On Finding and Living from Purpose

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

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

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise 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. I'm your host,

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Elise Cortez, joining you now live
from Dallas, Texas, which is

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home base for me. This program
is all about helping people more meaningfully and

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productively connect with their work and equipping
leaders to cultivate meaning and purpose in the

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workplace to elicit passion inspired contribution,
innovation, and persevering performance. So I

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seek out and bring on guests with
a particular perspective, experience, or expertise

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that I think contributes to or expands
his conversation. And as a management consultant

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and social scientist, I draw the
meaning and work and identity research I've been

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doing over the last fifteen years,
as well as from my own experience consulting,

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speaking and developing workforces across the globe. I hope you caught the show

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with us. Last week we were
on the air with Rebecca Baale. She

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is a global partner with Lumina Learning, a talent development organization with leading ed

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solutions and people development through personal leadership, organizational and sales assessments and programs.

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As I am a certified Lumina practitioner
and I use these assessments myself and my

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leadership development and coaching work. Rebecca
and I shared several examples of how we

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each use the assessments in our work
to bring together and catalyze team performance,

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appreciate diversity and strength, and communication
relationships, as well as developing leaders careers

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fun just talking with another colleague about
the work that we get to do together.

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With us this week is Sean Anderson, who is a motivational author,

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unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur with
a history of inspiring others. He's a

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six time author with the latest book
that's not the latest book, This is

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one coming out as well, but
one of his latest books is called Amicus

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one oh one, a story about
the pursuit of purpose overcoming life's chaos.

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Is also the human spark plug behind
the Extra Mile Day, The day,

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recognizing the power we have to create
positive change when we go the extra mile.

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We'll be talking today about how we
each came upon our own purpose in

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life and work. You joined it
today from Marina del Rey, California,

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Sean, Welcome back to working on
purpose. Perfect to be here at least

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today. How are you? I'm
great, I'm with you. How bad

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could it be? Excellent? You
know, I have to first tell our

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listeners a little submit about how we
met. So some time ago, maybe

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I think about a year and a
half ago now is when we actually crossed

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paths when I first had you on
the show, and I absolutely fell in

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love with your message and your energy
and your vision and your frankly, you're

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just willingness to always want to lift
other people up. Not willingness. I

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think it's that's your purpose and I
just have never been able to let that

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go. And so I reached out
to you a few months after that first

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show and I said, you know, I think you can help me get

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further along in my life if you
would maybe consider being my coach. Remember

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that I do. And that has
been now almost a year ago, and

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you've been with me on my journey
and it has been even more splendid in

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divine because of its Let's start with
a big, fat thank you, Well,

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how is life going for you these
days? It's fantastic And I want

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to talk a little bit more about
that, about the whole purpose here,

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journey, the journey purpose itself.
But before we get into that, if

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we can, I want to share
something splendid about you with our listeners that

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will kind of help give us a
context about why purpose can be such a

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great way to go about living,
in life and working. And that is

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you just came back from walking through
Italy north to south. Yeah, right,

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or maybe south to north. People
ask me was it? Was it

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east to west or was it north
to south? Which way was it?

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But would you share a little bit
about why you do that? And I

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know you've done this five or six
times now? Yes, actually this is

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the I had walked from Milan to
Rome north to south, and this is

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actually the sixth country I've now walked
across in the last four years. And

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the reason that I do it at
least one, I have a tremendous passion

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for international travel. Two. I
love the day to day spontaneity of just

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meeting and seeing things that are so
unpredictable. And three, I do it

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as major league acts sharpening tools for
myself. You know, we go through

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life and life starts to wear us
down. We start to lose our sharpness.

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We lose our sharpness and passion,
We lose our sharpness and purpose.

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So when you go walk carrying a
twenty five plus pound backpack on your back

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every day, not knowing how far
you can go or where you're gonna end

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up, you regain your passion for
life and your purpose for living it at

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your highest levels. I am so
glad we started with that. Wow.

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Okay, So, and I also
know that every time you do that,

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Sean, you get to a new
level for yourself. Yes, or at

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least I get myself ba to my
best level. You know. I we

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live either our best version of ourselves
or our second best version, and God

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help us all if we ever fall
down to our third best version of ourselves.

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But you know, it's just it's
just doing the right things that get

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us back to being our best,
being our best and purpose and passion and

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health and life and relationships and dreams
and goals and careers all of that.

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And so you know that's what I
go, do I just, I just,

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I just go and re light myself
on fire about why I'm here,

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how lucky I'm being here, and
what do I want to do next.

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So the reason I wanted to have
you back on the show again to talk

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about this, Sean, is that
I meet all the time, and I

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know you do too. Unfortunately,
people who literally are wandering like a zombie

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Monday through Friday waiting for the weekend
it begin so they can actually live,

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and they're squandering their precious lives.
And so of course a big reason that

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I do the work that I do
is because I want to wake up those

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souls to the beauty of their own
lives and certainly the adventure that the work

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can actually be for them. And
I was fortunate because I had parents who

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were entrepreneurs or are first farmers and
there were restaurateurs, and they taught me

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a really strong worth a work ethic
that became really just a way of living.

