Nov. 25, 2025

Getting Back Up: Cultivating the Resilience That Keeps Us Human

Getting Back Up: Cultivating the Resilience That Keeps Us Human
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Machines can calculate and crunch mega loads of information in lightning speed, but they can’t yet navigate heartbreak, disappointment, or the grit it takes to stand back up when life throws a its punches. Resilience is a deeply human force—a mix of emotion, intuition, and lived wisdom. With AI growing more present in our lives, nurturing this inner strength may become our most important differentiator. Dr. McMorris shares his own experience navigating adversity and how to build resilience.

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Elise Cortes.

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Welcome back to the Working on Purpose program, which has

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been brought to you with passionate and price since February

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of twenty fifteen. Thanks for tuning in this week. Great

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managers not just for their own effectiveness, but also to

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avoid burnout and keep them fulfilled. And did you know

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that inspired employees outperform their satisfied peers by a factor

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of two point twenty five to one. In other words,

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inspiration is good for the bottom line. You can learn

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more about us and we can kind of how we

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can work together at Gusto dashnow dot com or my

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personal site at Lascortes dot com. If you're just getting

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into the program today, my guest is dot org. Lamel

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mc morris a nationally recognized entrepreneur, activist, and change maker

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dedicated to advancing equity and revitalizing underserved communities. He's also

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the founder of Phase two Consulting. Growing up on the

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South Side of Chicago, he went on to find phenomenal

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success as a DC policymaker, a consultant in the financial

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and professional sports arenas, and a civil and human rights advocate.

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He is the author of the Power to Persist Eight

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simple habits to build lifelong resilience, which we'll be talking

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about today. Will be going into what is resilience and

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why is it important to cultivate habits to support it.

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He joined us today from Chicago, though his home base

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is Washington, d C. Doctor Lamel, welcome to working on Purpose.

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Thank you for having me. How are you doing well.

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I'm better.

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I'm hanging out with you.

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Sounds like a plan.

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Let's celebrate this beautiful thing you brought into the world.

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I appreciate how you birth this. It was a beautiful read,

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doctor mc morris. I really learned a lot and I

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learned a lot about you as well, which was incredibly inspired.

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Speaking of inspiration, so let's start with that. I might

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call you maybe a walking billboard for a person who

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has lived and illustrated resilience in life. And I got

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that both by reading your book, but also by the

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forward that you have from Reverend al Sharpton, who also

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writes about some of your your life instances. Let's just

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start with a couple of dustings of why I think

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you're uniquely qualified to write a book like this.

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You know, I've had seasons of life, and by the way,

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thank you very much again for having me this evening.

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I've had seasons of life that tested me, probably more

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than I expected. Losing a business and a business partner

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very suddenly overnight, right right over overnight, Navigating the uncertainty

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of you know, what it means to be an entrepreneur,

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confronting personal loss right just in life like all of

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us do, and learning to start again at various stages.

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Of my life.

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In the forward, you know, Reverend Sharpton, you mentioned him,

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he talks about, you know, some of those moments because

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he's known me for quite for quite some time. He's

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seen the highs and the lows, career pivots, he's seen

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my felt partnerships, he's seen me rebuild and yet you know,

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continue to still show up. So those experiences didn't just

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teach me at least resilience. They required me to actually

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practice it right, long before I ever actually wrote about it.

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And so you know, if you say I am a

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walking billboard, it's not because I did it perfectly.

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It's perhaps because I just kept.

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Going m I also have to tell you how much

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I was endeared by your story of getting through college.

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And you know, when the tuition came around, you were

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in the office, you know, dialing for dollars, asking for

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people to help you, and I just really I thought,

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how many people do that? How many people persist? How

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many people would just said, okay, I call uncle, I'll go.

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It was tempting, I mean, let me not. I don't

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want to, you know, over romantic romanticize it. You know,

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there were times where it was exhausting to run around

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every semester and try to add classes and beg professors

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to let you in, and to sit in the vice

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president of you know, financial affairs office every semester, you know,

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and doing that process over and over.

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But it was also the people.

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There were there were people actually who were close to

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me who said, hey, you know, why don't you just

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go home for a semester?

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And then come back.

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I did not want to do that because my fear

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was not finishing uh, and my biggest fear was disappointing

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my mother and my family.

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Strong motivations. Well, let's let's get into now from your

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vantage point, Lamelle, what what is resuliance? How would you

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define it?

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Resilience is the ability to adapt, recover and move forward

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when when life or if you're a leader, when when

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leadership becomes unpredictable. It's not just bouncing back, Uh, it's

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actually bouncing forward and using adversity as this fuel to

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continue to grow. It is, you know, the closing of

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one chapter, if you will, I found, you know, opens

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up and leads to another door, another chapter being opened.

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And you have to have that mindset right that the

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door isn't just closed, but there's going to be an

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opportunity for a new door to open.

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And it's it's it's a.

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Skill that can be learned through intentional habits, not necessarily

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only a personality trait.

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M h.

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I'm going to quote that use adversity as a fuel

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to grow. That's that's one for the for the books, Lammeel.

