In this episode...

We sit down with Kevin Waugaman, founder of Momentors, LLC, to dive into his book on personal growth and overcoming obstacles. Kevin shares insights from his journey—rising from a busboy to CEO and now entrepreneur—while navigating struggles with excess, self-limiting behaviors, and finding true purpose. His book is designed as a practical, easy-to-digest guide for those seeking personal and professional growth, filled with actionable steps to help you maximize your potential. Whether you're just starting out or need a mindset shift, this episode is packed with wisdom to help you level up.

Welcome to the Power

of Authority Spotlight.

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I'm your host, Michelle Prince, founder

and CEO of Performance Publishing Group,

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making a difference one story at a time.

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We'll be shining the light on successful

founders, entrepreneurs, business

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owners, and leaders that are getting

results and making a difference.

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We'll talk about how they built

their businesses, are creating

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of authority in their own right.

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to the Power of Authority

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All right.

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Let me introduce you to my

guest today, Kevin Wagaman.

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He is a business and life coach.

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He's a Christian, a loving husband, proud

father, and founder of Momentors LLC.

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Kevin created Momentors with a mission

of helping people maximize potential and

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remove obstacles to live out their dreams.

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He started his working career as a

busboy at Sawgrass Marriott before going

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on to successful sales and operations

roles in finance and real estate.

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He received numerous

promotions over the years.

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Rising in the ranks to CEO of Berkshire

Hathaway Home Services Florida

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Network Realty before launching his

current entrepreneurial venture.

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Born in the small town of Stewart,

Florida, he grew up loving the outdoors

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and could often be found fishing,

surfing, playing most sports, and

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simply swinging through the mangroves.

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As a young adult, he struggled with

overdoing things, eating, drinking,

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partying, spending, working.

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Yes, you can overdo this among

other self limiting behaviors.

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Can't wait to talk about that one, Kevin.

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He draws on many of these personal

experiences and the challenges

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overcome as a mentor and coach.

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He's always driven to help

people to remove the obstacles

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in their lives, to realize true

potential and higher fulfillment.

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He has personally moved from sales

struggles to success, large debt to

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financial freedom, poor and good health,

aimlessness to purpose, excessiveness to

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moderation, bad habits to good habits,

mentee to mentor, follower to successful

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leader, solo player to family man.

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Kevin and his wife, Jessica, son,

Elliot, and daughter, Raelyn, currently

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live in Jacksonville, Florida.

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And Kevin, I'm so excited

to have you on the show.

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Yeah, thanks, Michelle.

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I'm really excited to be here and

thank you for for what you do and

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shining the light and entrepreneurs

and people doing big things.

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I'm glad to be included in that

in that group and to your team of

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performance publishing for helping

get the book launched as crucial.

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And I'm so grateful.

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So thanks for having me.

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Of course.

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Well, I'm excited because, well,

you're doing so many things.

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And by the way, I love your bio because

you touch on so many things that I know

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for myself and other people listening

can totally resonate with, right?

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We we've all been somewhere, but

we want to be somewhere else.

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And so let's start with you.

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I just want to know a little bit more

about you, about yourself, your family.

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So.

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Tell us about Kevin.

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Yeah, sure.

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So, born and raised pretty much, I call

the east coast of Florida my hometown

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because as a child, my dad was a

developer and so we moved around a lot.

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And so, I mean, I've lived everywhere

from Miami to Jacksonville and every,

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just about everything in between.

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I love the state, love the east

coast of Florida, , and you know,

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didn't, didn't deal with, Disruptions

in life until when I was 10 years

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old, my parents got a divorce.

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And so that was a little bit traumatic

for my sister and I and and and so

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the moving around a lot continued.

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So I think I was at, like,

maybe 7 or 8 schools before high

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school, even and so moving around,

trying to adapt to different

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environments and and then, you know.

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Moving through, you know, childhood

into, you know, teenage years, we kind of

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settled in the Jacksonville, Florida area.

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So started to put down some, some

roots here, went to college up in

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North Carolina, Elon University.

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And then got into the working world back

here in Jacksonville pretty quickly.

