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Changing Your Life With The Wisdom of Sarah Blakely"
Episode 149th March 2023 • The Daily Podcast with Jonathan Doyle • Jonathan Doyle
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"Have you ever felt like your life might have gone off track? Have you ever felt that you an actor in the wrong movie? In today's episode I share a powerful insight from self-made billionaire Sarah Blakely about a moment in her life when she suddenly realised it was time to make a massive change. If you feel like you need a breakthrough in your life or some fresh motivation then this story is a wonderful example of how a deep commitment to personal development can lead to massive success."

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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again, welcome to the daily podcast.

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Great to have you back.

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to have a good conversation today.

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Hit that big subscribe button, wherever you are listening.

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It is starting to get cold here where I live.

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Didn't have much of a summer, to be honest, it was a bit sneaky.

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It kind of came and went and.

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It's been getting cold.

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And I've always been the kind of person that gets up and just gets after it,

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but I'm starting to go, you know, what.

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The Bahamas are looking good about now.

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So.

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Cause we're all.

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If it gets to like minus eight,

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In the middle of winter.

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So I'm not excited.

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I like parts of it.

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I like looking at winter.

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I have friends that love skiing and snow.

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I just, I just never really got into it.

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I always explain to people.

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I like looking at snow.

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I like being in a nice hotel, looking out the window, staring

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at the snow, but being in it.

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It's wet.

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It's cold.

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And you and you go skiing and you break your leg and it's

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just, I never understood it.

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So not looking forward to this winter friends, but we'll make the best of it.

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We're going to find a way to, uh, to extract.

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Some good things out of winter.

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All right.

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You did not listen in today for a weather report.

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Please make sure you subscribe.

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Share this with friends and family.

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And, uh, there's a bunch of links here.

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If you want to book me to speak, please.

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Uh, check out the links.

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You can also book private coaching with me today.

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I want to give you a simple insight from a really interesting

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human called Sarah Blakely.

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She's a fascinating lady.

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She actually was the first self-made.

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Billionaire.

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In us history.

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So there's plenty of trust fund babies that have got their paws on a billion, but

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a Sarah Blake Lexi made it from scratch.

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She started the, uh, the Spanx brand.

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And I was watching an interview with her the other day.

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Which was quite fascinating.

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She's very down to earth, a very genuine person to listen to.

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And she was describing her journey, how she had this idea.

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And, and for seven years before, even beginning her business, she had

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been doing sales in fax machines.

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Now.

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Large numbers of my listeners will say, what is the fax machine?

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Friends, you can find them in museums of ancient history.

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There are, they're pretty fascinating machines that used to be used in

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business to send communication.

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Some of my listeners are going.

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Jonathan, we know what.

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You know, facts he's I know, but lots of people don't.

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So seven years as a fax machine sales person, and she was describing kind of.

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How soul destroying it'd become.

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And then she used this phrase that really struck with me.

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She said, I suddenly realized I'm in the wrong movie.

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It was a very interesting filter, a great metaphor.

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She felt that, uh, she was living a life.

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That was not what she had envisaged or what she had wanted.

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That the movie she was appearing in the movie of her life was not the

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movie that she wanted to continue in.

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Yeah.

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A couple of episodes ago, talking about these remarkable human faculties.

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We have these, this.

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There's ability we have for desire.

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The, we are in many ways, restless beings.

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Aren't we like, we have times of peace in times of rest.

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And.

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People can come along and tell us that we should be peaceful and restful,

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and it's all within us to find that.

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I don't know about you, but I struggle.

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I often quote, I got to work really hard to, to settle and

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find peaceful nervousness.

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You know, I, uh, I'm somebody who's always trying to look for the

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next thing and looking forward to tomorrow and trying to move forward.

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But I love this line where she says I was in the wrong movie.

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I was in the wrong movie.

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So she began this process of steps.

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Was she slowly began to pivot and to go after what she really

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believed she was passionate about and what really mattered to her.

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Now, of course, that doesn't mean life ends up perfect.

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Does it?

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There's this sort of concept that if you find your dream and you find exactly what

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you're supposed to be doing, then life will just roll on into bliss forever.

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No, on this human journey.

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Uh, somebody else called it recently earth school, or we're here at earth school.

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It's never going to be perfection.

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It's never going to fulfill every single dream and expectation.

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That's what heavens for.

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But we do have this ability to look at our lives, look at the movie of our

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lives and say, am I in the right movie?

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You know, have I been cast in the right role?

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Am I enjoying how this narrative is playing out.

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And then to begin to look at that and make changes as necessary

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depending on each listener today, those changes could be minor.

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It could be a little script changed, just a few tweaks to the lighting of

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the movie, or maybe to the scenes.

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But for some of us, it could be walking out of that movie.

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I'm making radical change in our lives.

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Career change, you know, significant.

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Uh, changes in our friendships and our health and wellbeing.

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I'm not advocating anybody.

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You know, I listened to this podcast and I'm going to change everything in

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my life, you know, but you get my point.

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That you can look into it and say what needs to change.

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What, what has been on your heart to make different?

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What is something that you go, you know, what.

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This part of the movie is a part that needs to change.

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And as I've been saying in recent episodes, what we do is we begin

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to identify what needs to change.

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We start taking slow steps towards it.

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So friends, if Sara Blakely can recognize she's in the wrong movie

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and go on to create a remarkable level of success, that I'm pretty sure

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most of us can do something similar.

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It doesn't mean that you're going to start a billion dollar clothing label,

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but it just might mean that you take up a new habit or a new pastime or a new

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career, or you stop putting off that change that, you know, you need to make.

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So let's get ourselves in the right movies.

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Let's get ourselves in movies, congruent with the gifts and

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talents that God's given us.

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Some of us have these amazing abilities, but we're in the wrong place.

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You know, some of us are in places where we just not able to use the

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gifts and talents that we've got.

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So we need to get out of that movie.

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And get in, get custody where we need to be costed.

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Okay, so we're going to use this metaphor.

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We're going to use this filter to help us make new choices.

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All right friends.

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Hope that's useful.

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That's got you thinking or movie you in, is it the right movie?

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Is that the kind of movie you like?

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Is it the one that you'd pay to see?

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You know, somebody had to watch the movie of your life at some point,

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would they find the movie interesting, compelling, exciting, motivational.

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Would it be a tragedy?

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I was an action.

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Adventure is a tragedy.

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I hope it's not comedy, but you get the point.

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We do get to choose.

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What sort of movie and tapestry and history we create with our lives.

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And I want to be honest and say, look.

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This isn't about self-indulgence because the movies of our lives are intertwined

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with the movies of other people's lives.

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Of course they are.

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You know, I've got I've.

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I'm married.

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I have children.

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So.

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I'm not talking about going, oh, I don't like this movie anymore.

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I'm going to go start a new one.

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That's not what I mean.

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I mean, it's, it's about.

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Looking at our individual skills.

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Looking at our individual capacities and the things that

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light us up and move us forward.

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And just asking ourselves, are we in environments, careers, and relationships?

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That allow us to bring out all of that capacity and goodness

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and beauty that's inside us.

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All right, my friends, please make sure you've subscribed.

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Go check out those links.

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You can book time with me for coaching.

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It is all there.

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My name is Jonathan Doyle.

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This has been the daily podcast.

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And I'm going to talk with you again tomorrow.

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