From Prostate Cancer to Passion and Purpose

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

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I'm glad we're connected, and thanks for

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listening. Now onto this week's program
with us today is Tom Holsey, author

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multi iron man and a man who
is on his on his birthday in twenty

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fifteen, heard the dreaded words from
his doctor, you have cancer. He's

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the author of the winning mindset that
saved my life, as it turns out,

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and I wish I could tell you
I had the good sense and foresight

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to plan this. But we're having
this conversation on World Cancer Day. We'll

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be talking about his story of surviving
prostate cancer and the winning mindset he developed

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to combat it and has now dedicated
his life helping others battle cancer and those

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close to cancer patients. He joins
us here from my studio office right next

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to me. Tom, Welcome to
working on Purpose. It's an honor to

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be here. So great, So
let's just dig into. Let's just dive

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in, shall we. So let
us in on just how it felt to

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hear I guess it would be five
years ago those three dreaded words in February

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twenty fifteen, at the age of
sixty one. Answer. There were so

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many emotions that came flooding in.
It was fear, and I was just

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overwhelmed, and I was embarrassed.
I was ashamed. I almost felt like

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I was a fraud because people had
always viewed me as being very healthy and

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athletic, and here I am,
I have cancer, And again, just

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so many emotions, but I was
scared. Compounding that fact was that I

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had just witnessed one of my best
friends, Lucia's life to prostate cancer,

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So that just really compounded the fears
that I had. I can't even imagine

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what it would be like. And
part of the reason we're having this very

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conversation on air together is because,
as you and I discussed on the phone,

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men don't want to talk about cancer. And I want this program to

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always push the envelope on thought,
leadership, and presence important topics that really

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matter in life and affect our work
lives, and cancer is certainly one of

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them. That's great. Many issues
in life that are overwhelming, and I

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would say getting diagnosed with that cancer
is at the top of my list.

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And many of my friends and colleagues
that are part of what I call this

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reluctant brotherhood, we're not as fortunate
as I was. And part of the

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reason that is you just mentioned men
do not want to talk about it,

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but that's primarily because of the very
personal nature of prostate cancer and it's embarrassing.

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And because of that, prostate cancer
it does not get the does not

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get the attention that other cancers do. It's really it's not miss it's misunderstood

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and underfunded relative to other cancers.
And again that goes back to primarily men

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don't want to talk about it.
And I was a typical guy. It

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took me thirteen months before I finally
started sharing my story. That's so important.

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That's another reason I wanted to have
you on the show specifically, Tom

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because we've had many women on the
show talking about some of theirabouts with breast

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cancer and other things like that.
You're the first man that I've had come

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on the show to talk about your
about with cancer. So thank you.

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And just to kind of put those
numbers in perspective. In nine Africa,

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one in nine Caucasian and Hispanic men
will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his

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lifetime. One in six African American
men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in

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his lifetime. And to put those
numbers in perspective, According to the American

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Cancer Society, one in eight women
will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her

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lifetime, so the numbers are very
similar. A man dies every sixteen minutes

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in this country from prostate cancer.
Wow, that is incredibly sobering. Another

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reason I want to make sure I
share with you, Tom and our listeners

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that I wanted to have you on
the show is that what you went through

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to deal with your cancer, persevere
through it and the treatment is really akin

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to what we all go through in
life, just trying to get through obstacles,

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and certainly when we're pursuing our purpose. So there's some real interesting parallels

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here that I wanted to be able
to call forth because I want people to

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recognize that there are levers and roles
and things that they can use to be

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able to help them along their journey. So another reason that you're just such

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a great guest, You're welcome.
So a big part of what's also compelling

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to me too, is that you
are an eleven iron Man champion. And

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for those of you listeners who don't
know what an iron man is, it's

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an amazing sport. My ex husband
used to do these things as well.

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An iron man by definition is someone
who completes a two point four mile swim,

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one hundred and twelve mile bike ride
and then just jots down for a

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twenty six point two mile run,
but under seventeen hours is the deal.

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So what's interesting too about your story
is that you had been competing in iron

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Man competitions for years part of your
cancer. But when you got your cancer

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diagnosis, it destroyed your belief that
you could compete in any sport or event

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you chose to. What happened,
well, like I said earlier, it

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just you know, hit being here
with that diagnosis was and was something that

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was out of the blue. I
had never expected it. But when you

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compare it to I always like to
say, the iron Man is a metaphor

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for life. You're an iron Man
race, It's a long day, lots

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of ups and downs, and how
you deal with the adversity in that race

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very much parallels our everyday lives and
really those that mindset that it took that

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it takes to complete an iron Man
really helped me in my battle with cancer.

