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 Cortes. In our program,

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

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

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

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

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your host, Alise Cortes, joining
you live from Dallas, which is home

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

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

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leaders inside organizations to cultivate meaning and
purpose that elicits passion inspired contribution, innovation,

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and persevering performance. I talk with
my guests to draw on their expertise

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and share my own experience consulting,
speaking and developing workforces across the globe.

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Each week. In these conversations,
I hope you walk away with something you

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can immediately use in your life or
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anything to help you along your journey. Go to my website at Eliscortes dot

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and explore what's going on for you
and how I might be able to help.

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Whether you want to learn more about
how to develop purpose inspired leadership and

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meaning infuse culture in your organization to
elicit your team's best, you want to

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community to stoke your own passion, inspiration

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or purpose discovery, or you'd like
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your conference at any rate. I'm
glad we're connected, and thanks for listening.

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Now onto this week's program with us
today is Lynn Franks, a change

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

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mother, grandmother, writer, businesswoman, teacher, leader, dancer, aware

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of long hair, and so many
others. A true renaissance woman. We'll

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be talking about the ripple effects she
is causing over the course of her long

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life and career, including a few
of the initiatives she's jumpaning to create a

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

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in the Society. She joined us
today from win Capton, Somerset in England.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ah. It's busy, it is
busy. It's very busy. It's inspiring.

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So let's kick off if we can
with the vision that I found on

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your website, which I thought was
a great place to start. So let

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me read it for us. You
say on your website, my vision is

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for a world based on cooperation between
male and female. As women, we

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know that the best and most efficient
way to get things done is to work

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

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the perspectives and strengths of both sexes, and creating a higher quality of life

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for all. And it must also
be a world of cooperation between business and

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community. Human beings and the planet, national governments and non government organizations,

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young and old, spirituality and science, and our inner and outer selves.

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That's a gorgeous vision. Yes,
it's a vision I had quite a few

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years ago and hasn't changed a bit. I wrote that for one of my

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books. Oh, I guess,
I don't know, fifteen years ago,

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twenty years ago, and it's exactly
the same now. We're still moving towards

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the world of cooperation, I hope. But then it's really two stops,

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two steps forward, one step back, if not two steps back. Some

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days I look at the news and
I'm like, oh, let's get there.

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Come on, guys. Well,
and that's why you have to keep

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going, right Lynn, You've got
work to do in this planet yet,

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so let's keep that first, all
do. That's the truth of it.

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Well, And one of the things
that in the work that I get to

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do, Lenn, it's I'm so
grateful to do. This is to help

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people get more present and aware and
discover their purpose so they can live it

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more fully. Because I know that
the world's a better place when we work

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from our to really contribute to the
world our very best, And so I

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appreciate all the more what you're up
to, and wanted to make sure that

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I shared you with my listeners across
the globe. That's very kind of you,

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and I'm delighted, as I said, to me, here and talk

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to your listeners with you, because
I know we're coming from a very similar

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place of belief in heartfelt purpose,
not just purpose even, but heartfelt purpose

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coming from our truth. And what's
also great about it too, in the

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world we be living in twenty nineteen
with technology being what it is. You're

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sitting in your cafe, in your
hub, in your well being hub across

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the pond in England, and I'm
over here in Dallas, Texas, and

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it's just like you're sitting right next
door. It's absolutely extraordinary. And I

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guess that's the biggest difference that's happened
in my life, above and beyond anything

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Else's technology and what it allows us
to do and the freedom and the opportunities

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it gives. I'm not all positive, but mostly pretty amazing. When I

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had a company, when I started
my PR company fifty years ago, and

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I was plenty, you know,
this is like this was sci fi,

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completely sci fi and absolutely well and
to that end, Lena, I wanted

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to present that for our listeners.
You have just done so much in your

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life, and I know, prior
to the work you're doing now you did

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you found the UK's best known public
relations consultancy, as you say, you

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know, fifty years ago and you
were responsible for the development of London Fashion

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Week, as well as many of
the top public relations campaigns for high profile

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consumer brands and retailers until selling your
business in the nineties. What an incredible

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ride, I mean, the stuff
that you have seen. Can you share

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a little bit about that world with
us? Well, it has been an

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incredible ride, and it's very funny
even thinking about it this week because there

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was a British TV show on on
Sunday which I knew I was featured a

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little bit, but I wasn't expecting
to be quite such a strong element of

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the show. It was about the
history of the store Hobby Nichols, which

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I in Knightsbridge in London, which
is one of our top fashion stars worldwide

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now and I did the pr but
they've got hold of a load of photographs

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and film from back in the day, the seventies and when my children were

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tiny themselves. Now their parents and
tiny children, and it was quite an

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extraordinary experience sitting on my sofa this
week looking at myself thirty forty years ago

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in that particular world of fashion and
pr and so called glamour and design.

