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 Cortez. In our program,

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

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

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

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the Working on perkashow. Thanks for
tuning in again this week. I'm your

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host, Elise Cortez. Joining you
live from Dallas, Texas, which is

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

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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 elicits passion inspired contribution,

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

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their expertise and share my own experience
speaking and developing workforces across the globe.

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me and let's open a dialogue and
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I might be able to help.
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at any rate. I'm glad we're
connected, and thanks for listening. Now

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onto this week's program with us today
is Wailee Shall. He is the chief

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commercial officer of Amada Health, a
digital a digital care program that empowers people

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to achieve their health goals through sustainable
lifestyle change. Wale is the author of

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Annie the Tall Girl, at children's
book on diversity and inclusion. He is

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

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of Disruption, that chronicles his life
changing journey from diagnosis to recovery to transformation.

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He joins it today from California,
Waiale, welcome to Working on Purpose.

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Well, thank you very much at
least for having me. You're so

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

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nice shout out and thank you to
our mutual French smail John. She has

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

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

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

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So there's a lot to share and
pull out of your story and so

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

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

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

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

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our mutual colleague and put us in
toash with each other. I certainly am

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

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

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

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

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

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and executive within the bio farms sudical
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 and 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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Elise, 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 new things, oftentimes

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your compass and 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, Elise,

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and it just grew and grew and
grew to the point where I really

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

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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 disguise as a question that really

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

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

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there are tons of different things,
a couple of important things that were involved

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

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

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author that LinkedIn article called live your
two point zero Okay, fantastic. Two

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things if I can respond to that. First, I want a presence for

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our listeners that what you're describing,
and you call it in your article that

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irresistible tug or an itch, and
I know that extremely well for myself.

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It isn't always convenient to pay attention
and to that. So I applaud you

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for eventually paying attention to that.
Thank you for that and being an example

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for all of us. That's the
first thing. The second thing is,

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somewhere along that journey, you were
diagnosed with a brain tumor. I think

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it was about two and a half
years ago, and you said that this

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experience and how you chose to respond
it, respond to it really ushered in

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this whole new person part of your
version two point zero. What happened.

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Yeah, You're exactly right, Elise. And you know, I've got a

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lot of friends and colleagues and people
that I know well some people I don't

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know well at all that they come
up to me say, wey Lee,

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you know the pivot that you've made
kind of mid career. Boy, it

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takes guts and courage and things like
that. In my overwhelming all the time

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response is actually, I had a
gift and it was not born out of

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strength, but born out of rather. I just had to do something and

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you referenced it. So about two
and a half years ago, I was

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diagnosed with a brain tumor or about
almost the size of my fist. It

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was huge. And one day at
a work function, I was about to

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go deliver a keynote speech and I
was preparing, you know, working on

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my speaker notes, and I had
a seizure and I had never had a

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seizure before. Came out of absolutely
nowhere and then was taken to the emergency

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room and was just hit straight into
the in the gut proverbially speaking. When

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

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

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The bad news is that you've got
a mass in your brain the size of

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almost orange. And that right there
started I think the massive transformation, at

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

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you know, it's benign. I'm
fine. I made a full recovery.

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But when you're faced with kind of
something like that, that happens, not

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surprisingly you begin to question everything that
you're doing in life, and things come

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into a really simple focus, you
know, around family or friends, your

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

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again disguised as a statement, as
you know, am I doing what I'm

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

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Really really provided kind of the rocket
fuel for me to realize that tomorrow

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

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

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intellectual. There was a chance that
I wouldn't come out of it, okay.