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It's not something I have to do, that was a start of it,

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right, It's something I get to
do. And I think that when

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we can awaken people to how amazing
and beautiful their overall lives can be and

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give them into their purpose. Everybody
wins, right, They win because they're

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much more fulfilled. They bring that
home to their families, so their families

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win and they're empowered. Their communities
win because they cascading want to do something

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back their organization. Certainly when and
I think you can make an argument for

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them cascading out into the communities into
their state across the nation, everybody wins.

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When we're working from purpose and really
living our best lives. Absolutely.

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You know, when we walk into
the world and we're happy, it's hard

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not to share happy everywhere we go. When we walk into the world with

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purpose, it's hard not to share
purpose with everywhere we go. When we

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walk into the world with passion,
it's hard not for people to catch it

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and say, I just want a
little bit more of what she's got.

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And you know, it's up to
us. It's up to us to really

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create that in ourselves. And when
we start to let ourselves get too dull,

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when we work in jobs that we
don't like, when we are in

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relationships that are unedifying, when we're
not as healthy as we could be,

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and we're carrying that extra weight that
we don't want to carry. All of

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that is taking us away from being
our best self. And every time that

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we take an inch away from being
our best self, we take an inch

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away from sharing our best self with
the world. I couldn't agree more absolutely,

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we were totally in lockstep on that. And another reason again that I

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wanted to have you on the show
is people ask me all the time and

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now I've been incorporating into my own
leadership programs about how can they find and

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discover their own purpose, And so
I'd be kind of fun for us to

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share a bit about how we got
to our own and say a little bit

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about what that takes along the way. And the first thing that I want

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to say about that is that for
me, and I do think the experience

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is different for a lot of from
people. There's different ways to get into

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to find your purpose, to discover
it. But those whispers from the universe

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that you keep ignoring, I think
for me, those were some of the

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things that I finally kept paying attention
to and kept steering the divining rod in

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the right direction. And I do
consider it for me, Sean, it's

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been like an unfolding, and it
unfolds more and more and I get bigger

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and stronger, as I continue into
my path of purpose. But it's kind

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of been like I feel like pulling
the layers away of protection from that purpose

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that maybe was there for the longest
time, but I kind of stuffed it

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down or didn't recognize that that's what
it was and didn't treat it with respect

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that it deserved. What about you? What was your what was some of

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your path? You know, I've
I've been really blessed to be living my

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purpose for a while and I just
really identified what it was that turned me

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on what my juice and life was. And my purpose is even in a

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statement, to empower one million people
to how are one million people to lead

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a more passionate, positive and purposeful
existence. So everything that I do,

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all my big decisions are made looking
back at that purpose. All my little

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decisions are made it looking at my
purpose. If I choose whether or not

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to move forward with the project or
not, I just simply I just simply

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weigh it against my purpose. How
does this meet that purpose to empower one

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million people to lead a more passionate, positive and purposeful existence? And how

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long has that been with you,
that understanding that that was your purpose?

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When did that happen for you.
It actually became a written purpose. It's

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been a written purpose now for over
twenty years. And you know, the

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words might have been tweaked here or
there, but you know, I think

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to lead a powerful life, you
have to know what a powerful life is

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for you. To lead a passionate
life, you have to know what a

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passionate life means to you. To
lead a purposeful life, you have to

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know what those mean. You know, if you go in you speak to

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one hundred people in a room and
you say how many of you to be

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happy in life? Almost one hundred
of them are going to raise their hand.

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But then we ask what it is
it makes you happy? And being

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able to define that specifically what makes
you happy? That's the big question.

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So when you find what makes you
happy, it's also going to be tied

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somewhat to what your purpose is as
well. M Yeah, and when I

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look at that space, I go
into the meaning and fulfillment space. And

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that's really kind of if I look
back on my journey, so much of

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it was into the inquiry of meaning
and then absolutely identity too. For me,

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that's been a lifelong fascination and so
some of the research that I've done

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around this to make sure that I'm
as as on top of this game as

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I can be, as looking at
some of those things that delighted us when

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we were young. So you had
that, it sounds like, and those

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things that give us a mini year
fascination and meaning and purpose and identity.

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Was that for me, and I've
not let it go, and I don't

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imagine I'm going to let it go. It's just going to be something I

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continue to be in inquiry in,
you know. For me, I think

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it was really coming to the realization
that life is really hard, and life

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really can punch you in the gut, and there are a thousand voices around

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you that keep telling you that you
can't do it, that you're not good

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enough, you're not fast enough,
you're not attractive enough, you don't have

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enough money, that you're not good
enough for that job, you're not going

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to get into that school. There's
just so many reasons for us not to

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pursue what it is that we want
in life. And I just chose,

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at a young age, after realizing
that all these voices are coming at me,

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I chose to be the opposite voice
for other people. I chose to

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be the one that said, you
know what, if that's what you want,

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let's build a plan and help you
get there, because you can do

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it. I was chose the one
to believe in people, and so my

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purpose can't just really started to be
melted around the idea of being the cheerleader,

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being the clapper, being the one
that says, you go, at

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least you do it. Man.
You know what's so funny about that,

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John, is I've gone through my
own exercises to really start to trace where

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this began. And I too,
have always spent a cheerleader. And here's

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what's really fascinating about that. I
can tell you unequivocally that when I was

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in high school, and no offense
to the people out there in the crowd

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who have been cheerleaders, but that
was the last thing I wanted to do

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was be the person with the pom
poms going go, Team Go. I

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just didn't that whole images didn't work
for me. But if I look at

