Lynne Franks: Today's Renaissance Woman

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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 Purpose Showcome for tuning
in again this week. I'm your host,

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Elise Cortez, joining you live from
Dallas, which is home base for

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me. If you've been tuning in
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is all about helping people create more
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organizations to cultivate meaning and purpose that
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persevering performance. I talk with my
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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 Lynn Franks, a change maker,

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activist, and influencer, among many
other designation designations which also include mother,

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grandmother, writer, businesswoman, teacher, leader, dancer, aware of long

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hair, and so many others.
A true renaissance woman. We'll be talking

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about their ripple effects she is causing
over the course of her long life and

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career, including a few of the
initiatives she is jompening to create a more

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cooperative and flourishing society, as well
as the role she champions for women in

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the society. She joins us a
day from Winn Captain Somerset in England.

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Lynn, welcome to Working on Purpose. Thank you very much. I'm glad

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to be here. And let's give
a shout out to our mutual friend Paul

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Skinner who connected us. Thank you
Paul for bringing this lovely woman to my

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world. I'm so glad to know
you, Lynn. As I said to

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you before we got on air,
I just love going around and searching and

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seeing all the things that you're up
to in life. It's amazing. It's

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busy, it is busy, it's
very busy. It's inspiring. So let's

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kick off if we can with the
vision that I found on your website,

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which I thought was a great place
to start. So let me read it

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for us. You say on your
website, my vision is for a world

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based on cooperation between male and female. As women, we know that the

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best and most efficient way to get
things done is to work together, and

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that means living and working with men
in harmonious coexistence, valuing the perspectives and

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strengths of both sexes, and creating
a higher quality of life for all and

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must it must also be a world
of cooperation between business and community, human

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beings and the planet, national governments
and non governmental organizations, young and old,

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spirituality and science, and our inner
and outer itselves. That's a gorgeous

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vision. Yes, it's a vision
I had quite a few years ago and

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hasn't changed a bit. I wrote
that for one of my books. Oh,

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I guess I don't know, fifteen
years ago, twenty years ago,

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and it's it's actually the same now. We're still moving towards the world of

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cooperation, I hope. But then
it's really two stops, two steps forward,

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one step back, if not two
steps back. Some days I look

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at the news and I'm like,
oh, let's get there, Come on,

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guys. Well, and that's why
you have to keep going, right

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Lynn, You've got work to do
in this planet yet, so let's let's

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keep the first. That's the truth
of it. Well. And one of

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the things that in the work that
I get to do, Lynn, it's

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I'm so grateful to do this is
to help people get more present and aware

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and discover their purpose so they can
live it more fully. Because I know

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that the world's a better place when
we work from our to really contribute to

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the world. Our very best,
and so I appreciate all the more what

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you're up to and wanted to make
sure that I shared you with my listeners

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across the globe. That's very kind
of you, and I'm delighted, as

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I said, to me, here
and talk to your listeners with you,

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because I know we're coming from a
very similar place of belief in heartfelt purpose,

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not just purpose even, but heartfelt
purpose coming from our truth. And

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what's also great about it too,
in the world we're living in twenty nineteen,

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with technology being what it is,
You're sitting in your cafe in you

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in your in your hub, in
your well being hub across the pond in

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England, and I'm over here in
Dallas, Texas, and it's just like

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you're sitting right next door. It's
absolutely extraordinary. And I guess that's the

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biggest difference that's happened in my life, above and beyond anything Else's technology and

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what it allows us to do and
the freedom and the opportunities it gives.

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I'm not all positive, but mostly
pretty amazing. When I had a company,

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when I started my PR company fifty
years ago, when I was plenty,

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you know, this is like this
was sci fi completely sci fi and

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absolutely well and to that end,
and I wanted to presence that for our

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listeners. You have just done so
much in your life and I know,

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prior to the work you're doing now
you did you founded the UK's best known

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public relations consultancy, as you say, you know, fifty years ago and

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you were responsible for the development of
London Fashion Week as well as many of

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the top public relations campaigns for high
profile consumer brands and retailers until selling your

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business in the nineties. What an
incredible right, I mean, the stuff

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that you have seen. Can you
share a little bit about that world with

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us? Well? It has been
an incredible right and it's very funny even

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thinking about it this week because there
was a British TV show on on Sunday

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which I knew I was featuring a
little bit, but I wasn't expecting to