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

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

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

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I am today, And to be
honest with you, at least, I

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

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

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

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catalyst. And I think I told
you when we spoke by phone that so

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often when I'm out speaking Willie,
I asked my audiences, first thing,

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have you really considered what will you
do with your one precious life? And

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I mean that in a serious inquiry. And now, especially for me,

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since both of my parents died in
January of this year, and I got

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to be part of both of those, and I gave both of the eulogies

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and helped and plan the ceremonies of
life celebrations. Really it's very probable for

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me, we really only get one
shot at this, and so I appreciate

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

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

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more accessible for other people than some
of the catalysts that we both had to

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go through to get to where we
are. But that was yours. No,

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you're absolutely right, and and I
think you know you're right. The

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

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

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

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significant change in our life where we
need to become the true breadwinner and our

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families. And that forces people to
shake their lives and actually do something new

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or difference. And so there's a
number of pivot points and things that happen

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

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I've spoken to them about, hey, you know, are you happy,

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to say, oh, my god, incredibly happy, and then you ask

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

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

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

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

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a it's a bit of a shame, and I hope we get into this

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because you know, life is an
adventure and it's absolutely amazing to be how

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

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again, I've been fascinated by that
by this because we're actually as humans hardwired

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not to take risk, especially as
we get older. You know, I

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oftentimes think about, Okay, in
the cave man daves, so you didn't

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dare leave the safety of your cave. Otherwise you take a few steps out

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and get snatched up by a man
eating dinosaur and then you're like, well,

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I'm certainly not going to do that
again. But when you've run out

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of food and your family might start, you take the risk to leave the

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cave and for a cave and forge
for food because the risk of staying outweighed

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the risk of leaving. But you
know, at least you and I both

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know that when you think about it, we don't need to succumb to this

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genetic forcing mechanism anymore because for most
of us, thankfully we don't live in

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the cave man days. In fact, we live in a world of abundance.

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And you know, to realize this
isn't the case for everyone, but

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for a lot of us when we
think about it, we have options,

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and the biggest challenge is taking the
leap. And so for me it was

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my brain tumor and kind of the
transformation healing I did after that. But

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

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serious question, what was likely the
worst thing that could happen if I took

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that change or made that leap.
And the answer was, well, maybe

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

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by the way, I did love
it at times, and it provided for

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my family really, really well,
and so then I realized the risk really

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wasn't all that high. And so
you know, we can take risks of

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today's or at least most of us
can, and when we can, the

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downside really isn't as big as we
think, and the upside is just infinitely

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larger than we can even conceive of. Completely agree and beautifully said for our

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listeners to really understand what you've been
through, if you can, we're going

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to take a break here in about
three minutes, but would you help us

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understand what you had to navigate to
get to come back from your brain tumor

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surgery or surgeries? I remember quite
a bit that you went through. So

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will you tell us what you had
to do to come back to come back

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

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It was, as I mentioned,
kind of a soulful, life changing

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

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I prior to my diagnosis of having
a brain tumor, I was of great

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health. I ran, you know, I worked out all the time and

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just had a very energetic, youthful
lifestyle. And then when I went into

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to get my brain surgery, I
remember the day before I went into brain

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

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says, the first one is I'm
ordered. 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 said, would you mind

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being awake during your brain surgery?
This is the day before I was supposed

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to go into brain surgery. And
I asked, well why, and he

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said, well, you know,
I want to make sure you know it's

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a sensitive surgery, a little bit
more complicated. I want to make sure

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I don't damage quote unquote the valuable
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traumatic brain injury, maybe kind of
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on what it means to be alive
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you spend fifty percent of your lifetime, which is at work. How do

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here, but let's grab our first
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Omada Health, a digital care program
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through sustainable lifestyle change. He's also
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California. We've been talking a bit
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with us, and welcome back to
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a digital care program that empowers people
to achieve their health goes through sustainable lifestyle

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change. He's also a brain tumor
survivor thriver, and is authoring a personal

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memoir, Gifts of Disruption, that
chronicles his life changing journey from diagnosis to

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recovery to transformation. I'm your host, Elise Cortez. So before the break,