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my life, Sean, that's exactly
what I've been doing my whole entire life

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was telling people, go, you
can do this. Even when I'm doing

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a race. We've talked about this
and I pass somebody in a race,

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I give them encouragement because I don't
want them to feel bad because they got

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passed, right, I want them
to feel great about what they're doing in

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their effort. And so we have
that in common. Yeah, you know,

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it's so many times that we walk
through the day and just life can

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get hard, and we can get
discouraged, and we can get frustrated,

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and we can start to lose faith
in ourself and our dreams and our goal

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And I just wish that everybody had
one big item on their goals every day,

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and that's to encourage one other person, because I think if if everybody

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just encouraged one other person every day, I believe that so many more people

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would truly find they're happy. I
completely believe that, and I try to

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walk that talk, and in many
ways I can't help but walk that talk

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because it just kind of governs me. But really quick, I'll share with

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you that back in two thousand and
two, when I first moved to Dallas

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with my then husband, he was
doing his first half iron Man in Hawaii

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and we coerced his father, who's
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be part of the whole cheering committee. In such and we meet him swear

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that he couldn't ask his son,
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you need to quit? But so
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kind of leap frog the race in
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had him to stop every few miles
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and yell out or yell out the
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passed, give them, to give
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am not called to do that,
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but you are. You know.
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I found my best person when I
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best person. I feel that when
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that we become the person inwardly.
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they might just be a little introverted
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of encouragement or empowerment with other people, I say, just push yourself just

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a little bit, push yourself just
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do it. In a silent way. I mean, maybe you don't have

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to do it with your words,
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you can do it with the text
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your smile, you can do it
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because when you start to push yourself
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going to find that you become more
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experiences, and activities too. M
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with me, Shaun along those very
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feel the best? And when when
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is it what is it that when
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help and we're giving it, Or
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in some other way. I really
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help somebody, to really extend your
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that is so much more meaningful,
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there is something about that. It's
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realizing of potential, it's about the
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yeah, I believe that. You
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that my life is going to become
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a million dollars in the bank,
but by possibly planting and watering seeds in

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a million people's lives. You know, that's what's going to live on after

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I'm gone. That's what's going to
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make a human being better, a
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community better, the world better.
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a word that they haven't heard.
Maybe it was something that they heard a

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long time ago. So it's me
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starts to resonate and say, oh, yeah, I remember that. Yes

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I want to do that. But
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seed water that is going to at
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life way way bigger than trying to
see how many things you can get in

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life, to see what kind of
cars you drove, how big your houses

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were, and how much money you
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have a chance to really change the
world. I completely concur and what a

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beautiful way to take us into our
first break Shan, I'm host Elise Cortez.

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We're on the air with Shawn Anderson, who is a human spark plug

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behind the Extra Mile Day and the
author of Amicus one oh one, story

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about the pursuit of purpose and overcoming
life's chaos. He joins the day from

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Marina del Rey, California. We've
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have contributed to our own purpose.
After the break, we're renissure each a

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little bit about really the journey of
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us to where we are today.
Stay with us, We'll be right back.

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

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

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

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engagement, performance and retention. To
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an email to Elise ali se at
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working on purpose if you're just joining
us my guest ist, motivational author,

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unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur at
Sean Anderson. He's a six time author

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with the latest book or one of
us books, called Amicus one oh one,

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a story about the pursuit of purpose
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also the human spark plug behind the
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the power we have to create positive
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I'm your host, Elise Cortez.
So before the break shewn, we were

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talking a bit about really some of
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gone into us working on discovering our
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with our listeners more specifically some of
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trucks along the way that got us
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it, let's go, okay,
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did a little bit. I've done
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and I do. I do have
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workshops. I want to sketch a
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for people to start from the present
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you go back to when you were
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five, that seems overwhelming and daunting. But if I start today with what

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is it that I love? And
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I'm so grateful that I do,
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and effort working at it. And
I'll peel that back for us. But

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you know, for me, the
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of course that cascades and other parts
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I said before, and so my
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catalyze people across the globe, to
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meaning and their own purpose in the
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best along the way. And so
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my leadership programs and the various other
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so that's present day. So if
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start to look at where that all
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you can kind of stitch us together
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think it will yield some dividends,
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come up with. By the way, So if I peel that back a

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little bit and I look at you
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and I met, I was doing
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a management consulting firm, and I
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me to really really express my own
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that's when you and I started working
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me. Thank you so much for
this to really turn my lens and go,

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we'll hold on, Cortez. You
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an overall life for yourself, not
just do this work. Aren't you looking

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to become your best self and create
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all those conversations, Yes, Okay, so that was a big catalyst for

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me, Sean, and I just
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a great coach, because that has
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that really got me thinking about,
well, hold on here, why am

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I? Why am I not running
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develop my message? I mean I
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and all kinds of things like why
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when I know I have my own
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purpose. And so then that led
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let me go ahead and separate from
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renew my own offering because I had
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to that, and then just really
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the last fifteen years around meaning and
identity and purpose. And so that is

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what I've done over the last I
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programs, purpose leadership programs for organizations
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That's how that all came about.
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If I wasn't standing in my purpose
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have never happened. I would not
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you know, I was always doing
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and companies, and that was really
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transform in front of my eyes.
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me to be led into somebody's personal
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my PhD. I got in my
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and really, Sean, you know
what that was. It was an answer,