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be quite such a strong element of
the show. It was about the history

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of the store Harvey Nichols, which
I in Knightsbridge in London, which is

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one of our top fashion styles worldwide
now and I did the pr but they'd

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got hold of a load of photographs
and film from back in the day the

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seventies and when my children were tiny
themselves now their parents and tiny children,

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and it was quite an extraordinary experience
sitting on my sofa this week looking at

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myself thirty forty years ago in that
particular world of fashion and pr and so

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called glamor and design. It was
intense and it was fun, a lot

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of fun, and it was completely
chaotic and as you know have kindly not

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mentioned, it was the inspiration for
Absolutely Fabulous for those of your listeners who

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have seen that be very popular BBC
comedy series that made about supposedly we've made

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about Me or me as the inspiration
in the eighties and nineties, it was

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a crazy time, but it was
It was a wonderful time as well,

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you know, to be innovators and
creatives as a team, as I started

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my business at twenty one and it
grew quite rapidly and I eventually did own

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the most successful fashion PR company in
the UK, and indeed at that point

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even in the world, with a
large team fifty young people working for me,

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and pretty much anything that was going
on in London town, never mind

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other cities and other countries we were
involved in or were producing, and it

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was just a wonderful time to be
the age we were and to be doing

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what we were doing, and not
only just about fashion, which designers got

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the best look of the season,
but getting involved, which I started to

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then with giving back through fashion.
I worked with Katherine Hamlet, who designed

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the wonderful slogan T shirts that have
become world influence. Came out in the

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early eighties, and I created with
others Fashion Cares, which was a big

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intive that still actually runs through Matt
Cosmetics. Is the biggest fundraiser for HIV

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AIDS in the world, and we
did big events around that. And I

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worked on Fashion Aid with Bob Geldolf
as part of Live Aid, when we

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got all the top fashion designers together
to do a huge event at London's Albert

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Hall where fashion for the first time
is presented in an entertaining way. I

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created the British Fashion Awards, which
is now so big it's called the Fashion

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Awards, not even British anymore.
That's in England every year. So there

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were lots of initiatives that started in
that period of time that ended up having

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huge long term effects that were also
about giving back and a lot of the

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people I worked and I mentioned Katherine
Hamnett earlier, who was my first client.

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Catherine and others and myself were now
involved in the whole area of how

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you can be ethical and responsible in
fashion, because that's where we're all at

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now. We don't want to create
more landfill. We want to create beautiful

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eco clothing loss and encourage people to
maybe spend less and be less consumers,

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which is kind of so the opposite
of what we were doing forty years ago.

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M you know, Lynn, So
I want to call it a couple

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of things if I can, for
our listeners. And first, let me

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just say that so often when I'm
out speaking and doing the work that I

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do, Lynn, I come across
people who who are really what I like

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to call asleep at the wheel of
life. And so part of what I

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call myself as an anti undertaker,
So my job is to awaken them to

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the possibilities of their own lives and
what they can do. And what I've

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discovered is that most people really do
ache to make a difference, to know

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that their lives means something to other
people. And part of the reason I

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wanted to share you with my listeners
is because you are doing just that on

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so many fronts and it's just it's
inspiring, it's interesting, and you're still

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going strong. I think you must
be in your seventies. Yes, seventy

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one, sevent I think that's brilliant, it's smashing. Well, it's the

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way it is. Well, I've
got fortunate enough to have my health and

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my energy and my passion. I'm
completely committed to doing everything I can as

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always for others, for women and
girls in the world, and for women's

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leadership and making the world a better
place to my grandchildren. And partly I

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had to say, it's because I
lost so many close friends, so many

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amazing women that I was privileged to
be close to who have not made it,

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you know, and have passed away. And I really feel that those

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of us wise women age who had
made it through, that is our role

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now, is to really really build
the bridge for the young generations to come,

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my grandchildren, for example, other
people's grandchildren, or as the Indigenous

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grandmothers, the thirteen grandmothers who you
may well know of who meet regularly to

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look at the future of this planet, say it's the seven generations to come.