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, and, , after graduating from college,

got right into a job with Merrill

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Lynch here in Jacksonville and

started my, my corporate journey.

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I'll say it's kind of phase one of my,

of my experience in the working world.

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And while doing that.

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You know, just like everybody else

trying to figure out, navigate

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the real world really started

having some, some, , challenges.

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And I'll, , I'll give a lot

of credit to my, my parents.

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I learned tremendously valuable

lessons from both of my parents.

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My dad was an excellent businessman,

taught me a lot about how to navigate the

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business world, negotiations, great stuff.

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My mom was one of the most caring

people that you'll ever meet in life.

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And so I kind of,

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And so I think that gave me a good

foundation, but I was also a bit

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of a rebellious young man, I guess.

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So kind of, , kind of went off

and made quite a few mistakes.

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, and you read some of it in the bio.

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Just, you know, health

was not a priority for me.

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I was, I was partying too much.

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I was aimless.

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I was smoking packs of cigarettes a day.

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I mean, it was just, I was all over the

place and experiencing some success, you

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know in what I was doing I was doing sell

I was sale selling and I'm doing okay at

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that and and had a great group of friends

and and that was all good, but it was

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a over a period of time that I realized

that , And through some mentors that kind

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of spoke into my life that you know I

really need to get a bit more intentional

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About about where where I want to go over

the long term, as opposed to just kind

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of blowing wherever the wind took me, and

I think that's kind of the foundation.

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I mean, that's a real short.

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So, I mean, eventually got, you know,

as far as the career went, got into

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real estate, left finance, got into

real estate for a variety of reasons.

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We might, we might get into, you

know, And then grew not only a

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sales career in real estate, but

also, , got into the leadership side

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of things first as a sales manager.

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Then as a vice president, eventually, as

you mentioned, CEO of a large company in

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Jacksonville, so a lot of experience on

the business side, a lot of experience on

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the personal development side going from.

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Aimlessness and purposelessness and

terrible health to, you know, and gosh,

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I would nowhere near perfect what I

say, but definitely in a different

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area and more intentional about

where I'm taking things these days.

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And so that's where that's

kind of the, the overview.

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My, I went, I met my wife in 2006.

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She's, I'm so fortunate.

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She's amazing.

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She was a big part.

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In addition to my faith,

a big part of me kind of.

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Moving in the right direction.

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She's very helpful in

that, , over a period of time.

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We got married in 2013, and then

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and then Raylan came along in 2022,

and we're getting ready to celebrate

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her 3rd birthday in a couple days.

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We have 50 people descending on our

household this weekend to do that.

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And so a lot of stuff going on right

now, but just so thankful and blessed

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to have this, the family that I do.

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Having been able to navigate through

some challenging times along the way.

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Well, and that's part of why I love

your story, Kevin, because, you

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know, I know I can relate to this.

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I know most people can.

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I mean, you, your life is

going in one direction.

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You think you have it figured out.

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And I was about to ask you,

well, what was the catalyst?

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What was it that kind of nudged you?

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And you said your faith, your

wife, , and also a mentor.

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What?

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Go ahead.

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I'm sorry.

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Go ahead.

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I was, I was just going to

give a quick shout out now.

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He's he passed away a few years ago.

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, but David McWilliams was a

very, very big presence in my

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life in that early 20s range.

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Now, I'm not going to say I met

David and then snap my fingers

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and everything went awesome.

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That's not the way it happened.

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But.

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But I did see in him character how

he lived his life and characteristics

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and his family life and his spiritual

life and how he approached work and

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how he had this what I perceived as.

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Beautiful balance or harmony is

probably the better word in, in

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how he lived in, in his integrity.

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It just, it just set a

great example for me.

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So there were still some, you know,

bumps along the road, but that was a

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really good initial mentor for me again,

outside of my parents that, , that

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helped me in the right direction.

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It just goes to show you don't know

how you're impacting someone until it's

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right, you know, he, he, he may or may not

have known the impact he, he had on you.

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And so I told him no.