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It was intense and it was fun, a lot of fun, and it

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was completely chaotic and as you know
have kindly not mentioned, it was the

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inspiration for Absolutely Fabulous for those of
your listeners who've seen that be very popular

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BBC comedy series that made about supposedly
we've made about me or me as the

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inspiration. In the eighties and nineties, it was a crazy time, but

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it was a wonderful time as well, you know, to be innovators and

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creatives as a team, as I
started my business at twenty one and it

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grew quite rapidly and I eventually did
own the most successful fashion PR company in

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the UK, and indeed at that
point even in the world, with a

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large team fifty young people working for
me, and pretty much anything that was

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going on in London town, never
mind other cities and other countries we were

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involved in or were producing, and
it was just a wonderful time to be

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the age we were and to be
doing what we were doing, and not

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only just about fashion which designers got
the best look of the season, but

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getting involved, which I started to
then with giving back through fashion. I

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worked with Katherine Hamnet who designed the
wonderful slogan T shirts that have become world

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influence that came out in the early
eighties. And I created with others Fashion

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Cares, which was a bigginning that
still actually runs through Matt Cosmetics, is

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the biggest fundraiser for HIV AIDS in
the world, and we did big events

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around that. And I worked on
Fashion Aid with Bob Geldolf as part of

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Live Aid, when we got all
the top fashion designers together to do a

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huge event at London's Albert Hall where
fashion for the first time it is presented

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in an entertaining way. I created
the British Fashion Awards, which is now

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so big it's called the Fashion Awards, not even British anymore. That's in

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England every year. So there are
lots of initiatives that started in that period

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of time that ended up having huge
long term effects that were also about giving

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back and a lot of the people
I worked, as I mentioned Katherine hann

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that earlier, who was my first
client, Katrine and others and myself,

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we're now involved in the whole area
of how you can be ethical and responsible

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in fashion because that's where we're all
at now. We don't want to create

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more landfill. We want to create
beautiful eco clothing last and encourage people to

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maybe spend less and be less consumers, which is kind of so the opposite

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of what we were doing for years
exactly, you know, Lenn. So

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I want to call out a couple
of things if I can, for our

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listeners. And first, let me
just say that, so often when I'm

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out speaking and doing the work that
I do, Lenn, I come across

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people who who are really what I
like to call a sleep at the wheel

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of life, and so part of
what I call myself as an anti undertaker,

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So my job is to awaken them
to the possibilities of their own lives

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and what they can do. And
what I've discovered is that most people really

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do ache to make a difference,
to know that their lives mean something to

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other people. And part of the
reason I wanted to share you with my

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listeners is because you are doing just
that on so many fronts, and it's

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just it's inspiring it's interesting and you're
still going strong. I think you must

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be in your seventies. Yes,
seventy one. I think that's brilliant.

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It's smashing. Well, it's the
way it is. While I've got fortunate

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enough to have my health and my
energy and my passion, I'm completely committed

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to do everything I can as always
for others, for women and girls in

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the world, and for women's leadership, and for making the world a better

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place for my grandchildren. And partly
I had to say, it's because I

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lost so many close friends, so
many amazing women that I was privileged to

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be close to who have not made
it, you know, in have passed

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away. And I really feel that
those of us have us wise women age

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who have made it through. That
is our role now, is to really

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really build the bridge for the young
generations to come, my grandchildren, for

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example, other people's grandchildren, or
as the Indigenous grandmothers, the thirteen grandmothers

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who you may well know of who
meet regularly to look at the future of

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this planet, say it's the seven
generations to come. That's our role.