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That's our role. Really, No, I think that's splendid and so

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One of the other thing I want
to make sure that our listeners are hearing

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about you is that you are an
advocate for human rights and the environment and

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climate. It's just it's in then, of course women and girls, and

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so one of the other things,
I'm an activist, an activist excuse me,

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that's that's a much stronger word.
Yes, yes, yeah, I'm

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also I'm not a believer that we
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that our children grow up feeling fearful
about. I'm an activist in the way

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that I feel we need to create
positive change. What we need to start

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at community, and I believe it's
women that will be leading that and are

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leading those community initiatives all over the
world. Actually, well, speaking of

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that, I came across one thing
that I wanted to ask you about on

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that front, and maybe this is
what you're speaking of, but I did

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see that in nineteen ninety five you
put on something called what Women Want at

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the Center Bank Center in London and
you right, okay, And then you

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also became the UK chair of one
Billion Rising, which is I guess a

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global awareness campaign on sexual a Bounce
to Whom and Girls started by Eventsler,

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the Wonderful Eventsler, who wrote,
who wrote and started Vagina Monologues. It's

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part of one of her projects,
Big Project one billion writing. Would you

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say more about that? That is
such an important effort, Lynn, Well,

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well, I'll go back if you
don't mind, to What Women Want,

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because that was a little earlier,
so they had at that point never

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been in the UK a big public
event since literally the Suffragettes, where women

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got together to look about, to
look at their lives. And that was

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the year of the last big and
the biggest ever anyway women's conference put on

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by the UN, and that was
in Beijing in China at a time when

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we really were not going to China
and the Chinese were nervous of us,

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and we were nervous of the Chinese. And anyway, they put on this

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enormous conference where I don't know how
many countries were representative, but most of

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the world were there one way or
another, women, mostly to talk about

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the future. So to make sure
that you're certainly in the UK there was

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awareness, I created What Women Want
at the South Bank, which is one

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of our biggest cultural centers in London, and took it over and looked at

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every aspect of a woman's life and
from spirituality to consumer natural health, sexuality,

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music. We had a fantastic concert, so that was really that really

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opened a lot of doors for women
having conversations about technology, the future and

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as women refugees. It was it
was a very important moment that when that

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year, when that was done,
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So moving on, you were asking
me about one Billion Rising. So

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one Billion Rising was an initiative,
as I said, set up by the

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wonderful Eventsler, who was the writer
for Vagina Monologues and many other great books

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and plays about women's mostly about women
as objects i'd say, objects women abuse

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and stories of abuse against women.
And he has done an enormous job across

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the world to bring awareness of women's
rights to their own bodies. She's created

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fantastic City of Joy. It's called
a huge center in the Congo, in

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one of the most dangerous areas for
women in the world, where women who

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had been abused very badly, perhaps
lost their family, thrown out by their

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community, come together and get healed
physically and learn new skills and could become

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part of a community. So she's
doing amazing work and one Billion Rising was

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an idea of hers to do every
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initiative to really create through some dance
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that one in three women and girls
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abused. So I became the chair
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many years, and we created some
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until I came to live outside London
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had a huge effect on many countries
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Rising movements fantastic. So I'm a
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we need to talk about these things. We don't hide them away, and

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we need to come together women and
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no more, it has to stop. So that's part of some of the

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things I've done. It's brilliant,
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inspiring, it's encouraging, and I
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showcase some of these important initiatives that
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be involved too, and to continue
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that. And with that, let's
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Purpose if you're just joining us.
My guest is Lane Franks, a changemaker,

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activist and influencer. She wrote the
international bestseller The Seed Handbook, which

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served as the inspiration for Seed,
her global women's leadership platform. She continues

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to lead a number of international advocacy
at campaigns on human rights and environment.

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She's currently living in Wincanton, Somerset, where she has an opened a well

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being hub, the Seed Cafe,
and her lifestyle store Shop at Number four.

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I'm your host, Elise Cortez.
So speaking of all of that what

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I just said about what drew up
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talk about what you've what you're doing
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that I noticed that in two thousand, after you did sell your UK business,

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you wrote the Seed Handbook. It's
the first, it was the first

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book in the world focusing on women
starting their own sustainable businesses, and that

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you created Seed, which stand for
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and Leadership platform. Tell us where
the idea came from, if you would,

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where idea of it for the book
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this platform. I had sold my
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become very involved in women's initiatives as
we previously talked about putting on what women

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business all over the world. And
I became very aware that there was because

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I work. I'm very intuitive as
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as a futurist, and I could
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and more women leaving the corporate world
and starting small initiatives literally from their kitchen