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And that's, that's 1 message that I

would, I would relay is because as I,

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as I learned along the way, , to, to

appreciate, you know, people that, you

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know, speak into you, , , every time I

got a promotion, every time something

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went well, when I got married or

whatever, he, he either got a call from

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me or a, or a note of gratitude for me.

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And I, and, and I, I, I let

him know, I let him know.

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That is so good.

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Zig Ziglar had a wall of gratitude.

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So all the people throughout his

life, starting with his mother, all.

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All the way on through, , you know, bosses

and other people who have spoken into him.

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And he never wanted to forget, you know,

we're never, we, we are who we are and

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we get where we are not on our own.

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It's kind of like, he would tell a funny

story about, you know, when you see a

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turtle on a fence post, you got to believe

they didn't get there on their own.

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That's the case, right?

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So that's right.

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That's right.

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And he was the first of a handful.

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I mean, I think mentors in life are so

important and learning lessons along

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the way are so important I had not

heard that about Zig Ziglar, but 1

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thing that I started doing, and it's a

little morbid, but but it's important

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to me is I've had quite a few friends

and family passed away over the years.

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And and so when I, when

I started doing was.

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Make, keeping a list of who they were and

then what's the most important lesson or

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character trait that they had, that if I

can somehow carry that forward, , would be

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a good reminder of that, of that person.

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So I, I, I don't like, I don't like

that the list is growing, but I

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do feel like it is a way for me to

remember and also think back to some

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of the great lessons that they taught.

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Oh, I love that idea, actually, that,

that's such a, I mean, I may borrow that.

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Thank you.

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I'll feel free.

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Thank you.

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We all borrow.

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We all, we all borrow, right?

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We all share.

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Right.

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There's no original.

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Maybe I heard, maybe

I read that somewhere.

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I don't know.

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No, it's all good.

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It's all good.

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Well, I want to make sure we

talk about your book because

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One to Grow On is your new book.

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And I, let's, let's tell the audience

more about what is this book about?

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Yeah.

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So the, the kind of the beginning

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I, along with, , You know, most

people got really introspective.

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We have this new This new virus and and

we really didn't know what was going on.

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I don't think anyone had any level

of expertise for a long time And and

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about that time also a couple of my

friends Passed away now not from covid

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for other reasons and and so and they

all they both had some young kids

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and at the time I had a Three year

old Elliot was three at the time.

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And so I just started thinking, you

know, if something happened to me, then,

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you know, there are a lot of things

that I'd like to pass along to him.

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A lot of lessons I learned along the

way that I'd like him to be able to,

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, you know, relate to or learn from.

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And so I just started writing them,

writing lessons down about the same time.

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I was doing a training session

for, , a group of sales professionals.

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, and, , it was, I think it was before

we actually really started leaving, you

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know, leaving the office offices, but

somebody meant, you know, I told a few

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stories and gave the lesson and someone

came up to me afterwards and said,

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Hey, you're consider writing a book.

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I thought, well, I kind of already

am, but if there's a way for me

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to expand the scope of this thing.

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And, , and then I started thinking, what

if I were to write something to someone

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that was struggling the way I was in

my mid 20s that maybe doesn't have that

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mentor that maybe doesn't have someone

that that's that's speaking into them.

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, and so it became kind of a convergence

of those things and that's that

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was the birth of 1 to grow on.

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So it's really just for.

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For anybody that hasn't been intentional

about personal development or thinks,

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geez, I'm not, you know, what am I

doing or not sure where to begin?

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And that's kind of the initial concept.

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So it's it's lessons.

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I've I researched it a lot.

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I mean, the book, the thing took

3 years to write 4 years to write

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and and it also, it's not designed

to be like, , And end all be all.

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It's called one to grow on.

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The idea though is this is a good

starting point, but then within

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the book, there are all kinds of

resources of the different topics.

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So if you want to learn more about, you

know, habit and skill development, well,

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here's, here's what I went through.

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Here's some action steps to take.

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And by the way, here's 3.

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if you're really, if this resonates

with you, here's 3 really good books.

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That that were influential

influential to me that you can go

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dive further into these things.

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And so that's really the concept

is, you know, helping someone

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I, you know, that isn't really

intentional about personal growth and

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development to just start somewhere.