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Thank you so so this show has you know, as

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I said, been on air for a good more than

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ten years, and I really is a place for people

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to come and individually grow and cultivate themselves, but also

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a place where leaders are coming to cultivate themselves and

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their organizations. So I like how in your book you

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you you take on both individual resilience as well as

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organizational y'all talk about community as another places, but let's

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just distinguish or situate individual resilience. How that's come to

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be and why that's important.

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Yeah, you know, so life will always serve us know uncertainty.

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Uh, life has a way of distributing you know, loss

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and transition and pressure, but also opportunity. Resilience helps us

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individually stay steady, think clearly, manage stress, and keep going

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when things get hard, but also keeps us moving in

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the good times. And it's easy to you know, coast

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when when things are going good, it's it's emotional emotional

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UH and mental strength and that well being that allows

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us to lead through both struggle and UH through success.

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So you know, in business today, you know they business

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runs on chains. You have you know, economic shifts, you

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have technological shifts, we have AI, we have uncertainty and

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a global crist and workforce burnout. Resilient leaders and teams

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adapt faster, they innovate more, and they recover more quickly

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from disruption, so they can you can be bent without breaking,

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if you will. And a resilient workforce actually and culture,

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you know, foster's engagement. It fosters retention, and it fosters performance.

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But you have to have resilient individuals and leaders to

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help manage that change and foster that level and that

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culture of performance.

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So something I read in your book that I just

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has really been sticking with me Lamel that I really like,

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and I just think it says so much and says

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a lot about you too. And you say in your

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book that if you started life on third base, it

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can be hard sometimes to tap into your resilience. Obviously

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I read your story, I read your book. I know

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that you didn't start on third base, and so it's

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your book is all the more important for anybody that

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who has started on second or third base or whatever

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it is to be able to develop these these things

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that life has maybe more naturally taught and given you

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lessons for. So I wanted to celebrate that idea of this.

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You know, where people are starting from working from and

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like that that you so beautifully situate in your book.

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Yeah, it comes from a saying at least that some

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people you know woke up on third base and thought

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they hit.

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A triple.

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Right, you know sometimes you know. And by the way,

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let me let me be very clear, there's nothing wrong

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with being born on third base. There's nothing wrong with

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having familiar and even cultural and society advantages because of

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how well your your parents did in life and they've created.

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But even in that environment, right, even in an environment

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where a success abounds, and there's still a need to

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be resilient and not become comfortable and learn how to

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survive and thrive, you know, beyond your familial and cultural

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But if you're me and you're born on the South

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Side of Chicago in an underserved area without the family

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you know wealth and generational wealth, then you know I

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am made and molded out of adversity. It is adversity

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and challenge that has propelled me to grow and strengthen

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me to become more resilient and know how to survive

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through the ups and through the downs.

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And so neither.

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Resilience is built in either circumstance, It just so happens

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that mine and many people like me. You know, I'm

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now talking to you literally in my child at home.

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My mom's upstairs. I'm in the basement of my child

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at home. This is actually this, Yeah, this is actually

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where we film our podcast by the same name of

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the books, The Power to Persist, Because my my feeling

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is if I'm going to ask at least to come

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on and talk or frankly, to come here and talk

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about her resilient journey, I want to be able to

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do it in a place where mine authentically started. And

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so this place you know of, once perceived as challenge,

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once perceived as a place that it was underserved, it

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actually now this is a full circle moment because I

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get to bring leaders and influencers and folks who've been

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successful and who've had to make it through resilient to

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a place where mine actually started.

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And so.

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What was meant perhaps and what sometimes is meant perhaps

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at least to break us, actually ends up being the

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thing and make us. And if I'm a billboard for anything,

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perhaps I'd like to be a bill board for that.

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One of my values is empowerment lamel So that really

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speaks to me that people listening would say, Okay, these

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things that I think have been breaking me could actually

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really really strengthen me and turn me onto something even more.

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I also want to celebrate this beautiful intentionality that the

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way in which you host your show from the family

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home that you grew up in. And then, just briefly

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for people who don't know this, and one of the

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things I want to talk about later is the notion

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of reaching into other circles to help expand your thinking

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daily threat of gang violence and you know, perhaps even

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gang initiation. I you know, I had to walk past

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folks who are not just addicted, but dealing drugs. I

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had to deal with alcoholism, and you know, just a

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sense of violent and a violent environment, if you will,

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plenty of which is one of the reasons why I

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started the effort to rebuild and invest in my neighborhood.

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that was my environment. But you know, I was never

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shaped by that. I was I was never defined, if

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you will, by that. You know, at least when I

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cool G I. Joe type man. They were the plastic

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men that had guns, and they were kind of stiff,

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and they were you know, they were just you could

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Americans and there were cowboys, and their army always chose

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one to be the president of the United States. And

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the books in my house, and I would row the

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books around like a motorcade, and I pretended like the

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furniture where the buildings in Washington, DC, and one was

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the president and the rest were secret servicemen. And I

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was pretending like I was protecting and I was going

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around Washington, DC. As Now, this is my in this

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environment where allegedly I grew up with all of this

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stress and strife and strain, But my world was in

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my mind was somewhere else. So by doing that, I

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was actually unknowingly creating this resilient environment, because I was

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putting myself in a place where a success thrived, where

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I thought power thrive, where I thought leadership thrive, where

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I thought all things positive and good thrive and were

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impact thrive. And yet you walk out my door. It

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was a whole another reality. But in this place, And

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how ironic, right, how about resilience and destiny that I

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would end up years later in the very place and

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that I was creating mentally, and in this environment that

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I was creating, I would end up with an office

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across the street from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue

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at fourteen fifty five.

