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Season 4 - Episode 261 - A TEDx informational meeting · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, everybody, good morning. Last night I went to a meeting
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  that's all about doing Ted X and there's a Ted X that's going to
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  be here in April. They do it every year here.
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  And I was like, oh, OK, I applied once before two years
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  ago, two or three years ago. And I just submitted an
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  application online, didn't go to the meeting, and I didn't get
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  chosen. And I was like, OK, wasn't meant
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  to be, whatever. So this time I got the e-mail
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  saying, hey, if you want to come, we're having an
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  informational meeting. And I thought, OK, I want to go
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  see what this is all about. Now, of course, I would love to
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  get chosen for this. It is not a bucket list item.
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  They were talking about that last night saying to me, hey,
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  this is a bucket list item. You know, they were selling the
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  whole fact of it, like they were really pushing that, that this
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  was a thing. Now for me, I'm sitting in the
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  room and I'm just listening to it and I'm kind of like, it's
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  not a bucket list item for me. I got to work with Tony Robbins
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  and speak for him in training crews and doing all kinds of
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  stuff and I just, it's just not a bucket list item for me.
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  Would it be awesome? Yes, it would definitely be
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  awesome. But for me, it's not what they
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  were trying to sell it to be. And the reason I went, the
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  reason I'm doing this is because I always look for something that
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  I can do in addition growing, pushing myself to grow and, and
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  this could be a fun thing to do, right?
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  Could just be something different.
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  I've never done this kind of talk before.
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  I've spoken on lots of big stages for and lots of small
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  stages, like anything from 20 people all the way up to over
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  2500 people. And in in doing it in rooms,
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  when Tony's on the stage, when he has you go up and do your
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  intros and stuff like that. If you technically want to say
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  that speaking, yes, words are coming out of my mouth, then
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  I've done it in front of 15,000 people.
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  But it's to me, it's not about that part of it.
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  It's about OK, it's just about delivering something and doing
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  something fun. So here we are.
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  I decide to go to this event that they're having this little
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  informational event and they're having it at the library, which
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  was great. And go in, sit down and listen
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  to the people who are the coaches and the people who are
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  the pick. They're going to pick the
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  committee like they're going to pick the people.
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  So on average, about 350 to 400 people apply.
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  On average, they pick 14 people, but this year they're only going
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  to pick 10. They've decided to change the
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  way they're doing the event and they're only going to pick 10
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  people. So I was like, OK, you know,
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  that's, that's their choice. That's fine.
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  And I started really getting intent on how do they choose the
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  process? Like how, what is the process?
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  How do they pick? Because I thought my idea before
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  it was a very good idea. It was based on emotions on what
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  I do with everybody all the time.
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  I'm like, OK, this is great because I know how much people,
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  humans in general, suffer from this and how it's around us
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  constantly. So of course I would go to my
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  wheelhouse and I would do that. Well, turns out that it does not
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  matter how good your idea is, it matters how good you can present
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  your idea in that form. And that's what I found
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  absolutely astonishing. It doesn't matter if you are
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  sending in something that is the greatest idea ever.
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  If you can't articulate your idea, then it doesn't.
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  It's not even going to get their attention.
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  Because basically they made it very clear that you have to
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  articulate your idea in one sentence, and then you've got a
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  few more sentences further down to go into it.
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  But what catches them 1st and how they filter is that initial
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  idea and they're thinking behind this is that if we can get you
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  to say it in one sentence, then you're going to be able to do
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  your talk in 10 minutes because the Ted X is 10 minutes.
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  So I sat there really contemplating and thinking about
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  what they were saying and how they were putting it together.
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  And at no point, here's The funny thing, my friends, at no
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  point do they say that you send in a video of yourself.
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  They never mentioned that last night because you, I don't think
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  you do. I don't remember doing a video.
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  You just send in the form. But they never, they're going to
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  put you on stage in front of thousands of people, but they
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  don't ask you to send in a video, which I found
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  fascinating, especially in the age of video, video, video.
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  Why are they not asking for a video?
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  But it's all comes down to, can you articulate your idea?
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  And it really made me think about marketing in general
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  because isn't that what it's all about with our businesses, with
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  everything we do, it's always about are we able to market
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  ourselves by articulating our ideas and what we do quickly and
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  efficiently. And this is no different.
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  So today or for actually probably for the next two weeks,
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  I'm going to be crafting my one sentence and going through the
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  application process tediously to see if I can finagle it.
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  Now, will I be disappointed if I don't get in?
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  No, it just wasn't meant to be. Will I pour into it and make
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  sure I do the best job I can? After attending their meeting to
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  submit the location, 1000% will it throw me if I don't get in?
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  Nope. I might go for a second.
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  That sucks. And then I'll just move on
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  because again, it's not a bucket list item for me.
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  It's not something but it, but it is definitely something that
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  would add if it came along. So the lesson in today is
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  remember, how well can you articulate what you do?
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  How well can you attack? Articulate who you are.
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  Because if you can't do it, people aren't buying it.
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  Alright my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.