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table around their children's availability. They
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that most women have were not really
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companies they work for. So I
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wasn't a book anywhere. And I
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time, so I was searching there
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that based on values, based on
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from a feminine perspective. There wasn't
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I wrote it while living in California. I was running a PR business there

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from Los Angeles and San Francisco,
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my experiences while there, and the
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English speaking world in March twenty years
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is very exciting for me that it's
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just been published in Kazakhstan, in
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is an Afghani dialect which the Kazik
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but the President's Foundation want to use
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young Afghani women and young Kazik women. So that's phenomenal for me that that

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is literally just happening now, even
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became from a book a whole lot
of content which has much worked on women's

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personal development and sense of self esteem
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how to write a business plan.
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sort of turn into a modular system
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various universities and the British government,
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the world Postwar BO was in the
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the corporate world, and still is
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But the reality is that the original
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relevant today as it was then.
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a bigger chapter on social media and
there would have been them. I have

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women coming up to me constantly or
writing to me saying that they bought that

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Seed Handbook twenty years ago, fifteen
years ago, and it literally changed their

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lives and that's how they started their
business. That's how they started seeing how

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they could live a life that was
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which is fantastic. I mean,
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of service that way. So now
we're relaunching because it is Seed twenty twenty

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in March. Internet round International Women's
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relaunching an online We have an online
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more active with more learning opportunities.
With me using seven archetypes, I've been

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developing the power of seven feminine archetypes. But I think we're in all of

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us and how we resonate and strengthened
week and work with the strong that's another

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conversation possibly we'll have a bit later. But we're also looking at Seed as

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a kite mark, so that women
who join the Seed community can use the

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fact that they are a member of
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led business with values along the lines
of the other women like minded women who

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are members of Seed and will work
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cooperate in different ways around the world. So that's there's a big plan for

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a little later. Well, we
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that's I think that's what I was
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concept that you're developing, and I
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seven. Is that what you're talking
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rightly say, which is an acronym. I love acronyms for power on demand.

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So the pods of seven are I've
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for the last three years. Work
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pod taking a different role if you
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seven archetypes, which are also in
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would you like me to go through
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I grabbed them a little bit here
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but please go for it. I
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you. So they are not necessarily
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I always say is the seed sewer. The seed sewer is the creative part

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of ourselves, the idea, the
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that looks at what a life purpose
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can start bringing that together. So
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is again not in this order necessarily, but it kind of works, is

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the alchemist. The alchemist is the
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the strategist. Then there is the
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the story story, telling your stories
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about how we tell our own story. All of these actually start with self

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and then move outwards to working with
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talk about storyteller and when I coach
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about let's write our own story from
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tragedy, is it a soap?
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is what is that? And then
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the sort of external taking the tale
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archetypes is the sky dancer. The
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that side of ourselves that is all
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a group, it's the one that
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place of grace, It's from a
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my business card, give me yours. It's a place of absolute grace and

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enjoyment of bringing people together. The
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the creative, the one that creates
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for the group or for yourself.
That is full of beauty and inspiration.

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is obviously about your well being,
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for others or ourselves if we don't
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it's also the well being of the
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that member of the group that makes
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maybe it's not exactly the same as
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of manifestation, but it is very
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if I may, about that.
So these archetypes types, are these

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something that you've discovered or you've found
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they're just phrases. But I I
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and then started workshopping them to see
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a pod. And then is the
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idea of these different archetypes? I
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more so than the other, depending
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that's interesting, and some of them
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than others. I mean, you
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take care of the world, but
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look after ourselves, have can we
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think a lot of people, a
lot of women especially want to go out

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and be the careers almost as a
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or being in sacrifice or being the
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life and our inner life. And
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one of those that we resonate with, perhaps within one particular situation the most,

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and be part of a group where
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one archetype. They could just be
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together in a group of seven.
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spend a lot of time setting up
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and I just found that seven seem
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even though it's odd. It wasn't
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oh, yes, it's great,
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to meet regularly, and then when
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you can't make it. Now if
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still have that responsibility. So that's
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it came up. Really and tell
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but I'm about to change that and
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and a community where we will have
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if you have a business, whether
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if you feel that you want to
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to the values of Seed, which
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It's integrity, and freedom and love
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and that way we can work with
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also for the outside world, say
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they're taught their an ethical business.
So if anybody, any of your

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listeners are interested in being part of
that ongoing platform and movement which We're literally

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launching around International Women's Day in March
next year, but we are going to

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be having a pre launch special offer
of almost nothing for the first few months

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as we build our community. If
anybody wants to just join seed networking for

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women dot com, we will then
have your contacts and you will be on

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our Mainliness is one of the first
people we will be offering almost for free,

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as I say, to be a
member for the first three months as

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we build. So that's but where
we're going with it, and it's very,

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very exciting. We've got a lot
of people that are going to be

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part of it. We're going to
have seed TV where I interview, like

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you are here, really interview extraordinary
women, and we might do some men.

