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Welcome back to a another episode of The don't wait for

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your wake up call podcast. I am your host, Melissa Daly. And

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this month, I'm focusing on the theme of inspiration. And I'm

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super excited to actually be bringing you three amazing guest

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interviews this month because there's five Saturdays in the

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month of April 2022. From three amazing women who have suffered

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near death experiences health issues, I've been told they'd

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never walk again. And then they do you know, each of those

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stories is very different story, but so inspirational in and of

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itself. And so I hope you love these episodes. But that left me

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kind of stalling on creating my own solo episodes wondering,

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what do I talk about in regards to inspiration? How do I that?

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How do I tie that back to health. And so I started by

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looking up the definition. And the definition of inspiration is

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the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel

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something, especially to do something creative, or a sudden,

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brilliant, creative, or timely idea. And then I started

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Googling sources of inspiration. And from there I became inspired

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to share with you 10 sources of inspiration over my next two

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episodes, and share with you how each of them has inspired me in

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my life. And I just love that I was stalling. I didn't really

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know what I was going to do with these two episodes to tie it in

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with the theme, but also tie it back to health education, which

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is what this podcast is all about. And in just starting to

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do a little bit of research and looking for some ideas I got

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totally inspired. So I hope you love this episode. I hope that

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as you listen, it brings you inspiration as well. Because you

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see whether you are inspired by another individual or something

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within your own person. Inspiration is the motivator

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within life. It is the catalyst for keeping you moving forward.

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And more than that, when you're feeling inspired, there is hope

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there is joy, there is belief that you can do something, it

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feels exciting, it's feels new and good. And when we are in

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this state, we are moved away from fear and anger and all the

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negative emotions that can weigh heavy and bog us down and

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literally cause disease in our body over time. Therefore, being

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in a state of feeling inspired, leads you to a healthier frame

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of mind and healthy physical body as you raise your vibration

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and soar. So let's dive in. And as I go through this list, think

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about how these

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these 10 different inspiration or weight sources of inspiration

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might inspire you in your life. And I hope by the end of this

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podcast that your energy vibration has been lifted by you

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thinking about this, as you hear me explain how each of these

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sources of inspiration has impacted me in my life. So the

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first source of inspiration on the list that I found was the

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sunrise something that happens each and every single day. And

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we don't necessarily see it. In fact, very rarely do most of us

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get to see the sunrise because especially in the summer months

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and if you're living out North is happening in the wee hours of

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the morning and we are still asleep. But last October, I went

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camping with my oldest daughter, back country camping, something

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that we've started doing together since the pandemic. And

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then we really come to enjoy. We love being in nature, it gets us

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off devices, and just gets us to spend time together creating

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memories. And being in nature, which just lets the stress drip

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right off your body. Right. And we had looked up before we left

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because of course, there's no Wi Fi, there's no devices, etc.

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What time the Sunrise was going to be this was very early

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October. And we decided to get up and watch the sunrise. And so

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we got up at 5am. And it was still chilly. And we found an

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empty, empty platform that someone hadn't used in the

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campsite the night before. And we took our chairs, and we took

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our sleeping bags, and we sat in the chairs snug in our sleeping

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bags. And we just watched the light move across the sky, as

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the sun got higher and higher in the sky, and all of the shades

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and the changes of the color in the sky during the 45 minutes

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that it took for the sun to fully come up over the

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mountains, the oranges and pinks and yellows. And every sunrise

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is different. And it was just so beautiful to have that quiet

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time in the morning, we weren't even talking just sitting there

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being together, mesmerized by the beauty of nature, something

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that I'm always in awe of. And so that is definitely a source

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of inspiration, an opportunity to be grateful for each new day

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that you get to wake up to. And as you're watching that and

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letting your mind wander, it's almost meditative. That's when

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creative ideas can be coming to you, as well. So source number

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two is past achievements.

