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Season 3 - Episode 303 - Acts of bravery · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  We are talking about tiny acts of bravery today and I am
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  purposefully using the word bravery because I don't think we
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  need to beat around the Bush and I think we need to be honest and
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  be brave. Sometimes we just have to be
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  brave. So how does this show up daily
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  for us? Well, we all need to be brave
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  going out into the day that we have set up for ourselves
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  because lots of times we are in the opportunity state of we
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  could be overwhelmed. We could have too much work, too
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  many clients, too many tasks to do.
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  We have to deal with parents that are aging.
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  We have to deal with children that are sick.
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  We have to deal with relationships that aren't
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  working. We have to deal with hard
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  conversations. The list goes on and on and on,
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  and one of the first things that it requires is awareness.
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  And right behind awareness, we could probably drop in bravery.
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  Sometimes we just need to pull that word out and say I need to
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  choose to be brave. What does that look like?
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  So sometimes it's hard to identify bravery, and at least
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  it is for me. Sometimes it's like, well, how,
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  how will brave show up? What, what, what does that even
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  look like? And once I ask it, I can start
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  to identify how brave would potentially look, how it could
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  look, what it should look like. And then I can make a decision
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  of if that's what I want to do. But you have to ask the
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  question. You have to know what does your
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  bravery look like? It's funny because we talk here
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  on the farm a lot about bravery in reference to Roosters, and
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  this morning it was no different.
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  We have a hawk lately that's been circling around and it's
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  not one of our typical ones. It's a big one and there's a
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  difference. And I can't tell.
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  My husband's the Raptor guy. So it's either a red shoulder or
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  a red tail, whichever 1 is bigger.
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  We normally have the smaller ones, but this is a giant 1 and
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  it could take away one of our big girls.
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  So the crows, as many of you know, I feed them so that they
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  work in tandem. They're like alert system and
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  they will protect the hens and it's awesome.
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  They do such a fabulous job. And I give them peanuts and I
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  feed them and they're they're great.
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  And I think that the crows and the Bluebirds are like the
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  secondary system. They are incredibly brave.
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  They will go right after all of these Hawks that are out there
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  and our Roosters are two Roosters that we have now, Rufus
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  and which I think we've settled on Hulk Hogan because everybody
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  seems to keep calling him Hulk because he looks like Hulk
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  Hogan. They are very different than our
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  last rooster and they are very, very brave.
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  They will screech, send the alerts out and all the girls run
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  and they do not run. They do not run unless they you
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  watch them run to get the girls hidden and then they turn right
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  around and come back out. They go right into the middle of
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  the fields to say I need to do my job and see what's here.
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  And it's the complete opposite of the last rooster we had.
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  And he would run and hide and leave everybody behind.
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  And the joke became he's like George Costanza.
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  He just takes off in the middle of a fire and leaves the kids
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  and the women to die. And these two are not.
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  So we use that word a lot here in reference to them.
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  They're so brave. They just go right out there and
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  they don't care. And they're not scared.
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  They stand there. They look right up at the sky.
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  It it's quite interesting to see how different they are.
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  And even if something comes in that they're not aware of you,
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  you can see that their reaction is going to be different.
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  They are just very different creatures.
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  Brave. They are very brave in my
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  opinion, so I'm used to using it there.
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  But for myself, do I think certain things are brave?
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  No. But recently when I went out to
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  speak, a client said to me it's so brave of you to get up on
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  stage and talk. And I was like what?
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  I I don't think of that as brave.
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  But for her, she totally thought that that was brave.
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  I don't think anything of it. It's like, no, this is what I'm
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  supposed to do. And for a long time I refuse to
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  do it. And then I thought about it.
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  I was like, wow, years ago, 25 years ago, I would never have
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  gotten up there. I, there was no way I would have
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  done it. And I thought, what's the
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  predominant word that comes into my head about it?
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  Uncertain, scared, not knowing if I could do it, what would
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  they think? All the bad stuff that was right
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  there was at the forefront of my memory.
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  And the word bravery was no somewhere insight.
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  And I thought, wow, it's interesting how I was focused
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  completely on all the thoughts of, you know, despair in the
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  moments of years ago thinking about speaking.
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  And she said, oh, well, you're so brave.
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  But I had never thought of it that way.
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  Even now, I don't think of it that way.
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  And I couldn't put my finger on what the transition was Like,
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  where did I go from 1:00 to the other?
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  I still haven't figured it out. I talked to my coach about it
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  and we talked about it to the AD nauseam, but I still couldn't
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  figure it out. And I'm like, OK, we're just
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  going to let it go. And I don't know what the switch
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  was. And maybe someday I will have
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  the the awareness. But now I say to myself, well,
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  that's kind of cool. I can think of that as brave.
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  I can choose to adopt what she saw in me and say that.
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  So something to think about. Go find your brave spot.
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  Go find it because I think we need it more and more in these
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  days. Choose bravery.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.