Become a Moment Hunter Embracing Ichigo Ichie

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I'm glad we're connected, and thanks
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program with us today is Hector Garcia, co author of the book of ichigo

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Ichi, The Art of making the
most of every moment in his way,

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and also the author the co author
of ikea Guy, The Japanese Secret to

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a long and happy life. We'll
be talking about what this Japanese concept of

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ichigo ichi means and where the idea
came to research it came from, how

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all of us can cultivate ichigo ichi
in our daily lives and become moment hunters,

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and how companies can leverage the power
of ichi ichigo ichi to create compelling

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products and services and enticing cultures that
contribute meaningfully to their employees' lives and work.

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Hector joined it today from Tokyo,
Japan, where it is fifteen hours

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ahead of time from me and Dallas. Hector, Welcome to Working on Purpose.

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Hello, thank you, Good morning
Tokyo. Good morning. Wow,

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it's amazing. It's a beautiful afternoon
here in Dallas. It's wonderful to know

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that you're on the other side of
the world starting your Friday. So welcome.

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It's great to have you. Thank
you so so to get started here.

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I always like to have a little
bit of fun when I kick off

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shows, especially with an interesting guest
like you, Hector. So, among

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other things among my passions, I'm
an identity and a meaning researcher. So

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let's start by talking about who you
are. There's a lot that makes you.

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I've noticed as I looked at your
background, your profile. So if

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you were to be at a cocktail
party or some gathering, what people didn't

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know you, how would you introduce
yourself? So that this is very This

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is always something I struggled with because
I realized that over my life, I've

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always been changing my identity. You
have, and that's exactly why I wrote

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my first book, Icky Guy,
to try to analyze or introspect in myself

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of what is the real common factor
that is inside me that connects all the

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dots. And yes, I would
say now I'm a writer and an author,

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but before I was an engineer.
I like traveling, I like analyzing

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cultures, like learning, and it
seems to me that one of the common

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threats that it's in all my passions
is like curiosity. So everything that I

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start having curiosity for, I start
learning about it and I want to write

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about it. So everything is starting
to connect. I think I'm becoming an

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author. That's becoming my identity.
That's so delightful. And I share a

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lot of that curiosity. As you
know, I lived in Spain and Brazil

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and I want to do more travel
a level of a broad again, so

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I'll be in your back pocket for
a while, okay, yes, okay,

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all right, Well, let's talk
about this latest book that you co

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authored here, and let's make sure
I'm saying the topic right here. But

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the Japanese concept ichigo ichi? Is
that the right way to say it?

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It's itchigo? Well there is,
I think it's okay in Japanese would be

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okay, yes, okay. It's
a Japanese war Well, it's not really

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a Japanese war word. It's a
company, it's a it's an expression.

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It's a composition of two words,
which means it's very difficult to separate the

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meaning of both. Everything together means
that this moment in a space and time

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with it has the meaning not only
this moment in a space and time with

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one person, but with several people
together, for example, you and me

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now together we are talking in this
space and time, and this will never

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repeat in our lifetimes. Next time
I talk with you, Alice, it

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will not be the same. This
is our first time, so it's kind

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of special, and we are doing
it remotely, and maybe one day you

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will come to Tokyo and we will
meet again, and that will be another

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itchigo. Each moment we will not
repeat again. So that's the basic the

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basic meaning of it. So itigo
each ya helps us to the concept,

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helps us to appreciate more how unique
every moment in our days is with other

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people around us, friends, family, co workers. It is beautiful and

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I loved every word of your book. I read your book cover to cover,

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and on that end, to that
end, I wanted to surface for

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our listeners here we are having this
conversation. I'm in Dallas, Texas.

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My native language is English. I
do speak Spanish, which is your native

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language being from Spain, and you
are in Japan and you do also speak

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Japanese. So I want to remind
our listeners that this is this conversation that

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we're having in English, is at
least a second or third language for you.

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Yes, in fact, I speak
better Japanese than English, I believe.

