Christmas as an Everyday State of Mind

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortez. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
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the Working on a Purpose Show.
Thanks to me and again this week,

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I'm your host, Elise Cortez,
Johing. You live from Dallas, which

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to help. I'm glad we're connected. Thanks for listening, and now onto

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this week's program, which is very
very special, believe it or not.

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With us right here in my home
office studio are none other than Santa Ronni

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and Missus Klaus. Hello, right, very Christmas, truly special guests help

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us bring on the holidays whatever you
celebrate. We also have a few excited

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guests around us in the studio and
we're broadcasting on Facebook live stream and it

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is live show. We'll be talking
about the magic of the season, how

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living in this spirit throughout the whole
year can make us happier and healthier people,

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and of course taking questions from the
respective audiences. Santa Ronni and Missus

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Claus welcome to working on Purpose.
Thank you or we're so excited and especially

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Missus Claus right first conference here,
Well, I have to tell our listeners

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how of course it is that I
have a connection to Santa Claus and Missus

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Claus really quick story. So in
December of twenty sixteen, I took my

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daughter to a Christmas opera because I'm
part of the opera here, and of

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course here was Santa Claus sitting there. It's a kid's event. And I

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immediately had two great ideas, and
so I made a beeline to Santa Claus,

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sat right down in his lap,
put my arm around his neck,

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and I said, Santa, I
got two things for you. And you

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said, I said, She said, and what's the first thing? And

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I said, I said, I've
met a very good girl is here,

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and I want you to bring me
a man. You said, well,

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let's talk about that. Are you
sure you're ready? So we got in

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to this fantastic philosophical conversation and we
talked about love and everything else. And

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then you said, wa, wait
a minute. What was the second thing

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you wanted to ask me? And
I said, oh, I want you

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to be on my radio show.
And you're like, oh, yeah,

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done, that's easy. Well,
about that time, I feel this dark

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shab jab on my shoulder and I
look up and it's the woman from the

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opera and she's got her hands on
her hips and she says Alice, there

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are children waiting to talk to Santa
Claus. Will you please get up?

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So that is how my relationship started. I immediately had him on the show

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a few weeks later, and that
is how the magic started for me.

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Missus Claus was in the studio as
well, fielding her question. So,

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welcome back to wherecon do you remember
the name of the opera I becoming Santa

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Claus? There it was that I
was in at the rap name. You

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absolutely were, and so this audience
here is thrilled, thrilled to have you.

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I'm going to start by just asking
a couple of questions and then you

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all can please weigh in whatever burning
questions that you've got. Sure, okay,

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so the first thing, you know, I have to ask you and

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this is doom for everybody. So
from I'd like to from each of you,

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Missus Claus and Santa Claus, what
does the Christmas? What does Christmas

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mean to you? Well, ladies, first come in here. Missus Claus,

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Well, Christmas means to me that
joy and love and family and just

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being together and just experiencing people just
kind of become different during the holiday season

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and the love that they share with
each other. And the gentle relationships that

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are formed. And just I like
Christmas because I get to go off with

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Santa Claus all the time. I
get to leave the North Pole and I

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leave the elves and we just go
and have a good time during the holidays.

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I always have a lot of fun
together and she gets to come and

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experience the things that I do during
Christmas. And you know, for Santa

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I have a different perspective than most
people because I get to look into the

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eyes of the little children, and
for me that it makes my heart new

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round our flip flops when I see
children who like their eyes are there,

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they look like they're hurting or something. But if we can I can bring

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some joy and some peace there their
ass just like that, like magic.

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And that is what That's the gift
that I get out of Christmas to just

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a few words can encourage a child
so much, and really, in reality

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that that's why we're here, is
to be encouragers of one another and not

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discourage, you know so much.
We're like wrecking balls sometimes and I see

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that in these children. So Christmas
is about giving them that hope that anything's

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possible. And I just don't want
to ever tarnish that look of Christmas.

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Right, that's where anything's possible,
where you have that hope, and that

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that where kids have those dreams of
what their future looks like. So that

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that to me is Christmas and just
read and enjoy. And the more I

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give, the more I get back
in return. So it's it's just reciprocal.

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That's the way it works. So
you don't it feels to give?

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Give a present makes you feel good, doesn't it. I like giving presents

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better than I get it like getting
them, I think absolutely. But speaking

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of that, if you would,
Santa Claus and Missus Claus, one of

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the things that I love what you
do during the course of years, you

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go into hospitals and schools and you
talk with six children, and you talk

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with children, talk about some of
those experiences and share what that's like.

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There's one of the first times I
went into a hospital. It was Ronald

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McDonald's house and there was a little
boy there, maybe in his teens,

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and what do you think, Missus
Claus, maybe weighed seventy pounds or so.

