Hack Your Career to one of Passion and Purpose

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

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

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

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

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

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortes. Welcome back to

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the Working on Purpose Show. Thanks
for tuning in again this week. I'm

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your host, Elise Cortes, joining
you live from Dallas, Texas, which

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is home base for me. If
you've been tuning in for a while,

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you know this program is all about
helping people create more meaningful and purposeful lives

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and equipping leaders, insight organizations to
cultivate meaning and purpose that elicit's passion,

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inspired contribution, innovation, and persevering
performance. I talk with my guests to

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draw on their expertise and share my
own experience consulting, speaking and developing workforces

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across the globe, and every week
in these conversations, I hope you walk

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away with something you can immediately put
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anything to help you along your journey. Go to my website at a Leascortes

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I'm glad we're connected and thanks for
listening. Now onto this week's program

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with us today is Meleric Mitchell,
a talent development expert, corporate coach,

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conference speaker, and author. He
is the CEO and founder of Drive Influence,

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which serves global executives and organizations of
various sizes and operations who are looking

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to accelerate both performance levels and business
acumen and he's the author of Kinetic Life,

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Unleash Your Potential. We'll be talking
about his recent speaking topic of hacking

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your career along with this book.
Mel, welcome to Working on Purpose.

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Hey, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. Thanks,

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Elise, You're so welcome. And
let's just share with our listeners how

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it is that we met. Both
you and I were speaking for the International

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Association with Business Communicators Conference, I
think it was in April, and you

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were minding your very own business when
I tapped you on the shoulder and said

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I think we should talk on air, and you were good enough to say

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yes, I accept, So thanks. Yes. So let's get started here.

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We only have less than an hour
together, Mel, and we're going

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to be talking about hacking our careers
to navigate to align with our purpose and

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our audacious goals, which is the
gist of the whole conversation today. But

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let's open first. If we can
with this idea of meaning, something we

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both love to talk about and work
from and our consulting and speaking. You

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said in one of our initial conversations
in prep for the show that if we

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look for meaning, we can apply
the learning to what we want to do

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next, whatever that next is that's
intriguing you say more. Yes. So

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meaning is very important for several reasons. One from a standpoint of alignment,

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impact, and even just the next
moves and next opportunities often come from when

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you do things that have deep meaning. And what I mean by meaning,

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I guess I should also define that
is it's something that speaks to your core,

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speaks to your heart. You kind
of just feel it sometimes, right,

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and it oftentimes aligns with something that's
even greater than yourself, right,

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And so so meaning I think is
highly important, especially when it comes to

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planning your career, to making that
impact that you want to have in the

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world. And that impact could be
large, it could be small, It

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could be, you know, just
for two or three people in your family,

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or it could be for an entire
organization or community. But I think

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to be able to align to that
meaning and align it to your purpose is

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so important. I completely agree,
And as you know, I also very

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much speak about meaning, passionate,
inspiration, and purpose. In fact,

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you and I are absolutely singing from
the same sheet of music for sure,

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and what we speak on and what
we consult on, and to that end,

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I think though you you've got a
really specific niche though about what you're

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speaking on in terms of hacking your
career. And what I want to situate

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for our listeners is that I know
so many people now and I know you

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do too, who are just aching
to go do something else that's more meaningful

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and purposeful, but they feel stuck
and ill prepared. So just briefly,

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for our listeners, what are you
speaking about in this topic of hacking your

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career? Okay, so before I
even speak about hacking your career, I

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just want to throw out a couple
quick notes and key points. So going

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back to when I was in college, right, so they always used to

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talk about and this is like in
the late eighties, early nineties, like

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the whole career ladder. Right,
You'll go stay in a roll for a

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while and then you go to the
next one and it's all systematic. Guess

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what all that's gone today? That
whole career ladder is things have changed so

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much in it in the past ten
years with automation with AI, with different

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tools and technologies and just the way
that we do what we do, that

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the career ladder has been totally disrupted. But that's also a good thing because

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guess once, it's enabled us to
have a large degree of freedom of movement

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to try a lot of different things. And I think that's one of the

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key things to when the coach are
hacking your career is first realizing, guess

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what, this is your career.
It's not your managers, it's not the

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corporate presidents. This is yours.
This is something that you own, and

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you have ownership of it, and
you can map this thing out wherever you

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want it to go. So there's
some things that speak to you that say,

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hey, no, I really like
to try. I want to be

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an engineer. I also want to
do leadership development, and I want to

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do a lot of work in the
volunteer space, and you know, NGOs

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and nonprofits and travel and world At
first, those things might not even look

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aligned, but guess what, hey, you can actually do all of them.