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And when we look back at what we've accomplished, then that

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can be an inspiration for what we might have ahead of us. And

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that can be incredibly powerful as well. And some story that I

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shared recently in my coaching group was the absolute belief

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that I could do something, but it would happen, and there was

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never a doubt. And when we believe in something that deeply

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to the core, then we can always accomplish it. Right. And so it

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was a great reminder for me, because as an entrepreneur in

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business, you've got your UPS, you've got your downs, you're

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trying not to listen to all those voices in your head that

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are telling you that you're not good enough or you're not, you

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know, be able to achieve the goals that you've set for

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yourself this year, etc, etc. And standing above all of that,

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and keeping going can be difficult. But when we truly tap

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into what we're doing it, why we're doing it. And we know that

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to the depths of our core, we still show up every single day

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and put one foot in front of the other. And so that story

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happened almost 30 years ago now, I was actually hired to

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translate at the Canadian Embassy in Japan at an event for

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BC pavilion Corporation, as a simultaneous translator. Now I

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was raised in Japan and I speak Japanese but I had never done

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simultaneous translation before. And so it was very nerve

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wracking to say yes, that I would do that. But there was a

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piece of me that knew that this was my opportunity to achieve

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something else. And what I wanted to achieve was landed

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immigrants see and the opportunity to get to continue

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to live in Canada. And I knew at this event, there would be many

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government officials there. And that if I went, I would have the

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opportunity to meet them. And surely if I met them, I would

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meet somebody that could help me in my desire to get my landed

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immigrant status. I'd already tried through your normal

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channels of filling out the paperwork and the application

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etc. And that was this was all before the days of the Internet

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and been rejected twice because I didn't have a high enough

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point score and a big part of that was the fact that my age I

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think I was 22 at the time. And so I didn't have enough work

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experience, etc, etc. And I'd heard that if you apply three

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times and get rejected, then you're never going to get your

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landed immigrant status. So I didn't want to try a third time

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I had to do something differently. So I agreed to go

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and be a simultaneous translator at this event in Japan. And when

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I was there I did meet many government officials from both

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The Federal Government and the BC government. And I was sharing

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with all of them my story about how I do speak Japanese, I do

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want to say and work in Canada, I'm not taking another Canadians

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job, I can use my Japanese. I'm in Whistler, British Columbia at

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the time, it was the heyday of Japanese tourists coming. They

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needed more people that spoke Japanese. And what did I need to

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be doing in order to stay.

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And I got all of their business cards. And on one of the final

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days that I was in Tokyo, I was in my hotel. And I had gone to

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the elevator and I, for some reason, I think I was on the

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third floor. And I was standing there by myself. And the next

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thing I knew was the premier of our province, Premier Harcourt

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came up and was waiting for the elevator to, and he was by

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himself. And in my head, I just thought, This is who I need to

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speak to. And this is my opportunity. And literally

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between the third floor in the lobby, I told him my story of

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wanting to stay in Canada speaking Japanese wanting not

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taking a Canadian job, Canadians job, you know, the need for more

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Japanese translators in Whistler, and we got to the

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lobby level, and he said, my grandfather emigrated from

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Australia to and he gave me his business card. And he said,

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Write to me when you get back. And so I did. When I returned, I

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wrote to every single one of those people that I had met, and

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had all their cards. And when I say wrote, it was like on a

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typewriter back then to write no computers. So typing out

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individual letters to all of these people mailing them off.

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And one day in the mail, I received a letter back from

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premier Harcourt. And in the letter he wrote, I can't get

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involved. In your case, however, you need to contact this phone

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number in order to apply to become a landed immigrant. And I

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did, I called that number immediately. And it was the

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first time I ever got a human being on the other end of the

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phone, instead of just getting lost in, you know, press one for

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this, and two for that and three for that and never ever getting

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to talk to a person. And when I got to talk to that person, she

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explained the process for me as to what I could do in order to

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become a landed immigrant. And I was literally a landed immigrant

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within three months of that phone call. I had to go back to

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Australia to do my fingerprinting and an interview

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at the Canadian consulate in Australia. But I was able to

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everything else from Canada. And that was my final steps. And I

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became a Canadian, or a landed immigrant of Canada. And years

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later, when Australia allowed dual citizenship, I was able to

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become a Canadian citizen because of course, I've lived

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here for 32 plus years now. And that was just one of those

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pivotal moments where I knew to the depths of my core, that if I

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took these steps, even though it was terrifying to be hired to be

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a simultaneous translator, something that I'd never done

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before. But I had to put myself in that situation in order to

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meet the people that could help me get the goal and the dream

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that I had of becoming a landed immigrant. And I worked. And I

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hadn't done any personal growth work at that time or anything. I

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just knew I was following my intuition. Something was telling

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me that I had to do that. And I was able to do the simultaneous

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translation it wasn't as scary in the end is what of course,

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our mind always makes things out to be worse than they are. And I

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achieved the goal that I wanted. And so I go back to that story.