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it was it was that was my
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I didn't get didn't get a new
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I didn't have an affair. But
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a crisis of meaning. I wanted
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so what did I do. It
went after a PhD in human development,

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so that's psychology and sociology, and
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modes of engagement and meaning, et
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their work, and well, if
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fell into the human capital field right
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oh my gosh, so again all
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and I'm just kind of opting in
and trying to listen to see where that

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went in the universe is blowing me. But before that, John, when

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I lived in Brazil and I was
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across Field and Graduate University, which
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I said, some day I'm going
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the mid That was nineteen ninety three. And if I peel that back even

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further, I can go back and
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do when I was living in Spain
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wide open and really got me into
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effort in coming into my own and
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and living in other countries. That
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What can humans actually do when they
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and you know, let themselves go. And then finally I'll say, you

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know, then I go back to
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was in high school, Sean,
I knew that I was going to study

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psychology, and I didn't do it. Took me a little while to do

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it. I took me actually getting
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admitiative assistant and eighteen months and getting
fired by that man. Remember that.

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Roland and he didn't say you got to

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get out of here and go do
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get an education, that would that's, you know, the ongoing spark if

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you will, to the journey.
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it makes the most sense. But
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Sean, I have never been more
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the work that I'm doing and why
it's important. And it does make me

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feel vulnerable, of course, right
I put myself out there, But I

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have never been more convicted in my
entire life of what I'm doing and why

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it's important and why I'm willing to
fight every day to get to do this

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work. Mmmmmm, Well, you're
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be able to trace your journey and
to be aware of all the transitions that

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you've gone through to get you where
you are. But it's it's, it's

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it's it's amazing that you're happy with
where you are, that all of the

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decisions that have been made have brought
you to this place now, this place

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now where you feel as if you
have a chance to be the most powerful

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at least Cortez, that you ever
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I will tell you what's fascinating about
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an impact. Right. You talked
about making a difference in a million lives,

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And I can tell you that when
I now show up and go out

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to speak, how people receive me
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the year before the year before that. It's just there's just so much more

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connection and they're they're going into action
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think that's because I am standing in
a stronger place of purpose and what I

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talk about, right, because you've
received yourself in a different place. I

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mean, if we if we don't
believe who we are what we are,

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how can we ever project to someone
else who we are and what we are?

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living in your purpose. People talk

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a lot about authentic leadership, and
that is very, very fantastic. The

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thing that I really appreciate about living
in the space, and this is what

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I work on for the programs that
I've developed, is really letting getting people

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to a place where they discover their
own purpose as we have, so that

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they can really live in that authentic
space. Because when they can generally show

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up like that, I think what
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energy becomes irresistible people. You said
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I think that's exactly what happens.
I've seen it happen with other people as

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well. When they're really standing in
their purpose, they're really inspiring and that

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is incredible as an incredibly effective way
to lead in to live. There's a

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story of an English pastor and he
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the people every week kept on coming, incoming, and coming, and it

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was an overpacked courtyard where he would
speak. And someone asked him, pastor,

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why is it that the crowd keeps
getting bigger and bigger, And he

413
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said, because when you set yourself
on fire, the people will always come

414
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and watch. And I believe that
when we live our lives with fire another

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word for passion, When we live
our lives like that, people are going

416
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to be drawn. Businesses are going
to be drawn to wanting us to work

417
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with them. People are going to
be drawn to wanting to have a relationship

418
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with us. And and and that's
where it all begins, being able to

419
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set yourself on fire. M And
you know what, I one thing I

420
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didn't really say enough and what I
just narrated from my own story, there's

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two other really important elements here that
I have to really surface for our listeners.

422
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And one is, you know,
I struggled with this. I mean,

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I had this inkling that I was, you know, on the right

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path, but I didn't I didn't
recognize it as the right path at the

425
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time. I was just on it
and it was, you know, it

426
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was taking me. I just didn't
understand that. And I struggled, Sean

427
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with that. I wrestled with it. I kept saying, I should know

428
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what I want to be, I
should know what I want to be,

429
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and I don't. And I just
was so you know, overtaken by that.

430
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And I met many people that tell
me the same thing, Sean,

431
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they're just so perplexed and upset and
first or that they don't know what their

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purpose is. And it's understandable.
I felt that before, and I know

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when I had Zach mccourie on the
show, he said that's how he got

434
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into the same space working with purpose
too, because he had been lost and

435
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wanted to find himself and that was
mine too, and then the other piece

436
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of it. And I just yesterday
spoke to a gentleman named Phil Sodok who's

437
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going to be in my show in
a couple of weeks, and I asked

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him about how it was that he
really found his purpose and he said,

439
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you know, at least for me, it was that I had had various

440
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jobs and I just a lot of
them were just really pretty crappy, thank

441
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:26.640
you very much, and I wasn't
feeling good about the world of work or

442
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.200
myself. And I really just said, well, I can't find what I'm

443
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looking for out there working for someone
else, so I'm going to just go

444
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out and create it for myself.
And he said, you know, I

445
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didn't even have a product, I
didn't even have an offering, but it

446
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was a matter of creating the life
that I wanted to live and that the

447
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person that I could be proud of. And that's also been part of my

448
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:55.160
journey too well. And I challenge
a challenge everyone to think on a little

449
00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:00.880
bigger picture. Are we ever on
the wrong path? Because everything that we've

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gone through, every path that we've
stumbled across, has brought us to this

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point. And and and if you're
satisfied in your life at all, then

452
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all the little excursions that you went
on that didn't feel great, they were

453
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the right path for you to be
on at that moment. And for everybody

454
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right now who's maybe not as happy
with her life, it's because, man,

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you're still on the path you're supposed
to be on, because you're trying

456
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to find what it is that you
really love in life. We're all on

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this, we all have these journeys, and I just I'm I've always believed

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that that it's it's always just been
my path. It's just my path.