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And you know, there's some things
that Santa just doesn't build in the

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workshop. Okay, But like I
say, I like to get on my

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knees in the morning and live in
thanksgiving and thank God for a new day,

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and thank You for the evening.
The encounters I had during the day,

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and the people but I encountered.
So I just prayed for them and

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thank God that he put them in
my life. Look here like a leafs

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put her in my life. And
Missus Claus, and there's other people sitting

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at the table. Never met him
before, but I'm excited to talk to

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them face to face and not over
one of these things right here just telephone,

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face to face, you know,
looking rat and eyes. So it's

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a good conversation there. What about
you, Missus Claus. What I really

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liked about going to the schools except
they're getting here. I got to go

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with Santa to a school just last
week, and the children was so excited

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to see him. And sometimes some
kids would come along that just they just

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didn't think Santa was cool enough for
them. But once they looked him in

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the eyes, that little sparkle came
back again, and the hope came back

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because they didn't seem to have a
whole lot when they first walked up.

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But sitting with Santa Claus and talking
with him looking him in the eyes,

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that little hope, that little glisten, that little Christmas spirit just it just

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came back. It was beautiful that
and Santa did the dad to the dad

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like that, and they're like,
oh, you're like, it's kind of

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cool we could do the dad.
I didn't know what it was. Still,

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somebody told me, Okay, well
I've learned it every day to Santa

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clause, you have this great praise
that you shared on the air last time

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that I want you to talk about
again. But you're known for saying that

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you that you're that great heart medicine
is really what you what you're up to,

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So see more about this heart medicine. It's uh, you know,

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laughter heels like medicine, okay,
And so Santa laughs all the time,

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and it's just like medicine. It
makes you feel good. If you don't

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believe me, just try it right
now. Just a good don't smile,

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that cheesy smile like cheese, right, that laugh that comes from your belly,

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dampty, and a good belly laugh
is good. In matter of fact,

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the doctors they've just now figured that
out, but I've Santa's known it

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all around. It makes me feel
young again, and it makes it just

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makes me feel like a kid where
I could go out and play with some

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of those toys that I bring every
week. And Missus Claus loves to laugh

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too, So that's why I'm old. It's dirt. You know, I'm

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old now because I've laughed for my
whole life. And that joy, like

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I say it does, it makes
you feel good. It makes you laft

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Locker and the doctors they know it
now, that's absolutely true. It's good

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to have that kind of joy.
Well, in our studio here, we've

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got a few people crowded around,
mister and mississip Well, Santa Claus and

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Missus Claus. I don't think anybody
calls you mister Klaus. Jun Santa Claus

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and Missus Klaus and one young lady
here in the studio with us. Rheese

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would like to ask a question.
Who would you like to pose it to?

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And what's the question? Anything?
Nothing's awful? Ins What do you

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do when you're not around Santa Well, I'm busy at the North Pole all

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the time, and I like to
do things that people think Missus Claus does.

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And I do like to make cookies, and I do like to take

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care of Santa. But there's just
as soon as the holidays are over,

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we start thinking about what's next.
You know. I work with the elves

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and we have a group that specializes
in cooking and we come up with new

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recipes, and we have the group
that specializes in toys, and we just

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we brainstorm. We just have a
big brainstorm and it's just all it's just

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fun experimenting with all these new things, and each elf kind of takes off

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with it and runs and that's how
we develop it. Were Yes, we

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let them, We helped them along
the way, help them get organized,

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but they do the bulk of the
work. It's true. Yeah, So

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thank you for that question. And
listeners on Facebook please type in your questions

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if you've got to be for Santa
Claus. We had a great couple of

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questions three years ago about how you
even got started and such if you want

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us to repeat that. But Gianna, did you want to ask a question?

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What is it? Gianna? Who's
six? So? How do you

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range your fly? How do they
fly? Yeah? You know what that

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is still a mystery to me.
All I know is on Christmas night,

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I get in that sleigh and I
grabbed the reins and I just start shouting

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at the raindeer. I'm daughter,
I'm listen, and they we just take

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off and they know where to go. And once I lay there, it's

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just like even my bells. Can
you hear my bells on Christmas night?

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They don't even rain, and I
still wear them and I don't. I

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don't. I'm amazed to when I
go out and get to do well,

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I get to bring presents and to
live in that kind of magic. Yeah,

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you have to be like a really
quiet. Nobody's caught me. I've

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had a couple of parents walk in, but they're already grown up. Okay,

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but children, No, you've never
been busted. That's pretty children.

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We've got another great question from Molly
Wade. Let me say who she is.