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Oh my goodness, I'm really impressed. It's wonderful and all the more

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reason that I want to celebrate that
there is such a beautiful planetary relationship here

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in that or. It's all connected. We're all part of one big hole.

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And when I read your book,
I was very present to that,

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knowing that we'd be having this conversation
as we are today. Yes, met

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too, like we are one week. We're humans sharing these moments every day.

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Yes, I like to say I'm
very very proud to be an American,

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but I'm also very very happy to
be a citizen of the planet.

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Yes, that's that would be my
identity. Going back to the first question,

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okay good, I'm a human,
human being. Okay good. Well,

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let's talk about how it is that
you came up with this book.

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As you might recall from some of
our interactions via email, I am working

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on creating my first full length book. And here is you have co authored

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not one, but two books with
Francesque Moralies. So would you tell us

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a little bit about how it was
that you met her and how did you

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decide to write books together. It
seems hard enough to come up with one

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book, let alone doing it with
someone else. What's that story? So

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my story? Originally I came to
Japan now I think it's sixteen years ago,

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and I started writing in a I
think this is a similar story to

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many authors these days. I started
writing in a blog. I wrote originally

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in my blog, I wrote in
Spanish, and I wrote out of curiosity.

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So as I explained, like I
got very curious about Japan. In

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those times, there were almost no
blogs about Japan so and there was no

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YouTube. So when I arrived to
Japan, everything was like an alien universe

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to me, and everything that I
was observing every day I was writing down

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in my blog. And suddenly my
blog became very popular in Spain. It

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became one of the top red blogs
in Spain. And out of that,

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one day, like several years later, I came out of the realization,

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if I put together all these content
that I wrote in a book, I

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could have a book. That was
my thinking if I was I think I

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was twenty six twenty seven, and
I did that. I put everything together

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and I got a manuscript of around
three hundred pages, and then I started

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sending it to publishers in Spain and
they all rejected me because I was an

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unknown author, except one publisher who
decided to publish my book in two thousand

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and eight, and that was my
first book. It's called a Geek in

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Japan, a very nerdy book.
It's still yes, it's still it's a

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long seller. So it's still one
of the most popular books about Japan in

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Japanese. In Tokyo Airports because it's
an introduction to Japanese culture. And this

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book I wrote it alone. It
was my first experience as a writer,

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and now looking in retrospect, it's
an okay book, but I could have

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done better then years later, I
this like my author in the next books.

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Francisque read my book My Geek in
Japan, and francisk is a very

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famous novelist in Spain. Has written
more than fifty novels and books, so

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it's a prolific author. And came
to Tokyo and we met. We had

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an itchy go itchy moment together and
uh, and then we met several times.

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Francis is a very he the hobby
he has us to come to Japan

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and travel around and write novels and
books. So one day he proposed me,

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which would write a book together,
and that's how everything started. Well,

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it was not let's write a book
together, I was, we were.

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It was more it was more romantic. We were walking in a Japanese

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garden, very beautiful, and I
was a little bit depressed because of many

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things in my life, and I
started talking to Francesca about these words Japanese

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word tiki guy which means the purpose
in life. I think it's deeper,

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it's like the overall purpose in your
life. It's your Ikey Guy and Francisque

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didn't know this war was totally unknown
to the West. When I explained to

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francisc and after explaining him about Ikey
Guy, he said, we have to

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write a book together. The world
needs to know about this word, Tiki

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Guy. Let's do it. And
that's how we wrote our first book,

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Tiki Guy, and then the next
books like we are just now, We're

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we're a team. I would say, we are writing it is our latest

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book. Well, of course,
I love how you unfolded all of that

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story for all of us, and
I appreciate how you are continuing to transform

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along your own journey there. And
also I appreciate that you were authentic and

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let us authentic and let us into
your world. That it wasn't necessarily a

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time for you when you met and
were in that garden and in that garden.