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we were talking about the remarkable journey
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and I hope that people don't have
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change and start heading towards their two
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you've developed this idea that you call
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our listeners who've not yet read your
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something I thought about to try to
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want to do or actually do it
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this version one doto. We get
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and I call these changes these various
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version one point two, version one
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forth. You get the idea,
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note that there's really nothing wrong with
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it fills your soul. But what
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to so many of our listeners out
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be doing. It rocks your world
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in terms of the change you need
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or the people around you. And
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same question for quite some time until
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to myself, this isn't what you
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with questions is that we procrastinate on
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time, that should be your first
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a change. That change, that
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two point zero. So in the
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in profile. I published this a
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its core about reinvention. It's about
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life, both professionally and personally,
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tied together. And it talks about
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and where I let all those different
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missing something and I felt compelled to
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reap with a lot of nuggets in
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your readers access to something in the
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want us to bring those alive for
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try them on for themselves. And
if you'll share, if you will,

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about three each of how those impacted
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I'll do the same for myself.
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inspiration. See more about that.
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and by the way, least,
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two as well, because I love
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point zero. And sometimes I run
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zero, and I have such enormous
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two point zero, and so I
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I write about in Living your two
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tell tale signs that if these three
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think you might just be on the
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can change the arc of your life. The first one is about inspiration,

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and so inspiration is about that thing
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these billion dollar businesses and helping people
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something special about that in terms of
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with chronic diseases or debilitating diseases.
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the Internet looking up things. I
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I found myself in my spare time
reading books about it. I found myself

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in my spare time to actually doing
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was my first indication that, you
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that I'm willing to spend the spare
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been spent on my family and my
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area where you know, for a
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what technology could do for people and
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health. I then became inspired to
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this actually may be the next horizon
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one, but it's off in times
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into a hobby. The next one
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that I think leads to living your
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opposite of inspiration. For me.
My desperation actually was related to my brain

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surgery and kind of what happened after
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not a guarantee, not only for
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it and try it, that I
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profound regret, And that really started
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that just created the polar opposite energy
of inspiration that said, the longer I

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don't follow my inspiration, the worst
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my life, especially now that I've
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one actually is related to both,
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is one of those magical things where
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people call them you're God given talents, what you're great at that makes you

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you, combined with what you believe
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that guides you. And for me, that was taking all of that I've

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learned while I was in healthcare and
biopharmaceuticals leading those businesses combined with this purpose

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of being in healthcare helping people with
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path, one in technology that allows
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doctor's offices, but in between the
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and I landed on finding that eventually
through the company with now called Omade of

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Health that specializes really in human center
of technology to help people with debilitating chronic

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diseases like diabetes, depression, or
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pressure. To make profound changes in
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between doctor's business, and that happened
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that vocation circle between what I think
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life purposes. Oh my gosh,
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for you listeners who are listening to
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is, that the process isn't usually
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beautifully you can narrate that way.
It's just stunning, very alluring way to

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be able to bring us into your
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you that you made that journey and
telling your story. The reason I wanted

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you to tell your story is because
in doing so, it's hopes that the

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listeners out there get something for themselves
and they can start to move themselves further

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down their journey and listening to the
way you narrate yours and maybe in the

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way I narrate mine. And that's
why I really wanted to make sure we

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each did this. So my turn
at your turn, I can't wait to

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hear. This is actually why I
came on the show. Wanted goodness wow

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for a misguided soul. But okay, good, okay. So for me,

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the inspiration it started really when when
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research around around meaning. I wanted
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their work because, to your point, we spend, as you say,

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about fifty percent of our lives at
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you and what does it mean to
your sense of self? So that was

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my 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.