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And there might be parts of my
path that I don't like, parts of

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my path I do like, but
all of the parts of my path make

461
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me and have made me who I
am. And I'm grateful for all the

462
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parts. I completely concur with that. In fact, a couple of pieces

463
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in there that you surface that I
do want to address for our listeners,

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especially when you talked about maybe you
know what is it? Maybe could you

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be on the right path the whole
time? I can look at it back

466
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:06.079
on you and the work that I've
done in various parts of my career that

467
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.599
you know, we're not very meaningful. I didn't like them, but they

468
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were still I think, part of
my right path because they really helped me

469
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:17.079
clarify what it was I didn't want. Absolutely, I call that the anti

470
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:21.480
role model, right, So thank
you for showing me what I don't want

471
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.039
and absolutely and frankly you know for
me now that I get to create my

472
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own life where i'm you know,
I'm a single person and I get to

473
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do and be anything that I want
to be, I'm so grateful for that.

474
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And does that mean that I that
my years of being married were not

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on my path? Absolutely not.
But they they allowed me to develop the

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person that I became. And then
when I left that part of my life

477
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to come into a whole new space
where I could create something totally new and

478
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:55.680
fresh that I couldn't probably have done
when I was in when I was married.

479
00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:59.839
You know that's right. Being on
the right path doesn't mean we're always

480
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:06.680
to experience victory, because that's just
not life. Life is life is winning,

481
00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:08.839
life is losing, life is falling
down, life is getting up.

482
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:15.480
Life is experiencing, experiencing tragedy,
life is experiencing celebration, and and and

483
00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:19.240
everyone. And just because we feel
great about our life right now, at

484
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this moment, at this hour,
at this on this day, it doesn't

485
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.160
mean that that that everything is going
to be great because we're on this right

486
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:30.920
path. Now. Again, I
just argue that that our whole life is

487
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:36.079
this path that we walk, and
everything that we've experienced makes this wiser,

488
00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:40.640
sharper, better able to handle whatever's
gonna come next. Because I can assure

489
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.279
you that over the next three years, you're going to experience some amazing victories.

490
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.599
At least, you're gonna have some
celebrations and some crazy moments that are

491
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.559
gonna go, oh, my god, this is the most amazing day of

492
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.920
my life. This is most my
most amazing success. On the other hand,

493
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:58.240
there's going to be some days that
life is going to punch you in

494
00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:02.400
the stomach. You're gonna go oh
because that's just life, man, that's

495
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life. And I think the more
that we're aware, that we develop an

496
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:13.799
awareness that that that we have the
ability to to think and process and to

497
00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.400
feel, to understand, and to
cause cause and effect on our path as

498
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:21.680
we walk through, that's when we
can make our longer days, our better

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00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:28.119
days longer, and are less happy
days shorter. M Well. And the

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other thing that I'm very, very
very convinced of, and you've alluded to

501
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:35.759
it as well, Sean, and
that is the importance of navigating and embracing

502
00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:37.319
adversity. In fact, I had
somebody on my show a few weeks ago,

503
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:42.920
Steep Gapator to talking about this that
you know, when we embrace adversity,

504
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.160
it helps us become the people we
are meant to become, and frankly,

505
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:50.799
probably can't become absent that adversity.
And so to your point, I

506
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.000
don't think and we I don't think
it's it would be healthy to always look

507
00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:55.759
to be happy. In fact,
I think it's better to look to always

508
00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:01.440
find meaning and fulfillment than it is
to be happy. But happiness is a

509
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:05.960
nice side product that comes along the
way when you're when you're when you're living

510
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.000
well and I think too. I
really want to make sure that our listeners

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here that you know, going after
a life of purpose and working with purpose

512
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:22.440
is a is a hard journey.
It's well worth every single piece of effort.

513
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.119
However, it is hard, and
you know the result the reward for

514
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.239
that is the beautiful fruit that you
get for that hard work. But you

515
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:34.679
know it's it does require you to
step into unknown territory a lot of times,

516
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.440
and that's scary for a lot of
people. It has been for me.

