Integrating Passion with Purpose: A Recipe to Live Your 2.0

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

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lives and equipping leaders insight organizations to
cultivate meaning and purpose that elicits passion inspired

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

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on their expertise and share my own
experience concer speaking and developing workforces across the

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walk away with something you can immediately
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you and how I might be able
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to nurture your own passion and purpose
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or your conference at any rate.
I'm glad we're connected, and thanks for

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listening. Now onto this week's program
with US today is Wailey Shall. He

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is the chief commercial officer of Amada
Health, a digital care program that empowers

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people to achieve their health goals through
sustainable lifestyle change. Wayley is the author

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of Annie the Tall Girl, a
children's book on diversity and inclusion. He

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is also a Breen tumor survivor thriver, and is authoring a personal memoir,

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Gifts of Disruption, that chronicles is
life changing journey from diagnosis to recovery to

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transformation. He joins US today from
California. Wayey, welcome to Working on

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Purpose. Well, thank you very
much, Alease for having me. You're

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so welcome and I'm so glad we've
crossed paths and we need to give us

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a nice shout out and thank you
to our mutual friend sman John. She

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has been listening to my show for
quite a while and she alerted me to

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your Live your two point zero article. You push it on LinkedIn, and

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when I read it, I went, absolutely, You're so right, Samantha's

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perfect. So there's a lot to
share and pull out of your story in

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so many learnings. But if we
can't just to get our listeners really into

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your world and why I wanted you
to be on the show, let's talk

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about your story and what led you
to write that article in the first place.

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Yeah, So thanks Elise again for
having me and shout out to Samantha

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or mutual colleague and put us in
touch with each other. I certainly am

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looking forward to this session. I
you know, the LinkedIn article that I

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published Live Your two point zero was
really a culmination of a series of events

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that occurred over a really, really
long time, and certainly we can get

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in some detail, but the high
level of it essentially was, you know,

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I have been for the last couple
of decades up until just recently as

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a leader and executive within the biopharmaceutical
industry, and boy, what an absolute

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incredible journey that was is It's taken
me to multiple continents. I've worked in

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four different countries, led small businesses, you know, three million dollars all

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the way up to large businesses thirty
billion or three billion dollars, and have

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had just an incredible journey along the
way with me, my wife and my

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two daughters. But like a lot
of people, I've come to find out

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at Lease is that you know,
when you do something for a really,

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really long time, and as you
learn things and experience the things, oftentimes

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your compass in life changes and you
start asking yourself, Hey, I've been

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on this trajectory. I love it, I love the work, but at

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the end of the day, is
it something or is this the thing that

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I'm actually meant to do? Is
this the purpose I have? Is this

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what I was actually built for?
And I started asking myself that question several

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years ago and kept on suppressing it, to be honest with you, a

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Lease, and it just grew and
grew and grew to the point where I

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really just couldn't ignore it anymore.
Became that weight in, that kind of

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stone in the pit of my stomach
that made me realize that, you know,

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it's really not a question, it's
a statement disguised as a question.

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That really really made me start thinking
about making a significant change in my life,

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in my life direction centered around my
work to what brings me here today.

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Certainly there are tons of different things, a couple of important things that

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were involved in that pivot, but
that's kind of the background that helped me

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make the change, or drove me
to make the change, and also drove

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me to author that LinkedIn article called
livy or two point zero. Okay,

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fantastic. Two things if I can
respond to that. First, I want

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a presence for our listeners that what
you're describing, and you call it in

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your article that irresistible tug or an
itch, and I know that extremely well

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for myself. It isn't always convenient
to pay attend to that. So I

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applaud you for eventually paying attention to
that. Thank you for that, and

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be an example for all of us. That's the first thing. The second

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thing is, somewhere along that journey, you were diagnosed with a brain tumor.

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I think it was about two and
a half years ago, and you

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said that this experience and how you
chose to respond it, respond to it

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really ushered in this whole new person
part of your version two point zero.

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What happened? Yeah, you're exactly
right. Elise, And you know,

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I've got a lot of friends and
colleagues and people that I know well some

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people I don't know well at all
that they come up to me and say,

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way, Lee, you know the
pivot that you made kind of mid

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career boy, that takes guts and
courage and things like that. In my

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overwhelming all the time response is,
actually, I had a gift and it

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was not born out of strength,
but born out of rather I just had

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to do something and you referenced it. So, about two and a half

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years ago, I was diagnosed with
a brain tumor about almost the size of

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my fist. It was huge.
And one day at a work function,

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I was about to go deliver a
keynote speech and I was preparing, you

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know, working on my speaker notes, and I had a seizure and I

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had never had a seizure before.
Came out of absolutely nowhere and then was

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taken to the emergency room and was
just hit straight in the gut proverbially speaking,

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when the doctor came in and said, hey, listen, I've got

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some good news and bad news.
The good news is you're not having a

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stroke. The bad news is that
you've got a mass in your brain a

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size of almost orange, and that
right there started. I think the massive

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transformation, at least that I would
say is a significant transformation for me.