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Time and time again, to remind myself when things feel hard, or

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when I'm afraid of moving forward with something, etc. To

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dig deep and to believe in my core in what I'm doing that I

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can do it, because I've done it before. And I know I can. And I

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did meet other people after that on an ongoing basis of you know,

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other Australians that said, oh, yeah, I'd like to stay here too.

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I'm trying to apply. And I could always tell the ones that we're

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going to be successful and the ones that weren't. And it was

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the depth of that desire, of how much they truly wanted it.

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Because if you don't want it enough, you're not going to

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stick with it. Right? So looking back at past achievements can be

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really inspirational. When you might be feeling down on

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yourself not believing in yourself. You can also look at

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achievements in sports, to what have you done in sports that can

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inspire you moving forward, or looking at what others can do in

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sports and then using that to help you, I remember when my

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youngest daughter was about two, and I was, you know, trying to

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teach her to swim, and I used to teach swimming lessons. And she

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did not want to jump in from the edge of the pool. And then I

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took her swimming with one of her little buddies once, and her

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mom and her little buddy was about, I don't know, three

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months older than her, and she jumped in from the edge of the

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pool. And then my daughter saw that, and something clicked in

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her brain and went, Oh, well, if she can do it, then I can do it.

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And boom, she started jumping in from the edge of the pool. And

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how often has that happened in your life, you know, look for

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someone else that's done something. And that's motivated

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you to be able to do that as well. So the third source of

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inspiration is progress, assessing the progress, when we

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set big, hairy, audacious goals for ourselves, they can feel

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scary and impossible. And then we can talk ourselves down from

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them, right, we have 70,000 conversations with ourselves in

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our head every day. And a lot of what's being said in our head

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isn't even true. And you know that if you talk that way to

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another person, that person wouldn't even be your friend,

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we're so hard on ourselves, right. And we'll talk ourselves

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down from these big, hairy, audacious goals. And believe

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that we can't do that we're not good enough, we're not smart

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enough, whatever it is. But when we actually take that big goal,

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and we break it down into chunks, you take a goal for the

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year, and you break it down into a quarter, and then you break

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that down into monthly, and then you break that down into weekly,

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then you're like, oh, I can do this, right. And it feels so

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much more doable. And then we can start talking ourselves into

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what we can do, instead of being afraid of this big hairy goal.

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That sounds so massive. And an example of that wasn't really

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set as a goal in the first place. But an example of that

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was recently my mum, who will be 77 years old this year, she

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received the highest badge on Fitbit, they now have to make a

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new badge for her I think, and it was the pole to pull badge.

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And that means she has walked 12,430 miles since joining

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Fitbit, basically from pole to pole. And I don't know how long

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she's had her Fitbit for, I'm guessing it's seven years or

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less, right. And so she's done all of this walking in her 70s

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with her dogs. And her response when she got that badge was

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really interesting, because she said to me, you know, if

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somebody had asked me or suggested that I could walk

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12,430 miles, or walk from the North Pole to the South Pole, I

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would have said, that's impossible. And I would never

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have believed that I could do it. But simply going out and

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taking her dogs for a walk every single day and multiple times a

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day, those were lucky dogs because she's retired, sometimes

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they get you know, four or five walks a day. By chipping away at

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it bit by bit by bit. All of a sudden, she earned the highest

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badge that Fitbit has to offer the the pole to pole badge. So

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when we break our progress down into smaller bite sized chunks,

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we can actually continue to be inspired to move forward as we

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celebrate each of the little successes along the way.

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Now the fourth source of inspiration is quotes. And we

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all know there's many, many, many inspirational quotes that

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are out there. You can you know, Google them and pick your

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favorite people search for quotes by them, whether it's

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Maya Angelou, mother, Teresa Gandhi, Henry Ford, Hippocrates,

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the list is endless. And have your favorite quote that you go

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to, over and over again to keep reminding yourself, of putting

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one foot in front of the other and being inspired. One of my

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favorites is Henry Ford's quote of whether you think you can or

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you think you can't, you're right. And that's such a great

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reminder around mindset. If you think you can't, it's not going

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to happen. If you think you can, now there you can achieve it,

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right. I also love the quote, and I don't know who sent it but

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love the life you live. Live the life you love. Life by design,

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we all have the power to create the life that We love and to

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live. So what are your favorite quotes, there are so many

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wonderful, wonderful quotes out there. In fact, I have a

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calendar on my desk, it's the you are a badass, new and

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favorite inspirations. And one of them right in here, when I

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just randomly picked a page, it happens to be one from February

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15 of this year says success equals your dreams, plus fear.