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So I hope it's a lesson both to your listeners

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who are you know in our age range, but especially

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to those that are younger, that we actually can create

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and model and vision and dictate the destiny of our lives,

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not the environment that surrounds us.

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Oh Lamel, I am so happy to know you. I

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want to sell sate you to my friend. Yeah, this

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is just beautiful, And so I'm to glowed to ask

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you that question because what you were discs to me

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as you went into your own world and then you

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created your own future by how you envisioned it and

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pulled yourself into it.

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I literally and literally my mom and my family would

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have to like step around because they didn't they knew

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that I was in a totally diff No one wanted

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to disrupt you know, where my head was and whatever

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Well, delightful, that is right there, something for our listeners

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and viewers just to think about and let it kind

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of wash over their hearts and their souls as we

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Release Cortez. We're on the air with doctor Lamel mc morris,

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a nationally recognized entrepreneur, activist, and change maker dedicated to

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advancing equity and revitalizing underserved communities. He is a policymaker

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and a consultant in the financial and professional sports arenas,

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and a civil human rights advocate. We've been talking about

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what is resilience, why, ist is it important? And how

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does it service? After the kor to take a tour

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of at least some of his eight habits that he's

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offering us to help us build that resilience.

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visioneer for greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired

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Thanks foresting with us, and welcome back to working on Purpose.

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I'm your host, doctor Elise Cortes, as I am dedicated

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to helping create a world where organizations thrive because they're

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people thrive and are led by inspirational leaders that help

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them find and contribute their greatness. And we do business

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at Betters the World. I keep researching and writing my

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own books, so one of my latest came out is

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called the Great Revitalization, How activating meaning and purpose can

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radically enliven your business, and I wrote it to help

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leaders understand today's diverse and discerning workforce and then provide

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twenty two best practices to equip you to provide what

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they want through your leadership and your culture. You can

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find my books on my personal site at least Coortes

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dot com or on Amazon if you are just now

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joining us. My guest is doctor Lamel McMorris, author of

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the Power to Persist. Eight simple habits to build lifelong resilience.

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So I'd love for us to talk about as many

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of these eight as we can, Little Melan and as

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the conversation takes us, and I thought, what we could

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do is to describe a little bit about some of

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these habits and why they're important, situate them, and then

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offers just a few ways to build it. There were

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some that really spoke to me that I want to

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call out as well. But the first one that I

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want to talk about, of course, is attitude. And you

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do distinguish between optimists and pessimists, and of course the

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optimists have a glass half full perspective and optimists are

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more they focus more on the negative, and you say

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that you simply cannot maintain a negative outlook in poor

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attitude and expect to be resilient in the face of

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life's challenges.

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of writing the book and putting the eight habits together,

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initially knew the importance of the order, but I think

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it's so important that I start out with the first

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habit of our attitude, because our attitude and our mindset

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really does dictate the other seven that I talk about.

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I mean, you really can't.

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and it's hard to embrace vulnerability. And it's even harder

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for the last habit of faith to embrace that if

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your attitude, if you have a negative attitude, So, you know,

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starting out each day, especially with the ability and the

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opportunity to foster a positive attitude, it's starting out with

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this notion of gratitude. There's something about, you know, especially

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at least when you're facing headwinds. There's something about kicking

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off your day with being grateful for the good things

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that are going on for giving gratitude or the positive

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and letting that, letting let everything you know, move forward

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from that. Right, so when headwinds come, you can still

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go back to how you started out that day with

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this attitude of gratitude. And so very practically I suggest

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in the book, as you may note, that people start

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their day out with a gratitude journal. Just just shot

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down just a few of the things at the start

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of your day of about what you are grateful. So

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business leader thriving international business, he kicks off his day

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with a gratitude walk love it. And I said to myself, well, listen,

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if this guy can kick off his day, you know,

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with all of this, you know, large ESTs around him

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that he controls and has to and lives through and in,

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then certainly all of us should take this opportunity because

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there's something powerful, right If global business leaders can kick

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off their day with this attitude of gratitude and actually

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being grateful for the things, then there must be something

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to it for us as as leaders of people, as

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leaders of our families trying to live in community. There

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has to be something powerful right with kicking off your

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day being grateful with an attitude of gratitude that sparks

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this remarkable positive mindset that allows you to carry on

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through your day and face the ups and the downs,

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to look at them just the same, but to deal with.

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All the headwinds that come away. And I found watch this.

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I found that if you still your day off with

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this attitude of gratitude and you go in to your

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day with this positive attitude, it's actually contagious. It's like

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a domino effect. It's like a fire if you will,

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that has the opportunity to move on to others, and

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you have the opportunities to then dictate your surroundings and

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the individuals and have impact and influence over all the

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circumstances around you as well.

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Well. I can't let this go with that kind of

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a queue. Lamel your twenty two days of gratitude. You

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met some pretty fantastic people in those twenty two days.