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After I was able to change turn
my mindset around well, and again

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that's another thing that I wanted to
be able to parallel for our listeners,

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who are many of the people that
listen to the show are either trying to

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discover their purpose, they're trying to
cultivate it, They're trying to do it

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for their team, They're trying to
become better leaders. And I think there's

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so much of what you've learned and
how to cultivate your mindset that we can

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poured over to those ventures too,
which is why I wanted to have you.

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So that mindset is interesting. So
you say in your book your success

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in sports as a young man helped
you create that mindset you had for the

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discipline and lifestyle required to train for
the iron Man. So I want to

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understand more about this mindset. Tell
us about how did you cultivate it well

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to do it. To do an
iron Man, you have to have you

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have to have that mindset. The
motto of the iron Man is anything as

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possible. And I cultivated that really
at a very young age. Was I

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was always very athletic. I had
my father as a role model and I

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was and as sports I was in
everything was about setting goals and achieving those

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goals, not always not always meeting
those goals, but it was always about

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setting goals and overcoming the obstacles that
they got in the way. I like

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to say that you know these setting
the goals gets you beyond those short term

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obstacles that you have. And I'll
talk a little bit more about that later

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and along along those lines before we
get into that, because there's a couple

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of things I do want you to
surface from your book. I think it's

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important that we actually define what we
mean by mindset. And so you say

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in your book that mindset for you
is an habitual or a characteristic mental attitude

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that determines how you will interpret and
respond to situations. And so then you

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further went on to say in your
book that perseverance, overcoming fear, and

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living intentionally comprise the key components of
a winning mindset. Say more about that,

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well, mindset really helps you get
through the circumstances when they are challenging.

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Mindset makes you a stronger person over
time. If your mindset is producing

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negative chatter, you must stop and
really redirect what's playing on your mind.

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And mindset really does the key to
overcoming many life challenges. And when I

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say mindset, having that positive or
winning or growth mindset as opposed to a

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fixed mindset. I totally understand that. I know Carrol Dewe's work, which

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is what you're referring to, doctor
Carrol Diwax. She talks about the growth

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versus fixed mindset. And I'll just
say simply quickly, I did the Dallas

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Running Clubs Half Marathon in November.
It was one of the best races I

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ever had, and I'll tell you
it was exactly because I had the best

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mindset. I played the best mindset
game that I probably ever played in a

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race. So I appreciate that tremendously. I like to say that, you

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know, people think that the Iron
Man is all physical, but to really

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get to to get through that long
day and getting to the finish line,

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I say, is sixty percent mental. And you have to want to get

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to that finish line because not only
is it physically challenging, but it's also

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mentally And that really does and again
so many parallels to that with my cancer

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journey. Absolutely. And one of
the other things that you said that I

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think is really important to talk about
here on the show is that you said,

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remember, I quote remember with mindset
to always look up and forward to

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what lizahead and beyond your current challenge, struggle, or goal. The right

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mindset takes courage and diligence. It
can help you step out of your comfort

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zone. Your mindset drives the choices
you make and the habits you create.

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So that thing about stepping out now, in your case in particular, you

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had a very important goal that you
were looking for on the other side of

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getting treatment, and that was your
daughter's wedding. Yes, that was really

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something that pulled you forward. It
was because when I again, when I

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was initially diagnosed, I was I
had a fixed mindset and I was pretty

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much ready to give up. But
then I was able to turn that mindset

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around. And one of the things
that helped get me through through my cancer

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journey and want to actually pursue that
the cancer treatment was to be able to

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walk my daughter down the aisle,
and that was ended up being fourteen months

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after Maya, after Maya, after
my surgery. That's amazing we have I

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can see here on the Facebook livestream. We have a couple of people here

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who can relate. I'll just say
the first name because you don't want your

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last name. Mark. Thank you
so much for joining us. I know

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you can relate very very very dearly
to this conversation. Let me also recognize

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what Debbie Rayzik said. She says, at least when you're finish finished with

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the show today, give Tom Hosey
a hug for me. You you are

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awesome. How's that? So already
right? You're making a difference. Good

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stuff. Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. All right,

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So next I want to I want
to ask you know, over the

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years, you've done eleven iron Man's
Tom, which is really really impressive,

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But how did you intentionally mold your
mindset for training for and performing in Iron