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Molly Wade's in my classroom at the
University of Phoenix many years ago.

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She's she and I still stay in
touch. She's finishing a master's degree.

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She's a rock star. Congratulations,
and she wants to know to either of

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you, when did you know this
was what you were supposed to do?

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What led you to this point?
Why don't you go first? Santah,

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I have a granddaughter oh yeah,
you gotta tell the story. And she's

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adopted, okay, and I love
her just she's my own. She's my

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family level all my children as if
they were my old So everyone, I'm

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pretty present, sup. But she
caught me a big C for Big Claus,

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and she told me, big C, you can never cut your beard,

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and so I thought, well,
I better put it to work then,

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And so that's how I became Santa
Claus. As I told you about

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the little boy in the Ronald McDonald's
house, and it was actually in a

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church setting. Lady asked me would
I be Santa Claus? And I said,

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of course. And she has a
Credit Union group and they go into

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these schools in the Metroplex and they
throw big parties for these underprivileged schools.

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There's sixteen hundred Hispanic children in the
two schools that they sponsored, and they

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bring gifts and they have games in
the gym, form face painting, and

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I come and we take pictures with
each one. And I watched these children

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grow up from kindergarten to sixth grade. And now what the sixth graders.

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The once it wouldn't come sit with
me. Now they come up to me

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and give me a big hug because
it's the last time we get a picture

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together at that school. So it's
relationships there being built there. And plus

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I go in there and we get
a room that those people that want to

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help pray for those kids, we
go pray for them. And I can't

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think any other way that I could
change what's going on in their schools,

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but to do that so well,
before you turn it over to missus,

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Boss, I just want to echo
something that you said three years ago in

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there when somebody asked you that same
question, and it was the most beautiful

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thing that melted my heart. And
I think it was definitely a part of

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your journey when when your granddaughter asked
you said don't ever cut your beard?

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You said, whatever you say,
darling, And it was just you could

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just tell him that moment that she
had brought you into that sphere. She'd

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invite you into that space, and
you accepted the invitation. If there's any

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of you out there that have grandchildren, you'll know what kind of whatever they

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say goes. I still have to
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okay, And we need to keep
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and half five you know then when
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and don't do that, and don't
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when they do something right, because
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I said, the world's a wrecking
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It's not fair. I've heard that. That's one of those axioms, right,

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it just stands the test of time
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counteract that every day that could happen, spread joy and just keep the mystery

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at that Christmas alive, don't you
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I'm married to Santa Claus's already,
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get to be part of this all
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this all the time. So it's
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thing. What you see is what
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I bet it's heart being different,
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must be exhausting, you know,
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So anyway on to bigger things.
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thank you so much for asking the
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wam with yours. Thank you.
In without let's get our first break.

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I'm your host, Alice Cortez.
We're on the air with Santa Ronni and

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Missus Claus. They're here with me
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what it is that they love about
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Now back to working on purpose.
Thanks for staying with us, and

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welcome back to working on purpose if
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Santa Rani and missus Claus, who
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life. The Christmas season three years
ago is when they started with me,

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and I had to have them back
on air to usher in the holiday spirit

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this year, I'm your host,
Elise Cortez. So, a couple more

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questions from one question, I want
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to hear that story that you're talking
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our last conversation on air three years
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to approach people out in public that
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and open them up. Tell us
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was your seven of my favorites.
Really, whenever I think about the people

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who are hard like that, and
I think about where that came from,

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and I think about how maybe I
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to make eye contact with somebody.
It just means so much, especially

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now that we have, you know, these phones. I always say,

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the more connected we get, the
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how to have a just a good
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people, hurt people. And so
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loneliness, then I try to go
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they may not have ever been encouraged, not growing up, not in their

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workforce, or maybe they're just having
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just plant that one little seed of
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that cheese cheese, how you do
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joy. You know that gets worked
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you get that, the bore you
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would be. You know, if
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Corn You're awesome. Oh you're awesome. You're awesome too. That's a great

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smile. You need to keep smelling
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doesn't it. They are so we
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Right. Oh my goodness, that
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responsor after you showed your stories and
this is perfect for the show. What

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we do here is, she says. So you didn't choose the sound to

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life, It chose you pretty much. You know, it's good when we

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find our purpose. You know,
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in this life. And it's not
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we can make. It's it's about
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okay and whatever. The more we
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learn about ourselves. And it sounds
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this is. That's why so many
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believe is because it is upside down
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think, well, I don't have
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always say, yes, you do. You know, to start with what

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you have, and if it's your
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that and you can't out give them. So you just keep giving. Right,

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Christmas Spirit forever build a north pole
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we've got a question from from Gionah
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Jonath, So how do you how
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we have a big workshop at the
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I have a we have the elf
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go into the conference room and we
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the elves take their ideas and run
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I try to do everything, I
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they're really good at it, those
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you know. So we just let
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they get to play with them and
they're kind of funny sometimes it's so funny.