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Can you just maybe say a bit about where that

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idea that practice came from and maybe just share one

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or two the people that you got to help along

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folks understand, you know how in the world I came

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up with this, you know why? Twenty two days? So

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my birthday is June twenty second and a couple of years.

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You know, I always try to do something meaningful. I

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believe that at least we should party with a purpose.

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I always try to do something right, right, I think,

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least I try to do something meaningful around my birthday. So,

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so you know, this time, I decided, you know, what

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I wanted to do for the June, for the twenty

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second to twenty two.

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I wanted to do twenty two days of gratitude.

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I literally just wanted to go down, go around in

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the midst of my travel around the country, around my

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business travel, and just find ways to do small acts

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of gratitude for people that I did not know. And

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I don't care if I was in Phoenix or Atlanta.

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I just found, you know, through my network, and I

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would just call and say hey. And so I'll give

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a couple of examples. So I was able to meet

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in Atlanta a dad who had recently lost his wife

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to a to an illness.

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This gentleman who was just accustomed to, you know, being the.

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Breadwinner and being dad, now he had to raise his

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young kids alone and also try to figure out how

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to maintain his work schedule. I was able to take

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some time out and meet him and just do a

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kind gesture for him. And I was very moved by

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one his appreciation and two his determination to create this

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environment for his family and to propel and to move

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forward with a remarkable attitude. Tired, he looked tired, He

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looked he looked worn out, but he was determined. There

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was another example of a young lady whose mom was

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tragically killed in a car accident. And she was the

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eldest of her siblings, and she had very young siblings.

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but now she is forced into this role of taking

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care of her younger siblings, being in school herself, ensuring

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that they go through school, and also that they're housed

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and fed. And you know, it's the spirit of these individuals.

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No one I met was down. No one I met,

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you know, gave a sob story. They were determined to

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go forward and to do what they needed to do.

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And I was deeply moved by that. And and I

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was especially moved, you know when I make that point

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by there was an elderly woman I who needed groceries, yes,

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and and you know, so I I call her and

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I say, ma'am, you know what do you need? And

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she started telling me, you know, all the groceries that

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she needed. Then she said, well, wait a minute. You

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know my friend, my neighbor down the street. You know,

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00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:20.519
she's home bound too and handicapped, and she needs groceries too.

470
00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.240
You know, can I share some of my groceries? And

471
00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:26.960
so that's the contagious part. So by her telling me

472
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:31.039
at least about you know, being selfless and not just

473
00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:34.440
thinking about herself, but thinking about her friend, even in

474
00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:38.440
the midst of her burden situation, that made me double

475
00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:40.240
down more and want to do more.

476
00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:43.160
So I bought groceries for her and for her friend

477
00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:43.799
down the street.

478
00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:48.799
And so you know, this notion of gratitude and our attitudes,

479
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:53.480
that's the contagious part, because not only did she think

480
00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:56.079
about someone else, but it made me want to do more.

481
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.720
And that's the opportunity we have when we embrace this habit.

482
00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:04.759
You're stepping into my jam lamel. So I my whole

483
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:08.400
world is I traffic and energy really because right by

484
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:11.079
activating meaning and purpose, that is what we're doing, is

485
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:13.880
we're activating energy. And so now what we're doing is

486
00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:17.599
we're elevating the capacity for people to be able to

487
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:22.200
give from this higher space, to persist, to go longer,

488
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:24.839
to do more. And so this is how it all

489
00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.680
starts to overlap and why I wanted to have you

490
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:28.119
on the show.

491
00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:29.119
Thank you.

492
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.000
Yeah, and I this is just gorgeous, and yeah, we

493
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:35.039
want we want to positively infect people with this stuff,

494
00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:36.680
don't we absolutely?

495
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:37.599
Absolutely?

496
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:39.680
All right, well let's do it. Okay, So that was

497
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:43.160
just the first habit was attitude. Now another one is

498
00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:45.559
work ethic, and boy do you have that in space.

499
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.759
I loved hearing about how you built your your practice,

500
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:52.480
your consulting practice and you know, dragging yourself home at

501
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:54.559
ten eleven o'clock at night and getting up at six

502
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:57.319
or whatever earlier out the door do it all over again.

503
00:29:57.400 --> 00:29:59.480
So let's talk about work ethic.

504
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.119
So you know, at least I operate from the standpoint

505
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.640
that there are people that are you know, better looking

506
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:09.160
than me. They're probably people that are smarter than me

507
00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:14.200
and taller than me. But I submit that very few

508
00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:16.839
people are going to outwork me, and and that that

509
00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:21.559
that work ethic doesn't necessarily make me better or them less,

510
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:25.559
but it does have the opportunity and the ability to

511
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:31.000
separate us from others in a way that allows us

512
00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:34.920
to achieve our goals, to achieve our dreams, and yes,

513
00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:39.359
to even supersede through the highs and the lows.

514
00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:41.119
When headwinds come our way.

515
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.160
It's that work ethic that you know, that being up

516
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.279
when other people are sleep, that that that thing that

517
00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:53.000
makes you get up you know early and stay later.

518
00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:57.160
That there's no substitute, you know for it.