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Man's and then later battling cancer.
Well, going back to your question earlier

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about my success during my youth really
helped me create and mold that mindset that

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I needed for the discipline and the
last style required to train for train for

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an iron Man and then subsequently my
cancer battle. Again, I was repeating

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myself here with mindset really does hold
the key to overcoming life challenges. So

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let me present something for you and
for my listeners. So I'm going to

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ask for your advice on air.
How's this in early June of this year,

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So in just about four months or
so, I will be doing my

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first ever long distance adventure race and
it's two hundred kilometers in Bhutan, which

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is a country between India and China. And over the course of six days

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or stages, we're going to cover
two hundred kilometers and that is going to

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be trail running through the rainforest and
the villages. And I know that's it's

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a hugely physical endeavor, but I
do believe that it's at least sixty five

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to seventy percent mind. Yes it
is. Give it, Timmy. What

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do you got for me? And
what do I need to do besides drop

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out? Well, no, you
don't want to do that, as you've

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got to believe in yourself. And
as I said, the model that I

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embraced was was the Iron Man's which
was anything as possible. And it's again

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very much, if not more mental
than it is physical. But that's going

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to be a challenge for you know, no question about it. But if

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you have that, you have that
mindset, you'll be able to do it.

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Well, you know it's worked for
me before in other races, and

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I'm going to see if I can
get this worked out for this race.

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Is in other races, what I
do is I as I position myself behind

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a really good looking man and then
I asked them to release a wild animal

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behind me, and it was every
time for me to cross the finish line.

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There you go, incentive, It's
part of my mindset. Okay.

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And with that, let's maker first
break. I'm your host Elis Cortez.

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We've go on the year with Tom
Hoolsey, who is the author of The

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he now dedicates his life to helping
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a bit about his mindset and some
of the Ironman's and training that he went

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of the mindset tools that he has
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you want in life. Stay with
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Now back to working on purpose. Thanks

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for staying with us, and welcome
back to working on purpose. If you're

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just joining us. My guest is
Tom Holsey in eleven time iron Man Finisher.

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He's the author of the winning mindset
that saved my life. He joins

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me today. He joins us today
from my office studio here in Dallas.

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Right next to me. I'm your
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next segment here Tom, I want
to zero in on some some tools that

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we can actually leave our listeners with. One of the things that's important for

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me when I host the shows,
that people can actually walk away with something

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immediately and put it to use.
So first, if you would, you

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already gave me a little bit of
coaching. Now you're also a hockey coach.

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I was a hockey coach. Okay, so I am and you have

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some great stories in your book about
some of the impact that you had with

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people that you worked with, So
could you share with us a couple more

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ways being what we've already said to
me of how we can develop an intentional

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mindset, Well, the first thing
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perspective, is you got to set
goals. Goals give you structure for an

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intentional game plan. Goals when you
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take intentional actions. You can ask
yourself if you're what you're doing is taking

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you closer to or further away from
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you focused. Having an intentional lifestyle
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society. A healthy lifestyle requires commitment, and I love this anonymous quote in

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a world that profits from chronic disease, taking care of your body is a

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rebellious act. That is great.
That is great, That is so true.

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But being intentional for me post cancer
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reasons. One is I had very
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battle, and I also I was
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cause it was making a positive impact
on society, and today I'm motivated to

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be intentional because I know that I'm
helping provide hope and inspiration to other cancer

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patients around the world. Let me
just take a second to grab what you

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just did there, because and my
work as a logo therapist, which is

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Victor Frankels who are in existential psychology, logo therapy is really a way to

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be able to presence and cultivate more
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greatest motivator that we have. And
one of the things that we can do

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to cultivate that is we can look
for sources of self transcendence, things that

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pull us outside of ourselves because we're
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somebody else. And we can actually
get through an awful lot when we do

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that. So that's what you're talking
about, and it's beautiful, it's just

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and it works. I promise it
works to me. There's nothing more gratifying

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in life than making an impact on
other people. There's a there's a there's

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one sentence on Jackie Robinson's tombstone that
I've embraced it and it says so much.