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Plus, doing it anyway. Right. So choose your favorite quotes,

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post them on stickies around the house, on your desk in the

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bathroom mirror on the bedside table in the car. And every time

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you read it, let it bring a smile to your face, and lift

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your energy that little bit higher. The fifth source of

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inspiration is movies or documentaries. And this has been

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one of the sources of a massive inspiration in my life. Because

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years ago, I want to say, eight nine could even be 10 years ago.

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With my Girl Guides, we went to a documentary called Girls

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rising. And it was all about girls who wanted an education

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and were being denied an education in various countries

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around the world. And I sat watching that documentary, with

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tears running down my face. Because here I am in first world

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country where the kids, it's a no brainer. They go to school,

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all children go to school. And they take school for granted.

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And they even complain about having to go to school. My own

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two children included. And I'm sure when I was a child, I did

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the very same thing. And yet here were other girls around the

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world desperate for the opportunity to go to school, and

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being denied that chance simply because of their gender. And in

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that moment, I knew I wanted to do something more to support

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girls, getting an education, more girls getting an education.

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And there was a quote in that movie that if India could just

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educate 1% More girls, we could they would grow their GDP by

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$5.5 billion. And so in that moment, to me was this very

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clear answer. It's not easy, but it's simple. We educate the

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girls. And we grow the GDP of countries and we bring third

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world countries out of poverty. And so if we could focus on the

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girls, we could break the poverty cycle, one girl, one

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family, one village at a time. And so when I was let go from my

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corporate job, seven years ago, I knew that I wanted to do

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something completely different. And whatever I did next had to

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be more of service to humanity into the planet. And I didn't

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know what I was going to be doing workwise at that point.

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And I also didn't know how I could support the girls. But I

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was at a conference a year later that year, when I heard someone

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say, the speaker said that we are put on this planet for three

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things, to serve others to never stop learning, and to find our

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passion and purpose. And he also said, you don't always have to

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know the how the how will show itself to you.

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And in that moment, I decided I was going to create a way to

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support more girls getting an education. And I had no idea how

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to do that. But I knew someone who might. And so I phoned them.

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They already had nonprofit organizations in Nepal and in

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Uganda. And they were they had kindergartens that they had

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created because so many kids were going through elementary

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school and coming out illiterate. And it was because

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they were just getting lost in the overcrowded schools. And

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this particular area was asking for preschools, actually, in

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order to start teaching the kids a one two threes in their ABCs.

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So that by the time they got into the elementary school, they

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had a little bit of a jumpstart, and then they were much less

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likely to fall behind. And so because they already had people

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on the ground staff, etc. They'd already set up nonprofits, I

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phoned them to ask them, How do I start a nonprofit? And they

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simply said, why? What do you want to do? And I told them I

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wanted to support girls in staying in high school longer so

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they weren't being married off younger and then having babies

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as teenagers and repeating the poverty cycle of their parents,

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keeping them in school longer. So so that they could then get a

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good job and start to break that poverty cycle. And they loved it

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and said, Let's do it with you. And so from there, girls matter

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was birthed. And we've been funding girls that staying in

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high school ever since. So I think we launched girls matter

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in 2017, might have been a bit sooner, actually. And we've

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helped, we've had some girls graduate from university, we've

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had many girls graduate from high school. And we're

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continuing to support girls. And now we're starting to blow it up

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even more, because I have a fairy godmother that's come into

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my life, and contributed money, and she's in the crypto world.

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And she's using those funds and the profits from the crypto

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world to fund girls. And showing me how to do that. And

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introducing What I'm doing to others to blow it up bigger so

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we can reach even more girls, globally, not just in Uganda, as

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we generate more funds through what's happening in the crypto

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world today. So that going to that documentary was incredibly

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inspiring to me, and gave me a purpose at a time when I didn't

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know what I was doing with my career and was still figuring

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that out. And now I've been able to bring the two of those, you

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know, marry them more closely together. And these girls

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continue to inspire me because their passion and their desire

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to go to school. And what the reason they want to go to school

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is incredibly inspiring, they all want to help their village,

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they all want to help make their life and the life of their loved