517
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:38.320
And now I've been doing more and
more of it, and you know,

518
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:42.719
it gets easier every time you do
it. That's really important to say,

519
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.719
and that there's something about and I
love the way you do these you

520
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:50.239
know, when you walk across the
country, the fact that you live in

521
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:52.880
such a spontaneous place, Sean,
I think that is so magical. I

522
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.599
actually didn't really understand that about how
you were doing those things before. I

523
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.159
got it sort of from the background, but I didn't understand that was part

524
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.960
of the key ingredient and the intentionality
piece of it. But something about you

525
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:07.880
know, when we go out looking
for our purpose, we are stepping into

526
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:09.639
the unknown. A lot of the
times. We don't know what's around the

527
00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:13.880
corner at how long we can walk
that day? And I think that was

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Boy, what a great way to
start the show talking about looking for and

529
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:21.840
discovering our purpose. Well, really, every single day when we wake up,

530
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:23.440
who really knows what's going to happen
every day. I mean sure,

531
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:27.960
you might have the same process as
getting you know, you get up,

532
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.360
you go get your coffee, you
go brush your teeth, you get the

533
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.039
kids off, you take the dogs
out. I mean the little steps that

534
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.679
every single day begins. But then
all of a sudden things just happen as

535
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.119
we go. And I think when
we embrace the spot and eighty of life,

536
00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:43.760
when we go, wow, that
was an amazing day. Look at

537
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.440
all the things that happened. That
was so cool Because you can't be afraid

538
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.000
of Spontan eighty and you can't be
afraid of what's next, because if you're

539
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.920
afraid of both of them, then
your life's going to be absolutely miserable because

540
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.360
every single day, both of them
are going to come at you like a

541
00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:02.559
locomotive. Better just to jump on
the train, right, Sean, Well,

542
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:06.559
yeah, I mean really, there's
just things that happen, man.

543
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:12.400
You know what, I honestly will
say to myself as I wake up in

544
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.199
the morning, Man, I wonder
what's going to happen today? And I

545
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:19.599
don't say it like, oh my
God, I wonder what's gonna happen today.

546
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.760
I don't. It's not like that
because if I if I go out

547
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:24.880
looking for the grouso, I'm gonna
find the grusome. If I look for

548
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:27.599
the bad, if I look for
the ugly, if I look for the

549
00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.239
dark, I guarantee you fine,
fine, fine. But if I go,

550
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:34.719
man, what adventure is going to
happen today? What cool thing's going

551
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:38.480
to happen today? What miracle is
going to happen today? I swear that

552
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:40.119
every night I go to bed,
I go, well, that was a

553
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:45.840
great adventure. WHOA, that was
a cool miracle. Wow. Because we

554
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:50.800
will find what we look for.
So embrace the spontaneity, embrace those spontaneous

555
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:54.440
moments and realize that the chances are
they gonna be good if you look for

556
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them. That's the framing them that
I love to talk about too. Hold

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00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:02.360
that thought, Sean, our last
break, I'm your host Elise Cortez.

558
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.840
We on the air with Shaan Anderson, who is the human spark plug behind

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00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.000
the Extra Mile Day, and the
author of Amicus one oh one, a

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story about the pursuit of purpose in
overcoming life's chaos. You join us today

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from Marina del Rey, California.
Stay with us, We'll be right back.

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

563
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delivers professional development, leadership and engagement
workshops and can bring her expertise to your

564
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organization. She will help ignite meaningful
development within your workforce that will increase employee

565
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.960
engagement, performance and retention. To
learn more or to invite Elise to speak

566
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to your organization, please visit her
at www dot Elise Cortez dot com.

567
00:37:52.400 --> 00:38:02.360
She would welcome the opportunity to help
get your employees working on purpose. This

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

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an email to Elise ali se at
Elise Cortez dot com. Now back to

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working on purpose. If you're just
tuning in, my guest is motivational author,

571
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unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneurs Sean
Anderson. He's a six time author,

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including the book called Amicus one oh
one, a story about the pursuit

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of purpose and overcoming life's chaos.
He's also the human spark plug behind the

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extra mile day a day, recognizing
the power we have to create positive change

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when we go the extra mile.
I'm your host, Elise Cortez, so

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Sean and our last little bit of
time together here. It's amazing how fast

577
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:47.480
time evaporates when we talk about passion
and purpose. But I shared in the

578
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last segment a little bit about some
of the stops along the way that piece

579
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:58.840
together my path to purpose. I
know yours is you found it? It

580
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:01.239
was maybe it in a different way
for you. Will you sketch a little

581
00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:07.000
bit about how you came upon your
purpose? You know, instead of instead

582
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:09.679
of talking about the stops, let
me just go and talk about one start.

583
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You want to know. You want
to know the most profound, profound

584
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:22.440
lesson and thought that ever changed my
life. I do pink bubble gum.

585
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:28.719
Okay, do tell well, back
in the olden days I had when I

586
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:31.280
was a little boy, I loved
baseball cards. And inside you'd open up

587
00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:36.079
these packs of baseball cards and there
would be these hard pink sticks of bubble

588
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:42.000
gum, And so I wanted these
baseball cards so badly and I realized back

589
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.360
then that you know, you just
can't walk into Uncle Happy's toy shop and

590
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:47.360
grab as many baseball packs as you
want, but there was a process that

591
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:50.719
you had to You had to pick
them out, you had to walk to

592
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:52.920
the cashier, you had to take
something called money out of your pocket and

593
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:55.519
pay for the cards, and you
could walk out with however many packs you

594
00:39:55.559 --> 00:40:00.360
bought, these packs with pink bubble
gum. So I said, well,

595
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:01.679
you know what, if I love
baseball cards, I've got to find a

596
00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:06.440
way to be able to get those
baseball cards. And so that at that

597
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:08.800
point, I became an entrepreneur.
And when one becomes an entrepreneur, they

598
00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:14.239
really learned the basics that you've got
the power to create the results, to

599
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.559
create the life that you want.
So I started my first business, and

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I was no more than maybe a
ten year old boy who again loved pink

601
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:27.400
bubblegum, who decided that the way
he could make money was to drown his