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right. And they have a huge
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workshop. So I just walked through
and spread a little cheer. Later.

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Two, how did the elves make
my barby house? How do they make

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your barbie house? Yeah? Well
in the in the workshop, you know.

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Well, yeah, those they just
how they stack them? How do

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they stack them? They have their
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let them handle all that. And
as long as the Slays loaded up on

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Christmas with toys, I don't bother
them. You're good to go, right,

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I just let them do what.
Yeah, their purpose is to build

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the toys. My purpose is to
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It's all good. When they loaded
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Okay, awesome to Donell. What
do you hi for Santa or Missus Claus?

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So what do you do on December
twenty six? The big boots?

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I take them off. And you
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to sit back in my big easy
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chocolate in front of the fireplace and
read those letters. And I will just

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read them out loud to Missus Claus
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those letters. You know, a
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more toys. But some of them
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and oh man, that just you
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get you ready for next year?
Does yes? Oh yes, Some of

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the hugs I get. You wouldn't
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They're just kind of running up to
me and they just want to hug

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Santa. So I love I do. I love all my little children,

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and I'll do anything for any of
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like I say, I don't want
anything to tarnish that anything's possible on Christmas

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for these children. I think sometimes
it's adults. We have grown up conversations

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around them too early, and it
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this big red suit, I carry
a lot of weight. So if I

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can encourage somebody a child and he
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way, then you know, maybe
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give them hope. So words have
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directed at a child take the life
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want to do that ever. And
that's my prayers that I want to be

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an encourager. The world has enough
wrecking bottles, so I like that,

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let's stand against the wrecking ball.
So we found ourself with another question,

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what do you got for Santa or
missus Claus. How big is your all

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this Christmas tree? Well, I'm
glad you asked that we have. We're

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different. We don't celebrate Christmas,
we don't celebrate birthdays, we don't celebrate

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anniversaries. Really, you know why
because the stores they kind of set this

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expectation up here about what Christmas should
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And so just to take all that
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you might be thinking, oh,
it's my birthday, I'm going to

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get a down on dream this year
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if I come in on the in
between days, in between all those other

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special days and just surprise, I
sure was something. It could be something

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small, it could be something big. But if I do that, then

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it's a surprise. Other times it's
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doing. And so we have a
lifter for That's just how we do think.

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So that was a good question,
Race, very good, very good

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questions. Just a second, did
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said or that he said? Her
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I mean, he usually has,
he usually has most of the words to

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say. He's spot on about all
of that, and he does. Actually,

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that's just what we live by.
We just live each day as a

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gift. Each day is special because
we don't know how many more we have

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in this life, and we just
try to celebrate each other and our families

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and our elves all year long.
This is a Greek word carpet dim,

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which means sees the day. So
that's what we try to do every day.

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And it is a gift, is
it? And Molly said, preach

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Santa. We should, we should
tell your listeners that Santa Ronni is known

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as the praying Santa. Yes he
is. I am okay, g I's

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got a question. And then I
want you to go back and tell the

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story you said, the heart warming
story you talked about. Go ahead,

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your favorite Christmas cookie? Oh oh, that's a great question. Choices,

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so many choices. This is going
to be. This is a hard I

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love chocolate chip. You know,
I'm a traditional guy, so chocolate chips,

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grage. I love old mill raising
And I know the reindeers they love

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carrots, you know, if you
leave carrot out. Oh my goodness,

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tell them about the snow men.
Oh yes, so go ahead, you

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tell them. Tell them about these. You need to bring lots of carrots

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at Christmas time and leave them for
the reindeer because sometimes it else will go

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out and build snow men. And
they put carrots for their noses. But

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the right dear go eat all the
carrots off the noses. No, they

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just have a hole in their faith
because the reindeer love carrots so much.

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But they still have a big smile, so that's good. Just eat it.

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So carrots and carrots don't grow at
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to take something back. So I
think we got some marching orders here crisps,

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and we like chocolate chip cookies,
carrots for for the oaths and casual

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or something. But if you leave
it out, if you leave it out

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for me, chances are I'll at
least try it, and more chances are

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I'll eat it. Yes, business
claws had to put me on a diet.