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And that one sentence says a person's
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impact it has on other lives.
Absolutely agree, Absolutely agree. Okay,

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so let's nice talk about perseverance.
That's you've got a chapter dedicated to perseverance

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and that I love that that whole
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to grit, it's related to effort, it's related to commitment. So you

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comes from having the faith and tenacity
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And I definitely want to echo and
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pay off for anyone who wants to
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with that. And you go on
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you always train for adversity. I
thought that was spectacular. So people who

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listen to this program are often trying
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start a business, go for their
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the next level. So how can
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and train for adversity with whatever we
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I mentioned a minute ago. Setting
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first step. When you do this, at those times when you are discouraged,

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you feel like giving up, you
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When the situation looks bleak, remember
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and visualize what you were trying to
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in your book, Tom where you
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your actual process of going through surgery. But there's a place in there where

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the nurse ask you how you're doing, or you ask how she's doing,

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and she says better than you,
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mean, wow. So but you
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like what prepared in your mind for
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I had prepared perversity, but in
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I really was not prepared for that
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as I was getting ready to go
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to admit it through me for a
loop, and that was one of the

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times I really had to focus and
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so that might have been an off
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let's hope. Anyway, Now,
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this, really, this is such
a good piece of advice and a tool

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for us to all draw from when
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is that we have to look for
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absolutely do. You know, I
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known me for a while know that
almost exactly a year ago, both of

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my parents passed away twenty eight days
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she had lost the will to live. She was like, give me the

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exit key, I'm ready. My
dad followed her out twenty eight days of

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a broken heart. But that thing
about persevering, looking for something to pull

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us is so important, and for
you, it was making sure that you

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could see marrying off your daughter in
July twenty sixteen, which was actually three

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weeks before your iron Man Lake Placid. So presents for us give us more

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access. How can we look for
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as you mentioned alluded to a second
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It's it's a trait that many people
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find it hard to accomplish. But
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keeps you focused for that goal,
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and fulfillment. And I don't mean
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had those really bad days just like
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I had to fight for that perseverance. Having short term, intermediate and

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long term goals really helped me persevere
though through my cancer journey. And I

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love coach Vince Lombardi's quote. I've
quote him several times in the book,

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but one in particular when it comes
to perseverance, it's not whether you get

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knockdown, but it's whether you get
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in The Iron Man, you're going
to get knocked down, and same thing

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in life. You're going to get
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back up or not, that's the
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I've done this radio show hosting that
I've done for the last five years.

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Your I think number episode number two
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not, it's amazing. It's a
it's a it's a mechanism for me to

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continue catalyzing my own learning and growth
and development. So I've had a lot

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of conversations over these years that have
helped me grow and learn. And so

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motivation is very interesting for some people. I mean, there have been times

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in my life when I've gotten a
lot done tom by being mad by like

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I'm going to prove somebody wrong that
oh no, no, no, no,

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I will do this. You say
I can't do it, watch me.

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And then there are there are other
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where like you're drawing from motivation to
make sure you can marry your daughter

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off. You're around for that,
So that's pulling you forward, and that's

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a that's that's from love and being
wanted to be present. You know.

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I've known many people who talk about
and I've been one of them too,

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like I'm going to just keep working
as hard as again because I'm afraid i

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might fail if I don't. So
there's so many different ways we can pull

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from or pull on to be able
to draw this perseverance. And I want

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to presence that for our listeners,
because it's not a one size fits all

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kind of a deal. That's right. Yeah, anything else you want to

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say about that before you go on
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Okay, all right, so you
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intentional already, but I think it
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this notion that the choices we talk
about one foot after the other. One

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of the things that I learned from
Jeff Hayden, who had on the radio

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show a couple of years ago,
he wrote the Motivation Myth. He talks

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about how really successful people, what
makes what differentials differentiates them from the rest

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of us, is that they literally
make sure that every day they put forth

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something that's moving them down the road. And it's that knowing that they've done

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something that actually creates the sense of
motivation, that and momentum that carries and

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stokes their motivation. And I think
that's really interesting and worth presencing for our

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listeners as well. Thoughts on that
well. One of the life one of

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the life lessons that I've always taught
young people, especially in their twenties and

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thirties, is that you need to
be intentional in your life. This is

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a foundation really for the rest of
your life, and then the decisions you

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make daily during this period, good
or bad, will carry you forward the

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rest of your life, especially decisions
regarding your health. Set goals is very

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important, and I like to set
small goals because when you set small goals,

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you will achieve more in the long
run. That momentum carries you Yes,

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I've done something, Yes I can
do it, I'm moving yep.