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I have done all of it.
That's kind of like my background a

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little bit right. And so hacking
your career, I believe part of it

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is one stepping out on faith,
but also pursuing those things that have deep

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meaning to you that you're highly passionate
about and moving forward. Completely agree with

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that and I think I know so
many people that are resistant to that path,

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and that's one of the reasons that, if you may remember, in

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our common talks there at the IABC
IS, I refer to myself as the

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anti undertaker because I'm really out to
try to awaken people to their passion,

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their inspiration, their purpose, their
meaning, because I think so many people

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have been willing to believe that they
can't have that it's not for them somebody.

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That's for somebody else who's more lucky
or more privileged, But it's not

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for them. No, it's there. Definitely, there is for everybody,

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just for everyone. I completely agreement, and that's why you and I are

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going to keep charging doing the work
that we're doing right. Oh, most

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definitely, most definitely. Well,
let's get into our book. Anything else

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you wanted to say about what you're
speaking on there for hacking your career.

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Before we get into the book,
I would just like to just restate again

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what you say said. For those
of you that are looking to modify,

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shift, change, or do something
different, step out on it. And

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if you're a little bit hesitant on
stepping out on it, try a portion

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of it in your current role in
some form of fashion, even if it's

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just a snippet, but try it
there. Okay, really quick along those

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lines, we just got a question
from the chat room here mel. The

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question is is it bad to have
a lot of jobs in a short amount

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of time. Part of that is
it depends one thing I was reading somewhere.

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I was saying that we're going to
have at a minimum, probably at

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least fourteen different types of jobs and
roles over time, and a lot of

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employers are kind of expecting to see
employees go from different types of roles throughout

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time, and there are different points
in time based upon where you are in

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life that I think that also sometimes
comes into play when early in a career,

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it's kind of expected a lot of
times that you'll have a lot of

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different roles. But as you know, sometimes if we get a little bit

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older, we might not have many
different types of roles. But I think

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the another way to look at it
is experiences. And so maybe one of

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the things that you might stay with
one company for a while, but guess

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what, you can have a lot
of different experiences, and all of those

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experiences oftentimes build upon each other.
Great response. Noll thinks I welcome let's

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dive into your book now here and
get as much as we can out of

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that for our listeners. So the
book is called Kinetic Life, and I

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appreciated it so much that you read
it in the form of a fable or

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a story, and you featured alex
or excuse me, Alexis. She's the

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young woman trying to launch your career
and her mentor will. Those are the

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two main characters in the book.
And I really what I got first from

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just the way you did. That
was so important for us to recruit mentors

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into our lives, especially when we
want to transform our careers and chase audacious

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goals. And so let's start with
the idea of mentors so important we recruit

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them. Have you had any great
mentors that have really many difference in your

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life? Oh? Most definitely,
most definitely. I can give two quick

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examples. So the first I was
a real mentor that I had was a

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gentleman by the name of mister A. C. Hollins Ac actually recruited me

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directly out of college. And one
of the things that he did for me

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was he allowed me to try things, and if I failed, he allowed

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me to learn from it and continue
to grow, and he provided new opportunities

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consistently for me based upon he was
He would recognize like, oh, you

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like helping the recruit even though you're
an engineer. Oh yeah, well go

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ahead, We're gonna make you go
recruit at this next career fair Why because

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he could see that it's going to
help me in my career long term.

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And AC has done just so much
for me big My career wouldn't be where

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it is today without him. Can
I let me comment really quick on that

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mail? So what I would love
for our listeners, especially those who are

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currently leaders or are aspiring leaders,
to hear from what I hear from that

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is one of the things I recommend
to leaders is lead people as to who

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they from the vantage point of who
they can become, not who you see

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them to be today, who can
they grow into? Lead them from that

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vantage point and they will never forget
you for that. Oh exactly, exactly,

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you will never forget them for that, I should say. Yeah.