519
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:02.720
I've had some phenomenal models and examples of you know

520
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:06.759
what it means to work hard, which actually you know

521
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.720
is important, right you know, show me your friends and

522
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:11.559
I'll show you your future, Show me the people that

523
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:14.440
you spend time around, and it tells me a lot

524
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:17.960
about you. And I've had a wonderful opportunity to know

525
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:23.039
and see that hard work literally does pay off, and

526
00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:28.400
there is no substitute or hard work in a world

527
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:31.640
and a time when you know, so many things are

528
00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:34.960
accessible to us via our phones and by the.

529
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:36.160
Push of a button.

530
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:40.440
Talking into devices if you will to turn on a radio,

531
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:43.079
or turn the television, or even turn the lights on.

532
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:47.119
There is a temptation, right there is a temptation to

533
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:50.799
not work as hard, to not push as hard. But

534
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.559
I submit, and I try to share this with as

535
00:31:53.640 --> 00:32:00.440
many young people, especially as possible, that you know the

536
00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:06.720
work ethic coupled with you know, innovation and being smart,

537
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:12.160
but sometimes your work ethic can supplement for the other

538
00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.599
things that you may You may not have the highest IQ,

539
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:18.240
you may not be the smartest in your class, but

540
00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:22.559
you don't sure have the ability to outwork everyone and

541
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.720
to push and to work harder. And that that I

542
00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:32.160
believe is a fundamental habit to building resilience and being

543
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.240
persistent in life one hundred percent.

544
00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.200
And so, listeners and viewers, since I've read the book

545
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.160
and you haven't yet, probably what Lamela has done is

546
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:43.400
He's given us these eight habits, and then in each

547
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.119
for each habit, he offers us seven ways to build

548
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:49.519
that habit. So for the work ethic habit, I want

549
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:51.359
to talk about two of them, just really quickly.

550
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:51.920
Sure.

551
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:54.200
One one of the ways that you offer for us

552
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:56.559
to build our work ethic is to put ourselves into

553
00:32:56.759 --> 00:33:00.039
situations where we have to adapt. And one of my

554
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:02.240
coaches is Sean Anderson, who I met on the air

555
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:04.680
several years ago and then coerced him into being my

556
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:09.960
coach persistent space off. But he does this thing lamel

557
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:13.839
where he literally goes in he's a vegan. To let

558
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:17.759
me situate this, he will go into he travels to

559
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:19.680
different countries, and he walks from one end of the

560
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.599
country to the other. But here's what happens. So when

561
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.279
he gets there, he doesn't plan for where he's going

562
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:27.519
to stay or where he's going to get food. Now,

563
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:29.000
if you're a vegan, that's hard to do.

564
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:31.519
And I am a vegan, and it is very hard

565
00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:31.799
to do it.

566
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:34.680
Okay, Okay, so you know you can relate, okay, and

567
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:36.559
so I have so much respect for that boy. If

568
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:38.680
that doesn't build a work ethic, you know, that's one

569
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:40.759
of the things. The other thing that you talk about,

570
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:42.799
which I think is also really interesting, is to use

571
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:45.319
our non dominant hand to build our work ethic. Because

572
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.079
we have to work harder. It doesn't come as easy

573
00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:50.440
so just a couple of the things that you offer

574
00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:52.599
to us to build our work ethic. Anything else you

575
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.000
want to.

576
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:59.319
Add, no, no, And the fundamental message in everything you

577
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:03.440
just say, and what I'm trying to put forward from

578
00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:05.720
the example of your friend and your coaches a vegan

579
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:09.320
to you know, using your hand as not as dominant

580
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:14.559
as the blessing is in the stretch when we stretch

581
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:18.039
ourselves outside of our comfort zone. I'll give a real,

582
00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:23.199
real time example today I received a text message from

583
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:26.199
a young man who was in the audience at a college,

584
00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:27.920
Miles College in Birmingham that I.

585
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:31.360
Spoke at about the book a couple of weeks ago.

586
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:35.079
And I remembered him because he actually raised his hand

587
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.960
and he got up at last, and he asked, you know,

588
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:41.719
but what if I'm a little timid, what if I'm

589
00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:44.079
you know, I don't, I don't. I don't make friends

590
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:48.599
as easy. And I was pressing him to step outside

591
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:52.400
of his comfort zone. And so this young man did

592
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.519
what I know was very difficult for him to do.

593
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:59.280
He sent me a text message to date and he asked,

594
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.559
he said, I'm doing what you said, I'm reaching out

595
00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:06.320
and I'm asking for assistance and I'm asking for your

596
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:11.000
advice on something. And you know what my promise to

597
00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:14.119
him and any young person is. And what happens is

598
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:18.480
when you step out and you reach out, people will

599
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:20.920
reach back. And that's what I did, and I gave

600
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:24.639
him the assistance he needed and I was so proud

601
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:30.440
of him. But the blessing, the response, the a, the

602
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:36.119
assistance reaching the goal can only come sometimes at least

603
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:40.079
when we put ourselves in uncomfortable situations and when we

604
00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:45.679
stretch ourselves beyond that which is comfortable for us to

605
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:46.199
do and to.

606
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:50.000
Be amen and on that, let's take our next break here.