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Really, Oh, I think that's
splendid, and so one of the other

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things I want to make sure that
our listeners are hearing about you is that

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you are an advocate for human rights
and the environment and climate. It's just

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it's and then of course women and
girls and so one of the other things

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advocate. I'm an activist, an
activist, excuse me, that's a much

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stronger word. Yes, yes,
yeah. And also I'm not a believer

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that we have to create some kind
of disaster scenario that our children grow up

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feeling fearful about. I'm an activist, but in the way that I feel

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we need to create positive change,
that we need to start at community,

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

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initiatives all over the world. Actually, well, speaking of that, I

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

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

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nineteen ninety five you put on on
something called what Women Want at the Center

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Bank Center in London and you right, okay, And then you also became

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

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awareness campaign on sexual bounce to and
girls started by Eventler, the wonderful Eventsler

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who wrote who wrote and started Vagina
Monologues. It's part of one of her

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projects, Big Project one billion writing. Would you say more about that?

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That is such an important effort,
Len Well, well, I'll go back

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if you don't mind too What Women
Want because that was a little earlier,

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so they had at that point never
been in the UK a big public event

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since literally the Suffragettes where women got
together to look about, to look at

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their lives. And that was the
year of the last big and the biggest

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ever anyway women's conference put on by
the UN, and that was in Beijing

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in China at a time when we
really were not going to China and the

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Chinese were nervous of us, and
we were nervous of the Chinese. And

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anyway, they put on this enormous
conference where I don't know how many countries

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were represented, but most of the
world were there one where another women,

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mostly to talk about the future.
So to make sure that you certainly in

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the UK there was awareness, I
created What Women Want at the South Bank,

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which is one of our biggest cultural
centers in London, and took it

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over and looked at every aspect of
a woman's life and from spirituality to consumer

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natural health, sexuality, music.
We had a fantastic concert, so that

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was really that really opened a lot
of doors for women having conversations about technology,

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the future and as women refugees.
It was a very important moment that

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when that year, when that was
done, followed up with China and the

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Women's Conference. So moving on,
you were asking me about one Million Rising.

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So one Million Rising was an initiative, as I said, set up

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by the wonderfully Venzler, who was
the writer for Vagina Monologues and many other

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great books and plays about women's mostly
about women as objects of objects, women

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of abuse and stories of abuse against
women, and he has done an enormous

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job across the world to bring awareness
of women's rights to their own bodies.

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

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

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

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their 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

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was an idea of hers to do
every February or across the world as a

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V Day initiative to really create through
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word, unawareness that one in three
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abused and violently abused. So I
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friend of these many years, and
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a number of years until I came
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but they have had a huge effect
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The whole one Billion Rising movements fantastic. So I'm a big, big believer

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in that we need we need to
talk about these things. We don't hide

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them away, and we need to
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conversations and say no more, it
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some of the things I've done.
It's brilliant, Lynn, It's just brilliant.

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It's inspiring, it's encouraging, and
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have you showcase some of these important
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others to be involved too and to
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reason I wanted to have you on
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for that. And with that,
let's grab our first break. Linn.

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I'm your host, Alice Cortez.
We're in the air with Lynn Franks,

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a change maker, activist and influencer. She's recently opened a well being hub

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in Somerset called Hub at Number three, the C Cafe, and her lifestyle

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store Shop at Number four. She
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to contribute to the world. We'll
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with us. Alise Cortes is a
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designs and delivers professional development, leadership
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to your organization. She will help
ignite meaningful development within your workforce that will

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

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today send an email to a lease
Alise at a Lascortes dot com. Now

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

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to working on a purpose if you're
just joining us. My guest is Lyne

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Franks, a change maker, activist
and influencer. She wrote the international bestseller

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The Seed Handbook, which served as
the inspiration for Seed, her global women's

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leadership platform. She continues to lead
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human rights and environment. She's currently
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she has an opened a wellbeing hub, the Seed Cafe, and her lifestyle

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store shop at Number four. I'm
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speaking of all of that what I
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Lynn, I want to talk about
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first let me say that I noticed
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sell your UK business, you wrote
the Seed Handbook. It's the first,

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it was the first book in the
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businesses, and that you created SEED, which for a sustainable enterprise and empowerment

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dynamics women's business and leadership platform.
Tell us where the idea came from,

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if you would it, where I
do you for the book come from?