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And the other example, So the
other example is a person by the name

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of Mario Pipkin. And so Mario
is my mentor when I was at Microsoft,

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and the thing that I really liked
about Mario, was you can ask

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a question and who would give you
the real answer? No, no,

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water down, no nothing else.
Like, hey, Mario, what are

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they really saying here, mel check
it out. This is what they're saying.

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Boom boom boom boom. Now this
is what you need to do in

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order to counteract that. Okay,
in that scenario and in that work environment,

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that's the type of mentor I needed. I didn't need all huggy philly

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type. I needed real answers to
where I can grow from. It's right,

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go ahead, sorry, mel So. So I would encourage folks to

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find those mentors that can provide that
real feedback that you can grow from,

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because when you look at it,
right, if you're about to walk into

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traffic, you want somebody that's going
to give you direct feedback. Hey,

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don't go over there. That's a
little bit dangerous. Sometimes you need mentors

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that are going to speak to you
in exact that same way and my sting

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sometimes, but guess what growth is
going to come from it? Yes,

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And it's much easier to hear those
kinds of pieces of feedback when we know

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that that mentor stands for us.
He or she is standing for us becoming

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as successful and fulfilled as we can
be, so their feedback will be heard

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from that vantage point. And I
really believe everybody needs a mentor and or

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a couple of coaches. I have
two coaches myself. You just can't you

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can't get there without help. And
I'll say for me just shortly. Some

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people have listened for a while,
I heard me, sure story. But

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probably my best mentor mail was the
gentleman I worked for when I first got

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out of high school. I didn't
go to college immediately, and I was

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with him for nineteen months eighteen months
or so, and then he fired me

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at age nineteen, and I was
so taken aback. I loved working for

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him. He pushed me, He
taught me so much. He had high

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expectations of me. He never doubted
I could not do something. He just

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assumed I could. So I figured
out how to do it, and I

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did it, and so that was
great. But the best thing about of

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Thomeil and listeners, if you've gone
through this, he fired me because he

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said it would be a crime to
keep you here. You can do and

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be so much more. You've got
to go see the world. You've got

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to get an education, and you've
got to do something with yourself. But

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before you go hire your replacement,
you know, I think he must Him

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and Ac must have been friends,
right, because when I got rid of

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the lead Bechdel, I was starting
to look around at a She's like,

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hey, no, we can't provide
the opportunity that you need here to grow.

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I hate to see you leave,
but the best thing for you will

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be to leave for your career.
You can always come back, but you

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need to go. So I think
your mentor my mentor were friends. Well

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he's still a friend today. He's
eighty three years old and he's still inventing

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products as a civil engineer from his
training, and he's out and I'm cheering

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for him now. I'm so proud
of him. I can bustmell. I'll

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see him a couple months when I
come through Portland, and and Ac was

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a project engineer over a lot of
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See they probably do know each other. Okay, Well, well I

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want to situate we have just a
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I want to situate for our listener's
your book, because the way you've written

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it is really quite quite quite brilliant
and thoughtful. So your book is called

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Kinetic Life, Unleash your Potential,
and it's a systematic process that enables Sorry,

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that's he's called Kinetic Life. But
the thing that I want to showcase

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is that you have created the systematic
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audacious goals and equips them with tools
for the journey. And it's just it

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really is punchy like that. I
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parts of head, excuse me,
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in kinetic that those are your four
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and of course you know I love
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you can, let's just go ahead
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the chapters that we want to situate
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do you mean by passion? Okay, so passion. The best way I

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can explain passion is this, it's
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if it was removed from you,
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So for some technology, they're passionate
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and if you can no longer do
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you're passionate about creating music, playing
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that would feel like a loss.
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away from you, you will feel
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that's the first step is to start
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a good place to start and leave
our listeners thinking about will we go on

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our first break? Let's grab that. Now. I'm your host, Alis

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Cortez. We've been in the air
with Meleric Mitchell. He is a talent

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development expert, corporate coach, conference
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Texas. We've been talking a bit
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the importance of meaning and now now
passion. After the right, we're

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

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working on purpose if you're just joining
us. My guest is Amelrich Mitchell.

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He is a talent development expert,
corporate coach, conference speaker, and author.