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And luckily, you know, it's
benign. I'm fine. I made a

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full recovery. But when you're faced
with kind of something like that, that

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happens, not surprisingly you begin to
question everything that you're doing in life,

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and things come into really simple focus, you know, around family or friends,

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your loved ones. But most importantly, that question that i'd been actually

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asking myself again disguised as a statement, is you know, am I doing

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what I'm supposed to be doing work
wise? And is this what I meant

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to do? Really really provided kind
of a rocket fuel for me to realize

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that tomorrow is never a guarantee.
And intellectually, I think we all know

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this, but I found out that, hey, listen, you know it's

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more than intellectual. There was a
chance that I wouldn't come out of it

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okay. And so from that point
in time it provided me kind of with

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the match or the spark to really
just get off my butt and do something

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about kind of that passion or soulful
belief and compass change that led me to

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where I am today, and to
be honest with you, at least,

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I wish it wasn't kind of the
catalyst for my change, because I think

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that it doesn't require something that seismic, But for me, that was an

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important part of it. Well,
and I appreciate that that it was a

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very important catalyst. And I think
I told you when we spoke by phone

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that so often when I'm out speaking, Whaley, I asked my audiences,

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first thing, have you really considered
what will you do with your one precious

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life? And I mean that in
a serious inquiry, And now, especially

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for me, since both of my
parents died in January of this year,

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and I got to be part of
both of those and I gave both of

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the eulogies and helped im plan the
ceremonies of life celebrations. Really it's very

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palpable for me. We really only
get one shot at this, and so

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I appreciate very much what you're saying
about it was a catalyst for you,

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and you and I both spoke about
how we would like it to be a

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little bit more accessible for other people
than some of the catalysts that we both

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had to go through to get to
where we are, but that was yours.

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No, you're absolutely right, and
I think you know you're right.

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The difficulty is that sometimes, you
know, we as individuals, we wait

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until there's a we lose our jobs
and then we got to do something drastic

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to recover, or you know,
there's a divorce and that requires a significant

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change in our life where we need
to become the true breadwinner in our families.

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And that forces people to shape their
lives and actually do something new or

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different. And so there's a number
of pivot points and things that happen in

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people's lives, and a lot of
time when you talk to people and I've

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spoken to them about hey, you
know, are you happy, to say,

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oh, my god, incredibly happy, and then you ask them what

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actually got them there, it's oftentimes
a pivot point or transformative fork in the

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road that almost forces their hand to
make the change in their life that actually

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they've been thinking about for days,
years, weeks, months, decade,

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aids even in several years, certainly
in my case, and it's a it's

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a bit of a shame, and
I hope we get into this because you

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know, life is an adventure and
it's absolutely amazing to be how we make

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these decisions along our journeys. You
know, in time and time again,

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I've been fascinated that by this because
we're actually as humans hardwired not to take

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risk, especially as we get older. You know, I oftentimes think about,

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okay, in the caveman days,
so you didn't dare leave the safety

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of your cave. Otherwise you take
a few steps out and get snatched up

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by a man eating dinosaur and then
you're like, well, I'm certainly not

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going to do that again. But
when you've run out of food and your

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family might start, you take the
risk to leave the cave and for a

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cave and forge for food because the
risk of staying outweighed the risk of leaving.

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But you know, at least you
and I both know that when you

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think about it, we don't need
to succumb to this genetic forcing mechanism anymore

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because for most of us, thankfully, we don't live in the caveman days.

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In fact, we live in a
world of abundance. And you know,

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to realize this isn't the case for
everyone, but for a lot of

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us, when we think about it, we have options, and the biggest

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challenge is taking the leap, and
so for me it was my brain tumor

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and kind of the transformation and healing
I did after that. But what really

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really started the process was, you
know, I asked myself one serious question,

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what was likely the worst thing that
could happen if I took that change

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or made that leap, And the
answer was, well, maybe I would

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just fail and go back to doing
what I was doing. And by the

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way, I did love it at
times, and it provided for my family

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really really well, And so then
I realized the risk really wasn't all that

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high. And so you know,
we can take risks of today's what at

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least most of us can, and
when we can, the downside really isn't

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as big as we think, and
the upside is just infinitely larger than we

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can even conceive of. Completely agree
and beautifully said for our listeners to really

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understand what you've been through, if
you can, We're going to take a

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break here in about three minutes,
but would you help us understand what you

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had to navigate to get to come
back from your brain tumor surgery or surgeries.

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I remember quite a bit that you
went through, So will you tell

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us what you had to do to
come back, to come back to becoming

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a functioning person again. Yeah,
I'm more than happy to share. It

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was, as I mentioned, kind
of a soulful, life changing transformation.