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Yeah, she's making too much apple
strew them very good. Absolutely,

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I make some of the why I
make a crest an apple, cristpers apple

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crisp. Okay, tell us I
don't mean to start big. Can you

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tell the story you're going to hear
of it? Oh? Oh, yes,

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you know you always ask me about
what's the most heartwarming. And there's

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a company who I've known for years
and they adopt a needy family every year,

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and last year they adopted a mother
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And we were in the room with
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always talk about this eye contact,
and I just walk up right in front

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of them and start looking at them
in the eyes and asking them, you

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know, about Christmas and and both, and they've reached out and grabbed my

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hand. Mother just started weeping,
and because they hadn't done that in a

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long time. So I got to
pray for with her that one day that

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she could hear mother from from both
the children. So I don't know if

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that's happened, but that's my prayer
is that happens. But for them to

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reach out to me like that was
is really is still special. Having a

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hard time ho ho ho, We're
gonna make Santa cry. It's good when

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you can move Santa to tears.
This is good. Heilig me a cry?

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Okay, absolutely, absolutely so.
Actually, what I always tell,

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when I always told when I'm not
speaking, is you know, one of

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what the sexiest thing a man can
do is to cry, totally the sexiest

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thing. Well that and she said, cleaning up her kitchen. Well,

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okay, really quickly, let's grab
our last break. Then we've got a

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few more questions from the studio audience
as well, so we'll be right back.

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I'm Elie Cortez, your host.
We're on the air with Santa Ronni

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and Missus Claus. They're here,
would be live in my Dallas studio office

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where we're also conducting the program via
Facebook live stream, joining record listeners and

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viewers there. After the break,
we're going to hear more stories seeing to

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Missus Claus. Stay with us.
We'll be right back. Alise Cortez is

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a speaker and engagement and development catalyst. She designs and delivers professional development,

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leadership and engagement workshops and can bring
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help ignite meaningful development within your workforce
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please visit her at www dot Elise
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opportunity to help get your employees working
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ali se at Elise Cortez dot com. Now back to working on Purpose.

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Thanks for stating with us, and
welcome back to working on Purpose. If

422
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you're just tuning in, I guess
our Santa Roni and Missus Claus who I

423
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was supposed to bring into my life
during the Christmas season three years ago.

424
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I had him on the air in
twenty sixteen, had to have him back

425
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.880
again to usher in the season.
And we're here with the studio audience on

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Facebook as well as here in the
studio. We've got a few more questions

427
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.640
here, Santa and Missus already start
with Gianna, what do you got now?

428
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:44.759
So where were you born? Where
was I born? It was just

429
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:51.559
like a little bit south of the
North Pole, just a little pretty chilly

430
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:58.200
up there. It's very confident I
was born in the same place. Leaving

431
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:01.440
on each other a very long time. Uh, we're so old, we're

432
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:06.960
forgetting how old we are? We
do? I have to ask him all

433
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.599
the time how old I am?
Yes, she does, and I hope

434
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:14.559
he does answer. By the way, he said, it doesn't matter.

435
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:20.400
You're beautiful, so good. Yeah, that's a good husband and a Santa

436
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.760
Clause by the way, I want, I want, I want to say,

437
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:28.199
but while we're on break, Santa
reached over and whispering in my ear.

438
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:31.920
Santa's getting to hug right now from
Gianna. But he reached over and

439
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:37.239
he said, I got moved,
And how beautiful When Santa Claus gets moves

440
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:40.239
gets moved. Molly Waited is saying, what motivates you? I'm going to

441
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.360
guess that's part of it. It
does. It's uh, you know,

442
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:51.719
gave us all these emotions to use
properly, and if we stuff them,

443
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:54.559
they'll come up when you least expect
it. So I'd just like to you

444
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:59.559
know, if I have a tear
coming to my head, then somebody I

445
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.719
got with that and they got a
problem with Santa Claus. Okay, so

446
00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:07.320
I just let it. You know, I'm just a human being. I

447
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:15.079
just I have emotions, and whenever
we do things that are emotional, and

448
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:20.760
whenever I recall them, it's it's
it touches my heart, and my heart's

449
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:25.599
all squishy. So that's the way
it is down and I can't go back

450
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:31.320
to a hard hearted. When we
keep giving, it just makes softens it

451
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:37.119
that much more. You know,
I've had children asked for like their mom

452
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:40.880
or dad to get out of prison
for Christmas, or they want to sleep

453
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.159
in a car anymore. I'm like, how do you answer those questions?

454
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:50.559
Those things? I can't build in
the workshopt But but I do. I

455
00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:54.519
remember those faces, and I do
remember them in my prayers. So I

456
00:35:54.639 --> 00:36:00.519
just want them to have hope that
all those things and that broken miss and

457
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:05.840
their their life would be yelled again, so that they could have a laugh

458
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.360
that they were meant to have,
and if they could find their purpose to.