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He is the CEO and founder of
Drive Influence with service global executives and

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organizations of various sizes and operations who
are looking to accelerate both performance levels and

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business acumen. He's also the author
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I'm your host at Last Cortes,
So Mel before the break, we were

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just starting to get into some of
the chapters of your book and the idea

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that I had was I really wanted
to give our listeners something they could really

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chew on in this conversation and walk
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they could actually put into practice once
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after Passion is Purpose, and you
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why they're important in that chapter.
So say more a bit about how people

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can gain access to their purpose through
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the key thing when you think about
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is understanding your why, your why. And so when you look at and

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you have these passions that are within
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too that are also tied to it, right then that are tied to who

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you are. I feel like if
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lot of times what is your purpose? Why do you have these things?

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a two second thing, but it's
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some time and let it marinate,
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when you when you understand what your
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lot easier for you. It also
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on what you should do right and
what type of roles perhaps you should apply

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for or where you should volunteer,
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certain area to do certain things.
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that, Melan. I'll just add
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that, and it fits with what
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through which we evaluate opportunities. Does
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it not? And I think that's
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to make decisions and frankly give us
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otherwise have if we weren't aligned with
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I would see people just wander in
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something, they don't go try something
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just floating like a toy, like
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can bear through those waves and the
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purpose is, because why you have
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just got a question in the chat
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let's go ahead and grab that now. It is how do you find your

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why? You're kind of talking about
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please me. And so part of
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standpoint is from what would you like
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skills that you've required throughout life,
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values, and what do you want
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you can make a small dent in
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do? Who would you want to
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look at those items, that also
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because for example, and a lot
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this in Kinetic Life came from conversations
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of my mentees, Uh, she's
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the things that she really wants to
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clean drinking water. She's an environmental
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kind of leads back to environmental related
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her goal is to make sure that
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And we think that that's some simple
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more from your book. Just to
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thing to think about is what do
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you think about who you are in
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In her case, it's being able
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drinking water as one of the things
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for your why is you start to
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have addressed in your life that maybe
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handle for yourself, heal from.
So that wrestle that you've been dealing

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with for a long time can be
a really important place to look. Maybe

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that wrestle is what you is what
you can offer to the world to help

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them with the same issue. That's
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we talked about that as well,
but just want to offer that to that

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listener who's you know. I can
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how do I find the why.
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that I love so much. Mel
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is audacity, So name chapter.
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audacious goal? And why is it
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they all align to what's in your
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an audacious goal. For me to
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a goal that's so big that it
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It should be something that you cannot
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a team. The other aspect of
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your audacious goal, you're going to
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out, it could be Luke Skywalker
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who's you know, basically almost like
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a Jedi knight. He grew a
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to achieve our adacious goal, and
that audacious goal should again be built upon

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your why, your purpose. And
so when you look at that why,

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let's say your your why is to
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water. Now you can wratchet it
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hey, I want to make sure
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amount of people have access or it's
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So, when you think of like
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Paul Allen's audacious goal was a computer
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and office. That's a pretty audacious
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people to do that, right,
sure is. And so so create that

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audacious goal, and this is something
that you're not going to achieve and like,

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oh, I'm going to be done
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you might take your whole lifetime.
It might take your whole lifetime to

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keep working at this, a whole
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might be something that you start and
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one of the things, in fact, this happened in the very audience that

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know if you remember this question,
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one of the audience members said,
well, you know, does it

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have to do does my wife have
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I mean, it can't it just
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I need to save the world.
Do you remember that question time? That

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a little bit? Okay, Well
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bit. Why it is important that
we have something audacious? Yes, So

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one's it's a it's a motivator and
provides that that so when you get up

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in the morning, you're like,
what am I going to do on?

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Am I why that I'm working on
my audacious goal that I'm pushing towards.

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not to save the world, guess what,

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Whatever your goal is, raise some
are and reise a level of excellence.

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That's also on it because one is
going to help you to grow.

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But the other thing is when we
push towards our goals and we let our

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lights shine, it also motivates others
and were regardless of what you're doing in

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life, there's always somebody watching,
always somebody watching and growing and learning from

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what you do. Even if you
never speak to them, and so so

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by you doing what you do at
a high level and pushing hard, it's

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also going to motivate others. I
completely agree with that we have a chat

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question the chat very much. I'm
going to hold for just a second because

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it's going to get to one of
the other questions that we have here.