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I haven't decided yet, but we
will certainly be doing extraordinary I meet

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such extraordinary women all the time,
so we will be featuring them and featuring

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activities here at the hub, whether
it be healthy cooking lessons, you know,

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detots cooking lessons from the people we
work with, to music. We

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have fantastic musicians working here and so
we're doing that. There's going to be

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learning opportunity to me and I guess
the biggest thing is about community getting together.

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Maybe you feel that you're a storyteller, not you personally at least,

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but I mean one is feels a
storyteller, so you might want to join

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the Storyteller group, which is part
of the Seed community. So it's going

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to be very active, and we're
also going to be giving percentage back to

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help buy seeds literally to grow vegetables
for women in the poorer communities around the

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world who need to grow the vegetables
to feed the children and the grandchildren.

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So there's a very strong giveback side
of it all as well. It's delightful

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and I will be joining for sure. Thank you so much for that line.

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I'm so glad we got to talk
about that. So I'm definitely in

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and I'll just spet a few of
our listeners will be joining us as well,

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So let's grab our next break if
we can. I'm Elise Cortez,

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your host. We've been on the
air with Lynn Frank's a change maker,

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activist and influencer. She's recently opened
a well being hub in Somerset called Hermit

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Number three, the Seed Cafe and
your lifestyle store shop at Number four.

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You know to today from Wincotton,
Somerset in England. After the brake,

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we're going to hear more about her
ted talk as any of the things that

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she's up to today. Stay with
us, We'll be right back. Alise

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Cortez is a speaker and engagement and
development catalyst. She designs and delivers professional

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development, leadership and engagement workshops and
can bring her expertise to your organization.

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She will help ignite meaningful development within
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or to invite Elise to speak to your

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organization, please visit her at www
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welcome the opportunity to help get your
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purpose. Thanks for staying with us, and welcome back to working on purpose.

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If you're just too metal, I
guess. As Lynn Frank's change maker,

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activist and influencer. She wrote the
international bestseller at the Seed Handbook,

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which served as the inspiration for Seed, her global women's leadership platform. She

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continues to lead a number of international
advocacy campaigns on human rights and environment.

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She is currently living in Windcaton,
Somerset, where she has opened a well

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being hub, the Seed Cafe,
and her lifestyle store shop at Number four.

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I'm your host, Elise Cortez.
So Lynn, now that I've just

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got you for a little bit of
time left, one thing I definitely want

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us to cover is your Wise Women
Ted Talk. I so terribly enjoyed watching

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and listening to that, and there
were a few things that stood out.

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First, how did you how did
you? How was it that you got

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to do a Ted Talk? Oh? The person that was putting that particular

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one on in London was asked me
a lot of people that I get asked

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to do a lot of talk,
speaking all over the place, I suppose,

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so yes, well, which is
exactly how you came up in Paul's

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conversation with me. So a few
things for our listeners that I think really

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bear repeating. One is that you
said in that Ted talk that the Dali

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Lama said the world will be saved
by the Western woman, so taking a

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loving care of the planet and all
it's people. That's quite an interesting idea.

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Would you say more about that and
where that came from. It was

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a quote from one of his interviews
actually already I think some years ago now,

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maybe five six years ago and maybe
a bit less no muscling, because

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I did that talk in twenty twelve, So yeah, it was about eight

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years ago. N I'm ten years
ago. And it's very interesting that he

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said that. It's been quoted a
lot by other people as well, and

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I think it makes sense. It
does make sense. We're in a very

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powerful position, us women of the
West, to create change on behalf of

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the generations to come. I mean, that's that's the biggest thing I think

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that we women do think of more
than the men. I really believe that,

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you know, the men. It's
very much about the moment and power

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at the moment, current time.
And I think as women, whether we're

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mothers and grandmothers or not, but
I just think that as women we do

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think about the generations to come,
and that's why we had this role to