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and I have become very involved in
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on what women Want in the UK
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leadership and women's business all over the
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there was because I work. I'm
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and I work as a futurist,
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to be more and more women leaving
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from their kitchen table around their children's
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The values that most women have were
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of the big companies they work for. So I saw this happening and I

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felt there really wasn't a book anywhere. And I was living in the United

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small businesses like that based on values, based on spiritual values quite often were

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really creating business from a feminine perspective. There wasn't a book really to serve

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that. So I wrote it while
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PR business there from Los Angeles and
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basing it on my experiences while there. And the book came out simultaneously across

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the English speaking world in March twenty
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that is very exciting for me that
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it's just been published in Kazakhstan in
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is an Afghani dialect which the Kazak
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but the President's Foundation want to use
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for young Afghani women and young Kazik
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is literally just happening now, even
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became from a book, a whole
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on women's personal development and sense of
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on how to write a business plan. And the book became, as I

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said, sort of turn into a
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over the world post War bos in
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corporate in the corporate world, and
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added to. But the reality is
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is as relevant today as it was
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would be a bigger chapter on social
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I have women coming up to me
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that Seed Handbook twenty years ago,
fifteen years ago, and it literally changed

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

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how they could live a life that
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been of service that way. So
now we're relaunching because it is Seed twenty

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twenty in March Internet around International Women's
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an online We have an online community, but it's going to be much more

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active with more learning opportunities with me
using seven archetypes. I've been developing the

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power of seven feminine archetypes that I
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how we resonate and strengthen we can
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possibly we'll have a bit later.
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kite mark, so that women who
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that they are a member of Seed
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with values along the lines of the
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of Seed and will work together and
we'll be able to barter or cooperate in

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different ways around the world. So
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which I'm very excited about, which
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little later. Well, we think
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think that's what I was talking about
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and I was intrigued with the pods
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what you're talking about, Linz Okay, the pods, as you quite rightly

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say, which is an acronym.
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the last three years. Work incredibly
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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 grab them a little bit here
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you, but please go for it. I think that they're quite interesting,

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thank you. So they are not
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one I always say is the seed
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part of ourselves, the idea,
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that looks at what a life purpose
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tools can start bringing that together.
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archetype is again not in this order
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is the alchemist. The alchemist is
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happen, the strategist. Then there
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it says, the story telling your
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also about how we tell our own
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self and then move outwards to working
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I talk about storyteller and when I
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all about let's write our own story
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a tragedy, is it a soap? Is it a love story? What

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is that? And then the storyteller
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of external taking the tale out to
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the sky dancer. The sky dancer
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ourselves. It is all about relationships, but if we're working with a group,

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it's the one that brings in the
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grace. It's from a place of
generosity. It's not this is my business

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card, give me yours. It's
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bringing people together. The next one
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the one that creates the internal space
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group or for yourself that is full
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the medicine woman. Medicine woman in
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well being, because we can't do
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we don't look after our well being. But then it's also the wellbeing of

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the project, the wellbeing of the
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which is that side of ourselves or
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sure that whatever the project is or
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the core values, stay central.
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perhaps from the seed seller, has
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same as it was started off on
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very much still based on the same
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it as well. So Lynn a
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that. So these archetypes types,
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them exist, some of them you
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put together, I came up with
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see how they worked as a small
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then is the idea because as you
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and from my from my own thinking
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intrigued with what you come up with. Is this the idea of these different

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what I'm hearing is we maybe tend
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of them and whatever the situation,
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that when we ever look after anybody
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of people, a lot of women
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carers almost as a way of denying
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in sacrifice or being the martyr,
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important that we can feel those archetypes
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inner life, and at the same
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we resonate with, perhaps within one
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of a group where we're all taking
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the groups a choice. They don't
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could just be aware of all of
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of seven. And why seven,
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that seven seem to resonate for me
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odd. It wasn't too small,
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the problems setting up, which is
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is that there's always none of us
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for anything. And it's so easy
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great, we all love each other
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then when it comes around, it's
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come up, sometimes very genuinely of
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make a particular gathering or even an
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and tell us how the online community
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at the moment Seed networking for women
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that and relaunch in March as a
membership platform and a community where we will