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project, went out and interviewed in
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and a half one hundred and fifteen
men and women between the ages of eighteen

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and 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

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

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relation to what it meant to their
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living their purpose down to existential crisis. And there was actually one that was

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

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

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

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cool. And I became very namory
with that whole idea, and I kept

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on my way. But to your
point, the niggle wasn't quite enough to

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

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and then I started hosting the show
Working on Purpose for and a half years

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ago, but that didn't really that
was that was my inspiration, But the

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desperation didn't happen until two other inputs. The first major input was my divorce

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

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

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two, I had an open playing
field. I could reinvent myself anyway I

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wanted. And I knew before that
time, Wayley, that I was not

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

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

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desperation piece for me was I did
take a role in a company for a

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

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

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

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XYZ 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

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

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left that position, jumped off the
cliff to come back out and do the

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

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

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of things. I call myself the
anti Undertaker because my job is to help

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awaken the otherwise walking dead who are
not living with passion, working on purpose,

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and being inspired by what they're up
to. I was one of them.

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I know what they look like.
And two, the other thing is

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

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

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make the leap to make the lives
that they really want for themselves. So

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that's how two point showed up for
me, that is I love that story

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at least because you know, I
think that there's a few things that I'm

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learning from their story. The first
one is that you know, sometimes it's

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a confluence of events that nudges us, pushes us, or forces us in

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a particular direction, and if they
didn't occur, then we wouldn't move.

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And it's so important that if we
keep on living the life that we've always

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lived, that means there's no change. And when there's no change, then

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you don't get those nudges, you
don't get those forceful events that push you

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to become who you're really meant to
be. The other thing is is that

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you know, I bet that you
could take somebody else and put them in

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your life and they would not end
up nearly where you are because you decided

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to look at the signs in catalysts
or symbols in your life and think deeply

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about them and make a change where
somebody else could experience these same things and

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gloss right over them. And I
think that you know, that's the difference

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is is do we look at the
signs and symbols in our life and find

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meaning in them? And that and
do we translate that meaning into meaningful action.

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That just changes up how we live
because if we don't do that,

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we don't experience any things. We
don't experience anything, we don't grow,

439
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.680
we don't grow that, we never
become all that we can be. So,

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I mean, I love that story. And I bet you you're thinking,

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you know, there's probably a three
or four O three out there right,

442
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Yeah, absolutely, And I'm working
on it and I'm elevenant. I'm

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so charged by it. And the
thing about working from purpose, as you

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know, gives you crazy energy,
crazy courage, and you just do things

445
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.440
you wouldn't otherwise. Imagine some of
those things I want to hear about because

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I want to hear about your journey
next of kind of how you got to

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your two point zero and here at
Amada. But before we do that,

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00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:35.119
let's grab our last break. I'm
a last Cortez, your host. We've

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been in the air with Waley Show. The chief commercial officer of Amata Health,

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00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:42.599
a digital care program that empowers people
to achieve their health goals through a

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00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:46.480
sustainable lifestyle change, is also a
brain tumor survivor Thriver, and is authoring

452
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:52.400
a personal memoir, Gifts of Disruption
that chronicles his life changing journey from diagnosis

453
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.400
to recovery to transformation. He joins
it to Day from San Francisco, California.

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After the break, We're going to
hear about how he really made his

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way to a model health scostinating.
Stay with us, We'll be right back.

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Elise Cortez is a speaker and engagement
and development catalyst. She designs and

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delivers professional development, leadership and engagement
workshops and can bring her expertise to your

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organization. She will help ignite meaningful
development within your workforce that will increase employee

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engagement, performance and retention. To
learn more or to invite Elise to speak

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to your organization, please visit her
at www dot Elise Cortez dot com.

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00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:45.559
She would welcome the opportunity to help
get your employees working on purpose. This

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is working on Purpose with Elise Cortez. To reach our program today, send

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an email to Elise Alis at Elise
Cortez dot com. Now back to working

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

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Purpose. If you're just tuning in, I guests, while show the chief

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Commercial Officer of Amada Health, a
digital care program that empowers people to achieve

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00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:15.719
their healthcare goals through sustainable lifestyle change. He's also a brain tumor survivor and

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00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.960
thriver, and is authoring a personal
memoir, Gifts of Disruption, that chronicles

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his life changing journey from diagnosis to
recoverage. Your transformation. I'm your host,

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Alice Cortez. So for this last
segment, Whale, I think it's

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really important that we talk about the
plan. You and I talked about this

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on the phone, that these kinds
of major transformations don't just sort of happen

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and show up one day, but
rather we have to work at them.