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play as leaders in the future of
this of this crazy world we live in

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and try and create a place of
peace and love. M You know,

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I'll share with you, Lynn.
I was in India in December twenty fourteen,

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and I had the most amazing experience
being out in public. And I

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remember distinctly I passed by several groups
of school girls, school children on a

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field trip at some one place that
I'd been in, and they literally were,

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you know, waving at me,
and I felt like I was a

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rock star. And I asked my
tour guide, why are they why are

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they reacting to me like that?
And they say, well, they respect

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you as as a Western woman,
And I thought, well, that is

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really really quite compelling. So to
your point, I think there maybe there

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is a lot we can do as
Western women, and I certainly stand for

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being part of that movement. Another
thing that you said in your talk that

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I thought was quite quite interesting too, as you said that the Mayans say

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that the year that you gave that
talk twenty twelve started the change from masculine

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to feminine power. Yes, even
even the male leaders, the Mayan male

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leaders said when that happened that twenty
twelve, I can't remember what it was

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now, it must have been something
very significant. It was when they were

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foretelling change of time. Then yeah, well the women, well, the

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women, It's been foretold by many, many different people that when we move

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into a more feminine leadership mode,
whether it weren't men or women, or

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a leadership mode based on love.
I mean, it's just common sense.

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If we can get out of this
greedy, power praised world that we live

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in, when it's all about the
money and it's all about the ownership,

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and we can move to a place
which is about good for all men,

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women, children, all centim beings
on this planet, the nature itself,

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the environment. We can create a
world that we all want to be part

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of. Then that's when we will
have some Then we will have a future.

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Right now, you know, it's
not looking too good, so we

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really have to create change. Well, I'm very encouraged by something that I've

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been following Lend that you probably have
cut window, but the Business Roundtable in

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August declared that the new purpose of
an organization is not just to serve shareholders,

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but rather to sort of all stakeholders, which includes employees, suppliers,

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the community itself, the environment even
And of course it's caused quite a big

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uproar or two and people saying we
can't possibly be in business for all those

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reasons. But I find it encouraging
that that they've taken a stand on that.

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At least it's maybe heading toward that
direction. I find it encouraging,

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but I'm also amazed it's taken so
long. Yes, many business organizations in

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the last forty years who have been
saying the same thing about it's all about

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stakeholder responsibility and commitment and involvement.
And so you know, really that that's

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a comment that should have come out
years ago. It's about really what is

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00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:31.880
it just about the bottom line?
In which case why bother because it's you

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know, a few people becoming very, very rich, or a lot of

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people having quality, safe quality of
life and a safe life, you know,

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the end of all the wars,
the end of the killing of innocent

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children. It's just horrible what we
human beings have done. And it is

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time we sorted it out, agreed, And I know you're definitely part of

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that movement, and I am too. And that was another thing that you

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said in your in your talk that
I just thought was delightful, And you

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said, at sixty four, I
finally learned what I'm going to be when

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I grow up, and a cleerate
the power of the crone. I just

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thought that was so delightful. I
appreciate that so much about you. Well,

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I'm now how many years older.
I'm now eight nine years older than

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I was saying, and I'm still
celebrating the power of the crone. I'm

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still having a wonderful life. I
still got a music festivals, I go

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00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:27.920
dancing with my grandchildren. You know. It's I am very, very happy

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00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:31.039
that I was born as a baby
boomer and I have lived the life I

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have. I've gone from everything from
being you know, a teenager at the

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first Beatles concert right the way through, which is still living in Somerset near

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Glastonbury Festival, which is the biggest
music festival in the world, still jumping

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up and down to whatever bands are
playing. Life is good and even though

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the world is harsh too many,
I'm certainly grateful every day that give thanks

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every day. I'm practicing Buddhist to
have been on and off for forty years,

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00:39:55.280 --> 00:40:00.840
and that opportunity to do my prayers
and give thanks every day very very

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important to me. Gratitude is so
important. I know that from the work

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that I do too. And another
thing, by the way, I just

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have to know I don't know anything
about this, but you have a I

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don't know how to say that.
If you say an OBE or an OB

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designation after your name, it's an
obbe yes, it's an officer of the

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British Empire, which is ridiculous,
but it has become very or Any honors

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given by the Queen are taken very
seriously in this country. So I got

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that about a year or so ago, which represents well. They gave it

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to me for my work for women's
empowerment and my contribution to business and my