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have Seed as a kite mark.
So if you have a business, whether

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it's online or bricks and water business, if you feel that you want to

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be living your life and your business
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are the values of all of us. It's integrity, and freedom and love

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and many others, courage, wisdom. If we're working on the same principles

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as each other, then Seed becomes
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an ethical women's led enterprise, and
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you know, they walk, they're
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ongoing platform and movement which was literally
launching around International Women's Day in March next

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year, but we are going to
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almost nothing for the first few months
as we build our community. If anybody

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wants to just join seed Networking for
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your contacts and you will be on
our mainliness as one of the first people

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we will be offering almost for free
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for the first three months as we
build. So that's that's where we're going

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with it, and it's very very
exciting. We've got a lot of people

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that are going to be part of
it. We're going to have ceed TV

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where I interviewed like you are here, really interview extraordinary women, and we

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might do some men. I haven't
decided yet, but we will certainly be

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doing some extraordinary I meet such extraordinary
women all the time, so I am

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we will be featuring them and featuring
activities here at the hub, whether it

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be healthy cooking lessons, you know, detos cooking lessons from the people we

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work with, to music. We
have fantastic musicians working here and so we're

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doing that. There's going to be
learning opportunities to me and I guess the

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biggest thing is about commune getting together. Maybe you feel that you're a storyteller,

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not you personally, at least but
I mean one feels a storyteller,

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so you might want to join the
Storyteller group, which is part of the

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Seed community. So it's going to
be very active, and we're also going

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to be giving percentage back to help
buy seeds literally to grow vegetables for women

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in the poor communities around the world
who need to grow the vegetables to feed

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the children and the grandchildren. So
there's a very strong give back side of

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it all as well. It's delightful
and I will be joining for sure.

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Thank you so much for that.
Lynn, I'm so glad we got to

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talk about that. So I'm definitely
in and I'll just bet a few of

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our listeners will be joining us as
well. So let's grab our next break

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if we can. I'm Alice Cortez, your host. We've are on the

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air with Lynn Franks, a change
maker, activist and influencer. She's recently

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opened a well being hub in Somerset
called hum At Number three, the Seed

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Cafe in your lifestyle store shop at
number four. She know today from win

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Caaton, Somerset in England. After
the rake. We're going to hear more

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about her ted talk and some of
the things that she's up to today.

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Stay with us, We'll be right
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with us, and welcome back to
working on purpose if you're just tuning in

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Like just As Lynn Franks, change
maker, activist and influencer. She wrote

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the international bestseller The Seed Handbook,
which served as the inspiration for Seed,

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00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.960
her global women's leadership platform. She
continues to lead a number of international advocacy

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campaigns on human rights and environment.
She is currently living in Windcaton, Somerset,

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where She has opened a well being
hub, the Seed Cafe, and

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her lifestyle store shop at number four. I'm your host, Alis Cortes.

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So Lynn, now that I've just
got you for a little bit of time

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left, one thing I definitely want
us to cover is your Wise Women Ted

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Talk. I so terribly enjoyed watching
and listening to that, and there were

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a few things that stood out.
First, how did you how did you?

455
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How was it that you got to
do a Ted Talk? Oh,

456
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the person that was putting that particular
one on in London was ask me a

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lot of people that I get asked
to do a lot of talk speaking all

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over the place, I suppose,
So, yeah, well, which is

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exactly how you came up and Paul's
conversation with me. So a few things

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for our listeners that I think really
bear repeating. One is that you said

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in that Ted talk that the Dalli
Lama said the world will be saved by

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the Western woman, so taking loving
care of the planet and all its people.

463
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That's quite an interesting idea. Would
you say more about that? And

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where that came from? It was
a quote from one of his interviews actually

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already I think some years ago now, maybe five six years ago, maybe

466
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:37.840
a bit less. No, it
musculine because I did that talking twenty twelve,

467
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so yeah, it was about eight
years ago and I'm ten years ago.