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And you have quite a process that
you went through to get to where you

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are today, and I think it
would be great to presence that for our

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00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:50.719
listeners so they really understand just how
they can do it for themselves. So

477
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.880
yes, yeah, right, solutely, yeah. I mean it's I think

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it's probably worth knowing that everybody's journey
probably is a little bit different, so

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I can certainly share what I went
through. I think there are probably some

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some things I hope can help some
others that are listening that potentially are thinking

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00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.960
about taking the leap or the plunge
or how to if they're thinking about living

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00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:16.480
their their next version or their two
point zero or three point zero. So

483
00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:19.840
yeah, so I'm going to have
to talk about so you know, for

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00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:25.840
me, the first thing that really
made a difference, and I referenced it

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00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:30.880
earlier, and I can't say how
important this is is that if you're asking

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00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.039
yourself the question like Okay, hey, way Lee, you know, is

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this what you're meant to do?
Is this what you should be doing ten

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00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.800
years for now? Or you know, at least if you're saying yourself,

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gosh, is there something else out
there that I'm meant to do? Stop

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00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:49.920
asking the question. Because if you're
asking the question, that's your subconscious way,

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00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:54.119
your subconscious is way of actually telling
you that you need to be thinking

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00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:59.239
deeply about something. And so change
the question into a statement. And that's

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what I did. I changed it. And it took me years to figure

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00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:05.679
this out. So I'm a slow
learner, and so I basically said,

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00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.159
okay, instead of saying, hey, do I need to make a change,

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00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:13.760
I actually then wrote down I'm going
to make a change. I didn't

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know what the change would be.
I had no expectations of what it was,

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but I told myself, I'm going
to make a change. And so

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then, you know, the next
thing I started doing is said, okay,

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00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:27.039
well, I know I'm spending my
energy in my spare time, and

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00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:30.079
it's towards this thing called digital technology
or digital health, and I have a

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00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:36.119
huge passion for it for some reason. And so then I started actually really

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00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:42.360
just taking small steps and taking small
actions that were I would say, no

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00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:46.480
regret or no commitment. And so
I started reading and doing research, talking

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00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:51.639
to friends, subscribing the blogs,
following thought leaders in the space. And

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00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:53.519
this took, you know, quite
a bit of time, you know,

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00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:58.920
over time, but it was an
important part for me to take those risk

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00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:02.400
free steps to determine is this just
a passing interest or is this a hobby

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00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.320
or is this potentially the change that's
going to catapult me to live by two

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00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:13.360
point zero. After I got to
that point, I found myself at work

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00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:19.559
trying to figure out ways to incorporate
digital technology into my current job. Now,

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00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.719
not everybody's got the luxury to take
their passion and put it into their

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job, but point, if you
have an opportunity, if you are working

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00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:35.000
in a job and you have a
passion for the philanthropy or the charity or

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00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:38.760
let's say the United Way. Then
how do you take that passion and put

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00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:44.280
elements of it into your job.
So maybe you are kind of a frontline

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00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.360
manufacturing person, but you have passion
for charity. Is there a way that

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you can actually bring that charity into
work and engage your employees and find that

519
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:57.639
connection between what your organization does in
what in this case, your passion on

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00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:01.280
your charity does too as well.
Make that investment because again, it gets

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00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:05.320
you to action, It gets you
beyond just looking into things. And that's

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00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:09.039
what I did. When I was
at my previous company, the biopharmaceutical kind

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of industry. I started actually launching
digital care programs and concepting those and integrating

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00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:20.760
into my business. And I found
that, you know, I was spending

525
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.519
kind of more creative energy in that
space than I was in my core business,

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which was just more evidence that I
needed to really make a change.

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00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:31.159
You know. The next thing that
I did was make you small investments.