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That's, that's the idea to say

is the ideal reader for this.

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Is it somebody.

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Maybe in the younger years, like you

were when you were transitioning kind

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of, or is it for those of us who have

been through many seasons and maybe

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we're looking, , for our next, but who

would you say would benefit the most?

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Yeah, I think, I think the

way you said it is perfect.

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The, the, it was written

towards me at age 23 though.

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And so if somebody is coming,

coming to that time, I mean,

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you got to be ready for it.

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Like I think there's a, you

know, there, there's, there, I

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believe everybody's reachable,

but at different periods of time.

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So I think if you're, if you're thinking.

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Yeah, you know, and it doesn't matter

if you're, you know, 25 or 80, if you're

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thinking, geez, I could use a different

outlook, I could use some different

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ideas, maybe a mindset thing, maybe a

habits thing, then it could be for you,

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but really it's, it's, it's the, you

know, coming out of college, you know,

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low twenties, mid twenties, that was the

idea that the, the, the target market

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I had in mind when I, when I wrote it,

because those were where I learned a lot

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of the lessons that I wanted to pass along

to, , you know, to Elliot in terms of

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how to overcome some of those challenges.

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I love that because I think you

and I talked about this early on,

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but when I wrote my first book,

that was exactly my motivation.

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I never intended that I would

share it with anyone else.

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I wrote my first book winning in

life now for my boys who at the time

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were seven and five second grade and

kindergarten, and now they're your book.

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, and shift it to both of them

because now 25 and one is 20.

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He'll be 22 in March.

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And, and so it's almost like, those are

the things that I probably was exposed to

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at that age, but maybe I wasn't listening.

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And so, and sometimes, especially

for our own kids, sometimes they

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need to hear it through other people.

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Right?

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No question.

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Yeah.

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And by the way, thank you for that.

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I appreciate that.

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And and I would love to hear feedback.

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I love getting feedback

from from all of it.

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And, you know, we also do have

a mechanism for the feedback.

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We turn the book into a course and the

course actually walks people through.

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There's a video.

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There's action plans.

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There's webinars.

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So, for someone that gets into the book

and says, well, I really like this.

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This resonates and wants to

kind of go a little bit further.

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, and that, and that does have a feedback

loop because then they could say, well,

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I tried this and this is what happened.

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And this is how I approached it.

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And this is what I tweak maybe and

then we just share the, the, , the

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wins inside of our LinkedIn community.

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So, , I think we'll talk a little

bit about where people can go in a

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few minutes, but, , but, , I, I, I

love hearing back from, from people

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that have experienced the book and,

you know, whether, whether they had

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a big win from it, or, you know, Hey,

I tried this and this didn't work for

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me, but I did it this way instead.

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I love it.

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And I love that you have

beyond the book too.

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So you do have all of

these resources and sure.

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And, and then let's talk about those,

your coaching, cause you know, your

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business, my mentors, you're an executive

coach consultant, you do a lot of

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different things beyond just the book.

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, But what challenges do you see

or do you encounter when you're

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working with other leaders?

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People that are, and it could

be sales people, but it could

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be also business leaders.

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Yep.

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What are you encountering out there?

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Yeah, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm so

fortunate that the people I get

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to work with are, are amazing.

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And I, I love them all.

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And, and, and most of the time I find

that I don't want it more for them

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than they want it for themselves.

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Because every once in a while in my

leadership career, sometimes you do,

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you want something more for someone

than they want it for themselves.

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Most of the people I get to work with

right now are pretty, pretty well

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motivated and engaged in what they're

doing, but, you know, I've been doing,

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I've been coaching people for a lot

of years and I generally find areas,

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six areas where people get stuck and,

and that is Sometimes a challenge to

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help people identify where that is.

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And so just to real

quickly, , foundational.

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So sometimes people will get stuck because

they haven't really spent time to think

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about, you know, what is my purpose?

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What is my mission?

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And it's, it could change over

time, but right now, what is it?

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That I'm really trying to accomplish.

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What's my vision for my life

from, from, you know, family

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wise to occupation to recreation.

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What are some things that I can see

myself doing over a period of time?