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So let's go ahead and grab your
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really also appreciate, because you know, none of this is going to happen

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if we don't start engaging our head
too, which is the section that it's

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in. So you talk about how
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to engage our focus to it these
audacious goals, especially when working from purpose.

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focus? Yes? And focus is
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where we place our focus changes our
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and our actions change our reality.
And so oftentimes where you place your focus.

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So let's just go back to being
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start as an example of the beginning, and so therefore her focus needs to

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be on other environmental items, other
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also items targeted towards conservation in those
things, but her focus cannot be over

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on Oh, let me also look
at I don't know cars right. Maybe

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yes, cars contribute to the environment, but that's not our primary focus area.

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to filter some things out in order

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to increase your focus. But as
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also is going to come about and
what you're doing, but the way that

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you think and the way that you
see things also will begin to shift and

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change, and you'll also notice that
your actions are starting to align to what

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you want to do. That was
beautiful, mel I think you really gave

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something to our listeners for that.
That was beautifully narrated. Now related also,

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also in the head section of your
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influence, which I think is extremely
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cultivating for our audacious goals. And
so first if you would say a bit

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about what do you mean by influence
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work from the purpose finished point to
go for what we're going for that audacious

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goal. Yes, and so the
reason one of the reasons why I used

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influence. Actually it comes from John
Maxwell, leadership development expert, and I've

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read a ton of John books.
But one of the things that John says

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when it comes to leadership is leadership
is influenced, nothing more, nothing less.

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And so therefore what I mean by
influence is one you want to have

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an impact into the greater world and
to the greater community and what you're working

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in. But also it also points
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whatever goal that you set in life,

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it could be large, large,
audacious goal, it might even be the

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small goal. If you don't lead
yourself well, it's going to be extremely

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hard to get there. So you
first must look at how are you going

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to influence yourself to get up and
get moving continuously. Well, that leads

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us to the next part of the
book here that I think is important.

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And now we're in the body part
of the book and you outline the importance

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of staying in action. So you
mentioned getting moving before. I love action.

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My number one strength for Gallop is
achievement. So yes, the movement

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is important for me, so as
completion. And this is where I want

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to map this over to this maybe
this person's question in the chat room.

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You go on to identify that a
big reason people often don't act toward their

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audacious goal is this little thing called
fear. Yes, fear. That's a

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big four letter word, right,
It's probably one of the worst four letter

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words that are out there when it
comes to our behavior, because fear creates

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an activity oftentimes, and oftentimes it's
not even a real item. It's you

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know, you'll hear something, well, what would they say? What would

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they say? We don't even know
who they is, but somehow they are

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keeping us from doing what we need
to do because it's it's a type of

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an ingrained fear. But one of
the good things about it is once you

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start moving and start tackling those things
that you have a fear of, you

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realize, like, no, they're
not that big, and so we have

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to overcome. We have to face
it face to face and then step through

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it and step forward. And guess
what if part of your your fear or

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apprehension is failure, go ahead and
make failure your friend. You have to

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make failure your friend and embrace it, because that's going to happen. We're

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all going to make slips and false. None of us learn how to walk

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or crawl on the first try.
It just didn't happen right. So we

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slipped, We fail, We got
out, slip fail, got up,

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got up again. Oh now I'm
walking a little bit farther. Okay,

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I'm starting to get this thing down. But you have to push through fear

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and don't let it hold you back. Zig Ziggler used to say, fear

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is false evidence appearing real. Mh. Remember that it is false. Beautiful,

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mal let's grab our last break.
I'm a Leasee Corte as your host.

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We're in the air with Melerch Mitchell. He's a talent development expert,

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corporate coach, conference speaker, and
author. He's the author of Kinetic Life,

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Unleasha Potential. He joined us today
from Dallas, Texas. After the

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rak we'll finish more in his book
and go on to hear about some of

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the ways he applies this within organizations
and people. Stay with us. We'll

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be right back. Alise Cortes is
a speaker and engagement and development catalyst.