468
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And it's very interesting that he said
that. It's been quoted a lot

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by other people as well, and
I think it makes sense. It does

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make sense. We're in a very
powerful position, us women of the West,

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to create change on behalf of the
generations to come. I mean,

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that's that's the biggest thing I think
that we women do think of more than

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men. I really believe that,
you know, the men, it's very

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much about the moment and power at
the moment, current time. And I

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think as women, whether we're mothers
and grandmothers or not, but I just

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think that as women we do think
about the generations to come, and that's

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why we have this role to play
as leaders in the future of this of

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this crazy world we live in and
try and create a place of peace and

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love. Mm hmm. You know. I'll share with you, Lynn.

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I was in India in December twenty
fourteen and I had the most amazing experience

481
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:45.920
being out in public, and I
remember distinctly I passed by several groups of

482
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.239
school girls, school children on a
field trip at some one place that I'd

483
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:52.760
been in and they literally were,
you know, waving at me, and

484
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.719
I felt like I was a rock
star. And I asked my tour guide,

485
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why are they reacting to me like
that? And they say, well,

486
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they respect you as a as a
Western woman, and I thought,

487
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.079
well, that is really really quite
compelling. So to your point, I

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think there maybe there is a lot
we can do as Western women, and

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I certainly stand for being part of
that movement. Another thing that you said

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in your talk that I thought was
quite quite interesting too, as you said

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that the Mayans say that the year
that you gave that talk, twenty twelve

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started the change from masculine to feminine
power. Yes, even the male leaders,

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00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:36.840
the Mayan male leaders said when that
happened that twenty twelve, I can't

494
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:38.559
remember what it was now, it
must have been something very significant. It

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00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:44.519
was when they were for selling change
of time. Then, yeah, well,

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the women, the women. It's
been foretold by many, many different

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people that when we move into a
more feminine leadership mode, whether it be

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weren't men or women, or a
leadership mode based on love. I mean,

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it's just common sense if we can
get out of this greedy, power

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crazed world that we live in.
When it's all about the money and it's

501
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all about the ownership, we can
move to a place which is about good

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00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:15.679
for all men, women, children, all sentient beings on this planet,

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the nature itself, the environment.
We can create a world that we all

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want to be part of. Then
that's when we will have some Then we

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00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:28.400
will have a future. Right now, you know, it's not looking too

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00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:32.639
good, so we really have to
create change. Well, I'm very encouraged

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by something that I've been following,
Lynn, that you probably have caught wind

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00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:42.480
of, but the Business Roundtable in
August declared that the new purpose of an

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00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:45.719
organization is not just to serve shareholders, but rather to sort of all stakeholders,

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00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:52.280
which includes employees, suppliers, the
community itself, the environment even And

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of course it's caused quite a big
uproar tour in people saying we can't possibly

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be in business for all those reasons. But I find it encouraging that that

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they've taken a stand on that at
least it's maybe heading toward that direction.

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00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.760
I find it encouraging, but I'm
also amazed it's taken so long. Yes,

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yes, many business organizations in the
last forty years who have been saying

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the same thing about it's all about
stakeholder responsibility and commitment and involvement. And

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so you know, really that that's
a comment that should have come out years

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00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:28.480
ago. What is about really?
What is it just about the bottom line?

519
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:34.159
In which case why bother because it's
you know, a few people becoming

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00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:38.639
very very rich, or a lot
of people having quality safe quality of life

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and a safe life. You know, the end of all the wars,

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00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.599
the end of the killing of innocent
children. It's just horrible what we human

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00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:52.880
beings have done, and it is
time we sorted it out, agreed,

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00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:55.559
And I know you're definitely part of
that movement, and I am too.

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And that was another thing that you
said in your in your talk that I

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just thought was delightful, And you
said at sixty four, I finally learned

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what I'm going to be when I
grow up, and I celeerate the power

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00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:08.519
of the crone. I just thought
that was so delightful. I appreciate that

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00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:13.800
so much about you. Well,
I'm now how many years older, I'm

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00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.639
now eight nine years older than I
was said, I'm still celebrating the power

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00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:20.280
of the crone. I'm still having
a wonderful life. I still got to

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00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:25.480
music festivals, I go dancing with
my grandchildren. You know, I am

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00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:30.599
very very happy that I have was
born as a baby boomer and have lived

534
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:34.519
the life I have. I've gone
from everything from being you know, a

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00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.920
teenager at the first Beatles concert right
the way through to still living in Somerset

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00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:42.519
near Glastonbury Festival, which is the
biggest music festival in the world. Still

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00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:45.079
there jumping up and down to whatever
bands are playing. Life is good,

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00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:51.519
even though the world is harsh to
many. I come certainly grateful every day

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00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:54.280
to give thanks every day. I'm
practicing Buddhist, I have been on and

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00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:59.360
off for forty years, and that
opportunity to through my prayers and give thanks

541
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.719
every day it is very very important
to me. Gratitude is so important.