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people have these grandiose New Year's resolutions,

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but they're just so they're almost unattainable, and then they give up. But

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you've got to set small goals to
achieve to get to that well. And

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this is where I'll admit that I'm
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the Gallop Strengths Finder, there's thirty
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achiever, which means you can find
me completely guilty of. When I first

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GetUp the morning, I make my
list for the day what I'm going to

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do. I do put on that
list the things I've already done that day

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so that I can actually them off
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it gives me that chult that I
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of like that. Okay, So
another chapter in your book, which is

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so so important to talk about it, especially as we translate this over to

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going for a purpose, going for
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whatever it is, and that is
that four letter word fear. Overcoming

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fear is the chapter. So I
really appreciate that you say in your book

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that your struggle with your fear of
having cancer made you a stronger person and

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led you to a calling to help
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a twofold interest for me here.
So to overcome fear, you must first

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acknowledge it, but not focus on
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my previous guests on my radio show, Rachel Stewart, has a fantastic way

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of addressing this really quick. She
talks about how if you're doing anything in

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life, fear is going to be
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to acknowledge. Yep, it's sitting
right there in the car with me.

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Here's the deal, though, that
fear doesn't get to do any driving,

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doesn't even get to change the channels
on the radio station, doesn't get to

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weigh in on the direction of where
we're going with the car. It just

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has to sit in the back seat
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similar. Fear is going to be

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there, but you just can't focus
on it. That's right. If I

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had not overtaken my fear of defeat
by cancer and losing my life, I

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wouldn't be sitting here right now.
Learning to deal with fear means more,

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means putting your negative thought in perspective. Negative thoughts, I should say,

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failure, or the curveballs that I
call it in life, are a part

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of the process, and you shouldn't
be afraid of them. Change the way

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you view failure. Use it as
an opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

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Learn to accept challenges. If you
are going to succeed at anything, there

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will be challenges and sometimes failure.
We tend to focus too much on the

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negative. I realized that by looking
at all the options, I could respond

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differently to my concerns and my fears. Articulate the positive outcomes to your fear.

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For me, my positive outcome was
beating cancer and walking my daughter down

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the aisle so I think what I
want to say too about fear for our

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listeners, and frankly to remind myself, is it's a powerful emotion. It's

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useful, and so if we can
if we can direct it so that we

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can derive the benefits of the of
the energy that comes from fear, I

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think that's the opportunity. Yeah,
yep, so we talked about this before,

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but I do appreciate this so much, and this is good for for

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what our listeners can take from you
too. But you've been a beloved hockey

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coach for years and touched hundreds,
if not maybe thousands of lives, and

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so one of the coaches created that
rules that you live by is share a

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few of your I want I want
you to share a few of your most

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favorite rules to live by as a
coach. I wrote one coach has creed

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several years ago, and I actually
have it outlined in the book. But

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two of the points that that I
really like and live by. One is

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by helping others to do their best
and attain their goals, I help myself.

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The second one is I will never
forget how I got to where I

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am today. So I know that
Mark Noble is listening here, he's on

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the Facebook live stream. I know
that that he would absolutely agree with that

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approach. He's a great coach himself, and that is absolutely how he walks

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his life as well. So echo
that well is a coach a sport and

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no, he is an executive coach, and he does work with inside organizations,

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et cetera. But that would be
exactly a mindset that he would he

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would employ. All right, so
let's grab our last break. I'm Elie

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Cortez, your host. We've been
on the here with Tom Halsey, who

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is the author of The Winning Mindset
That Saved My life. A cancer conqueror,

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having survived prostate cancer, he now
dedicates his life to helping others through

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philanthropy. After the break, we're
going to talk about his actual journey through

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and treatment of cancer and what he's
up to today to serve others. Stay

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with us, we'll be right back. Alice Cortes is a speaker and engagement

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and development catalyst. She designs and
delivers professional development, leadership and engagement workshops

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and can bring her expertise to your
organization. She will help ignite meaningful development

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within your workforce that will increase employee
engagement, performance and retention. To learn

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more or to invite Elise to speak
to your organization, please visit her at

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www dot Elisecortes dot com. She
would welcome the opportunity to help get your

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employees working on purpose. This is
working on Purpose with Elise Cortes. To

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reach our program today, send an
email to a lease Alise at Aleasecortes dot

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com. Now back to working on
purpose. Thanks for staying with us,

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and welcome back to working on purpose. If you're just tuning in, My

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guest is Tomhosey in eleven Time Iron
and Finisher. He's the author of The

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Winning Mindset That Saved My life.
Having survived prostate cancer, he now dedicates

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his life to helping others through philanthropy. He joins me today from my office

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studio here in Dallas. I'm your
host at Last Cortes. So for this

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last segment, we want to get
into really what it was like for you

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to go through your treatment, Tom, and also really understand how you've really

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developed some passion of your new passion
and purpose on the other side. So

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first let's talk about the chapter that
you have, which is know your Option.