607
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:52.920
I'm your host, doctor Release Cortes. What are there with

608
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:56.559
Doctor Lameel mc morris. He's a nationally recognized entrepreneur, activist,

609
00:35:56.679 --> 00:35:59.960
and change maker dedicated to advancing equity and revitalizing unders

610
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:03.199
short communities. We've been diving into some of the habits

611
00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:05.400
that are in his book. After the break, we're going

612
00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:07.840
to keep going and we're going to pick up on vulnerability,

613
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.360
which is a perfect takeoff from the story you just

614
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:10.920
now shared.

615
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:12.000
Will be right absolutely.

616
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Doctor Elise Cortes is a management consultant specializing in meaning

617
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and purpose, an inspirational speaker and author. She helps companies

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visioneer for greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired

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leadership and meaning infused cultures that elevate fulfillment, performance, and

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commitment within the workforce. To learn more or to invite

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Elise to speak to your organization, please visit her at

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elisecortes dot com. Let's talk about how to get your

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employees working on purpose? Is working on Purpose with doctor

624
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:04.880
Elise Cortes. To reach our program today or to open

625
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a conversation with Elise, send an email to Elise alisee

626
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at elisecortes dot com. Now back to Working on Purpose.

627
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:20.920
Thanks for staying with us, and welcome back to Working

628
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on Purpose. I'm your host, doctor Release Cortes. As you

629
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:25.920
know by now, this program is dedicated to empowering and

630
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.880
inspiring you along your journey to realize more of your potential.

631
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If you want to learn more about how we can

632
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work together and learn about the Gustineo Academy for leaders

633
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:35.920
and individuals on various journeys like make your way to

634
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gustodeshnow dot com and then navigate to the training tab

635
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:41.800
and you'll find the academy there. If you are just

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now joining us. My guest is doctor Lamel mc morris.

637
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.159
He's the author of the Power to Persist, Eight simple

638
00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:51.440
habits to build lifelong resilience. So I appreciate that you

639
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:54.800
created a space with this young man where he somehow

640
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:57.679
summoned the courage to ask you for help. And of

641
00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:01.599
course one of your habits is vulnerable. About the habit

642
00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:03.079
of vulnerability.

643
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:08.239
At least, if I'm honest, it is the habit.

644
00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:12.199
You know, all of the habits, frankly, and the book

645
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:17.000
I want your listeners to understand represent a journey. These

646
00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:21.280
are not things that we have perfected will perfect overnight.

647
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:26.920
And for me, the most challenging of all of the

648
00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:31.400
habits that I put forth is this notion of being vulnerable. Right,

649
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:34.400
because so much of society and what it means to

650
00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:37.039
be a leader says that we're supposed to have all

651
00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:41.800
the answers and we're never to show weakness. We're always

652
00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:45.000
supposed to show strength, and you know, that's what it

653
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:48.639
means to be the leader. But I found that, you know,

654
00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:52.519
admitting sometimes that I don't have all the answers, and

655
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:57.280
emitting sometimes that I do need help, and admitting it's

656
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:04.679
not constraining, actually liberating. It's freeing, right, It actually frees

657
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:09.880
me to you know, be open to folks helping, and

658
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:13.719
actually it frees the listener, the folks that I'm working with,

659
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:17.880
my team and other folks to say, hey, you know

660
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:22.119
what I can help. And you know, I didn't really

661
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.039
understand this project totally and I wasn't really you know,

662
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:30.360
certain about this task, and it actually pulls people together.

663
00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:33.840
And so I submit that this whole notion of what

664
00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:37.920
it means to be to be vulnerable is not confining.

665
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:43.360
It's freeing, it's liberating, and it is a critical, absolutely

666
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:47.760
critical habit for us to continue to work on that

667
00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:53.000
helps us build resilience, That helps us, you know, by

668
00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:58.880
demonstrating levels of empathy and vulnerability, it actually pulls people.

669
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:03.400
It makes us better leaders, It makes us better family members,

670
00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:06.960
it makes us better friends, It makes us you know,

671
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.320
better participants in communities that we are trying to serve

672
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:15.760
and impact when we can identify with people who are suffering.

673
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:18.320
So it's one thing to be in my community right

674
00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:20.480
now where I am, and to want to make this

675
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:23.800
impact and to want to push things onto people, But

676
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:27.760
when I can actually identify with my neighbor, that's struggling

677
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:31.480
and actually needs help as we approach this Thanksgiving holiday,

678
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:34.559
when I don't look down on them, and I actually

679
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:38.280
can understand the path and the journey of the homeless

680
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:41.360
guy that I just saw in my alley back here.

681
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:42.760
You know, digging for food.

682
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:47.719
It takes on a whole different notion of service and

683
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:51.159
ability to make a positive impact, no doubt.

684
00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:54.119
No doubt, I can tell you. For me, I appreciate

685
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:56.119
what you said about this being maybe one of the

686
00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:58.360
harder habits for you. It's hard for me too, and

687
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:01.519
I'll tell you where to learn it. That's when I

688
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:04.519
got divorced ten years ago. That's when I learned I

689
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:06.800
had to ask for help, and I certainly had to

690
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.559
accept help. And as I began to accept help, I

691
00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:14.440
began to notice with different eyes how others were suffering.

692
00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:16.679
And it gave me much greater compassion.

693
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:21.119
But what about that process made you open up your eyes?