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And then the other thing I have my clients

do is think about their principles.

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What are some of the values that are

non negotiable for you as you go?

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Build this life for yourself.

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Because if you have a good set of

principles or values, then you have

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your filter for decision making, right?

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And some people that, that have a hard

time making decisions one path or the

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other, sometimes it's because I haven't,

they haven't built that filter yet

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as to what's non negotiable for them.

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So that's, that's one thing

that we kind of peel back the

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onion on the next thing is.

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That can be a challenge is mindset or

another way is like your self worth.

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I work some people where it's like,

you just have to get to the point

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where, you know, you deserve success.

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You're putting in the work, you kind of

getting in your own way because there's

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something that we have to figure out

that's block, whether it's a fear thing

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or whether it's a worthiness thing.

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Let's let's peel back the onion there

and that can be challenging as well.

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Then we get into like now we're getting

we're moving from kind of philosophical.

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Now we're getting into like planning

and time and energy management.

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And for some people living

a big life is a fear thing.

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Some people it's.

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I'm they're they're all over the

place with time and energy management.

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So we get into focus and we get into

minimizing drama and distractions and

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then we get into habit development and

skills and what you know, if there's

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a gap between knowing what to do and

actually what to do and actually doing it.

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What is getting in the way there?

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And then finally, it's, it's,

it's being ready for challenges

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because it will get challenging.

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And so what's your resilience plan

and then celebrate the journey.

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Not, not just the milestones,

not just the accomplishments,

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but you know, what are we doing?

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What are we doing it for?

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If we can't figure out a way

to find joy along the way,

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even through the challenges.

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And by the way, This is not, you

know, this is not me preachy.

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This is me constantly going through all

these and trying to improve in my own life

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and trying to help, you know, and trying

to work as a family unit and in service

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to others and clients and, and try to do

better with this stuff ourselves as well.

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So yeah.

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And, and, you know, the, the biggest

challenge is self leadership.

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You know, a lot of these things that,

that I, I sit down and look someone

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in the eye or look someone through

the zoom and say, You know, hey, let's

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identify some things you ought to be

doing and then make a prescription.

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I, I look at myself and say, all right,

is this, am I living this out myself?

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And, and so, so that's a big

challenge too, but we do it.

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So we do it in a, in kind of a unique way.

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So there's different coaching philosophies

and I've kind of combined three.

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It's Socratic, it's mentorship

and it's accountability.

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And we move, there's fluidity through

those different areas because.

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Sometimes, often, the person I'm

coaching knows the answer, and it's

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just a series of questions, and

it's better if they come up with it.

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Sometimes they don't

know the answer, though.

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I don't believe the student

always knows the answer.

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Sometimes it's, I've been through it,

they really need some advice, and so

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that's where the mentorship part comes in.

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And then once it's, we've identified

what the thing is, what do I need to add,

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what do I need to reduce, whatever it

is, then there's an accountability piece.

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And so it's just trying to

figure out, customize to each

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individual where they are.

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And what they need and that and sometimes

I can diagnose that pretty quickly

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and sometimes it takes me a while.

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Some people are hard to read.

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And so that we get into like, personality

assessments and that type of stuff

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and when necessary, but it's it's

so challenging in 1 respect because.

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I'm not in it just to, you know,

for, for the revenue piece of it.

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I, I, I am serious about the

outcomes for the people I work with.

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And so, so we, you know, we really,

we really put together a plan that

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not only they understand why behind

it, but they are, there's clarity on.

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The what and and what the

expectations are each week was long.

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That was a long answer now.

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It's just about to say, though,

I can feel your passion, though.

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I mean, yes, you are doing this.

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It is a business, but I can feel I

can feel it that this is something

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more than that for you, you know, and

to be able to there is nothing better

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than to see someone's life changed as

a result of something that, you know,

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whether you asked a question to help

them to figure it out on their own

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or whether you gave him direction.

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I like that.

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You have all 3 aspects of your coaching.

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Good.

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, I've been a coach, and I've been in

the, the coachee seat, and sometimes

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I don't want you to just ask me the

question, sometimes I want you to tell

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me what to do, and sometimes you don't

hold me accountable and say, guess what?