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She designs and delivers professional development,
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expertise to your organization. She will
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will increase employee engagement, performance and
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Elise to speak to your organization,
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dot com. She would welcome the
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purpose. This is working on Purpose
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Now back to working on purpose.
Thanks for staying with us, and

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

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is Meluric Mitchell. He is the
talent development expert, corporate coach, conference

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speaker, and author. He's the
CEO and founder of Drive Influence, which

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serves global performance excuse me, global
executives and organizations of various size and operations

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who are looking to accelerate both performance
levels and business acumen. And he's the

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author of Kinetic Life, Unleash Your
Potential. I'm your host at Last Cortes.

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So Mel one of the questions that
came in the chat room while while

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we were chatting, and it was
related I wanted to serve it up after

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we talked about how we would confront
fear. The question is should every goal

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scare us? So I would say
not every goal, but I will say

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your audacious goal so scare you,
and so do and with the now on

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Dacia's goal, then break it down
into smaller steps, right in two more

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bite sized chunks, and those things
should be doable right. And oftentimes it

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also requires that you start to build
a former momentum. Someone once was asking

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me, so, Maa, how
did you write your book? I said,

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I just started off like five minutes
a day until I was there to

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build out some momentum towards you know, I could build it out in a

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little bit stronger contexts. And so
all your goals should not scare you,

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but some of your goals should stretch
you. Now, you said something about

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staying in momentum, and I wonder
if that isn't related. Do you have

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a system you talk about in the
book about staying in daily action toward sixty

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and ninety day goals? Is that
what you mean by being in momentum?

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That's part of it. Yes.
So oftentimes I encourage group teams, organizations,

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individuals to break down what their goals
are until thirty sixty ninety day timeline,

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and so that provides a snapshot on
where you're going, and it also

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helps you to keep pace for what
are some of the core things that you

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need to do. And so in
the thirty day timeframe, you're pretty granular

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within that space and what are some
of the core things that you need to

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do, actions and tasks and those
things. And at the sixty day when

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you write it out, there's a
little bit more high level. At the

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ninety day it's even higher from a
standpoint of you know, these are just

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some of the core outcomes, and
then you just keep every month, start

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refining that the next thirty days that
if that makes sense, and so the

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key thing is just staying at it
right in regardless of what your goal is.

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If your goal is working out exercising, hey just do something every day.

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It could be small, like I
say five minutes. It might be

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hey, no, I'm going to
walk a little bit more today, I'm

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going to do the stairs instead of
the elevator. But do some things that

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continue to contribute to where you want
to go, and look for those gaps

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in your time where you can do
some of these things but I would just

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add to that, Meil. I
had the privilege of interviewing Jeff Hayden on

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air. He's the author of the
Motivation Myth, and what he taught me

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and our listeners is that it doesn't
when we do those steps whenever, when

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we put ourselves into that action.
It's that feeling that we get from feeling

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like we are making progress that gives
us even more juice and fuel to keep

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going. So it doesn't occur as, oh my gosh, I have to

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slog through this. It actually feels
good because you know you're working toward that

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big, audacious goal and that gives
you wind in your sales. Yes.

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And one additional thing I think that
we forget to do. I know I

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do very often I forget to do
this is celebrate your wins. Celebrate your

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wins. So if you're starting to
build momentum, celebrate it right. You

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don't have to go overboard for every
time you do some something, but do

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put some milestones in there that you
can celebrate. Right. For some of

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us, celebrating is you know,
we open up, you know, our

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favorite bottle of Bubbly or whatever it
is we like to sip on and maybe

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for somebody else, you know,
they're going to buy themselves in new Mercedes,

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bins, whatever it is right somewhere
along the continuum. Or maybe it's

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just that I get to go and
share with my family and we spend an

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evening over dinner and I get to
share my success with them. Yeah,

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and we can keep it within reason
right and keeping a reward somewhat balanced.

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So maybe I'm buying the Mercedes off
of like you know, you wrote for

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five minutes, but just even say, hey, you know what I enjoyed

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that I might have an extra glass
of tea today or something and just look

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it for some ways to celebrate what
you're doing. Only beautiful. So along

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those lines, speaking of celebration,
I always like to have a place in

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my show when we're talking about it's
kind of this kinds of practical how to

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stuff, mel is to give our
listeners some stories of how you've been able

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to help people transform their careers and
create a kinetic life. So you mentioned

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one of your mentees right now,
but do you have a story or maybe

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two of that you can share with
us. Yes, And if you don't

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mind, I'd like to provide share
an example of when I was working with