694
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:21.800
What was it?

695
00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:27.719
It was that sense of exposing myself being It was,

696
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.599
you know, opening myself up, you know, in fact, I mean,

697
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:33.079
I'll just share a funny story with you, really literally

698
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.880
exposing myself living alone. You know, I'm getting dressed, and

699
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:38.840
if there's a zipper that can't be zipped by a

700
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:41.800
single person. One needs help. Well, if you live by yourself,

701
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:43.760
you got to find some way to get some help.

702
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:47.559
So my measure, my strategy, Lamel was I would I

703
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:50.840
live in a nice neighbor with nice big trees and

704
00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:54.519
nineteen fifties or houses and such. So I would just

705
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:56.440
stand out the front door and I would wait for

706
00:41:56.519 --> 00:41:58.920
somebody to come by, walk on their dock, and as

707
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:00.559
they came by and say, hey, hey, how you doing

708
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:02.320
a neighbor, It's great to meet you. Hey can help

709
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.400
a sister out. Wow, you know, And that's and I'm

710
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:08.000
sure the neighbors are like, have you met the new neighbor?

711
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:09.960
Right? Right?

712
00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:13.280
But literally exposing myself. So I would say, it's like

713
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:17.760
that level, right, you know, where you literally are showing

714
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:20.800
a tender part of yourself and in so doing to

715
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:24.719
your earlier point having people so beautifully respond to that.

716
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:26.519
That's right.

717
00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:31.159
Then there was that that you know, nice cycle that

718
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:33.400
renewed it and encouraged it and strengthened it.

719
00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:36.920
Yeah, but I would I would imagine, right, let's take

720
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:40.800
your story as as a perfect example. By going outside

721
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:44.840
and making yourself quote unquote vulnerable and acknowledging that you

722
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:48.119
needed help. I wonder how many new friendships you spark.

723
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:51.880
I wonder how many fascinating conversations you spy. I wonder

724
00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:54.440
how many ladies walking their dog said, you know what,

725
00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:57.119
the same thing happens to me. I'm just not bold

726
00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:59.079
enough to open up the door and yell out, hey,

727
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.760
help me zip. Right, And so you ended up empowering

728
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:07.480
people and giving people courage and strength by showing that

729
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:09.599
level of vulnerability in yourself.

730
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:12.880
Yeah. I believe that absolutely, and of course of what

731
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:14.920
the work that I do with organizations, I know that

732
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:17.239
to be true as well. And in fact, one of

733
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:19.719
the other things that I wanted to celebrate with what

734
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:23.159
you're offering for ways for us to build our vulnerability

735
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:27.639
is to be willing to make unpopular decisions. Right, you

736
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:31.360
go and get hold to your values and make that decision,

737
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:33.920
Explain it, clarify why it's important to you, why you're

738
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:37.639
doing it, but make the unpopular decision. Be vulnerable to

739
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:41.840
care for others. Those are always to build this beautiful habit.

740
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:43.679
Yeah, yeah, we have.

741
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:48.119
I'm authoring an op ed now that actually talks about

742
00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:51.440
what it means to do just that, to stick to

743
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:56.079
your values and make unpopular decisions in an environment where

744
00:43:56.119 --> 00:43:59.000
it's difficult. Right, But when you stick to your values,

745
00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:01.880
then you can empower and you can make the positive

746
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:04.519
impact and the change that you seek to make in

747
00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:08.079
this society. And this particular op ed is going to

748
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.159
be written, you know, primarily to leaders in corporate America

749
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:14.440
to encourage them to stick to their values in the

750
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:19.199
midst of a climate that may actually be suggesting that

751
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:20.079
they do otherwise.

752
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:24.079
I want to read it, I want to celebrate it.

753
00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:25.360
So on the way, thank you.

754
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:27.800
Okay, when it's ready, I'm happy to share it on

755
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:31.880
social media as well. So whenever it's ready, okay. Now,

756
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.519
I would be absolutely remiss if I let you get

757
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.000
off the show, Lameelle without was talking about the habit

758
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:40.920
of faith. I want to queue up where I'd love

759
00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:42.719
for us to at least start with this. And so

760
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:45.000
you say, you know, what is faith? You say what

761
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:48.239
one of my favorite verses in the Bible defines faith

762
00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:51.800
as the substance of things hoped for, any evidence of

763
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:54.920
things not seen. Then you go on to say, I

764
00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:58.000
believe that the connection between faith and resilience takes place

765
00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:01.000
when you realize that you are the substance of things

766
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.559
hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Yes, wow,

767
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:06.960
that is incredible.

768
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:11.920
Yes, at first glance, you know.

769
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:18.320
That this notion of faith, to talk about it in

770
00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:25.840
this business leadership context, you know, makes people perhaps nervous

771
00:45:26.039 --> 00:45:28.400
and overly concerned that you know, I'm getting ready to

772
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:32.559
go down this religious path. But in fact, you know,

773
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:37.039
at least I define an entrepreneur as someone that goes

774
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.039
on top of this building, jumps off and figures out

775
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:41.719
what's going to happen on the way down.

776
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:42.800
That's exactly right.

777
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:43.960
That's what we do.

778
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:49.199
And that, my friends, is an example of faith, the

779
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:53.280
ability to believe that you're going to make this business successful.