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You know, I think it helps
for people to understand you. I prior

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to my diagnosis of having a brain
timber, I was great health. I

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ran you know, I worked out
all the time and just had a very

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energetic, youthful lifestyle. And then
when I went into to get my brain

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surgery. I remember the day before
I went into brain surgery, my brain

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my neurosurgeon, brain surgeons, says
two things to me. He says,

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the first one, as I'm wortried, I think, after reviewing everything,

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your case is far more complex than
I thought. It's going to be hard.

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And then the second thing was actually
a question. I said, would

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you mind being awake during your brain
surgery? This is the day before I

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was supposed to go into brain surgery. And I asked him, well why,

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and he said, well, you
know, I want to make sure

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you know it's a sensitive surgery,
a little bit more complicated. I want

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to make sure I don't damage quote
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tumor. I want you to be
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a young guy and you've got decades
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an incredibly like incredibly Gray's anatomy,
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every bit of detail in it.
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right side of my body. And
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out all of the brain tumor that
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and started a multi month's kind of
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moderate form of traumatic brain injury,
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had to treat me like a child. They had to bathe me. My

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wife bathed me. I couldn't do
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it was a long road back.
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a journey focused person, I realized
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through this, and boy, I
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a totally new perspective on what it
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not to waste a second more on
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of which is where you spend fifty
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work. How do I make it
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to kind of you know, my
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of the world and that forever you
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I'm your host, Alist Cortes.
We are on the air with Wayley Shau,

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the chief commercial officer at a Moda
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empowers people to achieve their health goals
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a brain tumor survivor and thriver,
and is authoring a personal memoir, Gifts

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of Disruption, that chronicles is life
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on Purpose. Thanks for staying with
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Purpose if you're just joining us.
My guest is Wailey Shau, the chief

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commercial officer at Omada Health, a
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their health goals through sustainable lifestyle change. Is also a brain tumor survivor Thriver,

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and is authoring at personal memoir Gifts
of Disruption, that chronicles his life

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changing journey from diagnosis to recovery to
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So before the break, we were
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on that both you and I hope
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really make a big change and start
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through your experiences, you've developed this
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oh. So, for our listeners
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What do you mean by living our
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your two point oh is something I
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think a lot of us want to
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it goes something like this. So
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ourselves, and I call this version
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we might relocate and join a new
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change roles in the same field.
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and changes version one point one,
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three, so on and so forth. You get the idea, and then

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you know, it's important to note
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you love what you do and it
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happened to me, it's happened to
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you've got that feeling of that stone
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is this what I'm supposed to be
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scared of what it may mean in
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how it upsets your life or the
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I've been asking myself that same question
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question. I should have been actually
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were meant to do. So the
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the answer, and that delays action. So I tell people that if you've

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been asking yourself the question for quite
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clue that you might actually need to
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pivot, is what I call Living
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article Live your two point zero LinkedIn
profile, I published this a few months

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ago. It's really, at its
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pivot in the direction of your life, both professionally and personally, because I

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believe the two are so intricately tied
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left my executive career in pharmaceuticals and
where I led all those different businesses around

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the world, yet I was missing
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and live my own two point zero. So that's really what living one's two

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point zero is about, beautiful.
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is just a really fast, easy
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though, you also really give your
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points that you make, and I
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listeners so that they can start to
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you'll share, if you will,
about three each of how those impacted your

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life and your journey, and I'll
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one that you talk about is inspiration
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you're you're absolutely right and so and
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can't wait to hear your your own
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hearing about people's two point oh or
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run into people that are on their
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an enormous respect for them because I'm
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so I look forward to hearing about
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your two point oh there are kind
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things are happening to you, then
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verge of making a change that they
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The first one is about inspiration,
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that you know you've got energy for. So in my in my job,

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I loved what I was doing,
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UH with with you know, kind
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time looking into digital health. I
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terms of what digital technology could do
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diseases. And I found myself on
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I found myself talking to people at
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spare time reading books about it.
I found myself in my spare time actually

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doing my own writing about it.
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you know what, there's something going
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spare energy that I have, where
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and my work, but generating at
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for a lot of other things.
I wouldn't even bother. And along

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that path I became inspired. The
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do for people and how it could
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hobby. The next one I talk
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think leads to living your two point
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inspiration. For me. My desperation
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kind of what happened after that.
I realized that tomorrow wod may is not

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a guarantee, not only for everyone
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I realized that if I didn't actually
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and try it, that I would
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into a form of desperation of is
I can't live a life of profound regret?