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the team an organization, and then
I also work with some individual show you

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some individuals too. Sure. So
one of my clients are based in Las

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Vegas and I had done some things
for their other organization, helping them with

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the rotation programs and so on and
so forth, and they said, hey,

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Mail, can you help us with
our leadership team? So, yeah,

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no problem. And their challenge was
everybody was operating in silos, like

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eight or nine people on the team, and nobody was really talking to each

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other. They weren't sharing information.
They're all very senior folks. The organization

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side with about six hundred employees,
but they weren't talking. And since they

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weren't talking, they weren't moving forward. And so one of the things I

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did for this group was first before
we even had an off site, I

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had a conversation with everyone and one
of the people that was part of the

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group, she was their finance person, and she said, Mal, these

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00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:34.239
guys will not talk to me.
They feel I'm trying to beat up on

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them every time I come to them. But I just need their numbers so

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I can go get them there the
money that they didn't need to fund their

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projects. I said, no problem, Hey, thank you for telling me.

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00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:47.400
I can say things in the all
site that you cannot say. But

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we'll get there and we'll fix that
for you. And so one of the

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primary things that we focused on on
that first off site was purpose, was

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helping them define their purpose and what
their audaci's goal was, because the thing

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is this, if everybody's not on
the same page, was saying why we

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exist as an organization, everybody's going
to do something a little bit different.

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And then also the other part is
that we brought in more conversations. I

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brought in conversations to where they can
actually get to know each other as part

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of a check in on the way
they can know each other on a work

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wise and also on a personal basis, because guess what we are, who

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we are everywhere we go. So
we got the team aligne they started connecting,

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collaborating even more so even during the
off site. And so six weeks

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later, when I went to go
meet with each person individually to find out

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how are they doing on their goals
that they set, she came in and

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literally she was like in tears.
She's like, Hey, now they talk

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to me, they reach out to
me. Now I can do my job.

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And I thought that was that's phenomenal
because about it. How hard is

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that to go to work and have
to battle for forty hours a week?

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And now it's all It was completely
turned around because now they have an alignment,

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they have a goal. They also
know each other's role and how to

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get there as a team. Beautiful, Mill, That's beautiful and right because

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we all get up in the morning
or whenever it is that we go to

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go to work, whether it's the
evening, morning, afternoon, and we're

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really there to make a difference.
We're not there just to punch the clock.

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We want to matter. And so
what's beautiful about the work that you

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got to do with them is that
you helped her matter. Yes, beautiful,

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00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:40.679
you had another example you were going
to share. Yeah, so one

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other example, and this is one
just stepping out of your normal conference zone.

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And so when I was at Microsoft, I managed a global rotation program

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for new college hires. And I
had a young lady that was in my

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program and her goal was she wanted
to become a developer. So you have

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to do four rotations within the program, each one six months in duration.

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She said, no, mal,
I want to be developer. I want

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to be a developer. I want
to be a developer. I want to

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write code. I said, all
right, I got it, check it

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out. This one I want you
to go do. I want you to

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go do a role as a program
manager for six months, just where you

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00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:22.239
can peer into their mindset and understand
what they need and you'll be to write

582
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:25.440
better code according to their requirements.
I don't want to do it, so

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00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.760
just go do it. Trust me
to work out. So she came back

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00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:32.760
about like four weeks later, Oh, I love this, and then later

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00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:37.320
on she's like, oh, this
is what I'm going to do. And

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00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:43.960
so now she's like a senior program
manager. Yeah awesome. We're doing it

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00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:47.679
for like eight years. But it
took that little push for to step out

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00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:52.400
into that unknown territory that kind of
made her a little bit nervous. But

589
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then she got it and then she
loved it, and that's where taken off

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completely. There. She's never looked
back. Well. And one of the

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big reasons I do the work that
I do is, I mean, I

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know that work is going to account
for about forty percent of our lives.

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And if we're not happy at work, we're not happy in life, and

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also our family life suffers. The
dog suffers, our children's software, everybody

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00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:22.519
suffers. And so that's one of
the major reasons I'm so committed to staying

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00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:27.440
and helping people discover their passion,
purpose and inspiration through their work. Yes,

597
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:30.280
great story, Oh my gosh.
Okay, so we're almost out of

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time here, mel But if we
can, I think that our listeners might

599
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:37.480
want to better understand. Maybe you've
already started, You've been addressing it somewhat

600
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:43.039
through these examples, but you help
companies transform their talent in your role as

601
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.400
a talent architect. That sounds really
awesome and heavy. But how is it

602
00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:50.800
first that companies come to understand that
they actually need this kind of help.