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I started making trips on an annual
basis. I would go out to Silicon

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Valley. I would go out to
the Bay Area and meet with Ventra capitalists

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00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.719
and begin to expand my network I
would go to conventions, I would go

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to industry meetings on digital health.
I would basically build my network, and

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00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:51.239
through that people started to expose things
to me. They said, oh,

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00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:53.159
you know, Lateley, you should
meet with this person and that person and

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00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.960
next thing. You know, over
a period of months, I had met

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with and I counted it, literally
over eighty five people that I didn't know

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00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.719
three months before that I had just
met within that three months. And that's

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00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:09.199
when you know that when you're meeting
those people and you're connecting with them,

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that there's something there along the way. The last two are important. They

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00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.639
are really like starting a side hustle. My side hustle was at work.

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00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:22.360
I was doing this digital technology work
in my previous company, and then finally

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00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:27.119
was taking a leap. I started
preparing myself and said, you know what,

542
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.960
weight Lee, You know you got
a second lease on life after recovering

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00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:35.800
and transform yourself from your brain surgery
and your brain tumor. That there's no

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00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.280
better time like the presence because present. So if you don't do it,

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you'll know you're going to regret it. So climb up that proverbial high dive

546
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and jump off the diving board.
And that's exactly what I did. And

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I tell you, you know,
I've just started my new position with Amata

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00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.679
and Digital Health, and I can
tell you it's it's pure euphoria. I

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00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:00.519
got that, and I'll share just
briefly. I'm from my b point two.

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00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:01.400
It could relate to so much of
what you were saying. I too

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found myself getting more focused on my
site, hustle and more of what was

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00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:09.599
bubbling up for me, which is
really what led me to say, you

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00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:12.760
know what, it's time for me
to move on from this and really jump

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00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.880
off this cliff like you're talking about, and to your point, like you're

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00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:21.840
saying your article, Wale is you
know, whole fields would open up as

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I kept those steps going, and
people I wouldn't have any other reason to

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00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:28.920
meet sort of coming into my path, and the conversations and some of the

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00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.719
guests that I've had on my show
that I've had some amazing collaboration with and

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00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:36.599
who've taught me so much. I
would have never met them before had I

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not jumped off that cliff and just
kept walking. You're absolutely right. So

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it's kind of like if you continue
to do the same things over and over,

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you should expect the same thing over
and over. It sounds so simple,

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but if you're asking yourself the question, just like I was over long

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period of time, and I spent
way too much time, you know,

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procrastinating over the question. But once
I started taking action, door started opening

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because I did something different. I
took action. The difference between people who

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00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:14.159
dream that people who make their dreams
come true is action. Even if it's

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00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:19.480
a small one. That action then
ripples through the universe and something comes back,

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00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:22.519
and then you can take the next
step or the next action, and

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00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:23.840
next thing you know, and next
thing you know, you're well on your

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00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:28.800
way to living your two point zero. And there's really another really important function

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00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:30.880
of that action you're talking about,
Wallie, that I know about again because

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some of the guests I've had in
my show, is that it has a

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00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:39.679
motivational reinforcing element to it. The
action reinforces I'm moving, and there's a

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00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:43.920
momentum that you attach yourself to it, and it gives you this sense I

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00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:46.800
am moving, and it reinforces and
gives you a more motivation to take the

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00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:52.159
next next step tomorrow. It's just
got a real functional element to it that

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00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.159
really powers you in addition to just
putting more ripples out there, it powers

579
00:41:55.199 --> 00:42:00.480
you're you're absolute right. You know. A quick small story. Several years

580
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:04.559
ago, this is probably about four
years ago or so, I made one

581
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:08.280
of my trips out to the Bay
Area Silicon Valley, and I had a

582
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:14.159
friend that I met years before that
in China who had also relocated the Bay

583
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:15.639
Area. And he said, hey, way, Lee, I know you've

584
00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.519
been thinking about this because we've talked
about it, We've had drinks over it.