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So I want to talk about the
importance of monitoring your overall health and

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opting in for the screenings. I
know a lot of men, especially,

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they don't want to do the screening. So part of what you credit to

448
00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:43.039
your own through rivel was early detection. And as I've had guests on talking

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about how to help women detect and
deal with breast cancer, let's talk about

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what men can do to stay in
front of prostate cancer. Well, you

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have to be proactive with your health, and is what you said a second

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ago is so true. Many men
don't want to deal with it. But

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the key to my surviving though,
was was the early detection. Of course

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it's not really with really any cancer, but early detection is key and it's

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a very simple PSA blood test.
I encourage men to UH to get checked,

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you know, annually, especially after
they after the beyond forty. It

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should be checked on an annual basis
UH to see if if there's if there's

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trending up or not. The widow
of my friend who lost his life to

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prostate cancer will tell you that,
like me, he was very proactive with

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his health and very active, but
he skipped a year and getting his PSA

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checked and that's what ultimately killed him
because the uh, the cancer got outside

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of the out of the prostate and
uh. And so again my message to

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men is he's really creating an awareness
and being proactive with all your health issues

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and talk about it. You know. One thing I'd also say too,

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is I know a lot of men
really have a problem with with the rectal

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exam, right, I mean,
it's it's really not that bad, and

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it's it's pretty quick. Well,
it's it's it's it is quick. Yeah,

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it's not the most comfortable thing in
the world, but it beats the

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alternative absolutely. But when I'm talking
about the p S A test, so

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that's strictly bo and and that's the
first first thing to do or you should

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be doing on a regular basis.
It's there's nothing invasive about a blood test.

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It's a simple Well you get a
prick in the arm, but that

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sounds bad, Okay, anything else
you want to say that a well,

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no, that's that's the main thing
is early detection is is is key in

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in the battle against any cancer.
Okay, well, and let's let's talk

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about your your cancer. So I
want to hear about your actual treatment for

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the cancer and how you ultimately beat
it. What did you go through?

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Well, after I was diagnosed,
I did a lot of a lot of

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due diligence because there's different ways to
treat prostate cancer. There there are side

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effects to uh which whatever, uh
whatever, the course of action is determined.

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But uh but after doing my due
diligence, interviewing experts in different ways

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to treat prostate cancer, I elected
to have my prostate removed. Part of

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the thinking was I just wanted to
get the cancer out of my body and

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the and the quickest way and the
fact that it was it was it was

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caught early, the cancer was contained
within the prostate. So I just had

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had my prostate removed. So we're
talking one surgery once, yes, uh

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huh wow. But that one surgery, though, is uh is really tough.

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I mean, you had seven incisions
across my mid section and uh,

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it's it's it's hard. But one
of the things I did though, when

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I went in, when I was
getting ready for my surgery, though,

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is I prepared like it was getting
ready for an iron man. I wanted

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to be in the best physical shape
that I could be and to help the

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recovery process and all because it's it's
it's a really tough surgery. I had

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pictures when I was in the hospital
getting around in a walker and wearing a

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couple of catheters, so it was
hard. And then you talk about in

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your book, how not long after
your surgery you did with not an iron

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Man something else. Well, I
set goals for myself. I we've talked

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about the long term goals of the
iron Man and walking my daughter down the

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aisle, but I also had a
short term goal and an intermediate goal.

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My short term goal was to go
on a trip with the North Texas Crime

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Commission on a mission trip to the
state of Washington to visit Microsoft and Amazon

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and other companies up there. And
that was just three and a half weeks

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after my diagnosis, and that was
hard. But my biggest goal, or

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most gratifying goal, was exactly six
months later, I did a half iron

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Man in Austin. And so to
go from getting around in a walker to

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crossing the finish line of the half
iron Man was that was that was a

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really neat, neat feeling. To
be able to do that. That's amazing

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because basically the training for that I
had to start at ground zero. If

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you will because it because I lost
all my fitness and all through the surgery

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and all and inactivity. Well another
thing that I find really interesting. And

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again, listeners, this is a
place people often ask me, you know,

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at least, how do I discover
my purpose? One way to discover

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our purpose is to deal with what
we've had deal with and share what we've

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learned by going through our own trials
and tribulations. And so one of the