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ones and their families better. These 6/6 In a source of

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inspiration is travel. Now, I've traveled a lot in my life. And I

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feel very, very fortunate to have had the opportunity to do

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that. Being raised in Japan, coming from Australia, traveling

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around Southeast Asia, traveling around Europe, Africa. I've seen

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how different people live in different parts of the world,

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different cultures experience different food, different music,

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different dancing, etc, etc, etc. And it is so incredibly

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inspiring, it inspires you to get out of your comfort zone, to

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simply try new things, try new food, try speaking a new

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language, try you know, listening to new music and

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enjoying it standing up and dancing and having fun, etc,

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etc. Seeing different forms of architecture, just meeting

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people with you know, different approaches and styles to life.

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Meeting people who have almost nothing, and yet are so happy

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and are willing to give you a gift.

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So travel is incredibly inspirational. And not only

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that, the actual travel but the planning of the travel. Think

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about how you feel when you're planning a trip. Again, it's

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exciting and you're looking forward to it. And looking at

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all the different places you can go. Looking at it online and

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looking at it in brochures, all of that is incredibly

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inspirational. Number seven music. So music shifts, your

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energy motivates you. And I have a list a playlist on my phone of

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songs and I literally call it my energy shifting music. So that

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if I feel like I'm, you know, kind of feeling down or tired or

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whatever, then I can play that music. And I can turn it up

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loud. And I can sing to my heart's content, and raise my

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vibration. And literally shift my energy in that moment. And we

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all have songs that do that for us. We all have songs that take

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us back in time. Like I remember the first time I ever heard that

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song, right? Take us back to different places, etc. and So

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music is incredibly inspirational. And you know, in

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different times, it might be different type of music that you

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find inspiring. But enjoy what that music gives you. And if you

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are feeling down in the dumps, then turn to that turn just the

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music, turn on some great music and shift your energy and be

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inspired to move in to a better space. Poetry. So obviously,

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there's many, many different poets that are out there so many

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different types of poetry, etc. And it's not something that I've

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ever really studied. It's not something that I've ever really

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read per se. So in terms of a source of inspiration for me, I

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wouldn't put it top of the list, but I do have a favorite poem.

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And I want to share that poem with you here, because this is a

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poem that I found close to 30 years ago. And I lost my father

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when I was 13. And somehow, I always felt like he was always

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with me. And I didn't know how to put that into words. And then

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when I found this poem, I was actually in Granville Island and

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a little shop and I read this poem and went, Oh, my goodness.

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This poem describes exactly how I feel about my father's, my

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father's presence, being always around me. And so it has become

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my favorite poem, and a poem of inspiration to me. Do not stand

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at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep. I am 1000

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winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the

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sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumns rain, when

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you awaken in the mornings hash, I am the Swift, uplifting rush

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of quiet birds and circled flight. I am the soft stars that

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shine at night, do not stand to my grave and cry, I am not

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there, I did not die. So for any of you who have lost loved ones,

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maybe that connects with you. And maybe that gives you a

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little bit of inspiration that you haven't lost them. They're

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always with you. Number nine source of inspiration are our

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pets. And this was funny to see on the list because I was just

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talking to someone else about how one of our cats is actually

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an inspiration to me. It's an annoyance and an inspiration in

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the same time. So I will choose for it to be an inspiration. You

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see his name is Oscar, and I work from home. And he likes to

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come upstairs and walk across my desk right in front of my

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laptop, he'd be doing it right now if I hadn't shut the door

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and tell me that it's food time. Or it's almost food time, it's

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two hours until you need to feed me Oh, now it's an hour and a

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half until you need to feed me now as an hour until you need to

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feed me. And if I don't go and feed him and I just put him

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down, then he just jumps back up. And he does it again. And I

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pick him up and I put him down because I'm busy working on

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something. And I don't want to feed him right in this minute.