585
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:23.000
You should meet my friend who is
in this venture capitol group. And

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00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:27.000
I said, okay, great.
This was years ago at least I met

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00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.559
him, and then two years later
I reintouched with him and said, hey,

588
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:31.880
I think I'm really getting serious about
this. He said, oh,

589
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.159
go talk to my friend in New
York. All the way across the other

590
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:37.400
side of the country. I spoke
to his friend in New York and he

591
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:39.440
said, oh, you know,
you need to talk to you know,

592
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:44.079
my wife. So I spoke to
his wife and his wife said, oh,

593
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:45.559
you know what, I know somebody
sits on this board. You should

594
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:49.559
go talk to this person. This
person, And I tell you it was

595
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:57.840
this classic seven degrees of Kevin Bacon
and it ended up sourcing an opportunity that

596
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:02.920
while I didn't didn't pursue or didn't
actually become available. I got down to

597
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:08.159
the last point of the opportunity itself. But it never would have happened if

598
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:12.800
I had not just asked my friend
and had my friend not put me in

599
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:16.239
touch with that first person. And
so you're right, there's this reinforcing and

600
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:22.199
engaging energy that things materialize. So
long as you do something. If you

601
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:25.159
do nothing, nothing happens. You
can expect nothing in return. Exactly.

602
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:30.800
I couldn't help but envision like either
a tennis ball or a golf ball being

603
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:35.239
bantied about it as you were being
tossed from next conversation the next conversation.

604
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:38.119
It's great you get by from little
help from your friends, and just by

605
00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:42.679
speaking this stuff, declaring this stuff
brings it into an existence. And I

606
00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:45.000
can tell you for me, I
have been amazed Walie that I'm out doing

607
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:49.599
my work and stuff happens. I'm
like, I'm supposed to be doing this,

608
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:52.599
and I go this next direction.
It's like the wind is carrying me.

609
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.599
And I wouldn't have envisioned what I'm
doing if ever, before all the

610
00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:00.480
different products that I've created, the
book that I'm writing, the different offerings

611
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:05.880
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

614
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voice. Yeah, and at least
you think that's because you're following like the

615
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truest form of your purpose. That
yes, I do. That people pick

616
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up on that and they want to
help you and they open doors for you.

617
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Yes, I do. And I
also think it's really also just really

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

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

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

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

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

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00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:51.400
in history MLK, Nelson, Adel
and Mother Curious, or even people that

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

625
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if you listen to what drives them
and why they do what they do,

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Hey, you can't help but be
enamored with the clarity and focus of

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what it is that they do.
But if they were to ask for your

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00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.360
help, you would jump to go
help them. Where is anybody else?

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Maybe you wouldn't. And so I
really think that that when you put yourself

630
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out there and people can sniff out
whether you're for real, and if you

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00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:22.559
are, because it's so rare,
people open doors for you. Yes,

632
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it's irresistible, is what it comes
down to. That's the way I like

633
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to describe it. And to that
end, I would love for you.

634
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:30.039
We're getting so close to run at
a time here, So if you could

635
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:35.559
be already about yeah, already about
a minute on this for our listeners,

636
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:40.159
distinguish for us life before and after
two point zero. For you, life

637
00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:47.639
before, I would say, was
by everybody's definition perfect. People would look

638
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:51.000
at my life and say, way, Lee, you and your family,

639
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:55.159
you've got everything. Life after my
two point zero is I look at my

640
00:45:55.239 --> 00:46:04.360
own life and I say, I've
got everything that is stunningly simple and beautiful.

641
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:07.599
Yeah, we know when it's all
not there, don't we? Yes,

642
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:13.320
we do. So that's what's on
Instagram. That's so great. I

643
00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:16.159
didn't even know that that's so great. Well, closing the show here,

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00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:20.800
we'll tell our listeners how to find
you. But what do you want to

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00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:22.559
leave our listeners with? Today?
We've got listeners all over the globe,

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and they come for various reasons.
What would you like to leave them with?