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created the polar opposite energy of inspiration
that said the longer I don't follow my

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inspiration, the worse I'm going to
feel about how I'm living my life,

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especially now that I've been given a
second chance. The third one actually is

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related to both what I call it
vocation, and vocation is one of those

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magical things where you understand the incredible
talents you have some people call them your

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God given talents, what you're great
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what you believe in, the truth
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was in healthcare in biopharmaceuticals leading those
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in healthcare helping people with debilitating diseases, but carving out a new path,

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one in technology that allows people to
access care not just in their doctor's offices,

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but in between the visits they have
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landed on finding that eventually through the
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that specializes really in human centered technology
to help people with debilitating chronic diseases like

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diabetes, depression, or even the
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To make profound changes in the way
that they lead their life in between doctor's

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visits, and that happened to fit
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circle between what I think I'm good
at in what I believe my life purpose

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is. Oh my gosh, why
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you listeners who are listening to him
share this as eloquent as he is.

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The process isn't usually that tidy.
I really commend how beautifully you can narrate

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that Wayly, it's just stunning,
very alluring way to be able to bring

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us into your world. And secondly, you know that you made that journey

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and telling your story. The reason
I wanted you to tell your story is

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because in doing so, it's in
hopes that the listeners out there get something

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for themselves and they can start to
move themselves further down their journey and listening

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to the way you narrate yours and
maybe in the way I narrate mine.

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And that's why I really wanted to
make sure we each did this. So

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my turn, you're in your turn. I can't wait to hear. This

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is actually why I came on the
show. I wanted your goodness. Wow,

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you pore misguided soul but okay,
good, okay. So for me,

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the inspiration it started really when I
started my PhD and did my research

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around around meaning. I wanted to
understand how people were experiencing meaning in their

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work because, to your point,
we spend, as you say, about

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fifty percent of our lives at it, So what does that mean to you

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and what does it mean to your
sense of self? So that was my

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PhD research, which I finished and
I thought, okay, that's good,

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I'm done. But to your point, it kept nagging at me. And

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then later over time, I just
on my own as a separate side project,

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went out and interviewed in about two
years, I guess a year and

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a half one hundred and fifteen men
and women between the ages of eighteen and

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eighty to learn across one of different
different professions to learn about this topic.

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I was just so curious about it
just wouldn't let me go. And that

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research yielded fifteen modes of engagement,
ways that people uniquely experienced meaning in relation

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to what it meant to their sense
of self anywhere from you know, living

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their purpose down to existential crisis.
And there was actually one that was transcendent

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connection, which is even above purpose. But so that really got me into

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the space of wow, you know, people experience work really differently, and

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there's this thing that people are living
their purpose. Wow, that's so cool.

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And I became very enamored with that
whole idea and I kept on my

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way. But to your point,
the niggle wasn't quite enough to kind of

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get me out of my complacency.
I had this body of research and then

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I started hosting the show Working on
Purpose four and a half years ago,

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but that didn't really that was that
was my inspiration, but the desperation didn't

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happen until two other inputs. The
first major input was my divorce in twenty

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sixteen, and to your point,
that catapulted me in a place where I

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won. You know, I was
solely responsible for myself, and two,

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I had an open playing field.
I could reinvent myself anyway I wanted.

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Wayley, that I was not living to

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the level that I wanted, and
I hated myself for it, and I

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knew it I was copping out.
So the second piece of that desperation piece

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for me was I did take a
role in a company for a couple of

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years, and I believe I was
supposed to come there, but I was

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also supposed to leave because I got
really present to I don't want at the

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end of my life to be able
to say I was a consultant for XYZ

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Company. I need to share my
message, what I think is important,

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what my truth is, what my
purpose is. And it just became so

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overwhelming an unavoidable I just I couldn't
I couldn't face it anymore, and I

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00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:56.400
literally left that position, jumped off
the cliff to come back out and do

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the kind of work I'm doing today
on the complete conviction this is what I'm

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supposed to be doing with my life. And so the vocation is really a

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couple of things. I call myself
the anti Undertaker, because my job is

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to help awaken the otherwise walking dead
who are not living with passion, working

417
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on purpose, and being inspired by
what they're up to. I was one

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of them. I know what they
look like. And two the other thing

419
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is is that in so doing,
I really act as a catalyst to help

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other people, and I enable them
to find their passion, inspiration and purpose

421
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and make the leap to make the
lives that they really want. For themselves.