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And he'll jump back up and he'll do it again. He is incredibly

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persistent at making sure that I do not forget to feed him. And

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his persistence in making sure that I don't forget to feed him

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and me understanding that his persistence is extremely

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successful, because at some point, I get fed up and I go and

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feed him. Generally his lunchtime is at noon. So I

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pretty close to noon, I tend to feed him. But he is always up

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here at 1130 at the latest telling me that it's almost

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noon, and sometimes he'll start earlier. And by 1215. He's like,

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Hey, you're 15 minutes late. But the fact that he comes and I put

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him down and he jumps back up, and I put him down and he jumps

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back up. That persistence is the same type of persistence that

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I'm applying to my business, right? That sometimes it feels

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hard, sometimes it feels like it's a whole lot of work. But at

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the same time, I love what I do. I love sharing, health

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education, I love inspiring people to take better care of

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their health showing them how to do that, because I do truly

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believe that we can all be empowered in our health. And

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that if everybody understood the impact of stress and the impact

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of toxins on their health, and knew what they could do about

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that to lower both, that we wouldn't have the chronic

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illness that we have in the world today. So these are what I

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teach on each and every day. And I'm sure many of you have heard

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me teach on these things, been part of my programs. But I

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continue to show up every day and apply the same level of

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persistence to building my business. Because I learned from

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my pet. I'm inspired by my pet by our cat Oscar, who is so

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persistence in making sure that he gets fed. So I thought you'd

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enjoy that little funny one that I'm learning from our cat. And

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then the 10th source of inspiration and last one for

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this episode is your family. Right? I'm a mom, I've raised

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two kids and when I look back to thinking about both girls when

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they were little and learning to walk and watching them fall down

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and get back up and keep on trying. They believe they can

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walk because they see us Are parents walking, right? So they

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have no doubts that they can walk, they don't doubt

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themselves, they fall down, they get back up, they try again. And

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eventually they walk. And just about every single child goes

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through this, no, some children might, you know, be born and

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unable to walk. But almost every child learns to walk, because

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they believe they can do it, because they see you, their

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parents and other adults walking and other children walking and

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running. And they want to do it too. And so they're inspired by

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the older people in their life. And that's inspiring to me,

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because again, they fall down, but they get back up. And as

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adults, sometimes we fall down, and then we just want to give

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up. And the testament to your character is not how many times

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you fall down, it's how many times you get back up. And then

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the other truly inspirational person or family member is my

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grandmother. And many of you've probably heard this story. But

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my grandmother lived to being 101 years old, in her own home,

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caring for herself, fully cognitively functioning, and

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died in her sleep. Now, that is what I want from my life. She

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inspires me to prioritize my health to do all that I can, in

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order to get to live my life that way, instead of what most

Melissa Deally: 00:36:35

people unfortunately are doing these days, which is landing on

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a track of Alzheimer's and dementia. In North America,

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there was some statistics that Edward Jones put out recently in

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North America, the average person spends 10 years dying in

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a nursing home 10 years. What if you could get those 10 years

Melissa Deally: 00:36:54

back to spend with your loved ones and have quality of life.

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And you absolutely can when you start to look after your health

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today, because what you do now matters.

Melissa Deally: 00:37:08

You can have Alzheimer's and dementia for 20 to 30 years

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before it ever gets diagnosed. But you can choose today to

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understand how stress impacts your body to understand what

Melissa Deally: 00:37:19

toxins are doing to your body and to take the baby steps to

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learn about nutrition and the right way to eat for your body

Melissa Deally: 00:37:25

to understand the importance of sleep doesn't have to be

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difficult. And it doesn't have to be a make work project. It

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can be done in baby steps and learning a little bit. I've been

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learning for seven years, I'll continue learning I'll never

Melissa Deally: 00:37:39

stop learning because we're still scratching the surface of

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what we know about the health of our microbiome, the health of

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our brain, etc. But it's my grandmother, and understanding

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her life and how she lived her life that made me have the AHA

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if I want to get on her path, I need to do things differently.

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Because I realized I was toxic. After all those amazing years

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growing up in Japan for which I'm very grateful for I realized

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that I was still toxic because it was a big city with

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manufacturing plants spewing out toxins. And that made me more

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toxic than my grandmother. And what did I need to do about

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that? That's when I started learning about toxins and

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detoxing, et cetera, et cetera, and why I'm such a big African

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advocate for that today. And so she is my inspiration. So as I

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leave off this episode, I want to ask you Who in your family is

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your inspiration? And I'd love you to send me a note or

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comment. And let me know of these first 10 sources of

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inspiration. Which one did you like the best? I'd love to hear

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from you. Let me know. Have a great week. And I really look

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forward to having you join me for my next episode with Tanya

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Joyce called from wheels to heels. And the week after, I'll

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be back with the next 10 sources of inspiration that I will be

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sharing with you. Thanks for joining me on this episode. And

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