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Pain Is Temporary – Stay Focused and Keep Pushing Forward · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The most poignant seven words ever uttered in any speech anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Don't give up.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ever give up. Those great people didn't. I now
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  Speaker 1: have a responsibility to also not ever give up. Live
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  Speaker 1: fight like hell, and when you get too tired to fight,
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  Speaker 1: then lay down and rest and let somebody else fight
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be scared to die for the truth.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is the only thing that's ever going to
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  Speaker 2: be constant.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't fear what might happen to you if
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  Speaker 3: you were to tell the truth, because what happens to
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  Speaker 3: you if you don't tell the truth is worse than
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  Speaker 3: telling the truth will ever be.
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  Speaker 2: Never give up, work hard, and continue to learn. Now
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  Speaker 2: only do I talk to talk. I try on walk
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  Speaker 2: through walk essentially.
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  Speaker 4: And I would say this to anybody, is that you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's really it's easy to embrace hopelessness when things seem insurmountable,
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  Speaker 4: and yet it's actually just a matter of time until
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  Speaker 4: all of the elements come together for things to be
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  Speaker 4: all right. I mean, I believe that, you know, most
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  Speaker 4: difficult situations will resolve themselves if you are persistent, and
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  Speaker 4: if you don't, if you don't give up entirely, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what I never did.
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  Speaker 5: I never gave up.
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  Speaker 6: If you're convinced that you're going to fail or fall
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  Speaker 6: or get hurt, that will come to fruition because that's
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  Speaker 6: what you're visualizing. I never you know, I was willing
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  Speaker 6: to get hurt along the way, but I didn't visualize
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  Speaker 6: myself getting hurt along the way. And I think that's
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  Speaker 6: what That's what stops a lot of people, and that's
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  Speaker 6: really what separates a lot of people from from being
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  Speaker 6: world champions, are from being as good as they can
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  Speaker 6: because they stop at some point and saying, oh, no,
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  Speaker 6: I am not capable of this, or I'll probably get
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  Speaker 6: hurt doing this, And if you approach anything with that hesitation,
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna fail.
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  Speaker 2: I always approached it like this is going to work.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to figure this out, even if it takes
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  Speaker 6: me hundreds of attempts. And I wasn't you know, the
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  Speaker 6: idea of falling and getting back up again.
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  Speaker 2: That didn't really bother me at all. When you're young
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  Speaker 2: and you're a kid, you have so many I grew
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  Speaker 2: up in the hood.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be Flint, Michigan, where I'm from, and they say,
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  Speaker 2: if you dare crew, you can do anything you want
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  Speaker 2: to do. You can do anything you want to do.
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  Speaker 2: And then as soon as you go to class, you
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  Speaker 2: tell them what you want to do, and it what
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  Speaker 2: makes you think you're gonna do something like that?
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  Speaker 7: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Crazy? Yeah? And I say, okay, wait, which one is it?
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  Speaker 8: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Can I do it? Or can I do it?
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And so I started to call people on that. I
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  Speaker 2: started to call people on that. I say, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna just try something
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  Speaker 2: that I've never done before. I want to design furniture.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be a part of this thing. And
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  Speaker 2: so I'm going and you don't have it. It's not work.
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  Speaker 7: If you just force yourself to take a couple small steps,
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  Speaker 7: there's always a surprise.
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  Speaker 10: The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about.
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  Speaker 3: Me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.
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  Speaker 10: I will not be outworked right period. You know, you
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  Speaker 10: might have more talent than me, you might be smarter
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  Speaker 10: than me, you might be sexier than me, you might
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  Speaker 10: be all of those things. You got it on me
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  Speaker 10: in nine categories. But if we get on a treadmill together, right,
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  Speaker 10: there's two things you're getting off first going to die.
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  Speaker 2: It's really that simple.
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  Speaker 5: Growing up. I You know, I grew up. I wasn't
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  Speaker 5: the richest, but I had a rich family and spirit
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  Speaker 5: and support, and you know, standing here with nineteen championships
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  Speaker 5: is something I never thought would happen, you know. Just
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  Speaker 5: I went on the courts with just a ball and
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  Speaker 5: a racket and a hope, and that's all I had.
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  Speaker 5: And I it's inspiring for all you guys out there
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  Speaker 5: that want to do something and want to be the
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  Speaker 5: best that you can be and want to do the
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  Speaker 5: best that you can do. You just never give up
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  Speaker 5: because you never know what can happen. You never know
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  Speaker 5: who you can inspire.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of times I'll be in the tours at
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  Speaker 7: my run or something like that, and I'm all jacked up, bodies, broken, minds, broken,
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  Speaker 7: spirits broken. I've started to say, what if I can
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  Speaker 7: pull this off? When I first walked into the Navy
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  Speaker 7: so recruiters office, he looked at me and said, it
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  Speaker 7: only been thirty five African Americans in seventy years.
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  Speaker 2: Make it through.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I said to myself, what if I can
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  Speaker 7: be the thirty sixth if? The what if I can
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  Speaker 7: pull off a miracle. What if I can become someone
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  Speaker 7: that no one thinks I can be? And just that,
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  Speaker 7: just me talking about that. I have the hair going
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  Speaker 7: up on my arms because it makes me just like what.
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  Speaker 2: If, never ever, ever give up?
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  Speaker 11: Chicken Soup for the Soul was rejected by one hundred
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  Speaker 11: and forty four publishers. One hundred and forty four publishers said,
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  Speaker 11: we don't want to publish a collection of short stories
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  Speaker 11: the title stupid Chicken Soup for the Soul?