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00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:07.280
I know that from the work that
I do too. And another thing,

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00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:08.719
by the way, I just have
to know, I don't know anything about

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00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:12.159
this, but you have a I
don't know how to say that. If

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00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:16.000
you say an obe or an OB
designation after your name, it's an obbe

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00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:21.280
yes, it's an officer of the
British Empire, which is ridiculous, but

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00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:29.400
it has become very or any honors
given by the Queen are taken very seriously

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00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:31.679
in this country. So I got
that about a year or so ago,

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00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:38.519
which represents well. They gave it
to me for my work for women's empowerment

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00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:44.480
and my contribution to business and my
contribution to the fashion industry. I was

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00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:49.519
particularly proud of the women's empowerment aspect
of this, and I would think I

552
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:52.559
was the first person that have been
several since that have been given an honor

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00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.320
based on the work I've done to
support women, which is great. And

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00:40:55.400 --> 00:41:00.960
Prince Charles actually gave it to me, and that was lovely too. I

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00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:07.480
mean, he's a nice guy that
has done huge amounts of work behind the

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00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:10.960
scenes to support women's initiatives. Because
I met her and a few of them,

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00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.639
so you know, it's kind of
interesting that I was in I worked

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00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.079
a little bit with his first wife, Princess Diana, because she was very

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00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.679
involved with the fashion industry while she
was alive, and then years later I'm

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00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:28.760
working with his second wife on women's
empowerment, and so that's an interesting journey.

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00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:31.719
And yeah, I was lovely to
get the obe real honor over here.

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00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:35.719
It's wonderful. I wanted to make
sure we talked about that, because

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00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.960
it certainly is something to celebrate in
terms of talk about living a wonderful and

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00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:43.519
big life. That it's mattering to
other people, it's just it's it's an

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00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:46.719
indication of that, and I really
applaud that. Then it's beautiful. Yes,

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00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:52.159
thank you. I'm still having a
wonderful time. And the Hub is

567
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:57.639
really the bricks and mortar aspects of
a much bigger as I've said earlier,

568
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.760
a much bigger concept for Seed,
which I love the whey you describe it.

569
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:05.199
Absolutely is a global women's leadership platform. That's exactly what it is,

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00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:09.159
and for women to help other women
all over the world. And I'm very

571
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:13.079
excited that it's taken me twenty years
of having this. I mean, this

572
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.840
was the idea when I wrote the
book, and now twenty years on and

573
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.960
it's there and particularly relevant. I
know you're a global TV show, but

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00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:23.519
it was very exciting for me that
I launched the Book of the United States

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00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:28.360
in Bloomingdale's stores. So I thought
i'd mentioned that because so many of your

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00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:34.440
listeners are American. So when the
book came out, it was promoted through

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00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:37.760
all the windows of the Manhattan Bloomingdale's
and I had the launch party there and

578
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:45.480
then I did workshops on the shop
floor across from blivydal stores across the country.

579
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.320
And that was because I met the
right people and they loved the idea

580
00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:53.360
of a book about women entrepreneurs,
and they featured the products and the fashions

581
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:57.559
that they sold that were done by
women, made by women entrepreneurs. So

582
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:04.079
I just sort of mentioned that for
the American that it had a huge impact

583
00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.280
in windows in bloomingdale stores all over
the country. Actually, this is really

584
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.440
wonderful. It is wonderful, and
I also want to call up for our

585
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:14.280
listeners just that just what you said, it took twenty years for this to

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00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:16.880
all come to the full fruition that
you had envisioned some time, Agots,

587
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:20.679
I really want to encourage all of
us to stick with our dreams. Don't

588
00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:23.599
let them go, stick with them
and see what happens, and so to

589
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:27.639
that in just we've got at a
little bit of time here left, Lynn,