459
00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:14.719
So that's what I get to do. I don't I don't have to,

460
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.000
but I get to. I think
I need to be an apprentice.

461
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:22.679
I think I need to be an
I used to tell people, you know,

462
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:25.599
because we have a lot of people
who else work and they're like,

463
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:30.440
oh, they're coming in on Monday's, like I gotta go to work,

464
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.199
and I gotta I'm just change one
ladder, say I get to instead of

465
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:39.320
I've got to. You go changes
everything changes. Words have so much power.

466
00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:45.119
And actually I tell some guys that
we meet with, you know,

467
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:52.559
future apprentice classes, and I tell
them I might I just point to him.

468
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:54.719
I said, you're gonna eat those
words. I tell them you're gonna

469
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:59.320
eat those words. Trying it already
up to it anyway, and it said

470
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:01.760
to our words go out and they
come back intry in most part. So

471
00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:06.760
yeah, you're gonna eat those words. So I like eating good words instead

472
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.039
of bad words. Now, just
bring more life and more joy to the

473
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:15.159
room and the party. And people
don't know how to celebrate anymore. I

474
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.679
don't think I'm going to really how
to enjoy life. Well, that's part

475
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.320
of what I'm up to, Santa
Claus is something people being able to find

476
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.440
meeting in the moment and being able
to find joy, passion, inspiration and

477
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:29.719
purpose. That's that's my purpose.
That's it. And then afterwards, I'm

478
00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:34.239
gonna be apprentice for you. Okay, we got we've got two work questions

479
00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:37.400
from the studio, Reese, what
do you got? What presence do you

480
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:46.320
get? Asked? Like foremost Barbie, Barbie's house, the big big house.

481
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:52.159
Legos Lego, Yes, oh,
and I know your parents. Lego

482
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:53.880
was going to step by them in
the middle of the map, right hurts

483
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:59.559
you believe That's why Santa Words is
booked around the workshop stepping on Legos we

484
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:02.400
get a lot of art supplies,
art supplies to it. Yeah, that's

485
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:07.000
a that's a big request. I've
had it. One girl asked me,

486
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:13.360
oh, spoke girl for a Lamborghini. And when did you get your driver's

487
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:16.719
license? No, you said,
you mean, yeah, we have toy

488
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:21.519
ones that there she no a real
one. And I'm like, oh,

489
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:23.840
my goodness to you. How are
you going to pay for that insurance?

490
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:30.280
Oh? iPhone? Yeah that three
years ago? People rested very well,

491
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.159
I phone and stuff, and I'm
like, how are they going to pay

492
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.239
for that monthly bill and stuff?
I guess these kids have jobs. What's

493
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:45.679
the working age? Director? Three
oh three? Okay, starts at three

494
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.199
apparently. Yeah, Mark has got
a question from the from the studio.

495
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.960
What do you have Mark speaking?
We could all hear you place. So

496
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:58.760
Santa, like yourself and missus Claus, we're so grateful for every day and

497
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:01.960
we're just so happy. But I
will say this, we like the weekends.

498
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:06.159
Do you like the weekends? And
do you do anything differently on the

499
00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:13.199
weekends than you do every other day
of the week not. I don't really

500
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.320
discern one day from the next,
because I treat him all the same,

501
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:25.679
and I guess since I'm older now, I believe that's a little bit more

502
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:30.159
wisdom. Is that I just when
I get up in the morning and my

503
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:35.360
feet at the floor, I just
thank God because since he let me get

504
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:40.400
out, that means He's got something
for me to do. And that's purpose,

505
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:45.960
you know. And if we have
an attitude like that every morning,

506
00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:51.039
and really I always I talk about
a base lab you know, And my

507
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:57.000
baseline is that gratitude is having a
grateful heart, because it's it's hard to

508
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:04.480
for somebody to damage that if we
practice thanksgiving all the time and we have

509
00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:07.320
the proper baseline. But I don't
think, See, I get to go

510
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:13.639
around the world, and my baseline
is not my neighbors here across the street,

511
00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:19.360
but my baseline is little children in
countries where I can't go, and

512
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:23.480
the little children that have never been
able to see Sam Claus or who are

513
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:29.880
just you know, don't have clean
water to drink, and I have it

514
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:35.199
running everywhere here. And so I
believe if we have the right baseline,

515
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:43.480
then it helps increase our gratitude,
our gratefulness, our thanksgiving and that right

516
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:49.440
there, nobody can take from you. That's a gift that keeps on increasing

517
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:53.639
in the value, not decreasing in
value. So every morning we get up

518
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:58.960
and we thank God for the blessings
he gives us, and for the blessings

519
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:02.679
that he gives us, for the
strength to do the work he so generously

520
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:08.400
has us to and we're very thankful
for that work. And you know,

521
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:13.920
we just we feel useful. We
ask him to make us useful in every

522
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.760
moment that we have. And sometimes
we get caught up in life and just

523
00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:22.360
like everybody else, but like Santa
says, we can't let a moment escape.