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 11: People don't buy collections of short stories. There's never been,
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  Speaker 11: you know, successful chain of doing that. So literally we
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  Speaker 11: spent fourteen months trying to find a publisher and we
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  Speaker 11: go to New York with our agent and eventually our
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  Speaker 11: agent gave us the book back and said, I can't
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  Speaker 11: sell this. So we went to the National Bookseller's Association
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  Speaker 11: convention down in Anaheim. We went from booth to booth
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  Speaker 11: to booth for three days and there were four thousand
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  Speaker 11: publishers represented there, and we go would you publish our book,
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  Speaker 11: would you pulish our book?
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  Speaker 2: Would you publish our book?
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  Speaker 11: And we got no, no, no, no no. It was
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  Speaker 11: late on the third day that a little publisher from Florida,
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  Speaker 11: after we'd gotten over one hundred and forty four rejections,
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  Speaker 11: said we'll read it. And then they said, we said, well,
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  Speaker 11: how many copies do you think will sell?
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  Speaker 2: After they said yeah, we'll buy it.
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  Speaker 11: A couple weeks later they said we'll publish it, and
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  Speaker 11: they said, well, maybe twenty thousand if we're lucky, and
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  Speaker 11: we said, our goal is to sell a million and
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  Speaker 11: a half in the year and a half. Now, have
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  Speaker 11: you ever told someone your dream and had them laugh
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  Speaker 11: out loud?
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  Speaker 2: At year? He laughed out loud.
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  Speaker 11: Now, if we had given up after one hundred publishers
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  Speaker 11: had said no, I wouldn't be standing here today, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, wouldn't have happened.
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  Speaker 11: And so you've got to be willing to persevere because
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  Speaker 11: we didn't take no. See, when the world says no,
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  Speaker 11: you say next, only five or six billion people.
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  Speaker 2: Out there you can go and ask.
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  Speaker 11: Right, there's over four thousand publishers just here in.
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  Speaker 2: The state of California.
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  Speaker 11: So what we have is this endless possibility. But you
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  Speaker 11: have to persevere. It's as if the universe tests are commitment.
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  Speaker 11: And so today we have one hundred and forty seven
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  Speaker 11: titles in print. We sold over one hundred and fifteen
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  Speaker 11: million copies. We're in forty seven languages, and over a
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  Speaker 11: billion dollars worth of Chicken soup or the Soul books
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  Speaker 11: have been sold worldwide. So if you're willing to decide
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  Speaker 11: what you want, believe it's possible consciously envision the future,
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  Speaker 11: feel the feelings of what it would feel like if
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  Speaker 11: you had achieved this goal.
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  Speaker 2: You can have anything, and then.
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  Speaker 11: You take action, both obvious actions and inspired action. You
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  Speaker 11: can do anything.
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  Speaker 9: We were forced in the beginning. I wish I could
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  Speaker 9: say we were geniuses and said we're going to start
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  Speaker 9: our own company. You know, that's not what happened. You know,
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  Speaker 9: in the beginning, we went to every single label, and
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  Speaker 9: every single label shit they'd do on us. The eniest
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  Speaker 9: thing that we did was we didn't give up. We
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  Speaker 9: didn't say because these guys, you know, we use that
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  Speaker 9: what do they know approach? You know, we we didn't
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  Speaker 9: give up at that point. I think that would you know,
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  Speaker 9: that was the genius thing we did. We started selling
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  Speaker 9: our own CDs and we built the own buzz and
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  Speaker 9: then the record company came back to us, so now
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  Speaker 9: we had a different negotiation. You know, It was in
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  Speaker 9: the same artists labeled relationship. Now we retain ownership in
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  Speaker 9: our own company, and it was the best thing for us.
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  Speaker 2: What they should one give up on their dream? Never
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  Speaker 2: it should. Guta said this, Henry Ford said this. Rockefeller
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  Speaker 2: said this. You're only as young or as old as
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  Speaker 2: your dreams.
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  Speaker 11: As long as you still have dreams and vision, and say, galls,
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  Speaker 11: they keep you young.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most amazing young thing.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, greally. One of the greatest pieces of advice
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  Speaker 8: I've ever gone in my rife was from my mom.
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  Speaker 8: You know, when I was a little kid, there was
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  Speaker 8: a kid who was bugging me in Oh and she said, Okay,
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  Speaker 8: I'm gonna tell you what to do, she said, the
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  Speaker 8: kids bugging you, he puts his hands on you, You
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  Speaker 8: pick up the ears, rock or whatever you can get
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  Speaker 8: your hands on, and you lay him out. Then I
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  Speaker 8: did it, and I felt better and it worked for me.
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  Speaker 8: You know that that was a great lesson because someone
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  Speaker 8: had invaded my my space, invaded my being, you know,
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  Speaker 8: and I was doing s doing something uh against me
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  Speaker 8: that I didn't want to be done. So I shook
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  Speaker 8: control of the situation and I ran with it, and
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  Speaker 8: uh and many years later, after being you know UH
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  Speaker 8: turned into a product you know by UH, a very
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  Speaker 8: uh huge corporation that had their hands all over me
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  Speaker 8: and I and I couldn't UH escape it, you know UH.
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  Speaker 8: I promised myself that I would continue to move forward and.
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  Speaker 2: Do my best not to.
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  Speaker 8: Compromise in any way whatsoever, you know, not allow anyone
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  Speaker 8: to put their hands on me.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what that dream is that you have.
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  Speaker 10: I care how far fetched it might appear to be.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care how.
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  Speaker 1: Disappointing it might have been as you've been working toward
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  Speaker 1: that dream.
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  Speaker 3: But here's what I know, that that dream that you're
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  Speaker 3: holding in your mind, that it's possible.
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  Speaker 5: See, sometimes we can't say I can do that, But
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  Speaker 5: what we can say that it's possible that I can
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  Speaker 5: have my dream