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contribution to the fashion industry. But
I was particularly proud of the women's empowerment

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aspect of this, and I would
think I was the first person that have

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been several since that have been given
an honor based on the work I've done

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to support women, which is great. And Prince Charles actually gave it to

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me, and that was lovely too. I mean, he's a nice guy

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and that has done huge amounts of
work behind the scenes to support women's initiatives,

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because I've met her in a few
of them, so you know,

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it's kind of interesting that I was
in. I worked a little bit with

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his first wife, Princess Diana,
because she was very involved with the fashion

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industry. While she was alive,
and then years later I'm working with his

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second wife on women's empowerment and so
that's an interesting journey. And yeah,

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it was lovely to get the OBE
real honor over here. It's wonderful I

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had. I wanted to make sure
we talked about that, because it certainly

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is something to celebrate in terms of
talk about living a wonderful and big life.

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That it's mattering to other people,
it's just it's it's an indication of

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that, and I really applaud that. Then it's beautiful. Yes, thank

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you. I'm still having a wonderful
time. And the hub here is really

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the bricks and mortar aspect of a
much bigger as I've said earlier, a

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much bigger concept for Seed, which
I loved the where you describe it.

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It absolutely is a global women's leadership
platform. That's exactly what it is and

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for women to help other women all
over the world. And I'm very excited

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that it's taking me twenty years of
having this. I mean, this was

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the idea when I wrote the book, and now twenty years on and it's

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there and particularly relevant. I know
you're a global TV show, but it

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was very exciting for me that I
launched the Book of the United States in

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Bloomingdale's stores. So I don't mention
that because so many of your listeners are

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Americans. So when the book came
out, it was promoted through all the

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windows of the Manhattan Bloomingdale's, and
I had the launch party there, and

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then I did workshops on the shop
floor across bloomingdale stores across the country.

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And that was because I met the
right people and they loved the idea of

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a book about women entrepreneurs, and
they featured the products and the fashions that

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00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:57.519
they sold that were done by women, made by women entrepreneurs. And so

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I just sort of mentioned that for
the American it had, it had a

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huge impact in windows in bloomingdale stores
all over the country. Actually describe really

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wonderful. It is wonderful. And
I also want to call up for a

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00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:14.440
listeners that just what you've said,
it took twenty years for this to all

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come to the full fruition that you
had envisioned some time ago. So I

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really want to encourage all of us
to stick with our dreams. Don't let

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00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.800
them go. Stick with them and
see what happens. And so to that

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end, just we've got a little
a little bit of time here left.

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00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:29.480
Lynn, I want to hear more
about this. I've never heard of a

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00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:31.679
well being hub before, so when
I first talked with you, I didn't

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00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:36.360
quite understand what you were saying.
So would you help our listeners understand this

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00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.599
hub that you're talking about? What's
all involved? Okay? So I moved

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00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:43.239
to this a small town. I
don't even know how I got here.

596
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:46.440
Really, it's lovely old town in
Somerset where I hope some of your listeners

597
00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:52.559
will visit me and see for themselves. We're sort of halfway between Stonehenge and

598
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:58.079
Glastonbury, and it was a part
There was a pub next door rather CD,

599
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:02.119
not very nice public cows traditional public
house, and so I thought a

600
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.800
bit naively really that I would re
buy it, rebuild it because it's a

601
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:10.079
very you know that these two buildings
are both fifteen hundred and something sixteen hundred

602
00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:14.480
and something, you know, five
six hundred years old. But I would

603
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:17.639
rebuild it as a center, as
a hub is really means, you know,

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00:44:17.679 --> 00:44:22.880
it's a center for well being.
And so we have a vegetarian vegan

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00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:30.199
cafe, we have treatment rooms where
we have different specialists in different areas of

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00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:35.480
healing, coming and working. And
we have a big workshop room upstairs where

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00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:40.880
we do all kinds of workshops,
sound healing and I do my workshops and

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00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:45.400
women's leadership. And then we also
have a number of bedrooms which are very

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nurturing and eco friendly, and we
have a lot of particularly women. They're

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done in vintage style. There's no
TV in the room. It's like really

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relaxing, the most comfortable mattressism two
vegs and pillows we could find. So

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we have people coming down to recharge
basically, so they come down, they

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have a massage, they may hear
a lecture, they might come to one

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of our women's gathering dinners that we
do here regularly and really spend time with