780
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:57.239
You cannot see it, you cannot feel it, you cannot

781
00:45:57.519 --> 00:45:59.960
touch it, but you know that I'm working every day,

782
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:04.679
I'm sacrificing for my family, and I know that this business,

783
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:08.960
this project, this opportunity is going to work out, although

784
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:12.039
I cannot fully see it. That is the faith that

785
00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:15.599
I'm talking about, the substance of things hope for. I'm

786
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:17.280
hoping that this is going to work out, and the

787
00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:20.400
evidence of things that I can't even see it, but

788
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:21.280
I know it's.

789
00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:24.320
Going to happen. And I submit that on this road

790
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:28.400
to resilience and this notion of being persistent, when you

791
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:31.440
and I look in the mirror and determine that this

792
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:34.519
isn't just some concept that's out there, When you and

793
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:38.239
I determine that we are we are the substance of

794
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:41.880
things hope for, that we are the living, walking embodiment

795
00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:43.159
of faith.

796
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:47.159
That my friend propels us to walk through any obstacle,

797
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.559
any hurdle, any challenge that life brings us. When we

798
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.039
know that we are the substance of things hope for

799
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:56.400
and the evidence of things not seen, you.

800
00:46:56.440 --> 00:46:58.039
See why I just couldn't let you off the show

801
00:46:58.079 --> 00:46:58.559
without us.

802
00:46:58.679 --> 00:46:59.360
I see why.

803
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.519
And it is the last habit that I raised for

804
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:06.360
a reason, and it's sandwiched that between attitude and faith,

805
00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:08.000
the other ones exist.

806
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:09.360
And I think that's important.

807
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:12.159
And just one of the ways that you offer for

808
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.199
us to build our habit of faith is to listen

809
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.239
to our intuition, to really honor that voice from within

810
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:21.960
that is guiding us and telling us where to put

811
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:22.679
that next foot.

812
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:25.760
Yeah, we all have it, and we all and you know,

813
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:28.960
our gut tells us, you know where we need to

814
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:31.440
go and where we don't need to do more often

815
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:31.719
than not.

816
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:34.960
But it's just our willingness and ability to listen to.

817
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:37.719
It and to trust it right and not ignore it,

818
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:40.320
not stuff it down, not ignore it, Lamel, I am

819
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:43.800
so honored and delighted to know now you can't You

820
00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:45.480
can run for me, but you can't get away from

821
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:48.000
me because I'm pretty fast, so you're stuck with me.

822
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:50.800
In other words, I'm not trying to run. Okay, good.

823
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:52.159
So this show is.

824
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:54.280
Listening to my people around the world, and they are

825
00:47:54.360 --> 00:47:57.480
here to it, develop themselves, to grow into their higher versions,

826
00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:00.280
become better leaders. Yes, what would you like to leave with.

827
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:02.000
That?

828
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:09.119
This notion of resilience is not optional anymore. It is

829
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:14.519
a mindset and a set of habits that we must embrace.

830
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:19.199
We are going through remarkably challenging and turbulent times, and

831
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:23.000
I submit that people do everything they can to wrap

832
00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:27.400
their arms around whatever path they need to take to

833
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:28.559
become more resilient.

834
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:32.480
That is a fantastic and powerful way to finish. Lamel,

835
00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:34.719
thank you again for coming on the show, for writing,

836
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.159
Thank you for having me. You're very welcome and being

837
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:39.119
the gift that you are to the world. This is

838
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:41.519
amazing to know you and share you with my listeners

839
00:48:41.559 --> 00:48:44.800
and viewers. Listeners and viewers, you are going to want

840
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:48.320
to learn more about doctor Lamel mc morris and also

841
00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:50.679
to learn about the work that he's doing at Phase

842
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:53.840
two Consulting and check out his book, The Power to Persist.

843
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:55.840
So I would suggest you start by going to his

844
00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:59.159
personal site, which is Lamel McMorris dot com. Let me

845
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:02.320
spell that for you l A M E L L

846
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.000
and then mc m O r R I S dot

847
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:09.800
com lamelmcmorris dot com. Last week, if you missed the

848
00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:12.800
Life Show, you can always catch it via recorded podcast.

849
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.119
We were on the air with Cecily mac talking about

850
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:19.599
her book Undimmed, The Eight Awarenesses for Freedom from Unwanted Habits.

851
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:22.119
She helped us to understand not only how much time

852
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:24.880
are unhealthy habits rob us in life, but also how

853
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:28.079
much larger we can live without them. Next week, we'll

854
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.119
be on the air with Dana Williams talking about her

855
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:33.719
book The Internal Revolution. Lead authentically and build your personal

856
00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:36.400
brand from within. See you then, and together, let's lean

857
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:39.360
in and learn how to create destination workplaces where people

858
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:41.880
thrive while doing business in a way that betters the world.

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Let's work on Purpose.

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We hope you've enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to

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tune into Working on Purpose, featuring your host, doctor Elise Cortes,

862
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:56.159
each week on W four c Y. Together, we'll create

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a world where business operates conscientiously. Leadership inspires and passion performance,

864
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and employees are fulfilled in work that provides the meaning

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and purpose they crave. See you there, Let's Work on Purpose.