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In fact, I do want to
share something with our listeners that I

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thought was so beautiful in your book
and in that in the passage it really

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evokes in me. For me in
ichigoch a moment and that's toward the end

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of the book when you write,
and I quote, we began our adventure

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in an old tea house in Kyoto, reading as the master OIQ said,

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the love letters sent by the wind
and rain. I love the idea that

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the wind and rain can send love
letters. That's an idea that just just

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captivates my soul. And so to
me for the listeners who haven't yet read

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your book, can you bring us
into what you meant by those words in

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that tea house on that special day? Yes, what I think those those

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words, it's it's similar to what
uh a haiku like Japanese haiku poet the

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dude is, these are like tools
to bring your awareness to the present in

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a special way. So maybe that's
what you felt when you were when you

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read when when you read this,
it's not it's not it's less about the

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meaning but about the effect that it
does to your feelings and your brain.

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You're maybe having a bad day or
your tarrets and your mind is filled with

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many worries and you read like five
high coup poems, it will change your

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state. And this is high coup
poems is just one of the tools that

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we can have to bring us to
the present moments, and we found out

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that Japanese culture has many of these. I don't like the word tools,

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but I'm going to say the word
tools. These tools to bring our awareness

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to the to the present, which
one is like these words by o Q

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or our words. And one big
tool, more complex tool that we also

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explain in the book is the Japanese
tea ceremony, which I believe the whole

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purpose of the tea ceremony is not
really to drink tea, but to is

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to evoke this sense of ichigoi moment
in the most powerful way. That's how

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the tea ceremony, the Japaneseter's ceremony, is designed to bring us to the

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ichigti. And of course the reason
why they have you on the program,

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Hector, is that I think that
we desperately need to be able to gain

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access to the present moment. And
so much of what I'm doing in my

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programs am I speaking, and what
I do inside organizations is helping people get

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access to that moment in order to
be able to get present to their passion,

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their inspiration and let that wash over
and enrich their lives. And so

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to me, your book is so
beautiful and the way you wrote it,

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and it's such an easy entry point
into that space, and that's why I

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wanted to have you on the show. So thank you, thank you.

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Yeah, I want to ask there
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is not. You can also find
your own tools to bring your bring you

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to the present. It can be
something as simple as listening to your favorite

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music or doing like things like aroma
therapy is very good to maybe induce these

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present like a state or enjoying like
Japanese have, like you know, the

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word sakura, like sakura blossoms.
Sakura is I'll just say it's a r

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yes, terry blossom. So the
Japanese have this terry blossom contemplation on tradition,

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which is also it's yet another way
to embrace the itigo itia moments.

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And Hector, hold that thought if
you will. I want to talk more

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about that because I want our listeners
to gain more access to it. But

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let's grab our first break if we
can. I'm your host, Elise Cortes.

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We were on the air with Hector
Garcia, the co author of the

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book of ichigo Ichi, The Art
of Making the most of every moment The

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Japanese Way. He joins us today
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hours ahead of me here in Dallas. We've been talking about a bit about

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his own journey and his path to
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people across the planet can actually cultivate
ichigo ichi in our everyday lives. Stay

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with us, We'll be right back. This is Working on Purpose with Alice

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I se at a lascortes dot com. Now back to Working on Purpose.

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Thanks for staying with us, and
welcome back to Working on Purpose if you're

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just joining us. My guest is
Hector Garcia, the co author of the

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book Ichigo Each The Art of making
the most of Every Moment, The Japanese

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Way, and also the book Ikey
Guy, The Japanese Secret to a Long

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and Happy Life. I'm your host, Elise Cortes. So Hector, just

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before the break, you were finishing
a thought. Did you want to add

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something to that before I take you
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just took to like we all can
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need Japanese. Japan is not needed
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own ways. For example, preparing
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our loved ones could be one way
to create anchi go iti a moment I'll

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share just briefly. I had what
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each a moment last Monday evening,
Hector, I was out after I did

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a beautiful tangle lesson. I was
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that, and I didn't want to
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a restaurant or a bar and sat
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worked on your radio show content as
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this couple next to me talking and
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Surely they must be dating. They
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looked closer, I saw a ring
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and I realized, Okay, they
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in their late fifties, and I
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marriage. And so they they paid
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and of course I interrupted and said, excuse me. I couldn't help