524
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:24.840
Then we have to be aware all
the time of those around us and

525
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:29.559
for Him to give us the words
to speak to those who need encouraging.

526
00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:32.360
And we're gonna put to that.
I'm going to ask you to share something.

527
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:37.000
But before we get there, we
have an urgent question someone here in

528
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:45.880
the studio, Gianna, what are
you so? This like amazing question just

529
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:51.000
came up in my head. Oh
what is it? How did you meet

530
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:55.480
missus Claude's Well, like I said
earlier, we grew up in the same

531
00:41:55.599 --> 00:42:00.440
area. Yeah, yeah, and
Missus Claude she kind of had had her

532
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.000
eyes said on me, you know, because i'd come back with my friends

533
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:07.840
and we'd be our black run and
round all day. And I've come back

534
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.920
to my house and I had a
little sleigh out there, and my sleigh

535
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:21.239
would be wrapped in toilet. Pepper, who is wrapping my sleigh and toilet?

536
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:24.000
I didn't know, even though we
grew up in the same area.

537
00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:30.920
I didn't know. But my best
friend, his sisters and Harry were best

538
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:37.360
friends, Okay, and so I
met her through my best friend and my

539
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.559
best friends and her best friend.
They were brother and sister. And so

540
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:45.880
that's how we met, even though
we didn't know one another, just like

541
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:52.599
passing by one another every day,
and then because we had friends that knew

542
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:55.360
both of us, and we just
knew. I just knew it the first

543
00:42:55.400 --> 00:43:00.159
time I met her. I'm like, that's missus Claus out there. I

544
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:06.920
mean time the else is the one
that taught me to be mischievous. That's

545
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.000
fantastic. Well, so what I've
heard in that ladies out there in the

546
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:15.559
audience and you can wrap their car, cars and toilet, well there's I

547
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:19.519
did hear that. I certainly heard
that, But I also heard ask for

548
00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.199
what you want. If you want
this gentleman, go and get him ask

549
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:23.719
him there, you ask him out. That's what I heard from that.

550
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:28.400
Okay, So look out, guys. It took a while to land me.

551
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.079
It did take a little while.
It did take but you know,

552
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:38.039
I just did the first time we
went out, I was persistent, second

553
00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:44.480
lesson persistence, persistence. Okay,
So RISI got another question. Yes,

554
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:50.679
what is it? Where did are
you proposed to? Christs? Proposed?

555
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:57.920
Actually it was outside of a socohol. You know what that is. It's

556
00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:01.480
a place where people meet to dance
and stuff. And I think it's a

557
00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:08.599
Catholic place, I believe. And
we were there and we were inside dancing

558
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:14.559
together and having a great time.
And I'm like, oh, and I

559
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:21.320
didn't have a ring either. So
I took some bubble gum, some chewing

560
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:25.199
gum wrapper and I shaped it into
a ring and out and gave it to

561
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.320
her. And you stuck an earring
in it. Oh, this is a

562
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.239
true story. Yeah, And I
stuck an ear ring in there to kind

563
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:39.599
you know it. And I proposed
her out in the parking lot there while

564
00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:43.920
we were doing crazy thing is she
apparently said yes, I did say yes

565
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.599
to that. Yes, Like I
said, we're a little unusual. We

566
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:53.639
don't celebrate, you know, the
traditional things, and there's just one thing

567
00:44:53.800 --> 00:45:00.960
that we know that we were meant
for one another. And so that's a

568
00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:02.960
matter of fact. There was a
lot of people that said, oh,

569
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:09.360
this will never work, right missus
Claws. A lot of people maybe maybe

570
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:14.920
we just did it out of spot
but I'm not spotful. So it's because

571
00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:20.239
I love her and I know she
loves me and would make one another batter

572
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:22.719
a matter of fact, I give
her permission to kick me in the shame

573
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:27.920
when I keep talking, because he
talks a lot. Sometimes. I've only

574
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.119
kicked him twice since we've been on
the air, all right, So we're

575
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:34.440
almost out of time, and I
want to want you to share one more

576
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.920
thing before we go, for sure. And that is the great question that

577
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:39.920
you had to serve up last time, missus Claws, three years ago on

578
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:44.920
air. You wanted him to share
what it's like during the year when it's

579
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:49.199
not actually Christmas time he's out and
about doing his business and the kids spot

580
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.920
him. Would you share a little
bit about what and how they approach him,

581
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:58.280
what they say, so you know, whenever it's not Christmas, I

582
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:04.760
go a little incognita. I put
on some sunshades, and I'll put on

583
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:08.800
a back cat and some jeans and
we'll go to the store. And these

584
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:14.800
children they'll come run across the parking
lot on Santa, dragging their mom or

585
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:19.199
dad chasing me down, going Santa, I said, and I'll start.