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So I guess I would leave them
with three things. The first one

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is, you become the story you
tell yourself. So if if you believe

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00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:42.360
you're this, that's what you'll become. If you believe that you're destined do

650
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:46.199
great things, you will accomplish great
things, So you become the story you

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00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:52.159
tell yourself. The second one is
if you open yourself up to the universe,

652
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:54.400
just like we were talking about,
at least by following the truest form

653
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:59.280
of your purpose, the universe tends
to return in kind and reward you.

654
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:05.000
The universe has this keen ability to
sniff out things that are not pure and

655
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:08.239
not true. So you open up
yourself the universe, the universe returns and

656
00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:13.320
kind. And the last one is
maybe just a bit practical about those of

657
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:17.559
you out there who are wondering about
how to live your two point zero is

658
00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:22.440
to take a small action tomorrow,
or better yet, take a small action

659
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:27.880
to day that you think can contribute
to that and make it a no regret

660
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.320
one and see where it takes you. And if it takes you to a

661
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.079
good place, take the next small
action and next thing. You know that

662
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:38.159
momentum will be so strong it will
build confidence to you to make the change

663
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.039
that you want to make. What
a beautiful way to finish the show and

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really give our listeners some pearls to
take them on their journey next. I

665
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.760
thank you so much Willie for coming
into my path sharing your beautiful heart and

666
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:53.880
soul and journey and story with us. It has been inspiring and very meaningful

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00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:57.800
and connecting for me and I imagine
our listeners as well. So thank you.

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00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:01.360
Thank you, Elise, it's been
You've made my day. I love

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listening to your story and I certainly
hope to hear the stories of people out

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00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:10.880
there and best wishes. Thank you
so much listeners. If you want to

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learn more about Waley's show and the
work he and his team are doing at

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00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:16.760
Omada Health, visit Omada health dot
com. Let me spell that for you.

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00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:22.440
It's O m A DA health dot
com. Now wale if you if

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00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:24.840
anybody wants to reach out to you
directly, or is there another way they

675
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.239
can find you. Yeah, sure, I'm on LinkedIn, and that's where

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00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:31.559
you can also find my live your
two point zero article, as well as

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00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:36.760
a few others on diversity and inclusion. You can find me on LinkedIn.

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00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:42.840
Last name is Shall Shao, first
name Way Lee w Ei dash l I

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00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:46.880
and feel free to reach out and
let's connect. Well, that is an

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00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:52.239
invitation listeners, take him up on
that. Okay. Finally, last week,

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00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:54.000
if you miss the live show,
you can always catch ay recorded podcast.

682
00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:58.440
We were on the air with Paul
Skinner, the author of Collaborative Advantage,

683
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:01.639
How collaboration beats come petition as a
strategy for success. He helped us

684
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:07.039
understand the specific steps in collaborating and
how employing his system can help us realize

685
00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:09.320
more of our purpose and the work
we do, especially when we have really

686
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:14.239
big dreams we're chasing. He actually
moved me to tears at the end of

687
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:16.920
our conversation. It was so beautiful. Really just had to recover myself.

688
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:22.960
Next week, we'll be talking with
doctor Alex Patacos. He is affectionately nicknamed

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00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:27.079
Doctor Meaning. He's a modern day
Greek philosopher and a founder and the founder

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00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:30.239
of the Global Meaning Institute, and
we'll be talking about his books and his

691
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:35.920
life's work, including the development of
a new discipline called meaning ology and advancing

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00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:38.159
the human quest for meaning in life, work, and society. Tune in,

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00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:40.360
we'll see you there. Remember that
work is at least a third of

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our lives, and if you believe
Wiley, fifty percent, so see it

695
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:52.039
there. We hope you've enjoyed this
week's program. Be sure to tune in

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to Working on Purpose, featuring your
host Alice Cortez, each week on the

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Voice America Empowerment Channel. This week, find your life's purpose at work.