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noticing your connection, And they ended
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me, and I learned how they
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for fifteen years, three kids,
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talked with him about his work,
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be a guest on the show.
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being present, right, just like
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enjoy the moment and be there in
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and for them as well. Yes, well that's a great example. I

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think you were also part of You
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did. Yes, that's a double
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for all of us, and so
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to share. But in this part
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be able to help our listeners get
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use it in their own lives.
As you and I are, I'm a

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novice. You're longer at this,
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in your book that many other problems
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and as society originate in lack of
attention to others. Completely agree with that,

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and you tell us the solution involves
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might be their dying last words,
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we truly receive what someone else has
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Will you say more? No,
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I almost forgot my own words in
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Like I should listen to you,
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it's very very important. But yes, I think the context why I wrote

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those very strong words is because now
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threat in our society. Now it's
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but this is being told by many
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losing We are all lost in our
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and that's the consequence of that.
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us. And I believe that's very
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basically, I'm pretty sure this couple
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pretty sure, no, they were
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present. So that's one of the
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to try to do like you restrict. Of course, now is becoming even

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more is becoming almost impossible to say, Okay, you have to stop using

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your smartphone. That's not that's not
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finding ways to put some barriers so
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but when you're in front of a
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to talk, like your smartphone should
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the other person in the eyes and
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saying this. I wrote this book
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that this is what was happening with
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have solved for myself. But I've
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developing some habits in my life that
he has certainly improved my separation of Okay,

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now I'm going to deal with email
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is now time for something else.
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or it's time to work on my
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Then I stop everything else. And
it's such a gift, right.

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I know for my own work character
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someone else and we really hear them
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it's unforgettable for them. Most people
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being seen and heard like that.
It's beautiful. Yes, I not this.

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I think you are spot on on
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also feel when people are really listening
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creates a connection, And you have
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that to other people too. If
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will feel it. That's so true. So it's like both ways. So

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so another thing that you said in
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it builds on you mentioned that you'd
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is of course why I originally reached
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opportunity to talk about that, but
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book you talk about this concept of
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that with this manchai formula that you
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guy plus kaika plus time equals mankai. Can you share with us this is

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where our listeners can walk away with
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of those terms mean and why this
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meaningful and enriched lives. So this
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because we were mixing too many japan
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connect. So originally the when we
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book, itigo it was one of
the what was one of the ingredients to

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have meaning in our lives? Because
you can have whatever purpose you want,

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but if you're alone in life,
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purpose is kind, it becomes it
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then we need kaika in Japanese means
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a its best. So it's it's
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kaikai, is when in the terry
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when you add time to that blossoming, it will reach the mankei. The

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mankei is the perfect state, like
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a metaphor for our life or us
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mankei, we can become perfect flowers
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there is perfection. This is also
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the world. But mankea is this
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that we can be as a person. And to reach that state of mankei,

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we have to have iky guy purpose
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We have to sparkle new ideas and
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to become like mankei flowers. Does
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I think this formula we made it
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that we need not only meaning,
but we have to work on it every

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day with other people. They need
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will not work well. And the
reason I wanted you to talk about

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that, Hector, is because many
people who listen to this program and it

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doesn't enjoy a global listenership, come
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their lives. They want to be
a better leader, They want more meaning

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or fulfillment from their work or their
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passion. And when I'm out speaking
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oftentimes they say they don't know.
So part of what I'm up to

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in the world is helping them to
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that they can then develop them and
nurture them. And soe that whole idea

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of the kaika moment, when something
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sparked, any passion is sparked.
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about because people have this idea that
I can't change jobs, they can't change

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industries. I'm too old it's too
late. In your book, you really

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say it's never too late. Yes, it's never too late. And I

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think we give some examples of people
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they're sixties and seventies and they became
manki, they became fulfilled with it,