422
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So that's how two point zero showed
up for me. That is,

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I love that story at least because
you know, I think that there's a

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few things that I'm learning from your
story. The first one is that you

425
00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:52.119
know, sometimes it's a confluence of
events that nudges us, pushes us,

426
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or forces us in a particular direction, and if they didn't occur, then

427
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we wouldn't move. And it's so
important that if we keep on living the

428
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.839
life that we've always lived, that
means there's no change. And when there's

429
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:10.119
no change, then you don't get
those nudges, you don't get those forceful

430
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:15.240
events that push you to become who
you're really meant to be. The other

431
00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:21.400
thing is is that you know,
I bet that you could take somebody else

432
00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:25.960
and put them in your life and
they would not end up nearly where you

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00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:33.720
are because you decided to look at
the signs in catalysts or symbols in your

434
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:38.440
life and think deeply about them and
make a change where somebody else could experience

435
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:45.119
those same things and gloss right over
them. And I think that you know

436
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.279
that's the difference is is do we
look at the signs and symbols in our

437
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:53.519
life and find meaning in them,
and do we translate that meaning into meaningful

438
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:56.960
action. That just changes up how
we live because if we don't do that,

439
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.759
we don't experience new things, we
don't experience anything, we don't grow,

440
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.440
we don't grow that, we never
become all that we can be.

441
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.039
So, I mean, I love
that story, and I bet you you're

442
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.559
thinking, you know, there's probably
a three ho or four to zho for

443
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:13.519
you out there right absolutely, and
I'm working on it and I'm loved and

444
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:16.079
I'm so charged by it. And
the thing about working from purpose, as

445
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:21.279
you know, is gives you crazy
energy, crazy courage, and you just

446
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.920
do things you wouldn't otherwise. Imagine
some of those things I want to hear

447
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:28.200
about because I want to hear about
your journey next of kind of how you

448
00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:30.400
got to your two point zero and
here at Amada. But before we do

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00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.880
that, let's grab our last break. I'm Alice Cortez, your host,

450
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:37.559
who've been in the air with Wailey
Shaw, the chief commercial officer of Omada

451
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:42.599
Health, a digital care program that
empowers people to achieve their health goals through

452
00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:46.640
sustainable lifestyle change. Is also a
brain tumor survivor Thriver and is authoring up

453
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:52.920
personal memoir Gifts of Disruption that chronicles
is life changing journey from diagnosis to recovery

454
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.839
to transformation. He joined it today
from San Francisco, California. After the

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00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:59.759
break, we're going to hear about
how he really made his way to a

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00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:01.400
model health. It's fascinating. Stay
with us, We'll be right back.

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Alis Cortes is a speaker and engagement
and development catalyst. She designs and delivers

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00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:21.119
professional development, leadership and engagement workshops
and can bring her expertise to your organization.

459
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:25.400
She will help ignite meaningful development within
your workforce that will increase employee engagement,

460
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:30.480
performance and retention. To learn more
or to invite Elise to speak to

461
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:36.279
your organization, please visit her at
www dot Elisecortes dot com. She would

462
00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:45.480
welcome the opportunity to help get your
employees working on purpose. This is working

463
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:51.359
on Purpose with Elise Cortes. To
reach our program today, send an email

464
00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:58.920
to a lease Alic at Alisecortes dot
com. Now back to working on purpose.

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00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.200
Thanks for staying with us, and
welcome back to working on purpose.

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00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:06.680
If you're just tuning in, my
guest is Wailey Shau, the chief commercial

467
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:09.719
officer of Amada Health, a digital
care program that empowers people to achieve their

468
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:15.199
healthcare goals through sustainable lifestyle change.
He's also a brain tumor survivor and thriver,

469
00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:20.119
and is authoring a personal mamoir,
Gifts of Disruption, that chronicles his

470
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.920
life changing journey from diagnosis to recoverage. Your transformation. I'm your host,

471
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:27.760
Alice Cortes. So for this last
segment, Whaley, I think it's really

472
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.000
important that we talk about the plan. You and I talked about this on

473
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:35.519
the phone, that these kinds of
major transformations don't just sort of happen and

474
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.920
show up one day, but rather
we have to work with them. And

475
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:43.159
you have quite a process that you
went through to get to where you are

476
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:45.440
today, and I think it would
be great to presence that for our listeners

477
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:51.679
so they really understand just how they
can do it for themselves. So yes,

478
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.119
yeah, right, absolutely, yeah, I mean it's I think it's

479
00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:00.440
probably worth noting that everybody's journey probably
is a little bit different, so I

480
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.719
can certainly share what I went through. I think there are probably some some

481
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:07.039
things I hope can help some others
that are listening that potentially are thinking about

482
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:13.039
taking the leap or the plunge,
or how to if they're thinking about living

483
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:16.559
their their next version or their two
point oh or three point zero. So

484
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:19.960
yeah, so I'm going to have
to talk about so you know, for

485
00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:25.960
me, the first thing that really
made a difference, and I referenced it

486
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.920
earlier, and I can't say how
important this is is that if you're asking

487
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.079
yourself the question like, Okay,
hey, Wayley, you know, is

488
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.400
this what you're meant to do?
Is this what you should be doing ten

489
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.880
years from now? Or you know, at least if you're saying to yourself,

490
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.039
gosh, is there something else out
there that I'm meant to do?