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You, you, you, you dropped the ball.

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You said you would do it, and you didn't.

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Let's, let's fix it.

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So I love your approach, but I can see

it comes from passion more than anything.

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Yeah, it, it, it does.

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I, I care a lot.

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And, , I really enjoy, I really enjoy the,

, the outcomes when, and, and by the way, at

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the same time, not taking credit for it.

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You know, it's, it's, you're the one, you

know, it's, oh my gosh, thank you so much.

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Oh, this has been life changing.

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You're the one doing the work.

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You know, the, the real value in coaching

is not the hour that we're together.

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It's everything in between

until the next hour.

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That's where you're

doing the amazing work.

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And so I try to make

sure my people know that.

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I love that you said that because

so many times I'll get that same

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thing, you know, thank you can do

it with no, no, no, you did it.

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You broke the book.

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You did the hard work.

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You, you know, so it's

a team effort there.

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1 thing I have to just also point

out before we move on is, , helping

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them to celebrate the successes

versus just the accomplishment.

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, and, and, and the journey.

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And I learned that early in life.

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Somebody had suggested that to me.

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In fact, they had suggested keeping track

of, , doing, I had a success journal

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and success did not mean accomplishment.

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And it meant maybe I completed

all my tasks in a day, or maybe

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I made someone smile or maybe,

and you keep it in this journal.

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And if you're a high achiever, like

most people who you're probably

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working with is when you're having

those down days and you're feeling.

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I have, I'm just, I've failed.

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I'm so behind schedule.

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I haven't done anything is you go

back and look, you're like, you

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know what it's, it's, it's all

a journey and I am successful.

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It doesn't mean I'm, I'm just

doing and doing and doing.

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And I know if people, I can fall

in the trap of just accomplishment.

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And not stopping and realizing.

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So I like that you really help

your, , the people that you're working

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with to, to appreciate the journey.

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That's yeah.

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Thank you.

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And then that I love your idea.

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And, and it certainly is, that's

a challenge for all of us, myself.

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Myself included.

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But I love that.

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And you know, if I get up and I

exercise in the morning, one of

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the chapters in the book talks

about starting and ending the day.

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Well, I believe if you start and end the

day, well, then a lot of the stuff in

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between that may be causing friction or

issues can starts to starts to wrap up.

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And if I get up in the morning

and I exercise, it's the exercise

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that should be celebrated.

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Not whether or not I lost five

pounds at the end of the month.

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It's the actual act of the exercise

that should be implemented.

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And so that's where the wins happen.

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Same thing with anything else

that you're doing to develop a

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business or to, to, you know, focus

on your family life or whatever.

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It's the, I spent 30 meaningful

minutes with my child today

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uninterrupted, no devices, no whatever.

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That's that's the stuff

that I'm talking about.

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And so keeping a journal of it, I

think, makes a lot of sense because,

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you know, the tough days will the

dark clouds will form the tough days

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will come and to be able to have

something to look back on and do that.

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One other journaling idea is.

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Is if this is a, this is personal to me

because I used to do this and I broke the

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habit when something didn't go my way, , I

was in a presentation that didn't go great

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or I didn't get the sale or whatever it

was, the employee left, they quit, I used

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to ruminate and I would just play it back

over and over and over again in my mind.

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And eventually I realized that

that's just feeding the non

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conscious brain with negativity.

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So I started journaling what happened.

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Yeah.

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What went wrong or what excuse me what

I did that I don't think or what I did

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that was okay or good and then what

would I do differently next time and

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doing that help me put it to bed and take

the lesson from it and not continue to

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screw myself up about it just another

you when you mentioned journaling I

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thought that I would share that as well

because that's been helpful for me.

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Yeah.

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And, and I love, so

you're a constant learner.

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It sounds like, like I, and I

have a passion for this as well.

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So you and I, I think could talk

forever about, but I do want to know.

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So you, the book has been out for

a little while and you're, you're

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continuing to do new things on it.

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And so there's so much good content in

the book already, but is there anything

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that's happened since you wrote the book?