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so that the word you use,
the sparkle moment. And of course I

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think I've also encountered, like I
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becoming a global problem, because I
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like I don't know what my purpose
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in everything I'm doing at the work, or my daily life is becoming a

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routine. Those are common problems,
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think, Well, we've all had
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I think this is something that connects
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I don't think or maybe I think
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lucky people who they start playing the
piano when they're five years old and that

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become their passion forever and they're happy
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us, I think I read somewhere
that like whatever you start or you study

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at university or college when you're in
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is working on something else. And
that means because that means that people is

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changed, like you're slowly changing in
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at. And what I wanted to
say is like the main struggle that I

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think everyone has is that when you
find something, okay, there is something

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that sparkles, Okay, maybe I
like this or maybe it's my passion or

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it's not. I don't know.
That's the main question we have. And

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maybe you pursue it for two months, three months, and you start struggling,

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am I really good at this?
Yes? No, I'm really enjoying

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or not? And then you start
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that would be the time factor to
become like a like almost perfect flower with

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something. I think this is something
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I think that if if you keep
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really what you like, you might
end up burnout, right, But if

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you give up too early on something
that might be the right thing, then

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maybe you missed on something very beautiful. So this is this is a very

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fine line, and this is where
we need people I think like you who

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can guide people, because it's not
I don't have a solution for this problem

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yet. So I want to ask
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struggled with this for me writing,
for example, I've thought many times like

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giving up, especially at the beginning. So I had all this There is

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this word the imposters syndrome, like
I had all these doubts always like like

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but it's like, I'm glad I
appreciate. So, yeah, I do

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you have thoughts on this, like
I sep or because I could have also

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become vern now and I don't know. Yeah, I do, but let

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me grab our first or our last
break. But let me also say before

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I do that you are a gift
to the world and I'm grateful that you

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persevere it in your writing. So
I'll answer your question when we come back

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just a moment. I'm Alis Cortez, your host. We are on the

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air of Hector Garcia, co author
of the book of Ichigo Ichia, the

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artor of making the most of every
moment the Japanese Way. He joins us

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today from Tokyo, Japan, where
he was fifteen hours ahead of me here

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in Dallas. After the break,
we're going to hear more about how to

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apply ichigo ichi in relationships and at
work. Stay with us. This is

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Working on Purpose with Elise Cortes.
To reach our program today, send an

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working on Purpose. Thanks for staying
with us, and welcome back to Working

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on Purpose. If you're just tuning
in. My guest is Hector Garcia,

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co author of the book of Ichigo
The Art of Making the Most of Every

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Moment the Japanese Way, and also
the book entitled Eke Guy, The Japanese

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Secret to a Long and Happy Life. I'm your host Atlist Cortez. So

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just before the break, Charactor,
you were asking me a little bit about

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I think about staying true I think
to your passion. So what I'd like

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to do is answer that, and
then I want to direct us to what

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you have in your book about how
to cultivate passions around the sensus. So

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for me, the fact that you've
stayed on your path, that you stay

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true to being a writer and sharing
your perspective and your view, which is

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incredibly useful and opening for the rest
of us who get to read it.

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I think so much of that is
just staying true to that internal compass that

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tells you that you know you're in
the right path, ignoring everybody else who

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says it's not possible, you can't
do it, you can't make a living,

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just staying true to that internal heartbeat
that is your your navigational compass.

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So that's what I would say is
the secret to staying on point. I

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have to believe that there's a reason
you have two books out, that somehow

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you've been able to listen to that
compass. Yes that I like the compass

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analogy a lot. What I still
struggle is to know when my compass is

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slightly off. And I think that's
everyone to keep the compass, like,

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do not get lost in life.
I think that's one of the keys.

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Oh yeah, I think I write
books to help people to align with their

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compass and not go against it.
Yes, and so to the point of

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being able to get present to and
access to our passions. I really think

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that the section you have in the
book about addressing and treating and being in

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tune with our senses is beautiful and
I completely agree. I use something similar

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in my own vitally inspired program to
help people get access to their passion and

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specifically I was really riveted with the
idea of your concept relative to the senses

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of dining don noir in the dark
that you have. Yes, many restaurants

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in Paris are offering this experience.
I think that is fantastic. I would

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love to do that. Yes,
in fact, I've never done this.