491
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:49.679
Stop asking the question. Because if
you're asking the question, that's your subconscious

492
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:53.840
way, your subconscious is way of
actually telling you that you need to be

493
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:59.079
thinking deeply about something. And so
change the question into a statement. And

494
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.039
that's what I did. I changed
that. And it took me years to

495
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:05.719
figure this out. So I'm a
slow learner, and so I basically said,

496
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:07.840
okay, instead of saying, hey, do I need to make a

497
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:13.519
change, I actually then wrote down
I'm going to make a change. I

498
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.000
didn't know what the change would be. I had no expectations of what it

499
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:21.480
was, but I told myself,
I'm going to make a change. And

500
00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:23.159
so then, you know, the
next thing I started doing is said,

501
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:27.000
okay, well, I know I'm
spending my energy in my spare time,

502
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.039
and it's towards this thing called digital
technology or digital health, and I have

503
00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:35.760
a huge passion for it for some
reason. And so then I started actually

504
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:42.360
really just taking small steps and taking
small actions that were well I would say,

505
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:46.159
no regret or no commitment. And
so I started reading and doing research,

506
00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:51.039
talking to friends, subscribing the blogs, following thought leaders in the space.

507
00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.480
And this took, you know,
quite a bit of time, you

508
00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:58.440
know, over time, but it
was an important part for me to take

509
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.800
those risk free steps to determine is
this just a passing interest or is this

510
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:07.920
a hobby or is this potentially the
change that's going to catapult me to live

511
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:12.880
my two point zero. After I
got to that point, I found myself

512
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:17.840
at work trying to figure out ways
to incorporate digital technology into my current job.

513
00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:22.320
Now, not everybody's got the luxury
to take their passion and put it

514
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:27.400
into their job, but point,
if you have an opportunity, if you

515
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:34.280
are working in a job and you
have a passion for the philanthropy or the

516
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:38.199
charity or let's say the United Way, then how do you take that passion

517
00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:43.719
and put elements of it into your
job. So maybe you are kind of

518
00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:46.960
a frontline manufacturing person, but you
have passion for charity. Is there a

519
00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:52.719
way that you can actually bring that
charity into work and engage your employees and

520
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.159
find that connection between what your organization
does and what in this case, your

521
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.760
passion on your charity does too as
well. Make that investment because again,

522
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.960
it gets you to action, It
gets you beyond just looking into things.

523
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.679
And that's what I did. When
I was at my previous company that buy

524
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:15.119
a pharmaceutical kind of industry. I
started actually launching digital care programs and concepting

525
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:19.760
those and integrating into my business.
And I found that, you know,

526
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.679
I was spending kind of more creative
energy in that space than I was in

527
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:27.559
my core business, which was just
more evidence that I needed to really make

528
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.880
a change. You know. The
next thing that I did was make,

529
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:34.840
you know, small investments. I
started making trips on an annual basis.

530
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:37.679
I would go out to Silicon Valley, I would go out to the Bay

531
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.599
Area and meet with venture capitalists and
begin to expand my network. I would

532
00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:45.440
go to conventions, I would go
to industry meetings on digital health. I

533
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:50.599
would basically build my network, and
through that, people started to expose things

534
00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:52.000
to me. They said, oh, you know, way Lee, you

535
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.079
should meet with this person and that
person and next thing. You know,

536
00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:58.280
over a period of months, I
had met with and I counted it,

537
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:04.239
literally over eighty five people that I
didn't know three months before that I had

538
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:07.159
just met within that three months.
And that's when you know that when you're

539
00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:12.079
meeting those people and you're connecting with
them, that there's something there along the

540
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.360
way. The last two are important. They are really like starting a side

541
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:20.559
hustle. My side hustle was at
work. I was doing this digital technology

542
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:24.320
work in my previous company, and
then finally was taking a leap. I

543
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.800
started preparing myself and said, you
know what, Wayley, you know you've

544
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:32.480
got a second lease on life after
recovering and transforming yourself from your brain surgery

545
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:37.039
and your brain tumor. That there's
no better time like the presence present.

546
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:39.559
So if you don't do it,
you'll know you're going to regret it.

547
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:44.840
So climb up that proverbial high dive
and jump off the diving board. And

548
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:47.599
that's exactly what I did. And
I tell you, you know, I

549
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:52.360
just started my new position with Amata
and Digital Health, and I can tell

550
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:58.760
you it's it's pure euphoria. I
got that, and I'll share just briefly.