602
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:32.760
parents' backyard flood it in water.
Because when the backyard was flooded, the

603
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:37.280
giant nightcrawler worms came to the top. And when I picked up all those

604
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.480
giant nightcrawler worms and I put them
in big peat barrels. I then figured

605
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:46.920
out that if I advertised in the
Reno Evening Gazette newspaper on Saturdays and Sundays

606
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:51.840
and sat in my front yard with
my big peat barrels with worms, that

607
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.920
the fishermen would come and they would
get They would buy my worms by the

608
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:01.480
dozens every Saturday and Sunday. Now
I then got money. I then took

609
00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:07.519
my money and I went and bought
pink bubble gum. That's how it started,

610
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:12.760
because I just realized that life is
cause and effect. Now as I

611
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.599
became older and the whole concept evolved
more, that life is causing effect and

612
00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:22.440
relationships, life is causing effect,
and in dreams and goals and in health,

613
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.320
I just understood that what I do
is what I will get. And

614
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so you know, everything else always
came. It came from pink bubble Gum.

615
00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:36.639
I love that story. I've never
heard that before. I think that's

616
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:40.760
just shall we say yummy. I
just love it and it reminds me.

617
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:45.079
And this is something else I hope
that our listeners are getting from this exchange,

618
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is you know, what are they
getting for themselves in this conversation?

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So I can tell you that you
now have sparked for me. I remember,

620
00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:54.199
and this this goes to really my
approach to leadership and it's been with

621
00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:58.639
me since and it's part of since
I was young, and it's part of

622
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:02.280
you know, my purpose journey as
well, and that is that when I

623
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:07.239
was about that age, we lived
in this cul de sac in a place

624
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.360
called Hermiston, Oregon. That's where
I grew up, small northeastern town,

625
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and I had this thing where I've
always had this thing about gathering people together,

626
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:22.119
bringing us together, and uniting us
into some common cause and scrapping it

627
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:25.320
through kind of thing or just pulling
it off and casting a vision. So

628
00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.679
on, on either after school days
or the weekends, I'd get this idea

629
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.440
that I'd like, you wanted money
for something, and so I think,

630
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.079
well, today's a good day to
wash cars or to rick leaves. And

631
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so I'd go and knock on the
doors and grab my neighbors that other kids

632
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:43.719
out of their out of their slumber
or TV time, and say, come

633
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:45.880
on, let's go. Don't you
want to make some money so you can

634
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.920
buy whatever it is They loved,
right, the baseball cards, et cetera.

635
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:52.920
And they would like oh, okay, So a lot of times here

636
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.320
we are got to imagine the crowd, you know, the the gaggle of

637
00:42:55.400 --> 00:43:00.440
kids, most of us don't have
shoes on. And I go knock on

638
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:01.719
the door and say, hey,
you know, we'd like to wash your

639
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:06.519
car for whatever X amount of dollars. And almost every time they said yes,

640
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.800
so we would we would wash the
cars, or we would break the

641
00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:13.480
leaves, and then I would pay
the pay the help, and then they'd

642
00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:15.760
send them, sent them back on
their way. But it's something very similar,

643
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:21.280
Sean. But that whole thing for
me, it's about bringing disparate groups

644
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:24.440
of people together, seeing how they
can play in that space together, where

645
00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:29.360
are they strong, where can they
contribute, and doing something together that we

646
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:34.800
could never do individually. I love
that. Yeah, that's that's absolutely right.

647
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.719
You know, we talk a lot
and it almost becomes cliche when we

648
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:44.639
talk about creating one's own life,
but that it is so real. Okay,

649
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:47.840
it's it's it's it's it's so much
more of a cliche to me and

650
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:53.440
to you when we understand that,
you know, everything that we do is

651
00:43:53.480 --> 00:44:00.559
going to have an effect. If
if we go out for the next six

652
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:04.800
weeks, five days a week and
we exercise, the chances are the effect

653
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.719
is that we're going to we're going
to be more fit, we're going to

654
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:10.840
be more healthy. And we created
that. If we go home to our

655
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:15.480
relationship tonight with no other reason but
just to say, man, thank you,

656
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:20.400
you are so amazing, and we
bring home some flowers, the effect

657
00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:23.280
of that is probably going to be
a big giant smile and thank you so

658
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:28.480
much, and you're pretty awesome.
We created that. When we go to

659
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:31.320
our boss and we say, you
know what, I'm grateful for being here

660
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.480
and I want to know what more
can I do to add to our mission,

661
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:45.360
what you've done is you've created a
stronger bond with your boss and you've

662
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:49.880
helped make that company stronger again.
We always will. We have this power

663
00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:54.599
to create what we want. Dreams
are They're not things that are supposed to

664
00:44:54.639 --> 00:45:00.440
just be oh, I wish this
could happen. Dreams are dreams to me,

665
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:07.000
our ideas and thoughts that I say
that's what I want, and then

666
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.079
we figure out a plan to give
them wings and legs and we make the

667
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:16.079
dreams become real. It might have
been baseball cards and might have been organizing

668
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:22.199
people in our neighborhood. But we
all have that power. Every single human

669
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.880
being out there has that power.
The question is are you going to choose

670
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.000
to use your power or are you
going to choose to lose your power?