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things I want to celebrate about you, Tom have you share about is your

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journey created a passion in you to
help others battle cancer. So you really

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got a new found purpose through this
pain. I did. I As I

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mentioned earlier, I was I was
a typical guy when I was first diagnosed,

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and I kept everything inside and I
was very isolated. And it took

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me thirteen months after my diagnosis before
I finally went public and started sharing my

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story with people. And that was
through with the encouragement of my wife said

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wanted to write a blog. If
you if you impact one person's life in

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this world, think how that would
make you feel. And the first response

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00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:22.840
back I got was from a guy
in New Zealand. I had given him

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hope and inspiration and then it just
it just kind of went from there and

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and all of a sudden, this
became something bigger than me. I was

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you know, it was really you
know, I was helping other people,

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but at the time, I wasn't
trying to make a difference or make an

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impact in the world at the time. At that time, I was just

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very therapeutic for me to finally shit, get it out there and share my

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share my story. So it was
again, it helped me so much in

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my recovery. But through that,
I recognized that my efforts were positively impacting

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people, and I really did develop
a pack to help those and I feel

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00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:08.840
very honored that I have a mission
now to help others. So one of

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the things that I help people in
my programs understand is that there's three three

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ways that we can find meaning across
our lives. One is through what we

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give of ourselves to the world,
and I call that our passion. That

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is what we're giving of ourselves uniquely
to the world. That's what you're talking

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about. Now. There's something about
that giving of that gives an energy to

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us in the expression of that purpose
or that passion. The second way that

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we can find meaning is through encounters
or experiences that we enjoy or that are

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valuable to us. And so I
call that inspiration. That is what inspires

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breath on our lungs and gives us
energy. And we need that too,

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So you're doing that for other people
by doing the work that you're doing.

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The third way that we can find
meaning in our lives is through the attitudinal

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stance that we take against anything we
face, and your case, the attitude

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that you assume, which is part
of your mindset that I'm going to beat

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this, I'm going to work through
this. I'm going to apply my very

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best mental and physical game, and
I'm going to rally all my support in

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my troops, and I'm going to
get through that. That is that was

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the attitudal stance that you took,
and there's meaning in that and that meaning,

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00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.320
remember, is the ultimate motivator in
life. Listeners, And so you

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know when we talk about now you've
got this new passion journey, one of

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the things that you say in your
book is that you were given a zero

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wristband by your surgeon after the surgery. So I want you to talk about

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what does this zero organization do and
the movement that it stands to accomplish.

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Well, let me say this.
Of course the listeners can't can't see this

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that I have Facebook can But I
have a blue wristband on right now.

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I've never taken it off. It
was given to me by the nurse the

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nurses the day of my surgery and
what it says zero the end of prostate

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cancer. And at the time I
just thought it was a cool looking risk

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band. I had no idea who
Zero was. But I will continue to

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wear it and I've never taken it
off. This is a constant reminder of

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to where where I've been and what
I'm representing today. UH but Zero is

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a nonprofit UH national organization that's dedicated
to finding a cure for for prostate cancer

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by furthering research and providing support to
UH prostate cancer victims and their families and

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just creating awareness. And I've I've
embraced UH their their mission. And but

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when I before, I before I
did really kind of sign up to be

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with Zero. I did a lot
of due diligence. And one of the

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things that that H that I really
was impressed by was their financial performance metrics.

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They were very high. As you
hear a lot of there's a lot

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of philanthropic organizations that have gotten in
trouble, you know, with how they

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how they allocate their money. But
but Zero's stewards their resources very carefully.

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00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:02.719
And uh uh again, I'm very
honored and humbled to be able to represent

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Zero well. And so now what
we're getting into is your philanthropic journey.

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So another thing that I want to
talk about is that you were asked to

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join the board of the Dallas s
based nonprofit Mary Crowley Cancer Research. So

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00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:17.760
what's the mission of this organization and
why are you so passionate about working on

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00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:25.400
their board? Well, first of
all, Mary Crowley founded Mary Crowley Cancer

580
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:34.400
Research back in nineteen ninety seven due
to her fundamental belief that cancer patients needed

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access to better cancer treatments. And
the mission of Mary Crowley is to give

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is to give cancer patients hope if
you will. In fact, their tagline

583
00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:52.239
is Hope Lives Here. And this
is for all cancers. It's not just

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00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:59.280
prostate cancer, breast cancer, but
it's all cancers. But anyway, Hope

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Lives Here. And I'm again very
honored to be representing them. And they're