586
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:22.000
You know, I got a wave
to him. It's just Santa on the

587
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:27.320
inside, and and uh. And
I'll get down on my knee and I'm

588
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.800
like, how did you know it
was me? I'm wearing my sunglasses and

589
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:35.559
I always pointed in my beard.
There's a dead giveaway, you know.

590
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:39.679
But yeah, we get to talk
to we love. We call them drag

591
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:44.079
bys, and like sometimes on the
way home, she'll just go, why

592
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:50.000
don't we just pull in here and
surprise these people? And oh, it's

593
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.159
so much fun. We pulled it
into a restaurant in Illinois last week.

594
00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:58.280
Quincy, Illinois. Hey, did
you know there's a Quincy, Missouri too?

595
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:02.119
There's Leland there. First, Yeah, the wrong place. I'm not

596
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:06.320
very good with directions. Thank goodness
that slig knows where to go. So

597
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:10.880
but when we traveled like regular people, well I get lost too. But

598
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.960
we went to Quincy, Illinois,
and we had breakfast in the morning,

599
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:20.280
and Missus Claus said, why don't
we just come back in there and bless

600
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:22.320
those people. The waitresses were real
friendly, and so we went back in

601
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:29.920
and the place was packed, and
so we just walked around taking pictures with

602
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:32.800
everybody and blessing everybody there. So
it was really a busy, fun time

603
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:37.679
to walk in, like that's my
favorite thing to do. And Walmart and

604
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:42.760
Exchange down on the north side,
we just get dressed up and just go

605
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:45.519
out, mister and missus Claus.
So that's why I needed an onion the

606
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.800
other day and we pulled into Walmart
and staying is like, missus Claus beats

607
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:54.920
an onion. So it was really
funny because people don't think that we cook

608
00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:59.480
like that. So we went into
I think I got this big belly here

609
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.840
I got to eat. You know, everybody thought that was so funny that

610
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.000
missus Claus would need an onion.
That's right. And you know during the

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year, I know you talk about
this too, is how do we keep

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Christmas going on? You? Yeah, I would love you to finish with

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that. We only have like about
a minute left, so if you each

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want to say thirty seconds, how
can we keep Christmas in life? All

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year, or at least the spirit
of it. Look, there's a there's

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an order to life, okay,
And I always say it starts with love,

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you know, but we try to
control ourselves, and that's that's the

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end of the land. Because without
love, you'll never have joy, and

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without joy, you'll never have peace. And without peace you can't be patient

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with anybody. And if you can't
be patient, you can't be kind or

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good, or faithful or gentle.
Okay. But it all starts with love.

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It's set. It's set verse that
everybody uses in their wedding. Right.

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These three things remain faith, hope, and love. And so you

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start with love and love is like
it's seeking others outside of ourselves. Beautiful

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Missus Claus, just walking in thankfulness
everything that he said, and walking in

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thankfulness and just putting yourself out there
like he talked about for opening the doors

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for people and smiling at them.
Is I have a heart for the elderly,

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and so they're almost surprised when somebody
does something nice for them. What

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a gift it has been to have
Santa Ronni and Missus Claus on the show.

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I thank you so much for being
part of it and listeners. If

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you want to learn more about Santa
Ronni and Missus Claus, well, the

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best place, of course to find
them is the North Pole, but if

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you can't get there, go find
them on Facebook. Ronnie Watson, that's

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r O N n Y Watson and
then Missus Claus Annett Cuban Watson, so

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it's A N N E T T
E k U b A N Watson.

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Those two. You can find them
there. Last week, if you missed

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the Line show, you can always
catch it be a recorded podcast. We

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were on the air with Chris Dunn, who is a partner in chief in

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the resource officer at Kinnetics, which
is a national RPO recruiting firm headquartered in

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Atlanta. We talked about some of
the chief reasons driving employees interest in looking

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for a different job, how leaders
can hire that transformative talent they need,

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and his own passion to train frontline
managers. Next week, we'll be on

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the air with Justin mccorkoll talking about
the power of a single conversation to change

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a life. See you there,
and remember that work is at least one

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third of our life, so let's
work on purpose. We hope you've enjoyed

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this week's program, be sure to
tune in to Working on Purpose, featuring

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your host, Alice Cortez, each
week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.

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This week, find your life's purpose
at work.