551
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:00.360
I'm from my ban point too.
It could relate to so much of

552
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:05.440
what you were saying. I too
found myself getting more focused on my side

553
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.800
hustle and more of what was bubbling
up for me, which is really what

554
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:10.719
led me to say, you know
what, it's time for me to move

555
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:15.000
on from this and really jump off
this cliff like you're talking about. And

556
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:17.400
to your point, like you say
in your article, Wayley, is you

557
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:22.760
know, whole fields would open up
as I kept those steps going, and

558
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:27.079
people I wouldn't have any other reason
to meet sort of coming into my path,

559
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.079
and the conversations and some of the
guests that I've had on my show

560
00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:35.159
that I've had some amazing collaboration with
and who've taught me so much have I

561
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.599
would have never met them before had
I not jumped off that cliff and just

562
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:42.840
kept walking. You're exactly. You're
absolutely right. So it's kind of like,

563
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.440
if you continue to do the same
things over and over, you should

564
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:51.480
expect the same thing over and over. It sounds so simple, but if

565
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:54.119
you're asking yourself the question, just
like I was over a long period of

566
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:59.679
time, and I spent way too
much time, you know, procrastinating over

567
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:05.039
the But once I started taking action, door started opening because I did something

568
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:09.239
different. I took action. The
difference between people who dream that people who

569
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:15.239
make their dreams come true is action. Even if it's a small one,

570
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:20.400
that action then ripples through the universe
and something comes back, and then you

571
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.360
can take the next step or the
next action, and next thing you know,

572
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.480
and next thing you know, you're
well on your way to living your

573
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:30.079
two point zero. And there's really
another really important function of that action you're

574
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:31.400
talking about, Wailey, that I
know about again because some of the guests

575
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:37.199
I've had on my show, is
that it has a motivational reinforcing element to

576
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:40.800
it. The action reinforces I'm moving, and there's a momentum that you attach

577
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:45.719
yourself to and it gives you this
sense I am moving, and it reinforces

578
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:50.039
and gives you a more motivation to
take the next next step Tomorrow it's just

579
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:52.960
got a real functional element to it
that really powers you. In addition to

580
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:58.280
just putting more ripples out there,
it powers you. You're absolute right,

581
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:01.000
you know. A quick small story. So several years ago, this is

582
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:05.920
probably about four years ago, so
I made one of my trips out to

583
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:10.480
the Bay Area Silicon Valley and I
had a friend that I met years before

584
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.800
that in China who had also relocated
the Bay Area. And he said,

585
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:17.039
Hey, way, Lee, I
know you've been thinking about this because we've

586
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:21.360
talked about it, We've had drinks
over it. You should meet my friend

587
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:23.960
who is in this venture capital group. And I said, okay, great.

588
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:28.679
This was years ago at least I
met him, and then two years

589
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.039
later I rein touched with him.
I said, hey, I think I'm

590
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.440
really getting serious about this. He
said, oh, go talk to my

591
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:35.840
friend in New York. All the
way across the other side of the country.

592
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:37.920
I spoke to his friend in New
York and he said, oh,

593
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.480
you know, you need to talk
to you know, my wife. That's

594
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:44.320
why I spoke to his wife.
And his wife said, oh, you

595
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:45.920
know what, I know somebody sits
on this board. You should go talk

596
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:51.159
to this person. This person and
I tell you it was this classic seven

597
00:42:51.239 --> 00:42:58.679
degrees of Kevin Bacon, and it
ended up sourcing an opportunity that while I

598
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:04.679
didn't didn't pursue or didn't actually come
available, I'd gotten down to the last

599
00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:08.599
point of the opportunity itself. But
it never would have happened if I had

600
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.239
not just asked my friend and had
my friend not put me in touch with

601
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:17.360
that first person. And so you're
right, there's this reinforcing and engaging energy

602
00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:22.800
that things materialize. So long as
you do something, If you do nothing,

603
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:25.679
nothing happens, you can expect nothing
in return. Exactly. I couldn't

604
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:31.360
help but envision like either a tennis
ball or a golf ball being bandied about

605
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:35.760
as you were being tossed from next
conversation or the next conversation. It's great

606
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:38.679
you get by from a little help
from your friends, and just by speaking

607
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:42.920
this stuff to clearing this stuff brings
it into an existence. And I can

608
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.079
tell you, for me, I
have been amazed reayly that I'm out doing

609
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:49.719
my work and stuff happens and I'm
like, I'm supposed to be doing this,

610
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.719
and I go this next direction.
It's like the wind is carrying me

611
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:57.639
and I wouldn't have envisioned what I'm
doing, if ever, before all the

612
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.519
different products that I've created, the
book that I'm writing, the different offerings

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that I've created for women's storytelling.
It's just I just really would have never

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envisioned any of that stuff. But
I just kept listening in to what I

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was being told and accepted it and
was if you will somewhat obedient to that

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voice? Yeah, And at least
do you think that's because you're following like

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the truest form of your purpose?
That yes, I do do that people

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pick up on that and they want
to help you and they open doors for

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you. Yes, I do.
And I also think it's really also just

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really paying attention to, you know, that internal divining rod or that it's

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the purpose of voice of purpose.
When you listen to that, it does

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guide you, it does govern you. Yeah. And I find also that,

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you know, we all have people
that we look up to and then

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inspire us, whether they be you
know, the icons of the world in

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history MLK, Nelson, Adell and
other curious or even people that other people

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don't know that inspire us. But
like when you listen to them, if

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you listen to what drives them and
why they do what they do. Hey,

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you can't help but be enamored with
the clarity and focus of what it

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is that they do. But if
they were to ask for your help,

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you would jump to go help them. Where's anybody else? Maybe you wouldn't.