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I did it in Thailand, so
it's yeah. I think it's started to

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be a popular thing to die that. The main idea is to we many

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times ignore we have five senses,
and we many times ignore or we get

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messed up with all our senses.
Again, going back with the analogy of

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the smartphone, we are having dinner, we are all distracted with our eyes

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looking at the smartphone or is hijaking
our emotions and brain we forget. I

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think we've all had this, like
we are very stressed, or we are

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in front of a very important person
having dinner and the dinner is supposed to

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be delicious, but we we go
back home, we forgot even the taste

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of the foods. That's that's having
dinner disconnected from the itchygo Each year is

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like I'm disconnected from our senses and
the rivers would be like these restaurants that

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that are popular in Paris that you
can have dinner totally in the dark.

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So the idea is that your your
eyes, the input from your eyes sense

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it's it's stopped. You can focus
only on the taste that goes to your

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to your mouth basically, and that
that how do you say that? That

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makes the experience much more powerful you
you you experience the foods in a different

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way, and we can bring that
analogy to everything else. It is not

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the same to if you close your
eyes listen to one hour of your favorite

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music. It's not the same as
putting your headphones and go running outside listening

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to your favorite music. If you
close your eyes and do nothing. I

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think like we have many things these
days that we try to multitask everything.

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Go to the team, listen to
your favorite music at the same time we

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try to do like or start working
and listen to your favorite music at the

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same time. I think that's okay. But if you also create a different

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time where you listen to your favorite
music with your eyes closed and just focus

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on the sound, experience, your
sense of hearing, then that be much

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more as would be I'm telling you
it would be a different experience. I

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completely agree with you, and to
that end, Hector, what I wanted

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to do is help organizations, leaders
and companies be able to utilize and embrace

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this idea of and you talk in
your book about being able to leverage this

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concept to create unique, unique experiences
that enrich all who attend, say a

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company experience or event. I think
that's incredibly useful for our listeners who are

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looking for ways to innovate and to
connect, meaning for their employees. So

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can you say more, how can
companies create unforgettable experiences? So we gave

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some ideas in our book, but
I think everyone can collaborate and have they

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and I think many people like people
like you, can give even better suggestives.

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That we needed the book because I
think that the idea is that created

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the right setup to have and each
ego, eachy moments and bring people together.

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So to think like I'm going to
think meta to to create the right

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setup. One of the techniques is
to I forgot the English world. Now,

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how do you say when you one
of the main techniques that companies do

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is to do now. It came
to my mind off sites, right,

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yes, why I think that's very
good and many ways to organize off sites.

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But the main purpose is that human
beings, we are very sensitive to

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the place that we are. This
again, this is like the tea ceremony

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in Japan. As I said before, the main point is it is not

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the drinking the tea, is that
the tea ceremony place is a very special

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place. Is you go into this
Japanese traditional tea house which is isolated from

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the rest of the world, almost
like you go to a different dimension.

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And when you go inside the teacher
and money house with the tatami and you

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see a beautiful Japanese garden around you, you listen to the sound of the

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wind, you smell the tatami together
with the garden flowers, and you enter

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this room with other people dressed with
kimono, and you almost feel like you're

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in a different world and dimension,
and your mind and your feelings change and

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you behave totally different to all the
people around you. So when you create

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an off site inside your company,
I think the mindset is more or less

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the same. You get out of
the office, you go to a totally

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different place, and then you spend
time together and then you start seeing your

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co workers as, oh, this
person is not really like in the office,

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behaves totally different now when it's outside, it's a different human being.

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And of course there are better ways
that we can design an offsite in a

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more special special way. So you
could, for example, I like the

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idea of badging time, Like okay, these two or three hours, we

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will all put our smartphones in a
basket in the entrance of the room,

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and we're all going to go inside
the room, and you could One idea

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would be to replicate the Japanese tea
ceremony. But you don't need a tummy.