590
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:29.960
I want to hear more about this. I've never heard of a wellbeing

591
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.320
hub before, so when I first
talked with you, I didn't quite understand

592
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:37.000
what you were saying, so would
you help our listeners understand this hub that

593
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:39.880
you're talking about. It's all involved. Okay, So I moved to This

594
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:43.559
is a small town. I don't
even know how I got here. Really,

595
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:46.519
it's lovely old town in Somerset,
where I hope some of your listeners

596
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:52.599
will visit me and see for themselves. We're sort of halfway between Stonehenge and

597
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:58.159
Glastonbury, and it was a part
There was a pub next door rather CD

598
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:02.199
not very nice public house, traditional
public house, and so I thought a

599
00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:07.360
bit naively really that I would buy
it rebuild it because it's a very you

600
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:10.199
know that these two buildings are both
fifteen one hundred and something sixteen hundred and

601
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:14.960
something, you know, five six
hundred years old. But I would rebuild

602
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.679
it as a center, as a
hub is really means, you know,

603
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:22.920
it's a center for a well being. And so we have a vegetarian vegan

604
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:30.239
cafe, We have treatment rooms where
we have different specialists in different areas of

605
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:35.559
healing coming and working. And we
have a big workshop room upstairs where we

606
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:40.920
do all kinds of workshops, sound
healing and I do my workshops, some

607
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:45.440
women's leadership, and then we also
have a number of bedrooms which are very

608
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:51.679
nurturing and eco friendly, and we
have a lot of particularly women. They're

609
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:53.960
done in vintage style. There's no
TV in the room. It's like really

610
00:44:54.000 --> 00:45:00.639
relaxing. The most comfortable mattressism too
vas and pillows we could find. So

611
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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 and spend time

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with me and look at life.
Purpose again, it's back to that purpose.

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

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

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it be other exercises and learning programs
that we've developed over the years. And

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so that's how it's become. It's
not exclusively for women. We have a

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

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

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come and stay for the retreats and
the workshops generally are women. And they

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tell me, all of them that
they don't even want to get out of

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

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

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

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which is like believe in yourself.
I see points. They're part of

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the Seed manifesto believe in yourself and
others will too, abundance of manifest abundance

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in every area of your life.
There are a number of Seed slogans and

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affirmations that I wrote twenty years ago, and I'm now all over the Seed

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

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

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how relaxed they feel once they come
inside, even just for a cup of

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coffee. Everything's organic with coffees of
teas so on. So it's kind of

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

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

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properly, and I had homes over
the years. I had a home in

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New 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
there's five six thousand people here and

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

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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 craft

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market. We're creating cross generational mentoring
programs here for the senior elderly, not

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just the elderly, but to work
with the teenagers on creativity and nutrition and

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

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

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call it the win Canton Seed Market
because it came out of my dream for

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

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

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

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now have a woman mayor, which
is wonderful, then we can I delicate

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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 up the road.
We're looking at a lot of things here

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as a small community, a mixed
small community, And if we can do

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it, and other communities in towns
have done it brilliantly too, then we

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

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

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but I have to tell you I
am coming to visit, So look

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

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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? Exactly will,

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and I'll 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 to

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start with Lynn Franks dot com.
That's l y n n E. Franks

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

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website. That's her hub she's talking
about. It's h U b A t

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n O three dot com. And
then finally she already mentioned the Ceed Networking

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for Women dot com. That's the
online community that I'll also be joining as

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well. Check all those sites out
with you will. It's great stuff happening

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there, and I'm so glad that
we get We have a wait to see

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in touch with you last week.
If you missed the live show, you

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can always catch it be recorded podcast
where you're on the air with doctor James

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Pogue talking about unconscious bias and now
we can more quickly learn to become aware

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of it in ourselves and others for
more fulfilling and enlightened life and work experience.

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Next week we'll be on the air
with Jim Corneilsen talking about the work

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he is doing an e o S, which stands for Entrepreneurial Operating System.

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See you there. Remember that works
at least once in our lives, So

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let's work on purpose. We hope
you've enjoyed this week's program, be sure

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to tune in to Working on Purpose, featuring your host Alis Cortes, each

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week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel. This week, find your life's purpose

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at work.