so we have physiology, you know, how we
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use our body, position our body, and take care of our body,
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our focus in terms of our you know, take care of our mental health.
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Lastly, is is language. And we don't realize this, but it
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actually language is a phenomenon in which human beings experience life through. And the
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biggest thing, like we as much as we've liked to think we're creatures of
1:03:43
logic and reason, we're not. We're creatures of emotion. And we use
1:03:47
logic and reason to justify whatever choices that we make based on emotion. And
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so we can just get real about that and get in touch with our emotions.
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And that's why the language which parts critical and contributes to that area.
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You know, it's quite interesting. Every leadership meeting that we have at our
1:04:12
company, we start off identifying our mood. We have a mood meter.
1:04:15
It's got like, I don't know, maybe fifty different emotions so we can
1:04:20
actually identify what we're experiencing and explore that. So, Stacey, can you
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share a little bit about, like how you've been able to leverage like language
1:04:33
right, the language that you use talk to yourself, the language that you
1:04:38
use to communicate with others, to be able to align with and be conscious
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right about prioritizing your emotional health. You know, that's been a great focus,
1:04:55
a great journey that I've been on for the last several years. You
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know, Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaking,
1:05:02
So whatever's in your heart people speak for. And so I really work towards
1:05:09
guarding my heart and look for ways to just and how I do that is,
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you know, I do listen to different podcasts. I do a lot
1:05:21
of reading about mindset, and so I actually do something that John Astrob has
1:05:29
called inner size, and that that has been tremendous. But I really guard
1:05:33
what I guard, what I view, what I hear, and I focus
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a lot on gratitude. I focus a lot on things that are beautiful in
1:05:46
my life. Where I future is headed, the worst that I speak,
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am I am I perfect at it? No, but I do. That's
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my focus is to wake up and like I have a routine that I to
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make sure that I because it's easy for us to go into the negative.
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You wake up and you know, like right now it's raining, I'm like,
1:06:04
Okay, I gotta walk in the rain. But I'm like, you
1:06:08
know, I have to be grateful that we actually have water, you know
1:06:11
that, you know, So I have to turn be conscientious of where my
1:06:15
thoughts are going. And when I do have a negative thought is to quickly
1:06:21
replace that with a positive thought. And the best way for me to do
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that is first focus on gratitude, but also look at my future. But
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you know, there was a time when I wasn't. I wasn't in that
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space. I mean, all I saw was the dark side of humanity and
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the crap that goes on in the world, and it's easy to stay in
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that space. But I also made sure that I didn't watch the news.
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I mean, one time I watched the news, I woke up, I
1:06:45
was depressed, and I was like, why am I depressed? I don't,
1:06:47
That's just not me. And then I realized, because I watched the
1:06:49
news before I went to bed, So I said, okay, no more
1:06:51
news before, you know, but I limit that and I surround myself with
1:06:57
beauty, beauty of wards, beauty of uh, just gratitude, just anything
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that's going to help me to stay in that Like even when I have difficulty
1:07:08
with people on my team, I look for ways to be grateful for them,
1:07:11
I mean. And so it really comes down to gratitude and just protecting
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what I surround myself, the people that I surround myself with, the words
1:07:19
that I hear, the music that I listen to. And I know this
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sounds richid, but that's the only way you can really guard your heart and
1:07:29
is by guarding your exposure to the negativities of life. So what language that
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you expose yourself to, right, So what language you're exposed to? Me
1:07:40
making sure I read I mean the books that I read, or listen to
1:07:45
the people that I listen to. You know, it's funny. In my
1:07:48
industry, there are people who entrepreneurship. There are people who listen to their
1:07:54
broke friends. They want to start a business, and their broke friends will
1:07:57
say, why are you starting that business? You know, you need to
1:07:59
stay with the job So if I'm gonna have positive thoughts in my life and
1:08:02
positive thoughts of succeeding and whatnot, why would I talk to broke friends.
1:08:05
I would go and look at the people who are actually succeeding and who actually
1:08:09
are doing something. And so again I watched my associations, I watch where
1:08:14
I where I tread, because I know that you know, uh, what
1:08:17
was that saying? The together that too? But a glove here's the thing,
1:08:23
a glove, A clean glove can't make mud clean, but a dirty
1:08:28
glove can make the glove clean glove dirty. In other words, the influence
1:08:32
that the negativity has. And then I think I was was it John Astrov
1:08:36
that said that? Or could have been Barb Proctor? I can't remember,
1:08:41
But do you know that by the the the effect that negativity, negative thoughts
1:08:48
and positive thoughts have, people say, well, if you just think more
1:08:51
positively, then you would benefit from from that. And I think what I
1:08:58
found was that by a litleliminating, you have more benefit by eliminating the negativity
1:09:02
versus just keeping the negativity and having more positives. So really, really just
1:09:08
eliminating the negativity in your life has a greater effect on your total well wellbeing.