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You can just share Crinthia and everyone
you can start doing whatever activity you

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want, Like someone wants to share
a story and share the story and everyone

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00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:13.599
comments on the story. That would
be a very easy for way to organize

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it offsite. That is a brilliant
idea. I think you can create many

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ideas so that the main underlying idea
is to create a different space because doing

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this inside the office is very difficult. You can try and it will have

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some effect. And I think having
a different place with a different mood put

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in some barriers to to notifications and
emails and everything. I think that that's

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the main but then you can also
create your own You can create for example,

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like homework, like you have to
prepare it before the event. Yeah,

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like one big story you want to
share with the audience, so people

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00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:15.119
can't prepare or you have to you
have to write one haiku and then you

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have to you have to recite it
in front of everyone. And yeah,

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if it's stupid, everyone can laugh, and that's okay, exactly, like

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still an active creativity, it's beautiful. And you say to that, and

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too, we're almost at a time
actor the idea of just simply posing the

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questions what if? Ah, yes, what if? What if? Magic

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of what if? That's a very
powerful question, which is is one I

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think is one of the keys to
that. It is one of the secrets

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that all creative people have. So
and we're wearing it here. I wanted

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everyone to learn this because this can
be used to write books, to create

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movies, to create music, to
almost everything, like to invent a new

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product. So for example, probably
if you Steve Jobs had in the old

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times, they had like iPod touch, and he probably thought, what if

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I put a phone feature inside the
iPod touch and then it became the iPhone

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with this what if? And most
novels, most novels, novel is use

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this what if. It's like you're
walking down the street and you see a

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00:45:52.840 --> 00:46:00.920
guy wearing a hat with a weird
expression in the face, and you say,

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what if this guy just kill someone
and stole a government secret in his

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00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:15.119
suitcase and he's he's carrying a weird
suitcase. And then you go home and

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you start writing a novel based on
this what if? So? And that's

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that. And you can use this
with your own life. So, for

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example, I can use it for
myself. What if I didn't came to

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Japan when I was twenty three,
and I, for example, went to

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Dallas with you and lived there.
What if? And then I can book

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that's what happened, Yes, but
maybe something else would have happened. So

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I can start thinking, Okay,
what if? What if? Or you

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00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:53.719
can you can think forward, what
if I do this? Now? You

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00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:59.480
can use it for your life.
You can use it to create a new

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00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:05.679
survey is a new product, what
what if? If? For example,

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probably many of your listeners are trying
to kickstart their own startup or their own

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00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:17.639
side business bootstrapping. Yes, you
can use the what App'm sorry to interrupt

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you. I must we have to
close the show and I want to make

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sure and get listeners to your website. So hold that thought. We'll have

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to have you come back and let
me say. Let me say thank you

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two ways Hector for joining us today. First, muchus Garcia, and also

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let me also say to Dinanda,
because I recognize this is a very special,

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once in a lifetime moment and I
want to bid you do with that

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00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:44.039
phrase. Okay, thank you,
You're welcome. If you want to learn

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more about Hector Garcia or the books
he's written, go to his website.

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It's Hector Garcia dot org. Last
week you missed. If you missed the

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00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:53.079
live show, you can always catch
it be Reported podcast. We were on

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the air with Lewis e Fron of
the Voice of Purpose and the author of

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Purpose Meets Execution. We talked about
that crew interaction. So many companies are

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working to get right in order to
create meaningful cultures people want to work in

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while remaining vibrantly profitable. Next week
will be on the air with JP Laqueur

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talking about the working and his team
do to create more valuable companies through stronger

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brands and healthier cultures. See you
there. Remember that works at least one

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or our lives. So let's work
on purpose. Well, we hope you've

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enjoyed this week's program. Be sure
to tune in to Working on Purpose featuring

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your host Alas Cortes, each week
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week, find your life's purpose at
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