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00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:08.639
they're based right here in Dallas,
trying to create more awareness out there in

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00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:15.400
the market for Mary Crowley, but
again just so honored to be able to

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00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:20.400
represent them, to be on their
board. So another thing that I want

589
00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:23.039
to call out for our listeners here, as I always try to echo and

590
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.519
the teachings that I hear from my
guests, is when you can when you

591
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:31.000
can align yourself with something bigger than
yourself, it CAUs bigger than yourself,

592
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:37.480
an organization bigger than yourself. You
become bigger in that connection. And that's

593
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:42.159
that's definitely something I would recommend to
anyone. It does help us persevere,

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00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.800
It does give us something more to
work to live for, It gives us

595
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:50.239
that ability to self transcend. So
what you're doing is magnificent, and you're

596
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:54.840
helping to expand her, execute her
mission and do more good in the world.

597
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:59.639
So I appreciate that we're getting close
to the end of the show here,

598
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:02.000
but what I want to what I
want to get to here is since

599
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:06.760
I haven't ever had to deal with
cancer, thank you very much, I

600
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.880
can't possibly fathom what you've gone through
on or before the side of cancer and

601
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:14.480
after. Can you paint a picture
for us, Tom, who were you

602
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:17.519
before cancer, and now who are
you after? Well, First of all,

603
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:23.400
my success as an athlete gave me
a false sense of invincibility, if

604
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:30.039
you will, and again it was
it was very It was very humbling to

605
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:32.960
get this cancer diagnosis, but I
was, but I almost had what I

606
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:38.840
would call it an arrogant mindset because
of that invincibility. But the cancer has

607
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:45.400
really humbled me and and surely changed
me too. Being a survivor or conqueror

608
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:50.400
as I like to say, has
really given me a wonderful perspective on life.

609
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:53.079
My journey has created a passion to
me to help others battling cancer,

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00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:59.719
and like I said, including their
families and all. But lesson learned as

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I may a few minutes ago,
there's nothing more gratifying in life than making

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a difference in people's lives and paying
it forward. And I really have grown

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to appreciate the value of serving a
cause greater than my own self interest and

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really making a positive impact on humankind. I really appreciate that for my listeners

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who heard me say this before.
I have a lot of urgency in my

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life to really execute on my purpose
too, and my vision tom is to

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touch and make a difference in one
million lives before I'm dropped into the ground,

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or as somebody said today, I
get my wings before I get my

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wings, and so that's something.
There's something about that. It gets me

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out of bed every day. It
gives me something to live for, and

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I do want to be of service
to my purpose. So I really appreciate

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what you're doing on this show.
I always like to give my guests the

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last words, so you know,
this show is really about helping to presence

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meaning passionate inspiration and purpose is designed
to equip leader across the globe to help

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their teams enjoy their work more and
be more fulfilled. What would you like

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to leave our listeners with today?
Take things less seriously, try to keep

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perspective and understand that no matter what
struggles you're going through, you will get

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through them. They are not as
bad as they seem, and you're stronger

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than you think. I still have
to remind myself of this though, on

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a daily basis. But lastly,
remember this is my tagline. Life is

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not a spectator sport. I so
agree with that. I so agree with

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that. Tom Well. I want
to thank you for coming and sharing your

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experience, your wisdom, your heart
with us. It was very evident that

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all of that was here. Thank
you very much for that. Well,

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it's very again. I'm so honored
to be here and I really do appreciate

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it. I appreciate the platform to
share my story. You're welcome, and

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we need to give a shout out
to who introduced us. That's just mccorkyl

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here in Dallas. He's the one
that connected us justin rock Star find Thank

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you very much for that. So
listeners, if you want to learn more

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about Tom, his philanthropy or his
book, the easiest way to find to

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miss his website. It's just simply
Tomholsey dot com. Let me spell that

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for you. It's Tom T O
M and then Holsey h U L S

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E Y so Tomholsey dot com.
Last week, if you missed the live

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show, you can always catch it
be recorded podcast. We were on the

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air with Kathy Rawlings and Terry Spears
talking about their book The Inner Journey.

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Next week we'll be on air with
Ellen keithline Byrne talking about her lifelong passion

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in pursuit to develop leadership in women
and why women are so critical in leadership

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roles today. See you there.
Remember that work is at least a third

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of our life, So let's work
on purpose. Well, you 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 Alis Cortes, each week
on the Voice America Empowerment Chat. This

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week, find your life's purpose at
work.