1:09:14
So that's you know, and I think a lot of people don't understand
1:09:16
the importance of that. So yeah, thank you. No, I think
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all of us here can we can never stop, you know, sharing all
1:09:27
the different things that we've got exposed to in terms of personal development. And
1:09:31
so that ties in with a really great future episode where we could talk and
1:09:39
dive deeper into emotion because that's essentially that's where are a mediola are the part
1:09:47
of our brain that process emotion is that's the gateway to tap into our billionaire
1:09:54
part of our brain, which is our hippocampus. And so, uh,
1:09:59
David, would you agree that that's a whole different it's a whole other thing
1:10:02
science and the way we think, And yeah, I would love I love
1:10:05
the dial there And honestly, there's just so much we got you Charlie.
1:10:10
You did a great job going through these components tonight and obviously we're just mining
1:10:15
some of it. There's so much more there, right, So I appreciate
1:10:20
you being the facilitator tonight. My pleasure. Yeah, So David will definitely
1:10:26
be sharing the links to the or the link to the link free piece index
1:10:31
assessment check that out. Help you identify where you are so that you can
1:10:38
actually measure your growth and and your journey towards peace and so yeah, in
1:10:45
the comments we have this here, just drop in the word piece so I
1:10:48
know I'll send you a personal message. And again, all of us here,
1:10:55
and we have different folks on this rotating in as as guests, but
1:11:00
please reach out to any one of us that you've kind of resonated with that
1:11:03
you've heard us share our own journeys. We're all on our own journeys here
1:11:09
helping and sharing. Like you said, Charlie, we have our unique experiences
1:11:13
in particular areas of business. But the whole purpose of this Business Roundtable podcast
1:11:18
is to provide you context understanding you're not alone as a business owner or leader
1:11:23
in your organization right and that there's out there that you could say, hey,
1:11:26
can I just pick your brain a little bit understand like how did you
1:11:29
get here? What worked? What didn't work? We're not We're not here.
1:11:33
This is we're giving back. That's what there is, the time of
1:11:35
season right of giving and gifts and fighting. This is not a cost thing.
1:11:40
This is about we want to give back value and knowledge and hopefully you
1:11:44
find it useful and if honestly, if you find something useful, there's a
1:11:47
way for us to work together. We love that, but that's not in
1:11:50
our goal here is really to help you. And I, like you said,
1:11:53
say seed to serve, which I love that we're here to really serve
1:11:56
you. And so I appreciate each one of you guys taking some time out
1:11:59
tonight, Charlie being our facilidator right here before the holidays. It gives me
1:12:04
a lot of peace, and I'm thankful for each one of you. Maybe
1:12:08
we just do one quick moment, because I think this is a good peaceful
1:12:11
time, just say one thing that you're thankful for to go at the end
1:12:14
of the year that really truly brings you peace. We'll start with Bill,
1:12:17
if you wouldn't mind, Sharon Bell, and then we'll go with Charlie and
1:12:19
Stacey and I can I can close this out for the night. So Bill,
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what what's what are you thankful for? What brings you peace? I
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am thankful for my family, I know, just the total Sunday School answer,
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right, No, it beautiful, beautiful, how about you, Charlie.
1:12:42
For me, it's actually boundaries, that's that's what's like I said,
1:12:46
earlier boundaries have set me free. I'm grateful for boundaries. That's what's given
1:12:51
me peace, because I didn't that was I was so clueless. That was
1:12:57
such a remote concept, and so I had none, or I had weak
1:13:00
boundaries. I would think other people's happiness is my responsibility, and that's not
1:13:05
the case. If that was the case, I would never find peace,
1:13:08
right So you know, Yeah, So I'm so glad that this year I
1:13:14
came across a boundaries class. And so anyway, that's a whole separ's and
1:13:18
that could be a whole other podcast, Charlie. I think we're building some
1:13:23
episodes, future episodes, so stay tuned. How about you, Stacy,
1:13:27
what are you thankful for? What brings you peace? Here? You know
1:13:29
where I am in this season in my life. I'm grateful for the associations
1:13:33
that I have. I have some pretty incredible not just leaders and mentors,
1:13:36
but just people that are there to love me and support me. And just
1:13:40
even you know, this group here, I feel like that we grow in
1:13:44
relationship and so i feel like I'm in a period of strong growth right now.
1:13:48
So I'm grateful for that. That's wonderful. Thank you guys so much.
1:13:53
We will be recording again, so stay tuned for our next podcast we
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1:14:10
other ideas and topics, but until then, we wish you a wonderful Christmas
1:14:14
season, Happy New Year. Thank you guys for joining us. Thank you,
1:14:17
thank you Bill, thank you, Charlie Peace, thank you