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me and look at life purpose Again, it's back to that purpose. So

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we give them the opportunity to create
visions of their life using the tools that

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we have here, whether it be
vision seed posters, or whether it be

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other exercises and learning programs that we've
developed over the years. And so that's

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how it's become this. It's not
exclusively for women. We have a Currentian

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male chef and we have men and
women of course in the cafe, and

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we have wonderful music nights and party
nights. But the people that come and

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stay for the retreats and the workshops
generally are women. And they tell me,

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all of them that they don't even
want to get out of bed in

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the morning. It's so comfy and
they're so relaxed and so nurtured. So

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I'm very happy about that, and
it represents we've got. I've had painted

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all over the walls some of our
points from the Seed Handbook originally, which

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is like believing yourself. I see
points. They're part of the Seed Manifesto.

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Believe in yourself and others will too, abundance, manifest abundance in every

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area of your life. There there
are a number of Seed slogans and affirmations

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that I wrote twenty years ago and
are now all over the Seed Cafe because

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we haven't even been open a year
yet, and it's very beautiful, and

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everybody that comes in, man,
woman, child and dog says how relaxed

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they feel once they come inside,
even just for a cup of coffee.

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Everything's organic with coffees or tease and
so on. So it's kind of part

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of my dream come true. It
wasn't my intention. I ended up here

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really by mistake. I ended up
by next door without thinking it through properly.

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And I had homes over the years. I had a home in New

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Yorker, Spain for a long time, and I had places in England,

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and somehow I ended up selling them
all and just moving to this little town,

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which is really good for me because
it's there's five six thousand people here

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and I can really contribute and take
my ideas of community and collaboration and women's

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leadership into reality in this one little
town which is already happening, and myself,

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together with other women, particularly women
of the town, have created a

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craft market. We're creating cross generational
mentoring programs here for the senior elderly,

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not just the elderly, but to
work with the teenagers on creativity and nutrition

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and cooking. So that's all going
through at the moment. So lots of

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things have changed here which I'm able
to do and be part of. So

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we call it the wind Canton Seed
Market because it came out of my dream

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for seed in the first place twenty
years ago, and now I'm actually living

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the dream in this little town.
And if I can see how things can

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happen and change here in a town
that was not traditionally led by women.

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We now have a woman mayor,
which is wonderful. Then we can aplicate

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this and we can tell our story
and other towns can pick it up and

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take it on as well. We're
looking at rewilding, planting trees, making

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a butterfly meadow. We're out the
road. We're looking at a lot of

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things here as a small community and
mixed small community. And if we can

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do it, and other communities and
towns have done it brilliantly too, then

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we can show what can be done
to change things at the grassroots, literally

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at the glass roots. That is
so beautiful, and we're out of time

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here, but I have to tell
you I am coming to visit, so

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look out, Lynn, because I
have been known to drop in on my

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guest that are calling my show when
I'm out and about traveling across the globe.

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So leave my room available for me, will you please? Certinly will

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and I look forward to seeing it
for yourself. So I want to thank

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you so much for joining us.
Lynn. I know you are a very

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very busy woman, and I really
really appreciate you sharing your beautiful heart and

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soul with me and my listeners.
Thank you for that, and thank you

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again Paul for connecting us. So
listeners. If you want to learn more

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about Lynn Franks and all the amazing
array of things that she's up to,

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start with lin Linfranks dot com.
That's ly n N E. Francs dot

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com. You can also go to
her hub at number three dot com website.

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That's her hub she's talking about.
It's hub at n O three dot

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com. And then finally she already
mentioned the seed Networking for Women dot com.

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That's the online community that I'll also
be joining as well. Check all

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those sites out with you will.
It's great stuff happening there, and I'm

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so glad that we get We'll wait
to see in touch with you last week.

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If you missed the live show,
you can always catch it recorded podcast

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where you're on the air with doctor
James Pogue talking about unconscious bias and now

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we can more quickly learn to become
aware of it in ourselves and others for

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a more fulfilling and enlightened life and
work experience. Next week we'll be on

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the air with Jim Corneilson talking about
the working is doing an EOS, which

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stands for Entrepreneurial Operating System. See
you there. Remember that works at least

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one third of our lives, So
let's work on purpose. We hope you've

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

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featuring your host, Alice Cortez,
each week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.

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This week, find your life's purpose
at work