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And so I really think that when
you put yourself out there and people

632
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can sniff out whether you're for real, and if you are, because it's

633
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so rare, people open doors for
you. Yes, it's irresistible, is

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what it comes down to. That's
the way I like to describe it.

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And to that end, I would
love for you. We're getting so close

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to run in out of time here, So if you could be already about

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yeah, already about a minute on
this for our listeners, distinguish for us

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life before and after two point zero. For you, life before, I

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would say, was by everybody's definition
perfect. People would look at my life

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and say, way lead you and
your family, You've got everything. Life

641
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after my two point zero is I
look at my own life and I say,

642
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I've got everything that is stunningly simple
and beautiful. Yeah, we know

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when it's all not there, don't
we, Yes, we do. So

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that's what's on Instagram. Oh that's
so great. Didn't even know that that's

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so great. Well, closing the
show here, we'll tell our listeners how

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to find you. But what do
you want to leave our listeners with?

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Today? We've got listeners all over
the globe and they come for various reasons.

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What would you like to leave them
with? So I guess I would

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leave them with three things. The
first one is, you become the story

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you tell yourself. So if if
you believe you're this, that's what you'll

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become. If you believe that you're
destined to do great things, you will

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accomplish great things, So you become
the story you tell yourself. The second

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one is if you open yourself up
to the universe, just like we were

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talking about, at least by following
the truest form of your purpose, the

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universe tends to return in kind and
rewards you. The universe has this keen

656
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ability to sniff out things that are
not pure and not true. So you

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open up yourself to the universe,
the universe returns in kind. And the

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last one is maybe just a bit
practical about those of you out there who

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are wondering about how to live your
two point zero is to take a small

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action tomorrow or better yet, take
a small action today that you think can

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contribute to that and make it a
no regret one and see where it takes

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00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:32.000
you. And if it takes you
to a good place, take the next

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small action and next thing. You
know that momentum will be so strong it

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will build confidence with you to make
the change that you want to make.

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What a beautiful way to finish the
show and really give our listeners some pearls

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to take them on their journey next. I thank you so much Willy for

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coming into my path. Sharing your
beautiful heart and soul and journey and story

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00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:55.440
with us has been inspiring and very
meaningful and connecting from me and I imagine

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our listeners as well. So thank
you, Thank you, Elise, it's

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been You've made my day. Love
listening to your story and I certainly hope

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to hear the stories of people out
there and best wishes. Thank you so

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much, listeners. If you want
to learn more about Whaley Show and the

673
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.920
working and his team are doing at
Omatahealth, visit omatahealth dot com. Let

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00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:21.920
me spell that for you. It's
O M A d A Health dot com.

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Now Whaley if anybody wants to reach
out to you directly, or is

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there another way they can find you? Yeah, sure, I'm on LinkedIn

677
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.159
and that's where you can also find
my live your two point zero article,

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as well as a few others on
diversity and inclusion. You can find me

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on LinkedIn. Last name is Shall
s h Ao. First name Way Lee

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w E I dash l I and
feel free to reach out and let's connect.

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Well, that is an invitation listeners, take him up on that.

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Okay. Finally, last week,
if you missed the live show, you

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can always catch a be recorded podcast. We were on the air with Paul

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Skinner, the author of Collaborative Advantage, How collaboration beats come petition as a

685
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:05.159
strategy for success. He helped us
understand the specific steps in collaborating and how

686
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:07.719
employing his system can help us realize
more of our purpose and the work we

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do, especially when we have really
big dreams we're chasing. He actually moved

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00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.920
me to tears at the end of
our conversation. It was so beautiful,

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really just I I had to recover
myself. Next week, we'll be talking

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with doctor Alex Patacos. He is
affectionately nicknamed Doctor Meaning. He's a modern

691
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day Greek philosopher and a founder and
the founder of the Global Meaning Institute,

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00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:31.800
and we'll be talking about his books
and his life's work, including the development

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of a new discipline called meaning ology
and advancing the human quest for meaning in

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life, work in society. Tune
in, we'll see you there. Remember

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that work is at least or third
of our lives, and if you believe

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Wayley, fifty percent, So see
you there. We hope you've enjoyed this

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week's program. Be sure to tune
in to Working on Purpose, featuring your

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

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find your life's purpose at work.