603
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.320
What would be the signs? So
I want to say some of the signs

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are one is several different and all
of these are not always connected. But

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sometimes it's turnover. Sometimes it's inefficiencies
in regards to attaining or achieving your core

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00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:16.840
goals. Right. The other part
could also be from a standpoint of not

607
00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:23.599
just quality suffering, but your morale
and organization is suffering. Right. You

608
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.760
still might be doing really great things, but man, are you burning people

609
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:34.880
out? Is it a toxic environment, and so some of those things there

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00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:40.440
come into play. The other aspect
is if you have one goal, but

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00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:44.559
it seems like you're going in five
different directions, and so if everybody on

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the team is doing something a little
bit different, I can help you with

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all these things because a lot of
go ahead, no knowledge, go ahead.

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So a lot of times what I
found is that one it's communication needs

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to be improved and increased. So
I help organizations with their internal connections and

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communications, not from an email standpoint, but just how they communicate and interact

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with each other, but also from
in an alignment. Getting everyone in the

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same direction, same goal, one
voice, and people following. That I

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think is so key. It's not
an overnight experience, but it's once you

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said it, you have to continue
to refine it. Just like when you're

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typing directions in your phone. Guess
what. Sometimes we go veer off course

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and then the GPS says, oh'll
make a left, make a left and

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get us back on track right.
And so those same type of things happen

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with organizations. They sure do.
We encounter them right and left, And

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I guess that's I'm grateful that I
get to be able to work with them

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to help them as I know you
are. But yes, it's easy to

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get off track. Yes, so
we're getting to the close here, Mail,

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and I always like to be able
to give my guests the last word.

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So you know this show is listened
to on a global level and that

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most of the listeners are either hungry
to discover their purpose, their leaders who

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want to become a better leader,
more effective at what they do, to

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be able to instill that passion,
inspiration and purpose in their workforce. What

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would you like to leave our listeners
with today? So first I want to

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encourage you to push towards it to
one finding your passion, purpose and audacious

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goal. I think that is key. To find those items for what's in

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your heart, because that's going to
help you get and move in that direction

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that you want to be in.
Also, I again focus on what's in

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your head, your focus and influence, and then take action with your body.

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But also find those find that group
of people that are moving perhaps a

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little bit faster than you, that
are moving in a direction that you want

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to move, that you could also
learn from. At the same time,

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bring somebody with you because guess for
we all learn where we are today because

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of the help that we've received at
different points in time in our life,

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and so therefore also help others grow
because when you help someone else grow,

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you grow at the same time.
Wow, Mel, what a beautiful way

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to finish. Not surprising that you
would share something like that from that beautiful

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soul of yours. I thank you
so much for being my guest and sharing

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your heart and your soul with our
listeners across the globe. I thank you,

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thank you, thank you for having
me. I've enjoyed it. It's

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been fun me too, so listeners. If you want to learn more about

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melrich Mitchell, his book, or
the work he does developing talent and organizations,

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visit his website. It's drive influence
dot com again drive influence dot com.

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Last week, if you missed the
live show, you can always catch

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it be recorded podcast. We were
on the air with Maria Fuller, who

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was on a complete tearror to employ
Empower Girls to change the world. We

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talked about the movement she has birthed, her podcast and the unique Empower Girls

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out she created herself. She shows
just what you can do when you are

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a passionate about something. Let me
tell you. Next week, we'll be

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on the air with Paul Skinner.
He's the author of Collaborative Advantage, How

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collaboration beats competition as a strategy for
success. Paul's also the founder of the

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Agency of the Future and the creator
of the social enterprise called Pimp My Cause.

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I promise you'll be inspired to run
after your dreams and purpose when you

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listen to this conversation. See you
there, and remember that work is at

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least one third of our lives.
So let's work on purpose. We hope

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you've enjoyed this week's program. Be
sure to tune in to Working on Purpose,

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featuring your host Alis Cortes, each
week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.

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