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Any new thoughts or new, , things

that you've learned personally,

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since you're constantly learning?

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Yeah.

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You know, the, yeah.

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What I, I didn't spend a lot of time

on in the book, I've spent more time

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researching recently and I'm not a doctor,

but I've been reading, like, Daniel Amen

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comes to mind a lot about brain health.

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And so there's a lot of work on mindset

and worthiness and that's all amazing.

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His, his thesis is if you don't have

a healthy brain, a lot of that stuff.

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It's either more difficult or it

doesn't work at all and so I've

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been really looking into, you know,

and he's got a couple books, change

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your brain, change your life.

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And I think the other

one's called bright minds.

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And so that's where I'm going now.

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And interestingly enough, recently,

I found myself in the emergency room

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because I went blurry in my left eye.

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And and, , and I know that's not good.

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And so that could be really bad.

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And I won't make it a dramatic story.

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Everything's everything's fine.

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It wasn't, you know, what goes

off in your mind is like, oh,

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my gosh, I'm having a stroke.

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And and so, so I did all the things

and, you know, go into the hospital

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and it's like, it's so visceral, but

surreal at the same time, they look at

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me and they get on the microphone in the

emergency room and they're like, we have

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a, we have a stroke alert and I'm like.

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Is this really happening?

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And, and so next thing I know,

I'm, you know, in the CT machine

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and they're doing all these

tests and the MRI and everything.

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And, and so the learning lesson is.

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Got to take care of your brain because

there were a lot of years that I did not.

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And so if there is, if, if, if I am a

stroke candidate, it's not for what I'm

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doing now, it's for what I did eight years

ago, 10 years ago, smoking cigarettes,

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drinking too much, that type of stuff.

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So that's, that's 1 learning lesson.

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If I could go put that a little bit

more in the book about, you know,

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trying to reach the 20 somethings

or 30 somethings about earlier than

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later, start getting serious about

that stuff, then then that's 1 thing.

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And who knows?

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Maybe there's a future.

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Future book, but, , but that's 1 thing.

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And the other thing is, you know, the

things I were praying for while I was

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in those machines did not have to do

with making more money or anything

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other than, you know, family, I want

more time with my family, my friends.

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I want to make a bigger difference.

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You know, I want to make sure I make

a positive difference and leave a.

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Leave a decent mark here.

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, that, , that, that, that those would be

lessons that, , or stories that I would,

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I would convey in the, in the book.

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So, , yeah, not, not the kind of the way

that you want the wake up call to happen.

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But, you know, again, challenges

happen all the time and how we respond

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to them is, is really where it's at.

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So.

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Well, I know for sure you are making an

impact and a difference and with your

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clients, but also through this book.

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And so I want to make sure the listeners

know how to get your book and get in touch

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with you because you have the community,

you have courses, free resources.

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Tell us how to do that.

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Sure.

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I think the easiest thing

is just to go to www.

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momentorsllc.

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com.

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And you have all the blogs,

resources, the community there,

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all my socials, , momentorsllc.

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Dot com and love to love

to connect with you.

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Love to hear from you and join the

community or just shoot me a note.

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My, my contact information's there.

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And, , and again, thank you, Michelle for.

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, asking me some questions and dealing

with my long winded answers, as

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I mentioned, , in the, in the

pre show that, , tends to happen.

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I'll get, I'll start going,

but, , thanks for tolerating it.

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And thanks for everything that you guys

and your team do, and then shining your

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light, , on, on the entrepreneurial world.

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Appreciate it.

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Oh, thank you.

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And I'm so excited about it.

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And I can't wait to see what else happens.

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, as you continue to, , help

people to be their best self.

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So thanks so much, Kevin,

appreciate you being on the show.

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Thank you, Michelle.

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Thanks.

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All right, everyone.

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That is it for the power

of authority spotlight.

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I really want you to

go to my mentors, LLC.

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com, get this book, but not just for

yourself, self share with other people,

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especially those in that age range

that Kevin and I were talking about.

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You know, I wish I had that kind of

book at that age and I'm so grateful

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that my boys do and others will as well.

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So go to momentorsllc.

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