671
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.280
And when you consider, and this
is where I really stand from my place

672
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:38.920
of purposes, when you consider,
as far as we know, we only

673
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:44.039
get one shot of this thing called
life, and we don't know when is

674
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:45.559
our last day. In fact,
in the near future, Sean, I'm

675
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.280
going to have a funeral director on
the show and we're going to talk about

676
00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:54.000
what do we do between now and
our undetermined expiration date to really live our

677
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:59.320
best life. She is uniquely qualified
to answer that question to give us a

678
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:01.880
perspective on the right. And so
that's a big reason why I'm doing the

679
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:05.800
work that I'm doing, is because
I want to awaken those people who are

680
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:09.199
walking through life dead to the magic
impossibility of what their life and their work

681
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:15.199
can be for them. Well,
I you know, maybe I've shared this

682
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.679
with you before, maybe I haven't, But every single time I go out

683
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.000
one of these great adventures across the
country, or anytime I traveled to another

684
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.079
country, or even the very first
time that I pedaled a bike across the

685
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:30.719
United States. One of the things
that I always do is I seek out

686
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:32.760
the small cemetery. So, for
example, I'm walking across Italy and as

687
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.800
you're coming through a small town,
I see the small cemetery and maybe maybe

688
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.719
it's been unkept, maybe there's weeds
growing out of the rocks that's surround the

689
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:46.639
fence, whatever. But I put
my backpack down and I solemnly walk into

690
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:52.159
it, and I read the headstones. And when I was in Italy,

691
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.519
I was blessed because in Italy,
when they in the cemeteries, not only

692
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:58.000
are there the names of the people
and when they live, but there's also

693
00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.920
a picture of what that person looked
like. And as I'm looking, and

694
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.840
I'm going, man, that was
a real person. She was really here.

695
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:08.280
Look at her smile. God,
I wonder what she was celebrating on

696
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:14.559
that day. She looks really happy. There She's not here anymore. Wow.

697
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:19.639
To me, what it brings back
is the fact that all of us

698
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:23.400
are on an egg timer and the
sand is running through. That's just life.

699
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:28.199
None of us have the ability to
stop that egg timer. None of

700
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:31.039
us have the ability to ever stop
where the stand from Eventually running out,

701
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:35.360
and I think that it's a powerful
thought and for me, it's a life

702
00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:37.519
changing thought to know that. And
that's why I keep repeating this, to

703
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:44.079
remember that my time is now,
My time is now to dream, my

704
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:47.360
time is now to do great things. My time is now because someday it's

705
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.480
not going to be my time again. And that's the urgency that I want

706
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.800
to be able to get in,
to get across for myself and for my

707
00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:00.320
listeners, because you're right, we
don't have forever, and every single day

708
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:07.599
and moment is precious to run after
our purpose. Yeah, it's and it's

709
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.960
amazing how fast time, how life
goes, you know, all of us,

710
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:16.480
everybody here, you mean, the
listeners. We can think back on

711
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:21.800
just moments in the past and they
just they don't seem like they were that

712
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:24.480
long ago. But yet five years
past, ten years past, twenty years

713
00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:29.719
past, thirty years past, and
sometimes we might even look in the mirror,

714
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:30.159
for many of us and we go, oh my god, what's my

715
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:35.159
parent doing staring back at me?
Or what's whatever? Because life just goes

716
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:37.119
so fast, and it seems like
the older you get, the faster it

717
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:42.039
goes. And so it's with that
sort of intention all the time that we

718
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:46.800
can't leave dreams and conversations on the
table. We we can't say I'm gonna

719
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:50.239
do this tomorrow, I'm gonna do
this next year, I'm gonna plan this

720
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.079
later. Because now is your time, man, this is your time.

721
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:57.679
And when you realize that it's your
time, that should take all the fear

722
00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.280
out of doing everything because sometimes some
days not going to even matter. So

723
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.679
go do it now. Quit being
afraid, Get on the ship, take

724
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:07.480
the cruise, make the phone call
of the relationship that you've wanted to talk

725
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:14.559
to in twenty years but you haven't. Just live now before while you still

726
00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:21.079
have this beautiful, amazing opportunity to
live m and that is the way we

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00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:23.800
will finish the show. Sean Anderson, Holy goodness, gracious, thank you

728
00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:28.320
so very much for coming back and
sharing your beautiful soul with us and your

729
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.119
purpose with us. It's been an
honor and a privilege. Thank you.

730
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:34.440
It's always my blessing to be with
you at last. Thank you so much.

731
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:37.280
If you want to learn more about
Sean Anderson, any of his books,

732
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.880
his Extra Mild work, or have
him come speak to you and your

733
00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:46.880
audience, visit his website. It's
Sean Anderson dot com. That's Shawn Anderson

734
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:52.519
dot com. Join us next week
when we talk with doctor Land Secreton of

735
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:55.280
the Secreton Center, and he is
the author of the Bellweather Effect. We'll

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00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:59.159
be talking about a few of the
eight points he writes about in his book.

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00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:02.840
That companies order stations are firmly entrenched
in practice but are completely delivering the

738
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.039
opposite of the promised value result that
they want see here there and remember that

739
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:09.920
work is at least one third are
alive. So let's work on purpose.

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We hope you've enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to tune in to Working

741
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:22.000
on Purpose, featuring your host Alice
Cortez, each week on the Voice America

742
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:25.719
Empowerment Channel. This week, find
your life's purpose at work.