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Season 3 - Episode 300 - Martha Stewart · 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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  Today we are talking about the Martha Stewart documentary on
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  Netflix and you might be saying, well, why are we talking about
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  that today? Well, first of all, some of you
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  may know from listening over the years that I really love Martha
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  Stewart. Not I know she's very
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  controversial and lots of people have opinions on her, but what I
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  love about Martha and what I love about her story is that she
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  is constantly resilient and she does not let anything get in her
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  way from her outcomes. Now, is that sometimes her
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  detriment? Yes.
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  And she even talks about that at the end of the documentary
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  where, you know, over the years, she has learned to maybe soften
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  a bit in certain areas. However, her standards have
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  always been very, very high and continue to be very, very high
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  as she is in her 80s. And look at what she's still
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  doing. Look at how she's reinvented
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  herself. Look at how she has come back
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  from so much. And I mean, most of us come back
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  from things, but not at that level of what she did.
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  But we also don't, you know, create ourselves to be what she
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  is at that level and, you know, go out there to become that
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  person that is teaching people it's okay to be the homemaker
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  and do it in a fabulous way. You know, if you get a chance to
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  watch the documentary, I highly recommend it because it does
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  give you insight into how she thinks, how she operates and
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  whatnot. Now, for me, why this touched
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  home so much is I have heard many times over the years that
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  my standards are ridiculous. My standards are too high.
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  I pour too much in. People love to give me opinions
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  on this stuff. And over the years I have had to
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  learn that their opinions are not my opinions.
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  And in the words of my mentor, Wayne Dyer, you know, I can free
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  myself from the good opinion of other people if I choose to do
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  so. And I have, because I don't
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  think that I should be building my life on an on their
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  standards. I should build my life on my
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  standards. Think about what I just said.
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  I should not be building my life on their standards.
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  I should be building it on my standards.
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  Now, unless you want somebody else's standards or you want
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  their life or you look at them and you say they have everything
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  I want and I would love to be able to have exactly what they
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  have and how they show up. Then have at it.
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  If you if you look at somebody and you say that's what I'm
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  looking for great model their standards.
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  However, for most of us that receive, you know, information
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  from other people as to whether or not something is good or not,
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  most of us are getting it from people who are not at the place
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  we would choose to be. And therefore we're getting
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  mixed signals because they're willing to give us opinions that
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  quite frankly suck. And then here we are left
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  withholding that opinion in our hands, looking at it and saying,
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  well, geez, maybe there's something wrong with me and my
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  friends. There's not.
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  If you have high standards and you choose to live by those high
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  standards, then I highly recommend you view those
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  standards and say, you know what, I am OK with living with
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  my standards now. I can tell you right now I am
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  very OK living with my standards because I feel as though my
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  standards are set up and aligned with my goals.
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  And yes, my standards are high. My chickens live in a very high
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  standard thing. It's not the average coup.
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  I've had people make comments online and say things about it.
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  I've had friends say things about it like wow, you know, why
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  would you do all of this? And you know, you don't have to
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  do that. I love when someone says that to
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  me. You don't have to do that.
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  Yes, I understand I don't have to do that.
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  However, it is something that I envision and I say that's how I
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  want them to live. They, they're my pets.
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  They are not my food. They are my pets and they are
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  part of my joy. They are part of what brings me
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  happiness. Sitting out here and listening
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  to them every morning, recording with all of you, this is joyful
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  to me. Yes, changing the coop out is
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  hard work, but it brings joy caring for them.
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  And I know it does because I feel it every time I do it.
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  So the point I'm trying to make to you all is when you watch the
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  documentary and you look at her standards and you see what she
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  has accomplished and you look at it all, you might not want her
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  exact life, but there are parts of it that you could admire.
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  Her unwavering contribution to what has come out as choosing to
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  live at a higher level within our homes, choosing to make our
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  homes feel better, our food better, all of these things.
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  You might not choose to have that critical eye that she has
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  all the time, but it inspires us to do better.
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  It inspires us to reach for the stars and that's the whole point
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  of it. So I hope you enjoy it.
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  I hope you watch it. Take away something good for it.
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  Even if you don't like her, look for the crumb and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.